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Wavelength – Maurice Seddon’s injunction

jtreg — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:32:02 +0000

Captain Maurice Seddon in telephonic conversation. He was faced with an injunction at the Royal Courts of Justice to silence his numberless pack of dogs but thanks in no small part to his Mackenzie friend (me) the case has been adjourned for 3 months. Interpretations of the music for two Adolf Wolfli paintings by Baudouin de Jaer.

Wavelength – 2010 May 21st Beatlemania

jtreg — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:30:59 +0000

Beatlemania. Klaus Beyer sings The Beatles (out of tune and in German), Rodney Graham’s version of Blue Jay Way, Those Were the Days (Mary Hopkin/Paul McCartney/Apple single) from Ground Zero plays Standards with Otomo Yoshihide and Vanilla Fudge’s rendition of Ticket to Ride.

Wavelength – Denise Hawrysio

jtreg — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:29:45 +0000

Multi-disciplinary artist Denise Hawrysio in the studio talking about her Spotlight Project and artistic practice. Hawrysio:

Wavelength – Musics in the Margins

jtreg — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:28:51 +0000

Musik Oblik; latest addition to the musics in the margins series by sub rosa. Anthology of outsider music with tracks by Adolf Wolfli, Carlo Gesualdo, Othin Spake, Klaus Beyer, Normand L’Amour, Jacques Brodier, Baudouin de Jaer, Baudouin Oosterlynck and the Wild Classical Music Ensemble.

Wavelength – Malcolm McLaren part 2

jtreg — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:27:25 +0000

Tribute to Malcolm McLaren part 2: Malcolm told me once that he particularly liked Billy Fury so the show starts with a Billy Fury hit written by Goffin and King: Halfway to Paradise, 1961. Walking with Satie and Paris Paris from the CD Paris, 1994, the second track features Catherine Deneuve singing with Malcolm. More tracks from Buffalo Gals Back to Skool featuring the voice of Malcolm and the World Famous Supreme Team, sounds from 1982 and 1983 remixed etc. in 1998. A snatch of I Like you in Velvet from Waltz Darling by Malcolm McLaren and the Bootzilla Orchestra which includes Jeff Beck and Bootsy Collins from 1989. Remembrance Mix from the green vinyl single The Bell Song 1997 and Death of Butterfly (Tu Tu Piccolo) from Fans 1984.

Wavelength – Malcolm McLaren part 1

jtreg — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:26:13 +0000

Today’s show is a tribute to Malcolm McLaren who died last week. Once upon a time I travelled down to London from Leicester to visit a shop on the King’s Road called Paradise Garage which was owned by Trevor Myles who was photographed by my friend David Parkinson, sitting on the bonnet of a zebra skin flocked car outside the shop. Another friend; John Cramphorn, bought some white overalls from the shop, with the word Firestone stitched in red across the back, slightly ironic as he later became a tyre fitter in Leicester. The next time we visited the shop it was under new ownership, renamed Let it Rock and that was the first time I met Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood. I remember bakelite radios on the pavement and I bought an American fleck jacket and some obscure singles on the King label. On subsequent visits the shop changed its identity to Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die and then Sex which is when I took some photographs of Vivienne in various rubber and leather garments posing in front of a sculpture of a severed leg with livid boils and blisters at the top of the thigh. One of these images signed in gold ink by Vivienne is coming up in the Resonance auction on May 1st. It was always possible to chat with Malcolm and Vivienne in the shop and then eventually David Parkinson told me he had encountered Malcolm one evening in Mayfair and he had adopted yet another persona; his hair was now up and permed and he was wearing tight black leather trousers with tassles and a small grey sports jacket, and he mentioned that he was now managing a band. So, one Sunday afternoon we found ourselves in a small strip club or porn cinema on Brewer Street and witnessed the Sex Pistols live on stage to a fairly bemused audience of about 40 people. At the time I thought it was some sort of hoax, like bad painting or something. The rest is well documented. The last time I saw Malcolm was about 2 years ago in Paris. He was having an argument with a woman in Place St. Sulpice. I passed within a few feet of him but decided not to encroach on what was obviously a private discussion. So, this programme is a tribute to an extraordinary character. The first track is Have Love Will Travel by The Sonics 1965 from Sex: Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die, a compilation of 20 records that were on the jukebox in the shop compiled by Marco Pirroni in 2003. Next is No Fun (unedited version Oct 76) from Spunk which featured the Sex Pistols before Sid Vicious joined and Glen Matlock left the band.
Followed by a mix of tracks from Revenge of the Flowers by Francoise Hardy and Malcolm McLaren including the title track and Driving into Delirium (extended version), and Buffalo Gals, Back to Skool.

