SHOW INFORMATION

WtB? has aired on CKUT 90.3 FM for over two years and was started by Matthew McFarlane. We are a founding member of the non-pop international network and official broadcaster of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community. Below you will find the bios of producer and hosts as well as notes from past shows. I apologize for any inaccuracies or errors here.  This is primarily for information on the radio show, not to be read as academic truths!   Hopefully over time I will gather a database of information.

PRODUCER – Matthew McFarlane

Since starting the show, Matthew has gone on to absolutely love the medium of radio and he has completed documentary for both WtB? and for CBC Radio One and Two. Matthew now acts as producer of the show. He has freelanced for The Arts Today, In Performance and Out of the Blue. He also writes for the GlennGould and Musicworks magazines. Matthew teaches the cello to a wonderful fleet of students ranging in age from five to forty and conducts the orchestras of Suzuki Beaurepaire in the western end of Montréal.

HOSTS

Lorne Shapiro

Lorne Shapiro is a music librarian/musician who plays viola da gamba inboth historical and contemporary contexts. He is presently involved with an improv. project called No One Receiving.

You can link to the No One Receiving website here.

Eliot Handelman

Eliot Handelman is a composer/theorist mostly interested in machine-generated mind, listening simulations, faking music of the past by machine (AI), composing kinematic musical animation (a style he is still trying to get right), and is writing a book on the future of music as mind-numbing electronic spaces that rupture the ego boundary. He studied composition in West Berlin with Isang Yun and got a PhD from Princeton in 1991.

You can link to Eliot’s website here.

SHOW INFO

Sept. 12, 2001 - Peter Grimes information

Oct. 3, 2001 - Giacinto Scelsi biography

Oct. 10, 2001 - Ton de Leeuw biography

Nov. 28, 2001 - Brian Ferneyhough biography

Dec. 19, 2001 - Galina Ustvolskaya links

Jan. 7, 2002 – Notable Recordings of 2001

Jan. 23, 2002 – Opera in the Twentieth Century – Part One

Feb. 13, 2002 – Opera in the Twentieth Century – Part Two

Feb. 27, 2002 – Black History Month on WTB?

March 13, 2002 – Wolfgang Mitterer links and info

March 27, 2002 – Opera in the Twentieth Century – Part Three

April 24, 2002 – Opera in the Twentieth Century – Part Four

May 1, 2002 – Communist/Socialist/Labour oriented music (extensive information)