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The Napping Wizard SessionsJaws Live Action YMCAPremise See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.2021-07-1703 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsInterview: Farideh SakhaeifarOn April 02, 2021 I spoke with Farideh Sakhaeifar about her exhibition You are in the War Zone at Trotter and Sholer in New York’s Lower East Side and her residency at Koda Lab in Brooklyn. The presentations introduce several of her visual experiments from the last decade as a kind of survey. Her work explores various themes from the Middle East and her native Iran, and the differences and complexities of living in the United States since 2009. How does the media influence the way we see our position in the world? Having known Farideh since 2013, I take cues from th...2021-04-031h 19
The Napping Wizard SessionsOne Song: Even A Fool Learns to LoveEven a Fool Learns to Love, now that’s a David Bowie song that most people haven’t heard of. We also didn’t know there was a link between Life On Mars? and My Way. What? Frank Sinatra and David Bowie? Or is it Paul Anka and Claude Francois? Or maybe it’s Barbara Streisand and Sid Vicious. It gets confusing. In this episode I unravel how David Bowie made Life on Mars? as a parody and a revenge song of My Way.This episode includes found footage of David Bowie and Paul Anka interviews, various samples...2020-12-2552 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsNoP: LeshonkiiThe following is a transcript from a lecture I delivered at A Night of Philosophy, a free event that hosted 62 international philosophers and 12 artists on April 24, 2015 from 7pm to 7am simultaneously at the French Embassy and The Ukrainian Institute on New York City’s Upper East Side. I was invited as an artist, and I chose the subject of the shape-shifting character Leshonkii, of Ukrainian, Russian and Slavic folklore, to adapt to the site of the Ukrainian Institute. As an artist, the logical shape to shift into was that of a philosopher. I delivered my lecture in a crowded auditorium on...2020-12-2127 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsNoP: The Usage of WordsIn this reading from The Night of Philosophy in 2019 on October 06 at 03:00 am at the New School for Social Research in New York City, Cia Rinne was listed on the program with a presentation titled softly The Usage of Words. Listening to Cia Rinne’s poems is like channel flipping through international TV stations with the desire to reduce the mass of verbal waste by limiting each channel to just a single word. But infinity is infinity no matter the limits you put on how much fun you’re having with it. Minimalism pretends to seek silence, but it accu...2020-12-2125 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsNoP: Onkalo or the Contamination of EternityIn this lecture from The Night of Philosophy in 2019 at 05:00 am on October 06 at the New School for Social Research in New York City, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Nicolas de Warren, discusses our debt of plastic and nuclear waste. While many of us dream about augmented technology and the possibility of becoming cyborgs in the future, Dr. de Warren considers a different transformation of homo sapiens. With the prevalence, distribution and breakdown of plastics and nuclear waste into micro and nanoparticles, it is likely that we will consume so much as a species that future homo sapiens will indeed...2020-12-2146 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsNoP: Racial JusticeIn this lecture from The Night of Philosophy in 2019 on October 06 at 01:00 am at the New School for Social Research in New York City, professor of philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center Charles W. Mills spoke on the topic of Racial Justice. Dr. Mills charges the conceptions of T-justice (over-arching theories of Justice) by the Western European male canon of analytic philosophy with not accommodating G-justice (justice for those grouped as women, people of color, working class and LGBTQIA+, to name a few). Rather than taking the abolitionist road and starting from scratch, Mills takes the critical theory approach and...2020-12-2127 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsNoP: Field RecordingsOn October 05-06 from 7pm to 7am at The New School of Social Research, I was invited to participate in The Night of Philosophy. Rather than do something live, I chose to record the 12-hour evening. The night hosted 50 philosophers and 50 artists in multiple venues at the New School scheduled in half-hour shifts. I couldn’t be everywhere at once, so the Field Recordings I play are of what I was able to hear. Other attendants certainly had different experiences. Samples of lectures in this 30-minute episode come from, in no particular order: Philosophy as Radical Innovation by...2020-12-2141 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsPheasantsPheasants should have arms. