Nick Rochford talking about how he started up the legendary Compendium Bookshop in London’s Camden Town. Recorded at the Conway Hall in Summer 2008.
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Voice on Record: Episode 24 (Nonsense, part 3/3)
Nonsense part 3 – Lear and Carroll.
The third and final show in our Nonsense series culminates in some classic Lewis Carroll poems, some limericks from Lear and stories of the Pobble who has no toes and other unlikely characters.
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.
Originally broadcast on 23 February 2010
http://sbkw.net/voiceonrecord.php
Panel Borders: Books of Magic and Spirits of the Earth
Panel Borders: Books of Magic and Spirits of the Earth
Continuing our month of shows looking at horror and dark fantasy comics, in a pair of interviews recorded at this year’s British International Comics Show in Birmingham, Alex Fitch talks to artists Charles Vess and Peter Gross about their work. Charles is the World Fantasy Award winning illustrator of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust (adapted into a film in 2007), two issues of Sandman featuring William Shakespeare and an unusual graphic novel that saw Marvel Comics’ most famous character visit Scotland in Spider-man: Spirits of the Earth. Peter was the main artist (and later writer) of the much loved American fantasy series The Books of Magic which was probably a major influence on Harry Potter and more recently has worked on Vertigo titles Lucifer and The Unwritten with Mike Carey.
(Originally broadcast 21st October 2010 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
Rose by Jeff Smith and Charles Vess plus The Unwritten by Mike Carey, Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly
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: Wikipedia pages on The Books of Magic, Peter Gross, Charles Vess, Stardust
Charles’ book and art websites
Listen to Alex’s interview with Neil Gaiman about writing Stardust
Peter’s solo website / on collaborations with Mike Carey
Interview with Peter Gross and Mike Carey about The Unwritten at Comic Book Resources – part one / part two
Recommended events:
Laydeez do comics: Erotic art and graphic literature
The monthly meeting for female comics creators, fans of female comic creators and men who don’t feel intimidated by a reading group dominated by women!
This month’s subject: Art, erotica or p0rn…Discuss!
Monday 25 October, 6.30-9.30pm
The Rag Factory, 16-18 Heneage Street, London E1 5L
Cost: £1.50 payable on the door
Guest Speakers:
MELINDA GEBBIE
American comics artist and author. Contributor to Wimmen’s Comix, Collaborator on ‘Lost Girls’ with Alan Moore.
Lisa Gornick
London based filmmaker who keeps a blog of daily drawings about her film making.
Sina Shamsavari
Autobiographical comics artist currently working on a PhD about queer alternative comics at Goldsmiths College, London.
More info at: www.laydeezdocomics.com
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Edited extracts of an interview with Jonas Mekas by William English and Richard Thomas in July 2008.
Art Monthly Extra
Art Monthly on Cuts to the Arts
Andrew Hunt Director of Focal Point Gallery in Southend discusses the likely impact of forthcoming government spending cuts on the arts with Matt Hale. Andrew reports back from a meeting at Tate Modern attended by the heads of over 70 public galleries from across the country to discuss the cuts and the fightback.
The programme is produced by Frederika Whitehead and hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991.
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 is 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!
Special magazine subscription offer for Resonance 104.4 listeners.Subscribe now and save 40% on the cover price at
Marvin Suicide : 203 – No subject
Tracklist:
1. Ether II by Faune, Ether:
www.pathmusick.hermetech.net
2. Statique & Gloackenspiels by Darcin, Parc:
www.panospria.com
3. Bt by Johan Wieslander, Gas:
www.autoplate.com
4. Polyspheric (Extract) by Gyges, Composite Massive:
www.panospria.com
5. Ici La Femme (XXX Mix) Louise Vertigo by The Lounge King, Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka – Porn Music For The Masses Vol.1:
www.comfortstand.com
6. Denn Da Steht’s by moNomeNtal, Ziel & Zweck (entgultige Version):
www.kitchen-productions.de
7. Honteux by Run, Recycle:
www.freesamplezone.org
8. Plot For A Little by Camu Tao, Definitive Swim:
www.adultswim.com
9. Carlos Walter Wendy Stanley, The Chap, Ghostly Swim:
www.adultswim.com
Voice on Record: Episode 23 (Nonsense – part 2/3)
Description The second of three programmes loosely themed on Nonsense, featuring Gerard Hoffnung at the Oxford Union and poems by Ogden Nash read by the author. 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.
