More from Marshall McLuhan, Buckminster Fuller, and a very ambient recording of the measured and stately tones of Krishnamurti complete with crows and traffic in the great outdoors.
Voice On Record is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of the human voice which have been preserved on vinyl. Historic events stand alongside esoteric guides to better bowling. Arid studio recordings are juxtaposed with location recordings rich with fascinating incidental sounds.
This programme was originally broadcast on 22nd September 2009.
Tunnel Vision is a ten part series which sees Bruno Rinvolucri dupe a collection of writers, musicians, activists and academics into wading knee deep through the swollen rivers of sewage and miles of forgotten sewers that stretch beneath London’s surface. Safely esconced in the London’s effluvia, Tunnel Vision’s troglodytes explore this hidden and somewhat mysterious subterranenan environment sonically and historically. Leading us on a narrative of fact, fiction, anthropology, architecture, activism, music and sound.
This episode was originally broadcast on Tuesday 22nd September 2009.
Panel Borders: Emma Vieceli, promoting new British Manga
Originally broadcast 24/09/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Extract from Dragon Heir issue 9 by Emma Vieceli
Continuing ‘women in comics’ month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to Emma Vieceli, illustrator of the Manga Shakespeare adaptations of Hamlet and Much ado about nothing who has also contributed to the graphic anthology “Comic Book Tattoo” which adapts the songs of Tori Amos into strip format. Alex and Emma also talk about the crossover between traditional Western comics and Manga as a new generation of small press creators in the UK experiment with both forms, a practice that is encouraged by the ‘Artists Alley’ that Emma helps organise at the twice yearly MCM Expos in the Docklands and the publishing collective ‘Sweatdrop studios’ that she’s a member of. For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
We Are Words + Pictures are pleased to announce that their first stall date will be Sunday 27th September in Brick Lane’s new Tea Rooms market, just around the corner from the old Truman Brewery. Comics by Julia Scheele, Matthew Sheret and others + original artwork by Tom Humberstone
My adoptive parents perished in the Munich air disaster. They had won a raffle to attend the second leg of the European Cup quarter-final between Manchester United and Red Star Belgrade. It was the first time they had left me in sole charge of the pig farm. When the postie came up the lane with the telegram telling me the terrible news, in my convulsive grief I suddenly realised that I did not have the brain of a squirrel, and never had had, and that life held for me greater prospects than mucking about in the woods babbling gibberish and gnawing nuts. I was now the master of a dilapidated pig farm.
This episode features the voices of Buckminster Fuller, Aldous Huxley, Krishnamurti, Edward Teller, Marshall McLuhan, and William S Burroughs.
Voice On Record is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of the human voice which have been preserved on vinyl. Historic events stand alongside esoteric guides to better bowling. Arid studio recordings are juxtaposed with location recordings rich with fascinating incidental sounds.
This programme was originally broadcast on 15th September 2009.
This week Gabriel Humberstone, a percussionist from Eddie Prevost’s improvised music workshop, takes part in two duets in south London’s sewers. The first with saxophonist Laurence Williams, the second with cellist Ute Kanngiesser.
The programme starts with the Ute’s attempts to fit her cello into a manhole and lower it into the pitch black, sheer drop that leads into the sewers.
Tunnel Vision is a ten part series which sees Bruno Rinvolucri dupe a collection of writers, musicians, activists and academics into wading knee deep through the swollen rivers of sewage and miles of forgotten sewers that stretch beneath London’s surface. Safely esconced in the London’s effluvia, Tunnel Vision’s troglodytes explore this hidden and somewhat mysterious subterranenan environment sonically and historically. Leading us on a narrative of fact, fiction, anthropology, architecture, activism, music and sound.
This episode was originally broadcast on Tuesday 15th September 2009.
Originally broadcast 17/09/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Pages from House of the Muses by Pam Harrison and Y The Last Man with pencil art by Pia Guerra
Continuing “women in comics” month on the show – we have two interviews with creators whose comics are set in worlds featuring primarily female characters. Alex Fitch talks to Pam Harrison, the Queer Press Award winning creator of “House of the Muses – the latter days of Sappho of Lesbos” while (Eagle Award winner) Tom Humberstone talks to Pia Guerra, artist of “Y: The Last Man” who won the 2008 Eisner Award and 2006 Joe Shuster Award for her work on the title. For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Reality Check: Predicting the present with Cory Doctorow
In the latest episode of Reality Check, Sci-Fi London’s fortnightly podcast, Alex Fitch talks to writer Cory Doctorow about his work, focussing on his novel Little Brother and short story collection Over Clocked.
Alex and Cory also talk about the latter’s interest in technology and disseminating information plus the kinds of science fiction that interested him as a developing writer from George Orwell to William Gibson.
The podcast includes Jessica Fostekew‘s reading of his short story Printcrime….
For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at Sci-Fi London
This edition of Voice On Record includes clips of Gertrude Stein and E.E. Cummings reciting poetry and prose. William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech resonates remarkably strongly today, and Robert Frost’s poetry provides a welcome rural counterbalance. Additionally, the programme contains sounds from a New York Carnival circa 1955.