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.2020-12-1514 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsExcerpt: TloothIn this episode I stage a reenactment of the introduction to Harry Mathews' novel Tlooth.I produced this in a podcasting seminar at BRIC in 2016 with my fellow participants lending their voices. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.2020-12-1404 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsOne Song: Lust for RiffIn this session I go back to the ONE SONG format with a flip. I still take a deep dive into one, well, riff, it just happens to be repeated in several songs. This one song has consistently found its place on top of the pop music charts for over four decades crossing genres and under different guises. Young musicians looking for a breakout hit and seasoned musicians looking to make a comeback need to listen to this show. One song can make all the difference, and this one is tested and – usually – always wins.(Lou Reed, Nega...2020-04-1300 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsInterview: Nicholas FraserIn this session, I talk with Nicholas Fraser about his text-based artworks. We focus on Left Hanging, a project where re-purposes his unrequited dating app. intros into ephemeral objects. Love letters like hanging chads cast shadows of conversations that were never properly counted. He spent a great deal of effort crafting these letters, and though they never captured their intended recipient, he found a way to utilize this archive to reach a broader audience. Nicholas’ work for the past decade has focused on the slippages of language, the erasure of meaning, our human desperation to communicate and our dizzying ag...2020-03-3100 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsTribute: Genesis Breyer P-OrridgeAn incantation, a moan, a breath. This is my digital collection of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s music - a mere fraction of their enormous output over 6+ decades: all 154 tracks from the following recordings play simultaneously spread out at random as one song, 14.5 hours of music packed into 28 minutes. I had been a fan of their music since 1990 and then in 2015, along with 12 others, I spent several weeks with Gen at Pioneer Works deeply getting to know their philosophy, art and music. I haven’t adjusted any of the individual volumes or strategically placed any of these tracks. I only spre...2020-03-2000 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsInterview: Moo Kwon HanIn this episode I talk with multi-media artist Moo Kwon Han about his recent exhibition, DRUM, at the Gyeongin Art Museum in Seoul, Korea. To make this work, he was granted access to multiple power facilities, many of them nuclear, all in South Korea. In our conversation we unravel the works in the exhibition, from the initial inspirational image of a detail of yellow drums containing radioactively contaminated clothing – a mere fraction of the total drums in this facility – all the way through to a final musical score that encapsulates both the path and the contents of the exhibition. When...2020-02-2400 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsTribute: John GiornoI found John Giorno’s recordings in 1989. In this tribute I share a personal experience with his work and how it influenced me during my time in Los Angeles. I follow that with four of John’s long poems. I was fortunate to meet him in 2010 and tell him an extremely abbreviated version of this, but I never knew him. Included are samples from many of John’s recordings. Other samples are from William Burroughs, Led Zeppelin, Ronald Reagan, Allan Sekula, Felix Guattari, Brion Gysin, David Bowie, Kathy Acker, Allen Ginsberg, 22 Jump St., Velvet Underground, Robert Mapplethorpe video documentary, Ann Waldma...2020-01-2400 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsWait For It...This just might be the most difficult-to-listen-to show I’ve made yet. You know those hidden songs at the end of some CDs: you hear the last one and then there’s acres of space and, wham, there’s a weird clip? Well that’s what this show is about. You have to have patience for this show, and with me, but this is the best way I could do a show about silence and surprise, and methods of exploiting new audio media. These songs would never have been played on the radio in the way they