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Wednesday, July 15, 2026

WMM Spins The Musical Universe of Rev. Dwight Frizzell

Mark welcomes Rev. Dwight Frizzell as our special Guest Producer who shares details about his musical recordings, starting 50 years ago with his first album, BEYOND THE BLACK CRACK, released in 1976. Frizzell was among the first composers to publish music based on the physics of black holes on his Beyond the Black Crack LP. This limited edition 200 LP release inspired the formation of BCR (Black Crack Revue) in 1982. Since then the Afro-Nuclear Wavabilly Funk Swing Reggae Turska band BCR has shared the stage with media-Medusoids like Sun Ra, played live concerts with the Kronos Quartet, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Wavy Gravy, and Ziggy Marley’s band. BCR has held satellite uplinks with Don Cherry and Alvin Curran, and delighted the ears of Dementians tuning in to the Dr. Demento Radio Show. BCR has remained true to their roots in swirling black holes, time-travel of the Outer World, and the endless dance of cosmo-love. The Columbia Daily Tribune called them, “Duke Ellington meets Sun Ra.”

Rev. Dwight Frizzell is a Professor & Sound Head, at Kansas City Art Institute, in the Photography & Filmmaking Department with a Terminal Degree in Sound Design. He is an internationally recognized artist whose work combines video, performance, installation, music, audio art, and writing. Frizzell’s work about his boyhood neighbor, Harry S. Truman, was featured in the Peabody-awarded “Lost and Found Sound” series broadcast on National Public Radio. Frizzell has produced an opera based on the life of Charles Darwin. In addition to his B.F.A. degree from KCAI, he holds a terminal fine arts degree in Sound Design from the UMKC. Dwight Frizzell also served at the very first Editor of The Pitch, he is a founding member of the newEar contemporary chamber ensemble, and is host & producer of “From Arc To Microchip” heard on the fifth Thursday of each month on KKFI’s Thursday Night Special at 7:00pm on 90.1 FM.

Dwight Frizzell will play tracks from, BCR, Opus, newEar, Myth-Science Ensemble, and members of EMAS and the Human Arts Ensemble, featuring these midwestern musical legends: Dr. Thomas Aber, Tony Allard, Greg Allen, Kevin Alumbaugh, Cliff Baldwin, Ken Beck, Rob Beckner, Barry Bernstein, Jack Blackett, Christine Brebes, Tony Brewer, Anne Marie Brown, Dr. Leon Burke III, Hafiza Capehart, Robert Carl, Ben Choate, Peter Chun, Shanté Clair, Patrick Conway, Brad Cox, John Crain, Seth Davis, Bill Dye, Alexander East, Kurt Eckhardt, Betse Ellis, Jan Faidley, Larry Figg, Bird Fleming Ellington, Dwight Frizzell, Donna Gillham, Tommy Gomersall, Joanie Harrell, Michael Henry, Ed Herrmann, Tomoko Iguchi, Gary Jeffers, Patricia Johnson, Bill Jones, Stan Kessler, Johanna Lalka, Mark Lowry, Jay Mandeville, Tom Mardikes, Bill McKemy, Jim Miller, Jessica Nance, Bobby Nickens, Bill Oldfather, Aaron Osbourne, Allaudin Ottinger, Lyra Pherigo, Bruce Prince-Joseph, Rush Rankin, Jeff Rendlen, Michael Roach, Bill Scanlan, Marideth Sisco, Jacob Souders, Peter Stokely, Mike Temple, John Thies, Sylvia Thomas, Randy Weinstein, Twayne Williams and Arnold Young.

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Show #1156