Arts Extract

Tone Madison contributor Liz DiNovella talks with jazz improviser and avant-garde composer Ken Vandermark, who plays Friday, September 30 at Arts + Literature Lab in Madison. You can also read a version of that interview here: bit.ly/2d969XZ Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

Tone Madison's Scott Gordon and Joel Shanahan discuss a bunch of the noteworthy shows happening in Madison in fall 2016. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

Tone Madison's Scott Gordon talks with Madison musician Spencer Bible about his project Tippy (tippymusic.bandcamp.com). The project has two releases so far in 2016: A self-titled, full-band album and an electronic solo EP called Public Displays Of Affection. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

Oakland-raised rapper/producer and UW-Madison student @heiroo joins us to talk about his new EP, TheSoulOf. His friend and collaborator @j0nnychang also sat in on the conversation. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

Tone Madison's Scott Gordon and Madison-based music writer Andrew Winistorfer (senior editor for @vinylmeplease) discuss what's been great and what's been kinda same-y in this summer's outdoor music offerings in Madison. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

David Wolinsky of the video-games oral-history site Don't Die (nodontdie.com) joins Tone Madison's Scott Gordon and Mark Riechers to discuss the Games Learning Society, a UW-Madison research unit that explores the intersection of gaming and education. GLS' future is uncertain, as its founders recently announced that they will be leaving UW-Madison for new posts at the University of California-Irvi...

From @dashhounds' forthcoming EP, Eft. Photo by J. Scott Kunkel.

Alivia Kleinfeldt and Brendan Manley of Madison band @dashhounds join us to discuss the band's debut EP, "Eft," which they'll be celebrating with an August 27 show at the High Noon Saloon. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

On this week's podcast, ​Tone Madison writers Sarah Witman and Scott Gordon trade notes on a few of the art events worth catching around Madison in August, from video art to hauntingly modified photographs.​ Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

Middleton-based musician @thomaswincek performs an improvised live set for synthesizer and other hardware electronics. Recorded at the High Noon Saloon on January 20, 2016, during Tone Madison's live-podcast event The Tone Cluster. You can also hear the podcast we recorded at this event, featuring Wincek and @samarah: bit.ly/2aCOjsJ

Tone Madison editor Scott Gordon and podcast producer Dylan Brogan discuss the ill-fated "Jazzcat" marketing campaign and the disconnects that it highlights in Madison music and culture. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

Tone Madison contributor Michael Penn II joins editor Scott Gordon for a discussion about "The Circus," Penn's ongoing essay series about racism and violence in Madison. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

Tone Madison's Scott Gordon talks with Madison band Sinking Suns about their new album, Death Songs (bit.ly/29QFgIF). Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

From the Rare Plant release "Improvident."

Tone Madison's Scott Gordon talks with Mike Weiser and Chris Bucheit of Madison jazz trio Major Vistas about their debut album, Minor Anthems (majorvistas.bandcamp.com). The band, which also includes drummer Geoff Brady, has several shows coming up: July 22 at Mother Fool's Coffeehouse, August 10 at the free Jazz At Five series on the Capitol Square, and October 14 at the also free Indigenous jazz...

Don Moynihan, a professor at UW-Madison's La Follette School of Public affairs, talks about his #TantalizingTopofHumanHeads hashtag (twitter.com/hashtag/tantalizingtopofhumanheads) and the role of social media in academia and the UW System's fight over tenure. Music in this segment by @braingrimmer Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

Tone Madison's Sarah Witman sits down with Cheryl Bensman-Rowe and Paul Rowe, co-directors of the Madison Early Music Festival (madisonearlymusic.org), which takes place July 9 through 16 on the UW-Madison campus. They discuss Shakespeare’s “death-iversary” (their words, and the theme of this year's festival), the finer points of Renaissance instruments, and what to expect from the week’s festivit...

Madison native, musician, and journalist Dan Kaufman talks with Tone Madison's Scott Gordon about growing up in Madison in the 1980s and getting exposed to that era's great Midwestern underground—especially Appliances-SFB, whose singer, Tom Laskin, died on June 15. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org All the music in this episode is by Applian...

Sandi Torkildson, who co-founded downtown Madison bookstore A Room of One's Own in 1975, talks about her decision to put the bookstore up for sale, and shares some broader perspective on how running a business in Madison has changed over the past 41 years. The music in this episode is by Tippy, 0tippy0.bandcamp.com Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wor...

Nick Zumm of Madison metal duo Dos Malés joins us to discuss the band's self-titled EP (dosmales.bandcamp.com) and the all-two-piece-bands show he's organizing on June 18 at The Frequency (bit.ly/22XS815). Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

Tone Madison's Scott Gordon talks with Madison comedian and writer Alan Talaga, who will satirize the tech industry, Madison's growing obsession with attracting "young professionals," and the rhetoric of disruption in his upcoming show, "Madlennial Tech And Culture Forum." It takes place Friday, June 17 at 8 p.m. at Broom Street Theater. (Event details: bit.ly/1sQmplM) The music this week is from...

Tone Madison's Scott Gordon previews some of the best live music coming to town over the summer. The highlights include Paul de Jong (formerly of The Books) at Crescendo on June 23, Screaming Females at The Frequency on June 23, and Tatsuya Nakatani at Arts + Literature Laboratory on August 5. (Full disclosure: that last one is a Tone Madison-curated and -presented show.) Subscribe to our podcast...

Madison R&B artist Mr. Jackson joins us to discuss his new album, Black Gandalf, which he'll celebrate with a May 28 show at Ritual Barbers. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

Madison's Sound Out Loud ensemble performs Tristan Perich's "qsqsqsqsqqqqq," a piece for electronics and three toy pianos. Recorded at the @wort-fm studios. Hear our interview with Sound Out Loud on the Tone Madison podcast: http://bit.ly/1qin6CW

Three members of the newly formed contemporary-classical ensemble Sound Out Loud join us for an interview and an in-studio performance of Tristan Perich's "qsqsqsqsqqqqq," for toy pianos and electronics. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org