Dave Russell – If you discover him – then you will not forget him. Dave is editor of Poetry Express, mainstay of Survivors Poetry and Core Arts. This is a rare opportunity to hear some new songs by Dave, performed live, with all the unpredictable technical holdups – highly enjoyable I hope. Dave stops to have a chat with host James Tregaskis during the proceedings. Come and see Dave and other members of survivors poetry at the Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton St WC2 on the second Thursday of every month.
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Outsider In – The Talented Losers
A live session from the Talented Losers, comprising the notorious Sexton Ming and poet Colin Shaddick.
The Losers conduct an unusual session, in the sense that, Ming is in the studio whilst Shaddick collaborates via telephone.
The whole episode ended in a complete meeting of minds, we were united in self-realisation and found our way back to the source of the unverse through farting, haikus and shocking ourselves awake.
Wavelength – Destruction in Art part 3 with Mathieu Copeland
Mathieu Copeland, co-curator of the 2009 exhibition at the Pompidou Centre and Kunsthalle Bern: Voids, A Retrospective in the studio to talk about Voids and Yves Klein. Part 3 of the ongoing series about auto-destructive art.
Wavelength – Destruction in Art part 2 with David Toop
This week’s guest is David Toop, distinguished musician, curator and writer on music and sound art, author of The Rap Attack and Haunted Weather as well as numerous articles for The Wire, The New York Times and The Village Voice. In 2000 he curated Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery. (Sonic Doom, the conference scheduled for June 4th at UCLA was cancelled). David comes into the studio on the eve of an exhibition curated by himself and Tony Herrington of The Wire: Blow Up: Exploding Sound and Noise (London to Brighton 1959-1969) at The Flat Time House, South London, home and studio of the late John Latham. Part 2 of auto-destructive art series.
Outsider In – Robert Beer
Robert Beer in conversation with James Tregaskis – discusses topics including near-death experiences, life between lives, his LSD-induced kundalini crisis and how he became a dealer in buddhist art.
Mahendra Dangwol White Sukhasiddhi Yogini, 2009.
Robert Beer, has studied and practised Tibetan Art for the past forty years and is now recognized as one of the foremost scholars in this field. Author and illustrator of the “Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs“, and the “Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols“. He has illustrated Indian Mahasiddhas in his book “Buddhist Masters of Enchantment.” and Over the past fifteen years he has been working closely with the most talented Tibetan thangka painters of the Kathmandu Valley and Newar artists and is curating exhibition of his work, currently running at the October Gallery in Old Gloucester Street until 26th May.
Robert is giving talks at the October Gallery
Saturday, 5th May, 2012 3:00PM
The Cosmology of the Outer and Inner Universe according to the Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Traditions
Tuesday, 8th May, 2012 6:30PM
Death and Rebirth in the Buddhist Traditions in the light of modern near-death studies and spiritual regression
Friday, 18th May, 2012 6:30PM
Wrathful Deities and their Symbolism, an introduction.
(in conjunction with Museums at Night)
Saturday, 26 May, 2012 3:00PM
The Legends of the 84 Mahasiddhas of early Indian Buddhism
Wavelength – Destruction in Art part 1
Part one of a series on auto-destructive Art and Music coinciding with an exhibition curated by David Toop and Tony Herrington at The Flat Time House, South London called Blow Up: Exploding Sound and Noise, London/Brighton 1959-1969. David Toop will be along next week to talk about the exhibition. The July edition of The Wire includes an article called Brotherhood of the Bomb. By another coincidence a conference took place at UCLA called Sonic Doom: Decay, Disease and Destruction in Music on June 4th and 5th, sponsored by Echo; a music centered journal. Other guests lined up for July include artist Michael Landy to talk about his own auto-destructive art practice, Nicky Hamlyn will talk about film that destroys itself and curator Mathieu Copeland co-author of Voids will talk about Voids possibly. Today’s programme starts with 3 different versions of Anyhow, Anyway, Anywhere by The Who, played simultaneously, followed by a 4 minute extract of Guitar Drag by Christian Marclay and then Turntable Solo by Otomo Yoshihide.
Wavelength – James Tregaskis
Guest Rhonan O’Reilly aka James Tregaskis almost delivers a lecture on hydrogen and Gurdjieff but fate and a temperamental laptop force an anticipated change of direction. Chants of the Native American Church of North America featuring Alfred Armstrong and Ralph Turtle provide a backdrop to some information about Gurdjieff before the laptop sulks into silence. Carlo Gesualdo (1560-1613), Prince of Venosa, was also a composer of Madrigals. In 1590 he had his wife and her paramour murdered. His use of chromatic scale passages was, in those days, unheard of as were the effects he was able to extract from harmonies revolving around a pivotal note. The laptop is coaxed into action and James continues with a recording of Gurdjieff’s music for harmonium and a conversation about macaroni before briefly describing meetings in West London where Gurdjieff and Ouspensky apparently inspire social interaction in the Fourth Way. Who knows.
Wavelength – This was my birthday
Soliloquies by Gabriel Severin 2008. Another Sub Rosa release in their series of Outsider Music; Music in the Margins. Last track; She’s Alright by Muddy Waters from Electric Mud 1968. This was my birthday.
Wavelength – Maurice Seddon’s Injunction
Captain Maurice Seddon in telephonic conversation. He was faced with an injunction at the Royal Courts of Justice to silence his numberless pack of dogs but thanks in no small part to his Mackenzie friend (me) the case has been adjourned for 3 months. Interpretations of the music for two Adolf Wolfli paintings by Baudouin de Jaer.
Wavelength – Beatlemania
Klaus Beyer sings The Beatles (out of tune and in German), Rodney Graham’s version of Blue Jay Way, Those Were the Days (Mary Hopkin/Paul McCartney/Apple single) from Ground Zero plays Standards with Otomo Yoshihide and Vanilla Fudge’s rendition of Ticket to Ride.