Broken Window Garden: Recent Episodes
Ben Krieger
Experimental sound collage. Improvised, amplified sounds and voices. Say hi: hi@brokenwindowgarden.org
Samples of Voddie Baucham, Bertrand Russell, Charlie Chaplin, and more! hi@brokenwindowgarden.org
Samples of Sam Neill, Gil Fronsdal, Angela Davis, Derecka Purnell, Gordon Parks, and more. Say hi: hi@brokenwindowgarden.org
Samples of Shoshana Zuboff, Mark Fisher, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, and more.
Samples of Jully Black, Alan Seale, Lindsay Hockaday, and more. hi@brokenwindowgarden.org
Incorporations of Halt and Catch Fire, Phyllis Casterwiler, and more. hi@brokenwindowgarden.org
Samples of Jon Berger, Alexa Palladino, Lee Pace, Scoot McNairy, Lincoln Maazel, James Cromwell, and more!
Samples of Alan Sparhawk, NK Jemisin, Piper Laurie, Amadea Krieger, Dots Will Echo, and more.
Samples of Alan Seale, Naomi Murakawa, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Helen Frankenthaler, and more.
Samples of Tom Noonan, Judd Hirsch, Dinah Manoff, Rebecca De Mornay, Jon Voight, and more.
Samples of Lady Gaga, Sarah Moriarty, Bradley Cooper, and more. hi@brokenwindowgarden.org
Samples of Mark Krieger, Dana Meadows, Lach, Mark Fisher, Shulamith Firestone, and more. hi@brokenwindowgarden.org
Samples of Cecil Taylor, Donald Sutherland, Leslie Carlson, Michelle Yuan, Debbie Harry, Lincoln Maazel, Ramesh Pandey, and more.
Samples of Liz Plank, Judith Butler, bell hooks, Marcella Krieger, Amadea Krieger, and more.
On abolition. Samples of Angela Davis, Venida Browder, Alexis Shotwell, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Mariame Kaba, Alex Vitale, Donella Meadows, Alan Seale, and more.
A show that ties personal family with social justice family, and some funky industrial grooves to drive things home.
Samples of Mark Krieger, Brian Eno, Helen Frankenthaler, David Lynch, the children of Class 308, and more.
An 80s synth-inspired meditation. Sit back and enjoy. Say hi: hi@brokenwindowgarden.org
In which I cope with life by channeling my inner NEU! with help from Richard Warshak, Susan Sontag, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Donna Haraway kicks off this show, which contains material from a FairPlay campaign about Trump and Voldemort taking over TikTok.
A relationship with the ocean, parenting, loss of innocence, a family trying to stay sane during a pandemic and a divorce.
Original music by BWG, sound samples of Krieger girls, Peter Weller in Buckaroo Bonzai, "all that hungry ocean" excerpt from 'New Haven' a novel by Sarah Moriarty.
Live improvised sound collage with sound samples of Angela Davis, Koyuki Smith, Sara Ahmed, and others.
An insomnia episode recorded early in the morning. Sampled voices include James H. Cone, Angela Davis, and Barry Bliss.
AOC, Sanders, and Angela Davis have been turned into muffins by Voldemort. This is your mission...
An old Yossarian Feedback album that is essentially the Cambrian Explosion of this project, recorded and assembled from three nights of performances in early 2010. An hour of science and faith...enjoy!
Thank you to everyone who contributed their stories to this episode, it's one of my new favorites.
A snapshot of a pandemic summer full of dreams, nightmares, marches, heartbreak, and uncertainty. Good times. Contributions from Jon Berger, Kate O'Malley, and Kelly Novak.
Love conquers all...and gets wild loud and crazy at the end!!! Samples of Mark Linn-Baker, Peter Weller, Kelly Novak, Gil Fronsdal, Susan Sontag, and more.
Anthony Bourdain, Susan Sontag, Koyuki Smith, Kelly Novak, and coda by one of my favorite bands.
