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Thursday Night Special
Thursday nights are special!
First Thursday: Jasmine Jones hosts Next Step Forward, a spotlight on millennials of Kansas City who are within a marginalized group, but are using their talents, business, activism etc. to help bring positivity within their communities. This program exists to be a place that is inclusive, safe, fun, inspirational and educational not only for the listeners but for the guest as well.
Second Thursday: Shots in the Night radio theatre; hosted and produced by various members of Shots In The Night. In 2023 SITN has received seven awards for podcast productions in the 9th Annual Hear Now Audio Fiction and Arts Festival produced by the National Audio Theatre Festivals, Inc.
Third Thursday: People Power Hour, brought to you by KC Tenants, hosts a rotation of speakers featuring members and leaders from KC Tenants and other tenant unions across the country to analyze, inform, and inspire listeners about the power of tenant unions in America. Every episode will showcase a different lesson about tenant unions and America's problematic history with housing by providing in-depth historical analysis, testimonials and stories from leaders who organized in their communities, and collectively brainstorming a vision for a better world where housing is treated as a human right.
Fourth Thursday: Sirisha Naidu and Taki Manolakos host Economics For the People, a journey to explore the transformative power of economics when it is harnessed for the working classes, to advance social justice, and to create an inclusive and equitable society. It is an open invitation to participate in collectively shaping and reimagining an economy that prioritizes the needs and aspirations of the working classes, marginalized communities, and individuals of different gender expressions, sexualities, and abilities. The show features diverse voices, experiences and perspectives that often remain unheard in mainstream conversations about economics, markets and numbers.
Fifth Thursday: The provocative "From Ark to Microchip", produced by Dwight Frizzell, mixes commentary, dramatic re-enactment, original music, historic voices, audio art and sound effects in a pan-historical, pan-cultural milieu. Programs in the program series have received several awards.
Note: These programs may be preempted by special presentations.
First Half Hour:
CAPTURED BIRD: As We are On the Inside
A KCAI Sound ProjectHonest, dreamy, reflective—- these songs and music by the Sound Art Collaborative at the Kansas City Art Institute featureJessica Andreas – vocals, bass, lyrics
Kyle Caris – guitar, bass, mix, production
Caitlyn Dreher – guitar, vocals, lyrics
Jin GNuk – Naga, mix Dan Rawlings – djembe
Jack Stanley – keyboard
Dwight Frizzell – WX5, clarinet, instructor, production
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Second Half Hour:
TREE of LIFE: The Music of Evolution
by Michael Henry (Star Trek Online) & Dwight Frizzell (Bridge)
What is the tree of life?
Where is our place in it?
Can we understand it by looking at a sketch of species, each one its own timeline, with some lines stopping, others continuing, and yet others branching off into new forms?
Can we hear it?
3 and half billion years of life in 16 minutes, with each life form on its own note,
playing to extinction or diverging into other species, other notes?
What would it sound like?
From Ark to Microchip presents Tree of Life, the Music of Evolution by Michael Henry and Dwight Frizzell, a musical realization of Charles Darwin’s ‘Tree of Life’ chart from his “Origin of Species” performed by Myth-Science Ensemble, the National Audio Theater Festivals and clarinetists from the University of Arkansas under the direction of Cholpachi Cholthitchanta. This program features Tim Simmons as Charles Darwin.
Anne Marie Brown – violin
Peter Chun – viola
Robert Carl – shakuhachi
Patrick Conway – bassoon
Larry Figg – cello
Dwight Frizzell – clarinet, writing & mix
Michael Henry – electro-acoustics & mix
Steve Gardels – live woodwinds recording engineer
Ben Taylor – string tree recording engineerCharles Darwin’s sketch of the divergence of species (as illustrated in his “Origin of Species”) presents his central organizing vision of shared descent, the understanding that all species ultimately evolved from a common ancestor in the distant past. From a single starting point, genetic changes in different populations send species down evolutionary pathways. Some of these branches survive, others split off to form new branches. Some branches wither with species extinct.Darwin’s metaphorical image was used to create this music. Sound progresses and develops from the time Darwin imagined life was “originally breathed into a few forms or into one.” Instrumental parts flow through the branching lines of divergence and extinction, increasing in complexity and diversity, representing 3.6 billion years of our evolutionary history — from simple, single-celled organisms to our present-day bio-diversity.
