William invites guests to phone in sick with studio guest and living legend Hugh de la Cruz who plays a virtuoso performance on a plastic inhaler.
Author Archives: jtreg
Wavelength – 2008 March 28th Hell Hounds
Captain Maurice Seddon Part 2: Hell Hounds. The continuing saga of Maurice and the local council who are threatening to remove his dogs. Maurice has lost 3 consecutive court cases and is now considering taking the case to Strasbourg.
Wavelength – 2008 May 23rd Metronome
Soundtracks from a CD attached to issue No 7 of “Metronome” magazine, published 2001 – this may cause offence. Metronome Number 7 Edited by Clementine Deliss; The Bastard, Magnetic Speech.
Wavelength – 2008 May 16th Reich
William English Invites Professor James Tregaskis to discuss the word “Reich” and play some audio he brought along.
Wilhelm Reich, Steve Reich, Third Reich are all given short shrift in this exhaustive analysis of JT’s thought processes.
Wavelength – 2008 March 7th Terry Fox, Jim Nollman
Animal music including Terry Fox, Jim Nollman from the LP Playing Music with Animals; the interspecies communication of Jim Nollman with 300 Turkeys, 12 Wolves, 20 Orca Whales, Bepler (Cremaster 5) and others.
Wavelength – 2008 February 29th Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp’s Erratum ‘framed’ by both sides of a ‘found’ record by Bob and Roberta Smith. The single “Knock 3 times on the ceiling if you want me” is appropriated by Bob and Roberta Smith by sticking a new label on the record and calling it a signed limited edition entitled “Lame” and the B side “Worse”.
Wavelength – 2008 May 9th Ian Bone + anonymous 14 year old
Class War + an anonymous 14 year old representative of the “Class War Youth Death Squad”.
Wavelength – 2008 February 1st Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia: La Nourrice Americaine (The American Nurse). Slow Version (19.57) So far as is known, Picabia composed just one piece of music, an antagonistic piece performed for the first, and seemingly last, time in 1920; “three notes repeated to infinity” (LTMCD 2509)
Wavelength – 2008 May 2nd Adrian Mitchell, Art and Language
Joseph Beuys, Cornelius Cardew and Fredric Rzewski
Adrian Mitchell; Ode on the assassination of President Johnson; To whom it may concern, from the LP A Laugh, A Song, A Hand-Grenade (Transatlantic Records 1968).
Art and Language and the Red Crayola; Corrected Slogans 1976;
An Harangue; Organisation. Joseph Beuys; Excerpt from Cooper Union Dialogue 1980. Cornelius Cardew; Smash the Social Contract, from We Only Want the Earth (2001 musicnow).
Fredric Rzewski; excerpt (finale) from The People United Will Never Be Defeated! 36 Variations on a Chilean Song.
Ursula Oppens, piano (Vanguard 1978)
Wavelength – 2008 April 25th Henri Chopin, Alexis Korner, Charles Hayward
Henri Chopin; Les Souffles from the LP La Plaine des Respirs (Tochnit Aleph 073 2007) Herbie’s Tune by Alexis Korner”s Blues Incorporated from the CD Red Hot From Alex (CMRCD 293 2001/1964).
Charles Hayward; Sweetheart, from Switch on War (SUB CD017-40 1991).