Monthly Archives: May 2010

Panel Borders: Lingua Franca

Panel Borders – Lingua Franca: English language comics in Europe

Commencing our yearly, month-long look at ‘Cross Cultural comics’, Alex Fitch talks to Paul Gravett about co-curating a gallery show on Jack Kirby in Lucerne, Switzerland and the film adaptation of the bande dessinée Largo Winch which was shot mainly in English, even though the film is a French / Belgium co-production. Alex also talks to Francesca Cassavetti, Dan Lester, Sean Azzopardi and Oliver Lambden about their anthology B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S. which was created as a survey of the best small press creators in London for dissemination at the Angoulême comics festival in France at the beginning of the year.

Display from the Jack Kirby exhibition in Lucerne + extract from the cover of B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S. by Francesca Cassavetti

Display from the Jack Kirby exhibition in Lucerne + extract from the cover of B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S. by Francesca Cassavetti

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

Links:

B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S.blog
Reviews at Midnight Fiction and Forbidden Planet International
Review of Francesca’s comic book on Angoulême

Kirby at Fumetto website
More info on Dan Nadel’s blog and comicsbeat.com
Paul’s guide to the Kirby exhibition

Largo Winch at Ciné lumière – screening times
Buy the English language graphic novels from Cinebooks
Trailer at Daily Motion

Sci-Fi London 9: Life in 2050, April 28th - May 3rd, 2010

Sci-Fi London 9: Life in 2050, April 28th - May 3rd, 2010

presents…

Futureproof: the Timehacks and Life-mods of Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger, the co-editor of boingboing.net and author of the bestselling novels LITTLE BROTHER and FOR THE WIN. Join him for tales of woe and wonder that will explore the realms of storytelling as techno-social activism; delving into creativity as symbiotic, cross-cultural hacking; breaching the dangers and shelters of reason; examining the copywrongs of copy-right; transducing pathways to a post-scarcity world while pondering if truth is truly in sight? Be there and glimpse the future, right now… (OK, it might just be a regular author Q&A about some perhaps unusual themes…)

For full details please visit www.sci-fi-london.com / http://nettlefoldhall.blogspot.com

Sat 8th May 7:00PM, West Norwood Library and Nettlefold Hall, 1-5 Norwood High Street, West Norwood, London SE27 9JX
Visit West Norwood by train from London Victoria and London Bridge and on bus routes 2, 133, 176, 249, 415, 417, 432, 689, 690, and N137.
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Jam Tomorrow – May 4th 2010

Paul Richards and Katharine Hibbert discuss the final week of politics before the general election. Today they talk to Joss Garman from Greenpeace and Andrew Robinson from the Pirate Party UK who is the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Worcester.

http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/party/candidates/andrew-robinson/

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Bermuda Triangle Test Transmission Broadcasts – October 8th 2009

Title: Bicycle Wheels

Participants: Howard Jacques, Franziska Lantz, Alisdair McGregor.

Description: HJ & FL play and upturned bicycle, AMcG mixes and feeds in made earlier recordings of the same bicycle. Friction noises are generated from rotary gear clicks, bicycle pump, bell, friction contacts on wheel materials, scrapes and clicks on tyres and spokes. From the literal into strange abstractions. Flies by at speed. Bicycle recordings made also for use as soundtrack to the short film ‘The Bicycle Revolutionary’.

Web: See this link for the film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjvuySpPSqo

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Hollingsville: Episode 3, Machines: History and Hardware

Welcome to the third episode of ‘Hollingville’. My studio guests are composer and musician Bruce Woolley, friend to robots everywhere, and writer and editor James Bridle, who has built the universe’s largest computer out of matchboxes and beads. Expect live and unscripted ruminations on music-making machines: ‘the other kind of instruments’, typewriters, early movie cameras, factory assembly lines, opera houses and concert halls.

 

When Thomas Edison first screamed ‘Hullo!’ into the mute, expectant mouthpiece of his latest invention, the ‘phonograph’, in July 1877, a shift of seismic proportions took place.  Before even the faintest echo of a tune had registered upon a rotating cylinder, an entire culture lost its mind. As Nietzsche, using his brand new Malling Hansen Writing Ball, wrote in the late 1880s: ‘are these people or thinking, talking and writing machines?’ And have we mentioned music yet?  Specially commissioned musical interludes will be by Radiophonic, with additional moods by the ‘Hollingsville’ composer in residence, Graham Massey, plus ins and outs by Indigo Octagon. Now press play.

