“Will no one rid me of this turbulent radio station?”
January 22nd, 2011 · < mtheo >As you probably know by now, at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 18, as the result of a complex transaction with even more complex backstories, the University of San Francisco abruptly and permanently shut down KUSF-FM, which had been in continuous operation as a community service since 1977.
It is too soon to speak definitively about future broadcasts, whether on the University’s planned web stream or elsewhere; but all other classics without walls projects will of course continue, including (“as soon as it’s ready”) the new version of the Gurre-Lieder Project (bringing to bear upon the translation the original Danish of J. P. Jacobsen for the first time in English), liturgical experiments at Loper Chapel in Berkeley, and, as always, anything our disjointed minds can dream up in the service of pointing toward the substantial reality of music-making.
This site, which has lain unupdated since three weeks before forever (for a long time pending the new official KUSF site that never quite came about), will carry whatever news is essential; if you wish to receive mail updates, just drop me a line at m t h e o a t a m u r a l d o t c o m .
In the meantime, I heartily recommend stopping by the KUSF Archives site for several reasons:
- it is the central site for the rapidly developing news about KUSF
- KUSF DJs are already posting their new programming, even in advance of the university’s planned streaming
- you can listen to thousands of hours of archived KUSF programs (including, of course, classics without walls)
