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Panel Borders: Parasites, stem cells and microbes!

Panel Borders: Parasites, stem cells and microbes!

Continuing our series of shows looking at depictions of illness and medicine in sequential art, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Edward Ross and Sci-Fi novelist Ken MacLeod about their comic Hope Beyond Hype, an educational title about “stem cell therapies from lab bench to hospital bedside”, funded by the European Community Research and Development Information Service. Edward also discusses his other medical comics Parasites! and Malaria: The battle against a microscopic killer, while Ken talks about the similarities between comics and science-fiction novels as a way of presenting science fact to the general public.

Originally broadcast Monday 10th June, 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)

100 tiny moments no.80 by Edward Ross / Malaria by Ross and Jamie Hall / Hope beyond hype by Ross, Ken MacLeod and others

100 tiny moments no.80 by Edward Ross / Malaria by Ross and Jamie Hall / Hope beyond hype by Ross, Ken MacLeod and others

For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Links: Hope beyond hype / Malaria comics
Info about Parasites comic on Edward’s blog and PDF download
Edward Ross’ website and 100 Tiny Moments webcomic

Ken MacLeod’s blog
mp3 recordings of Battle of Ideas debates with Ken Macleod: Frankenstein’s Daughters (2009) / Banning the Brave New World (2012) Continue reading →

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Panel Borders: Naming Minotaurs

Panel Borders: Naming Minotaurs

In the first of a series of shows looking at depictions of illness and medicine in comics, Alex Fitch talks to the creators of two recent graphic novels that deal with these themes. In a panel discussion recorded at Crawley WordFest, Alex talks to Nye Wright and Hannah Eaton about their graphic novels Things to do in a retirement home trailer park and Naming Monsters, with an introduction to the work of publisher Myriad Editions by editor Holly Ainley. Nye’s graphic novel depicts the last months of his relationship with his father as the latter dies of emphysema, with the comic book versions of the pair depicted as anthropomorphic characters; Hannah’s is a psychological exploration of a young woman coming to terms with her mother’s death and the contrasts and connections between her vignettes and British folklore stories.
Originally broadcast Monday 2nd June on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)

Panels from Naming Monsters and Things to do in a retirement home trailer park

Panels from Naming Monsters by Hannah Eaton and Things to do in a retirement home trailer park by Nye Wright

For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org Continue reading →

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Hello GoodBye – 01.06.13 – curated by Gaggle ft: Rhosyn

Gaggle + Rhosyn

Hello GoodBye curated by Gaggle and featuring live music from Rhosyn.

PLAYLIST
Gaggle – Happy is the country
Amy + Polly Gaggle – interview w. Jade Gaggle
Rhosyn – Glass (LIVE SESSION)
Rhosyn – Used to be (LIVE SESSION)
Keel Her – Rrriot Girl
Kimya Dawson – The Beer
Peter Howell and John Ferdinando – Setting Sun
Rhosyn – interview w. Jade Gaggle
Grimes – Weregild
Gaggle – Lullaby (LIVE SESSION)
Jana + Sarah Gaggle – interview w. Jade Gaggle
The Knife – Without you my life would be boring
Nancy Sit – Love Potion Number #9
Deborah + Kirsty Gaggle – interview w. Jade Gaggle (via telephone)
Rhosyn – Erotomanic (LIVE SESSION)
Rhosyn – Volcano (LIVE SESSION)

Presented by Jade Gaggle + deXter Bentley
Live sound engineer: Tom Kemp

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Wavelength – MP3 Deviation

This week’s show includes a track by Yasunao Tone from the CD MP3 Deviation: “The MP3 Deviation album contains pieces that are results of the collaborative research by a team of the New Aesthetics in Computer Music (NACM) and myself, led by Tony Myatt at Music Research Center at the University of York in UK in 2009. My idea was to develop new software based on the disruption of the MP3. Primarily I thought the MP3 as reproducing device could have created very new sound by intervention between its main elements, the compression encoder and decoder. It turned out that result was not satisfactory. However, we found that if the sound file had been corrupted in the MP3, the corruptions generated 21 error messages, which could be utilized to assign various 21 lengths of samples automatically. Combining with different play back speeds, it could produce unpredictable and unknowable sound. That is a main pillar of the software. We, also, added some other elements such as flipping stereo channels and phase inversing alternately with a certain length of frequency ranges, which resulted different timbres and pitches. I performed several times at the MRC and I was certain that this software would be a perfect tool for performances. I have tentatively performed the piece in public in Kyoto, May 2009 and in New York, in May 2010. I also performed it successfully with totally different sound sources when I was invited for The Morning Line in Vienna in June 2011”.

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Hello GoodBye – 25.05.13 – curated by Chips for the Poor, Ft: Dearbhla Minogue and the Partisans

Dearbhla Minogue and the Partisans

Curated by Chips for the Poor, previous guests of the show and stalwarts of the Invisible Spies and Parlour record labels, featuring live music from Dearbhla Minogue and the Partisans.

