9am (on both FM radio & video stream) Ken Freedman - live animated gif show

Playlist and comments over at http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/66900

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Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016”
a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations

12.00pm Jim Price - Let’s Talk Coins

Jim Price makes at least seventeen sounds: tooth-grinding, trills, twitters, tongue taps, hisses, grunts and has different sounds for when he bumps into something or when he’s disturbed or wounded.  He’s been a disc jockey at WFMU since 1976 and his band, NEBLUNG PRICE record all their material in an onion drying shed.  Without fatal accident, Jim has arrived to see the airbag and steam from the swelling minor. 

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/jp

Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016”
a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations

12.02pm People Like Us - All On A Beautiful

Everything’s Tra La La.

Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett has been working across the field of audio-visual collage, and is recognised as an influential and pioneering figure in the still growing area of sampling, appropriation and cutting up of found footage and archives.  Working under the name People Like Us, Vicki specialises in the manipulation and reworking of original sources from both the experimental and popular worlds of music, film and radio. People Like Us believe in open access to archives for creative use. In 2006 she was the first artist to be given unrestricted access to the entire BBC Archive. People Like Us have previously shown work at Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, The Barbican, Centro de Cultura Digital, V&A, Sydney Opera House, Royal Albert Hall, Pompidou Centre, Maxxi and Sonar, and performed radio sessions for John Peel and Mixing It. The ongoing sound art radio show ‘DO or DIY’ on WFMU has had over a million “listen again” downloads. since 2003. The People Like Us back catalogue is available for free download hosted by UbuWeb.

http://peoplelikeus.org
http://wfmu.org/playlists/PL
http://wfmu.org/playlists/ZZ
http://ubu.com/film/plu.html

Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016”
a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations

12:25pm Tim Maloney - Optimised

Dr. Amanda Maybelle Fisher, D.D.S., the creator of the highly popular children’s character 'Hello Crab,’ has a unique creative problem facing her - one that may require questionable use of narcotics and a most highly dubious use of higher mathematics.

Tim Maloney is an American filmmaker and animator who has made films for the band Negativland, the Walt Disney Company, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to name the strangest bedfellows. His work has been screened at the PFA, SF MOMA, the ICA, MIT, and many other prominent places that go only by their initials.  You have guessed it; he has found a magic lamp, and instead of using it to cure world hunger or to end suffering, he selfishly employs the spirit within to dupe important people, many of them with beards, into screening his work and giving him "legitimacy.”  His specialties include animation, filmmaking, rubbing animals, and drawing obscene pictures of authority figures.

nakedrabbit.com

Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016”
a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations

12.40pm Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie - The Better Living Show

A journey in song documenting my attempts to optimize my life through various means, and to answer the musical question: Am I a winner? 

I have a naive but unshakable belief in the potential for popular culture to express the breadth of human experience.  I have been finding meaning in popular song since I was a child.  And if I can't find meaning in a song, I will force meaning upon it by recontextualizing it.  Hence, my involvement in freeform radio, for which I have had an abiding passion since the heyday of commercial freeform in the sixties.  Thanks to freeform station WFMU, I have been foisting my musical selections and juxtapositions on the public since 1996, via my show, Busy Doing Nothing.  I am fond of music, songs, books, and movies in which not a whole hell of a lot happens. 

Sammy Davis Jr. - Some Days Everything Goes Wrong 
Miss Piggy - Snacksercize
Jonathan Coulton - I Feel Fantastic
They Might Be Giants - Alienation's for the Rich
Oscar Brown Jr. - Rilly?
Minutemen - Maybe Partying Will Help
(with Pema Chodron - from "Unconditional Confidence")
Shaggs - Philosophy of the World
DJ Chazaloo - Gladys Who & the Brooklyn Pips: Three Questions
(with Sally Armstrong - from "Am I OK?")
The Poppy Family - Beyond the Clouds
Roger Miller - You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd

http://wfmu.org/playlists/CL

Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016”
a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations

1.10pm Jim Price - The Poetry Pond

Jim Price makes at least seventeen sounds: tooth-grinding, trills, twitters, tongue taps, hisses, grunts and has different sounds for when he bumps into something or when he’s disturbed or wounded.  He’s been a disc jockey at WFMU since 1976 and his band, NEBLUNG PRICE record all their material in an onion drying shed.  Without fatal accident, Jim has arrived to see the airbag and steam from the swelling minor. 

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/jp

Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016”
a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations

1.12pm DW Robertson (formerly Ergo Phizmiz) - Watership Down Optimised for Flora and Fauna

All the descriptions of the natural world in the epic rabbit novel, cut out and arranged sequentially.

DW Robertson is a writer, composer and collagist, who used to be known as Ergo Phizmiz.

http://deedubyar.blogspot.co.uk

Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016”
a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations

1.30pm Gwilly Edmondez - Cramped Ambitions (Optimised for Tents)

“Cramped Ambitions” is a party-mix vignette that takes place in a campsite or any similar construction (like those of imaginary games) that we try to substitute for a ‘real thing’ (such as a hotel in the case of the campsite). Gwilly overlooks the fact that there are those who genuinely prefer to sleep in a tent rather than a room with a bed in order to focus on the absurdity over exaggerated hopeful intentions. Each mini-tableau through the 15-minute montage/mix explores a different mood of this expression, always trying to make the most out of the situation presented by the next emerging context.

Gwilly Edmondez started making recorded improvisations and using them as source material for non-notated composition in 1980 when he was thirteen years old. Since then he has applied this developmental methodology to a variety of creative situations, both as solo projects and in numerous collaborations, including Felt Beak (http://feltbeak.tumblr.com), Wild Pop (http://vimeo.com/wildpop) and Kakutopia (http://freemusicarchive.org/label/Kakutopia/). A selection of solo albums can also be found on his page at UBUWEB (http://www.ubu.com/sound/edmondez.html). Since 2004 he has taught recorded media composition and non-notated performance at Newcastle University.

Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016”
a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations

1.45pm Dan Deacon - Optimized

In the 3rd week of July of 2015 I downloaded the Billboard Top 100 Singles for no particular reason. I started messing around with the songs but they basically sat in a harddrive until this project came about. The word "optimized" made me think of them. What could be more "optimized" music than the pop music designed for mass consumption? I brought all the files into Ableton Live and layered them all and started messing with the length of their transients, slowly increasing them over time making a noisy collage of focus group tested and market research approved optimized pop hits.

dandeacon.com/

2pm-3pm John Kilduff with Let’s Paint TV live from Monty Hall

Mr Let's Paint (John Kilduff) does it all! Multitasking his way through life...exercising, painting, cooking and taking your calls!

Taking your calls on Optimized! Live from Monty Hall at WFMU 6-10 June @2-3pm EST

SKYPE call now to: letspaintwfmu
Also, John can see your Comments in the Playlist and will respond!

letspainttv.com

3-5pm - Repeat of Noon-2pm Programming