“I really do think that as music changes us, we change music.” Mighty critic Ben Ratliff on how his running practice revealed new ways of hearing Sade, Arsenio Rodriguez, Thelonius Monk, and more. His new book, RUN THE SONG, is out from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...

“Music merges you and keeps you separate.” On the heels of the NYC Marathon, Ben Ratliff reflects on Run the Song—his new book about running, listening, and how music helps us find form. @graywolfpress.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...

As a critic, Ben Ratliff spent years defining art by its edges. But running helped show him that the truth of a song lives in its middle: “The truth about music is that all of it could potentially go on forever.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...

Experience Ende Tymes, the annual noise festival gathering masters and vanguards of sonic destruction. Relive the full lineup on YouTube—featuring Aaron Dilloway, The Rita, Spiteful Womb, Charmaine Lee, and Valise. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

"Madden’s note positioned the existence of the curve as a metaphor for the susceptibility of modern mass society to fascist delusion." @bolman.bsky.social for @pioneerwork.bsky.social: pioneerworksbroadcast.substack.com/p/when-baseb...

Is Gen-Z killing the curveball, as it has Southern accents and the alcohol industry? For PW Broadcast, Brad Bolman (@bolman.bsky.social) writes about what baseball reveals about science, shared reality, and American values. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/br...

For as long as baseball has been a professional sport, fans and scientists have debated whether curveballs were real. To some, they were a mass delusion, symbolic of everything wrong with America. Read more from @bolman.bsky.social on PW Broadcast. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/br...

The World Series is almost here, so something a little different from my usual: I wrote about the surprisingly long debates about whether it's actually possible to "curve" a pitch. Candy Cummings, mass delusion, aerospace engineering, fascism. This one has it all pioneerworks.org/broadcast/br...

Watch @deerhoof.bsky.social's epic live set at Pioneer Works, captured during their 31 Flavours Tour. Since forming in 1994, the San Francisco quartet has fused anarchic energy with artistic precision to become one of indie music’s most influential bands. www.youtube.com/watch?si=VUh...

Amidst what he calls “Gowanus Footballs” (bloated, decomposing rats) and “Coney Island whitefish” (used condoms), Gary Francis and @gowanusdredgers.bsky.social track the Gowanus Canal daily—hoping to revive its famously rotten waters. @amypedulla.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/go...

“What can be thrown away can be reborn.” Along the city’s most polluted waterway, the citizen scientists of the @gowanusdredgers.bsky.social are turning daily measurements into a blueprint for revival. For PW Broadcast, @amypedulla.bsky.social reports. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/go...

This weekend at Second Sundays, Alissa Bennett will talk to the iconic Chris Kraus (@chriskraus.bsky.social) about her new novel, The Four Spent the Day Together—a book that began as a series of stories published on Pioneer Works Broadcast. @scribnerbooks.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/programs/sec...

How are poems made? This Sunday, at our monthly open house, @parisreview.bsky.social poetry editor Srikanth Reddy will talk process with Matt Broaddus (@mattbroaddus.bsky.social), Jana Prikryl, and Broadcast contributor Mónica de la Torre. pioneerworks.org/programs/sec...

“Some said Coyote would reappear as a cooler version of Jesus.” Broadcast is proud to share a piece from Julian Brave NoiseCat's latest book from @aaknopf.bsky.social, which we’ll be launching on Tuesday, 10/13 with @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/we...

"These were the days that never existed for most of Europe in 1582." Since then, we've switched to the Gregorian calendar, but it's not perfect either. Read more from Joe Patterson's Big Apple Sky Calendar on Broadcast. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/bi...

"Full Moon. This is called the Harvest Moon, as it’s the full Moon nearest the autumn equinox." 🌕 Read more insights on the skies above from intrepid astronomer Joe Patterson, now on PW Broadcast. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/bi...

“You were stung then, and you’re stung again now. It got you in its tentacles.” In new fiction from @madeleinewatts.bsky.social, jellyfish summon heat waves and prophecy. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/te...

How was it possible to slip so quickly from paradise into a sweltering, hellscape of no exit? In Greece, where ancient history meets tourist fantasy, @laurenmarkham.bsky.social finds a harbinger for our warming world. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ed...

Our existence is predicated on a delicate balance of hot bodies. For PW Broadcast, @jannalevinastro.bsky.social writes on the quantum equation that describes the radiation of your flesh, the Sun, and the universe itself. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/pi...

“We were both frustrated about how climate art mostly just grieved. We wanted to locate agency and not just give in to sorrow.” @lav.io, @tega.bsky.social, and @shannonmattern.bsky.social talk pirate solutions to climate change. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/cl...

Another achingly beautiful piece on mothering against the "apocalypse," from @emilyraboteau.bsky.social. Among The Ruins via Broadcast of @pioneerwork.bsky.social. #climateweeknyc #heat #climatecrisis #Rome #NYC #trees pioneerworks.org/broadcast/am...

“The warmth of the sun was a joy for most of human history, but thanks to human foolishness, this source of life has become the curse of our age.” Bill McKibben (@billmckibben.bsky.social) on shade’s fragile mercy. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/pr...

“Air-conditioning is not just a technology of personal comfort; it is also a technology of forgetting.” Jeff Goodell (@jeffgoodell.bsky.social) on the fraught luxury of cold air. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/je...

Heat won’t show up in family photos, but its quiet violence is felt beyond the frame. Emily Raboteau (@emilyraboteau.bsky.social) on raising kids and growing trees in the mouth of a lion. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/am...

