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Thursday, March 10, 2005
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    (Gregory Colbert)

    Artists off the Beaten Path

    Gregory Colbert, the filmmaker and photographer currently exhibiting his ongoing project Ashes and Snow, joins us in the studio today. Ashes and Snow was premiered in Italy in 2002, ten years after his last exhibition. Focusing on the profundity of the relationship between human beings and animals, Ashes and Snow is being taken around the world in the Nomadic Museum – a portable gallery for Colbert’s work. Also: Russell Sherman, a brilliant pianist and probing musician and teacher, usually has an original take on any work he plays. But he's always charted a career slightly off the beaten virtuoso path. Find out why as he joins us in advance of his 75th birthday.

    » View images from "Ashes and Snow"

Introducing our Video Contest

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John Schaefer gives the lowdown on Soundcheck's music video challenge with the Fiery Furnaces.

In Studio: Angel Deradoorian

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The 22-year-old multi-instrumentalist performs live in our studio.

Cucu Diamantes Performs Amor Cronico

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Cucu Diamantes went from a tough childhood in Havana, Cuba, to an art school in Rome to underground New York City, where she co-founded the Latin alternative band Yerba Buena.

In Studio: Stephanie McKay

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The local singer-songwriter performs "Jackson Avenue," a nostalgic toast to her childhood in the South Bronx.

In Studio: The Decemberists

The Portland, Ore., band's latest album, "The Hazards of Love," is a concept album with a mythological flair. They joined Soundcheck to play live for a studio audience in WNYC's Greene Space.

Sound Off

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Throughout May, Soundcheck presents “Sound Off” a Friday series on the many aspects of noise in music and our lives. The series -- which coincides with “Better Hearing and Speech Month” -- looks at issues like New York’s noisiest neighborhoods, the latest research on iPods and hearing loss, and what happens when noise becomes a musical ingredient.