Hammer Blog

The Gao Tie (Gao Tee-yeh) is the Chinese High Speed Rail. The trains are sleek, new, clean, comfortable, and fast. Beijing to Shanghai is about a 5 hour trip as opposed to 9-15 hours on a regular train or who knows how long on an airplane. Flying or taking this deluxe train can be about the same price but you can count on the train being on time. Flying domestically in China has become a real problem. Almost every flight I have taken for as long as I can remember has been delayed for some reason or another. They often say the weather is bad at the destination but I think the country just cannot handle the incredible amount of air traffic. It grows and grows as Chinese become more affluent and mobile and as more and more foreigners travel here for tourism and business. Whatever, the trains, especially

As part of the KCHUNG Residency at the Hammer Museum, several DJs are crafting alternative audio guides for current exhibitions and spaces within the Museum. One such audio guide is a Reading Radio interpretation by Jack Heard of the Hammer Projects exhibition, Cabaret Crusades. You can hear Jack’s audio guide on the Hammer App, available for iPad, iPhone, and Android. Enjoy the following blog post from KCHUNG DJ Guru Rugu about DJ Jack Heard’s radio show, Reading Radio.

Listen to last 10/16/2013 edition of Reading Radio, featuring Guru Rugu reading Raven Moot!
While many listeners tend to believe that KCHUNG Radio is primarily a public service—a form of sacrifice on the part of the DJs that primarily serves the needy ears and minds of non-KCHUNG-DJ Los Angeles—it may come as a surprise that many of us DJs are also equally moved by and find solace in the shows of

James Elaine has been taking us on a tour of the various types of vehicles in Beijing. Here is the last of his Beijing Transports series.


An excerpt from his last Beijing Transports blog:
I always try to have my mobile phone or camera ready when I ride my bicycle through the streets of Beijing, and that’s everyday. A bicycle offers the perfect vantage point to be able to capture the amazing images that are all around me. I have made so many photos of various types of vehicles that one blog posting is not enough. --James Elaine

This Saturday, October 12, will mark the kick-off of another new KCHUNG residency program at the Hammer Museum. Starting this week and continuing through the end of November, every Saturday from 11:30am-4:00pm, KCHUNG DJs will broadcast their regular programming live from the Mobile DJ Cart on Lindbrook Terrace. To start us off, this Saturday’s broadcast will feature:
11:30am-12:30pm: DJs Swan and Julie Moon of Divided Daughters will discuss art in the vein of Sister Wendy.
12:30-2:30pm: During Slam Dunx from the Free Throw Line, DJ Lady C will play some records and talk a little ball.
2:30-4:00pm: DJ egroeg will present a special edition of CDS Digest featuring the accomplished auditory artist, Matthew Sullivan.


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A bit more about Matthew Sullivan from DJ egroeg:
For the last ten years Matthew Sullivan has worked under a number of monikers (Privy Seals, Earn), as well as

We always love to hear from artists about the process of making their work. Here’s Andrew Choate illuminating his musical selections for a Forrest Bess pre-public program set.
Besides having a direct kinship with Tantric painting and the "Thought Forms" of Annie Bésant and C. W. Leadbeater, Forrest Bess's work to me has always been about the shaping of color. For my live broadcast* in the Hammer courtyard, I chose to play songs with titles that specifically reference certain colors, as a way of approaching his paintings from an altered, auditory viewpoint. I layered and juxtaposed those songs in ways that evoked specific Bess paintings. What follows is an explication of what songs I played, why, and the correspondence to each Bess painting.

"Complete Freedom" has such a variety of intense blues that I wanted to focus on that first. I started with a section of "Blue Shift" by