This week’s programme incudes records as Art by artists whose primary activity is Art, such as Pipilotti Rist (presently exhibiting at The Hayward Gallery), Cranfield and Slade whose 12″ record “12 Sun Songs” is on yellow vinyl with no label thereby resembling the sun itself, and records by recording artists whose main activity is producing music. Can you hear the difference? Tracks, not in order of playing; Soundtracks de las video instalaciones de Pipilotti Rist, Pulled Over by Paul A. Rosales and R. Stevie Moore, Sunrise and Red Rubber Ball by Cranfield and Slade from 12 Sun Songs (This record is part of the artists’ book series by Christopher Keller Editions and second in a series of artists’ records produced by the Or Gallery Vancouver), To Err is Human by The Godz from Pass on this Side, originally recorded in the 1970s and then released in 1998.

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As usual, the Wavelength clock chimed eleven today; Friday 11th of the 11th month 2011 so today’s programme features 11 tracks in a countdown from 11 to zero. I failed ‘O’ level Maths so I’ve had to cheat a bit… track 8 includes track 4 and the first track by The Stanley Brothers is called “Molly and Tenbrook”, actually second track as we’ve already had eleven… and this was recorded in 1948, originally released as a 78rpm record on the Rich-R-Tone label. Track number 9 is William Burroughs from Break Through in Grey Room; “K-9 was in combat with the Alien Mind Screens” (1965) and will have to be faded out otherwise we won’t reach zero in time. Track 8, counting down, or track 3 or 4 counting the clock, includes track 4; “Eight Men, Four Women” by O.V. Wright which refers to a jury not an orgy. Track 7, number 7 of 11 on this 11th day of the 11th month 2011, is “7 Consonants in Space” by Lily Greenham. Track 6 is “Six Six Sixties” from Throbbing Gristle’s Greatest Hits. Track 5 is “Five Long Years for One Man” by Odea Mathews recorded in Louisiana Penitentiary in 1959. Track 4, or number 8 in the running order was, if you remember, also track 8 which was track 4 in the running order, by O.V. Wright who was born in 1939 and died in 1980, so we will move on to track 3; “Three Times a Fool” by Otis Rush recorded in 1957, followed in quick succession by tracks 2,1, zero; “You Can’t Love Two” by Ike and Tina Turner, a white label 45rpm single by Rude Ass Tinker which samples “One” by Nilsson and finally “Nothing” by Contraption Number 37.

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