The Selection Committee Radio Show with Cheyey Thompson, 5/1/22

Painter Cheyney Thompson joins host Nate Heiges to share a very personal selection celebrating friendships around music. Starting from his early days on a super-competitive drum line in high school, through his musical mentors and collaborators, Cheyney explores the id of experimental noise rock, the mysteries of New Complexity, and the ecstasy of drum & bass and dance music.

I’ve always thought of Cheyney as a particularly cerebral artist, so it was a surprise to hear him talk about his relationship to and understanding of music to be so deeply rooted in physical experience. Then again, if you were there at the train tunnel riot in Providence in 1993, or part of a weekly music night on the LES for the better part of a decade, it makes sense that you’d connect the body and a profound sense of community to music.