The Opera Hour – series 2/episode 8

Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable,
magic, lust, comedy.

On today’s show we’re talking to the countertenor Owen Willetts about performing Britten’s opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream
with Marionette puppets and singing Purcell’s The Fairy Queen; both are works based on the Shakespeare play. We’ll also
hear some Mendelssohn and some Henze, who have been similarly inspired by Puck, Oberon and the whole forest of mischievous
fairies.

Originally broadcast on 22nd November 2012

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Panel Borders: The work of Gail Simone

In a Q and A recorded at last Autumn’s MCM Expo, Alex Fitch talks to comic book writer Gail Simone about her career so far, from breaking into the industry via her influential blog ‘Women in Refrigerators’ and early strips for Bongo Comics to her recent runs on Birds of Prey and Secret Six. Gail discusses the changes to Batgirl in the DC New 52 range of comics, her acclaimed superhero retirement story Welcome to Tranquillity and her co-authorship of Firestorm with writer Ethan van Sciver.

Comics by Gail Simone: Treehouse of Horror / Welcome to Tranquility / Wonder Woman / Secret Six / Batgirl

Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download.

Links: Gail Simone’s tumblr site / twitter page
MCM Expo website
Listen to Alex’s interview with Gail’s regular collaborator Nicola Scott and the 2011 Thought Bubble panel on writing comics featuring Gail, Andy Diggle, Robin Furth and Al Ewing Continue reading →

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Hello GoodBye – Sat. 17th Nov. – Serafina Steer & Skinny Girl Diet

Serafina Steer and Skinny Girl Diet perform live in session on Hello GoodBye this Saturday lunchtime.

Abstract pop harpist Serafina Steer returns to the show to promote her new single ‘Night Before Mutiny’ (Stolen Recordings), produced by her long standing fan Jarvis Cocker (who also directed the accompanying video, which happens to feature two members of the GB Olympic synchronised swimming team)

Skinny Girl Diet are a London based female, grunge pop trio.

PLAYLIST:
Izes – Mask Made of Skin
Serafina Steer – Night Before Mutiny (LIVE SESSION)
Serafina Steer – Island Odyssey (LIVE SESSION)
Serafina Steer – Ballad of Brick Lane (LIVE SESSION)
Serafina Steer – Machine Room (LIVE SESSION)
Serafina Steer – The Crying Game (LIVE SESSION)
Hamilton Yarns – The Sea Wall
Serafina Steer & Kristian Capitol K – ‘Interview’
Seymour’s Fat Lady – Wild Creature
Umez – Rainbow
Chips for the Poor – Flight 7070 (HG Archive)
Jude Hagg Vs. The Hand of Stabs – My God
Broken Banko – I Noah
Jail – Nice Day to Know You
Skinny Girl Diet – 14 16 18 (LIVE SESSION)
Skinny Girl Diet – DMT (LIVE SESSION)
Skinny Girl Diet – Blazin’ (LIVE SESSION)
Skinny Girl Diet – Homesick (LIVE SESSION)
Art Trip & the Static Sound – Psilocybin
Skinny Girl Diet – ‘Interview’

Presented by: deXter Bentley, Ean Ravenscroft & Dan Frost
Live sound engineers: Kacper Ziemianin< Tom Kemp & Joe Oldfield

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Wavelength – Space Hijackers

Interview with Agent Monstris and Agent Hardcastle from Space Hijackers:

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The Opera Hour – series 2/episode 7

Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy.

On today’s show we talk to opera singer Marie Angel about her upcoming performance of Michael Nyman’s 8 Lust Songs with the BBC Concert Orchestra and we’ll also hear from Marie about her frequent collaborations with Nyman, Birtwistle and Peter Greenaway.

Originally broadcast on 15th November 2012

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Book List: Graphic albums and picture books

In advance of next week’s South Kensington Kids Festival which celebrates picture books and graphic novels for children, Alex Fitch talks to four creators whose work contains elements of each medium.

Andi Ewington discusses his novella “45” which divides the text and illustrations of superhero comics onto separate pages and the spin-off comic Blue Spear, co-written by Com.x publisher Eddie Deighton; while, in an interview recorded at the London Film and Comic Con, novelist Robert Rankin talks about his first graphic novel Empires which moves his celebrated monochrome cover illustrations onto every page of a new steam-punk sequel to The War of the Worlds.

Also, children’s illustrators Oliver Jeffers and Axel Scheffler talk about their recent picture books This Moose belongs to me and Superworm. Jeffers looks back at his parallel career as a fine artist, on display in the collection Neither here nor there, and Scheffler discusses partnership with writer Julia Donaldson on memorable books such as The Gruffalo and The Highway Rat.

Covers of Neither here not there by Oliver Jeffers, The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson, Empires by Robert Rankin, 45 and Blue Spear by Andi Ewington

(Originally broadcast 15/11/12 on Resonance FM)

For more info about this podcast and a variety of other formats you can download / stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

The South Kensington Kids Festival runs from 21st to 25th November and features screenings of French animated films The Gruffalo’s Child, and Ernest and Celestine, plus talks and drawing jams by Quentin Blake, Emile Bravo, Joann Sfar, Axel Scheffler and many more.

