A product of the high period of FM underground radio of the 60s and 70s, Barb Stanek produced an irreverent must-hear free form show on Chicago’s WJPC. This set, from her personal stash and rescued from an old audio cassette, would never have passed FCC mustard. It is explicit, politically incorrect, and full of nastiness and it displays her acid humor and brilliant editorial touch. A real show. With Marianne Faithful, Nichols & May, Paul Simon, Mose Allison, and others.

• Radio Theatre and Spoken Word ::

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Found-audio archivist and multi-media artist Brian Belott and partner Peter Pezzimenti start a new series featuring lost recordings, abandoned tapes, forgotten disks, orphaned voices, errata, garbage, and random audio documentation of American detritus and treasure. This episode highlights assorted keyboard efforts.

• Lost and Found Sound ::

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Ready for a Louise Bourgeois rap? A leap into the mosh pit with Janine Antoni? Birdcalls from Louise Lawler? A toy piano riff from Barbara Ess? Laurie Anderson isn’t the only female artist to rush the barrier between music and audio art! Here artist/curator Robin Kahn and host David Platzker amuse themselves with one-of-a-kind recordings by women artists who stop at nothing to get the sound they want.

• Recorded Matter ::

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Elliott Sharp presents music of Central Africa.

• Sonorama ::

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Our hosts Max Kagan and Sean Ormiston explore forests of New Orleans R&B, New Orleans Blues, New Orleans Jazz, New Orleans Funk and New Orleans Rock, for the spirit that awed them countless times before in their “Dr. John” and “The Meters” albums. What caught their ear: “Buckwheat Zydeco,” “Fats Domino,” “John Booker,” “Al Hirt,” and “Professor Longhair.”

• Curbside Cassette ::

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On this virtual tour guided by our world-music specialist Lorenzo Mans, we make stops for Flamenco in Andalusia, Gypsy Rumba in Barcelona and Perpignan, Fado in Portugal, drawing Celtic roots from Galicia and the unique Euskedi culture of the Basque country. Some of this music delves into the Muslim and Sephardic distant past, or borrows from former colonies. Proving that this is not a new trend, he includes “I’ll Go to Santiago,” a song written in the Cuban “Son” style by Federico Garcia Lorca, when he visited the island in the 1920s.

• Armchair Traveler ::

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For Venice Biennale 2007, WPS1’s own Lucy Simanjuntak created a compilation that features traditional and contemporary songs from the islands of Indonesia.

• Venice Biennale 2007 ::

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That is, those songs sung by Southern black prisoners, peculiar to Southern black prisons – the field hollers and work songs, holdovers from the 19th century plantation system, that were sung throughout Southern penitentiaries, often to keep time with physical labor, under the guns of mounted white overseers or black trusties. The end of convict field labor (and its accompanying brutality), the racial integration of the prisons, and a refusal on the part of younger prisoners to take part in what they saw as an Uncle Tom anachronism did in the tradition of prison songs, which was extinct by the early 1970s.

• Goodbye Dear Old Stepstone ::

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Between 1979 and 1981, Y Pants, a band of three New York artists, Barbara Ess, Virginia Piersol and Gail Vachon, performed in art spaces and clubs in the U.S., Canada and Europe, and also released two records. The instrumentation was amplified toy piano and ukelele played through distortion devices, and a pared-down drum set. Later an electronic keyboard and an electric bass were also used. Their entire oeuvre was compiled and re-released on CD by Chris Freeman’s Periodic Document label distributed by Fusetron.

• The Larry Rivers Memorial Hour ::

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Korean traditional and classical music has always made great use of improvisation. Here are selections from the Ensemble Jong Nong Ak Oho, the Korean National Classical Music Institute, and Korea’s legendary kayagum player Hwang Byung Ki (one of the instruments being played by the ensemble is gayageum, a horizontal plucked zither and the ancestor of the Japanese koto).

• Sonorama ::

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WPS1 host Kazue Kobata encounters two representatives of Tuvan throat-singing, Japanese-style.

• Our Correspondents: Tokyo ::

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David Platzker presents rare and unusual material from the inventory of the Printed Matter artists’ bookstore in New York. This program takes its lead from John Cage to focus on some of the sounds of silence. Be prepared for stretches of violence, during which you will hear sound from everywhere but here.

• Recorded Matter ::

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