Barry Smolin

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Barry Smolin
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Background information
Also known asMr. Smolin
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OriginLos Angeles, California
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Barry Smolin, also known as Mr. Smolin, is an American radio host, former teacher, composer, and writer. He last taught at Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles before the revocation of his teaching credential[1], and was a longtime radio host on L.A. area public radio station KPFK.

Career

Radio

The Music Never Stops

From 1995 to 2012, Smolin was the host of The Music Never Stops, a psychedelic radio show on KPFK in Los Angeles, California[2] for which Smolin won the first ever Jammy Award for "Best Radio Show" in 2000.[3] Smolin's program was also nominated for an LA Weekly Music Award in 2004 in the "Best Radio Show" category.[4] The Music Never Stops began as a program featuring live recordings of the Grateful Dead, but after the death of Jerry Garcia; Smolin expanded the scope of the show to include contemporary jam-rock and miscellaneous psychedelia, paying special attention to music being made by musicians in Los Angeles. The program has been covered in Relix magazine.[5]

Head Room

Smolin was host of the program Head Room on KPFK,[6] up until the program's abrupt cancellation in April 2021. Head Room's final broadcast was on April 25, 2021.

Teaching

Smolin's teaching career has been featured in articles in Time[7] and the Los Angeles Times,[8] as well as in the Larchmont Chronicle,[9] and the Library Foundation of L.A.'s "My Moby-Dick" tribute.[10][11] From 1987 to 1992, Smolin taught English at Fairfax High School (the school Smolin himself graduated from in 1978) in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Since leaving Fairfax in 1992, he was on the faculty at Alexander Hamilton High School, teaching English in the Hamilton Humanities Magnet program until 2021. His teaching credential was revoked in July 2022 due to misconduct.[12]

Music

Pop music

As a songwriter, Smolin has composed music for the Showtime television series Weeds, with his song "The Earth Keeps Turning On" appearing in Season 3's Episode 7, entitled "He Taught Me How to Drive By"[13] as well as on the Weeds Season 3 soundtrack album. Under the performance moniker Mr. Smolin he has released four albums, At Apogee (2004) and The Crumbling Empire of White People (2007) (both produced by Tony Award-winning composer/dramatist Stew), and a Los Angeles song cycle entitled Bring Back The Real Don Steele (2009).[14]

Experimental music

Since 2016, Smolin has primarily composed experimental pieces, both instrumental and spoken word. With Double Naught Spy Car, he set chapter 1 of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake to music as part of the Waywords and Meansigns project,[15] which was released in 2016 as was an album of the project's instrumental tracks called That Tragoady Thundersday. In September 2017, he released an instrumental album entitled The Sooterkin Library, a trio project that Smolin describes as "12-tone avant-freak mongrel psycho-tonk".[16]

Writing

Smolin is the author of two novellas: Narcissus in the Dark (2012),[17] whose narrator is God sentenced to eternity in a dungeon and whose consciousness thinks new universes into being while sorting through the detritus of his troubled past, and the experimental prose project Wake Up in the Dreamhouse,[18] composed one sentence at a time on Twitter. In May 2011, Smolin released a volume of selected poetry covering 1988 to 2010 entitled Always Be Madly in Love.[19] His most recent fiction project is a trilogy entitled The Miranda Complex, Volume 1 of which was published in 2016[20] with Volume 2 following in 2017,[21] and the concluding Volume 3 in 2018.[22]

Discography

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Bibliography

  • Wake Up In The Dreamhouse (2011)
  • Always Be Madly In Love (2011)
  • Narcissus In The Dark (2012)
  • The Miranda Complex Volume 1: Munchkinland (2016)
  • The Miranda Complex Volume 2: Poppies (2017)
  • The Miranda Complex Volume 3: The Man Behind The Curtain (2018)

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Adverse and Commission Actions". Commission on Teacher Credentialing website. California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Retrieved October 24, 2024. Activity Type: REVOKE 44421; Activity Description: CTC revoked educator's credentials because of misconduct. Effective Date: 07/24/2022
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Music Never Stops with Barry Smolin". Archived from the original on September 22, 2008. Retrieved September 14, 2008.
  3. ^ Jammy Award#Award Winners
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."LAWMA 2004". Retrieved July 29, 2023.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Art Howard -- Radio Rebels: 6 Shows that Bring Jambands to the Airwaves". Arthoward.com. Archived from the original on October 24, 2008. Retrieved September 14, 2008.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."mr. smolin - radio - head room kpfk 90.7fm". Mrsmolin.com. Archived from the original on June 30, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2012.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Tifft, Susan (June 11, 2015). "Education: Who's Teaching Our Children?". Time. Archived from the original on June 11, 2015. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ricci, James (June 9, 2006). "Yes, He Does Digress". Los Angeles Times.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Barry Smolin". Larchmont Chronicle. Archived from the original on April 25, 2007. Retrieved September 14, 2008.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.LA, Library Foundation of (October 17, 2013). "My Moby Dick - Voice of Ishmael" – via Vimeo.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.LA, Library Foundation of (October 17, 2013). "My Moby Dick - In the Beginning" – via Vimeo.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Adverse and Commission Actions". Commission on Teacher Credentialing website. California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Retrieved October 24, 2024. Activity Type: REVOKE 44421; Activity Description: CTC revoked educator's credentials because of misconduct. Effective Date: 07/24/2022
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Showtime – Weeds Music". Archived from the original on June 15, 2011. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Real Don Steele is Alive! Alive!". L.A. Weekly.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Waywords and Meansigns - Joyce's Finnegans Wake Set to Music". Waywordsandmeansigns.com.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Sooterkin Library, by Mr. Smolin". Mr. Smolin.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Smolin, Barry (July 17, 2012). Narcissus In The Dark. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1478217602.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Smolin, Barry (March 9, 2011). Wake Up In The Dreamhouse. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1460927120.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Smolin, Barry (May 28, 2011). Always Be Madly In Love. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1461190400.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Smolin, Barry (January 26, 2016). The Miranda Complex Volume 1. Anomaly Press. ISBN 978-0692614204.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Smolin, Barry (2017). The Miranda Complex Volume 2. Anomaly Press. ISBN 978-0692797228.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Smolin, Barry (January 16, 2018). The Miranda Complex Volume 3: The Man Behind The Curtain (1st ed.). Anomaly Press. ISBN 9780692973769.

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