Axoxnxs Podcast
Axoxnxs™. A theremin antenna podcast by Anthony Jay Ptak. Sound as art is an axis of information constrained only by our perceptive bandwidth. Electro-acousmatic music. An elusive archive of original works and ephemera.
Episodes
May 12, 2019 • 12 mins
Liner notes: Agriculture Stairwell [12:42]. Sound is a carrier of information. Vibration is the message. Frequency is the interoculator.- AJ Ptak
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May 12, 2019 • 39 secs
Liner notes: Elusive MoMA 2009 [00:39]. Live impromptu performance at MoMA. Sound is a carrier of information. A weekday afternoon in 2009, with permission sound amplification provided ny MoMA. - AJ Ptak
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May 12, 2019 • 3 secs
Liner notes: Break Beat Egg 2014 [00:03]. Session material with Ann Hairston. Sound is a carrier of information. - AJ Ptak
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May 12, 2019 • 2 mins
This sound of theremin artist Anthony Ptak. Liner notes: Guitar Therapy (2012) [2:24] This electric guitar work concentrates on jazz improvisation as a carrier of information. We listen to the world as a system of associative indices. The field recordings of the street drummer in Washington Square Park are analyzed, along with post-cancer disability and neurological phenomena. Spasticity is a physical axis that occupies and transfo...
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May 12, 2019 • 2 mins
Liner notes: Cut Atom Splice [02:18]. Sound is a carrier of information. Vibration is the message. Frequency is the mindfulness meditation.- AJ Ptak
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May 12, 2019 • 1 min
Liner notes: Bumper Outro [01:00]. Credits. Thank you. Sound is a carrier of information. Vibration is the message. Frequency is the instruction.- AJ Ptak
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November 12, 2017 • 16 mins
Liner notes: Acrosyntactic, Post Traumatic System 2007 16:17. Live theremin interference noise performance at the Stone NYC, curated by Elliott Sharp. Live concert recording 8 bit mono. Sound is a carrier of information. - AJ Ptak
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September 27, 2017 • 52 secs
Liner notes: Bitters 11 for 17 (2017) [0:52] Bitters 2017, Anthony Ptak. Drum track written for for Cyrus Pireh This electro-drum work concentrates on sound as a carrier of information. - AJ Ptak
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September 22, 2017 • 9 mins
Spoken word story told by Anthony Ptak after a health setback, in the ER of a NYC hospital while in the midst of a pulmonary embolism plus pneumonia, with the assistance of artist and interviewer David Wallace. All sonic materials acquired, and assembled by the composer. - A.J. Ptak
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September 20, 2017 • 52 secs
Liner notes: Drum Brat [0:50] Bitters 2017, Anthony Ptak. Drum track written for no one in particular. This electro-drum work concentrates on sound as a carrier of information. - AJ Ptak
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September 5, 2017 • 3 mins
The title refers to no memory of this work. All sonic materials acquired, and assembled by the composer. - A.J. Ptak
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June 23, 2017 • 10 mins
An informal interview with Anthony Ptak spontaneously conducted by the multitalented writer actress activist advocate journalist Britt Sady in NYC Summer 2016. The background audio still needs a bit more cleanup but I feel it is a timely release in the current state of noise reduction. I talk with Britt about life humanity emotion music motor neurons disability brain cancer illness theremin technique theatre and the possibility of ...
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April 26, 2017 • 1 min
All sonic materials acquired, and assembled by the composer. - A.J. Ptak
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November 29, 2016 • 1 min
This sound recording by Anthony Ptak. Liner notes: Zen Log Drum (2014) [1:35] This recording concentrates on a traditional Japanese Log Drum at the Zen Center, 23rd Street, NYC. We listen to the world as a system of associative indices. The acoustics of the log drum are recorded. Sound is a physical axis that occupies and transforms space. The temporal heterophony of the drum is navigation. All sonic materials acquired, and assembl...
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October 19, 2016 • 46 mins
Liner notes: Tumbleweed (2009) [46:22] Saturday, June 20, 2009 @ 8:30 p.m.. 20 Greene Street between Canal and Grand Streets, SoHo, New York, NY. Tumbleweed A collaborative performance installation for prepared electric guitars, theremin and projections by David Means with Cyrus Pireh and Anthony Ptak. Tumbleweed combines archival images from the American dust bowl with interactions and improvisations of musicians and live elec...
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October 10, 2016 • 2 mins
Liner notes: Acrosynaxis (2006) [2:11] Acrosynaxis, Anthony Ptak. Utilizing the theremin principle of interference to feed back into itself an exponential deconstruction of the instrument, the frequency of oscillation along a unified temporal axis, reflects a recursive bridging of distance in a soundscape of interference. Much like the 1000th of a second captured image of Warrick's hovering hummingbird, or the Kino-Glaz reality...
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September 28, 2016 • 4 mins
This sound art installation by artist Anthony Ptak. Liner notes: Phonologistic Auralities 1 (2006) [4:00] Phonologistic Auralities Sound Art Installation opens April 21, 2006 at Independent Media Center Urbana, Illinois. 24-channel collaborative work in a former US postal facility with 13 of my sound artist students. Part of an immersive arts event Late Night Space curated by improviser Jason Finkelman for Boneyard Arts Festival. S...
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September 17, 2016 • 19 secs
This sound of theremin artist Anthony Ptak. Liner notes: Soho2 (2016) [0:19] This computer music work concentrates on minimal synth information. We listen to the world as a system of associative indices. Quickly cobbled together using my Chromebook and cobble stones. 160 bpm. Not yet certain. - AJ Ptak
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September 16, 2016 • 24 secs
This sound of theremin artist Anthony Ptak. Liner notes: Soho (2016) [0:24] This computer music work concentrates on minimal synth information. We listen to the world as a system of associative indices. Quickly cobbled together using my Chromebook and cobble stones. Not yet certain. - AJ Ptak
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