Panel Borders: Kid Koala’s Kult Komics

Panel Borders: Kid Koala’s Kult Komics

Starting New British Comics month on Panel Borders in its new Sunday night slot, guest presenter Robin The Fog talks to Eric San, better known as Kid Koala, a world-renowned DJ, turntablist and cartoonist hailing from Montreal. Best known for a series of delightfully odd-ball albums released on the UK Ninja Tune label (often including a free comic book), 2011 has seen the publication of his second graphic novel Space Cadet, a labour of love years in the making, complete with bespoke soundtrack album. The Kid has also been travelling around presenting a series of ‘Music To Draw To’ events of late, where pens and paper are mandatory accessories and the audience sit around drawing to an ‘inspirational’ turntable set. Sketchbook in hand, Robin The Fog attended the recent London leg of his tour to talk etch-boards, robots and the Canadian work-ethic.

Cover of Space Cadet and flyer for Music to draw to by Kid Koala, drawing of Kid Koala at turntable by Andy Paterson

Cover of Space Cadet and flyer for Music to draw to by Kid Koala, drawing of Kid Koala at turntable by Andy Paterson

For more info and a variety of formats you can stream or listen to this podcast in, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: Kid Koala‘s website
Robin The Fog’s website
Buy Kid Koala’s Space Cadet from UK publisher, Ninja Tune records
Info about Red Material gallery, who hosted the ‘Music to draw’ to event

Recommended events:

Info about the BD Passion comics festival at the Institute Francais, Kensington, taking place on 7th-9th October

Anders Nilsen signing tour

Gosh! Comics, No. 1 Berwick Street, London, Saturday 15th October
Page 45, Nottingham, Sunday the 16th October
OK Comics, Leeds, Monday 17th October
Continue reading →

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Technical Difficulties 2:23

Today we revisit the work of Drake Music, with Nick Wilsdon, and in particular how they help people make music. One such project currently is the One Handed Musical Instrument project, and we also have that project’s founder Stephen Hetherington on the show.

Join the discussion on Google + , Facebook and Twitter . Wear your scars with pride, and remember. We all have Technical Difficulties.

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Wavelength – Rodney Graham part 1

James Tregaskis performs an “announcement” accompanying himself on laptop followed by Part One of music and sound works by Vancouver based artist Rodney Graham: Feelin’ Alright from Getting it Together in the Country, Some Works with Sound Waves, Some Works with Light Waves and Some Other Experimental Works (2000). What is Happy Baby, and So-Called Friends from The Bed-Bug, Love Buzz and other short songs in the Popular Idiom (2000). She Failed to See the Point from Never Tell a Pal a Hard Luck Story (You’ll Only Get a Hard Luck Story in Return) (2002).

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Laydeez do podcasts: Female Publishers and their work

Laydeez do podcasts: Female Publishers and their work

In two talks recorded in August and January 2011, we explore the work of female comic book publishers and their work in the medium. In a Q and A recorded at the Imperial War Museum, Alex Fitch talks to Eileen and Francesca Cassavetti, about Eileen’s wartime diary Philip and Helena which Francesca republished recently in comic book format plus in a talk recorded at Laydeez Do Comics, Corinne Pearlman discusses her work for the Jewish Quarterly, her publishing endeavours with Myriad Editions and her design and editorial work for Comic Company, which produces healthcare information in comic strip format.
(Recorded by Allan Morrow and Nicola Streeten, edited and introduced by Alex Fitch)

Excerpts from Philip and Helena by Eileen Cassavetti and Playing the Jewish Card by Corinne Pearlman

Excerpts from Philip and Helena by Eileen Cassavetti and Playing the Jewish Card by Corinne Pearlman

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: More info about Comics and Conflicts at the Imperial War Museum
Listen to the subsequent discussion by Francesca, Eileen and Alex with the creators of War: The Human Cost
Francesca’s website www.fabtoons.com

Corinne’s website www.comicopera.com
Enjoy Healthcare info in strip format at www.comiccompany.co.uk
More info about Myriad Editions

Read the Laydeez do comics blog
Info about Laydeez do comics

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Panel Borders: David B’s Black Paths

Panel Borders: David B’s Black Paths

Concluding our month of shows on war comics and our four years of broadcasts on Thursday evenings, Alex Fitch talks to French graphic novelist David B about his new book Black Paths, which depicts a little known footnote to the First World War, as the defeated Austro-Hungarian Empire loses control of the city port of Fiume in Italy and we meet various eccentric characters trapped within the city walls. Alex and David also talk about the latter’s Ignatz Award winning comic book Epileptic and his work with the independent publishing company L’Association.

Images from Black Paths and Epileptic by David B

Images from Black Paths and Epileptic by David B

Concluding our month of shows on war comics and our four years of broadcasts on Thursday evenings, Alex Fitch talks to French graphic novelist David B about his new book Black Paths, which depicts a little known footnote to the First World War, as the defeated Austro-Hungarian Empire loses control of the city port of Fiume in Italy and we meet various eccentric characters trapped within the city walls. Alex and David also talk about the latter’s Ignatz Award winning comic book Epileptic and his work with the independent publishing company L’Association.

