Alternating Currents is a weekly radio show hosted by Hal Rammel on the air in Milwaukee on WMSE-FM every Sunday night from 6 until 9 p.m. since 1993. Alternating Currents features new and experimental music from the 20th century into the present: electronic and acoustic, composed and improvised, from high tech to ad hoc, from analog to digital. Alternating Currents is our weekly search for the needle of creative music in the haystack of twentieth century radio.
Alternating Currents Live is a concert series co-produced by WMSE-FM, and Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee. These concerts take place in the gallery at Woodland Pattern Book Center (720 East Locust) and are recorded for broadcast on the WMSE-FM the following Sunday evening between 7 and 8 p.m. Since its inauguartion in 1995 the series has presented over 90 events featuring such wide ranging music from composers, performers, and improvisers such as Mats Gustafsson, Jaap Blonk, Robin Holcomb, Pauline Oliveros, Tom Hamilton, Evan Parker, Henry Grimes, Nicole Mitchell, Mike Reed, Peter Brotzmann, Ken Vandermark, Dave Rempis, Guillermo Gregorio, Michael Zerang, Fred Lonberg-Holm, and many others. For a complete listing of our past events and a little background on the history of this series follow this link to Woodland Pattern’s archives.
Our concert series for 2010 begins with a performance by the Chicago Underground Duo on Sunday, February 22, at 7 p.m.
Our concert series for Fall 2009 featured:
September 20 – Tom Hamilton + Thomas Gaudynski.
October 11 – The Edward Wilkerson Quartet with Brian Smith, Jim Baker, and Dushun Mosley.
November 29 – The Gold Watch Trio with Glenn Kotche, Jason Roebke, and John Corbett.
Our concert series for Spring 2009 featured:
April 26 – Lou Mallozzi and Michael Zerang Duo.
May 17 – The Milwaukee Laptop Orchestra (MiLO).
May 31 – Urs Leimgruber, solo saxophone improvisations.
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