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Wavelength – Clive Graham on Max Eastley

Clive Graham comes into the studio to introduce the latest release on his paradigm label:
PARADIGM DISCS (PD 26) Max Eastley – Installation Recordings (1973 – 2008)

This 2CD is essentially a retrospective of Eastley’s installation work. As such, it updates and adds many new examples to the 1975 release “New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments”, which was released as a split LP with David Toop on Brian Eno’s Obscure Records. This is Eastley’s first solo CD. Of the 35 tracks, only the last 2 have any guests or ‘playing’ (the most virtuosic moment being George Lewis playing a grass blade). All the other pieces are either powered by the natural forces of wind and water, or else are motor driven gallery installations.

The ethereal sounds of the aoelian harp, the haunting aeolian flutes, and the violent tension of his aerophone installations are hallmark Eastley sounds. These sounds, and many others, sit amidst a wide range of acoustic settings, from windy hill tops to quiet brooks, residential street scenes to coastal shores. The indoor recordings are no less varied, ranging across a rich variety of acoustics and gallery spaces from tiny micro sounds to large scale amplification. Wood, metal and stone are brought to life with electricity. Although there are many photos in the 20 page booklet, much is left to the imagination to work out how the sounds are made. With this limited access to the visual, the focus is pulled towards the musicality of the sounds themselves. This musicality is reinforced by the slow crossfades of most of the pieces from indoors to outdoors to form a series of suites.

The recordings mostly date from the mid 70s, but there are pieces from later decades. Nearly everything was recorded either to Revox or Uher and occasionally cassette, using what microphones were available at the time. Recent recordings are digital. The varying quality of the recording set-ups across this 2CD adds yet another dimension to the shifting sound fabric of this anthology.

Polish Deli 20 11 2011 Audio Art Festival special pt.1

Continuing my catch up I’m uploading first part of relation from Audio Art Festival in Cracow in 2011.

http://www.audio.art.pl/

Audio Art is an experimental and postmodernist art of the close of XX century and the beginning of the XXI century. Audio Art is an integration of sound and visual art. Presentation of Audio Art appears in form of the concert, performance and installation. Audio Art creates new concept of sound source: as an object and musical instrument in certain space and time. Audio Art is a “one person art”: composer, designer and performer unify the whole process of art creation. Audio Art uses low and high technology. Audio Art Festival presents individual artists from all over the world. Festival also presents other non-audio art events extending the whole image of the art based on sound.

language: Polish

Polish Deli 13 11 2011

I have some catching up to do with podcasts of Polish Deli, so here is the first of episodes that I didn’t have time to upload. I thought it would be a good idea, as people won’t upload many things during the Christmas/New Year period of time.

This week on Polish Deli we continue the topic of upcoming festivals: Audio Art in Cracow and Jazz and Experimental Music from Poland in London. And so we get a chance to listen to Kaleka and Tiger Walking Downhill, both of whom will be performing at Audio Art Festival 2011 (www.audio.art.pl). Next we can hear Maciej Obara Quartet, which will be performing at Jazz and Experimental Music From Poland Festival (http://jazz.deconstructionproject.co.uk/).

 

 

OST 19.11.2011- Alan McKinnon

Soundtracks, Library Music and all that jazz with Jonny Trunk. Today’s special guest is Alan McKinnon, ace record collector. He’s come all the way from Lewisham with a sack full of decidedly groovy and obscure jazz records, some of which even Jonny isn’t familiar with (not that he’ll admit it). There’s also a healthy dose of ‘pancake angst’ and the usual extremely silly competition, this week mixing films and clothes. Get Cardi, anyone?

Hooting Yard: An Evening of Lugubrious Music and LopSided Prose.

Extended version of “An Evening of Lugubrious Music and Lopsided Prose” Recorded at Woolfson & Tay Bookshop 18/11/11.

OST 20.08.2011 – Morricone POP!

Soundtracks, library and television music hosted by Jonny Trunk. Today – Morricone Pop! We examine exceptionally rare Morricone collaborations. All non soundtrack works, these superb records date from 1958 and run through to about 1965, crossing from classic Italain pop to jazz and more experimental recordings.We’ll also be playing the rarely heard Pastures OF Plenty, the 1962 pop vocal by Pete Tevis that was to become A Fistful Of Dollars three years later. Result!

Incidentally, sorry this week’s podcast isn’t a bit more Christmassy. Robin The Fog popped down to the OST archive to try and find something a bit more seasonal, but then left his USB stick at the Resonance Christmas party. So you’ll just have to slap this one on while sitting around the festive table instead. A pretty decent compromise, don’t you think?

Happy Christmas, OST fans!