For more info and a variety of formats you can stream or listen to this podcast in, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: Wikipedia pages on David B and Epileptic
More info on Black Paths at www.selfmadehero.com
Article on the new wave of French Comics by Paul Gravett

Info about the BD Passion comics festival at the Institute Francais, Kensington, taking place on 7th-9th October

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Art Monthly- September 9th, 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Suchin discusses Outrageous Fortune: Artists Remake the Tarot at Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea and then continues with John Douglas Millar to discuss John’s feature Art/Writing on why experimental writing thrives in the art world. There has been an upsurge in experimental writing, but why has it found its home in the art world rather than the literary industry? Is there a fundamental difference in how writers find audiences within these fields?

‘While academic and creative disciplines cross pollinate in the art world, they seem increasingly estranged in the literary world. The result is that the influence of experimental and avant-garde fiction waxes in the world of art while it wanes in the world of publishing.’

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 and save 40% on the cover price at

www.artmonthly.co.uk

 

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Art Monthly- August 12th, 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Future Past

Christopher Townsend on a very British modernism

Wakefield’s new Barbara Hepworth museum gives visitors a slice of mid-century British modernism, but how can we comprehend this historical period when it is refracted – via contemporary culture – through late capitalism’s self mythologising?

 

‘The era of mid-century modernism and modernity is lost to us now, its Utopias are as unattainable as the archaic ages of Knossos and Troy, and presented to us in fragments gathered from the archaeological excavation of what was to come rather than the digging up of what really happened.’

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 and save 40% on the cover price at

www.artmonthly.co.uk

 

 

 

 

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Hello GoodBye Show 24 September 2011: Critical Heights Special

deXter Bentley invites you to spend time in the arms of one of the UK’s newest and most innovative labels; Critical Heights.

Dedicated to unique musical artefacts in sumptuous and desirable packaging, Critical Heights has already gained plaudits for its releases by Diva and Savaging Spires amongst others.

Hear Savaging Spires play live alongside stablemates Delphic Vapours this Saturday lunchtime. The troupe will reunite later this evening for a Critical Heights curated show at the legendary Cafe Oto in Dalston headlined by the Dead Rat Orchestra.

And look at our internets…
http://www.hellogoodbyeshow.com — http://www.twitter.com/dexterbentley

Track list:
Simon Stanley Ward – Standing In The Rain
Dead Rat Orchestra – Joy/Sorrow
Critical Heights – Interview 1#
Diva – Glitter End
Delphic Vapours – ‘Pink Floyd European Tour 1968’ (LIVE SESSION)
Alexander Tucker – Red String
Hong Kong In The 60s – Theme From King Of China Town
Savaging Spires – Photographic Memories (LIVE SESSION)
Crater – Coalition Blues
Critical Heights – Interview 2#
Dead Rat Orchestra – Walrus Hunt
Savaging Spires – When The Devil Says He’s Dead (LIVE SESSION)
Barbados – Prelude
One True Dog – It’s A Delay
Electricity In Our Homes – You’re Doing So Well

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Sine Of The Times 17/09/2011

The cutting edge of London’s underground dance music scene with Thomas Lee and Rita Maia. Set controls for another ninety minutes of upfront dance floor ammunition, with forthcoming tracks from the likes of Kahn, Scuba and our good friend Chairman Kato fresh out of the box. Top that, inferior stations!

Tracklist:

Americo Gazaway – Breakadawn
Samoyd – Malamute
Chairman Kato – Low Rises
Klaus – Tusk
Juk Juk – Frozen
Shafiq – D.N.A.
Lukid – My Teath In Your Neck
Braille – Meaning
Submerse – Move On (Kingsin Rmx)
Klic – Forwards (Greymatter Remix)
Scuba – Everywhere
Virtual Boy – Mass (Naieve Machine Rmx)
Tehran – Kahn
A Tall Black Guy – Water No Enemy
Octo Octa – Let Me See You
Cardopusher – Body Slam
Elan – Aligator Snaps (Cosmin TRG remix)
Four Tet – Pyramid
Falty DL – Make It Difficult
Dj Medhi – I Am Somebody (Paris Version)

Get in touch and send us your tracks:
Twitter: @sineradio
Blog: http://sineofthetimes.tumblr.com/
SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/sineofthetimesradio

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Wavelength – Outsiders, Rev. Fred Lane et al

Ron Pate’s Debonairs featuring Rev. Fred Lane play Volare from Raudelunas Pataphysical Revue originally recorded in 1975 and issued in an edition of 200 copies with covers cut from end rolls of pizza box cardboard. This CD reissue dates from 2003 enabled by Ed Baxter. Jack Smith’s Earthquake Orgy from Tony Conrad’s soundtrack for Flaming Creatures, recorded 1962. Wild Man Fischer sings Young at Heart from the CD Wildmania 2004 (1977). Wild Classical Music Ensemble; Rien de Rien and Tears from the Ensemble, sub rosa 2008. McSpeedy; improvisations pour l’emission Implosief sur un truc de dd De Meuter et Mozart Me de Lost (Kris Engelen) from sub rosa CD Musics in the Margin. Ludwin; San Francisco. Philippe; I’ve been looking, and la ballade des gens heureux. Guillaume; ambient, all from Bokan! sub rosa 2006.

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