29/10/2009
Title: Dys Tanz
Participants: Melanie Clifford, Howard Jacques, Alisdair McGregor.
Description: Looking into the (radio) Dys Tanz . Punning on dysfunctional dance and distance. Eliptical orbits, differing distances and qualities inside and outside the studio again. Transparent layers moving like parallax. The Octopus Dance Band Practice material from earlier the same evening featuring Martin Harrison, Mick Hobbs, Mary Currie and Howard Jacques recorded in an hurry for use in the programme at Nolia’s, Old Kent Road distanced by clock time and geography, unified through playback as withing track. Cooks up some big bass presence where distance becomes reduced but never removed, vignettes become density. Breaks back into contrasting layering patterning. Test confirms engineers found it easier to make closer present sounds than distant subtle ones though relative movements of elements was maintained intensely and various distances charted. The underpinning of traffic rumble and rush. Radio static invisible collage German language mystery broadcast. Traveling, traveling, traveling.
Panel Borders: Caught up with a Long Scarfe
Panel Borders: Caught up with a Long Scarfe
In the third of three shows about and inspired by the Tate Britain exhibition ‘Rude Britannia’, Alex Fitch talks to the beloved British cartoonist Gerald Scarfe about his contributions to the exhibition and Dickon Harris talks to comedienne Josie Long about her interest in creating ‘zines and comics for distribution at her stand-up comedy gigs…
Clockwise from top - part of Rude Britannia curated by Gerald Scarfe, a classic drawing of Thatcher by the artist, cover of a zine by Josie Long
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: Rude Britannia microsite
Video tour of the exhibtion on The Telegraph website
Gerald Scarfe‘s website
Josie Long‘s website including her comics archive
Info about The Black Heart, home of Josie’s ‘Lost Treasures’…
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David Hine and Shaky Kane signing and exhibition at Orbital Comics
David Hine (Son of M, X-Men Noir) and Shaky Kane (Soul Sisters, Judge Dredd) willl be signing their new comic, Bulletproof Coffin, at Orbital Comics Thursday 24th June 2010 from 5-7pm.
There is also an exhibition of Shaky Kane artwork in the Orbital Comics Gallery from 14th-30th June.
Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA
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Hooting Yard: 77 Today.
It is not, I think, generally known that the notorious killer Babinsky was also a man of letters. So the imminent publication of The Complete And Staggeringly Voluminous Correspondence Of The Notorious Killer Babinsky, in no fewer than forty volumes, is to be welcomed. Babinsky, it seems, when he could tear himself away from the committal of blood-drenched enormities, wrote dozens upon dozens of letters, every day, to a bewildering number of correspondents, some of whom actually replied.
- 77 Today
- The Statement Of William Tell
- William Tell: Second Statement Of Particulars
- A Man Of Letters
- Pancake Day
- Uncake Day
- Eggs Soaked In Tea
This episode was recorded on the 18th February 2010. 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.
Hollingsville: Episode 10, Monsters
Slouching into Hollingsville for episode ten of the series are artist Laurie Lipton and Strange Attractor’s Mark Pilkington. Musical interludes come courtesy of the McCarricks with background moods by Graham Massey.
Monsters, no matter what their shape or size or attitude, serve as a warning and should be welcomed as such. Having no place either in nature or in polite society, they have little choice but to exist as reminders of the things we’d much rather forget. Godzilla, for example, has been good to us over the years, the way only a bad dream can be. The unforeseen by-product of atomic tests taking place in the Pacific Ocean over fifty years ago, the blinding intensity of Godzilla’s birth ensured that he cast more than one shadow over the intervening decades. But what about the monsters that lurk in our own homes – or the ones that occupy the vast deserts of modern myth?
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
Clear Spot 18th June 2010: Unimagining Corporate Greenwashing
Deepwater Horizon has highlighted the fatal consequences of corporate incompetence. This is the first in a series of conversations with artists, activists, curators and concerned individuals addressing art’s environment and the impact artists around the world are having on environmental and social policy.
Tonight we have James Marriott, of Platform, an organization that brings together artists & activists to create projects focused on social and ecological justice, in conversation with John Jordan, co-founder of the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, a network of socially engaged artists and activists whose work falls in between resistance and creativity, culture and politics, art and life.
They discuss what makes art such an effective catalyst for change, the history of art-activism, the ailing condition of art institutions, the architecture of corporate sponsorship of cultural institutions and how the Lab of ii recently exposed the Tate Modern’s complicity with BP’s project of maintaining a ‘social license to operate’.
Art Monthly June 11th 2010
This month the Art Monthly show’s host Matt Hale is joined by artist and critic Dean Kenning and poet and critic Cherry Smyth. Dean Kenning’s feature for Art Monthly discusses collaborative artwork in the public realm. In particular a project by David Collins and Emma Hart to make work in Morpeth School, Bethnal Green. Dean Kenning is joined by Cherry Smyth who reviews Rachel Harrison’s exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery.
Art Monthly magazine’s talk programme on Resonance FM started in February 2009 and is broadcast on the second Friday of each month at 5pm. In each show Art Monthly critics discuss their writing in the latest issue.
The programme is presented by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991
Previous episodes are available on Art Monthly’s website www.artmonthly.co.uk/events.htm
Art Monthly magazine offers an informed and comprehensive guide to the latest developments in contemporary art.
Fiercely independent, Art Monthly’s news and opinion sections provide regular information and polemics on the international art scene. It also offers In-depth interviews and features; reviews of exhibitions, performances, films and books; art law; auction reports and exhibition listings
Art Monthly magazine is indispensable reading!
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Subscribe now and save 40% on the cover price at www.artmonthly.co.uk/sub09
Marvin Suicide : 201 – Re-record don’t fade away
This episode contains strong language that some people may find offensive.
Hooting Yard: One Thousand.
It is at times like these a person’s thoughts turn to cake. It will have to be an enormous cake, to fit a thousand candles on to it. Think of all that burning wax!
- One Thousand
- The Behemoth Question
- The Blind Man As Poultry Inspector
This episode was recorded on the 12th February 2010. 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.
Panel Borders: A tour of Rude Britannia
Panel Borders: A tour of Rude Britannia
Originally broadcast 09/06/10 as part of a Clear Spot on Resonance 104.4 FM
In the second of a trio of shows about and inspired by ‘Rude Britannia’, Alex Fitch introduces a special episode of Panel Borders presenting a tour of the Tate Britain exhibition of the same name narrated by curator Martin Myrone, featuring additional commentary by Gerald Scarfe who introduces his section of the exhibition and a short interview with Myrone.
Images from Rude Britannia - a giant copy of Viz, If Not Now Then When by John Isaacs, Ladies Night by Beryl Cook
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: Rude Britannia microsite
Video tour of the exhibtion on The Telegraph website
Gerald Scarfe’s website
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Panel Borders: Martin Rowson and Tristram Shandy
Panel Borders: Martin Rowson and Tristram Shandy
In the first of a trio of shows about and inspired by the Tate Britain exhibition ‘Rude Britannia’, Alex Fitch talks to newspaper cartoonist Martin Rowson about his rereleased graphic adaptation of the humorous and experimental Eighteenth century novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Lawrence Sterne. Alex and Martin also talk about the latter’s interest in the history of cartooning from William Hogarth to George Herriman, the artist’s experiences in using different drawing media and his ways of overcoming boredom!
Images from Tristram Shandy and The Guardian newspaper by Martin Rowson
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: Guardian archive of Martin Rowson’s cartoons
Info about Tristram Shandy at publisher Self Made Hero’s website
Rude Britannia microsite