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Episode 6 of 10: Ben Campkin.
This week architectural historian, author, and Urban Laboratory member Ben Campkin attempts a sonic endoscopy.
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.
Email: brinvolucri@yahoo.co.uk
Panel Borders: Emma Vieceli, promoting new British Manga
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
Links: Emma’s website and livejournal
More info about Manga Shakespeare
‘Sweatdrop studios’: website and Manga day at the V & A
Vote for Sweatdrop and Leek and Sushi’s Manga Show in the NEO Awards
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Comics news:
London signings…
Bryan Talbot: promoting his new graphic novel – “Grandville”, on Sunday 27th September, 2pm – 4pm at Orbital Comics, off Charing Cross Road.
Joe Sacco: a rare opportunity to get graphic novels such as the award-winning Palestine, Safe Area Goražde, The Fixer, and War’s End signed by the man himself so don’t miss it! Gosh! comics, Great Russel Street, opposite The British Museum on Wednesday the 30th of September from 5 to 7pm
We Are Words + Pictures Market Stall
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
More info at www.wearewordsandpictures.com
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Panel Borders: Emma Vieceli, promoting new British Manga [ 28:46 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadHooting Yard: Confessions Of A Door-To-Door Monkey Salesman
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.
- Career Opportunities
- Confessions Of A Door-To-Door Monkey Salesman
- Sieve Project
- Flamboyance And Palsy
This episode was recorded on the 2nd April 2009. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the three publications Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase.
Voice On Record
Episode 3: Thinkers
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.
Presented by Sean Williams.
Tunnel Vision
Episode 5 of 10: Gabriel Humberstone.
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.
Email: brinvolucri@yahoo.co.uk
Panel Borders: In the company of women
Panel Borders: In the company of women
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
Links: Pam Harrison’s House of the Muses website and Prism Comics profile
Interview with Pam on the Prism website
Buy House of the Muses from amazon.co.uk
Alex’s interviews with 2007’s Queer Press Grant winners
Info about this year’s grant (deadline October 1st)
Pia Guerra’s website
Pages on Pia’s work on the comic book database and wikipedia
Interviews with Pia about drawing Y – The last man and Doctor Who: The Forgotten at comicbookresources.com
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Reality Check: Predicting the present with Cory Doctorow
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
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Links: More info about Cory’s work can be found at his website www.craphound.com
Also read his essays and technology links at www.boingboing.net
Read PrintCrime online at www.craphound.com/overclocked
Check out Jess’ CV online at www.comedycv.co.uk/jessicafostekew
Visit Joi Ito’s website who photographed Cory Doctorow (shared under a Creative Commons CC-BY licence)
Listen to Cory’s previous 5 part podcast interview for Resonance FM – part: one, two, three, four, five
Reality Check: Predicting the present with Cory Doctorow [ 30:23 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadVoice On Record
Episode 2: American Modernists
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.
Presenter: Sean Williams
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Episode 4 of 10: Nick Papadomitrou.
This week, ‘Deep topographer’ and expert on all things riverine and London, Nick Papadomitriou, takes us in search of a man hole he came across two years ago while surveying the Mill Hill area of Barnet.
Nick has devoted himself to surveying the wider Middlesex area in the hope of collecting what he calls a ‘deep library’, in which the forgotten histories he has pieced together will be laid to rest. Nick’s research led to Will Self’s ‘Book of Dave’ as well as a chapter in Iain Sinclair’s ‘London: City of Disappearances’ as well as his collected writings, available at www.middlesexcountycouncil.org.uk
Walking the length of the tunnels for the first time, Nick reads from his research on the area and recounts his experiences of discovering the system.
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 8th September 2009.
Email: brinvolucri@yahoo.co.uk