Reality Check: Dystopian TV and film

Reality Check: Dystopian TV and film

Alex Fitch talks to Ilana Rein (director: We are all Cylons), Andrew Mark Sewell (producer: Blake’s 7 audio) and Ben Aaronovich (writer: Blake’s 7 audio / Doctor Who) about dystopian TV from The Time Tunnel to Battlestar Galactica; and to Elizabeth Karr (producer) and John Alan Simon (writer / director) of Philip K. Dick adaptation Radio Free Albemuth.

Stills from We are all Cylons directed by Ilana Rein / Radio Free Albemuth by John Alan Simon

Stills from We are all Cylons directed by Ilana Rein / Radio Free Albemuth by John Alan Simon

N.B./ There is an additional screening of Radio Free Albemuth at 2.30pm on Monday 7th May at Apollo Piccadilly Cinema, Lower Regent Street, London

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Wavelength – Destruction in Art part 2 with David Toop

This week’s guest is David Toop, distinguished musician, curator and writer on music and sound art, author of The Rap Attack and Haunted Weather as well as numerous articles for The Wire, The New York Times and The Village Voice. In 2000 he curated Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery. (Sonic Doom, the conference scheduled for June 4th at UCLA was cancelled). David comes into the studio on the eve of an exhibition curated by himself and Tony Herrington of The Wire: Blow Up: Exploding Sound and Noise (London to Brighton 1959-1969) at The Flat Time House, South London, home and studio of the late John Latham. Part 2 of auto-destructive art series.

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Cassette: Episode 4

Cassette – Discoveries

Charity shop worker and musician Peter Smith discusses surprising audio tapes which arrive in the collection. Resonance FM listens in to an anonymous journalist’s 1976 interview tape featuring a known journalist, Paul Foot, some music never intended for release and stumbles on a hoax meditation tape on the way. All crammed onto two sides of a C30 cassette.

http://www.sweetthunder.org/tapes/

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/10/the_shemp_medit.html

http://thetramadols.tumblr.com

http://soundcloud.com/tiger-walking-downhill

http://www.organdonner.com/

More info: http://cassetteradio.wordpress.com

Cassette covers the history, culture, and future of the audio cassette tape. Each episode takes a cassette-based theme and brings together enthusiasts and experts to shed further light on it.

Produced and presented by Naomi Christie.

contact: cassetteradio@gmail.com.

Originally broadcast on 28th April 2012

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Hooting Yard: The Little Stint

jespák malý, Zwergstrandläufer, Dværgryle, Correlimos Menudo, pikkusirri, Bécasseau minute, Veimiltíta, Gambecchio comune, nishitounen, Kleine Strandloper, Dvergsnipe, biegus malutki, Pilrito-pequeno, Combatente, pobrežník malý, Småsnäppa, Mazaricu Nanu, S?rç?vari qumluq cüllütü, Ar sourouc’han bihan, Corriol menut, Redonell, Territ menut, Pibydd bach, Pibydd lleiaf, Premavera, malgranda kalidro, Playerito menudo, Väikerisla, väikerüdi, Txirri txikia, Dvørggrælingur, Gobadáinín Beag, Looyran beg, Žalar ciganin, Apró partfutó, Chnchghuk Kttsar, Youroppa-tounen, Stynt munys, Calidris minuta, Ereunetes minutus, Erolia minuta, Mažasis b?gikas, Trul?tis, Rivarel nanin, Kulik-vorobey, Uhcacovzoš, mali prodnik, Gjelaci i vogël, blataric patuljak, Tsititsiti-nyenyane, Chokowe Mdogo, Küçük kumku?u, D? nh?, or R? nh?.

This episode was recorded on the 11th August 2011. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the six publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars, Befuddled By Cormorants , Inpugned By A Peasant And Other Stories and Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke are available for purchase

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Hello GoodBye Show 21 April 2012: Jack Hayter and Olivia Chaney

Following on from our outside broadcast @ Home Front last Saturday (where we celebrated 10 years of broadcasting on 104.4 FM) we today return to Resonance HQ with our usual lunchtime helping of live music all served up for you by Jack Hayter and Olivia Chaney.

We will also be featuring a number of Record Store Day related gigs and releases.

Jack Hayter makes his solo return with “The Sisters Of St. Anthony” (Audio Anti Hero), a project that finds him set to release one single a month over the next twelve months.

Hayter is a unique songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who blurs the lines between his trad. folk influences and the London anxieties of Hefner with creaking fuzz, biting wit, indie-pop rhythms and lo-tech electronica.

St. Anthony is the patron saint of lost things. These songs are new and old, some lost and without a home. There is of course nothing especially new or remarkable about releasing twelve monthly singles, it’s just another way to enjoy his music. Each of the twelve singles will be available individually or as part of a low priced subscription series with exclusive subscription only material.

