| Wavelength theme tune fiasco. The long awaited result of the Wavelength theme tune competition. The original theme tune is ticking and chiming of a clock awarded to William Cross, Sandra’s grandfather, who won many individual and team titles for running with the army and Castleford Harriers in Barnsley circa 1920. The entrants for the competition were whittled down to nine, some of whom were impostors. The judges were James Tregaskis, Richard Thomas and William English. Both of James’s entries were disqualified and Richard lost nothing in defeat in spite of some sleight of hand. The entrants were Peter Shepard, You were served by Patricia 1, Claudia Wasser, Dario Marsh, Sven Kylie, Feng Che the Chinese Cuban and the overall winner: DJ Numpty. |
Category Archives: Wavelength
Wavelength – Leon Trotsky and Bo Diddley etc.
J.A. da Silva “Audio Poem”(1971) (For Henri Chopin) from OU 40-41.
Leon Trotsky “10th Anniversary of the Left Opposition” (political speech ca. 1938) Original voice of Leon Trotsky probably recorded in Mexico.
Ladislav Novak “Two Poems” (1958-62) from OU 42-43-44.
Bo Diddley “Crackin’ Up” 1958.
Ladislav Novak “La Structure Phonetique de la Langue Tcheque” (1969) from OU 36-37.
Scientist “Time and Place Dub” Rare Dubs 1979-1980.
Arthur Rimbaud “Le Vrai Sonnet des Voyelles” (Reading by him) from OU 42-43-44.
The Red Krayola with Art and Language: “Four Stars: The Ideal Crew” from Sighs Trapped by Liars (2007).
Scientist “Heavenless Dub” Rare Dubs 1979-1980.
Wavelength – Nicky Hamlyn part 1
Conversation with Nicky Hamlyn:
“Professor Nicky Hamlyn studied fine art at Reading University and has
made over forty films, videos and installations since then. His films
have been shown at festivals and screenings around the world and his
book Film Art Phenomena was published by the BFI in 2003. He is senior
lecturer in Video Arts Production and Visual Theory at University for
the Creative Arts, Maidstone, and a visiting lecturer at the Royal
College of Art. His recent work has been concerned with exploring and
trying to refine the relationship between the camera and its profilmic” + Film soundtrack for “The Overcoming of Hazard” by Brad Butler and Karen Mirza, Touch Seven TS3 7″ vinyl side A.
Wavelength – Pistoletto
Michelangelo Pistoletto.
On Saturday 23rd of May, as part of Tate Modern’s Long Weekend, Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto recreated one of his actions from the 1960s, rolling a large ball of newspaper over the Millennium Bridge, around the City and back by boat assisted by his wife and long-time collaborator Maria Pioppi. Pistoletto’s Ball of Newspapers (1966) was one of the artist’s “Minus Objects” that he rolled through the streets of Turin in 1967 during the heyday of Arte Povera.
William English joined the throng which followed the ball and chatted with Pistoletto en route.
+ Wolf Vostell: Elektronischer de-collage. Happening Raum (1968).
Wavelength – Russian avant-garde sound experiments
BAKU: Symphony of Sirens, Sound Experiments in the Russian Avant-Garde, Original Documents and reconstructions of 72 key works of music, poetry and agitprop from the Russian avantgardes 1908-1942.
The book is released and distributed by ReR… I bought this copy from the Tate Modern bookshop and it can also be ordered through Sub Rosa for about £25…
Chris Cutler is the general editor.
The 72 page book is translated from the Spanish, and includes an essay by Miguel Molina Alarcon providing an overview, summary biographies, bibliography, web research links and the 2 CDs, the first of which is made up of reconstructions including The Symphony of Sirens by Avraamov, and previously lost sound events by Prokofiev, Khlebnikov, Malevich, Burliuk and numerous others, lasting between 9 seconds and 28 minutes.
The second CD is made up entirely of original recordings including Vertov’s Enthusiasm, The Dombass Symphony; a symphony of abstract industrial noise from 1930, followed by contemporary recordings by Roman Jakobson, Khruchenykh, Lili Brik, Esenin, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, Akhmatova, Lenin and Trotsky.
