Monthly Archives: September 2008

Electric Sheep podcast: The animé of Osamu Tezuka

Electric Sheep podcast: The animé of Osamu Tezuka

An episode of The Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast – Alex Fitch talks to animé expert Helen McCarthy in front of an audience of manga fans at Streatham Library about the work of manga and anime pioneer Osamu Tezuka who is the subject of a season now on at The Barbican. Alex and Helen talk about Tezuka’s career in animé from early experimental shorts to the big budget adaptation of his classic manga comic Metropolis. Also comedienne and actress Jessica Fostekew reviews the cinema release of Eden Lake and the DVD release of Annie Leibovitz – Life Through a Lens…

For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org
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Wavelength – 2006 August 27th Short Tracks

Short Tracks: This started as an attempt to find tracks less than one minute in length but expanded slightly at times: Aram Saroyan, Chris Burden, Wild Man Fischer, Muslimgauze, Buckethead, Peterson, Yoko Ono, Augusto de Campos, Handsome Family, Henry Flynt, John Wynne, Conlon Nancarrow, Moondog, Wolfgang Fuchs, Peter Brotzmann, Rodney Graham.

William English

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Six Pillars – Soheil Nasseri, Sonato No. 0 and BIBA

Classical pianist Soheil Nasseri gives an interview before his UK debut at The Royal Festival Hall. We hear pieces from Nasseri, details of unusual adventures in downtown US city schools and about performing the UK premiere of Sonata No.0, by little known Parsi Essex-born composer: Kaikhosru Sorabji, involving complex chords and fingering.

Also visiting the studio is Babak Emamian from the eminent British Iranian Business Association. BIBA endeavours to bring Iranians career opportunities and to help them find their way in the world of business. He and host Fari Bradley discuss everything from British-Iranian policemen’s balls to Calvinism.

This show was originally broadcast across London on 104.4fm on 17th March 08

Six Pillars to Persia has a FACEBOOK group, which receives early news of prizes and listings.

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Marvin Suicide : 163 – Ain’t no party like an S Club party.

A bit of a boom-boom episode this week. If you’re not into that then I wouldn’t bother listening.

Actually, you might like the first song. The boom starts from track 2 onwards.

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Free University – How do you make a man?

Dr Caroline Osella: How do you make a man?

An analysis of the construction of male identity in South Asia.

Caroline Osella is Reader in Anthropology with reference to South Asia at SOAS. Her specialisms are Kerala, South Asia, South Asian diaspora: ethnophysiology, concepts of person, gender, ethnicity, psychology and anthropology.

For accompanying photographs and recommended further reading see Wednesday’s FUoTA page at http://resonancefm.com/free-university/wednesday-20th-august

Duration: 40:32.

Free University – Just Intonation

Prof Ben Neill: A Beginner’s Guide to Just Intonation

Composer Ben Neill, who studied under LaMonte Young, provides a beginner’s guide to Just Intonation.
Ben Neill is Professor of Music Technology and Music Industry at Ramapo College, New Jersey, USA.

Visit www.benneill.com/ and Kyle Gann’s website, to which this talk makes extensive reference: www.kylegann.com/

With thanks to Kyle Gann.

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Free University – Images of War

Dr Julian Stallabras: Images of War.

Julian Stallabrass lectures in modern and contemporary art at the Courtauld Institute. This lecture accompanies his work on the Brighton Photo Biennial 2008.

Visit www.bpb.org.uk/2008/blog/3105/holiday-snaps/

[WARNING: contains disturbing images which maybe considered unsuitable for children.]

and

www.courtauld.ac.uk/people/stallabrass-julian.shtml

Duration: 24:16.

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The Bike Show: Are cargo bikes the future of urban transport?

Do the rising oil price, the growing concern about man-made climate change and breakthroughs in cycle design mean we’re on the verge of a pedal-powered cargo revolution? Discussing the past, present and future of cargo bikes and pedicabs is Leslie Wacker, a Chicago native who placed second in the cargo bike race at this year’s World Cycle Messenger Championships, Buffalo Bill author of Moving Target Zine and controller at Creative Couriers. We also hear from Mark, controller at from Zero Couriers, London’s first and only dedicated cargo bike courier company about the challenges his company has faced convincing potential commercial clients to choose pedal-powered cargo delivery. 8Freight photo thanks to BikeFix.

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Hooting Yard : Tony Buzan

After I posted the piece entitled Denktash Fugue Syndrome, in which mention is made of Mrs Gubbins and her knitted tea cosies, I was deluged with mail from younger readers who complained that they had no idea what I was talking about. The general tone of these missives was along the lines of “Oi, Mr Key, what in the name of heaven is a tea cosy, for crying out loud, innit?”

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Free University – Avant-Garde Performance

Dr Roberta Mock: Avant-Garde Performance.

Roberta Mock is Associate Dean (Research) and Reader in Performance, Faculty of Arts.

Dr Roberta Mock is Reader in Performance and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Plymouth where she also leads the MRes Theatre & Performance programme. She is the editor of Walking, Writing & Performance (Intellect, forthcoming) and Performing Processes (Intellect, 2000), and author of Jewish Women on Stage, Film, and Television (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). She is co-convenor of the Performance & the Body Working Party of TaPRA (Theatre & Performance Research Association) and a member of the AHRC Peer Review College. For further details: www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/rmock

For bibliography and references cited in this lecture, see our on-line page at www.resonancefm.com/free-university

Duration: 42:21.
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