Wavelength – Clive Graham on Max Eastley

jtreg — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:25:05 +0000

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 Eastleyâ€™s installation work. As such, it updates and adds many new examples to the 1975 release â€œNew and Rediscovered Musical Instrumentsâ€, which was released as a split LP with David Toop on Brian Enoâ€™s Obscure Records. This is Eastleyâ€™s first solo CD. Of the 35 tracks, only the last 2 have any guests or â€˜playingâ€™ (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.

Wavelength – Radio Stimme + Microphone Stimme

jtreg — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:21:47 +0000

Radio Stimme + Microphone Stimme by Konstatin Raudive from Musics in the Margin Sub Rosa SR254. Lee Ranaldo; Shibuya Displacement, and David Toop; Yanomamo Wayamou, both from the Sonic Arts Network CD Otherness curated by David Cotner in 2007. Then; Its not my fault and Going too far by Nihilist Spasm Band, Take on Me by Rank Sinatra and Cock! by Gwilly Edmondez, all from the Sonic Arts Network CD Smiling Through my Teeth curated by Vicki Bennett in 2008. Finally, the first half of Hymnos by Scelsi 1963.

Wavelength – John Smith

jtreg — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:20:30 +0000

John Smith. John Smith

Wavelength – iPhone Apps Ensemble

jtreg — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:19:18 +0000

iPhone Apps Ensemble live in the studio: Creator Tania Chen, Benedict and Nick Evans improvise on iPhones. Ensemble iPhone Apps:

Wavelength – Fuckintosh

jtreg — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:18:09 +0000

Tracks from 3 CDs by Brooklyn based laptop artist Fuckintosh: Jimi vs. Heino, Tamiflu and Eric Satie vs. Richard Wagner.

Wavelength – FIRE!

jtreg — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:17:16 +0000

FIRE! from Good Morning Vietnam, recorded in Vietnam by Claude Johner (Folkways 1972); Bang Bang by Vanilla Fudge (1967); Pistol Poem by Brion Gysin from lunapark 0.10; Shoot Out by Playgroup, Epic Sound Battles (On-U 1983); Machine Gun Fighting by David Jackman (Die Stadt DS29); Ultra Q from Ground-Zero plays Standards and another track from Good Morning Vietnam: The Abstract Universe of War.

Wavelength – Felicity Sparrow on Ian Breakwell

jtreg — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:15:39 +0000

Felicity Sparrow, long-time partner of Ian Breakwell, talks about the exhibition The Elusive State of Happiness at the Quad Gallery Derby.

Wavelength – Peter Gidal

jtreg — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:14:33 +0000

Avant-garde filmmaker, theoretician and writer Peter Gidal describes several anxiety inducing incidents involving lost books.

Wavelength – Ian Breakwell and Kevin Coyne

jtreg — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:13:29 +0000

Friday 12th February sees the opening of an exhibition “The Elusive State of Happiness” a retrospective of the works of Ian Breakwell (1943-2005) at the Quad Gallery, Derby. A fellow student of Breakwell’s at Derby College of Art was Kevin Coyne (1944-2004) (as was artist Andrew Greaves). In 1977-79 Breakwell and Coyne made a film together called The Institution. Reading of an unpublished letter from Ian Breakwell to a former teacher asking for a job circa 1970. Poem; The Ape Age by Coyne from a catalogue for their first show after leaving Art School. Tracks from Marjory Razorblade by Kevin Coyne, originally released in 1973 and reissued in 2010 with previously unreleased material: Marjory Razorblade, Marlene, Talking to No One, Do Not Shout at Me Father and Marjory Razorblade Suite live at Hyde Park 1974.

Wavelength – Tick Tock… Bong

jtreg — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:12:08 +0000

This show features a ticking clock with occasional chimes. It could have been thirty minutes long but circumstances meant that the recording was interrupted after twenty minutes so the clock chimes eleven, then one, then twelve then six, with one or two odd glitches and a couple of murmuring voices towards the end. It was midnight in Syston, Leicestershire and the microphone was inside the clock which was awarded to Sandra’s grandfather; William Cross who won a stack of individual and team titles with the army and Castleford Harriers and was presented to King George V and Queen Mary in January 1920 after finishing sixth out of a field of 700 in the army cross-country championship. Sandra’s mother came into the room, noticed the microphone and just said “tick tock” before going back upstairs.

Wavelength – Rodney Graham part 2

jtreg — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:11:09 +0000

Rodney Graham Part Two: Vancouver-based artist Rodney Graham’s musical output; today’s tracks; Sinkin’ in the West from Never Tell a Pal a hard luck story (You’ll only get a hard luck story in return); Ball and Chain, and The Bed-Bug Part II, both from The Bed-Bug, Love Buzz and other songs in the popular idiom; More Music for the Love Scene, Zabriskie Point from the 10 inch vinyl LP Getting it Together in the Country; finally Electric Slim and the Factory Hen from the latest CD Why Look for Good Times?

