Good afternoon, you are listening to Wavelength on Resonance 104.4FM.

Today’s mystery guest is Richard Thomas, content manager of a well known radio station;
“The first time I knowingly encountered you was at an event off the Bethnal Green Road on the upper floor of a factory building, on a Sunday afternoon, probably 6 years ago now, organised by Mattin and Joel Stern. I showed a film and then Nishide Takehiro started a performance which involved you blowing into a plastic hosepipe immersed in a bucket of water. Hugh Metcalfe might have been playing a guitar. On leaving the factory building and approaching the Bethnal Green Road, almost directly opposite is a business premises with a large sign above the door which says “William English and Son, Funeral Directors” which came as a slight shock. I mean if you have to come across your own namesake in that way, it would be preferable to perhaps come across something more glamorous or cheerful, a Florist perhaps or a Piano Tuner…  anything but a funeral director…

Have you ever come across someone with the same name as yourself?”

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Invitation to listeners to submit a new version of the Wavelength ticking clock theme followed by a melange of previous programmes starting with Maurice Seddon’s unique telephone apparatus, snippets of Jonas Mekas, Henry Flynt, Nick Rochford, MMs bar announcements, Hugh coughing, crying baby, How can we hang on to a dream by Tim Hardin, Dining Room soundtrack, cuckoo clock, barking dogs, Der Ball ist Rund by Ror Wolf, Eris from Alfred 23 Harth (Heiner Goebbels, John Oswald, John Zorn) and Psycho-Motorik Musik by Otto Muehl.

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NOTHING. The Nothingists was a group created at the end of 1919 in Moscow echoing the internationalisation of the Dada movement although they didn’t use that word because in Russian Dada means “yes yes” contradicting their nihilism. They stopped all activity in 1923; Manifesto From Nothingism 1920, and Decree About the Nothingists of The Poetry 1920, both from CDs accompanying the book Baku: Symphony of Sirens.

A Colour named Nothing by Contraption 37 from A Consonant Vowel, anthology of audio art and sound poetry recorded in 1988.
3’34” by Pavel Buchler; transparent vinyl single lasting 3’34” and issued in an edition of 334 copies; compilation of unrecorded parts and transitions between tracks of 10 John Cage records from the collection of Pavel Buchler, 2006.
Perhaps the ultimate Nothingness record was produced by Yves Klein in 1959 with the LP Prince of Space which is entirely silent; the only sound being the contact between the stylus and the vinyl record, unlike Buchler’s record which is a recording of stylus meeting vinyl and therefore a recording unlike Klein’s which is actually an object… but this leads to comparing silence with nothingness and as apparently there is no such thing as silence I’ll get on with the next track:
Nothing by The Fugs from The Fugs First Album ESP 1965.
Outer Nothingness by Sun Ra from The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Volume 1 ESP 1965.

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Bob Cobbing 1920-2002:
Quote from Bob Cobbing in Ceolfrith Number 26: Bob Cobbing and Writers Forum.”colony – a version” flexidisc from typewriter 4 1973 with Peter Finch on jews harp.
“Green Computer” and “Yak Poem” from Birdyak Green Computer 1988 with Hugh Metcalfe.
“Khajrej” extract 1972 with Anna Lockwood from the EP L “Autonomatopek 1 issued with Opus journal for the arts.
“Marvo Movie Natter” (Voices: Cobbing, A. Lockwood, Jeff Keen) and “Spontaneous Appealinair Contemprate Apollinaire” (1968) both tracks from OU 34-35.

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Paul de Vree; poet, born Antwerp 1909.
Ode a Stockholm from the LP poesia sonora, anthology of sound poetry 1975.
Organon and Exodus from AHAHAHA8 Review for Verbal Plasticism 1970.
Reading of an extract from Concrete Poetry, A World View; Mary Ellen Solt.
Veronika (1953), Ogenblik (1948), Kleine Caroli (1963), Vertigo Gli (1963), Een Roos a Rose (1964), all from revue OU complete recordings, alga marghen 2006.

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Wild Classical Music Ensemble: Rien de Rien, Jaws, Happy Flute, The Prisoner.
Sub Rosa; musics in the margins: “Instantly the floor falls silent when the four mentally retarded musicians together with their artistic mentor and drummer, all ill at ease, clear their way among drums, trumpets, violins, melodica, samplers and an electric guitar”.
Israel Quellet: Oppressum. Sub Rosa; musics in the margins: For percussion and sound toys, For percussion, sander and telephone keyboard strokes, For buckets dragged on the ground and saturation.

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Conversation with seekers of lice on the subjects of hand-written paper bags, ephemeral artworks washed away by the tide, artists’ books and boxes exhibited at bookartbookshop. Seekers of lice; plural but singular.

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Bill Burns, director of Safety Gear for Small Animals;
passing through from Toronto to Denmark discusses his latest projects: Dogs and Boats and Airplanes, Children’s Choir (pilot project) in collaboration with Mammalian Diving Reflex and Alpha Alternative School Toronto
“So-called Friends” by Rodney Graham from the CD The Bed-Bug, Love Buzz and other songs in the popular idiom.

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Clive Graham talks about Morphogenesis; improvising electronic group formed in 1985.

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