David Gunn [composer, writer, isosogist]
Radio
For 10½ years, Dennis Báthory-Kitsz and I co-hosted Kalvos & Damian’s New Music Bazaar,
a weekly new music radio show that originated at Goddard College in
Plainfield, Vermont. According to our playlist, we broadcast 8,685 new
music selections during the Bazaar’s 538-show lifespan. We also
interviewed two hundred and seventy-some composers from around the
world. Our roles were equitably divided: Dennis saw to the interviews
(inviting the composers, researching their music, formulating questions
to ask, sending them off with a souvenir tee shirt), managed the
program’s web presence, that sort of thing; I wrote and read the
weekly introductory essay (533 total – I missed five due to an administrative error), assembled the
occasional Best of the Bazaar sound mix (84 of ’em), and tried to
at least remember the name of the interviewee when he or she
showed up at our door. And although the radiophonic form of the program
is history, online shows with interviews of composers continue occasionally. For more on the radio show, click on the above
link to its website. For more on the introductory stories and Best of
the Bazaars, here you go:
This way till the cows come home.