2010 February 5thThis show features a ticking clock with occasional chimes. It could have been thirty minutes long but circumstances meant that the recording was interrupted after twenty minutes so the clock chimes eleven, then one, then twelve then six, with one or two odd glitches and a couple of murmuring voices towards the end. It was midnight in Syston, Leicestershire and the microphone was inside the clock which was awarded to Sandra’s grandfather; William Cross who won a stack of individual and team titles with the army and Castleford Harriers and was presented to King George V and Queen Mary in January 1920 after finishing sixth out of a field of 700 in the army cross-country championship. Sandra’s mother came into the room, noticed the microphone and just said “tick tock” before going back upstairs.
2010 January 29thRodney Graham Part Two: Vancouver-based artist Rodney Graham's musical output; today's tracks; Sinkin' in the West from Never Tell a Pal a hard luck story (You'll only get a hard luck story in return); Ball and Chain, and The Bed-Bug Part II, both from The Bed-Bug, Love Buzz and other songs in the popular idiom; More Music for the Love Scene, Zabriskie Point from the 10 inch vinyl LP Getting it Together in the Country; finally Electric Slim and the Factory Hen from the latest CD Why Look for Good Times?
2010 January 22ndTelephone interview with Captain Maurice Seddon (Royal Signals, retired); hospital appointment, prostate problems, blended food, spillage of apple juice, days spent in bed, update on dog pack issue, pullover sleeves torn off and placed over shoes to prevent slippage on ice.
2010 January 15thJames 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).
2010 January 8thRon 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.
2009 December 18thWhite Christmas by Ralph Rousseau on the viola da gamba from the CD ‘On Christmas Night’; Pari Intervallo with Christopher Bowers-Broadbent on the organ from Arbos by Arvo Part; If you were born today by Low from their Christmas CD; De Profundis by Arvo Part and The Hilliard Ensemble; Almost Christmas by Lester Bowie from All the Magic; Still, still, still by Ralph Rousseau on viola da gamba from ‘On Christmas Night’.
2009 December 11thEdited recording of a conversation in 1989 with Rose Lowder; prolific maker of rigorous films and co-founder of The Archives of Experimental Film in Avignon with Alain Alcide-Sudre + Love is Strange, Tangiers fantasy with Jack Smith, Frances Francine and Tony Conrad (extract), recorded November 1962.
2009 December 4thDrum Soup Part 2: a melange of percussion, Steve Reich, Drumming; Milford Graves Percussion Ensemble with Sunny Morgan, Nothing 19,13 and Nothing (ESP 1965); Kip Hanrahan, Desire Develops an Edge; Bow Gamelan Ensemble, Great Noises that Fill the Air; Edward Ka-Spel, Alas my Shrunken Head; Israel Quellet, Oppressum and Soni Sclavus.
2009 November 27thDrum Soup: Little Drummer Boy by Low from Low Christmas, The Little Drummer Boy by Jonathan Kane, The Kroumata Percussion Ensemble play Pulse (1939) by Henry Cowell, Tobi Ilu by Art Blakey and the Afro-Drum Ensemble from The African Beat, Adventures in Anatomy from Badges; the fifth album by the Vitamin B12, Toad by Cream live at the Fillmore, Split Skins by Art Blakey from Orgy in Rhythm.
2009 November 20thEncyclopodia continued: Nicky Hamlyn describes recovering his copy of The Whole Earth Catalogue after 20 years, driving over a philosophy book on Essex Road and paying to have an index included in his own book published by The British Film Institute. Optician and collector Tony Gross listens as I describe finding an album of photographs of Admiralty Radio Stations (1918) at a book fair. Otto Muehl; Psycho-Motorik Musik and a track from Oppressum by Israel Quellet.
2009 November 13thMore extracts from the Encyclopodia. Hugh de la Cruz describes looking for volume two of the 3 volume edition of Mechanics Explained (1910 edition) and remembers Bloomsbury Rare Books on Museum Street. Tony Gross, optician and collector, struggles to construct a sentence after suffering a stroke. Two more tracks by Israel Quellet.
2009 November 6thTalking to Steven Leiber via telephone from San Francisco in August 2009. Steven is the author and curator of Extra Art: A Survey of Artists’ Ephemera, 1960-1999. The complete interview will be accessible from the Resonance website as part of Encyclopodia; 26 podcasts relating to books + Israel Quellet; pour rameur de fitness (for fitness rower) from Soni Sclavus.
