Our protagonist, convinced that he has a “prune-bum” by a fortune teller in a toilet, decides to take cosmetic treatment and goes to his Eastern European GP for a prescription. Harmon’s fortunes take a turn for the worse when he ends up in hospital, having injected his wrinkly buttocks with enough dioxin to kill a [...]
Archive for August, 2006
Harmon e. Phraisyar: Arse Transplant
Published by August 30th, 2006 in Harmon e. Phraisyar. 0 CommentsMarvin Suicide: 83 – On the ones and twos.
Published by August 29th, 2006 in Marvin Suicide. 0 CommentsGood day. If you want to rave like you’ve never raved before then please have a listen to this weeks programme. I believe if you live in Australia its called a “rage” or “raging”. Below is the tracklist for your information: 1. Musica Para Robots by Christian Dittmann, Cosas Simples: www.archipel.cc 2. The Breeze Of [...]
Author: Susan Philipsz invited by Sinisa Mitrovic www.radiogallery.org For her contribution to Radio Gallery, Susan Philipsz will revisit The Dead, a work she produced in 2000. Based on James Joyce’s eponymous 1914 story, reinterpreted by way of John Houston’s posthumously released 1987 film, Philipsz’s work touched upon themes of loss, retrieval and memory. In Radio [...]
I’m ready for my close-up: Depictions of madness in the movies
Published by August 29th, 2006 in I'm Ready for my Closeup. 0 CommentsAlex Fitch interviews Jonathan Gadsby, a psychiatric nurse from the West Country. Jonathan discusses the actual complaints the characters in One flew over the cuckoo’s nest probably suffered from, the probability of John Nash’s visual hallucinations as depicted in A Beautiful mind and the likelihood of the FBI asking a psychotic serial killer for advice [...]
Cyber Chutney Arse Duck: Part 4
Published by August 25th, 2006 in Cyber Chutney Arse Duck. 0 CommentsThis is the Cyber Chutney Arse Duck Show, and you are listening to the Cyber Chutney Arse Duck Show. This is a show specifically designed for some person who might be walking down a country lane, at 3 in the morning listening to this show… This time… A song about the appreciation of freeks A [...]
I’m ready for my close-up: The Horror films of Norman J. Warren
Published by August 25th, 2006 in I'm Ready for my Closeup. 1 CommentThe start of August bank holiday weekend means the London FrightFest is in town, so why not download the companion piece to the show broadcast last night on horror film clubs… Adrian Winchester interviews Norman J. Warren, director of classic and infamous horror films from the 1970s, concentrating on his films Terror, Inseminoid, Satan’s Slave [...]
These are troubling times and Can-D is waiting for your thoughts. Is war the answer? Is there, in fact, an answer? What’s the question? Plundering broadcasts from recent and not-so-recent times, The Harmon e. Phraisyar Show struggles to find a meaningful or progressive discourse, gets confused and drifts off into space for a moody thirty [...]
Radio Gallery number 8: “Guy Debord is so cool!”
Published by August 23rd, 2006 in Radio Gallery. 0 CommentsAuthor: Matthieu Laurette www.radiogallery.org “GUY DEBORD IS SO COOL!”. MATTHIEU LAURETTE interviewed by JEROME SANS. Interview remake # 1. 2006. In this remake, Matthieu Laurette’s voice is interpreted by an electronic voice named “Zarvox”, Jerome Sans’ voice, is interpreted by an electronic voice named “Pipe Organ” and Anna Colin’s voice is interpreted by an electronic [...]
I’m ready for my close-up: Cinema as performance & the aural aesthetics of projection
Published by August 21st, 2006 in I'm Ready for my Closeup. 0 CommentsRichard Thomas presents an interview and collaboration with film-makers William English & David Leister. For the first half of the show Richard works with the film-makers to create an aural performance mixing the live sounds produced by various cinema projectors as they unspool rolls of film and then interviews English and Leister about their work [...]
Radio Gallery number 7: A Stellar Key to the Summerland
Published by August 21st, 2006 in Radio Gallery. 0 CommentsAuthor: Olivia Plender www.radiogallery.org A Stellar Key to the Summerland is a documentary about The Modern Spiritualist Movement, a religion that originated in New York State, USA, in 1848 with the notorious Hydesville Rappings. Despite being based on speaking to the dead, Spiritualists saw themselves as part of a rational religion in dialogue with scientific [...]