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Stream the archive of Grasshopper live on EVR

Nov 14, ’11 4:22 PM

Grasshopper Performing in EVR's storefront studio

Brooklyn-based noise/drone duo Grasshopper performed live on Radio Heart on Sunday November 13 at 4pm ET. They played 2 separate sets, and even did a few hilarious “man on the street” interviews. You can listen to an archive of the show here.

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Using trumpets, effects and an EVI, members Josh Millrod and Jesse DeRosa have crafted a singular sound, which is at times ominous and transcendent. Both classically trained horn players, their unique approach to the trumpet is informed equally by figures as various as Miles Davis, Morton Subotnick and Wolf Eyes, resulting in compositions akin to a grittier Brian Eno or low-fi Jon Hassell. Their most recent releases are a cassette on 905 Tapes entitled “Classical Music” and an LP “Goodnight My Sweet Prince” on Baked Tapes. Their premiere vinyl release “Calling All Creeps” came out last year on Prison Tatt Records.

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Stream the archive of Xiphiidae live on EVR

Sep 12, ’11 7:25 PM

Yesterday I had a last minute guest performance on Radio Heart, Xiphiidae, who was in town this weekend for a show organized by Tranquility Tapes. Xiphiidae is the solo project of Jeffry Astin of Gainesville, Florida. He has released numerous recordings on his own label Housecraft Records, as well as imprints like 905 Tapes, Cloud Valley, Stunned, and NNA Tapes. He produces heavily textured and rhythmic drone.

Listen to the archive here.

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Matthew Radune & Shawn O’Sullivan Host Radio Heart, June 26th, 4-6pm

Jun 23, ’11 4:50 PM


Matthew Radune & Shawn O’Sullivan will host Radio Heart on June 26 from 4-6pm, bringing in choice selections from their vast collection of electronic music and techno. Matt is a well established DJ around town, who has played at MOMA, the Guggenheim, the Museum of Art and Design, the Sculpture Center, and a ton of warehouse parties and such. Shawn is a member of two killer local minimal synth projects, Led Er Est and Further Reductions. He’s also DJed quite a bit, notably at the Wierd nights and Pendu parties. To get a sample, check out the archive of a show they hosted on EVR in May.

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Decimus Live on EVR 6/5

Jun 4, ’11 12:23 PM

Tune into Radio Heart on June 5th from 4-6pm for a live set by Brooklyn-based musician Decimus.

Decimus is a new solo project by Pat Murano of No Neck Blues Band, K Salvatore and Malkuth. Under the moniker, Murano has produced two albums of a proposed twelve album series based on the Latin poet and rhetorician Decimius Magnus Ausonius’ zodiac. You can check those releases here. Aquarius Records calls Decimus’ otherworldly sound “peculiar and bafflingly brilliant.”

Note: Decimus will play later this week in Brooklyn at Death by Audio on June 8th, sharing the bill with Mushroom Cloud, Tiger Hatchery and Cellular Chaos. The show is organized by Avant Ghetto and begins at 8pm. INFO HERE

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Stream the Archive of Hobo Cubes Live Performance on EVR 5/29

Jun 1, ’11 9:40 AM


Hobo Cubes Playing in EVR’s Studio

EVR’s soundman Joe generously put up an archive of the Hobo Cubes performance on EVR Sunday. Take a listen here.

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Hobo Expanding Cult Band Live on Radio Heart 5/29

May 27, ’11 8:13 AM

Tune into Radio Heart on East Village Radio on Sunday May 29th 4pm-6pm for a special live, improvised set by super group Hobo Expanding Cult Band. The group is made up of members of three synth-based projects – Hobo Cubes (Frank Ouellette), Das Amore, and Femminielli (Bernardino Femminielli) – on tour from Montreal. Judging from their individual work, their collaboration will have elements of some bizarre, lost sound library record or something off Sky Records. Check it out!