2009 November 3rdTalking to Ron Heisler; collector of political pamphlets since 1948, 30,000 of which he donated to Senate House Library. This is one of 26 podcasts intended to coincide with the London Art Book Fair held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in October. The podcasts all relate to books in one way or another and will eventually be available from the Resonance website www.resonancefm.com
2009 October 23rdEdited interview with Yann Beauvais, experimental filmmaker and co-founder, with Miles McKane, of Scratch Projection and Light Cone; Paris based distributor of experimental films established in 1982. The tape was recorded in a Paris restaurant in 1989. Concludes with a short track by Israel Quellet pour percussions et saturation 2'21" from Soni Sclavus.
2009 October 9thCaptain Maurice Seddon describes acquiring another deep-freeze which will take its place amongst the other deep-freezes in his garden providing storage space for food for himself and his numerous dogs. Some of the food is years past its sell-by date but this does not deter Maurice from consuming it. I relate an incident in a restaurant in Ventimiglia, Italy, when a diner at the next table vomited profusely on to the floor. The programme finishes with a track from Soni Sclavus, a new CD by Israel Quellet; les bouffisures, les croupissures - pour voix, percussions, orgue, sons divers (things that bloat, things that stagnate - for voice, percussion, organ and miscellaneous sound).
2009 October 2ndTwo songs by Frederic Rzewski: Lullaby: God to a Hungry Child, poem by Langston Hughes originally published in 1925 and reprinted in Good Morning Revolution. Rzewski version written in 1974, with David Holloway, baritone; Karl Berger, vibraphone and Anthony Braxton, clarinet. Apolitical Intellectuals; David Holloway, baritone; Frederic Rzewski, piano. Both tracks from New American Music, New York Section Composers of the 1970’s. Then, Don’t Talk to Sociologists from Corrected Slogans by Art and Language and The Red Crayola (1976). Money Blues (Parts 2 and 3) by Archie Shepp from Things have got to change, featuring the voice of Joe Lee Wilson (1971). Finally, new world order, who decides? by Charles Hayward from Near and Far (1997).
2009 September 25thTrack one from Hans Krusi; "While preparing a new edition of Anton Bruhin works, Alga Marghen discovered some mysterious tapes by Hans Krusi. Fascinated by the raw and brute contents of those sounds, mixing field recordings of insects, sheep and distant bells with primitive chanting, percussive noises and distorted radio folk songs, Alga Marghen started to conceive one of the most obscure editions in his catalog. The Swiss-born, self-taught painter Hans Krusi (1920-1995) was a wiry man who eked out an existence on the margins of society". Brief introduction to the London Art Book Fair, with Richard Thomas and finally; track 26 from Modern Shit Will Make You Ill by Xentos Bentos and Lepke Buchwalter.
2009 September 18thRecorded interview with David Curtis, author of Experimental Cinema (1971) and A History of Artists Film and Video in Britain (2007), curator of A Century of Artists Film in Britain and founder of the British Artists Film and Video Study Collection.
2009 September 11thInterview with sound artist John Wynne about his installation at Beaconsfield Gallery London: Soundtrap IV which runs from 10th September to 18th October 2009 www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk On 24th September at 7pm Rex Lawson will give a performance of Nancarrow studies for player piano and will join Ed Baxter and John Wynne in a discussion on sound art, player pianos and cultural redundancy. Admission five pounds, booking advisable: bookings@beaconsfield.ltd.uk (Since this programme was broadcast, the installation has been bought in its entirety by Charles Saatchi).
2009 September 4thAnnouncement: Soundtrap IV: John Wynne; an installation for pianola, 300 recycled hi-fi speakers and vacuum cleaner at Beaconsfield Gallery, 22 Newport Street, London SE11 6AY from 9th September to 18th October. The announcement of this exhibition provided an opportunity to play some pianola or player-piano music: Alfredo Casella, Trois Pieces pour Pianola (1918) Prelude, Valse, Ragtime. Conlon Nancarrow speaks with Charles Amirkhanian from Conlon Nancarrow: Lost Works, Last Works. Study No.12 and Study No.17 from Complete Studies for Player Piano Volume Four by Conlon Nancarrow.
2009 August 14thArmer Tschitchik! by Martin Klapper and Roger Turner from Recent Croaks 1997, then pour percussions and saturation by Israel Quellet from Oppressum 2005 and finally the third section from A Crimson Grail for 400 Electric Guitars by Rhys Chatham recorded live in Paris 2006.
2009 August 7thDavid Leister, host of The Optical Sound Show, veteran filmmaker, presenter of the Kino Club since the 1980s and virtuoso projectionist talks about the 9.5mm film club, his part in the proliferation of film projectors in Art Galleries and his patented film loop device.