Links: Andi Ewington‘s blog
Overrun website
Com.X website
Oliver Jeffers‘ website / portfolio
Listen to Oliver Jeffers and David Almond discuss their work with Sarah McIntyre
Robert Rankin‘s fan club
Read Empires online
London Film and Comic Con website
Axel Scheffler‘s page at scholastic.co.uk
Info about Scheffler at childrensbookillustration.com
Official Gruffalo website Continue reading →

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Hello GoodBye – 10.11.12 – Nótt, Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou

Brighton based duo Nótt perform their debut live session on Hello GoodBye, whilst husband and wife duo Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou return for a highly anticipated, umpteenth appearance on the show!

The idea of Nótt was sparked following a new year’s eve spent on Brighton beach watching candlelit lanterns being sent out over the waters. The imagery and feel of the experience became the inspiration for a collaboration between two musicians, Stephan Barrett and Josephine Lloyd. Over a few days in a suburban basement during a cold week in early January 2012, Nótt created a collection of recordings and called the set “Winter’s Frame”, which is free to download from: HERE

In April 2012 Trevor & Hannah loaded up their long suffering British Leyland campervan with guitars, a few microphones and a 4-track cassette recorder, and headed for the tiny village of Saint-Pierre-Des-Landes in Northern France where they spent the next ten days committing to cassette, their newest collection of words and melodies. The resulting collection of songs may now be heard on their new LP ‘La Ferme De Fontenaille’ (The Anglophone Recording Company)

PLAYLIST:
Hamilton Yarns – In Stereo
Nótt – Tear Of Snow (LIVE SESSION)
Nótt – Lake Keitele (LIVE SESSION)
Nótt – Red Moon, Black Pony (LIVE SESSION)
Nótt – It Was The Nightingale (LIVE SESSION)
Kostoglotov – You, Me and the Sun
Nótt – ’Interview’
Serafina Steer – Night Before Mutiny
Skinny Girl Diet – DMT
Viv Albertine – Still England
Boyle & Shaw – The Marmalade Factory (trailer)
Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou – A Proud Surrender (LIVE SESSION)
Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou – Arica Road (LIVE SESSION)
Pepe Belmonte – The Hermit’s Waltz
Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou – Sweet Mary Jane (LIVE SESSION)
Astrakan – The Giver You Get
Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou – ‘Interview’

Presenters: deXter Bentley, Ean Ravenscroft & Dan Frost
Live sound engineers: Kacper Ziemianin & Tom Kemp

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Art Monthly Talk Show on Resonance104.4 FM, 9th November 2012

John Douglas Millar discusses his feature article on Conceptual Writing and asks “Is writing still playing catch-up with art?”

The term ‘Conceptual Writing’ was coined in 2003 to define literary works that may function as Conceptual Art, where the ideas behind the rule-based texts cannot be separated from the act of writing itself. But does this reliance on the act of authoring undermine the movement’s distanciating intentions?

‘Conceptual Writing might not seem particularly radical. After all, the Oulipo group have been experimenting with constraint-based writing for over 50 years and citation and appropriation are a fundamental of much modernist literature.’

Colin Perry discusses his review of Matthew Darbyshire at Zabludowicz Collection, London, The Associates at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Theaster Gates at White Cube Bermondsey, London. He suggests that over these past few recessionary years, the context available for art in the UK has changed in line with public spending cuts. Creativity has increasingly sought a home in two types of well-funded organisations: private collectors’ kunsthalles, in which public and private functions mix freely; and the domestic houses and mansions managed by the heritage sector, in which art is programmed to respond to a permanent collection. But many artists show a deep ambivalence about such contexts.

The programme is hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991.

Previous episodes are available on Art Monthly’s website www.artmonthly.co.uk/events.htm

Art Monthly magazine offers an informed and comprehensive guide to the latest developments in contemporary art.Fiercely independent, Art Monthly’s news and opinion sections provide regular information and polemics on the international art scene. It also offers In-depth interviews and features; reviews of exhibitions, performances, films and books; art law; auction reports and exhibition listings

Art Monthly magazine is indispensable reading!

Special magazine subscription offer for Resonance 104.4 listeners.Subscribe now with the new £25 discount offer.

www.artmonthly.co.uk

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Polish Deli 28 10 2012 feat. Lukasz Szalankiewisz a.k.a. Zenial pt2

In this episode of Polish Deli Kacper Ziemianin talks to Lukasz Szalankiewicz, one of the most interesting and active sound artist and electronic musician from Poland. We can also listen to some of Zenial’s music.
This is second part of the interview.
Language: Polish
website: http://www.zenial.audiotong.net/index.php

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Panel Borders: Writing serialised comics

Continuing Panel Borders’ month of shows looking at the writing of superhero comics, Alex Fitch talks to writers Gail Simone, Andy Diggle, Robin Furth and Al Ewing about their work on British and American titles, in a panel discussion recorded at last year’s Thought Bubble festival. Gail and Andy discuss their work for DC Comics and contributing to anthology titles, while Robin talks about adapting Stephen King’s The Dark Tower for Marvel Comics and Al discusses moving from 2000AD to his first work on American strips.

Thought Bubble 2012 runs from 11th – 18th November, culminating with a two day comics convention on 17th and 18th November at Royal Armouries, Leeds.

Covers of Green Arrow by Andy Diggle, Batgirl by Gail Simone, Jennifer Blood by Al Ewing and The Dark Tower by Robin Furth

Links: Andy Diggle’s website
Gail Simone’s tumblr site
Al Ewing’s blog
Page on Robin Furth at The Dark Tower wiki
Thought Bubble website Continue reading →

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