Lucy Sante (@luxante.bsky.social) shares an ode to the season that scorches: “It was all those cars, all those drugs, all that red meat, all that money it sucked up and vaporized. Summer only remembers luxury and rage.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/su...

I had the pleasure of speaking with @tega.bsky.social + @lav.io about their new exhibition — which engages with surveillance, data infrastructures, and climate — at @pioneerwork.bsky.social!

"How quickly a state of careless ease becomes one of mortal peril. Enter the future." @laurenmarkham.bsky.social for @pioneerwork.bsky.social: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ed...

Broadcast presents HEAT WEEK—a series of dispatches from a world on fire. Ft @luxante.bsky.social, @billmckibben.bsky.social, @emilyraboteau.bsky.social, @jannalevinastro.bsky.social, @laurenmarkham.bsky.social, @philipcball.bsky.social. @wellcometrust.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/se...

“Huge testicles, a long upright tail, and extensive territory: these are the foundations of wren triumph.” Now on Broadcast, an intimate look into the polygynous lives of wren, from Adam Nicolson’s BIRD SCHOOL (@fsgbooks.bsky.social). pioneerworks.org/broadcast/wr...

“The answer to death is sex.” Adam Nicolson on the lustful lives of wrens—an exclusive excerpt from BIRD SCHOOL, out now from @fsgbooks.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/wr...

Come see "How To Get To Zero", my new collaborative exhibit with @tega.bsky.social at @pioneerwork.bsky.social. It's up until Dec 13th. The show includes 10 pieces, covering the last decade of our solo and collective practices.

RIP Hermeto Pascoal, who in 2023 warned Joshua Minsoo Kim against what he called real death: “When people graduate, they sometimes think they know stuff. That’s what dying is. When you think you know, that’s when you’ve really died.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/he...

Farewell to Hermeto Pascoal—the Brazilian master who found music everywhere. On the day after his 2023 set at Pioneer Works, he said to Joshua Minsoo Kim that death didn’t scare him: “People think about it as an end, but for me it’s just part of the journey.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/he...

Einstein once said science & art coalesce at high levels of mastery. #NASmember S. James Gates, Jr. has found that fusion in “adinkras,” geometric diagrams that illuminate supersymmetry & help visualize hidden truths of nature. Read more in @pioneerwork.bsky.social:

NASA GISS folks talking about climate at @pioneerwork.bsky.social in Red Hook today 12-4pm. Come say hi!

“I just want to know her damn name.” PW Working Artist Fellow Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Jazmine Hughes (@jazzedloon) on ancestral presence, living records, and the power of naming names. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ka...

“I don’t really draw and I don’t really paint, but me and words are tight.” PW Working Artist Fellow Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Jazmine Hughes on the power of archives, the practice of play, and the presence of ancestors. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ka...

Working Artist Fellow Kameelah Janan Rasheed (@sprawlingtext) and Jazmine Hughes (@jazzedloon) discuss process as play, writing as high art, and why searching is the point: “Capitalism requires a certain sense of finality, and me and capitalism haven’t gotten along.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ka...

What kind of clam are you? In her latest memoir, Anelise Chen inhabits her inner mollusk to spin solitude into revelation. For PW Broadcast, Carolina Abbott Galvão considers CLAM DOWN (@penguinrandom) and the pleasures and perils of a life spent inward. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/an...

How do you turn reclusion into revelation without letting hiding become habit? In CLAM DOWN (@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social), Anelise Chen writes as a mollusk to study reclusion, inheritance, and how our own survival instincts can injure us. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/an...

grilled my sister for @pioneerwork.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/je...

For @pioneerwork.bsky.social, Jordan Kisner talks with Garth Greenwell about being ruthless with your art. Read the interview here:

"A library-based service might not fully 'solve' the streaming dilemma, but I think it would help foster intentional listening, which is part of the puzzle." A conversation between @jennpelly.bsky.social and @lizpelly.bsky.social for @pioneerwork.bsky.social:

Can we talk to whales—or are we just beginning to understand how they talk to each other? In Scientific Controversies, Janna Levin joins David Gruber and Joy Reidenberg to explore how sperm whales communicate through clicks, codas, and anatomy. Watch now: tinyurl.com/5n97bz2t

“I think any artist’s life is a kind of gamble.” Does art retain its value when everything else falls away? @GarthGreenwell and Jordan Kisner discuss Small Rain and devotion. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ga...

“My whole aesthetic practice is predicated on if something is too much, you do more of it.” Writer @GarthGreenwell talks to Jordan Kisner on art, annihilation, and ruthless devotion. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ga...

What if reality itself is a computer simulation? Theoretical physicist Sylvester James Gates on reality’s hidden matrix. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/pi...

“War Profiteers Out of Music should also include Daniel Ek.” Liz Pelly on how Spotify gentrified file-sharing culture, and what the future of music should look like. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/je...

“One conversation can change your life.” For Liz Pelly, it was a 7th grade friend telling her to download music on Napster. She joins @jennpelly.bsky.social‬ to talk streaming’s cost, and the future of listening pioneerworks.org/broadcast/je...

“It’s an eternal teenager sensibility.” Identical twin sisters Jenn Pelly (@jennpelly.bsky.social‬) and Liz Pelly stopped by Pioneer Works to discuss DIY music, music writing, and life beyond streaming. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/je...