In this most excellent edition, tune in with Harmon to cable TV’s top poetry quiz, Bad Poims. Hosted by Mrs. Fokkerwolf’s new lodger, Malibu Stalk (don’t call him Chicken Legs), Bad Poims is a contest to find the world’s worst poem. The losers are dropped into raw sewage.
Midnight Sex Talk – Kids
Midnight Sex Talk – Kids
After football stories and debates about licensing hours, the next most popular subject in today’s news seems to be children; and it’s usually yet another crime, either committed by them, or done to them. Anecdotally, if you sit down with a group of people and talk about the worst thing about living in their area, the answer is very likely going to be the children – drugs, vandalism, stealing and violence.
On the other hand, plenty of people are still having children and then subjecting them to awful lives, whether intentionally or not. It’s heartbreaking. (Despite all this, anti-abortionists are gaining ground. If they get their way, are they going to commit to looking after all those extra unwanted children?)
So where does this leave sex? If it’s not teenage pregnancies (in the UK the highest in Europe), it’s the spread of STIs, and, god help us, rapes – of each other, and adults too.
So what’s going wrong? Because something is. Something’s blocking the flow of information (and understanding about self-respect) between adults and children. Despite all the programmes, articles, books, leaflets and clinics, nothing’s changing.
In the studio we’ve got artist and mother Tracey Moberly, and we spoke to Dr Petra Boynton over the phone.
This show was first broadcast on Sunday 30th January 2005. Midnight Sex Talk is resting for a while, but if you want to drop us a line, or tell us what you’d like to hear more of, you can email us any time at midnightsextalk at gmail dot com.
More info here: MidnightSexTalk.com.
Marvin Suicide: 79 – One day my Prince will come.
Please find below the tracklisting for the magical musical mystery programme, marvin suicide. This is show number 79 and was broadcast on 30th July 2006.
1. Rosie by Dave from Chub Creek:
www.chubcreek.com
2. My Dubling Julia by Villa Diamante, From The Barrio:
www.pathmusick.hermetech.net
3. The Heard World:
www.petekemble.com
4. Wild Like A Tiger by Eek-A-Mouse, The Very Best Of Eek-A-Mouse:
www.eeksperience.com
5. I’m A Farmer by Gorse, Let The Gorse Be With You:
www.brainwashed.com
6. Paloma by Sidestepper:
www.palmpictures.com
7. Spinning On A Chair Inside A Room by He Can Jog & Terry Ubrien, Exhibition 1 Compilation:
www.audiobulb.com
8. I Wish I Were Twins by Jeff Healey:
www.jazzpromo.com
Cheery bye.
Cyber Chutney Arse Ducks: Part 1
these shows where made for our own amusement ,hopfully someone else will enjoy them as well. We have a very slapdash aproch to making music and we hope it makes you laugh. You can also hear music by coley portions on this show .my cohort is BIN JUICE.Some people say we shouldn’t laugh at our own jokes.I say if you find it funny laugh. We tried to get a fealing of cacking about in our bedroom and bathroom down on the radio. I think we dud it.
e-mail: Poo Lord
the heard world 36: FM Radio and misogyny
the first half of the show is my own take on commercial FM Radio, and the likely shitely music you can expect to hear. i guess i could have developed this more, but before i can the show takes a gradual slide into pure self-absorbed, drunken mysogyny recorded in the back alley of a central square bar. this is tempered with a hacked music box hooked up to a piezo driven homemade slinky reverb unit and ray wilson’s weird sound generator. our only hope is skrillmeadow, who is in my opinion is the only valid reason to log onto myspace. if only there were more like him. the other three discernable songs are dirty rituals, sewage and sexist pig, all originals circa 2002-3. enjoy this one, quality is fleeting.
Audio Adventures: L’historie du Schaeffer
The bibliography of Pierre Schaeffer as presented in musique conrete form by Tim Pickup. This show is not worth missing, despite it being in a language i hardly understand. I wrote a quick introduction and translated it into French, then back into English to help maintain confusion:
the audio bibliography of the collection of tim of the stone schaeffer. presents at a music the concrete excursion on the father of the conrete of musiqe itself, schaeffer. wonderfuly hones it made and presented.