Plus, Olivia Chaney returns once more to the show. Classical taste with a modern ear; Olivia Chaney revives rambling boys and dark eyed sailors with her own, special touch. Expect to be moved by a virtuoso of unusual depth and passion. Her set includes unaccompanied Irish and English traditionals, and distilled arrangements of anything from 80’s pop to Renaissance opera, all coloured with Harmonium, guitar and her bold, young voice.

Track List:

Gallon Drunk – You Made Me
Jack Hayter – The Shackleton (LIVE SESSION)
Jack Hayter – The Lost Courier (LIVE SESSION)
Jack Hayter – Just As The Tide Was Flowing (LIVE SESSION)
Jack Hayter – The Seduction Of Nancy (LIVE SESSION)
Jack Hayter – I Stole The Cutty Sark (LIVE SESSION)
Blanket – Threats (HG archive)
Female Band – The Girl Who Fell In The Sea (HG archive)
Jack Hayter – ‘interview’
Olivia Chaney – Holiday (LIVE SESSION)
Olivia Chaney – Too Social (LIVE SESSION)
Gertrude – They Cut Him In Half (HG archive)
Private Trousers – Market Man (HG archive)
Pissin Boy – She’s The One
Olivia Chaney – Loose Change (LIVE SESSION)
Olivia Chaney – False Lover (LIVE SESSION)
Olivia Chaney – ‘interview’
Billy Childish & Sexton Ming – Dung Beatle Rolls Again
Sexton Ming – ‘interview’
Peter Sellers – My Old Dutch

Live sound engineer – Joe Oldfield.

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Hello GoodBye Show 14 April 2012: 10 Years Young!

The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show celebrated a decade of broadcasting on Resonance 104.4 FM with an outside broadcast that took place live @ Home Front. This coincided with the opening of artist James Alec Hardy’s ’Decasia Broadcast System’ (an exhibition of archive video footage shot behind the scenes at Hello GoodBye over the years).

We kick off at 11am this morning – an hour ahead of our usual slot at noon – as Hello GoodBye celebrates a full 10 years of broadcasting on Resonance FM with an extended two and a half hour long bumper edition live at Home Front in South London. That’s longer than The Godfather.

On-site at the gallery there will be an art installation by James Alec Hardy entitled Decadia Broadcast System, that commemorates 10 years of live radio sessions, featuring footage of countless bands who maybe didn’t last much longer than the show they performed on and others who went on to greater things!

While on-air there will also be the usual glut of live music, with contributions from Way Through and Jessica Cahill and we’ll be on from 11am for a full two and a half hour bumper edition of HG ending at our usual cut-off point 1.30pm, so expect reminisces and a look to the future!

Way Through

Jess Cahill

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Track List:

Sergeant Buzfuz – Irish Pubs (live @ Tate Britain 13.04.12)
Bib – Postal Workers Song (HG archive)
Debbie Lego – TV Eyes (HG archive)
Xerox Teens – Chasing Your Tail (HG archive)
Jad Fair – I’ll Change My Style (HG archive)
Thee Intolerable Kidd – Running In A Circle Blues (HG archive)
Flame Proof Moth – Thomas Rymer (HG archive)
House of John Player – Lake Pace / Radworthy
Advert – Stephanie (HG archive)
One Unique Signal – Hey Alchemist (HG archive)
Salt & Blue – Goblin Waltz (HG archive)
Jess Cahill – Cold Blows the Wind (LIVE SESSION)
Jess Cahill – La Sansonette (LIVE SESSION)
Jess Cahill – Bushes & Briars (LIVE SESSION)
Olivia Chaney – Barbara Allen (HG archive)
Jess Cahill – ‘interview’
Shimmy Rivers & & Canal – Winking Cowboy (HG archive)
Roy & The Devil’s Motorcycle – Intro
Robin ‘The Fog’ Warren – ‘chat’
Peggy Seeger – Heading For Home (HG archive)
Smack Miranda – ? (HG archive)
Way Through – Barleycorn (LIVE SESSION)
Way Through – Helpston (LIVE SESSION)
Way Through – Ruined Acre (LIVE SESSION)
Way Through – Corina Corina (LIVE SESSION)
Way Through – Visiting Mercia (LIVE SESSION)
Way Through – Ower (LIVE SESSION)
Way Through – Henry My Son (LIVE SESSION)
Jesus Licks – Tarzan (HG archive)
Wet Dog – Steal A Car (HG archive)

Live sound engineers: Kacper Zienianin, Leanne Bower & Joe Oldfield
Resonance FM HQ engineer: Tom Kemp

Thanks to everyone we have ever met! Blub blub, 10 years etc!

