Category Archives: Wavelength

Wavelength – Sound Poetry II

Paul de Vree; poet, born Antwerp 1909.
Ode a Stockholm from the LP poesia sonora, anthology of sound poetry 1975.
Organon and Exodus from AHAHAHA8 Review for Verbal Plasticism 1970.
Reading of an extract from Concrete Poetry, A World View; Mary Ellen Solt.
Veronika (1953), Ogenblik (1948), Kleine Caroli (1963), Vertigo Gli (1963), Een Roos a Rose (1964), all from revue OU complete recordings, alga marghen 2006.

Wavelength – Music in the margins

Wild Classical Music Ensemble: Rien de Rien, Jaws, Happy Flute, The Prisoner.
Sub Rosa; musics in the margins: “Instantly the floor falls silent when the four mentally retarded musicians together with their artistic mentor and drummer, all ill at ease, clear their way among drums, trumpets, violins, melodica, samplers and an electric guitar”.
Israel Quellet: Oppressum. Sub Rosa; musics in the margins: For percussion and sound toys, For percussion, sander and telephone keyboard strokes, For buckets dragged on the ground and saturation.

Wavelength – Seekers of Lice

Conversation with seekers of lice on the subjects of hand-written paper bags, ephemeral artworks washed away by the tide, artists’ books and boxes exhibited at bookartbookshop. Seekers of lice; plural but singular.

Wavelength – Bill Burns, safety gear for small animals

Bill Burns, director of Safety Gear for Small Animals;
passing through from Toronto to Denmark discusses his latest projects: Dogs and Boats and Airplanes, Children’s Choir (pilot project) in collaboration with Mammalian Diving Reflex and Alpha Alternative School Toronto
“So-called Friends” by Rodney Graham from the CD The Bed-Bug, Love Buzz and other songs in the popular idiom.

Wavelength – Clive Graham on Morphogenesis

Clive Graham talks about Morphogenesis; improvising electronic group formed in 1985.

Wavelength – Sound poetry

Sten Hanson; Swedish composer and sound poet, born 1936:
Les Martyrs (1975) The Sonosopher Retrospective, Alga Marghen.
Che (1968) Text sound compositions 2 Stockholm Festival 1968 RELP 1054.
Skarp dig, for fan! (1991) The Sonosopher Retrospective Alga Marghen.
Revolution (1970) Railroad Poem (1970) Don’t hesitate, do it right now (1969) The Glorious Desertion (1969) all from OU sound poetry anthology, Algha Margen.
How are you (1975) Poesia Sonora.

Wavelength – Double Dutch

Double Dutch: Collage of overlaid conversation in Dutch by a group of people looking at a photograph album recorded in Castricum North Holland in January 2009. The album contains images of World War 2 and the German occupation of Castricum. During the Liberation of this region my English father met my Dutch mother.
Accompanied by the following music: Guus Janssen “Ritmische Etude”, Louis Andriessen “Choral Vorspiele”, and 3 traditional Mechanical Organ tracks from the record The Busy Drone (BVHAAST 034-1).
“My Mother’s Eyes” by Tad Smith, Itis golden saxophone and Itis orchestra (Modern Music, undated).

Wavelength – Gerry Smith in Belgium

“Valse Belgique” (Abel Frans) Mechanical Organ. The Busy Drone.
Telephone interview with artist and curator Gerry Smith during the setting up of an exhibition in Ostend, Belgium.
“Sans Titre” Oscar Haus on accordion.
“The Revolution Starts Now” by Galaxia/Steve Wallis.
Last 2 tracks both from the Sub Rosa CD musics in the margin.

Wavelength – Various Artists

Gregory Duret “mix free” Bokan! musics in the margin.
De Selvera’s “Twee Rebruine Ogen” Hollandse Gouwe Ouwe.
Philippe “la ballade des gens heureux” Bokan! musics in the margin.
De Selvera’s “De Postkoets” Hollandse Gouwe Ouwe.
Buckethead “The Slunk, the Gutter and the Candlestick” from Kaleidoscalp.
Francois Dufrene “Osmose-Art” (1969) from the CD accompanying exhibition
catalogue published by Fundacao Serralves 2007.
Loic “le DVD avec” Bokan! musics in the margin.

Wavelength – 2010 April 9th

Lawrence Upton, sound poet, artist and long time collaborator with Bob Cobbing interviewed at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in Autumn 2009.