Author Archives: jtreg

Wavelength – 2006 December 1st: Fluxus Artist

Fluxus Artist Ben Patterson: Early Works. “A Simple Opera” 15’51″and “Pond” 5’24”
(Alga Marghen). Ben Patterson: “This is not only my first CD, but also the first recordings of these works available to the general public”.

William English

Wavelength – 2006 November 17th Peter Reiling, Bob Cobbing, Edwin Schlossberg, Art and Language, Henri Chopin

Peter Reiling “So!” from a CDR sent in to the programme by Peter.
Birdyak: Bob Cobbing, Ma-Lou Bangerter and Hugh Metcalfe; Make perhaps this out sense of can you from the LP aberration (KZ8801 1988).
Edwin Schlossberg; Vibrations/Metaphors from Revolutions per Minute (The Art Record) (1982 Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc).

Art and Language and The Red Crayola; It’s an Illusion from the 1976 LP Corrected Slogans.

Henri Chopin; Le Fond de la Gorge (ou Throat Power) 1974, Ingatestone GB from the CD accompanying Licences 1999 No.0.

William English

Wavelength – 2006 November 10th Artist Pavel Buchler

Artist Pavel Buchler: “Live”; applause gathered from his collection of live recordings. Pavel Buchler assembled these recordings of applause from his own collection of 351 albums of ‘live’ recordings of jazz concerts and other musical events and re-released them on a vinyl LP in a limited edition of 351 copies.

William English

Wavelength – 2006 November 3rd Interview with Yiorgis Sakellariou

Interview with Yiorgis Sakellariou (Mecha Orga).
Recorded live in Denmark Street studio for Wavelength hosted by William English.

William English

Wavelength – 2006 October 27th Mecha Orga, David Jackman, Volcano the Bear, Jack Smith, Handsome Family.

Mecha/Orga (Yiorgis Sakellariou) “from a piner”
“Flak” ten inch vinyl record by David Jackman
Volcano the Bear; Oslo Top from Volseptor recorded live 19.6.98 Earthquake Orgy from Tony Conrad’s soundtrack for Jack Smith’s film Flaming Creatures. Recorded early 1962, from the CD Jack Smith; Les Evening Gowns Damnees, Audio Artkive 01 Natalie Wood by The Handsome Family from the CD Smothered and Covered, a personal gathering of rarities including odd covers, bathroom demos and orphaned songs www.handsomefamily.com

William English

Wavelength – 2006 October 6th Anatomy of Vision

Anatomy of Vision by Vitamin B12 from the double LP “badges” the fifth album by the vitamin b12 edition of 300 copies, followed by Adagio, section 5 from An Angel Moves too fast to See by Rhys Chatham.

William English

Wavelength – 2006 August 27th Short Tracks

Short Tracks: This started as an attempt to find tracks less than one minute in length but expanded slightly at times: Aram Saroyan, Chris Burden, Wild Man Fischer, Muslimgauze, Buckethead, Peterson, Yoko Ono, Augusto de Campos, Handsome Family, Henry Flynt, John Wynne, Conlon Nancarrow, Moondog, Wolfgang Fuchs, Peter Brotzmann, Rodney Graham.

William English

Wavelength – 2006 August 13th You’re a winner or you’re a sinner

“You’re a winner or you’re a sinner”. Evangelist lay preacher recorded at Piccadilly Circus + “Flak” by David Jackman. This lay preacher was a fixture at Oxford Circus for many years, relentlessly preaching to the crowds through a portable megaphone. His mantra was “You’re a winner or you’re a sinner” along with other rhymes. This recording on a Walkman cassette recorder was made at his later site on Piccadilly Circus. I haven’t seen him at either location for at least one year.
“Flak” ten inch vinyl record by David Jackman

William English

Wavelength – 2006 July 30th Congestion charge, Film editing equipment sent down a rubbish chute

Congestion charge telephone call. Film editing equipment is sent down a rubbish chute from the 14th floor, Ground Zero (Otomo
Yoshihide) Standards: A better tomorrow/I say a little prayer. Recording of an automated answering machine for registering for a congestion charge in London. Followed by the sounds of film editing equipment; heavy rewind handles, metal spools, film cans and other items which were sent down a rubbish chute from the 14th floor of a block of flats in EC1 London. Sony ‘Professional’ Walkman cassette recorder, microphone placed inside the rubbish chute.

William English

Wavelength – 2006 July 16th Maurice LeMaitre

Maurice LeMaitre vinyl EP “Maurice Lemaitre presente Le Lettrisme” ESRF 1171 1958; a very rare record by the maker of Le Film est deja Commence? and numerous Lettriste tracts and videos. Plus tracks by Isidore Isou and Jean Dubuffet.

William English