Some Assembly Required (radio program)
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Some Assembly Required is a
Since 2021, new episodes are being produced, monthly, via the website and for radio stations, such as KBOO, in Portland, OR. Additional monthly episodes are also produced for The Wiggle Room, on The Sheena's Jungle Room stream, at wfmu.org.
Some Assembly Required has featured interviews with a number of influential sound collage artists including The Bran Flakes, Emergency Broadcast Network, The Evolution Control Committee, Omer Fast, DJ Food, The Freelance Hellraiser, Girl Talk, Go Home Productions, Christian Marclay, Negativland, John Oswald, People Like Us, DJ Qbert, DJ Spooky, Steinski, The Tape-beatles, Wayne Butane and many more.[2]
The program began as a streaming online radio show in 1999, at the University of Minnesota's college radio station (KUOM),[3][4][5] and quickly became a feature on the station's broadcast schedule. The radio program has aired on dozens of college, community and public radio stations across the United States and Canada[6] and is heard online via its podcast. Some Assembly Required is hosted by Jon Nelson[7][8] and produced at Post Consumer Productions.
Reviews and articles
- The Art of Mashups By Tom Ashbrook, On Point, February 5, 2009
- Jon Nelson of Escape Mechanism by Katya Tylevich A.V. Club Twin Cities, January 28, 2009
- Some Assembly Required: Mash-Up Pioneer Dreams in Soundbites By Wired MagazineDecember 22, 2008
References
- ^ Jon Nelson of Escape Mechanism by Katya Tylevich A.V. Club Twin Cities, January 28, 2009
- ^ Some Assembly Required Interviews
- ^ KUOM Programming
- ^ RADIO SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED. Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Escape Mechanism".
- ^ Some Assembly Required Syndications
- ^ "Some Assembly Required: Mash-Up Pioneer Dreams in Soundbites". Wired. 2008-12-22. Archived from the original on 2012-11-05.
- ^ Festival of Appropriation. Archived 2016-06-02 at the Wayback Machine