Well, either way, Pierre Schaeffer is a very important composer for the 20th century. He is one of the first composers to study recorded sounds as instruments themselves. His works were an inspiration to a generation of composers that were getting a little tired of do re mi.
Radio Gallery number 5: Crossfading
Authors: Loris Gréaud and Karl Holmqvist
www.radiogallery.org
Broadcast date: July 31, 2006
‘CROSSFADING’ refers to the encounter of two sources of sound, that is two different frequency waves sent to each ear. The effect is one called ‘Lucid Dreaming’ that leads to a modified state of awareness, a moment of clarity during a situation of sleep, within which thoughts control and analytical thinking are emphasized. The listening conditions need to be optimal to experience this phenomenon, which otherwise manifests as a feeling of lethargy and a confusion of noise sources, amongst other noticed effects.
Loris Gréaud’s performance ‘CROSSFADING’, involving the diffusion of such distinct frequencies to an audience for 41 minutes and 24 seconds, was first realized in Maine, US on 20th August 2004. It was subsequently realized in Vietnam, Japan and the UK. Never previously broadcast for want of permission, this is Crossfading’s first appearance on the radio.
For Resonance FM’s version of ‘CROSSFADING’ there is a voiceover by artist Karl Holmqvist that gives the background to ‘CROSSFADING’ and a description of its own coming about. Karl Holmqvist is well known for his artistic practice that has already included various forms of voice experimentation and its potential for altering reality and dream, which finds a logical continuation in this unique collaboration with Loris Gréaud.
Radio Gallery number 4: The Stop Show
Authors: Dirk Fleischmann, Nav Haq, Tirdad Zolghadr
www.radiogallery.org
Broadcast date: July 24, 2006
LAPDOGS OF THE BOURGEOISIE PRESENTS:
THE STOP SHOW by Dirk Fleischmann
Conceived by Nav Haq and Tirdad Zolghadr
This broadcasting event is to serve as the launch of the long-term research and exhibition project Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie. The project investigates the latent issue of class underlying the field of contemporary visual art. What role does class structure play in production, presentation and reception? These are issues that have been overlooked in the current era, where artists, even when coaxed into anthropological or self-reflexive approaches, leave the socioeconomic hierarchies of the artworld unexplored. What was it that made gender, sexuality, ethnicity and nationality eclipse the class issue with such ease?
As part of the project, the artist Dirk Fleischmann, known for his astute engagements with issues of service work, profit and socio-symbolic hierarchy will present a new version of his ongoing project The Stop Show, specifically for a radio format. Fleischmann’s project, in which competitors must accurately determine ten-second time spans, does not illustrate or ‘map’ the exhibition theme in the usual manner of a group show. His Stop Show, a degree zero playing field of fundamentally equal opportunity, offers no more and no less than a simple competition with the most rudimentary of rules, allowing audiences to participate via phone and internet.
Epistaxis Time – Dot Matrix
Now you’ve done it. This instalment introduces us to the dot matrix guitar (‘printar’) emanating dotty boss riffs and hot licks (literally: the print head gets hot enough to fry eggs on) which are played and amplified in your general direction, love. Subsequent misery ensues:
- Phone Chr*s Or Die Trying
- Mama was a Shapeshifter – Denny Clavicon
- Summer Holiday – The Upset Bunch
- Reality Often Blurs (I HATE LIFE)
Harmon e. Phraisyar: Mono
Space is filled with a myriad monos. Listeners are instructed to tamper with the cabling on their precious stereo systems to best enjoy this episode of the Harmon e. Phraisyar show, in which visiting lecturer Dr. Max Doubt delivers a passionate address on the superiority of monaural(or “moan-oh”) sound.
Accompanying Dr. Doubt’s speech and coming to you in glorious pan-chromatic mono are some bedazzling audio manipulations.