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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.
Timecapsules, as reinvented by David Ossman, are audio holograms—projections of historic texts through the lens of today—but from a future perspective. As audio fossils, they connect us across time while indulging in the particularities of our moment. The layered Timecapsule approach flows through Firesign Theatre’s work, but here the form is liberated from the revolutionary narratives they once served. Unfettered from the past while capsulizing it, they are surprisingly compelling on their own.
TIMECAPSULES was written by David Ossman from 1972 to 1985 using found texts he collected under the title Pieces for Speakers. They were performed in 2020 when Judith Walcutt and David Ossman were visiting artists at the Kansas City Art Institute, and mixed by Dwight Frizzell and Daniel D’Angelo for the From Ark to Microchip series.
Performers included David Ossman and Judith Walcutt with Gardner Littleton, Audrey Burdett, Ségolène Pihut, Didi Bryant, Felix Walker, Madeline Johnston, Michael Henry, Nate Lewis, David Lube, Trent Pickering, Kaizen Torres, Thomas Aber, Patrick Conway, Julia Thro and Dwight Frizzell.
DAVID OSSMAN is co-creator of “the Beatles of comedy,” The Firesign Theatre – receiving multiple-Grammy nominees and creators of over 25 comedy albums now collected by the Library of Congress. As a voice-artist, he is celebrated for his work as Cornelius, an elderly ant in Pixar’s A Bug’s Life, and his own created character George L. Tirebiter in the Firesign pantheon. He has been a life-long poet, as well as playwright, novelist, memoirist, performer, radio writer-producer and co-creator of the Firesign’s literary legacy. Ossman heard e. e. cummings, a formative influence, at Columbia University in 1958, and his play, love is a place, is a cabaret celebration of the author. Ossman co-wrote the Hollywood film Zachariah starring Don Johnson and Elvin Jones.
JUDITH WALCUTT is producer, director, writer, actress, and CEO of Otherworld Media founded in 1981. She created Radio Movies for WGBH in Boston, and later productions for national networks, including an adaptation of Tom Lewis’ Empire of the Air, Ursula K. LeGuin’s “The Phoenix,” Gish Jen’s The Water Faucet Vision, Raymond Chandler’s Goldfish, and the 50th Anniversary broadcast of The War Of The Worlds. She directed James Earl Jones in We Hold These Truths and Norman Corwin in The Wizard of Oz, adapted by David Ossman for the 100th anniversary of the classic story.
This program was supported by Leo Gilbert Wetherill Foundation, Franzello Media & Marketing and community partners Westport Coffeehouse Theater, Otherworld Media and KCAI.
David Ossman’s TIMECAPSULES on YouTube—
https://youtube.com/playlist?
Contact: Dwight Frizzell [email protected]
Professor of Sound, Kansas City Art Institute
Kansas City Art Institute provides a 4-year undergraduate program in the visual arts and design. Many students also study Sound to support their work in Animation, Painting, Filmmaking, Sculpture, Illustration, Photography, Graphic Design, Fiber, Printmaking, Creative Writing and Ceramics.
Visual Music:
a KCAI Sound Project featuring Sound Art Collaborative
July 29 at 7:30pm on KKFI
A Thursday Night Special broadcast on KKFI 90.1FM Kansas City Community Radio & kkfi.org
This synesthetic music flows through a group of visual art students imbued in images and color space. Their weekly improvisations are like seances—subconscious forces open. Always flowing. Always changing. Always adjusting, never fixed…
These recordings of KCAI’s Sound Art Collaborative feature Sebastian Thomas on guitar with Emma Daffin (drum machine), Matt Johnson (Moog synth), Lila Ferber (piccolo), Rowen Foster (trombone), Ernesto Flores (bass), Frances Maley (violin) and Joey Watson (didgeridoo) with Dwight Frizzell (WX5), faculty sponsor.
Twilight Idyll from Visual Music on YouTube—
https://youtu.be/zsGR5yJCizw
Music selections from this program (and more) are available royalty-free at the KCAI SFX Library in the Jannes Library catalog— https://kc-towers.
“Colors are the music of the eyes; they combine like notes; there are seven colors as there are seven notes, there are shades as there are semitones…There is an impression that results from a particular juxtaposition of colors, lights and shades: what one might call the music of painting.” –Eugène Delacroix
Contact: Dwight Frizzell [email protected]
Professor of Sound, Kansas City Art Institute
Kansas City Art Institute provides a 4-year undergraduate program in the visual arts and design. Many students also study Sound to support their work in Animation, Painting, Filmmaking, Sculpture, Illustration, Photography, Graphic Design, Fiber, Printmaking, Creative Writing and Ceramics.
