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1. radiOM.org - MOCA/FM Sound Sculpture As [5.103% Popularity: 0.00000]

MOCA/FM: Sound Sculpture As Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 37 min Event Type: Inter-Media / Visual Arts Program Origin: KPFA Sound Sculpture As was an exhibition of 9 sound sculpture/performances, initiated and curated by Tom Marioni on April 30, 1970. The participating artists, all sculptors, were: Peter Macan (sounds of popping from plastic bubble wrap underfoot on the floor at entrance and in elevator); Mel Henderson (firing a gun at a projected image of a tiger); Jim Melchert (30 unanswered telephone rings from two calls placed from outside the museum); Tom Marioni-a.k.a Allan Fish (Piss Piece-- from the top of a ladder into a large tub); Terry Fox (metal bowl filled with water striking the floor, and later a shovel scraping the floor); Paul Kos (amplified sounds of 2 blocks of ice melting, no sound heard); Herb Yarmo (ball bearings rolling down a metal pipe onto the floor; Jim McCready (the sound of 4 women wearing nylon stockings walking and rubbing their legs together); Arlo Acton (audienc...

2. radiOM.org - MOCA/FM Sound Art from the Museum of Conceptual Art [5.081% Popularity: 0.00000]

MOCA/FM: Sound Art from the Museum of Conceptual Art Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 35 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA The Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA), San Francisco, presents an exhibition for radio by 26 artists, each of whom had been asked to do produce pieces of about sixty seconds duration. Produced by Tom Marioni, director of MOCA, these brief conceptual sound pieces, created by a variety of artists, sculptors, and musicians range from rather conventional jazz music and poetry to downright bizarre examples of text sound compositions and quasi ambient sound recordings. As with all the programs produced by MOCA and which can be heard on www.radiOM.org, the barrier between art and life is defined, explored, and often punctured, and should be enjoyed with one’s tongue firmly planted in one’s cheek. Musical Selections: [recitation of the names of various art movements] -- [mix of foreign voices] / Warner Jepson -- [sound poetry piece with 1920ish pop song] / Anthony Gnazzo -...

3. radiOM.org - MOCA/FM Conceptual Arts Piece [5.080% Popularity: 0.00000]

MOCA/FM: Conceptual Arts Piece Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 89 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian talks to Tom Marioni, director of the Museum of Conceptual Art in San Francisco. At the time of this recording Marioni had recently completed the recording of his piece "Drum Brushing" (1978) at ZBS Media in New York. This was given its West Coast premiere over KPFA. The piece, features Marioni doing seven drawings, overlaid on seven recording tracks in the studio mix. Also in this program, Marioni introduces one minute long audio works by visual artists originally broadcast as "MOCA/FM: Sound Art from the Museum of Conceptual Art". Musical Selections: [recitation of the names of various art movements] -- [mix of foreign voices] / Warner Jepson -- [sound poetry piece with 1920ish pop song] / Anthony Gnazzo -- [advertising copy for “chicken starter special”] / Paul Marioni -- [plea to turn off radio and concentrate] / Jim Melchert -- [jazz music] / Allan Fis...