I’m ready for my close-up: The current state of anime

Alex Fitch interviews Helen McCarthy, author of ‘Hayao Miyazaki – Master of Japanese Animation’, ‘500 Manga heroes and villains’ and co-author of ‘The Anime encyclopedia’ about the season of Japanese animated films she’s curated at the Barbican which coincides with the 90th anniversary of the medium. The season continues this month with a sold-out screening of Satoshi Kon’s new film Paprika, so Alex and Helen talk about the director as well as the work of his predecessors and contemporaries such as Miyazaki and Ôtomo plus the continuing influence of manga artist Osamu Tezuka.
Originally broadcast 10th May, 2007 (mp3 format, 28.7mb)

Links: If you want to queue for returns, here’s info on the Barbican Japanimation season… …plus next month’s ‘Animate the World’ season
Wikipedia pages on Satoshi Kon, Hayao Miyazaki, Katsuhiro ÅŒtomo, Osamu Tezuka and anime in general
For the latest Anime news, why not check out otakunews.com
Buy 500 Manga Heroes and Villains and The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 from amazon.com
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Jake and Andrew present it straight from the chip. Expect to hear fresh joints from your favourite obsolete computers and consoles and moans about work. 30 minutes of bleeps from the worlds best 8-bit musicians.Produced and recorded by Richard Clark-Hill.See www.kittenrock.co.uk for info.
First broadcast Thursday 1st February 2007

Marvin Suicide: 120 – I don’t do this for fun you know.

Marvin suicide plays music and sounds found on the internet that you probably won’t enjoy hearing. Don’t bother listening because its complete rubbish.

Here is the tracklisting:

1. Thank You Jesus For Making Me So Hippy by A Smile For Timbuctu, Manuale Atzeni EP:
www.audioaubergine.com

2. Saint Catherine (Idiot’s Waltz) by Molasses, Trilogie – Toil And Peaceful Life:
www.alien8recordings.com

3. Incest (Tantrum Remix) by Ely Muff:
www.deadpig.co.uk

4. Air WAr de by Crystal Castles:
www.myspace.com

5. California Dreaming by 386 DX:
www.easylife.org

6. Taka Takata by Moog Party Time, ChazzershopCore:
www.datassette.net

Resonance needs your support. Please help raise some desperately needed funds and donate. “You don’t know what you’ve got until its gone…”

This episode was originally broadcast on the 10th May 2007. Please visit www.marvinsuicide.org for previous shows and more information. Plus I would love it if you were to send an e-mail to: marvin’AT’marvinsuicide.org (please replace ‘AT’ with @).

Hooting Yard: Beam Of Fantastic Glee

There was a heroic bus driver, and his name was Kim Fat Goo. He drove his bus through puddles. He drove it straight and true, though he swerved if he saw a duck or a pig or an infant human tiny or a succubus or an incubus as he steered towards the briny. He drove his bus across Pointy Town, heading for the sea. At the beach he stopped to let passengers off and he drank a flask of tea. Oh, Kim Fat Goo he drained his flask and he tipped the dregs in the sand, and he idled awhile on the promenade and he watched a spaceship land.

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Out poured a gaggle of alien beings with flippers and antennae and claws and flagrant disregard for the rubric of Pointy Town laws.

  • The Heroic Bus Driver Of Pointy Town
  • The Ebbing Away Of The Age Of Gilded Tin Baths
  • A Weekend With An Owl God
  • Aztec Fundamentalism
  • The Central Lever
  • Old Halob : A Biographical Note
  • Exciting Gruel Recipe Quiz
  • Quotation from The Song Of The Cakes by Nat Schakner & Arthur L. Zagat

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 28th February 2007. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website, and the perfect Hooting Yard On The Air companion Befuddled By Cormorants is available for purchase. Photo by Frank Riva.

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I’m ready for my close-up: 50 years of American Splatter* or how I learned to stop worrying and love the grindhouse!

Belatedly celebrating Walpurgis Nacht, Alex Fitch interviews Stephen Thrower, editor of the legendary Eyeball magazine about his Grindhouse festival on Saturday 5th May at the Riverside Studios cinema in Hammersmith; Stephen showed 6 rare American splatter movies to help illustrate his book (Nightmare USA) and introducing Q&As with the film-makers. Alex and Stephen talk about the history of Grindhouse cinema, its influence on recent teen slasher movies and reasons why Tarantino’s latest is looking like a flop…
Originally broadcast 3rd May, 2007 (mp3 format, 26.8mb)

*Yeah, alright, Psycho started filming in 1959, so strictly speaking, it’s 48 years of American Splatter, but that doesn’t have quite the same ring to it!

Links – Buy Stephen’s book from fabpress.com
Wikipedia page on Stephen Thrower
Kamera.co.uk review of Eyeball Compendium
For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com
 

Radio Armed Response

London based artist Claudia Wegener walks the streets of two suburban communities in Johannesburg S.A. In door to door interviews, through intercom systems and across gates, she asks questions related to public safety and a privatised security system.