Originally broadcast on16th February 2010
http://sbkw.net/voiceonrecord.php
I’m ready for my close-up: Hammer and Tongs and a Town called Panic
I’m ready for my close-up: Hammer and Tongs and a Town called Panic
Alex Fitch talks to film-makers Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith (a.k.a. Hammer and Tongs) about their promotion of the new Belgian feature length animation A Town called Panic which shows stop frame animated toys going on a wild adventure that involves mermen, mad scientists and a giant robot penguin. Alex also talks to Garth and Nick about the aesthetic of their films Son of Rambow and The Hitch-hiker’s guide to the Galaxy and how the demise of the UK Film Council is affecting their work and promotion of European films in the UK.
Nick Goldsmith and Garth Jennings at the cinema, Cowboy and Indian at the North Pole
To download / stream this radio interview in a variety of formats, please visit www.archive.org
Links: Wikipedia pages on Hammer and Tongs and
Watch A Town called Panic shorts and movie trailer
Hammer and Tongs’ website
Listen to Alex’s previous interview with Garth Jennings about Son of Rambow
Recommended events:
Sci-Fi London Oktoberfest
Friday 15th October
Rise of the Machines at The Royal Society, London
THE ROYAL SOCIETY plays host to an unashamedly robotic evening of discussion, demonstrations and drama. Tom Hunter is joined by Tony Ballantyne, author of Twisted Metal and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Dautenhahn, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Hertfordshire.
Kerstin is a pioneering researcher in robot social learning and imitation whose research interests include Human-Robot Interaction, Social Robotics, Socially Intelligent Agents and Artificial Life. Kerstin and her colleagues will also introduce us to two KASPAR robots (Kinesics and Synchronisation in Personal Assistant Robotics).
Following the discussion: We will be treated to a rehearsed reading of extracts from Karel Capek’s 1921 play R.U.R. (ROSSUM’S UNIVERSAL ROBOTS), which is noted for introducing the term, ‘ROBOT’.
SCI-FI-LONDON has commissioned a modernisation of the work for the 10th annual festival in April 2011. This will be the first public preview of the work-in-progress.
This fabulous evening is in collaboration with the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary celebrations in 2010.
6:30PM The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG (FREE!)
Technotise: Edit and I
Serbia’s first animated feature film – an eye-popping cyberpunk ride that’s calibrated to knock your socks off. Think GHOST IN THE SHELL meets WALTZ WITH BASHIR.
7:30PM Apollo Piccadilly Cinema, Lower Regent Street
Dougal and the Blue Cat
We are delighted to screen a newly-restored cult classic of a spin-off from the children’s television series, THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT, but this feature is an altogether darker affair (+ FREE BEER!)
9:30PM Apollo Piccadilly Cinema, Lower Regent Street
Saturday 16th October
Robots
Saturday morning kids screening of the popular CGI cartoon.
10:30AM Apollo Piccadilly Cinema, Lower Regent Street
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I’m ready for my close-up: Hammer and Tongs and a Town called Panic [ 0:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadWavelength – 2008 November 7th
“Richard Nixon” by Rodd, Terri and The MSR Singers from Beat of the Traps MSR Madness Volume 1 (1971)
“Little Ghetto Boy” by Donny Hathaway Live at the Bitter End NY (1972)
“Things have got to change” by Archie Shepp (1971) featuring the voice of Joe Lee Wilson and electronic music by Romulus Franceschini.
Art Monthly October 2010
In an age saturated with news footage of international disasters, artists question photojournalism. John Douglas Millar cites artists such as Renzo Martens, Harun Farocki and Aernout Mik, and asks: does art’s subjectivity give it a unique angle on the exploitation of tragedy?
‘Artists who critique how we consume images of atrocity pose questions about how we might step beyond the barrier of “looking”, to an ethical position with regard to images described by the Israeli philosopher and photography theorist Ariella Azoulay as “watching”.’
Andrew Hunt suggests that optimism and humour are intelligent alternatives to the cynicism of postmodern irony
Artists’ use of irony is commonplace, but irony’s reliance on a knowing viewer ensures that it cannot reach beyond a closed audience. Andrew Hunt wonders whether an open humour, as employed by Martin Kippenberger, Christian Jankowski and Wolfgang Tillmans, can reach out instead of in.
‘One answer to Ludwig Seyfarth’s question, “is there an alternative to Postmodern irony?”, is “humour”. While irony is a knowing critical instrument, humour, by contrast, can be described as a system that questions accepted values and patterns of experience.’
The programme is produced by Frederika Whitehead and hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991.
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 is 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!
Special magazine subscription offer for Resonance 104.4 listeners.Subscribe now and save 40% on the cover price at