PLAYLIST
Rodney P vs Wrongtom – Riddim Killin
Feature – Memory
The Stockholm Monsters – Fairy Tales
Lightnin’ Hopkins – Lightnin’s Boogie
Dearbhla Minogue and the Partisans – Micro Sleep (Live Session)
Dearbhla Minogue and the Partisans – Desert (Live Session)
Dearbhla Minogue and the Partisans – Month Of May (Live Session)
Dearbhla Minogue and the Partisans – Haunted Place (Live Session)
Future Islands – Before The Bridge
Dearbhla Minogue and the Partisans – ‘interview’
Sleaford Mods – Guitar
Little Pinky – Baby, There’s A Carbon Dated Gimp Mask In My Closet
Fifth Column – Your Love Glows In The Dark
HowlRound – Rehearsal Loops 1
HowlRound – Rehearsal Loops 2
HowlRound – Rehearsal Loops 3

C H I P S M I X
Bird Sounds In Close-Up – Robin, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Blue Tit, House Sparrow, Tree Sparrow, Swallow, Starling
Les Rallizes Dénudés – Flames Of Ice
The Crucifucks – Artificial Competition
Duke Garwood – Sweet Mary Come Down
Buccaneer – Fade Away
Wallias Band – Muziqawi Silt
Ricky Ililonga – Love Is So Strange
Trains In Spain – Peter Handford

Presented by: Michael & Scott (Chips for the Poor)
Live Engineer: Kacper Ziemianin

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Reality Check: Living in Byzantium

Reality Check: Living in Byzantium

In a panel discussion recorded at SCI-FI-LONDON, Alex Fitch talks to producer Stephen Woolley, writer Moira Buffini and star Daniel Mays about the new British vampire movie Byzantium, directed by Neil Jordan, which depicts the back story and current lives of a pair of female vampires living in modern day Hastings. (Byzantium is released in the UK on 31st May). (Originally broadcast 24th May 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Still from Byzantium by Neil Jordan

Still from Byzantium by Neil Jordan

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

Links: Official film website
Info about the screening at SCI-FI-LONDON Continue reading →

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Panel Borders: Image Duplicators

Panel Borders: Image Duplicators

In the last of a series of shows about the relationship between fine art and comics, Alex Fitch talks to three artists about their recreations of fine art in comic book pages and vice versa. Simon Russell discusses his small press comics Roy and That’s not my Merkin!, Dutch artist Typex illuminates his graphic novel about Rembrandt, and Jason Atomic talks about his contribution to the ‘Image Duplicator’ show at Orbital Comics which deconstructs the work of Roy Lichtenstein. Originally broadcast Monday 27th May 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM

cover of Not my Merkin by Simon Russell, Extract from Rembrandt by Typex, Homage to Carl Barks by Jason Atomic

cover of Not my Merkin by Simon Russell, Extract from Rembrandt by Typex, Homage to Carl Barks by Jason Atomic

For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Simon Russell’s blog
Buy Roy and That’s not my Merkin! from www.comicsy.co.uk/boinggraphics
Info about Typex at www.selfmadehero.com
Jason Atomic’s blog
Image Duplicator info at www.orbitalcomics.com/image-duplicator

Listen to Alex Fitch’s interview with director Peter Greenaway about his projections onto Rembrandt’s paintings in the Rijksmuseum and film of the painter’s Nightwatch Continue reading →

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Six Pillars to Persia – Alinah Azadeh’s The Shape of Things


Uk-based Iranian artist Alinah Azadeh discusses her massive installation ‘The Gifts’ at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, 2010 and how the process of binding in the work helped her when after losing her mother to the Asian Tsunami of 2004. This is our second interview with Azadeh who was commissioned to fill the Royal Festival Hall ballroom, Southbank with a large installation called The Bibliomancer’s Dream. New work by Azadeh will be on show during a Six Pillars exhibition at Hundred Years Gallery, London May 31st-June 16th more info on www.sixpillars.org For culture news and signposts, follow us on our mailing list or on Facebook www.facebook.com/SixPillarsToPersia

Six Pillars to Persia – Artist Koushna Navabi


Artist Koushna Navabi speaks at the opening of her solo show for Xerxes art gallery, London. Mediums and materials used ranged from cloth, to embroidery to paint to even a glove and topics range from Iranian past leaders to the chemical components of oil.
Recorded March 09 with Fari Bradley for Six Pillars to Persia, a weekly radio Middle East Arts and Culture show on UK’s art-music radio station Resonance104.4FM.
Navabi is taking part in a group show with Six Pillars in London, June 2013, for more details see the links below.
Broadcasting Friday 19.30-20hrs repeating Wed 13.30-14hrs www.sixpillars.org
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