The result is a radio mix from what the artist likes to call dramatic field recordings. In surprisingly intimate, often humorous conversations, narratives of a complex urban patchwork of communities unfold before your ‘very eyes’. What unravels, far beyond ‘issues of security’, or social and urban divisions are shared concerns, questions, stories and visions about living together. In this 60mins programme for London’s art radio station Resonance104.4fm (www.resonancefm.com), the original half hour audio piece from 2005 is reframed in recent takes. Joburg footage recorded in Sandton and Soweto in March 2006.

This recording was first broadcast on April 27th 2007.

Hooting Yard: Black Gold Green Crushed Crepe Hat

Miles away, Dobson was smoking his pipe and lackadaisically paying out the wool, hand over hand. Suddenly, he felt it jerk, and held on tight. And then he was yanked free of the thorny brambly creeping greenery rife with puffy spiders and venomous beetles and dragged across a wasteland of fields and gravel pits and sumps and countryside filth until he fetched up at the feet of the commandos who reeled him in, just as midnight struck.

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  • Cow Byre Tsar
  • Satan’s Spa
  • Tremendous Potato Urgency
  • All Hail Yoko!
  • One In A Series Of Hiking Pickles
  • Gubbins Music
  • Strictly Pamphleteering
  • Father Hopkins, SJ

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 21st February 2007. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website, and the perfect Hooting Yard On The Air companion Befuddled By Cormorants is available for purchase. Photo by Nigel Jones.

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Marvin Suicide: 119 – The Cat’s pyjamas.

MARVIN SUICIDE NOTICE

If you’re reading this on or before Saturday 5th May 2007, then you may like to come along to Rural HiFi. Please visit their website or myspace page for more information.

In other news, this weeks episode is very sensible and I feel has a general aura of maturity and sophistication. Please don’t forget that all this music has been downloaded freely and legally from the internet, yell it from your bedroom window if you feel so inclined.

Here is the tracklisting:

1. Good Night And God Bless by Substance P:
www.c8.com

2. Hat And Rabbit by Page France, …And The Family Telephone:
www.suicidesqueeze.net

3. Poppolame by !((0rkza1 vs. Kaneel, Featherfoil Compilation:
www.camomille.genshimedia.com

4. Waikiki Beach 0 by Alien Porno Midgets, High Altitude:
www.brainwashed.com

5. Hummin’ Baby by Chenard Walcker, Ecossaise:
www.freesamplezone.org

6. Reflexisn En El Conducto by Coeval, Distante:
www.minusn.com

7. Miastareye by Audio Mjao, …From The Black Lake:
www.corpid-label.de

Resonance needs your support. Please help raise some desperately needed funds and donate. “You don’t know what you’ve got until its gone…”

This episode was originally broadcast on the 3rd May 2007. Please visit www.marvinsuicide.org for previous shows and more information. Plus I would love it if you were to send an e-mail to: marvin’AT’marvinsuicide.org (please replace ‘AT’ with @).

Marvin Suicide: 118 – Half penny for your thoughts?

WARNING

This episode of marvin suicide contains rude and naughty words. If you are easily offended or would prefer not to hear bad language please do not listen. But please tune in next week though, it will be much more grown up…

Here is the tracklisting with links to where all the songs were freely and legally downloaded:

1. A Fist Full by Catgut, Nursery Rhymes EP:
www.catgutmusic.com

2. Love (No Matter What) by Ty:
www.ninjatune.net

3. Peristaltic Breadcrumbs by Rogan Whitenails:
www.myspace.com

4. Vek Vex by Baracuda:
www.c8.com

5. Digital Dash by Shotgun & Jaybird, Dick Morello:
www.shotgunandjaybird.com

6. Loose by Ben Parris, Double Wimpfighter EP:
www.foundsoundrecords.com

Resonance needs your support. Please help raise some desperately needed funds and donate. “You don’t know what you’ve got until its gone…”

This episode was not broadcast on Resonance because its a rudey and the ceiling had collapsed. Please visit www.marvinsuicide.org for previous shows and more information. Plus I would love it if you were to send an e-mail to: marvin’AT’marvinsuicide.org (please replace ‘AT’ with @).

Hooting Yard: Ruritanian Princedom

“Hearken ye, stooped mendicant at my gate! I am Good King Wenceslas, and I am looking out, and I can see you, poor and shivering in your rags, for the snow is deep and crisp and even.

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There are not even any tracks in the frozen white expanse, such as would be made by wolves or bears. Wait there at my gate, O wretch, and shortly I shall descend from my castle ramparts and join you in the snow!”

  • Chump And Flapper
  • Good King Wenceslas Impersonation Incident
  • The Socks Of Pepintude
  • Bronchitis Person’s Helicopter Journey
  • Muder In The Murk

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 7th February 2007. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website, and the perfect Hooting Yard On The Air companion Befuddled By Cormorants is available for purchase. Photo by Mixmaster.

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