Blank Forms RADIO

2019_May

To conclude “Coming Together: Attica 50 Years On,” Blank Forms presented a day-long May Day radio show commemorating the 1971 Attica rebellion. Celebrating the 50th anniversaries of both Archie Shepp’s Attica Blues and Frederic Rzewski’s compositions “Attica” and “Coming Together,” the show featured key compositions and political recordings from the 1970s, including a rare concert of Rzewski’s Attica works with Julius Eastman, Sonia Sanchez reading at the prison accompanied by incarcerated poets and musicians, and a post-mortem from Bobby Seale about his participation in negotiations at the prison. Hosts Ciarán Finlayson and Lawrence Kumpf interviewed Renée Levine Packer, author of This Life of Sounds: Evenings for New Music in Buffalo (Oxford University Press, 2010); Glo Harris, wife of Beaver Harris; and Michael J. Hull, director of the film Betrayal at Attica (2021) and custodian of the digital archive of Elizabeth Fink's Attica Brothers Legal Defense evidence collection—writer Isaac Brosilow conducted an interview with Joshua Melville, son of Attica Brother Sam Melville. This event was produced in conjunction with the New York University Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions.

Coming Together: A Mayday Broadcast

The Public's Not Ready For You Yet: A Cricket Radio Show

Special guest shows from around the world.

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/blank-forms-19th-may-2023

Blank Forms: Arbitrary Fun with Lawrence Kumpf and Lary 7 190523

A conversation between scholar and historian Amy Cimini, Yarn/Wire percussionist and Adjacencies interpreter Russell Greenberg, and Lawrence Kumpf situating Maryanne Amacher’s "Adjacencies" within the lineage of her larger body of work. They discuss the practical challenges surrounding the interpretation and re-staging of the piece 51 years after its last performance and play a variety of pertinent audio, including a rehearsal recording of "Adjacencies"’ original performance by Jan Williams and Edward Burnham, audio research material used as a model for its reinterpretation, and a selection from the later piece "City-Links..: Buffalo" demonstrating Amacher’s practice of recycling audio material from earlier work.

Blank Forms #21: Maryanne Amacher's Adjacencies

Blank Forms' Lawrence Kumpf is joined by composer Tashi Wada for a show surveying Wada's work and methodology of the past decade. They discuss Wada's time and studies with James Tenney at CalArts, his early forays into just intonation, and his close collaborations with cellist Charles Curtis and his father Yoshi Wada.

Tashi Wada is a Los Angeles-based composer and performer whose works explore harmonic overtones, resonance, and dissonance through precise tuning and a gradual change in pitch. Grounded in a belief that “music should be as direct as possible,” his compositions use apparently simple structures to generate rich and unanticipated perceptual effects. Working in relation to American experimental music, microtonal music, and so-called drone music, Wada’s practice is also informed by interdisciplinary performance and Fluxus-affiliated artists. He studied composition at CalArts with James Tenney and for many years has performed alongside his father, composer Yoshi Wada.

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Blank Forms #22: Tashi Wada

Artist: Delta Rain Dance
Title: Trancemission/Transmission
Catalogue Number: DELTA1
Label: Delta Rain Dance
www.deltaraindance.com

Trancemission over; Transmission begins. Delta Rain Dance is an
experimental artist and label project delving into contemplative, and
melancholic states, with a record that blissfully glides between
ambient, and delicate-percussive, electronic states. A hybrid puzzle
of melodic cuts, DJ tools and drum tracks, that can be mixed together
to create new amalgamations of the source material.

'Trancemission/Transmission’ showcases a musical narrative that
transcends genres and moods, switching between flashes of dubbed
techno, abstract percussive electronica, and stark downtempo vibes.
'Trancemission/Transmission’ is a record structured around
progressions, heavy on sound design and imagination. It takes the
listener into different astral planes, from tranquil moments of
temperate melodies, to off-kilter periods of electro. Ghostly radio
transmissions, dubbed out Rhodes, underwater frequencies, and
broadcasts from beyond the digital ether. It is a modern take on
'Music for Airports', albeit written for a post-millennial audience,
one that grew up on Dilla, Vatican Shadow, Grouper and Digital
Mystikz. Drum tracks, locked grooves, and sparse sketches of melody
and reverb soaked harmonies. Delta Rain Dance has produced a body of
work that exists in two halves; the trancemissions operating as
celestial, ambient skits; moments of dreamlike serenity, while on the
flip, carefully programmed beats infer moments of Detroit, dubstep,
and IDM, gently providing the framework to the album’s intricate,
grainy basslines, and saturated overtones. The two halves of the
record can be mixed together, and like a puzzle that needs to be
solved, tracks fit together perfectly, creating an interactive
musical game, in which the DJ can create new sonic interpretations of
the album.

Words by Dan Cole ( https://thedancolereview.com/ )

Socials:
Bandcamp: deltaraindance.bandcamp.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/deltaraindance/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/deltaraindance/
SC: https://soundcloud.com/deltaraindance

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A1. Trancemission One

We're thrilled to share a new mix from @hollick_nobaddays !

"Music for Water is an idea I’ve had for sometime now. Since going to the local pool a lot more recently, I’ve come to realize how much water calms me. All songs selected have the theme of water running through them. Whether you’re heading to the pool, watering your plants, or just need a cool down - let the music wash over you, take the dip."

Hollick is a London DJ who works with No Bad Days, YAM Records, and Coastal Haze.

Hollick - Music for Water

45 minute recording taken from D.K's Live performance at Nica, Barcelona on 23 March 2019.

Big thanks to Dani Baughman & Nica for hosting us!

D.K. LIVE @ Good Morning Tapes / Nica / Barcelona 23.03.19

towLie (30/04/19)

played & recorded @ RBW Abyssinia Studio
Bern-CH

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Ink! - Radio Bollwerk - 30.04.2019

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