KPFA's Don Joyce, 1944-2015

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Don Joyce, Negativland member and longtime
host of Over the Edge on KPFA,died today at 71.
Media satire,culture jamming, sound
collages,receptable programming. A tribute
is on Negativland's facebook group.

 

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http://blog.sfgate.com/loaded/2015/...averick-and-member-of-negativland-dies-at-71/

>>The news this past Thursday morning that Oakland resident Don Joyce, founder and host for 34 years of Berkeley radio station KPFA’s experimental Thursday late night show “Over the Edge” and one of the core members of the Contra Costa-founded music collective Negativland, passed from heart failure at the age of 71 comes as an unwelcome shock.He often took on various roles in what could almost become a weekly series of playlets, all while maintaining a running flow of music snippets, film clips, news broadcasts and much more from KPFA’s resources, his own self-created archive and much more. Negativland’s remembrance noted Joyce’s love for both Bob and Ray routines and the Firesign Theatre’s own famed experiments in sound as well as a deep understanding and appreciation of radio drama, both audible influences on his creative work.

It’s easy to see how from the start of “Over the Edge” in 1981 Joyce stood apart from the crowd at a time when TV had fully taken over from radio as the main cultural medium, with cable TV about to upend things even further.