Hello GoodBye Show 17 December 2011: Piney Gir, Waterpuppet and Marcus Gray

The final Hello GoodBye Show for 2011 with The Piney Gir Country Roadshow and Waterpuppet performing live in session, plus an interview with the author Marcus Gray about his book Route 19 Revisited which explores the roots and making of the classic album London Calling by The Clash. And we preview some of the upcoming sessions we have in 2012 and spin some favourite festive tunes to warm yourself by the fire to.

London based Kansas gal Piney Gir hollers out her war cry as she prepares to do battle with a selection of songs taken from her new LP ‘Geronimo’ (Damaged Goods)

Electro-folk band Waterpuppet sing tales of love gone wrong, fractured selves and supernatural Bonnie and Clyde’s.

Get a bucket of mulled wine, a mountain of mince pies, stick your Christmas socks on, download and listen in! YO HO HO.

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… and please email us your favourite sessions of the past year, as our first show of 2012 we’ll look back at 2011’s best sessions and play the very best one in full! That address is dexterbentley@hotmail.com

Track listing:

Piney Gir – Christmas Time
Waterpuppet – Enigmatic Gaze (LIVE SESSION)
Waterpuppet – Weightlessness (LIVE SESSION)
Waterpuppet – Flash Company (LIVE SESSION)
Goodbye Leopold – Chant
Waterpuppet – ‘Interview’
Paul Hawkins & the Awkward Silences – You Can’t Make Somebody Love You
The Clash – London Calling (Vanilla Studio demo version)
Interview with Marcus Gray (author of ‘Route 19 Revisited’ the making of London Calling by The Clash)
Aztec Camera – Hot Club of Christ
Izes – Blood
Imbogodom – Calibos
John Baker (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) – Christmas Commercial
The Piney Gir Country Roadshow – Outta Sight (LIVE SESSION)
The Piney Gir Country Roadshow – Here’s Looking At You (LIVE SESSION)
The Piney Gir Country Roadshow – Oh Lies (LIVE SESSION)
The Piney Gir Country Roadshow – Longest Days (LIVE SESSION)
Female Band – One Day The Sea Will Swallow Me
Piney Gir – ‘Interview’
The Piney Gir Country Roadshow – Say Goodbye (LIVE SESSION)

Live sound engineers: Leanne Bower, Kacper Ziemianin & Tom Kemp.

Art Monthly 9th December 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TV Makeover

Colin Perry on the vexed relationship between art and TV

Where once video artists set about attempting to subvert broadcast television, recently they seem to have surrendered to its normative codes. Since the most troubling aspects of TV have tended to get worse over time, shouldn’t artists retain a questioning attitude towards it?

‘Artists have stopped trying to change television, and for good reasons. In the early decades of video art, there was much hope that TV would prove an open and democratic platform for vi

The programme is hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991.

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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Chips for the Poor: Christmas Special

Once the turkey’s in the microwave, gather the family around the tree, crack open a box of cigars and settle down for the Chips for the Poor Christmas Special, featuring micro-highlights of 2011’s award-losing series. Easy on the mince pies and all the best for 2012.

Panel Borders: Unnamable horrors in genre comics by Brubaker, Abnett and Lanning

Panel Borders: Unnamable horrors in genre comics by Brubaker, Abnett and Lanning

Concluding our series of shows about H.P. Lovecraft, Alex Fitch talks to three creators who have recently penned comics inspired by his monsters and scenarios. Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning talk about adding a Lovecraftian twist to Marvel Superheroes in their titles Realm of Kings and The Thanos Imperative, which feature alternative versions of Captain Marvel and the Avengers possessed by the ‘Many-angled Ones’. Also Ed Brubaker discusses Fatale, his latest collaboration with artist Sean Phillips, following Sleeper, Criminal and Incognito, which mixes noir storytelling with occult ceremonies and tentacle faced Nazis.

Fatale by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, the Marvel Cancerverse by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning in Realm of Kings, drawn by Leonardo Manco and The Thanos Imperative drawn by Miguel Sepulveda

Fatale by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, the Marvel Cancerverse by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning in Realm of Kings, drawn by Leonardo Manco and The Thanos Imperative drawn by Miguel Sepulveda

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

Alex Fitch interviews Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning

Alex Fitch interviews Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning

Also available: video podcast with Abnett and Lanning about their Marvel ‘Space Opera’ titles

Links: Wikipedia pages on Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, Realm of Kings and The Thanos Imperative

Buy Realm of Kings, The Thanos Imperative, Criminal, Incognito and Sleeper from amazon.co.uk

Previous interviews about H.P. Lovecraft: Alan Moore, I.N.J. Culbard, panel discussion featuring China Mieville and Denise Mina