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4 February 27, 2002
Arts & Entertainment
The University News
UD Radio kicks off with a host of diverse shows
Initial programs offer listeners wide variety of music, entertainment
by Janet Hendrickson
Commentary Co-Editor
It's not another Clear Chan-
nel station. In fact, it's barely
clear outside Jerome.
The station is not collecting
donations for the 9-11 relief
fund. It is, however, collecting
donated microphones and mix-
ers.
It's 88.9, UD Radio. And it's
not playing Britney Spears or
the same top 40 songs - and top
40 commercials - one hears all
across the rest of the dial.
Without any further ado,
here is a somewhat arbitrary
preview of the more interesting
programs available before the
schedule is finalized.
Students can take a
break from Western tra-
dition with The Asian Hour,
hosted by senior Alex Gonser.
Gonser first tuned into Asian
pop through Japanese anime
films he saw as a student at UT-
Austin. He's since built his
collection with mostly Japanese
and Korean pop, and a little
Thai and Chinese to spice it up.
"Each language has its own market," he said. "The
Chinese still tends to be more of the traditional music."
Like most global pop, Asian heavily draws on British
and American music, but Gonser pointed out a few strik-
ing differences.
"You may notice most of the Asian music is at a higher
pitch," he said.
Gonser also noted Eastern pop has a much more engi-
neered sound, as agents form the groups out of unac-
quainted people on the basis of their looks or musical
talent.
"It's much more of a business," Gonser said.
Gonser gives Asian music an 'A' for its all-in-one ben-
efit.
"Traditional elements are more commonly fused into
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Junior Shannon Audley is one of many DJ's filling the airwaves of Jerome Hall with the sounds of talk and music.
She and fellow junior Janet Hendrickson host The Angry Woman Hour, one of UD Radio's inaugural programs.
it, and you can still hear '70s and '80s jazz and disco
themes in it."
Gonser's international interests cross the Atlantic as
well.
Summers spent in his mother's native London intro-
duced him to techno music, and he now plans a two-
hour techno show with sophomore James Berger. The
show will feature one artist per hour, interspersing mu-
sic with discussion of the artist.
Both follow the genre avidly.
"I really love listening to techno. I'll go out to clubs,
raves, any place that plays it,'4 Berger said.
Gonser described their format, with its mix of talk and
music, as similar to VHl's Behind the Music.
Berger urges listeners to give the music a chance.
"A lot of people never hear good techno, only bad
techno, and they might want to give this a try," he said.
While senior Kat Carpeaux hesitates to call her
music "indie," her untitled Saturday night slot
still stands independent of most music on the radio.
Featuring emo, progressive rock, punk, and new wave
pop, Carpeaux describes the selections from her collec-
tions as similar to alternative radio rock, "but better." A
typical show might include bands such as Sebadoh,
Sleater-Kinney, and Radiohead.
Carpeaux said her show will appeal to "people who
listen to 102.1 and are looking for something a little more
innovative and a little less carbon copied."
Moreover, the less mainstream lyrics might appeal to
those who buy into the "independent thinkers" part of
the university's slogan.
"The lyrics in music like this can range from really
politically conscious to revelatory or enlightening,"
Carpeaux explained.
She added, "It's a little bit nice to have music that's
not rotting your brain out,"
Carpeaux will join fellow senior Andrea LeBlanc with
a more diverse mix of mainstream and independent mu-
sic for Two Psych Majors and a Microphone.
LeBlanc described the play list as "everything you can
think of - that is, "anything but country."
The two will fill the space between songs by "joking
around and having a good time"
about UD issues or anything else
that comes to mind, Carpeaux
said.
"What we talk about is basi-
cally going to have no format,"
LeBlanc said, laughing. "We can
basically do anything we feel
like doing at the time."
More than anything, the show
is listener oriented. The two
welcome suggestions in their
mailboxes as well as from call-
ers and visitors on the show.
Carpeaux summed the show
up saying, "We're cool chicks,
we listen to cool music, and we
pride ourselves on it."
oving away from the
musical spectrum, a
number of talk and comedy
shows will grace the restricted
airwaves. The station's co-
founder, Rich Simpkins, gives
his highest marks to The Mike
and Ross Hour, featuring the
verbal antics of juniors Mike
Maiella and Ross Olsaver.
The pair's humor sets their
show apart from the rest of UD
radio shows.
"A lot of [DJ's] just play music, or they're trying to
have a serious conversation on the radio. Nobody really
wants to her a student's opinion. We get enough of that
already," Maiella said.
The first broadcast included a commercial for the cof-
fee patch and a live satellite feed to CSO, Olsaver said.
"Mike made a sketch called Walkin'the Beat that keeps
us up on campus security and what they're doing or not
doing," he said.
Many students will find the show reminiscent of the
pair's Rome semester sketches.
"I think we're sort of lampooning the stuff that's clos-
est to I'D." Olsaver said.
"It's all about entertaining," Maiella concluded.
For fans of both on and off campus sports, junior
Ed Bresnahan and senior Seth Gonzalez are plan-
ning a sports show three times a week.
"We're trying to get a better handle on UD sports.
We're establishing our contacts with all the coaches, try-
ing to get them familiar with us," Gonzales said.
Eventually the two hope to do play-by-play broad-
casts from UD games, Bresnahan said.
The duo also plan to profile student athletes.
"Everybody knows who they are, but they don't know
their real accomplishments," Bresnahan said.
The pair claims their amateur status gives them a
unique edge over professional commentators.
"We give [the listener] a fan's perspective. We're not
just guys who get a lot of money," Bresnahan said.
At the moment, UD Radio subscribes to a somewhat
unpredictable schedule. One's best chance, however, of
catching one of the shows listed above, or any of the
other UD Radio programs , is between 7 p.m. and mid-
night, Monday-Saturday.
Duo, a two-person exhibition, featuring the
abstract paintings of Johnny Robertson and
the conceptual sculpture of Ian Pedigo, opens
with a reception March 1 in Haggerty Gal-
lery. The exhibition will run through April 3.
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