Track one from Hans Krusi; “While preparing a new edition of Anton Bruhin works, Alga Marghen discovered some mysterious tapes by Hans Krusi. Fascinated by the raw and brute contents of those sounds, mixing field recordings of insects, sheep and distant bells with primitive chanting, percussive noises and distorted radio folk songs, Alga Marghen started [...]
Archive for June, 2011
Sine Of The Times 18/06/2011 – Pictures Music
Published by June 29th, 2011 in Sine of the Times. 0 CommentsThe cutting edge of London’s underground dance music scene with Thomas Lee and Rita Maia. Who would believe that a label with a rosta boasting the likes of Koreless, Darksky, Seams, Lapalux and Chairman Kato only started a year ago! We were so shocked that we had to invite the guys behind this impeccably cool [...]
Hooting Yard: Book Reviews.
Published by June 28th, 2011 in Hooting Yard and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsAnd hardly were the words out of his mouth than the impatient young hothead strode out of his chalet and down the mountainside to town, to buy a ream of sheet music paper and a biro. Crepusco settled back on the divan, by the oil heater, and devised a two-pronged strategy. The first prong was [...]
Technical Difficulties in the Clear Spot – Signmark in London
Published by June 27th, 2011 in Technical Difficulties. 0 CommentsThe first Deaf artist with a major recording contract, Helsinki’s Signmark, perform in American Sign Language and English. Their music is best experienced live, or on video, details on their site. Backstage at the HMV Forum before their full debut UK gig, I interviewed lyricist and main man Marko and his verbal and rap partner [...]
Panel Borders: Medical Manga Continuing our month of shows about looking at portrayals of illness, medicine and caregiving in comic books, we’re examining medical manga in two talks recorded at last year’s Graphic Medicine conference at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Maria Vaccarella talks about a German Manga about Epilepsy – Epilepsie? [...]
Recorded interview with David Curtis, author of Experimental Cinema (1971) and A History of Artists Film and Video in Britain (2007), curator of A Century of Artists Film in Britain and founder of the British Artists Film and Video Study Collection.
Art Monthly June 2011
Published by June 21st, 2011 in Art Monthly Monthly and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsPhotography as Work Art Monthly feature Photography as Work written by Stephanie Schwartz is discussed with Matt Hale. “The recent wave of protests in the Middle East has markedly reinvigorated long-held debates about photography’s utopian promise…..Some among us are suspicious of the indymedia revolution”. Stephanie questions the [...]
I squelched across the marsh, in driving rain, and linnets sang within my brain. There were no linnets to be seen, just crows, drenched crows, drenched crows. I lit my pipe and sucked, and heard the caw of a drenched crow. The rain was pelting down as I made my slopping way from marsh to [...]
Reality Check: Apocalypse (cinema) now
Published by June 20th, 2011 in I'm Ready for my Closeup and Reality Check. 0 CommentsReality Check: Apocalypse (cinema) now In a pair of on stage interviews recorded at this year’s Sci-Fi London festival, Alex Fitch talks to a couple of film makers about their recent takes on the apocalypse in film; Dekker Dreyer whose film The Arcadian stars Lance Henriksen and Brian Thompson, and mixes the iconography of shamanism [...]
Dan Wilson – The Philosophy of Mediadropping
Published by June 18th, 2011 in Epistaxis Time and The Exciting Hellebore Shew. 4 Comments‘The Philosophy of Mediadropping’ is a relentless musing on the practice of mediadropping – the dropping of home-made CDs, DVDs, tapes, books, manuscripts, etc. in public places for random people to find. Mediadropping is a pathological habit of mine. My old Resonance show, ‘The Exciting Hellebore Shew’, documented many mediadroppings in detail (or tapedroppings as [...]