The Napping Wizard Sessions

From 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...

In 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 t...

In 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 t...

In 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...

This 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 other...

GRAPHITE AND DIAMONDS: THE ALLOTROPIC DRAWINGS OF RACHEL BACON Have 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 pa...

In 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David 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...

David 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...

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 f...

David 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 Mothersba...

Host 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...

Did 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...

David 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 o...

In 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...

David 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 individual...

Host 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...

David 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; inf...

David 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 (Gigante...

David 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 (Gigante...

An 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...

David 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...