After visiting Mars, where next? Welcome to Hollingsville: the new twelve-part series from writer Ken Hollings. A World’s Fair of the airwaves, the shows focuses each week on a different aspect of our historical relationship with technology. From machines to monsters, spaces to dreams, this Radio Expo offers an unscripted tour through the chosen theme, utilising voices and sounds from special guests and presented by Ken Hollings with his usual idiosyncratic flair.

Ken Hollings is the author of Welcome To Mars: Fantasies of Science in the American Century 1947-1959, available from Strange Attractor Press. For more information go to http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk or http://www.kenhollings.blogspot.com

 

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Jam Tomorrow – April 30th 2010

Jam Tomorrow looks at Politics: The Next Generation.

K.Biswas and Rys Farthing are joined by the leading experts from the current generation of young politicos, including feminist blogger Laurie Penny; founder of Liberal Conspiracy and Pickled Politics Sunny Hundal; Editor of Left Foot Forward Will Straw; environmental campaigner Joss Garman; and Chair of Young Labour and Hope not Hate activist Sam Tarry.

Too often young people are chastised as the harbingers of a democratic deficit, and simultaneously as heralding the birth of new forms of democracy, notably in the electronic realm – is the truth somewhere in between, and can this new form of politics bring about lasting social change?

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Pédilüv ep.6 – Comme un dimanche !

Une après-midi à Saint Ouen, c’est bien, c’est audonien, c’est kok-drouhin.

Sanne, Julia et un peu Arjan vous raconte des histoires pas racontables.
Idéal pour une écoute au chocolat chaud devant le feu de cheminée.

Le plus court chemin entre les pieds et les oreilles, c’est Pedilüv

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The Steve Parry Show: Totally Biased – May 4th 2010

Steve Parry’s Totally Biased – Election Special. As always Steve  proudly pops on his red blinkers to bring us his apoplectic analysis of the final days of the campaign. David Tuck attempts to moderate and ‘Comedy Terrorist’ and Asylum Campaigner aka Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Whitney, Aaron Barschak, joins them to discuss his chances of beating David Cameron on Thursday. Plus music from Kevin Coyne, Bobby Conn. Will this be the last chance to hear ‘Totally Biased’ in a free Britain?
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Hooting Yard: The Ballad Of Sopwith Tim.

He came in a Sopwith, his goggles were tight. He landed among us in dawn’s early light. O say can you see him in the airfield canteen, telling us of all the places he’s been? Widnes and Wivenhoe, a village called Splat – the latter’s in Cornwall but I’m sure you know that – Totnes and Topsham and Snodland and Looe, places without proper airfields too. His goggles are still fastened tight round his head as we hang on to every word he has said. We wonder how long he is going to stay in our pitiful village, so out of the way. He is chomping his breakfast with gusto and vim. He tells us that his name is Tim.

This episode was recorded on the 19th October 2009. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the four publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase.


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Bermuda Triangle Test Transmission Broadcasts – October 1st 2009

Title:  Courtyard Explorers

Participants: Melanie Clifford, Howard Jacques, Alisdair McGregor.

Description: Microphones strategically positioned outside the studio in the Resonance courtyard opening the larger, outside space of the car park for the performers to sonically and physically and mentally explore. Clues and queues coming from pre-discussed concepts including: Dichotomous is a sustaining exercise, memory exercise, the mythological, poetic, nebulous and gravitational influences of the moon, observational and imaginative description, leading sustaining exercises  of observation of generated kinetic movement, ratio of outside to inside performers, incidental traffic and inevitable wind noise.

Web: http://www.myspace.com/notthebermudatriangle

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Hooting Yard: A Trip From Throm To Bosis

The town of Throm is perhaps best known for its gorgeous sewers, with their chandeliers, Rococo ironwork railings, and jewel-encrusted access ladders. In spite of the magnificence of their sewers, the Thrompersons fought hard to win that official designation as a town. It is, after all, the size of a village, with the atmosphere of a hamlet, and the public morals of a cluster of shabby huts.

This episode was recorded on the 12th October 2009. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the four publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase.

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