Wavelength – Maurice Seddon, spillage and slippage

jtreg — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:09:57 +0000

Telephone interview with Captain Maurice Seddon (Royal Signals, retired); hospital appointment, prostate problems, blended food, spillage of apple juice, days spent in bed, update on dog pack issue, pullover sleeves torn off and placed over shoes to prevent slippage on ice.

Wavelength – Rodney Graham part 1

jtreg — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:08:24 +0000

James Tregaskis performs an “announcement” accompanying himself on laptop followed by Part One of music and sound works by Vancouver based artist Rodney Graham: Feelin’ Alright from Getting it Together in the Country, Some Works with Sound Waves, Some Works with Light Waves and Some Other Experimental Works (2000). What is Happy Baby, and So-Called Friends from The Bed-Bug, Love Buzz and other short songs in the Popular Idiom (2000). She Failed to See the Point from Never Tell a Pal a Hard Luck Story (You’ll Only Get a Hard Luck Story in Return) (2002).

Wavelength – Outsiders, Rev. Fred Lane et al

jtreg — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:04:08 +0000

Ron Pate’s Debonairs featuring Rev. Fred Lane play Volare from Raudelunas Pataphysical Revue originally recorded in 1975 and issued in an edition of 200 copies with covers cut from end rolls of pizza box cardboard. This CD reissue dates from 2003 enabled by Ed Baxter. Jack Smith’s Earthquake Orgy from Tony Conrad’s soundtrack for Flaming Creatures, recorded 1962. Wild Man Fischer sings Young at Heart from the CD Wildmania 2004 (1977). Wild Classical Music Ensemble; Rien de Rien and Tears from the Ensemble, sub rosa 2008. McSpeedy; improvisations pour l’emission Implosief sur un truc de dd De Meuter et Mozart Me de Lost (Kris Engelen) from sub rosa CD Musics in the Margin. Ludwin; San Francisco. Philippe; I’ve been looking, and la ballade des gens heureux. Guillaume; ambient, all from Bokan! sub rosa 2006.

Wavelength – Almost Christmas

jtreg — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:02:51 +0000

White Christmas by Ralph Rousseau on the viola da gamba from the CD “On Christmas Night”; Pari Intervallo with Christopher Bowers-Broadbent on the organ from Arbos by Arvo Part; If you were born today by Low from their Christmas CD; De Profundis by Arvo Part and The Hilliard Ensemble; Almost Christmas by Lester Bowie from All the Magic; Still, still, still by Ralph Rousseau on viola da gamba from “On Christmas Night”.

Wavelength – Rose Lowder

jtreg — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:01:45 +0000

Edited recording of a conversation in 1989 with Rose Lowder; prolific maker of rigorous films and co-founder of The Archives of Experimental Film in Avignon with Alain Alcide-Sudre + Love is Strange, Tangiers fantasy with Jack Smith, Frances Francine and Tony Conrad (extract), recorded November 1962.

Wavelength – Drum Soup part 2

jtreg — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:00:35 +0000

Drum Soup Part 2: a melange of percussion, Steve Reich, Drumming; Milford Graves Percussion Ensemble with Sunny Morgan, Nothing 19,13 and Nothing (ESP 1965); Kip Hanrahan, Desire Develops an Edge; Bow Gamelan Ensemble, Great Noises that Fill the Air; Edward Ka-Spel, Alas my Shrunken Head; Israel Quellet, Oppressum and Soni Sclavus.

Wavelength – Drum Soup part 1

jtreg — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:59:11 +0000

Drum Soup: Little Drummer Boy by Low from Low Christmas, The Little Drummer Boy by Jonathan Kane, The Kroumata Percussion Ensemble play Pulse (1939) by Henry Cowell, Tobi Ilu by Art Blakey and the Afro-Drum Ensemble from The African Beat, Adventures in Anatomy from Badges; the fifth album by the Vitamin B12, Toad by Cream live at the Fillmore, Split Skins by Art Blakey from Orgy in Rhythm.

Wavelength – Encyclopodia, Nicky Hamlyn and Tony Gross

jtreg — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:57:48 +0000

Encyclopodia continued: Nicky Hamlyn describes recovering his copy of The Whole Earth Catalogue after 20 years, driving over a philosophy book on Essex Road and paying to have an index included in his own book published by The British Film Institute. Optician and collector Tony Gross listens as I describe finding an album of photographs of Admiralty Radio Stations (1918) at a book fair. Otto Muehl; Psycho-Motorik Musik and a track from Oppressum by Israel Quellet.