Martina Castro

Bay Area Beats: DJ Atish on the art of mixing

Martina Castro — Wed, 08 May 2013 00:42:00 +0000

The chemistry between people on a dance floor and the DJ mixing for them is not something to take lightly. The DJ is like a combination of artist, entertainer, and performer – taking the crowd on a musical journey.

Radio Ambulante: Junot Díaz and Francisco Goldman in Conversation with Daniel Alarcón

Martina Castro — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:25:50 +0000

In February 2013, Radio Ambulante put on a live show in New York City.

Regreturature: The sorry literary past of some of San Francisco's best writers

Martina Castro — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:09:47 +0000

This Thursday, members of the esteemed San Francisco Writers’ Grotto will stand up and read their worst writing, in front of an audience. It’s part of the annual Litquake Festival, and it’s called "Regreturature." KALW’s Martina Castro went to last year’s show and did some thinking about her own creative process.

Entering the soundscape with Bernie Krause

Martina Castro and Julie Caine — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:47:11 +0000

In this episode of Crosscurrents, we go on a sonic tour of sounds from everyday life, led by bioacoustician and soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause.

Part I.

Bernie Krause says if we really listen, we’ll hear an animal orchestra out there and we need to protect it.

Bay Area Beats: Sarah Cahill

Martina Castro — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:03:44 +0000

Sarah Cahill is considered one of the architects and champions of the new music scene in the Bay Area. She founded the annual Garden of Memory concert at the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, which is one of the many ways she tries to make contemporary music more accessible to a wider audience. She also does that Sunday nights on her radio show Then and Now on KALW on Sundays at 8pm. Cahill spoke with KALW's Martina Castro and played some songs for her, as she described why she ended up leaving the more formal classical world, for the freedom of the experimental genre.