Moles Not Molar & Nexus RADIO present

RADIO MOLES - Transmissions: Signal to Noise Ratio
1650 AM on the radio dial!

Sunday, January 18th 2009
2pm -5pm
(live performances will begin promptly at 2:30 pm)

at NEXUS GALLERY
located in the Crane Arts Building
1400 N. American St. (2 blocks north of Girard between 2nd & 3rd Sts.)

A full afternoon program of radio plays, poems, sound art, speeches, songs, sonic experiments, acoustic beating, sawhorse-lassoing, shortwave irdials, and more.

Including Live Performances by:
Janet Neigh, Jamie Townsend, Kim Gek Lin Short, Timothy Leonido, & Patrick Lucy

And Transmissional Works by:
Amar Ravva, Amina Cain, Amanda Davidson, Ben Holtzman, Jason Candler, Gregory Laynor, Beneath the Lake, Judith Jordan, Miranda Mellis, Chris Nagler, Kate Brown, Kate Dollenmayer, Joshua Goldman, Jon Rutzmoser, Tristan Dahn, The Nothing Factory, Heidi Cunningham, Nicholas Ott, & Missoula Oblongata

TIMOTHY LEONIDO currently resides in West Philadelphia, where he tutors, visits parks, ponders city space, and writes about limits, distance, sculptures and burrows. Though grounded in literature, he has maintained a parallel interest in sound art, most recently in digital audio programs as a potential platform for the structural analysis of speech and music. Particularly curious about the accidental grouping of sounds, Timothy explores the readiness with which disparate aural qualities can be woven into loops, forming curious networks with strange vocabularies.

JANET NEIGH lives in Philadelphia where she is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Temple University. Her writing has appeared in various publications, including the anthology Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry. She performs her work for this radio program with fellow poet and creative colleague SARAH DOWLING.

A graduate of Wake Forest University, PATRICK LUCY resides in Fishtown (Philadelphia) where he splits his time between the equally daunting tasks of running a business and writing a decent poem. Patrick is a founding member of the New Philadelphia Poets and has read recently at Robins, Brickbat, Wooden Shoe and Germ books. His work has appeared in The Corduroy Mtn and can be found on CatchConfetti.com.

JAMIE TOWNSEND is a graduate of Naropa University with an MFA in Writing and Poetics. His poetry and critical writing has been published in Bombay Gin, The Cultural Society, and Gam, with work forthcoming in DIAGRAM,. His critical study of the work of poet Frank Samperi appeared in the late 2008 issue of JACKET magazine. He is a member of the New Philadelphia Poets, and lives in Port Richmond, Philadelphia with his wife Rachel.

KIM GEK LIN SHORT is the author of The Bugging Watch and Other Exhibits (forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009/2010) and The Residents (Dancing Girl Press, 2008), a chapbook. Her work appears online in No Tell Motel, Wicked Alice, 42 Opus, and other places; and in print journals such as Caketrain and Tarpaulin Sky. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and daughter.

TRISTAN DAHN was raised in upstate New York, collegiately educated in the Hudson Valley and now resides in Philadelphia.

MIRANDA MELLIS is the author of The Revisionist (Calamari Press, 2007) and Materialisms (Portable Press at Yo Yo Labs, 2009). She teaches at California College of the Arts. This radio play is excerpted from a novella in progress called YOU WANT, a science-fiction/alternate-world story-play wherein ideas have desires and use bodies to enact and battle for those desires. CHRISTIAN NAGLER and Miranda Mellis edited this excerpt together and recorded it in his bedroom in San Francisco on the cusp of the new year.

JOSH GOLDMAN is a composer/improviser/guitarist/educator who resides in the United States. He composes/improvises/performs music, using acoustic and electronic sources, for various ensembles and settings. Much of his music combines sound and visual elements (film/video/various installation spaces). His compositions and performances have been heard and awarded internationally. Currently, he is pursuing a doctoral degree in music composition at the University of Cincinnati College – Conservatory of Music.

HEIDI CUNNINGHAM is a member of the Bay Area collective Source and former editor of 3rdfloor magazine. Gardener, educator and activist, Heidi is known to make guerrilla art from plants and sound experiments from her room. Her videos can be viewed at youtube.com/videomarkings.

JON RUTZMOSER is a first year MFA writing candidate at California Institute of the Arts. He has been known to experiment with various artistic practices, dabbling, if you will, in hybrid genres and interdisciplinary projects.