were made, but in the w...2019-12-2700 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsTribute: Iggy ReadsThis is a listening show. In a traditional radio format, I collect recordings where Iggy Pop reads from books. Sit back and let Iggy tell you a story or send you to sleep. CLIP LIST (in order of appearance)01. (clip Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, 2007)02. (clip: Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman, recording from EP, Leaves of Grass, 2016, with Alva Noto and Tarwater)03. (clip: “Good Evening,” excerpt from fundraising promo for film, The Sandman, with Dario Argento, 2014)04. A Machine for loving, Michel Holleoubecq, recording from Prél...2019-10-2500 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsFeature: Marie Duprat, Part 2This episode is just the music of the Variations Kervilahouen by Marie Duprat. For my commentary, informed by discussions with Marie, check out Part 1 of this episode. But if you’re here, you just want to enjoy the music uninterrupted. So here are the ten Variations Kervilahouen by Marie Duprat, inspired by a trip to the island of Belle-Ile-en-mer in France in 2006, and recorded in 2007 at Gennevilliers Conservatory.01 Vazen02 La Pointe du Talut03 Moulin d'Anvort04 Grotte de L'Apothicairerie05 Locmaria06 Ty Nehue07 Les Poulains08 L...2019-10-0700 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsFeature: Marie DupratIn this show, I’ll walk you through the piano compositions of a friend of mine, Marie Duprat. She composed Variations Kervilahouen after a two-week visit to Belle-ile-en-mer in France in 2006. I’m playing versions mainly from a recording she made at Gennevilliers Conservatory in 2007, but I also mixed in a few – under my narration and the main one from La Pointe du Talut – from a recent concert at L'Atelier du Plateau in Paris in 2019. If you want to listen to just the music, without my commentary, I’m including a Part 2, so you can go there before or after list...2019-10-0700 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsOne Song: The Clash, Wrong 'Em BoyoIn this series on The Napping Wizard Sessions called ONE SONG I’m taking deep dives into single songs. In this episode, I take The Clash’s WRONG 'EM BOYO and chart the history behind it that connects late 1800s America through the true story and legend of Stagger Lee with the Jim Crow American south, reggae and the Jamaican Rude Boys, the Black Panthers, John Sinclair, the mods, skinheads and the birth of punk in the UK, and push it up against the anti-immigration and racist climate we're witnessing today in the dis-United States. For what appears to be a...2019-08-2200 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsInterview: Jimmy RaskinIn this episode, Jimmy Raskin puts the cliché under the microscope through a process he calls Slapstick Enlightenment. Always obsessed with profound moments of failure, Jimmy discusses his love of two quotes by seminal figures of his work for the past several decades, Arthur Rimbaud: “If brass wakes as a bugle, it’s not its fault,” and Frederick Nietzsche, the subtitle to Thus Spoke Zarathustra, “A Book for All and None.” Putting these up against a profound moment of failure of his own in a mispronunciation of "polyphony," and finally against a recently found inspirational quote by an unlikely source, “Al...2019-04-0100 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsInterview: Adrienne WhiteleyFrom 1977-2018 Adrienne Whiteley worked at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, NY. As a voice major in college, she found part-time work as a seasonal employee at the zoo. She didn't know then that she had fallen into her career path. Over the next 41 years she worked her way up to the position of Senior Zoo Keeper, Collection Manager and Registrar, overseeing most aspects of the Zoo’s operation, and, most importantly, animal care and well-being. Since 2007 she has been teaching a highly popular course at Syracuse University on zoo animal management. In June 2018 we sat down to ta...2019-03-0100 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsTribute: Peter Gabriel, The Stories, Part 3In this multi-part series, I explore Peter Gabriel as a storyteller from the early Genesis years, 1967-1975. As introductions to the songs and as entertaining banter while the band tuned their complex Prog Rock instruments, Peter Gabriel told stories to the audience about the upcoming song. I compile these stories, grouped according to their corresponding songs and chart their growth. Along with the elaborate costumes Peter created during this period, he also concocted whacky stories: The Green Trouser Suit, Thomas S. Eiselberg