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.
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).
February 29, 2024 Arts & Culture, Local, News & Public Affairs
From Ark to Microchip
7pm- The Amduat: Soundscapes for Transformation and Renewal
Ancient Egypt’s Amduat comes to Missouri! The nature-mythic sounds from humanity’s oldest netherworld narrative are recreated using regional wilderness recordings. Ra-Atum’s nightly journey into the other world beyond our visible one is heard as if riding with the Sungod in the Solar Barque from sunset to sunrise. Each soundscape in Ra’s descent and return to the world of light is recreated from 15-years of Ozark nature recordings by Dwight Frizzell—featuring creeks, rushing rivers, bullfrogs, fish, birds, dripping caves and wondrous springs. Ra’s heroic journey of trials and transformations is orchestrated for your own inner processes of renewal. A broadcast premiere.
7:30pm- Thus Spake Ra: Arkive Edition Cosmo-jazz master Sun Ra from rare interviews 1979-1992, mostly recorded in Kansas City by Dwight Frizzell. If jazz is happiness, as Sun Ra says, then the blues is a vehicle for transformation—the pathway to rise above the unenlightened savagery of the terrestrial sphere.
Read MoreJanuary 11, 2024 Arts & Culture, Local, News & Public Affairs
Shots In The Night on the Thursday Night Special
Shots In The Night on the Thursday Night Special
ListenNovember 30, 2023 Arts & Culture, Local, News & Public Affairs
From Ark to Microchip: The World Breathes Through Us & River Music by the Cretaceous Forms
The World Breathes Through Us: Each thought, expression, sensation, and emotion reaches its fullness through an awareness of the breath. Starting with the sound of breath, we then add resonating vowels shaped by consonants and arrive at the prosody of speech. A group of young Kansas City-based artists created this new program exploring the human voice—Jaden Dudrey, Teddy Everts, Madeline Farinas De Leon, Zak Marshall, Madison Hummer, Anobb Hyacinthe, Lizze Ingram, Rachael Mallozzi, Cameron Sinclair and Autumn Workman.
River Music by the Cretaceous Forms: Jump into the river of time as artist Steve Snell shows us the way ahead. In June, Steve set out to paddle the entire length of the Missouri River. His 88-day journey was documented in a video shot from the bow of his canoe and presented at the UMKC Gallery of Art. The sound art group Cretaceous Forms played the continually moving image as a musical score—snaking around bends, splashing with oars, rushing with rapids, tranquilizing with calm waters, and always flowing. Featuring Ezra Alderman - voice, Dot Henry - flute, Luke Tamburelli - keyboard, Fredrick Von Kaufmanschmidt - water, Jade Kizer - cello, Lily Madden - accordion, Sev Motko - violin, Chrystal Tucker - voice, Bethany Van Roekel - guitar, Tanner Williams - keyboard, Skye Sherwood - bass and Dwight Frizzell - WX5 wind-controller.
Read MoreOctober 12, 2023 Arts & Culture, Local, News & Public Affairs
Shots In The Night
Join us for another hour of radio theater with Kansas City's award winning, longest running radio theater troupe, Shots In The Night!
Read MoreSeptember 28, 2023 Arts & Culture, Local, News & Public Affairs
Rebroadcast of Artspeak Radio: September Edition
Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes artist Wolfe Brack, writers Mary Silwance & Polly Alice McCann, Lisa Carrico Program Director for the Missouri Humanities, and Mary Pat Henry, artistic director, of Wylliams/Henry Dance Company and dancer Caroline Dahm.
Read MoreAugust 31, 2023 Arts & Culture, Local, News & Public Affairs
From Ark to Microchip presents: Music for Socio-Ecological Evolution by Second Nature, and Sounding War Technology for Peace by the MIC Collective
Music for Socio-Ecological Evolution by Second Nature:
Second Nature is dedicated to a freer society of universal human freedom and dignity that recognizes the mutuality of human and ecological existence and the necessity of a more ecological social, economic, and political consciousness. A better world is possible! The ensemble features composer/players Michael Eaton (saxophones and flute), Seth Andrew Davis (guitar and EFX) with Ben Tervort (acoustic and electric bass), Alan Voss (drums), Tim J Harte (laptop electronics) and your host, Dwight Frizzell (wind controller, alto clarinet).
Sounding War Technology for Peace by the Military Industrial Complex:
The Military Industrial Complex is a living, breathing and rapidly evolving organism colonizing nearly every facet of life. The artist collective in this program is dedicated to the peaceful, artistic use of military technology. The distinctions between human and machine are blurred and enhanced through the use of Mil-Spec synthesis techniques. The MIC collective’s work represents a compact unity of the human voice, music and machine. Featured are director Michael Henry (Star Trek Online), Allaudin Ottinger (BCR), Dwight Frizzell (Myth-Science), and Dwight D. Eisenhower (former US President) with an array of military test equipment, spent shell casings, bombs “unexploding” and attack-plane turbo-fans used for reawakening into peace.
August 24, 2023 Arts & Culture, Local, News & Public Affairs
PEOPLE POWER HOUR BROUGHT TO YOU BY KC TENANTS: WHAT IS ORGANIZING? WHAT ARE TENANT UNIONS?
Organizing and Tenant Unions
Read MoreAugust 17, 2023 Arts & Culture, Local, News & Public Affairs
Artspeak Radio with Elizabeth Kirsch & Christopher Leitch
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes the return of art historian/writer/curator Elizabeth Kirsch and artist/activist Christopher Leitch. This is a rebroadcast of Artspeak Radio from August 16th.
Read MoreJuly 27, 2023 Arts & Culture, Local, News & Public Affairs
Rebroadcast: Artspeak Radio July Edition
Artspeak Radio + Artful Poetry, Shawn Stewart, Elizabeth Kirsch, & Christopher Leitch
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