KATE DOLLENMAYER is a filmmaker, projectionist, and owner of one extraordinary ear (at least!) who works primarily in the mediums of sound and cinema. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

JUDY JORDAN's co-worker says that she has three hundred televisions going in her head all at once. She composed Maze as part of the Go Collaborative performance in San Francisco in January 2006. The trio of musician, writer, and video artist designed an interactive installation based on the myth of Icarus.

KATE BROWN was born in Ithaca, New York in 1976. She lives in NYC and makes 16mm films, drawings, and monoprints. The deseret soundtrack is a selection from the sound recordings for her in-progress film about the state of Utah.

The music of BENEATH THE LAKE is based upon compositions of soundscapes using samplers, guitars, bass, wind instruments, organs, effect processors, and field recordings to generate sound. The concept behind the music is to create a juxtaposition between the natural world and the industrial world. The two members of Beneath the Lake, NICOLAS LAMPERT and DAVE CANTERBURY each have a long history in soundscape music. Nicolas Lampert (Milwaukee, WI) was a member of the Oakland, California based experimental-noise-punk band, Noisegate, from 1995-2000. Dave Canterbury (Black Earth, WI) has self-released numerous recordings with the experimental-noise band, Wage Class Slave, and solo ambient-drone project Dust since the early 90’s. He records and engineers all of the material by Beneath the Lake and his other sound projects.

GREGORY LAYNOR lives in West Philly and does poetry at Temple. His reading of Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans appears on UbuWeb.

The project SOUNDS OF SEISMOLOGY is made up of geologist BEN HOLTZMAN and sound artist JASON CANDLER, both based in NYC. Through collaborative artistry and auditory magics, they set about to make the massive movements of earthquakes both palpable and legible to the human ear.

THE NOTHING FACTORY is a 45-minute epic musical shadow theater experience. It uses shadow-puppetry, projections, hand-altered slides, giant cardboard puppets, painted banners, dramatic narration & a live avant-punk soundtrack to tell its dystopian allegory, the tale of a fictional world where everybody wanted everything, and noone was happy having nothing. Story & songs by REID BOOKS, Shadows & sets by ERIK RUIN, Narrative performance by ANISSA WEINRAUB, and Live rock soundtrack provided by the unlikely named AETHERIAL UNDERPANTS.

AMINA CAIN is the author of I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009). Her stories have appeared in journals such as 3rd bed, Action, Yes, Denver Quarterly, and La Petite Zine, as a recording in the soundscape/hörspiel exhibition A Diamond in the Mud at Literaturhaus Basel in Switzerland, and is forthcoming in The Encyclopedia Project. With Jennifer Karmin, in Chicago, she co-founded the Red Rover reading series in 2005; currently, the two are presenting When Does It or You Begin? (Memory as Innovation), a month long festival of writing, performance, and video. She recently relocated to Los Angeles.

AMARNATH RAVVA lives in Los Angeles, California. He is working on his first manuscript, a work of non-fiction called American Canyon, that blends South Indian and Californian history, memory, documentary, and compassion. He enjoys manifesting his obsessions in video, music, hybrid forms and live performance. He is on the board of advisors for nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts and is a curator at Betalevel, an art space in LA’s Chinatown. Work of his is accessible on his website, http://videopoetics.org and in the past year he has performed (as part of the ambient improvisational ensemble Ambient Force 3000) at LACMA, Machine Project, and Betalevel.

AMANDA DAVIDSON writes, teaches, studies, and tinkers with media in San Francisco.

NICK OTT lives, makes music, and engages in artistic collaborations in the city of San Francisco.

THE MISSOULA OBLONGATA is an experimental theatre company dedicated to creating and touring original work. Their lights, sound, and sets are all homemade, transportable, and operated by the performers themselves. This allows them to perform in venues which are accessible—financially and geographically—to a larger population than the regional theatre system serves. They meet unlikely audiences in their neighborhoods, their parks, their favorite music venues, and their homes—and transform these spaces into temporary, anarchistic theaters. In the past three years, The Missoula Oblongata has created five touring productions, including The Wonders of the World Recite and The Last Hurrah of the Clementines. When not on tour, The Missoula Oblongata produces a number of community-driven performance events. Most recently, they organized a traveling production of King Lear that began on a street corner in West Philadelphia and featured five acts of Shakespeare, five theater companies, and five desserts.