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Gregory gets down: The Play and the Thing
Posted by: Justin Grotelueschen on May 28, 2005 02:47 PM | Comments (2)
Gregory Whitehead is a pro. He's calm and cool with a tousled head of hair. Or maybe that's the caffeine buzzing his follicles. Either way, he's rocking it, singing along with his pieces. In between his analyses of the way his radio world works, his radio adventures/news pieces come off as calm and cool and dynamic as Gregory in person. Few people can pull that off.
 Speaking of hair, Gregory is, specifically referring to his piece "On One Lost Hair", even more specifically transporting the hair of Horatio Nelson. So where did that idea come from? Gregory says, "Don't neglect the opportunities that can come out of our own personal cultures." 'Nuff said.
But then Gregory gets down to the meat of this conference, speaking of the inherent powers of radio transmission on our lives, comparing the message of radio deception and catastrophe in the Rwandan genocide to the Hutu extremists to some of the commercialized propaganda -- both conservative and liberal -- in this country. His message: don't get carried away to the rapture, because we the radio creators can change the world one wave at a time, and can create our own kind of noise and fill the airwaves with new life. Smooth, huh?
Best quote of his entire spiel -- "Gotta get on that existential prairie." That's a lyric waiting for a rock riff.
(Attached image may or may not be Gregory, pre-caffeination.)
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