One of the greatest bass players of all time Jack Bruce is one of the first wave of British blues musicians. His career reads like a who’s who of British blues and includes Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated, Graham Bond Organisation, John Mayall’s Blues Breakers and Cream. 1: Two Heartedly, To the Other Side, from Vertical’s Currency (1984). 2: The First Time I met the Blues, from Graham Bond Organisation recorded at the Railway Hotel, West Hampstead in 1964. 3: Folk Song, from BBC Live in Concert 1977. 4: Velasquez, from Desire Develops an Edge (Kip Hanrahan 1983). 5: We’re going wrong, also from Live at the BBC. 6: All Us Working Class Boys, also from Desire Develops an Edge.
Six Pillars to Persia – Playright/ Director Nassim Soleimanpour
Tehran-based Soleimnapour’s latest production White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is an experiment with roots in improv theatre; a new actor each night, reads the script who delivers the piece cold, in front of a live audience and renders each delivery in itself, unique. Running in the LIFT 2012 festival, at Notting Hill’s Gate Theatre, the play looks at issues of obedience and manipulation. The play requires the performers to know next to nothing about the content and has attracted performers as renowned as Juliet Stevenson, among others. So how does it work?
The actor is handed a sealed envelope in front of the audience, inside which will be the script. There has been no rehearsal, no direction and in fact there is no set just an actor and an audience without costume and without other characters on whom to rely. Reading cold is never easy, the play stretches the actor to his limit in front of an audience who knew more about the play than its actor before the start.
Imagine being 29 and unable to leave your country. ‘White Rabbit, Red Rabbit’ dissects the experience of a whole generation in a wild, utterly original play. Soleimanpour turns his isolation to his advantage with a play that requires no director, no set, and a different actor for each performance. Volcano Theatre & Necessary Angel co-produced the world premiere of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit in 2011, shown simultaneously at SummerWorks and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It is now playing around the world.
OST 04.05.2012 – Ten Year Anniversary Special
Jonny Trunk presents the Resonance FM tenth anniversary OST Show, with a 2 hour review of the film music, TV music and soundtracks we have played, discovered, dug up and championed in the last exciting decade. Marvellous! He also takes time out to give Robin The Fog a slap for not uploading these archive podcasts more regularly. More treats coming soon and more regularly, we promise…
Here’s to the next ten years!
Wavelength – Audio-films (for radio).
1. “Weekend” by Walter Ruttmann was a pioneering sound work commissioned in 1928 by Berlin Radio Hour. In a collage of words, music fragments and sounds, on 13th June 1930 the avant-garde film-maker Walter Ruttmann presented a radically innovative radio piece: an aural impression of a Berlin weekend urban landscape. In Ruttmann’s own words “Weekend is a study in sound-montage. In Weekend sound was an end itself.” Before making Weekend, Ruttmann had produced the experimental documentary Berlin-Symphony of a Great City as well as a number of short, experimental abstract animated films. Ruttmann sought possibilities for producing an audio-film for radio. “Everything audible in the world becomes material,” he wrote in a manifesto in 1929, anticipating Schaeffer, Varese and Cage. For Weekend sounds were recorded on optical sound film using the so-called Tri-Ergon process. The broadcast was never repeated and the original was lost until rediscovered in New York in 1978. In 2000 a CD was issued called Weekend Remix including ‘to rococo rot’ Berlin 98 version and that is the track played. 2. This track is an excerpt of Journey number 1 by the little known artist Jack Ellitt, born in England, but brought up in Sydney Australia. The vinyl record it comes from was pressed in 1954 but it is believed that the original dates from the 1930s when Ellitt was working with Len Lye on an unfinished film that evoked space travel. Apparently Ellitt’s music came before the film concept and acted as inspiration for the project. Released in 2007 on the CD Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music 1930-1973. 3. “L’Anticoncept” by the Lettrist poet Gil J. Wolman, being five excerpts from the film which was shown for the first time on 11 February 1952 at the ‘Avant-Garde 52’ cinema club. It consisted of blank illumination projected onto a weather balloon, accompanied by a staccato spoken soundtrack. The film was banned by the French censors on 2 April 1952. When the Lettrists visited the Cannes Film Festival the following month, they were forced to restrict the audience to journalists only. The text of the soundtrack was published in the sole issue of the Lettrist journal Ion in 1952. Ion also included the text of Guy Debord’s film Howls for Sade, which was dedicated to Wolman and featured his voice in its own soundtrack. 4. “Theme for an Imaginary Western” a song written by Jack Bruce and Pete Brown originally appearing on Bruce’s Songs for a Tailor album in 1969. The song is sometimes referred to as “Theme from an Imaginary Western.” and has been performed by many artists, including Jack Bruce, Mountain, Leslie West, Colosseum, Greenslade and DC3. Mountain bassist and vocalist Felix Pappalardi had helped produce Bruce’s album and brought the song to guitarist/vocalist Leslie West’s attention for their album Climbing! and Mountain performed the song at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. This is the version by Mountain.
