Friday 23 July 2021

Beatie Wolfe interviews highly acclaimed Bay Area sculptor and Professor Emeritus Linda Fleming about her art, ethos and founding one of the oldest still-functioning artist communes Libre. Listen to this show that takes you from Park Place to the Huerfano Valley via the quest for time and space.

Orange Juice for the Ears with “musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe explores the power of music across Space, Science, Art, Health, Film & Technology by talking to the leading luminaries in each field from Nobel Prize winners to multi-platinum producers and hearing the music that has most impacted them, their “Orange Juice for the Ears”. Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN Women role model for innovation, and held an acclaimed solo exhibition at the V&A Museum.

Linda Fleming’s Orange Juice for the Ears

* First song that imprinted? “Bo Diddley” by Bo Diddley

* First album that shaped who you are? “Introspection” by Thelonious Monk - from ‘Round Midnight

* The music you would send into Space? “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana - from From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah

* The song you would have at your memorial? “Solo De Flute Double” by Gérard Kremer

* The album you would pass onto the next generation? “India” by John Coletrane - from the album Village Vanguard

This show first aired live on dublab radio. The podcast was mastered by Dean Hovey.