Clive Graham talks about Morphogenesis; improvising electronic group formed in 1985.
Category Archives: Shows
Art Monthly Show 10th December 2010
Richard Hylton discusses films by Ruth McClennan’s, Anarcadia and Capital on show at John Hansard Gallery in Southampton.
Sophia Phoca discusses her feature from the December/January issue of Art Monthly entitled Filming the Alternative on independent artist filmmakers. She also raises concerns about the structure of film funding in the UK as arts funding bodies are subject to funding cuts by the new coalition government. As the number of funding pots dwindles, Britain’s more individual, and unique artists will increasingly find that they do not fit the mold. Phoca sights examples of artists who received funding in the past who are unlikely to receive it now.
Art Monthly magazine’s talk programme on Resonance FM started in February 2009 and is broadcast on the second Friday of each month at 5pm. In each show Art Monthly critics discuss their writing in the latest issue.
The programme is hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991 and produced by Frederika Whitehead.
Previous episodes are available on Art Monthly’s website www.artmonthly.co.uk/events.htm
Art Monthly magazine offers an informed and comprehensive guide to the latest developments in contemporary art.
Fiercely independent, Art Monthly’s news and opinion sections provide regular information and polemics on the
international art scene. It also offers In-depth interviews and features; reviews of exhibitions, performances, films and books; art law; auction reports and exhibition listings
Art Monthly magazine is indispensable reading!
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Voice on Record: Episode 35 (Peter Scott part 1/3)
Peter Scott – 1/3
Sounds of My life – The first of three programmes about Peter Scott; naturalist, conservationist, artist and author.
Originally broadcast on 11th May 2010
Voice On Record is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of the human voice which have been preserved on vinyl. Historic events stand alongside esoteric guides to better bowling. Arid studio recordings are juxtaposed with location recordings rich with fascinating incidental sounds. http://sbkw.net/voiceonrecord.php
Yummy Mummy: Series 1, episode 3
This week in the latest of our podcasts exhuming the original and somewhat different 2008 series of YMSR; the team are learning all about music. A rather strange woman called Miss Ding-Dong (who sadly didn’t have the mileage to become a regular character) presents her own completely mis-leading history of music in a little under two minutes, and world famous jazz musician Art Farnaby drops into the studio to give us a demonstration of the saxophone. But evil station manager Thomas Weaver-Baxter is up to his old tricks again and poor Art soon finds himself having to contend with a Parsnip blockage…
Slightly appalling fun for children of all ages.
Wavelength – Sound poetry
Sten Hanson; Swedish composer and sound poet, born 1936:
Les Martyrs (1975) The Sonosopher Retrospective, Alga Marghen.
Che (1968) Text sound compositions 2 Stockholm Festival 1968 RELP 1054.
Skarp dig, for fan! (1991) The Sonosopher Retrospective Alga Marghen.
Revolution (1970) Railroad Poem (1970) Don’t hesitate, do it right now (1969) The Glorious Desertion (1969) all from OU sound poetry anthology, Algha Margen.
How are you (1975) Poesia Sonora.