2009 July 31stThree tracks from A psyche and its geography. Inside Out: curated by Andrew Kotting 2008 www.deadad.info 'A Sense of Place' by Tony Hill and Sally Goode, 'Mapping Perception' by Toby McMillan, 'Fragment' by Max Richter. Followed by several tracks from I.D. Art 2 CD produced by Clive Graham in 2006, originally released in 1976 by the Los Angeles Free Music Society in an edition of 200 copies. The played tracks from a total of 44 were: Fredrik Nilsen 'You can't hide from aldehyde', Josie Roth 'Heal, and another little time', Otto Flick (0:48), Mike Green 'Martin Heidegger revisited', Mr. Foon 'Timeless Number 1', Tom Kemp 'Pasadena subway station poetry stills'. Final track is 'Big Sur Moon' by Buckethead from Colma.
2009 July 17thDJ Numpty aka Steven Parry, comedian and winner of the Wavelength theme tune competition in the studio. His mystery prize was an EP by Tony Fayne "British Institutions Part Two" and one track from the EP was played; Garden Fetes. Other tracks played included an obscure recording of Peter Cook and Rainbow George provided by DJ Numpty, and finally "Dau 45" from vinyl EP Von Mund zu Mund by Asmus Tietchens (Die Stadt DS28).
2009 July 10thNicky Hamlyn part 2. Second instalment of a conversation with Nicky Hamlyn (see June 12th 2009). Male porcupines use their urine to soften the female's quills before mating, while vultures urinate on their legs to cool themselves. I thought we could mention the Douglas Gordon film Zidane; there is an alarming similarity with a film made in 1970 by Hellmuth Costard called Football as Never Before which focusses entirely on George Best for 90 minutes. Your book Film Art Phenomena is as rigorous and precise as your films... (David Curtis writing in A History of Artists' Film "he would become one of the best writers on artists' film of his generation").
2009 July 3rdWavelength theme tune fiasco. The long awaited result of the Wavelength theme tune competition. The original theme tune is ticking and chiming of a clock awarded to William Cross, Sandra’s grandfather, who won many individual and team titles for running with the army and Castleford Harriers in Barnsley circa 1920. The entrants for the competition were whittled down to nine, some of whom were impostors. The judges were James Tregaskis, Richard Thomas and William English. Both of James’s entries were disqualified and Richard lost nothing in defeat in spite of some sleight of hand. The entrants were Peter Shepard, You were served by Patricia 1, Claudia Wasser, Dario Marsh, Sven Kylie, Feng Che the Chinese Cuban and the overall winner: DJ Numpty.
2009 June 26thJ.A. da Silva “Audio Poem” (1971) (For Henri Chopin) from OU 40-41. Leon Trotsky “10th Anniversary of the Left Opposition” (political speech ca. 1938) Original voice of Leon Trotsky probably recorded in Mexico. Ladislav Novak “Two Poems” (1958-62) from OU 42-43-44. Bo Diddley “Crackin’ Up” 1958. Ladislav Novak “La Structure Phonetique de la Langue Tcheque” (1969) from OU 36-37. Scientist “Time and Place Dub” Rare Dubs 1979-1980. Arthur Rimbaud “Le Vrai Sonnet des Voyelles” (Reading by him) from OU 42-43-44. The Red Krayola with Art and Language: “Four Stars: The Ideal Crew” from Sighs Trapped by Liars (2007). Scientist “Heavenless Dub” Rare Dubs 1979-1980.
2009 June 12thConversation with Nicky Hamlyn: "Professor Nicky Hamlyn studied fine art at Reading University and has made over forty films, videos and installations since then. His films have been shown at festivals and screenings around the world and his book Film Art Phenomena was published by the BFI in 2003. He is senior lecturer in Video Arts Production and Visual Theory at University for the Creative Arts, Maidstone, and a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art. His recent work has been concerned with exploring and trying to refine the relationship between the camera and its profilmic" + Film soundtrack for "The Overcoming of Hazard" by Brad Butler and Karen Mirza, Touch Seven TS3 7" vinyl side A.
2009 May 29thMichelangelo Pistoletto. On Saturday 23rd of May, as part of Tate Modern’s Long Weekend, Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto recreated one of his actions from the 1960s, rolling a large ball of newspaper over the Millennium Bridge, around the City and back by boat assisted by his wife and long-time collaborator Maria Pioppi. Pistoletto’s Ball of Newspapers (1966) was one of the artist’s “Minus Objects” that he rolled through the streets of Turin in 1967 during the heyday of Arte Povera. William English joined the throng which followed the ball and chatted with Pistoletto en route. + Wolf Vostell: Elektronischer de-collage. Happening Raum (1968).
