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”.
Category Archives: Wavelength
Wavelength – Rose Lowder
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
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
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
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.
Wavelength – Encyclopodia, Hugh de la Cruz
More extracts from the Encyclopodia. Hugh de la Cruz describes looking for volume two of the 3 volume edition of Mechanics Explained (1910 edition) and remembers Bloomsbury Rare Books on Museum Street. Tony Gross, optician and collector, struggles to construct a sentence after suffering a stroke. Two more tracks by Israel Quellet.
Wavelength – Encyclopodia, Steven Leiber
Talking to Steven Leiber via telephone from San Francisco in August 2009. Steven is the author and curator of Extra Art: A Survey of Artists’ Ephemera, 1960-1999. The complete interview will be accessible from the Resonance website as part of Encyclopodia; 26 podcasts relating to books + Israel Quellet; pour rameur de fitness (for fitness rower) from Soni Sclavus.
Wavelength – Encyclopodia, Ron Heisler
Talking to Ron Heisler; collector of political pamphlets since 1948, 30,000 of which he donated to Senate House Library. This is one of 26 podcasts intended to coincide with the London Art Book Fair held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in October. The podcasts all relate to books in one way or another and will eventually be available from the Resonance website
Wavelength – Yann Beauvais
Edited interview with Yann Beauvais, experimental filmmaker and co-founder, with Miles McKane, of Scratch Projection and Light Cone; Paris based distributor of experimental films established in 1982. The tape was recorded in a Paris restaurant in 1989. Concludes with a short track by Israel Quellet pour percussions et saturation 2’21” from Soni Sclavus.
Wavelength – Maurice Seddon and Ventimiglia vomit
Captain Maurice Seddon describes acquiring another deep-freeze which will take its place amongst the other deep-freezes in his garden providing storage space for food for himself and his numerous dogs. Some of the food is years past its sell-by date but this does not deter Maurice from consuming it. I relate an incident in a restaurant in Ventimiglia, Italy, when a diner at the next table vomited profusely on to the floor. The programme finishes with a track from Soni Sclavus, a new CD by Israel Quellet; les bouffisures, les croupissures – pour voix, percussions, orgue, sons divers (things that bloat, things that stagnate – for voice, percussion, organ and miscellaneous sound).