EARTOURS When endowed with profound religious feeling, your skin becomes transparent and yourblood begins to turn a thin watery hue until the light of the sun streaming in the window passes entirely through you. At last, having evolved into pure spiritual energy, nothing remains of your existence but a small pile of dirty underwear, damp socks, rumpled garments, a driver's license, credit card and perhaps a small nail clipper. Thursday September 26th 9-11pm an evening of Monolgue in CCA 5 �2/�1 Box Office: 0141 352 4900
Eartours invites you to come sit in the dark and listen to the recordings of Joe Frank. A long time favorite with US public radio audiences, Joe Frank's programs are often dark and absurdist, sometimes solo recitations, sometimes ensemble pieces performed and/or improvised by actors, sometimes voices of real people heard in real situations, whether man-in-the-street interviews or phone conversations with lovers or strangers. A Joe Frank show can be all or just one of these within the span of a single hour, but always presented as multi-layered soundscapes intermixed with hypnotic, rhythmic music. Tackling philosophical or spiritual questions, the programs are a real and surreal exploration of life, death, alienation, faith and love. Joe Frank's radio work spans more than 20 years, beginning in 1977 at WBAI, Pacifica's New York station, and includes a stint as co-anchor of National Public Radio's 'All Things Considered', in 1978. He produced the series, 'Work In Progress', 'In the Dark' and 'Somewhere Out There' for KCRW and National Public Radio. He is the author of 'The Queen of Puerto Rico and Other Stories', short stories based on his radio work published in 1993 by William Morrow. Frank, a Guggenheim Fellow, is also the recipient of the prestigious Peabody Award; two Major Armstrong Awards; two Gold Awards from the International Radio Festival in New York; and two Corporation for Public Broadcasting Radio Program Awards. "Wondrously offbeat, frequently hilarious, altogether brilliant ..." (Los Angeles Times). "Dark, bizarre and very funny ..." (The Wall Street Journal). "A maestro of verite, Frank exploits the power of radio ..." (Rolling Stone). "Transforms the everyday banality of the human comedy into an inspired weirdness that feeds on pathos and irony, and feels a lot like revelation ..." (Spin Magazine). "Hilarious, unsettling, zany, powerful, moving and perhaps the most unique, inventive and effective use of radio since Orson Welles convinced much of America there was a 'War of the Worlds' ..." (LA Weekly). CCA: 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD Rebecca Shatwell Education Programmer CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD www.cca-glasgow.com <www.cca-glasgow.com> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 00 44 (0)141 332 7521 (reception) Tel: 00 44 (0)141 352 4912 (direct line) intY has scanned this email for all known viruses (www.inty.com) ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
