Patti Schmidt
Brave New Waves was presented by whom from 1995 to Mar 2007?
Brave New Waves Brave New Waves was a Canadian radio program which aired on CBC Stereo , later known as CBC Radio 2 , from 1984 to 2007 . Airing overnight five nights a week , the show profiled alternative and indie music and culture , including film , comics , literature and art . The show was once described by longtime host Brent Bambury as explaining fringe culture to a comfortable mainstream audience , and by his successor Patti Schmidt as invented with an idea of what John Peels show was , but without ever having heard it . History . The show was created after Augusta La Paix submitted a demo tape for a show on avant garde culture , featuring music by Laurie Anderson , Brian Eno , Klaus Nomi and Nina Hagen . In an early interview with The Globe and Mail , La Paix told the newspaper that she was only a recent convert to underground music , having previously been primarily a fan of country music . Produced throughout its run at the CBCs studios in Montreal and originally hosted by La Paix , the show aired for the first time on February 6 , 1984 . The first song it ever played was Simple Minds Promised You a Miracle . In its first year , the show was briefly the subject of a police investigation into obscenity charges , when a CBC employee who disliked the show filed an anonymous complaint about an interview with underground performance artist Karen Finley , although the investigation was dropped by the police without charges . The shows initial audience figures could not be directly measured , as the Bureau of Broadcast Measurement did not track radio ratings for the shows overnight time slot ; however , indirect indications of success were available as both its lead-in and lead-out programs , A Little Night Music and Stereo Morning , posted significant and sustained audience gains after Brave New Waves debuted . In 1985 , La Paix left the show to become host of CBC Stereos Two New Hours , and was replaced by Bambury , previously a researcher for and occasional substitute host of the show . Music programming in these days , was the work of Kevin Komoda , who later went on to produce the first in studio sessions . Throughout the 1980s , Brave New Waves was an influential show , providing many Canadians without access to campus radio with their main exposure to alternative music , and was widely credited for significant increases in both record sales and concert attendance for both Canadian and international bands who were playlisted on the show . In addition , the show also increased the profile of underground and experimental writers and artists and filmmakers , including Laurie Anderson , Kathy Acker , bill bissett and Todd Solondz . In 1990 , the program was scheduled to receive a short-term trial run on WXPN in Philadelphia , with an eye toward being picked up for U.S . syndication by National Public Radio ; however , due to the obscenity controversies that were prominent in American music at the time , NPR opted to cancel the contract because Brave New Waves did not censor songs with potentially objectionable lyrics . In the 1990s , when alternative rock became the decades dominant commercial genre , the show kept its focus on the underground . In 1995 , Bambury left the program to become cohost of CBC Televisions Midday , and was replaced by Patti Schmidt , who also became the executive producer of the program . Since 1991 , she had been writing and programming music for the show . Schmidt remained the programs main host for the remainder of its run ; however , due to budgetary pressures at the CBC , Schmidt was forced to work with a smaller staff and budget than Bambury had enjoyed , with the result that the program became more squarely focused on playing music , with interviews reduced to one per week . The program became a reference and filter for all manner of new and contemporary music from indie rock , pop , metal and weird folk , to IDM , electronic dance music , edgy hip hop , avant garde jazz , noise , sound art , modern classical and all things uncategorizable . On May 27 , 2006 , the program aired an episode which was structured as a finale , with Schmidt conducting the show as a wrap party and then ending it by naming and thanking everybody who had ever worked on the show from its premiere in 1984 . The final piece of music played was William Basinskis Disintegration Loops . Although the show continued to air after that date , for the remainder of its run it was reduced to just one hour per night of new programming hosted by a rotating stable of guest hosts , with the remaining three hours filled by repeats of past BNW programs . On January 17 , 2007 , it was announced that Brave New Waves would be removed from the CBC Radio 2 line-up as part of a rebranding of the network . The program aired for the last time on March 16 , 2007 . The show was inducted into Hour magazines Montreal RocknRoll Hall of Fame in 2010 . Album . In 1988 , the program also began recording live in-studio sessions curated by producer Kevin Komoda , some of which were released on the 1991 compilation album Brave New Waves . It was released in 1991 on CBC Records , the Canadian Broadcasting Corporations internal record label . Track listing . 1 . Bolero Lava , Easy ( 4:06 ) 2 . Jr . Gone Wild , I Dont Know About All That ( 3:18 ) 3 . The Amateurs , Wishing Hoping Praying ( 4:22 ) 4 . The Grapes of Wrath , Backwards Town ( 2:42 ) 5 . Change of Heart , Pats Decline ( 3:38 ) 6 . Fifth Column , Like This ( 5:35 ) 7 . Sarah McLachlan , Steaming ( 5:36 ) 8 . Gordie Adamson and Kevin Komoda , Are There No Workhouses ? ( 4:41 ) 9 . Moev , Alibi ( 4:49 ) 10 . Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet , Santas Compromise ( 2:21 ) 11 . Pretty Green , Kick the Bike ( 3:06 ) 12 . Three OClock Train , This Train ( 2:40 ) 13 . Asexuals , Sunday ( 3:19 ) 14 . The Nils , Bandito Calling ( 4:24 ) 15 . Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band , Der Nayer Sher ( 2:23 ) 16 . Rheostatics , Dope Fiends ( 3:37 ) 17 . Sons of Freedom , USA Long Distance ( 3:10 ) External links . - Brave New Waves ( archived ) - Searchable database of Brave New Waves playlists