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Outsider In – Robert Beer

Robert Beer in conversation with James Tregaskis – discusses topics including near-death experiences, life between lives, his LSD-induced kundalini crisis and how he became a dealer in buddhist art.

Mahendra Dangwol White Sukhasiddhi Yogini, 2009.

Mahendra Dangwol White Sukhasiddhi Yogini, 2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Beer, has studied and practised Tibetan Art for the past forty years and is now recognized as one of the foremost scholars in this field. Author and illustrator of the “Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs“, and the “Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols“. He has illustrated Indian Mahasiddhas in his book “Buddhist Masters of Enchantment.” and Over the past fifteen years he has been working closely with the most talented Tibetan thangka painters of the Kathmandu Valley and Newar artists and is curating exhibition of his work, currently running at the October Gallery in Old Gloucester Street until 26th May.

Robert is giving talks at the October Gallery

Saturday, 5th May, 2012 3:00PM
The Cosmology of the Outer and Inner Universe according to the Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Traditions

Tuesday, 8th May, 2012 6:30PM
Death and Rebirth in the Buddhist Traditions in the light of modern near-death studies and spiritual regression

Friday, 18th May, 2012 6:30PM
Wrathful Deities and their Symbolism, an introduction.
(in conjunction with Museums at Night)

Saturday, 26 May, 2012 3:00PM
The Legends of the 84 Mahasiddhas of early Indian Buddhism

 


 

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Wildebeasts at the Elephant

Fari Bradley discusses shamanism, ‘beast visions’, social change and social cleansing with prolific artist Marcus Coates. Coates consulted with locals and developers alike to devise a shamanic intervention into the regeneration of Elephant & Castle and its Heygate Estate.

Coates’ interactions with the amazing array of characters around the Elephant and Castle culminated in a vision-ritual performance with 16 piece disco-Prog group Chrome Hoof at the iconic Coronet theatre.

The subsequent documentary film Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant & Castle was screened in an empty shopping unit in the centre, long-since marked for demolition along with the estates and areas around them. “I asked them how would you represent this place in terms of an animal? […] The council were amazing actually, the way they co-operated with the process […] You don’t actually see this in the film, but afterwards I asked them to envisage in a very personal way what their personal vision was, ’cause you have corporate vision and these scripted visions but I wanted them to invest in their own personal vision of what the Elephant could be. ” said Coates “.”

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Electric Sheep Podcast: Comics and film

Electric Sheep Podcast: Comics and film

In a pair of interviews looking at the crossover between comics and film, Alex Fitch talks to Stefan Hutchinson about his comic book Demons 3 – a sequel to Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava’s classic 1980s horror films – and to comic book artist Dave McKean about his film of the Port Talbot Passion play, The Gospel of Us. Alex And Stefan discuss the writer’s Haloween comics Nightdance and First Death of Laurie Strode plus his documentary, Halloween: 25 Years Of Terror. Alex and Dave also talk about the artist’s collaborations with Richard Dawkins and Michael Sheen, plus his earlier film MirrorMask.

Poster for The Gospel of Us, directed by Dave McKean / Panel from Demons 3 by Stefan Hutchinson and Jeff Zornow

Poster for The Gospel of Us, directed by Dave McKean / Panel from Demons 3 by Stefan Hutchinson and Jeff Zornow

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

Links: Wiki pages on Stefan Hutchinson and Dave McKean
IMDb pages on Dèmoni / Demons (1985), Dèmoni 2 / Demons 2 (1986), La casa dell’orco / Demons 3: The Ogre (1988), La chiesa / Demons 3: The Church (1989) and Demoni 3 / Black Demons (1991)
Read the silent prologue of Demons 3 (the comic) and first six pages online
Buy Demons and Demons 2 from arrowfilms.co.uk

More info about The Gospel of Us at New British Cinema Quarterly
Dave McKean’s website
Articles on McKean at the Forbidden Planet International blog
Listen to Alex’s previous interview with Dave McKean

In association with

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Art Saves Lives: Series 2 (Episode 12)

A cavalcade of singers, musicians and poets for this end of series finale.
Resident poet in the house, Jazz Man John with serial portrait artist, Annalouise Oakland.

Guests include: Razz, Maggie Swampwino, Kath Best, Miss Morgan, Steev Burgess, Amy Acre, J.J. Von Der Heydt, Sh’maya, Claudine Franks, Achilles, Nia Nin and Graham Pollack, plus, Zeuila, Victor and, David Ellis.

Produced and presented by Dean Stalham.

artsaveslives.co.uk
myspace.com/morgiii

Originally broadcast on 29th April 2012

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