2009 May 22ndBAKU: Symphony of Sirens, Sound Experiments in the Russian Avant-Garde, Original Documents and reconstructions of 72 key works of music, poetry and agitprop from the Russian avantgardes 1908-1942. The book is released and distributed by ReR... I bought this copy from the Tate Modern bookshop and it can also be ordered through Sub Rosa for about £25... Chris Cutler is the general editor. The 72 page book is translated from the Spanish, and includes an essay by Miguel Molina Alarcon providing an overview, summary biographies, bibliography, web research links and the 2 CDs, the first of which is made up of reconstructions including The Symphony of Sirens by Avraamov, and previously lost sound events by Prokofiev, Khlebnikov, Malevich, Burliuk and numerous others, lasting between 9 seconds and 28 minutes. The second CD is made up entirely of original recordings including Vertov’s Enthusiasm, The Dombass Symphony; a symphony of abstract industrial noise from 1930, followed by contemporary recordings by Roman Jakobson, Khruchenykh, Lili Brik, Esenin, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, Akhmatova, Lenin and Trotsky. Today I’ve chosen mostly poetic works; and the first track is by Igor Severyanin called Echo dating from 1914, these first tracks are all reconstructions from 2006, the second half of the programme will be original recordings.
2009 May 15thContinuing last week's conversation with Richard Thomas, content manager of Resonance 104.4FM.
2009 May 8thGood afternoon, you are listening to Wavelength on Resonance 104.4FM. Today’s mystery guest is Richard Thomas, content manager of a well known radio station; “The first time I knowingly encountered you was at an event off the Bethnal Green Road on the upper floor of a factory building, on a Sunday afternoon, probably 6 years ago now, organised by Mattin and Joel Stern. I showed a film and then Nishide Takehiro started a performance which involved you blowing into a plastic hosepipe immersed in a bucket of water. Hugh Metcalfe might have been playing a guitar. On leaving the factory building and approaching the Bethnal Green Road, almost directly opposite is a business premises with a large sign above the door which says “William English and Son, Funeral Directors” which came as a slight shock. I mean if you have to come across your own namesake in that way, it would be preferable to perhaps come across something more glamorous or cheerful, a Florist perhaps or a Piano Tuner... anything but a funeral director... Have you ever come across someone with the same name as yourself?"
2009 May 1stInvitation to listeners to submit a new version of the Wavelength ticking clock theme followed by a melange of previous programmes starting with Maurice Seddon’s unique telephone apparatus, snippets of Jonas Mekas, Henry Flynt, Nick Rochford, MMs bar announcements, Hugh coughing, crying baby, How can we hang on to a dream by Tim Hardin, Dining Room soundtrack, cuckoo clock, barking dogs, Der Ball ist Rund by Ror Wolf, Eris from Alfred 23 Harth (Heiner Goebbels, John Oswald, John Zorn) and Psycho-Motorik Musik by Otto Muehl.
2009 April 24thNOTHING. The Nothingists was a group created at the end of 1919 in Moscow echoing the internationalisation of the Dada movement although they didn’t use that word because in Russian Dada means “yes yes” contradicting their nihilism. They stopped all activity in 1923; Manifesto From Nothingism 1920, and Decree About the Nothingists of The Poetry 1920, both from CDs accompanying the book Baku: Symphony of Sirens.
A Colour named Nothing by Contraption 37 from A Consonant Vowel, anthology of audio art and sound poetry recorded in 1988. 3’34” by Pavel Buchler; transparent vinyl single lasting 3’34” and issued in an edition of 334 copies; compilation of unrecorded parts and transitions between tracks of 10 John Cage records from the collection of Pavel Buchler, 2006.
Perhaps the ultimate Nothingness record was produced by Yves Klein in 1959 with the LP Prince of Space which is entirely silent; the only sound being the contact between the stylus and the vinyl record, unlike Buchler’s record which is a recording of stylus meeting vinyl and therefore a recording unlike Klein’s which is actually an object... but this leads to comparing silence with nothingness and as apparently there is no such thing as silence I’ll get on with the next track:
Nothing by The Fugs from The Fugs First Album ESP 1965.
Outer Nothingness by Sun Ra from The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Volume 1 ESP 1965.
2009 April 10thBob Cobbing 1920-2002: Quote from Bob Cobbing in Ceolfrith Number 26: Bob Cobbing and Writers Forum. “e colony - a version” flexidisc from typewriter 4 1973 with Peter Finch on jews harp. “Green Computer” and “Yak Poem” from Birdyak Green Computer 1988 with Hugh Metcalfe. “Khajrej” extract 1972 with Anna Lockwood from the EP L’Autonomatopek 1 issued with Opus journal for the arts. “Marvo Movie Natter” (Voices: Cobbing, A. Lockwood, Jeff Keen) and “Spontaneous Appealinair Contemprate Apollinaire” (1968) both tracks from OU 34-35.
