Visions of Half Sleep
A dreamscape of Bill Gillard's poetry and fiction that rides musical waves from a community of musicians in northeastern Wisconsin.
All poems and stories written and performed by Bill Gillard.
billgillard.com
Broadcast on Wednesdays at 10pm on WOCT 101.9 FM Oshkosh.
Art by Judith Waller.
Music by:
- Nani Agbeli, drums, Lawrence University
- Greg Cebulski, piano, Appleton
- Joanna Dane, flute, Appleton
- Loren Dempster, cello, Lawrence University
- Paul Dietrich, trumpet, Ripon College
- Bill Gillard, Appleton
- Tony Knuppel, piano, Appleton
- Ed Martin, piano, UW Oshkosh
- Tad Neuhaus, guitar and percussion, Appleton
- Nadje Noordhuis, trumpet, Lawrence University
- Offsite, music producer, Appleton
- Wilson Poffenberger, saxophone, UW Stevens Point
- Tom Washatka, many instruments, UW Oshkosh
- Drew Whiting, saxophone, UW Oshkosh
Visions of Half Sleep
Latest Episodes
It's Like a Jungle Sometimes
We try to detect patterns in a world that has none. We look for meaning in the inchoate roar of everyday life. Fragments of memories orbit and refract; they reflect the dim light we shine at them and spray stars onto the ceiling of lonely rooms...
Freedom, Wisconsin
The longest journeys begin in an inward direction. East west north south don’t begin to tell the story of anyone’s most personal and most important odyssey. Here, then, is the fifth direction: sisa. (I used Google Translate for “inward” and fou...
Find a Place Like This
When you’ve lived longer than most, you realize that the things we leave behind don’t tell the story we’d like them to. The inchoate fragments of the mosaic we though we were assembling fall to the ground when we grow too weak to carry our buil...