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P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of a brand new initiative.  WPS1 (www.wps1.org) is the world's first art radio station available on the Internet.  This online forum for dynamic music and talk programs will be launched on April 19, 2004. 

 

Please find below the press release for this new "wing" of P.S.1.  Upon request, I would be glad to provide a list of sample programs, biographies of some of the staff involved (including Linda Yablonsky and Elliott Sharp) images of the radio station that was specially designed by architect William Massie, and any other information you may need.

 

Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions at all.  I look forward to hearing from you!

 

All the best,

 

Rachael Dorsey

Associate Director of Press and Marketing

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

A Museum of Modern Art affiliate

22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue

Long Island City, NY 11101

718.784.2084 *827

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the world's First INTERNET ART Radio station

 

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate,

launches WPS1 Internet radio April 19

 

NEW YORK-(March 19, 2004) P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center announces the launch of WPS1 (www.wps1.org), the world's first Internet art radio station. Sponsored by Bloomberg L.P., WPS1 goes live April 19 with an extraordinary lineup of music and talk shows broadcasting 24 hours a day.

 

The station's programs combine talk and music shows hosted by contemporary writers, artists and musicians with rare historic material that includes the entire audio archive of the Museum of Modern Art. 

 

WPS1 will stream to listeners on the Internet only. Its presence on the Web will make the station's unique digital library available to an international audience at any hour, seven days a week. As such, WPS1 will become a live audio museum in cyberspace, extending the visual art, book, music, film, video and performance programs that P.S.1 and MoMA are known for in ways previously unforeseen. Here, at www.wps1.org, is the first all-art, all-the-time radio station, where expression of all kinds remains truly free.

 

In addition to broadcasting events originally recorded at MoMA and elsewhere, WPS1 offers a broad variety of contemporary music and original talk shows. Programs include:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WPS1's music shows, organized by Elliott Sharp, feature contemporary composers, musicians, and singers such as John Cale,  Steve Piccolo, Tracie Morris, Radio Phenomena;, Dave Grubbs, Kim Cascone, William Basinski, Stephen Vitiello, and Yuka Honda and Sean Lennon;. Music/talk shows include "La Caldera," by Laura Andel, broadcasting in Spanish and English; "Shocking Blue" with Delphine Blue; "Love Crazy" with Nora York; and Sharp's own show, "Musica Mathematica."

 

Lokke Highstein, P.S.1's Warm Up co-curator, has rounded up dailynightly programs of live DJs focusing on current trends in Drum and Bass, Techno, Hip-Hop, and Trance and includes new mixes by:  DJ Q-Zen, Mystic Bill, Forest Green, John Howard, DJ Spun, Jazzy Nice, and Harvey.hosted by Lokke Highstein

 

WPS1 is located in a studio expressly built for broadcast over the Internet. Designed by architect William Massie in Tribeca's Clocktower Building, it is made of hybrid plastic and laser-cut steel.  The vibrant orange studio provides a curvilinear, earlike space for recording and broadcasting programs.  The Clocktower has been the site of many historic exhibitions including the inaugural show in 1972 which included work by Joel Shapiro, Richard Tuttle, and James Bishop.

 

WPS1 was conceived by P.S.1 Founder and Director, Alanna Heiss, who has dreamed of creating an art radio station for more than twenty years.  She and Glenn Lowry, Director of the Museum of Modern Art, actually discussed the vision of the radio station during the merger discussions between MoMA and P.S.1 in 2000.

 

Visitors to www.wps1.org may select from a live audio stream or can listen to the archives of past shows. The online stream will be a 28k MP3, making it easy for all Internet users to participate.

 

WPS1's staff includes Alanna Heiss (P.S.1's founding director), Executive Producer; Linda Yablonsky, Program Director; Brett Littman, Managing Director; Jeannie Hopper, Station Manager; Elliott Sharp and Lokke Highstein, Producers; and Darrell McNeill, Sound Engineer.

 

WPS1 is sponsored by Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg L.P., founded in 1981 by Michael R. Bloomberg, is a leading financial information services, news, and media company, serving customers around the world. Headquartered in New York, the company employs 8,000 people globally in 110 offices around the world. Bloomberg leverages its data and news resources through related media products, including television and radio programming, Web sites, books, and publications, to meet the financial information needs of professionals and consumers globally.      

 

 

For more information, please contact Rachael Dorsey in the P.S.1 Press Office:

T: (718) 784-2084 ext. *827/ F: (718) 482-9454/ e-mail: [log in to unmask]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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