Also, Hobo Cubes, Das Amore and Femminielli will be playing a show on Sunday night at Silent Barn in Ridgewood with Remnants and Dream Police. INFO HERE


Hobo Cubes “Telepathic Boulevard”

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Millions Live on Radio Heart April 17th 4-6pm

Apr 15, ’11 10:50 AM

Tune into Radio Heart April 17th from 4-6pm for a live set by Brooklyn musician Millions (David Suss). Using guitar, voice, keyboards/synthesizers, electronics, and effects, Suss weaves dense, hypnotic drones. He’s put out numerous releases on array of labels, such as Blackest Rainbow, Obsolete Units, Baked Tapes, Abandon Ship Records, Peasant Magik, Tape Drift and 2:00AM Tapes. His most recent releases include a CDr entitled “Into the Flood” on Blackest Rainbow and a c20 entitled “Pluto” on 2:00AM Tapes. For the show, Suss will debut a new ambient piece.

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Alexis Georgopoulos on Radio Heart

Dec 13, ’10 2:10 PM

Alexis Georgopoulos of Arp and the Alps hosted Radio Heart yesterday. He played a forthcoming release on Mexican Summer, The Alps’ “Easy Action,” a track from the latest Arp release, The Soft Wave, as well as music he’s been digging lately, like Arch M and Dorothea Raukes. Matt from RVNG INTL – who put out the Arp & Anthony Moore 12″ earlier this year – dropped by, as well as Justin Luke from the gallery Audio Visual Arts (AVA). Check out the full show below.

Read the full playlist here.

Listen to the show here.

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Black Metal Special on Radio Heart!

Nov 1, ’10 9:24 AM

To ring in Halloween, I played two hours of black metal yesterday on Radio Heart. The EVR studio opens out directly on First Avenue, so I got quite a few trick-or-treaters as well, and had to juggle candy distribution with DJing. Per my taste, most of the tracks landed on the weirder spectrum of things, bands like Dead Reptile Shrine, Aluk Todolo, Ahulabrum, Acid Enema, and others. I also played Pyha, super dark and dense midi metal by a Korean 14 year old, a track from Triangulum & Tzalemoth who claim to have recorded their album in the woods of northern Michigan “using a minimalist setup consisting of a snare drum, carved pine branches as drum sticks, a portable 5 watt battery powered amplifier and a mini-cassette recorder” and Thorr’s Hammer lead singer Runhild Gammelsaeter‘s solo album Amplicon which is creeeeeepy and also kind of terrible.

Read the full playlist here.

Listen to the show here.

Sound special with ringtones for iPhone - mp3, wav, flac, ogg, wma supported.

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Duane Pitre’s “Feel Free” on Radio Heart

Jun 21, ’10 7:04 AM

Yesterday on Radio Heart I broadcast a live recording of Duane Pitre’s Feel Free from May 30th at Zebulon in Brooklyn.

Read the full playlist here.

Listen to the show here.

Duane provided a nice description of the composition, you can read about it below.

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Duane Pitre’s Feel Free is a new work-in-progress that is based around pre-recorded, guitar string harmonics tuned in Just Intonation. The harmonics are randomized in their order of play via a computer program, with the result touching on the sporadic, yet orderly nature of wind chimes. The computer acts as the wind, and the guitar harmonics the chimes, creating chance-melodies and, at times, a Zen-like setting. These randomized harmonics are the core of the piece, and the program can run on its own as an installation — or, the core can be augmented by the composer’s custom-built, Justly tuned, virtual synthesizer. With this simple-timbre electronic instrument, Pitre carries out a planned improvisation with the guitar harmonics, whose pitch sets vary throughout the piece in a sequence of subtly shifting sections.

This “duo” of guitar harmonics and synth comprises the solo version of Feel Free. For group versions of the piece, a wide variety of acoustic instrumentation such as harp, violin, and double bass can be added to this “duo.” Each performer is equipped with an instrument-specific score that allows them to approach the performance in a similar manner as Pitre. The composer performs with the group while also guiding them through the series of sections, with each section offering slight, yet progressive variations in the performer’s fixed-pitch choices, playing methods, and technique restrictions. In addition, the performers are instructed to look/listen (at times) to the randomized guitar harmonics as a lax guide, creating a central focus within the group, yet one that is not strict and rigid, but more so relaxed and flowing, creating a fluid ecosystem of sound.

The premiere performance of the group version of Feel Free took place May 30, 2010 at Zebulon in Brooklyn, NY.

Performers included:

Duane Pitre – composition, simple-timbre synth, computer-randomized guitar harmonics

Jesse Sparhawk – harp

Jim Altieri – violin

James Ilgenfritz – double bass

Jessie Marino – cello

Shannon Fields – hammered dulcimer

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