Soundcheck from WNYC
WNYC, New York Public Radio, brings you Soundcheck, the arts and culture program hosted by John Schaefer, who engages guests and listeners in lively, inquisitive conversations with established and rising figures in New York City's creative arts scene. Guests come from all disciplines, including pop, indie rock, jazz, urban, world and classical music, technology, cultural affairs, TV and film. Recent episodes have included features on Michael Jackson,Crosby Stills & Nash, the Assad Brothers, Rackett, The Replacements, and James Brown.
- Website
- http://www.newsounds.org/shows/soundcheck
- Description
- Live performances and conversations in which artists talk about their work, their process, and themselves. Genre-blind but open-eared.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-09-11 17:33
- last episode published
- 2024-09-09 12:00
- publication frequency
- 3.52 days
- Contributors
- WNYC Studios
- Author
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- Number of Episodes
- 730
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- Society & Culture Performing Arts TV & Film Music Technology Gadgets Arts
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| 2024-09-02 | Vocalist and composer Meredith Monk is a multi-disciplinary artist, whose work involves music, dance, film, theatre, and now: biology meets anthropology. In her recent large-scale work, Cellular Songs, musical forms evoke biological processes as layeri... |
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| 2024-08-29 | The New York band Crumb creates playful and brooding swirls of sounds, somewhere at a crossroads of psychedelia, pop, jazz, and rock. Their latest album AMAMA (Grandmother) [self-released via their own label Crumb Records], experiments with textures an... |
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| 2024-08-26 |
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| 2024-08-22 | Mehrnam Rastegari is a New York-based master of the traditional Persian spike fiddle, the kamancheh. She is also a composer, writing film scores and ensemble works that draw on both Eastern and Western musical traditions. She moved here from Iran in ... |
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| 2024-08-19 |
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Christopher Rountree Designs a Musical Framework for Electro-Chamber Players Christopher Rountree is probably best known as the conductor of the LA-based new music ensemble known as Wild Up. Over the last 14 years he and that band have played with Bjork, done live film scores to movie screenings, and embarked on a multiyear rec... |
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