and his onions, Henry and Cynthia on the croquet pitch, five rivers with one dirty mouth, Romeo and...2019-02-1300 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsTribute: Peter Gabriel, The Stories, Part 2In this multi-part series, I explore Peter Gabriel as a storyteller from the early Genesis years, 1967-1975. As introductions to the songs and as entertaining banter while the band tuned their complex Prog Rock instruments, Peter Gabriel told stories to the audience about the upcoming song. I compile these stories, grouped according to their corresponding songs and chart their growth. Along with the elaborate costumes Peter created during this period, he also concocted whacky stories: The Green Trouser Suit, Thomas S. Eiselberg and his onions, Henry and Cynthia on the croquet pitch, five rivers with one dirty mouth, Romeo and...2019-02-0200 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsTribute: Peter Gabriel, The Stories, Part 1In this multi-part series, I explore Peter Gabriel as a storyteller from the early Genesis years, 1967-1975. As introductions to the songs and as entertaining banter while the band tuned their complex Prog Rock instruments, Peter Gabriel told stories to the audience about the upcoming song. I compile these stories, grouped according to their corresponding songs, and chart their growth. Along with the elaborate costumes Peter created during this period, he also concocted whacky stories: The Green Trouser Suit, Thomas S. Eiselberg and his onions, Henry and Cynthia on the croquet pitch, five rivers with one dirty mouth, Romeo and...2019-01-1500 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsTribute: Whisper Not Mumbling ElksThis is a show about mumbling and other vocalizations. It’s a collection of jazz songs where instrumentalists engage in a verbal exchange with their instruments. Some mumble or hum along with the melody, some transcribe poems to melodies and leave out the words, some start with found recordings and mimic the melody of the spoken word. Some start with the melody and add words to mimic it. And others speak directly into the mouthpiece as a substitute for a microphone. While you’re listening, feel free to talk to yourself, mumble or harmonize along. Songs included by Oscar Peterson, Erro...2018-12-1500 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsInterview: Rachel BaconGRAPHITE AND DIAMONDS: THE ALLOTROPIC DRAWINGS OF RACHEL BACONHave you ever crumpled paper just right, or covered a sheet from edge to edge with graphite, or, otherwise, protected a clean page from damage at all costs? Rachel Bacon has, and from the sound of it, she’ll continue doing so. She’s been experimenting with materials for decades, and she’s gotten it down to a science – the science of paper and pencil, trees and graphite, wood and carbon, pulp and powder. Just like diamonds and coal both come from carbon, and folklore spins yarns of devils s...2018-12-0200 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsPremise: LionsIn the pilot episode of this new series, PREMISE, David Colosi and his guests consider a New York City public elementary school staging a theatrical production of The Wizard of Oz by casting the role of the Cowardly Lion as a real lion.Release date: 2018 August 28 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.2018-08-2800 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsInterview: Jeremy SiglerDavid Colosi talks to Jeremy Sigler about … poetry.Jeremy and David explore questions that arise from My Vibe: In the poet’s attempt to reach an audience, can one avoid succumbing to self-censorship, on the one hand, and fabricated outrageousness on the other while remaining true to oneself, flaws and all, and leave the campsite unmarred for the next campers? Are the dual desires to be read and to remain invisible at odds? Today, how does persona construction differ between a self-revealing literary book and a social media identity? What’s the impact of a p...2017-09-2100 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsTribute: Stage WisdomDavid Colosi digs through his live music collection and edits gems of wisdom musicians shared mid-performance with their audiences. “Bright moments is like making love to a moonbeam,” “No one going on a business trip would be missed if they never arrived,” and “If you got it today, don’t wear it tomorrow.” Gil Scott Heron having enough of police violence, Bruce Springsteen advising teens about blind faith, Janis Joplin getting it while she can, Anohni hoping for matriarchal systems of governance and Tom Waits on vultures and s...2017-05-2200 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsTribute: