A Comical Conversation with J.J. Sedelmaier

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Music Director: Sybil Augustine – musicdirector@wortfm.org (for music submissions, charts and tracking, promotional exchanges for music events and following up on volunteer applications or other requests. Please include specifics in your subject line, such as “Hiphop Music Submission” etc, )

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We accept submissions in most genres and styles of music, focusing on noncommercial, out-of-the-mainstream, independent releases (check out our playlists and music charts for more information.) It may take up to a few weeks for us to review and process your submission so we appreciate your patience, and feel free to contact us to follow up. Please send your music, indicating any tracks with language that needs to be aired after 10 pm and including a one-sheet description and any biographical and tour information, to WORT Music Director, 118 S. Bedford St, Madison, WI 53703 and/or to musicdirector@wortfm.org.

We do accept digital files on .wav or mp3, but currently we still prefer CDs to digital submissions because it’s the quickest way to get it into the hands of our programmers and onto the airwaves, though we have a growing digital library. Digital submissions should be .wav or other lossless files, or high quality mp3s [128-320 kbps.]

You can follow up or “track” your submissions by email, or call 608-256-2001 on Wednesdays between 1-4 pm CST to ask if we received it, has it been reviewed, has it been added to our library, and what kind of airplay it’s getting—e.g. light, medium, heavy or charting. Thanks and we look forward to hearing your music!

WORT Music Playlists

What was that song I heard? Who was the artist, what is the album title, where can I get it? Where can I find the entire playlist for a show?

Click on the Playlists button to bring up a calendar where you can choose any date to find the playlists for that day. If you can’t find the right playlist or the song you’re looking for, your best bet is to call the station the next time that program’s on and ask the host yourself. If that’s not possible we may be able to help you, but please have as much information as possible at hand when you contact us, such as: approximate day and time the music was played, what type or genre of music it was, who hosted the show and any other information you remember about the selection and we’ll do our best to track it down.

Once you figure it out, there’s a “Buy It!” link next to each track in online playlists that leads you to a place where you can buy songs and albums, and by doing it that way a small portion of each purchase goes to support WORT.

2013 Great Taste design by JJ Sedelmaier — 2013 Great Taste of the Midwest custom logo souvenir glass design by JJ Sedelmaier

He brought “The Ambiguously Gay Duo” to life and animated the varied other twisted visions of Robert Smigel, and in the process changed the way we think about animation forever. No, animation is not just Saturday morning cartoons!!

At Wizard World Madison, WORT’s Sybil Augustine and Fred Schepartz sat down with J.J. Sedelmaier and discussed his long journey, which began as a college student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a student film project that featured a character well known to Madisonians in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Art the Window Washer.

Sedelmaier moved to New York City. As the world of animation began to change, he found himself in the right place at the right time. He animated the first season of Beavis and Butthead. Then it was “Schoolhouse Rock.” And then it was the first of many parodies on Saturday Night Live, which, of course, led to Sedelmaier’s long time collaboration with Smigel.

Portions of this interview previously aired on Psychoacoustics Radio Show on WORT. For more information on J.J. Sedelmaier’s work and current projects, visit the links below.

http://www.jjsedelmaier.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/30959631831/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1046720/

https://vimeo.com/user7705843

“What are you looking at? “…..Nothing…..!!”