Maurice LeMaitre vinyl EP “Maurice Lemaitre presente Le Lettrisme” ESRF 1171 1958; a very rare record by the maker of Le Film est deja Commence? and numerous Lettriste tracts and videos. Plus tracks by Isidore Isou and Jean Dubuffet.
http://www.archive.org/download/Wavelength2006-07-16/Wavelength-July16th2006.mp3 Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadOne of the prizes for a Resonance fund raising auction was to have a piano tuned by Art Terry, presenter of Is Black Music on Resonance104.4fm. I don’t have a piano but placed a winning bid and asked Art if I could film him tuning a piano which he agreed to. This is the soundtrack of that video film recorded on a mini dv camera superimposed on a recording made at Marcus Campbell Art Books 43 Holland Street, London SE1, of a creaking floor and demolition of the building opposite.
Edgard Varese; Ionisation (1931) for 3 bass drums, 2 side drums, 2 snare drums, tarole, 2 bongos, tambourine, tambour militaire, crash cymbal, suspended cymbals, 3 tam tams, gong, 2 anvils, 2 triangles, sleigh bells, chimes, celesta, piano, Chinese blocks, claves, maracas, castanets, slapstick, guiro, high and low sirens, lion’s roar (Nonesuch 1974).
Bow Gamelan Ensemble; Black Betty/Pyrotechnics ‘Offshore Rig’. From the vinyl LP Great Noises that fill the Air (Klinker Zoundz 8804 1988).
Musique Akara. Tambours de bois. From Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinee (Ocora OCR 86).
Luis Agudo; Agudu from the LP Afrosamba (Red Record VPA 172).
Kip Hanrahan/Jack Bruce: You can tell a guy by his anger, from Exotica 1992.
Interview with Canadian Artist Bill Burns, director of the Museum of Safety Gear for Small Animals.
Several tennis games superimposed. Recorded by William English on a Sony ‘Professional’ Walkman cassette recorder. One of the tennis players caught sight of the microphone which was fixed to a wire fence and commented on being spied upon. Whenever a tennis ball struck the fence an interesting reverberation resulted.
Alan Bridges (alias Hugh de la Cruz) attempts to describe his perpetual motion machine. Hugh is an inventor of unfinished projects including a motorcycle that doesn’t fall over and a trousercoat illustrated in “What did you eat today? Number One; Hugh de la Cruz†16mm film by William English and Sandra Cross.