Second outing utilizing recordings and live playing of the used frame sussed bicycle; this time with MC replacing FL for upside down bicycle duet with HJ. AMcG on sound mix, treatments and recorded sound playback. Takes off with speed;;;>>> mock crash, spokes chimes meditation into zen sound gardening. Talking bicycle dream stream. Rotary rhythmic and primitive gamelan tonal percussive.Quiet, gentle, exploratory.
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Hooting Yard: Five Years Ago.
“Remember, remember, the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot. Remember, too, the case of the distressed pig, solved by Special Agent Blot. The distressed pig was found in a rowing boat crossing Tantarabim Lake. Agent Blot swam out to it and fed it with nutritious cake. As the pig grew becalmed Agent Blot took the oars and he rowed to the mud-splattered shore. He hoisted the pig right out of the boat and bedded it down in some straw. Then he plodded his way in his wellington boots to the pig farmer’s hut down the lane, and he felled the brute with a thwack of his fist and bound him up with a chain. Agent Blot dragged the pig farmer off to the prison, bang in the centre of town. And that is why, on November the fifth, the distressed pig did not drown.”
- Five Years Ago
- Dobson’s Cacodaemon
- Dobson’s Cocoademon
- Whither The Bint Of Shelmerdox?
- Medea Blenkinsop
- Blenkinsopiana
- Annals Of Forensic Science
This episode was recorded on the 5th November 2009. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the four publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase.
Panel Borders: British bande dessinée
Panel Borders: British bande dessinee
Continuing our month long look at ‘cross-cultural comics’, Alex Fitch talks to veteran British comic book writer Pat Mills about his forays into the French market over the last 15 years, writing such titles as Sha and Requiem Vampire Knight illustrated by Olivier Ledroit which have only been released in English in the last couple of years. Alex and Pat also talk about the latter’s collaborations with the late artist John Hicklenton which have found a greater and more appreciative audience in Europe, translated into French and other European languages and released as Graphic Albums, than they did in their country of origin.
Excerpts from Requiem Vampire Knight illustrated by Olivier Ledroit and Inspector Ryan by John Hicklenton, written by Pat Mills
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 Requiem Vampire Knight, Pat Mills, Olivier Ledroit and John Hicklenton
Pat’s French language comics company: Nickel Editions
Read (the French language version of) Inspector Ryan by Mills and Hicklenton at 2000AD online
Read Pat’s eulogy to John on the Forbidden Planet blog
Listen to Pat’s previous appearances on the show
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Electric Sheep podcast: Until the end of the world
Electric Sheep podcast: Until the end of the world
In the latest Electric Sheep podcast, we’re looking at apocalyptic movies: Virginie Sélavy talks to John Hillcoat, director of the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road in an interview recorded at last year’s London Film Festival, plus Alex Fitch talks to Helen McCarthy, a British expert on manga, anime and Japanese visual culture, in a Q and A recorded before a screening of the film Battle Royale…
Takeshi Kitano lays down the law in Battle Royale / John Hillcoat directs Viggo Mortensen in The Road
For more information and a variety of formats you can stream / download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org
Links: Wikipedia pages on The Road, Battle Royale and Helen McCarthy
Helen’s website
More info on Electric Sheep screenings
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Hollingsville: Episode 4, Networks – Welcome to the Labyrinth
Welcome to the fourth episode of ‘Hollingville’. My studio guest is music and technology writer Becky Hogge, former executive director of the Open Rights Group. Expect unscripted ruminations on social networking and online politics, high weirdness and paranoia, ARPANET and the Cold War, CNN and Desert Storm, DRM and balls of wool. Specially commissioned musical interludes are by Richard H Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire, with additional moods by the ‘Hollingsville’ composer in residence, Graham Massey, plus ins and outs by Indigo Octagon.
Networks have extended the range of our senses but also compromised them. As weapons systems, commercial enterprise, banking and home entertainment draw increasingly upon the same operating platforms, the neutrality of the network is open to question. Perhaps the most appropriate model for understanding the enduring nature of the network is the Labyrinth: a structure of mystifying complexity where technology, deception and violence all meet. Enter your password now.
After visiting Mars, where next? Welcome to Hollingsville: the new twelve-part series from writer Ken Hollings. A World’s Fair of the airwaves, the shows focuses each week on a different aspect of our historical relationship with technology. From machines to monsters, spaces to dreams, this Radio Expo offers an unscripted tour through the chosen theme, utilising voices and sounds from special guests and presented by Ken Hollings with his usual idiosyncratic flair.
