Orange Juice for the Ears with Beatie Wolfe

Beatie Wolfe and Mark Mothersbaugh pull postcards from the tens of thousands they’ve received for their collective art demonstration ‘Postcards for Democracy’ and pair them with tracks of their choosing. Join this movement and potentially a future radio show by making and mailing your post art to 8760 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069. Alternatively if you’re in LA drop in on one of our pop-up postcard making events. Head to www.postartfordemocracy.com for all the info about this campaign celebrating USPS, our right to vote and the power of art with support from The Broad Foundation and dublab.
Tracklist:
X-Ray Spex – Oh Bondage! Up Yours!
Vaquita – On Her Side
Blaze Foley – Oval Room
Johnny Brewton – Small Metal Objects
Staff Benda Bilili – Staff Benda Bilili
Uno Lady – Uno Lady Sings Town of Don’t You Worry
The Marvelettes – Please Mr Postman
Siena Riley – Rich Kid Blues
Leenalchi – Tiger is Coming
Yuri Suzuki – AI Acid
Mort Garson – Symphony for a Spider Plant
Ian Svenonius – Rebel Outlaw
Aretha Franklin – Think
POSTCARDS FOR DEMOCRACY
Ahead of the 2024 November presidential election, artistic visionaries Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe join forces to re-activate Postcards For Democracy – their non-partisan, collective post art campaign with support from The Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation and dublab. This collective post art campaign, originally launched in lockdown ahead of the 2020 election, stirred tens of thousands of people to create and contribute to the public art movement, supporting USPS in the process, and all the while reminding and mobilizing people to vote. Mothersbaugh and Wolfe received postcards from every part of the U.S. (and across the world) with the ever-growing collection first exhibited at the Rauschenberg Gallery before a selection of the art went into the Smithsonian. Such a chord was struck that post art is still being received today four years on! As democracy and our right to vote still hangs in the balance, Postcards for Democracy invites everyone and anyone to create a piece of mail art and send it in to become part of this public art demo, with an exhibition and book to follow.

With the aim of the campaign being to encourage as many people as possible to vote, you can join it by buying stamps, making a piece of postcard art and mailing it to:
8760 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069.

A is for Abalone: Beatie Wolfe interviews marine biologist and conservationist Dr Melissa Neuman about her upbring and work protecting conserving and restoring endangered white abalone, a key member of the kelp forest ecosystem in the US and Mexico, by reintroducing captive-bred white abalone into the wild.
Orange Juice for the Ears with “musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe explores the power of music across space, science, art, health, film and technology by talking to leading luminaries from Nobel Laureates to punk publishers about their life’s work and musical DNA. Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation and held an acclaimed solo exhibition at the V&A Museum.
Dr Melissa Neuman⁠'s Orange Juice for the Ears
First song that imprinted? “I’ll Walk In the Rain By Your side” by John Denver
First album that shaped who you are? “Dreams” from the record: Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can’t We by The Cranberries (1993)
The music you would send into Space? “Purple Rain” by Prince
The song you would have at your memorial? “Orinoco Flow” by Enya
The album you would pass onto the next generation? “Synchronicity I” from the record: “Synchronicity” by The Police

The radio show was mastered by Dean Martin Hovey at Soundwell Studios.

Marvel: Beatie Wolfe interviews x-ray visionary, superhuman casting director and producer Sarah Finn about building out the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe as well as casting the most awarded film in movie history, amongst many others. Listen to this show that takes you from sufism to being dubbed as the most valuable email address in Hollywood via the electrical charge of one’s intuition. 

Orange Juice for the Ears with “musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe explores the power of music across space, science, art, health, film and technology by talking to leading luminaries from Nobel Laureates to punk publishers about their life’s work and musical DNA. Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation and held an acclaimed solo exhibition at the V&A Museum.

Sarah Finn’s Orange Juice for the Ears

First song that imprinted? “Yellow Bird” by The Mills Brothers 

First album that shaped who you are? “Home Again” from the record Tapestry by Carole King

The music you would send into Space? “Somewhere over the Rainbow” as performed by Israel "IZ” Kamakawiwo'ole

The song you would have at your memorial? “As” by Stevie Wonder

The album you would pass onto the next generation? “Power of Two” from the record Swamp Ophelia by Indigo Girls

This show first aired live on dublab radio - tracks have been shortened for this podcast. The podcast was mastered by Dean Martin Hovey at Soundwell Studios.

Play: Beatie Wolfe interviews polymath, producer, philosopher, environmentalist, colour conductor and “toad in the hole” tosser Brian Eno about his journey from pioneering ambient music, ever-evolving light paintings, production styles, conceptual installations to his constant strategies of surrender. Listen to this show that takes you from co-founding Roxy Music to addressing the climate emergency via the thread of play. Blender of colours and bender of genres, when it comes to the truly mad and experimental, there is only “One Brain”.

Orange Juice for the Ears with “musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe explores the power of music across space, science, art, health, film and technology by talking to leading luminaries from Nobel Laureates to punk publishers about their life’s work and musical DNA. Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation and held an acclaimed solo exhibition at the V&A Museum.

This show first aired live on dublab radio - tracks have been shortened for this podcast. The podcast was mastered by Dean Martin Hovey at Soundwell Studios.

***Read the article version in The Great Discontent (TGD) magazine***

An audience with Counterculture Godfather & Punk Publisher V. Vale hosted by Beatie Wolfe and Aaron Rose on Sunday April 16th at The Aster, Los Angeles.

Listen to this OJ special x LA event celebrating the life and work of one of this world’s true originals: RE/Search founder V. Vale – described as the first (and last!) punk publisher! After launching San Francisco’s first punk zine Search & Destroy in 1977 with $100 each from Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Vale founded RE/Search in 1980 for his other cultural-anthropological explorations including Industrial music, the writings of J.G. Ballard and William S. Burroughs, feminism, “Incredibly Strange” filmmaking and so much more. A cornerstone of the counterculture movement, Vale’s influence remains both all-pervasive and yet hidden in plain sight.

This event includes a conversation between Vale, Aaron Rose and Beatie Wolfe; a live DJ set from Money Mark on tape cassettes; a reading of Vale’s cat haikus and “Goals for Life” and a live performance from Vale and Marian.

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