Alternating Currents Live

02/19/2021

The Bridge #15 ... onward in spite of our shared isolation:

Le Petit faucheux accueillait vendredi 5 février 2021, 3 artistes du projet The Bridge pour un set suivi d’une rencontre, retransmis sur Radio Campus Tours. ...

01/29/2021

Woodland Pattern's Poetry Marathon & Benefit happens on Saturday!

Each year on the final Saturday in January, hundreds of poets and community members from Milwaukee and beyond gather at Woodland Pattern for our annual Poetry Marathon, a fifteen-hour extravaganza of five-minute poetry performances from a wide range of participants.

12/03/2020

Another offering from The Bridge this weekend, on the Midwestern side of the Atlantic including several musicians who have performed at Woodland Pattern in the past - Mike Reed, Ben Lamar Gay, and Jakob Heineman along with Nolan Chin, Fred Jackson, and Marvin Tate.

Join us for a concert streamed live from Constellation. Please buy a donation-based ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/131294219545 The Bridge invited...

08/07/2020

Milford Graves: Sounding the Universe. (Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Andrew Lyon.)

It is difficult to place Milford Graves into a category. He is lauded as a master drummer of the 1960s avant-garde jazz scene, credited with inventing the martial…

07/29/2020

Good news! Woodland Pattern Book Center’s new online shop is live.

https://www.woodlandpattern.org

06/22/2020

The duo of Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang was one of the very first Alternating Currents Live concerts at Woodland Pattern Book Center 25 years ago. Now with our concert series on pause I hope you can enjoy this recording of their online performance together last Saturday in Chicago for the summer solstice, a concert produced by Elastic Arts and the Experimental Sound Studio. We miss being in together in person with such good friends and their inspiring presence.

Experimental_Sound_Studio went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Music & Performing Arts VOD now.

05/06/2020

We certainly have missed our friends of The Bridge this spring. We remain comrades in spirit.

04/21/2020

James Sanders has posted this wonderful set from the Dark Matter String Band (featuring James Sanders, Christian Dillingham, and Matt Gold) from their Alternating Currents Live concert in 2018. Enjoy!

A completely improvised set of music by the Dark Matter String Band at Woodlawn Pattern in Milwaukee, WI on December 9, 2018. James Sanders- violin Matt Gold...

12/29/2019

For those of you patiently waiting for Alternating Currents Live to resume its concert season in April 2020, perhaps this might be the best way to listen to records these cold winter moths.

The Stollwerck/Eureka phonograph (1903) was designed to play miniature disc records made of chocolate.

Manufactured by the Stollwerck Chocolate company in Germany, the phonographs were powered by a tiny clock motor made by Junghans, a company still making precision watches today.

The phonographs measured 21.5 cm (8-1/2 inches) tall (including the horn), with a turntable barely 7.6cm (3 inches) in diameter.

In the German and Belgian markets, the phonographs were emblazoned with the Stollwerck name on the horn and the sides of the turntable. Stollwerck's French partner, Kratz-Boussac, sold the identical machine in France under the brand name "Eureka,"

Stollwerck also pressed records out of a non-edible wax called "karbin," for those who wanted a more permanent recording.