Antenna Alley

Join us for a walk through Antenna Alley, a new series of short, absurd, yet factual insect-music adventures created by Irene Moon. Special guest artists from the world of noise and sound will contribute an extra buzz. Episodes start on January 15th and will air exclusively on WFMU's Daniel Blumin Show every Monday between 9 PM to midnight EST.

Contributing Artists/Special Guests: GX Jupitter-Larsen, Ian MacPhee, LoVid, Ironing, Ergo Phizmiz and Lottie Bowater, The Virus, Francisco López, Hearty White, Jana Winderen, Wobbly, Matmos, Rrose, venoztks, People Like Us, Hearty White & Ed Sunspot.

episode 1

Title: Latch Key Larvae

Music: Musical composition created for Antenna Alley by GX Jupitter-Larsen called Bees and the Pollywave (http://jupitter-larsen.com)

Insect: Melissodes or the long-horn bee

Links: https://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=Melissodes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissodes 

Broadcast date: Jan 15, 2024

Archive Show Link: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/135934

episode 2

Title: Smooth Criminal

Music: Musical composition created for Antenna Alley by Ian MacPhee (https://ianmacphee.bandcamp.com), Fame is a Bee (Emily Dickenson) read by Vicki Bennett (https://peoplelikeus.org)

Insect: Triepeolus cuckoo bee

Links: https://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=Triepeolus, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triepeolus, https://www.museumoftheearth.org/bees/behavior

Broadcast date: Jan 22, 2024

Archive Show Link: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/136192

episode 3 Title: Bees are Related to Wasps Music: Matmos with Mud Dauber Wasp from the 2023 release "Return to Archive" which consists of remixing the nature recordings back catalog of Smithsonian Folkways records (https://matmos.bandcamp.com/album/return-to-archive). Mud Dauber Wasp sounds were originally recorded by Albro T Gaul's for the 1960 "Sounds of Insects" LP Insect: Wasps Links: https://www.museumoftheearth.org/bees/evolution-fossil-record

Broadcast date: Jan 29, 2024

Archive Show Link: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/136425

episode 4

Title: Masked Bee

Music: Musical composition titled Little Love Song for a Masked Bee created for Antenna Alley by Ergo Phizmiz and Lottie Bowater (http://ergophizmiz.blogspot.com). Additional shortwave sounds recorded for the show by venoztks (https://venoztks.bandcamp.com) at 39.0kHz

Insect: Hylaeus or the masked bee

Links: https://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=Hylaeus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylaeus_(bee)

Broadcast date: Feb 05, 2024

Archive Show Link: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/136643

episode 5

Title: Hairy Eyeballs

Music: Musical compositions created for Antenna Alley by LoVid (https://lovid.org), The Viirus (insects in the studio -  www.theviirus.com) and porest reads “Fame is a Bee” (https://porest.bandcamp.com)

Insect: Our most famous bee - The Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)

Links: https://bugguide.net/node/view/3080/bgimage, https://www.buzzaboutbees.net/honey-bees-have-hairy-eyes.html

Broadcast date: Feb 12, 2024

Archive Show Link: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/136875

episode 6 Title: Burying Beetles - Nicrophorus Music: Musical composition ‘burying beetle’ created for Antenna Alley by Rrose (https://rrose.ro) Insect: Burying Beetles Links: https://bugguide.net/node/view/4954/bgimage; https://dec.ny.gov/nature/animals-fish-plants/american-burying-beetle

Broadcast date: Feb 19, 2024

Archive Show Link: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/137131

episode 7 Title: Flies Are Pollinators Too Music: Musical composition created for Antenna Alley by Ironing (https://ironing.bandcamp.com) Insect: Pollinating Flies Links: https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/pollinators/animals/flies.shtml Broadcast date: Feb 26, 2024

Archive Show Link: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/137374

episode 8

Title: The Tymbal of the Cicada

Music: Francisco López (http://www.franciscolopez.net) with a short selection of recordings from Borneo featuring cicadas.

Insect: Cicadas

Links: https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/category/locations/borneo, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8677226

Broadcast date: Mar 04, 2024

Archive Show Link: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/137530

episode 9

Title: Who are the Sticky Bugs?

Music: Musical composition created for Antenna Alley by Wobbly (https://www.detritus.net/wobbly), just a touchscreen FM synthesis patch. 

Insect: cottony cushion scale and other scale insects

Links: https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/fruit/cottony_cushion_scale.htm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_insect

Broadcast date: Mar 11, 2024

Marathon week!

Archive Show Link: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/137770

episode 10

Title: Underwater Beetles

Music: Jana Winderen, Music from the ‘The Listener’, Second Nature, Caen and Perche, France. https://www.janawinderen.com/releases/the-listener. A hydrophone recording from the river ORNE in Normandie, close to Caen. The diver Marko narrated by Yon Visell.

Insect: Dytiscus latissimus and other predaceous diving beetles

Links: https://uk.inaturalist.org/taxa/99648-Dytiscus-latissimus

Broadcast date: Mar 18, 2024

Archive Show Link: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/138029

episode 11

Title: The Other Carpenter

Music: Musical composition created for Antenna Alley by Ed Sunspot (https://robertbeatty.bandcamp.com/album/as-ed-sunspot); Fame is a 

Bee read by Hearty White (https://wfmu.org/playlists/HA)

Insect: Carpenter Bees!

Links: https://bugguide.net/node/view/13232; https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/pollinators/pollinator-of-the-month/carpenter_bees.shtml

Broadcast date: Mar 25, 2024

Archive Show Link: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/138275