“It would be of no use to listen to this kind of program in a dance hall or someone’s drawing room. It must be listened to not necessarily in a coalman’s hut, though that would be ideal, but in one’s own room, in the evening, when one is alone, at the time when it is one’s right and duty to instill in oneself calm and repose.”
- Gaston Bachelard, “Reverie and Radio” (1951)
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 21st century radio.
If you’ve heard of it but never heard it for yourself, you’ll hear it here.