Ken Hollings is the author of Welcome To Mars: Fantasies of Science in the American Century 1947-1959, available from Strange Attractor Press. For more information go to http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk or http://www.kenhollings.blogspot.com
Hooting Yard: I Had A Hammer.
I had a hammer. I hammered in the morning. I hammered in the evening all over this land. I hammered out danger. I hammered out a warning. I hammered out love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land. They should have seen that coming.
- I Had A Hammer
- Municipal Monkey Vampires
- Soup From The Carpathians
- All Around Somebody Else’s Hat
- Prints
- Pongs At A Ball In Bath
This episode was recorded on the 29th October 2009. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the four publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase.
Hooting Yard: From The Diary Of Heliogabalus
Monday. I celebrated the rite of the taurobolium, tossing my head to and fro among the castrated devotees of the Great Mother Goddess. I infibulated myself, and did all that the eunuch-priests are wont to do. Also decided to celebrate the rite of Salambo, with all the wailing and frenzy of the Syrian cult.
- From The Diary Of Heliogabalus
- Shoal Flag Summary
- Sandbank Sleuths
- Picnic For Detectives
- Fogwives
- Binder’s Fogwife
This episode was recorded on the 22nd October 2009. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the four publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase.
Panel Borders: Lingua Franca
Panel Borders – Lingua Franca: English language comics in Europe
Commencing our yearly, month-long look at ‘Cross Cultural comics’, Alex Fitch talks to Paul Gravett about co-curating a gallery show on Jack Kirby in Lucerne, Switzerland and the film adaptation of the bande dessinée Largo Winch which was shot mainly in English, even though the film is a French / Belgium co-production. Alex also talks to Francesca Cassavetti, Dan Lester, Sean Azzopardi and Oliver Lambden about their anthology B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S. which was created as a survey of the best small press creators in London for dissemination at the Angoulême comics festival in France at the beginning of the year.
Display from the Jack Kirby exhibition in Lucerne + extract from the cover of B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S. by Francesca Cassavetti
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:
B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S.blog
Reviews at Midnight Fiction and Forbidden Planet International
Review of Francesca’s comic book on Angoulême
Kirby at Fumetto website
More info on Dan Nadel’s blog and comicsbeat.com
Paul’s guide to the Kirby exhibition
Largo Winch at Ciné lumière – screening times
Buy the English language graphic novels from Cinebooks
Trailer at Daily Motion
Sci-Fi London 9: Life in 2050, April 28th - May 3rd, 2010
presents…
Futureproof: the Timehacks and Life-mods of Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger, the co-editor of boingboing.net and author of the bestselling novels LITTLE BROTHER and FOR THE WIN. Join him for tales of woe and wonder that will explore the realms of storytelling as techno-social activism; delving into creativity as symbiotic, cross-cultural hacking; breaching the dangers and shelters of reason; examining the copywrongs of copy-right; transducing pathways to a post-scarcity world while pondering if truth is truly in sight? Be there and glimpse the future, right now… (OK, it might just be a regular author Q&A about some perhaps unusual themes…)
For full details please visit www.sci-fi-london.com / http://nettlefoldhall.blogspot.com
Sat 8th May 7:00PM, West Norwood Library and Nettlefold Hall, 1-5 Norwood High Street, West Norwood, London SE27 9JX
Visit West Norwood by train from London Victoria and London Bridge and on bus routes 2, 133, 176, 249, 415, 417, 432, 689, 690, and N137.
Jam Tomorrow – May 4th 2010
Paul Richards and Katharine Hibbert discuss the final week of politics before the general election. Today they talk to Joss Garman from Greenpeace and Andrew Robinson from the Pirate Party UK who is the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Worcester.
http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/party/candidates/andrew-robinson/
Bermuda Triangle Test Transmission Broadcasts – October 8th 2009
Title: Bicycle Wheels
Participants: Howard Jacques, Franziska Lantz, Alisdair McGregor.
Description: HJ & FL play and upturned bicycle, AMcG mixes and feeds in made earlier recordings of the same bicycle. Friction noises are generated from rotary gear clicks, bicycle pump, bell, friction contacts on wheel materials, scrapes and clicks on tyres and spokes. From the literal into strange abstractions. Flies by at speed. Bicycle recordings made also for use as soundtrack to the short film ‘The Bicycle Revolutionary’.
Web: See this link for the film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjvuySpPSqo
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