Peter Weller, Mtume Gant, Dennis Kangalee, Susan Sontag, Kelly Novak, Mary Ruefle, Dots Will Echo, Michele Lowrance, The Kriegers 3, and more.
Kicking off the Season of Self Care. Appearances by the Gotham Rock Choir, Koyuki Smith, Kelly Novak, The Krieger Family, Dots Will Echo, and more.
One of my new favorites. John Lithgow in Dexter, Jocelin Donahue, Greta Gerwig, and Tom Noonan in House Of the Devil, Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek in In The Bedroom, Rabbi Rachel Grant Meyer, the Krieger family, N.K. Jemisin and more!
Just figuring a few things out. In approximate order of first appearance: Anthony Bourdain, Jacob Bacharach, Campbell Lane in Battlestar Galactica, Doreen Lang in The Birds, Katee Sackhoff on Battlestar Galactica, David Lynch, Keri Smith, Mtume Gant, Alan Moore, Brian Eno, Helen Frankenthaler, Dots Will Echo (stage banter), Gordon Parks, Edward James Olmos and Katee Sackhoff on Battlestar Galactica. · Songs and music samples by Bee K. www.brokenwindowgarden.org
Due to some wiring issues, a good portion of this show is in mono. As usual, listening the following morning, it holds more weight and is much more successful than I thought. At the heart of this show is a recording that I've been sitting on for months, a field recording I made with Sandra, a woman at the playground who was visiting Brooklyn from Tennessee with her church group. Other samples include Gaius Baltar, Harryette Mullen, Mark Fisher, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kid Lucky, Mtume Gant, Sujatha Baliga, Dennis Leroy Kangalee, Tracey Emin, Clyfford Still and more. Check out the show archives at brokenwindowgarden.org
Fairplay returns with the GM spinning a take for four young adventurers. Chocolate! Trump! Subway shootouts! Dragons! This one has it all. · (in order of first appearance) Dennis Leroy Kangalee, Marc Rotenberg, Mtume Gant, the Krieger Girls with friends, Adam Curtis. · Songs and music samples by Bee K. More details and shows at brokenwindowgarden.org
Some lovely passages for a B-level show. It gets very loud and intense during the penultimate. It doesn't do much of anything at times. I think I like this, actually. Maybe I should do more B-Level shows. · Mark Fisher, scene from Takeshi Kitano's Hana-bi film, Marcella Krieger and Amadea Krieger talking about art at the MET, Agnes Martin, Helen Frankenthaler, Toby Huss on Halt and Catch Fire. More details and more shows at www.brokenwindowgarden.org
We're back for the fall! A new show that got off the ground despite the death of a laptop, incorporating sounds from a recent trip to Maine, including some noodling on a severely weather-damaged piano. · Lach from Antifolk Documentary, Amadea Krieger on Clyfford Still, Marcella Krieger, poet Mary Ruefle on Neil Armstrong. · Songs and music samples by Bee K.
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A beautiful live performance at the Sidewalk Cafe, putting the Antifolk Fest to rest, using one of my gear setups as well as the venue's upright piano. Highlights from a session of Fairplay with the Krieger daughters, an adventure involving an escape from an orbiting prison station, a journey to find an underground billionaire farm bunker, and a post-apocalyptic pop star harvest festival. More details at www.brokenwindowgarden.org
There are no new episodes of Broken Window Garden this month, but I will post a few old shows from precursor projects. This was a Yossarian Feedback show that was done completely acoustic, trying to set up actual performers as if they were samplers. It involved me giving people specific reading material, prompts for improvisation, and then running around the room, tapping people on the shoulder and trying to manipulate the dynamics of the room. There are plans to execute some Broken Window Garden shows like this.
Featuring a game of Fairplay with three generations of Kriegers. Details at www.brokenwindowgarden.org
This is a very dynamic episode. The drones get loud! Be prepared. Details at brokenwindowgarden.org.
Recorded live at Crab Shack in Brooklyn on June 22, 2018. Show details at www.brokenwindowgarden.org
Latest episode of Broken Window Garden. Details and description at brokenwindowgarden.org