Tongue and Cheek is a radio broadcast that leads listeners through vocal and movement exercises. Broadcasts are composed of warm-ups, conversations, and archival sound that focus on language and communication. We think about communication in a broad sense, leading listeners through exercises that reimagine the limits of the human body, social interdependence, and interspecies or non-species communication.
Voiced and led by Tim Simonds, Aaron Lehman and Emma McCormick-Goodhart
Broadcast here, 8AM and 8PM everyday.
To listen to future and archived broadcasts:
First Tuesday of the month 2:00PM–3:00PM EST on WGXC
WGXC (90.7FM Acra) Wave Farm
Last Saturday of the month 11:00AM–12:00PM EST on Montez Press Radio
Montez Press Radio
Tongue and Cheek was first developed and aired on Montez Press Radio beginning in the summer of 2018. Montez Press Radio is an experimental radio station and commissioning platform for unexpected works from artists and other creative voices. MPR continues to air new episodes of Tongue and Cheek during its monthly live broadcast at 46 Canal St in Chinatown, New York.
In 2019 Tongue and Cheek started an additional monthly broadcast on WGXC (90.7FM Acra, NY), Wave Farm’s community radio station. WGXC: Radio for Open Ears “is a full-power, non-commercial, listener-supported station in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley operating out of studios in Hudson and the Wave Farm Study Center in Acra.”
Phatics, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Tuesday, August 14th, 2018, 10AM–11AM
Breath and Incidental Vocalizations—with Jonathan Gordon, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Wednesday, August 15th, 2018, 10AM–11AM
(Vocalise: Producing)
Articulating, Containing, Hesitating—with Morgan Garrett, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Thursday, August 16th, 2018, 10AM–11AM
(Vocalise: Shaping)
Furrows, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Friday, August 17th, 2018, 10AM–11AM
(Vocalise: Directing)
Bodies Moving Bodies, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Sunday, September 23rd, 2018, 2:30PM–3:30PM
(Vocalise: Coordinating)
Canon, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Friday, January 25th, 2019, 1PM–2PM
(Socialise)
Hockets —with Ona Lindquist, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Friday, February 22nd, 2019, 11AM–1PM
(Socialise)
Hum, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Saturday, March 30th, 2019, 11AM–12PM
(Socialise)
Tingle—with Amanda Wallace, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Friday, May 24th, 2019, 11AM–1PM
(Socialise)
Better off alone? Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Friday, June 28th, 2019, 11AM–12PM
(Socialise)
Offsite, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Sunday, July 28th, 2019, 11AM–12PM
(Vocalise)
Machine Empathy, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Friday, September 27th, 2019, 11AM–12PM
(Vocalise)
Cordially, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Saturday, October 26th, 2019, 11AM–12PM, Broadcast on WGXC, Tuesday, December 3rd, 2020, 2PM–3PM
(Socialise)
Valve Lash, Broadcast on WGXC, Tuesday, November 5th, 2019, 2PM–3PM,
Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Saturday, May 30th, 2020, 11AM–12PM
(Vocalise)
Reeds—with Mauro Hertig, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Saturday, November 23rd, 2019, 11AM–12PM, Broadcast on WGXC, Tuesday, February 4th, 2020, 2PM–3PM
(Socialise)
Waist Voice—with David Dixon, Broadcast on WGXC Tuesday, January 7th, 2020, 2PM–3PM, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Saturday, June 27th, 2020, 11AM–12PM
(Vocalise)
Talk to Me—Puppet with Ben Morgan-Cleveland, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Saturday, January 2nd, 2020, 11AM–12PM
(Ventriloquize)
Borrowing Tellings—with Dan J. Ruppel, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Saturday, February 29th, 2020, 11AM–12PM
(Ventriloquize)
Resonators—with Zack Winokur, Broadcast on WGXC, Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020, 2PM–3PM, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Saturday, July 25th, 2020, 11AM–12PM
(Vocalise)
Windows Mirrors Floors, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Saturday, March 28th, 2020, 11AM–12PM, Broadcast on WGXC, Tuesday, April 7th, 2020, 3PM–4PM
(Vocalise)
Crowds, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Saturday, April 25th, 2020, 11AM–12PM, Broadcast on WGXC, Tuesday, May 5th, 2020, 3PM–4PM
Liquid Breath, Broadcast on WGXC Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020, 2PM–3PM
(Vocalise)
Mimicry of, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Saturday, September 26th, 2020 11AM–12:00, Broadcast on WGXC,Tuesday, October 6th, 2020, 2PM–3PM
(Socialise)
Vocospherics, Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Saturday, October 31st, 2020, 11AM–12, Broadcast on WGXC, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020, 2PM–3PM
(Vocalise)
A Sound of Teaching—with Phil Timberlake— Broadcast on Montez Press Radio, Saturday, November 21st, 2020 11AM–12:00, Broadcast on WGXC, Tuesday December 1st, 2020, 2PM–3PM
(Vocalise)
Lend me your ears!
—Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
There are messages primarily serving to establish, to prolong, or to discontinue communication, to check whether the channel works… Dorothy Parker caught eloquent examples: “‘Well!’ the young man said. ‘Well!’ she said. ‘Well, here we are’ he said. ‘Here we are’ she said, ‘Aren’t we?’ ‘I should say we were’ he said, ‘Eeyop! Here we are.’ ‘Well!’ she said. ‘Well!’ he said, ‘well.’ ”
—Roman Jakobson, “Linguistics and Poetics”
To reach an arm out of one’s mouth, peek through one’s ear, and speak out of one’s eye. Communication happens by any means possible. It is the different ways bodies extend themselves, as limbs that bridge things—reaching out, stretching and sometimes touching, with a light tap, “Marco!”
How we voice, how we gesture, how we manner, how we empathize.
Exercises to find all ways of thinking of language, and to exercise them as their own paths of communication.
To empathize over radio. Invite to do the same—feel, mimic, echo. “Polo”
The sound of leading, of following, of teaching speaking.
And learning to make a body of a limb.
Caroline Reagan, DOCUMENT. “Montez Press Radio brings us the best (and weirdest) of the downtown arts and culture scene” (June 17, 2020)
Dean Kissick, SPIKE. “The Downward Spiral: Paradise at Dimes Square” (June 13, 2019)