January 30, 2012 · Posted in
Content ·
In a salute to CFRC’s 90 years, Howard Bonner presents a ‘History Of Radio Programming’.
The HISTORY is the early years 1921 - 1941 and is the history of Cincinnati’s WLW - The NATION’s STATION which was owned by the Crosley Family who at one point in time sold most of the radios in NORTH AMERICA.
Schedules and LIVE Band performances began here. The first Drama written specifically for radio was at WLW, Doris Day, Dinah Shore, FATS WALLER, the MILLS Brothers, Red Barber, the baseball announcer, commercials and oh so much more with excerpts from shows of the day.
It all begins Sat. Feb 4th at 11am and runs every Saturday at 1/2 hr. installments for 6 weeks in celebration of 90 years of the oldest continually broadcasting radio station in Canada.
When: Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 8pm
Where: Modern Fuel Gallery, 21 Queen St., Kingston ON
Admission: $5-10 sliding scale.
Modern Fuel, with support from CFRC and the Canada Council for the Arts, presents the latest installment in its Vapours series of experimental music, a concert of experimental sounds performed through an 8-speaker diffusion system that will feature works by Hector Centeno (Toronto, ON), Andrea Jane Cornell (Montreal, QC) and Matt Rogalsky (Kingston, ON) on Saturday, February 25th, at 8pm. Vapours is a regular concert series hosted by Modern Fuel that provides an alternative space for exploratory musical performances and promotes emerging experimental musicians both locally and nationally.
Kingston’s Matt Rogalsky works in the areas of live electroacoustic music and sound installation. In addition to playing electric guitar with The Gertrudes, and recording and producing releases for Kingston bands like Madam Raz, Sleuth Bears and PS I Love You, Rogalsky’s recent activity includes solo electronic music performances in Canada, Cuba, the USA, Scotland and England, and group installation/performance work with Composers Inside Electronics in Mexico and New York. Rogalsky will be presenting some new “experimental electronics” for his performance at Modern Fuel.
Montreal’s Andrea Jane Cornell is manipulator of gleaned sounds who likens the sonorities of the every day to an assemblage of musical instruments randomly orchestrated by its inhabitants. Her performance at Modern Fuel will be an homage to the broadcast technology that has provided her with countless opportunities to territorialize the range of a 5000 watt transmitter with sounds that have baffled, frightened, insulted, soothed, annoyed, and delighted unknown listeners. Cornell has a background in campus and community radio and electroacoustic composition and a holds a master’s degree in Media Studies from Concordia University.
Hector Centeno is a music composer, sound artist and digital media designer originally from Mexico and currently living in Toronto Canada. For his performance at Modern Fuel, Centeno will be improvising an acoustic journey through an imaginative landscape. To recreate the sense of space, sounds will be diffused through a multichannel system surrounding the audience. His improvisational procedure is inspired by Zen Buddhist art. Sound textures will gradually change and give place to new ones in an abstract soundscape journey that seeks to mirror the way the constant change and flow of reality is perceived through deep listening of our acoustic environment.
Doors will open at Modern Fuel at 8pm with performances starting at 9. Tickets are sliding scale at the door from $5 to $10.
Image: Andrea Jane Cornell in performance
January 25, 2012 · Posted in
Content ·
Tune in for a special episode of Free Radio 10-11pm this Saturday, featuring a live session and a talk with three Ottawa musicians: Joe Brownrigg, Matt Ouimet, and Phil Bova.
You can also catch them performing live at the Artel on Friday, January 27!
January 24, 2012 · Posted in
Charts ·
I have nothing witty to say about this week’s Top 30 chart. It is what it is.
CFRC’s chart for 17th January through January 24th 2011
artist / album (record label) *=Canadian content
1. Black Keys / El Camino (Nonesuch)
2. Rae Spoon. / I Can’t Keep All of Our Secrets (Saved by Radio)*
3. M83 / Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (Mute)
4. Exitmusic / From Silence EP (Secretly Canadian)
5. Once, The / Row upon Row of the people they know (Borealis)*
6. Pack a.d. / Unpersons (Mint)*
7. Sleuth Bears / Parochial Youth (Bridgeport Falls)* Local
8. Isenor, Corey / The Hunting Party (independent)*
9. Darcys, The / Aja Interpreted By The Darcys (Arts & Crafts)*
10. Bad Vibrations / Black Train (independent)*
As always, you can find the entire Top 30 chart on !earshot hereabouts…
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In a salute to CFRC’s 90 years, Howard Bonner presents a ‘History Of Radio Programming’.
