FROM ARK TO MICROCHIP PRESENTS
TIME CAPSULES
Excavate audio fossils with David Ossman’s TIME CAPSULES on From Ark to Microchip ~ KKFI 90.1 FM Kansas City Community Radio, July 29th at 7:00pm.
The special Thursday night show consists of Time Capsules followed by Visual Music, both of which highlight the audio explorations of KCAI sound students.
Time Capsules was written by David Ossman 1972-1985 using texts he found in a Little Red School House in Massachusetts built in 1822, a book for young farmers from 1868, a book on lip reading from 1923, and a 10th century Taoist sex manual. The voices were recorded at Westport Coffeehouse Theater by Tom Ptacek under the direction of Otherworld Media‘s Judith Walcutt in 2020 while David Ossman and Judith Walcutt were visiting artists at the Kansas City Art Institute. Mixed by Dwight Frizzell and Daniel D’Angelo for the From Ark to Microchip series.
Meet the Myth-Science Ensemble
Dwight Frizzell
Frizzell’s teachers included Sun Ra, clarinetist Raymond Luedeke and video artist Douglas Davis. He is Professor of Sound and Converging Media at the Kansas City Art Institute.
Thomas Aber
Aber studied bass clarinet with Harry Sparnaay at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam.
RECENT WORK
HELIOPHONIE 2021: Cell One ~ Myth-Science Ensemble
Heliophonie (Sun Sound) is music performed in-sync with the sun’s harmonic tones. The solar sphere oscillates like a bell ringing every 4 minutes 48 seconds (as heard on a Solar Gong). Overtones pulse in quadra-pole rotation (realized by the instruments and electronics as heard here). The golden light of the sun unites humanity with other Earthly creatures and life forms throughout the solar system.