Monthly Archives: June 2013

Panel Borders: Parasites, stem cells and microbes!

Continuing our series of shows looking at depictions of illness and medicine in sequential art, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Edward Ross and Sci-Fi novelist Ken MacLeod about their comic Hope Beyond Hype, an educational title about “stem cell therapies from lab bench to hospital bedside”, funded by the European Community Research and Development Information Service. Edward also discusses his other medical comics Parasites! and Malaria: The battle against a microscopic killer, while Ken talks about the similarities between comics and science-fiction novels as a way of presenting science fact to the general public.

Originally broadcast Monday 10th June, 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)

100 tiny moments no.80 by Edward Ross / Malaria by Ross and Jamie Hall / Hope beyond hype by Ross, Ken MacLeod and others

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Links: Hope beyond hype / Malaria comics
Info about Parasites comic on Edward’s blog and PDF download
Edward Ross’ website and 100 Tiny Moments webcomic

Ken MacLeod’s blog
mp3 recordings of Battle of Ideas debates with Ken Macleod: Frankenstein’s Daughters (2009) / Banning the Brave New World (2012) Continue reading →

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Wavelength – Not talking to myself…

Interview with William English

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Panel Borders: Naming Minotaurs

In the first of a series of shows looking at depictions of illness and medicine in comics, Alex Fitch talks to the creators of two recent graphic novels that deal with these themes. In a panel discussion recorded at Crawley WordFest, Alex talks to Nye Wright and Hannah Eaton about their graphic novels Things to do in a retirement home trailer park and Naming Monsters, with an introduction to the work of publisher Myriad Editions by editor Holly Ainley. Nye’s graphic novel depicts the last months of his relationship with his father as the latter dies of emphysema, with the comic book versions of the pair depicted as anthropomorphic characters; Hannah’s is a psychological exploration of a young woman coming to terms with her mother’s death and the contrasts and connections between her vignettes and British folklore stories.
Originally broadcast Monday 2nd June on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)

Panels from Naming Monsters and Things to do in a retirement home trailer park

Panels from Naming Monsters by Hannah Eaton and Things to do in a retirement home trailer park by Nye Wright

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Hello GoodBye – 01.06.13 – curated by Gaggle ft: Rhosyn

Hello GoodBye curated by Gaggle and featuring live music from Rhosyn.

PLAYLIST
Gaggle – Happy is the country
Amy + Polly Gaggle – interview w. Jade Gaggle
Rhosyn – Glass (LIVE SESSION)
Rhosyn – Used to be (LIVE SESSION)
Keel Her – Rrriot Girl
Kimya Dawson – The Beer
Peter Howell and John Ferdinando – Setting Sun
Rhosyn – interview w. Jade Gaggle
Grimes – Weregild
Gaggle – Lullaby (LIVE SESSION)
Jana + Sarah Gaggle – interview w. Jade Gaggle
The Knife – Without you my life would be boring
Nancy Sit – Love Potion Number #9
Deborah + Kirsty Gaggle – interview w. Jade Gaggle (via telephone)
Rhosyn – Erotomanic (LIVE SESSION)
Rhosyn – Volcano (LIVE SESSION)

Presented by Jade Gaggle + deXter Bentley
Live sound engineer: Tom Kemp

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Wavelength – MP3 Deviation

This week’s show includes a track by Yasunao Tone from the CD MP3 Deviation: “The MP3 Deviation album contains pieces that are results of the collaborative research by a team of the New Aesthetics in Computer Music (NACM) and myself, led by Tony Myatt at Music Research Center at the University of York in UK in 2009. My idea was to develop new software based on the disruption of the MP3. Primarily I thought the MP3 as reproducing device could have created very new sound by intervention between its main elements, the compression encoder and decoder. It turned out that result was not satisfactory. However, we found that if the sound file had been corrupted in the MP3, the corruptions generated 21 error messages, which could be utilized to assign various 21 lengths of samples automatically. Combining with different play back speeds, it could produce unpredictable and unknowable sound. That is a main pillar of the software. We, also, added some other elements such as flipping stereo channels and phase inversing alternately with a certain length of frequency ranges, which resulted different timbres and pitches. I performed several times at the MRC and I was certain that this software would be a perfect tool for performances. I have tentatively performed the piece in public in Kyoto, May 2009 and in New York, in May 2010. I also performed it successfully with totally different sound sources when I was invited for The Morning Line in Vienna in June 2011”.