Devo+David Colosi, with the accompaniment of Jake Nussbaum, compiles a DEVO tribute as a companion to his interview with Mark Mothersbaugh.This selection covers DEVO’s roots in Akron passing through Kent State, punk rock, American New Wave, MTV, then into selected Mothersbaugh tunes for films like Life Aquatic and The Lego Movie, then to the 2011 DEVO return in Something For Everybody – with a few other oddities mixed in – and finishes with Mark’s newest project Mutant Flora, a box of six seven-inch records for growing mutated plants without a nursery or greenhouse.To listen to Colos...2017-04-2600 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsInterview: Mark MothersbaughDavid Colosi talks with Mark Mothersbaugh about Myopia, Mutato Muzika, broken instruments and De-evolution. Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia, collects for the first time a representative body of Mothersbaugh’s visual and audio artwork before and after his seminal work with DEVO. The exhibition is on view at The Grey Art Gallery at New York University from April 26 - July 15, 2017.Mark Mothersbaugh has been part of the contemporary art conversation since the 1970s. As an art student at Kent State during the charged movement of war protests and the killing of fellow students on May 4, 1970 by the National Gu...2017-04-2600 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsInterview: Hidemi TakagiHost David Colosi talks to artist Hidemi Takagi about her photo and video projects. Growing up in Japan, she adored American films from the 1950s and ‘60s. The George Lucas classic American Graffiti made a significant impression. Her projects reflect this influence as she recreates that characteristic vibrancy and hyper-saturation of color as a nostalgic throwback to what was then her future dream of America. As a resident of New York City since 1997, living in various neighborhoods in Manhattan and Brooklyn, she finds the established cultures within her new homes – the Dominican population in Washington Heights, barbershop culture in Bed...2017-03-3000 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsInterview: Stephanie DinkinsDid you ever think you’d grow up to talk to a robot that looked like you? David Colosi discusses with artist Stephanie Dinkins her conversations with AI entity Bina48 (created by Martine Rothblatt’s Terasem Movement, Inc.). Is building a robot into a human-like sculptural bust a gimmick to seduce humans to engage with it, or do anthropomorphic features allow for essential discussions about dignity and care? With what respect do we need to treat objects, and how does this change when computers have a face, a race and a gender? When we want to become friends with robo...2017-02-1300 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsTribute: Lou ReedDavid Colosi pays personal tribute to Lou Reed on the third anniversary of the poet-singer-songwriter supreme’s passing. Host Colosi on this special episode: “Whenever I’ve been invited as a visiting poet, students always ask me what poets I like. My first answer is always Lou Reed. They don’t get it. Neil Gaiman said it best when he spoke about his fans who respond to his characters by dressing or making-up like them. He said he’s touched to see that he contributed to furnishing someone’s internal landscape. Now I never took heroin, but all of Lou Reed ent...2016-10-2700 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsTribute: Albert AylerIn celebration of the 80th birthday of the late jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler (July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970), host David Colosi has compiled a two hour mix dedicated to the musician's life. Twenty tracks spanning multiple Ayler releases make up this tribute program. You will hear: Intro: Spirits (Spiritual Unity) Part 1: Interview with Daniel Caux for France Culture, July 27, 1970, Saint-Paul- de-Vence, France (Holy Ghost box set) Leap Frog with US 76th Adjutant General’s Army band (Holy Ghost box set) Summertime (with Herbert Katz) (Holy Ghost 1 box set) Part 2: Interview, France Culture (Holy Ghost box set) Old Man River, Take 2; Nobody Knows The...2016-08-0400 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsInterview: Charley FriedmanDavid Colosi in conversation with artist Charley Friedman on Friedman's sculpture and photography, his relationship with humor, and his influences -- ranging from Lenny Bruce to Brian Eno. The glue that binds Charley Friedman’s work is humor. The crux of his work is to explore the absurd, tragic, and contradictory nature of living. Themes in his work reflect his preoccupations with how individuals, nations, and cultures