Today I’ve chosen mostly poetic works; and the first track is by Igor Severyanin called Echo dating from 1914, these first tracks are all reconstructions from 2006, the second half of the programme will be original recordings.
Wavelength – Richard Thomas part 2
Continuing last week’s conversation with Richard Thomas, content manager of Resonance 104.4FM.
Wavelength – Richard Thomas part 1
Good afternoon, you are listening to Wavelength on Resonance 104.4FM.
Today’s mystery guest is Richard Thomas, content manager of a well known radio station;
“The first time I knowingly encountered you was at an event off the Bethnal Green Road on the upper floor of a factory building, on a Sunday afternoon, probably 6 years ago now, organised by Mattin and Joel Stern. I showed a film and then Nishide Takehiro started a performance which involved you blowing into a plastic hosepipe immersed in a bucket of water. Hugh Metcalfe might have been playing a guitar. On leaving the factory building and approaching the Bethnal Green Road, almost directly opposite is a business premises with a large sign above the door which says “William English and Son, Funeral Directors” which came as a slight shock. I mean if you have to come across your own namesake in that way, it would be preferable to perhaps come across something more glamorous or cheerful, a Florist perhaps or a Piano Tuner… anything but a funeral director…
Have you ever come across someone with the same name as yourself?”
Wavelength – Wavelength collage
Invitation to listeners to submit a new version of the Wavelength ticking clock theme followed by a melange of previous programmes starting with Maurice Seddon’s unique telephone apparatus, snippets of Jonas Mekas, Henry Flynt, Nick Rochford, MMs bar announcements, Hugh coughing, crying baby, How can we hang on to a dream by Tim Hardin, Dining Room soundtrack, cuckoo clock, barking dogs, Der Ball ist Rund by Ror Wolf, Eris from Alfred 23 Harth (Heiner Goebbels, John Oswald, John Zorn) and Psycho-Motorik Musik by Otto Muehl.
Wavelength – Nothing
NOTHING. The Nothingists was a group created at the end of 1919 in Moscow echoing the internationalisation of the Dada movement although they didn’t use that word because in Russian Dada means “yes yes” contradicting their nihilism. They stopped all activity in 1923; Manifesto From Nothingism 1920, and Decree About the Nothingists of The Poetry 1920, both from CDs accompanying the book Baku: Symphony of Sirens.
A Colour named Nothing by Contraption 37 from A Consonant Vowel, anthology of audio art and sound poetry recorded in 1988.
3’34” by Pavel Buchler; transparent vinyl single lasting 3’34” and issued in an edition of 334 copies; compilation of unrecorded parts and transitions between tracks of 10 John Cage records from the collection of Pavel Buchler, 2006.
Perhaps the ultimate Nothingness record was produced by Yves Klein in 1959 with the LP Prince of Space which is entirely silent; the only sound being the contact between the stylus and the vinyl record, unlike Buchler’s record which is a recording of stylus meeting vinyl and therefore a recording unlike Klein’s which is actually an object… but this leads to comparing silence with nothingness and as apparently there is no such thing as silence I’ll get on with the next track:
Nothing by The Fugs from The Fugs First Album ESP 1965.
Outer Nothingness by Sun Ra from The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Volume 1 ESP 1965.
Wavelength – Sound poetry flexidiscs
Bob Cobbing 1920-2002:
Quote from Bob Cobbing in Ceolfrith Number 26: Bob Cobbing and Writers Forum.”colony – a version” flexidisc from typewriter 4 1973 with Peter Finch on jews harp.
“Green Computer” and “Yak Poem” from Birdyak Green Computer 1988 with Hugh Metcalfe.
“Khajrej” extract 1972 with Anna Lockwood from the EP L “Autonomatopek 1 issued with Opus journal for the arts.
“Marvo Movie Natter” (Voices: Cobbing, A. Lockwood, Jeff Keen) and “Spontaneous Appealinair Contemprate Apollinaire” (1968) both tracks from OU 34-35.