Reality Check: Future Publishing? part 2
Reality Check: Future Publishing? part 2
Tom Hunter (Arthur C. Clarke Awards Administrator), Paul Graham-Raven (editor-in-chief of the science fiction webzine Futurismic), Paul Rainey (creator of serialised web and print comics Book of Lists and There’s No Time Like The Present), Gary Gibson (novelist – Nova War / Stealing Light) and Dave Bradley (Editor-in-Chief of SFX magazine) conclude their talk about the Future of Publishing in the iPad / Kindle age, looking at the synesthethic reaction to real books and the interative nature of downloaded / online content. Also features questions by Alex Fitch (Resonance FM) and John Freeman (Doctor Who Magazine)… (part 2 of 2)
Recorded live at Sci-Fi London 9, Apollo Piccadilly Cinema, Spring 2010 (recorded and edited by Alex Fitch)
For more info about this podcast and a variety of other episodes you can download, please visit the home of this episode at www.sci-fi-london.com / listen to part 1
Links: Paul Rainey’s website
Gary Gibson’s blog
SFX magazine website
Paul Raven’s Futurismic website
Arthur C. Clark awards website
Listen to Alex’s interview with Paul Rainey about his work
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Panel Borders: Four Color Westerns
Panel Borders: Four Color Westerns
Starting 2011’s run of shows, Panel Borders begins its yearly look at depictions of Masculinity in American Comics. This week, Alex Fitch talks to the Victoria and Albert Museum’s comics expert Ian Rakoff about his forthcoming lecture on the Western genre in magazines and strips, from Classics Illustrated to Donald Duck, Red Ryder to the brutality of E.C. Comics…
Various Western themed comics 1950-1979
(Please note Panel Borders will be back on air 13/01/11 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Links: More info about V and A lectures
Info about the illustration –
Red Ryder #3 (1941) by Fred Harman
Four Color comic #199 – Donald Duck (1948) by Carl Barks
Gunfighter #13 (1950) by Johnny Craig
Kit Carson, Indian Scout #1 (1950) by Everett Raymond Kinstler
Classics Illustrated #154 – The Conspiracy of Pontiac (1960) by Gerald McCann
Commanche Moon graphic novel (1979) by Jack Jackson
Wikipedia page on Classics Illustrated
Lambiek page on Everett Raymond Kinstler
Listen to Alex’s interviews with Ian about the crossover between the Western on film and in comics and his V and A talk on ‘The Creation of the American identity through 20th Century comic strips’
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Call for Mechanical Elephant strips
As part of their ‘First Fridays’ events, Marine Studios in Margate are putting together an exhibition that looks at comics, graphic novels and sequential art.
Featuring work from a range of local and international artists and writers, live talk from guest speaker Paul Gravett, more comics than you can stand, and the chance to discuss your work and ideas.
To kick start proceedings prior to the show they are inviting submissions for a two page comic under the title: ‘Mechanical Elephant’. All ideas are welcome to inspire, amuse, terrify and entertain. There are no limits other than sticking to the two page rule (206 x 280 mm each, in either portrait or landscape), and of course, don’t forget the Mechanical Elephant!
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Wavelength – Double Dutch
Double Dutch: Collage of overlaid conversation in Dutch by a group of people looking at a photograph album recorded in Castricum North Holland in January 2009. The album contains images of World War 2 and the German occupation of Castricum. During the Liberation of this region my English father met my Dutch mother.
Accompanied by the following music: Guus Janssen “Ritmische Etude”, Louis Andriessen “Choral Vorspiele”, and 3 traditional Mechanical Organ tracks from the record The Busy Drone (BVHAAST 034-1).
“My Mother’s Eyes” by Tad Smith, Itis golden saxophone and Itis orchestra (Modern Music, undated).
Yummy Mummy: Series 1, episode 2
Continuing with our archive podcasts of the original and rather different Yummy Mummy School Run series in 2008, this week’s episode sees the team learning how to make tie-dye t-shirts with a little help from the nice people at www.pollyandjago.com. The evil Station Manager Thomas Weaver-Baxter, here using his famous ‘Curse you’ catchphrase for the first time, is full of plans to sabotage the whole thing, with relatively hilarious consequences. Proof, if any was required, of just how dangerous arts and crafts can be when using explosives, and worth listening to just for the musical contributions from Roosevelt Franklin and The Free Design.
Happy New Year, everyone! Will there be a new series in 2011? And will anyone listen if there is? Who knows?
Six Pillars – The First UK Iranian Film Festival
November saw the launch of the London’s first Iranian Film Festival: UKIFF.
In late October we met with one of the volunteers, Costas Sarkas, at one of UKIFF’s networking events, to find out what it was all about.