form and transmit ideas and values. Friedman has exhibited and performed at numerous galleries and institutions including MoMA/PS1, Omi International Art Center, Queens Museum, Gallery Diet, The Fabric Workshop, Volta NYC, Jo...2016-07-1900 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsInterview: Amy ScholderHost David Colosi sits down with Amy Scholder to discuss her three decade history in the field of publishing, her iconic series High Risk, as well as her most recent project, Icon, an anthology of essays on public figures written by some of the industry's most provocative writers, edited by Scholder and released by The Feminist Press. Amy Scholder has been editing and publishing progressive and literary books for over twenty-five years. She has published the work of Sapphire, Karen Finley, June Jordan, Kate Bornstein, Kathy Acker, David Wojnarowicz, Dorothy Allison, Mary Gaitskill, Joni Mitchell, Justin Vivian Bond, and...2016-05-3100 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsInterview: Peter SheltonDavid Colosi in conversation with Peter Shelton, discussing Shelton's sculpture practice. Shelton is an artist who has been populating the world with sculpture since the 1970s, with environmental scaled works, biomorphic forms, and anatomic parallaxes take the sculptural premise of occupying space to its perfect end. Manipulating scale, size, and space; architecture, anatomy, and engineering; inflation, verisimilitude, and poetry, his work engages the minds of our human bodies in a dialog between inside and outside, subject and object, and close encounters with the thingness of Art. A childhood passion for anatomy led him to a BA at Pomona College...2016-03-1100 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsTribute: David Bowie, Part 2David Colosi brings his extraordinary collection of David Bowie tracks to the Clocktower studios and, with the moral and technical encouragement of Jake Nussbaum, spins nearly three hours of rare and surprisingly odd, even for Bowie, recordings. In this program you will hear: Volare (Absolute Beginners) And I Say To Myself (I Dig Everything) Please Mr. Gravedigger (David Bowie) Liza Jane (Gigantes De Pop) Man In The Middle (Rare Singles Vol. 2) Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola (Alternative Biography) Heros – French (Changes Three Bowie) Laughing Gnome (Gigantes De Pop) Waiting For The Man (Unsurpassed Studio) Little Toy Soldier (Unsurpassed Studio) Don’t Le...2016-01-1600 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsTribute: David Bowie, Part 1David Colosi brings his extraordinary collection of David Bowie tracks to the Clocktower studios and, with the moral and technical encouragement of Jake Nussbaum, spins nearly three hours of rare and surprisingly odd, even for Bowie, recordings. In this program you will hear: Volare (Absolute Beginners) And I Say To Myself (I Dig Everything) Please Mr. Gravedigger (David Bowie) Liza Jane (Gigantes De Pop) Man In The Middle (Rare Singles Vol. 2) Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola (Alternative Biography) Heros – French (Changes Three Bowie) Laughing Gnome (Gigantes De Pop) Waiting For The Man (Unsurpassed Studio) Little Toy Soldier (Unsurpassed Studio) Don’t Le...2016-01-1500 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsInterview: Jason ForrestAn electronic musician working in a variety of styles and founder and Creative Director of Network Awesome, an online TV Network, Jason Forrest also runs two record labels, Nightshifters (for club music) and Cock Rock Disco (for experimental sounds). It is obvious why host David Colosi calls Forrest a polymath. In this interview, Forrest talks in great detail about Network Awesome, describing it as longform media platform. It has a bright spectrum of content, carrying anything from documentaries to contemporary artists to Japanese cartoons to Vegan cooking shows. Forrest’s music is heavily sample based, intercut with hard drum an...2015-11-1600 min
The Napping Wizard SessionsInterview: Jen RayDavid Colosi in conversation with surrealist artist, Jen Ray, about her Deep Cuts solo exhibition at Albertz Benda Gallery in Chelsea, marking the homecoming of the previously Berlin-based Ray to her native United States. Ray's large-scale works are known for their surreal landscapes, where Amazonian women rule, militants move across dystopian fields, and uneasy spaces are occupied by rebels and provocateurs. Her art has been shown in museums and galleries in cities including New York, Berlin, and Paris. Deep Cuts is on view at Albertz Benda Gallery in Chelsea, October 8- November 7, 2015.Release date: 2015 October 082015-10-0800 min