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Episode 11: Another Planet
Clyde Casey was a street performer in the 1980's who would often perform in the parking lot of LA's Wallenboyd, the experimental theater space where John Cusak, Tim Robbins and many others got their...
View ArticleEpisode 12: Worm People
A day on the streets of New York with the singular Alabama musician and artist Lonnie Holley. Holley always sang while making his junkyard assemblages out of objects including pick-axes and buckets,...
View ArticleEpisode 13: High-Heeled Boys
Annie Clark, better known by her stage name, St. Vincent, gives the listener a tour through her personal musical history. She talks about the music that raised and influenced her from age two (Ritchie...
View ArticleEpisode 14: The Birthday Song
The Birthday Song, sung every day of the year at birthday parties across the land, is sweet, simple, and 120 years old this year. But it's also a highly contested piece of intellectual property,...
View ArticleEpisode 15: The Frank Story
Before he became a journalist, writing hilarious and harrowing books of reportage like The Psychopath Test and The Men Who Stare at Goats, as well as contributing radio stories to This American Life...
View ArticleEpisode 16: The Horse Counselor
This week's show features the premiere of an original radio play written by Alena Smith (@TweenHobo; HBOs The Newsroom) and performed by actor/director David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer, Wanderlust,...
View ArticleEpisode 17: Barely Not Shaking
NOTE: This show contains language that may not be appropriate for young audiences. This week's show features two segments from the 2013 season of the Organist. Actor, writer, and artist James Franco...
View ArticleEpisode 18: A Mind Forever Voyaging
Mike Mills' new film asks the kids of Silicon Valley workers (the sons of Google's cafeteria line cooks; the daughters of engineers at Apple) about their relationship with technology and what the...
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Episode 19: Composing the Tinnitus Suites
Daniel Fishkin is a young musician who played in bands and studied composition at Bard College. When he was 22 he got a bad case of tinnitus, a continuous ringing in his ears that drowned out all the...
View ArticleEpisode 20: Enter the Optigan
This week's show features documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher (Room 237) presenting an excerpt of an unreleased early film, called The Collectors. The excerpt centers on Pea Hicks, a collector of an...
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Episode 21: The Piano Van
The story of Chris Stroffolino, who describes his journey from academia — writing Cliffs Notes to Shakespeare, teaching Creative Writing at NYU — to the downtown poetry scene of the 90s, to playing in...
View ArticleEpisode 22: Breathing Exercises
This week the Organist explores sound design in two new documentaries, Irene Lusztig's The Motherhood Archives and Matt Wolf's Teenage. The films each use a combination of archival footage and original...
View ArticleEpisode 23: The Glottal Break
This week's show features an interview with composer and singer, Meredith Monk, who holds the 2014-2015 Composer's Chair at Carnegie Hall. For 50 years, Monk has created music that bends the limits of...
View ArticleEpisode 24: An Interview with George Saunders
The fiction writer, humorist, and essayist, George Saunders talks with the Organist's executive producer, Ross Simonini about the sonic aspects of his writing and reading. After reading aloud a passage...
View ArticleEpisode 25: The Last Man on the Street
We take to the streets with Mal Sharpe, a man who, along with his partner James Coyle, was among the first wave of fake newsmen, paving the way from everyone from Borat to Colbert. Over the years...
View ArticleEpisode 26: You're the Man
Neko Case, whose musical career spans over two decades, brings the listener on a journey of the music that has shaped her, from the time she was a child listening to "Taking Care of Business" by...
View ArticleEpisode 27: The Drywall
We’re thrilled to unearth a classic story by legendary radio producer Scott Carrier, an inspiration for radio producers from Ira Glass to Jad Abumrad, which hasn’t been heard since it originally aired...
View ArticleEpisode 28: What We Hear When We Read
Peter Mendelsund is an award-winning book designer and the author of What We See When We Read, a phenomenological treatise on the visual art of reading. In this episode of the Organist, Mendelsund...
View ArticleEpisode 29: Son of Rex
What if your neighbor's dog talks to you a la Son of Sam, except in this case it's just a mild daily annoyance that the neighbor's dog is always commanding you in vain to do horrible things? An...
View ArticleEpisode 30: Rapping Taipei
Tao Lin is the author of the novels Taipei and Shoplifting from American Apparel, among others. For The Organist, Lin discusses his recent novel and reads his work aloud and employs rappers Kool AD and...
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