In this episode of Polish Deli Kacper Ziemianin continues to presents music from a unique educational and promotional tool – audiomat (http://au.diom.at/pl/) and invites to 11th Kinoteka Polish Film Festival in UK (http://kinoteka.org.uk/).
Music by artists from audiomat: Marcin Dymiter, Michal Szostalo, Marek Choloniewski
and by Kinoteka special guest: Andrzej Korzynski
Part Two of the 2012 Review Of The Year. More joy from 12 months of soundtrack action, including some rare Ravi Shankar film music to mark the great man’s passing.
Reality Check: The life electric
In a show looking at the possible consequences of computer technology and Artificial Intelligence on humanity, Alex Fitch talks to the directors of two new films that address these themes and how it might impact on peoples lives and after-lives. Kareem Gray discusses his movie Zero One, a cross between Knight Rider and The Terminator in which a couple of hackers discover a sentient intelligence on the internet with the power to download itself into robots and other machines; Martin Gooch and members of the cast of Death discuss this new British fantasy film starring Leslie Philips in which a pair of siblings return to their family manse after the death of their father and discover he had been working on a computer programme that allows people to converse with the dead…
Both interviews recorded in front of a live cinema audience at SCI-FI-LONDON, the London Science Fiction and Fantastic Film Festival, April 2012.
Originally broadcast Friday 1st February 2013, on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)
Stills from Death and Zero One
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Panel Borders: Swedish thrillers and dark Sci-Fi fantasy
Starting a month about the links between comics and literature, Alex Fitch looks at an example of a series of books that are being adapted for comics and comics that are being continued as novels. Scots novelist Denise Mina discusses her adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy as a series of graphic novels for DC Comics, starting with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and writer / artist John Higgins explains the transition of his SF / horror comic series Razorjack into a series of books written by himself and other authors.
Originally broadcast Sunday 3rd February 2013 / Tuesday 5th February 2013, Resonance 104.4 FM (London)
Covers of A Sickness in the family, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo parts 1 and 2 by Denise Mina et al., Razorjack issue 1 and Com.X collected edition by John Higgins, Double-Crossing novel by Michael Carroll
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Links: Denise Mina’s website
John Higgins’ website
Listen to Alex’s previous interviews with John and Denise
Listen to a panel discussion with Denise Mina, China Mieville, Mark Stafford and Alice Duke about H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe comics
More info on Michael Carroll’s Razorjack novel: Double-Crossing
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We have a mouthwatering 3 course meal this Saturday lunchtime on The Hello GoodBye Show, featuring live music from; Apostille, Bob Meyer & Little Penguin.
Apostille emerged from the wayward pop-centric impulses of Please guitarist Michael Kasparis. What began as a self-taught class in inclusive exploration has bloomed into a self-erasing exercise in broadcasting; an adrenalin-veined, ecstatic language that sweeps up a mess of electronics into a mound of emotive discharge. As direct as possible all the time.
Bob Meyer bridges the great Blues divide between South London and the Deep South.
By day, Bob is a busy London truck driver but it is at night that he really kicks into gear, presenting and producing Bob’s Folk Show on Radio Wey and Folk Radio UK.
He organized and hosted the London Folk and Roots Festival in 2012 and this June he is organizing The British Folk Radio Week.
Bob’s debut album ‘All This Is That’ is due for re-release this coming May through Malicious Damage Records.
Graham Boosey started Little Penguin when he wanted to play at a new local electronica night in his hometown of Southend on Sea, so he picked up his Game Boy Camera and began composing his own brand of experimental-soundscape, noise and drone music.
