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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.
What sounds does a color make?
From Ark to Microchip presents a program of music for your inner eye and ear by Thomas Aber and Dwight Frizzell—all inspired by the paintings of Warren Rosser. As Afrofuturist Sun Ra reminded us, music paints a picture that only the mind’s eye can see. Here the living image of sound unfolds orbs of color that repeat, crack open and leave traces where they have been. Ellipses rotate within themselves and in larger circling colligatives, both revealing and reveling in the Rosser’s color spaces as sonified by clarinet, bass clarinet, xun (egg flute), sheng (mouth organ), penny whistle, gaida (bagpipes), native flute and zooms (long-hose instruments).
“Such striking sounds and harmonies.” –Robert Carl, composer/author Terry Riley’s In C
“Music that gets inside your head.” – Crosby Kemper III, Kansas City Public Library
Warren Rosser
Warren Rosser is the William T. Kemper Distinguished Professor of Painting, recently retired as Chair of the Painting Department at the Kansas City Art Institute after 28 years. Born in South Wales in the UK, Rosser moved to the US in 1972. Although trained as a painter, for many years he made sculpture and mixed media constructions. In 1998 he returned to painting, which he views in the broadest sense. His work continues to explore constructed elements that can exist on the wall, but just as easily on the floor. The work examines an abstract language, exploring architectural forms and constructed space with particular attention being paid to color and its transitions and subtleties. Selected solo exhibitions have included: Parade: Parallel Tracks at University of Leeds, England, and Jan Weiner Gallery in Kansas City; Repeat Offender at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Counterpoint at Epsten Gallery, Kansas City Jewish Museum; Hybrid View at Albrecht Kemper Museum, St Joseph, Missouri; and AlternateTracking at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art at Omaha, Nebraska.
Myth-Science Ensemble
Inspired by Sun Ra’s solar-myth approach, Thomas Aber and Dwight Frizzell use a wide array of clarinets and saxophones, as well as bagpipes, Cherokee flutes, zwooms (long-hose instruments), electronics and video for their performances and recordings. In 1982, Aber and Frizzell played with Don Cherry, Alvin Curran and Frederic Rzewski through satellite hook-ups to promote world peace. They are core members of Myth-Science Ensemble, and the founding members of newEar and BCR, and have performed at the Wounded Galaxies Festival (Bloomington, IN), International Clarinet Festival (Baton Rouge), Outside the Box Arts Festival (Carbondale), The Forum for Contemporary Art (St. Louis), and Freedom From Festival (Minneapolis). Aber studied bass clarinet with Harry Sparnaay at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam. He performed the premiere of Charles Dodge’s Clarinet Elegy, the first fractal generated composition in 1989. Frizzell’s teachers included Sun Ra, clarinetist Raymond Luedeke and video artist Douglas Davis. He is Professor of Sound at the Kansas City Art Institute.
