Marjane Satrapi and a DJ/rupture Remix Challenge on Studio 360

For years, one of my favorite podcasts has been the one for Studio 360, the weekly, NYC-based public radio show about "pop culture and the arts" hosted by novelist Kurt Andersen.  (Download it for free from iTunes.)  Here are a few people who have been guests:

 

Last week's show was a good one, featuring graphic novelist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, writer and co-director of Persepolis.

Her latest film, Chicken with Plums, is live-action rather than animation, and she discusses the challenges of collaboration for a normally solitary graphic artist.  (You can listen to the interview HERE .)

One of the other interviews last week was with ethnomusicologist and DJ (and former Harvard English major) Jace Clayton, better known as DJ/rupture.

There's a nice interview with him, along with a video of his turntable skills, HERE .  And, if you're up for a challenge, you can download tracks, create your own remix, and submit the results to be judged by DJ/rupture himself.  HERE's all the info.  But hurry!  The deadline is midnight on Sept. 2.

At the beginning of each week's podcast, a woman's voice always reminds us that they "have a great website too."  And they do.  They're at http://www.studio360.org/