Produced for: PRI/WNYC’s Studio 360
Airdate: May 31, 2003
Ken Butler is an artist/musician/diabolical genius who builds gorgeous sculptural musical instruments from found objects and performs music with them. This is his story.
Check out Ken’s website + you can see what some of his instruments looks like.
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Produced for: PRI/WNYC’s Studio 360
Airdate: April 5, 2003 on PRI/WNYC’s Studio 360
Also aired on December 22, 2002 on The Night Air, ABC Radio National Australia.
The Church of Craft involves a group of spiritually minded creative people who have formed their own church devoted to acts of crafting and making. There are currently chapters of the church in NYC, San Francisco and Los Angeles, where people gather together to share crafting techniques and creative inspiration.
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short version (5:36)
Produced for: PRI/WNYC’s Studio 360
Airdate: February 9, 2002
long version (20:38)
Produced for: Radio Eye, ABC Radio National, Australia
Airdate: January 6, 2002
Get Your Wig On is my first audio documentary, which I wrote and produced in 2001 to enter in the Third Coast International Audio Festival (www.thirdcoastfestival.org).
It deals with an artist’s idea about how one constant, in this case, a huge brown curly wig, can be interpreted and visually expressed by an assortment of strangers.
The piece was aired in its longer form on Radio Eye on Australia’s ABC Radio National. I then edited it down to to a shorter version for air on PRI/WNYC’s Studio 360 (www.studio360.org), where it aired February 9, 2002 and again on August 3, 2002 as a show closer to, “Opium, Rave, Styron.”
