{"id":1818,"date":"2023-10-27T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2023\/2023\/10\/27\/golden-era-of-new-york-experimental-music-captured-in-new-book-transfigured-new-york\/"},"modified":"2023-10-27T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T13:01:00","slug":"golden-era-of-new-york-experimental-music-captured-in-new-book-transfigured-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2023\/2023\/10\/27\/golden-era-of-new-york-experimental-music-captured-in-new-book-transfigured-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Era of New York Experimental Music Captured in New Book,\u00a0“Transfigured New York”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 1980, Brooke Wentz landed her dream volunteer job as host of WKCR-FM<\/a>\u2019s late night radio show, \u201cTransfigured Night.\u201d\u00a0 Billed as an \u201cexploration into the world of new music,\u201d this Columbia University<\/a> broadcast allowed the then-student free reign to conduct candid interviews with dozens of avant-garde pioneers in free jazz, no wave and electronic and world music before they emerge as internationally-renowned artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thanks to the downtime afforded this busy music executive due to the Covid <\/a>lockdown, these long unheard interviews are now contained in a fascinating new book:\u00a0Transfigured New York<\/a><\/em>: Interviews with Experimental Artists and Musicians, 1980-1990<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Columbia University Press).\u00a0Wentz\u2019 latest writing is a virtual and very vivid time capsule of musical and artistic creation from 1980-1990 \u2013 a juncture when New York\u2019s uptown and downtown converged to birth bold new sounds and a new generation of sonic visionaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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