Thursday Night Special

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Every Thursday at 7:00pm
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Dwight Frizzell

Dwight Frizzell is an internationally recognized artist whose interdisciplinary work combines video, performance, installation, music, audio art and writing. He has been producing the “From Ark to Microchip” series with Jay Mandeville since 1984.

Jasmine Jones

Jay Mandeville

Jay Mandeville, host of "From Ark to Microchip," is a poet, essayist, editor, voice actor, and erstwhile
jazz crooner, is a native Kansas Citian, and currently resituated in
Independence, Missouri.

Joseph Jackson

Joseph Jackson is a veteran of the United States Air Force and former member of the Kansas City Missouri School Board and Treasurer for the Kansas City Public Schools. He is a community advocate and former neighborhood President of Santa Fe Area Council and member of the Kansas City Neighborhood Advisory Council. He enjoys movies and reading.
Favorite Quote Information is knowledge and knowledge is the key that will open any door.

Shots in the Night

This troupe has been entertaining KKFI's listeners since 2010.  It is all local, all home grown.  Writers, actors, technicians, and producers are local artists and artisans, some of whom have day jobs!  They have an eclectic, if somewhat erratic, outlook on life and what you think is funny.

Sirisha Naidu

Sirisha is associate professor of economics and affiliate faculty in the Department of Race, Ethnic and Gender Studies at University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). She is committed to making economics accessible to all through workshops, popular press and media.

Taki Manolakos

Taki Manolakos is an economist with over 15 years of experience and also a community organizer.

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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.

Upcoming Episodes

May 30, 2024 Arts & Culture, Local, News & Public Affairs

From Ark to Microchip presents: The Earreach Project: Hidden Tones in the City & Music from the Aurora Borealis

The Earreach Project: Hidden Tones in the City:
Hear the ringing life-force inside trees and the hidden harmonics of the city at the homegrown tempo of listening. Seven young Kansas City artists introduce new soundscapes made from recordings in our metro region featuring Echoes by Anthony Pratt, Is your party complete? by Rosalynn Jackson, Beat the Heat by Kristen Coates, Playing As the Soundscape by Nathan Starkey, Computer Ear Reach by Lucas Tamburelli, Hydrophonics by Tanner Williams, Earreaching Trees by Autumn Workman, Sidewalk Sonifications by Rosalynn Jackson, Talking to the Trail by Nathan Starkey, and Calligraphy in Sound by Kristen Coates. Production Sequencing & Editing by Nathan Starkey and Voice Recording/Editing by Tanner Williams. From The Soundscape, a KCAI Sound Minor class with instructor Dwight Frizzell.

Music from the Aurora Borealis:
The aurora borealis is created from electrically charged particles released by the Sun traveling 92 million miles to the Earth where they interact with our own magnetic field. Earlier this month, an intensive Level 5 solar geomagnetic storm hit Earth producing the stunning visuals of the Nothern Lights here. The aurora borealis is heard in this program by using a natural radio to receive the sun-earth electromagnetic flux and transduce it to audible wavering tones. The Myth-Science ensemble used these tones as a sound bed to match, merge and soar with the Northern Lights featuring Robert Carl on shakuhachi, Thomas Aber (bass clarinet), Michael Miller (bass clarinet), Allaudin Ottinger (gongs), Kat Nechlebova (Theremin), Julia Thro (guitar) and Dwight Frizzell (WX5 midi-wind instrument).

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