Laydeez do podcasts: Alison Bechdel
An episode of the Laydeez do comics podcast, recorded at Comica Festival 2012 – graphic novelist Alison Bechdel reads from her new book Are you my mother? and answers questions from the audience about her debut Fun Home, and long running comic strip Dykes to watch out for.
(Recorded at Foyles Bookshop, introduced by Nicola Streeten and edited by Alex Fitch)
Extract from Are you my mother? by Alison Bechdel
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: Review of Are you my mother? in New York times
Alison Bechdel’s website
Laydeez do comics website
Comica Festival 2012
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Esteban Antonio Christmas Special 2012
A seasonal greeting from Esteban Antonio. Speaking via mobile telephone, the musician, philosopher and inventor shares some of his thoughts and previews music from his new repertoire.
For more information please go to:
http://www.estebanantonio-hashem.com
Produced by Lee Stapleford
Originally broadcast on 25th December 2012
Wavelength – Survival Research Laboratories
As yet, I haven’t found any connection between this week’s subjects and Leicester. The following tracks are from a CD on the sub rosa label called Survival Research Laboratories, an outfit founded by Mark Pauline in 1978. Since its inception the SRL operated as an organisation of technicians staging over 50 performances in the USA, Japan and Europe which have been imitated by various cable TV channels, Robot Wars being one example. Mark Pauline was joined in 1979 by noisician; GX Jupitter-Larsen, founder member of post punk crew The Haters who started by tearing paper and eventually blew up hillsides. The tracks on this CD date from 1992 to 1998, recorded in Graz, Austria, Austin Texas and San Francisco. There are several videos of SRL performances on YouTube including links to Weird Weapons of World War 2. Survival Research Laboratories:
The Opera Hour – series 2/episode 12
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy.
On today’s show, since it’s very nearly Christmas, he is playing the entirety of Menotti’s Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors! This humorous and moving classic was written for American television in the 1950s and tells the story of Amahl, a young boy who delights in telling lies, and his encounter with three bizarre kings who knock on his door one night whilst following a star ‘as big as a window’ in the night sky.
Originally broadcast on 20th December 2012
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Art Monthly Talk Show 14th December 2012
Ajay Hothi opens the magazine that was a box- Aspen Magazine 1965-71
Questioning the successes, or otherwise, of its own form allowed Aspen to become a series of individual art objects.
Michael Hampton discusees his feature Human Nature on contrasting views of outdoor art
Recent exhibitions, including ‘Garden of Reason’ and ‘Wild New Territories’, have presented art in pastoral settings. How have artists, such as Gordon Cheung, Alexandre da Cunha, Kathleen Herbert, Alan Kane, Michael Landy, Simon Periton and Daphne Wright, responded to nature and mankind’s determination to shape it?
‘Hermit-in-residence Harold Offeh’s Arcadia Redesigned, 2012, a seasonal consultancy in a glass-fibre grotto at the bottom of Ham’s Kitchen Garden, was supplemented by a series of fantastical spectacles.
The programme is hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991.
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Six Pillars to Persia – Satellite Jamming in Iran
Mahmood Enayat from Small Media speaks to Six Pillars to Persia about the new Small Media report “Satellite Jamming in Iran – A War Over Airwaves.” After presenting the report to parliament, Small Media are pushing for new regulations, where none currently exist, on global satellite jamming. Here Mr. Enayat explains how figures clearly show that satellite jamming is a form of censorship that effects far more people in Iran than internet censorship currently does.