PLAYLIST
Umez – Z Fighters
Little Penguin – Chow (part 2) (LIVE SESSION)
Little Penguin – Chow (part 1) (LIVE SESSION)
Little Penguin -Puce Moment (LIVE SESSION)
Big Joan – Tiger
Little Penguin – ‘interview’
Table Music Meeting – Everyday
Flame Proof Moth – Are you trying to tell me I haven’t got a good pen today
Bob Meyer – ‘interview’
Bob Meyer – River (LIVE SESSION)
Bob Meyer – When I’m gone (LIVE SESSION)
Jack Day – Just a little time
Apostille – Leave your body (LIVE SESSION)
Apostille – The Journal (LIVE SESSION)
Apostille – Wrong (LIVE SESSION)
Terror Bird – Outside
Apostille – ‘interview’
Live sound engineer: Tom Kemp
Presenters: deXter Bentley & Dan Frost
Artist Sandra Cross in conversation with Jonny Trunk about the MMs Bar Recordings: Making weekly rail trips between London and Leicester, Cross taped hundreds of buffet announcements, editing them into this 30-minute piece. Focusing on the small, usually unvarying list of fare generates a maddeningly mundane musicality. Seven minutes in, the unprecedented unavailability of hot drinks seems catastrophic. Different announcements, with vastly different emphasis and emotional resonances, can sound indefatigably enthusiastic about the Quavers/water combos, or audibly defeated. Marking the announcements as individual tracks might have offered infinite random variations, but it is fitting that we endure this album as the artist intended. (Stewart Lee review; Sunday Times Culture Section 17.07.11).
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Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy.
On today’s show he opens the operatic Menagerie to hear how composers have been influenced by bird song and animal calls throughout the centuries. We’ll hear Messiaen and Handel’s take on the nightingale, Birtwistle and Bizet’s take on the bull, Dove and Schubert’s take on the fish and Poulenc – well, he portrays any animal he turns his pen to…
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Originally broadcast on 31st January 2013 (Resonance FM, London).
Another episode of delicious sounds from Poland (but not only ). This time we get to listen to Pixel Klange sextet (Bettina Wenzel – voice, Hans w. Koch – electronics, Joker Nies – electrononics, field recordings, circuit bending, Gerard Lebik – electronics, Piotr Damasiewicz – trumpet, piano, Wojciech Romanowski – drums) live in Cologne 2012 and Erase Quartet (Micha? Trela-drums, Max Mucha-bass, Jakub Mielcarek-bass, Gerard Lebik-sax).
In second half of the show we are introduced to a unique promotional and educational tool for exploratory music in Krakow: Audiomat (http://au.diom.at/pl/) and some of its content.
AUDIOMAT is an educational and promotional device in a form of a vending machine containing music only. AUDIOMAT presents works of selected artists, especially those living in Krakow or related to Audio Art Festival and the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music. Each “title” is prepared in a limited edition of 10-15 copies and contents of AUDIOMAT are being constantly changed and rotated. Each media bears a biographical note and a set of links, which redirect the listener to more information and examples of each artist’s work. We hope that with the help of AUDIOMAT we can raise wider interest in the works of selected artists and make the audience more familiar with the idea that this kind of creativity can be – despite the common belief – widely and easily available.
This is how Audiomat looks like
Reality Check: The Scarifyers
As we enter Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary year, Reality Check investigates a radio drama series tangentially connected to the franchise. The Scarifyers is a horror / black comedy series, with new instalments broadcast each year on BBC Radio 4 Extra (formerly BBC 7) and released on CD and concern the adventures of an elderly horror writer and his retired police sidekick as they investigate supernatural crimes and occurrences in 1950s Britain. Alex Fitch talks to series writer and producer Simon Barnard and CD cover artist Garen Ewing about the genre crossing narrative, their love of old SF and horror and the use of iconic actors in new serialised roles in a series whose cast includes Terry Molloy (Doctor Who‘s Davros), Nicholas Courtney (Doctor Who‘s Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart) and David Warner (Time Bandits et al.). The supporting cast includes actors famous for roles in Doctor Who and other Sci-Fi dramas such as Gabriel Woolf, Philip Madoc, Gareth David-Lloyd and Brian Blessed.
Promo material for The Thirteen Hallows, David Warner and Terry Molloy, cover of The Scarifyers comic no.1
(Expanded podcast of an episode of I’m ready for my close-up, broadcast 25/01/13 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
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Links: Bafflegab productions website
Garen Ewing’s website
Listen to Alex’s previous interview with Garen about The Rainbow Orchid