2009 April 3rdPaul de Vree; poet, born Antwerp 1909. Ode a Stockholm from the LP poesia sonora, anthology of sound poetry 1975. Organon and Exodus from AHAHAHA8 Review for Verbal Plasticism 1970. Reading of an extract from Concrete Poetry, A World View; Mary Ellen Solt. Veronika (1953), Ogenblik (1948), Kleine Caroli (1963), Vertigo Gli (1963), Een Roos a Rose (1964), all from revue OU complete recordings, alga marghen 2006.
2009 March 27thSten Hanson; Swedish composer and sound poet, born 1936: Les Martyrs (1975) The Sonosopher Retrospective, Alga Marghen. Che (1968) Text sound compositions 2 Stockholm Festival 1968 RELP 1054. Skarp dig, for fan! (1991) The Sonosopher Retrospective Alga Marghen. Revolution (1970) Railroad Poem (1970) Don't hesitate, do it right now (1969) The Glorious Desertion (1969) all from OU sound poetry anthology, Algha Margen. How are you (1975) Poesia Sonora.
2009 March 20thWild Classical Music Ensemble: Rien de Rien, Jaws, Happy Flute, The Prisoner. Sub Rosa; musics in the margins: "Instantly the floor falls silent when the four mentally retarded musicians together with their artistic mentor and drummer, all ill at ease, clear their way among drums, trumpets, violins, melodica, samplers and an electric guitar". Israel Quellet: Oppressum. Sub Rosa; musics in the margins: For percussion and sound toys, For percussion, sander and telephone keyboard strokes, For buckets dragged on the ground and saturation.
2009 March 13thConversation with seekers of lice on the subjects of hand-written paper bags, ephemeral artworks washed away by the tide, artists' books and boxes exhibited at bookartbookshop. Seekers of lice; plural but singular.
2009 March 6thBill Burns, director of Safety Gear for Small Animals; passing through from Toronto to Denmark discusses his latest projects: Dogs and Boats and Airplanes, Children's Choir (pilot project) in collaboration with Mammalian Diving Reflex and Alpha Alternative School Toronto "So-called Friends" by Rodney Graham from the CD The Bed-Bug, Love Buzz and other songs in the popular idiom.
2009 February 27th Clive GrahamClive Graham talks about Morphogenesis; improvising electronic group formed in 1985.
2009 February 20thDouble Dutch: Collage of overlaid conversation in Dutch by a group of people looking at a photograph album recorded in Castricum North Holland in January 2009. The album contains images of World War 2 and the German occupation of Castricum. During the Liberation of this region my English father met my Dutch mother.
Accompanied by the following music: Guus Janssen "Ritmische Etude", Louis Andriessen "Choral Vorspiele", and 3 traditional Mechanical Organ tracks from the record The Busy Drone (BVHAAST 034-1).
"My Mother's Eyes" by Tad Smith, Itis golden saxophone and Itis orchestra (Modern Music, undated).
2009 February 13th"Valse Belgique" (Abel Frans) Mechanical Organ. The Busy Drone. Telephone interview with artist and curator Gerry Smith during the setting up of an exhibition in Ostend, Belgium. "Sans Titre" Oscar Haus on accordion. "The Revolution Starts Now" by Galaxia/Steve Wallis. Last 2 tracks both from the Sub Rosa CD musics in the margin.
2009 February 6thGregory Duret "mix free" Bokan! musics in the margin.
De Selvera's "Twee Rebruine Ogen" Hollandse Gouwe Ouwe.
Philippe "la ballade des gens heureux" Bokan! musics in the margin.
De Selvera's "De Postkoets" Hollandse Gouwe Ouwe.
Buckethead "The Slunk, the Gutter and the Candlestick" from Kaleidoscalp.
Francois Dufrene "Osmose-Art" (1969) from the CD accompanying exhibition
catalogue published by Fundacao Serralves 2007.
Loic "le DVD avec" Bokan! musics in the margin.
2009 January 23thAram Saroyan: Radio Stations 1967 from the LP Mother Number 9. 15 minute interview with Barry Landeen, manager of Tree Frog Radio, a pirate station on Denman Island, Vancouver.
2009 January 16th Philip Jeck. Live in St. Michel and St. Gudula Cathedral, Brussels (as part of Les Nuits Botaniques) 16:36 7th May 2006 from the double LP Spire Live, Fundamentalis. Joe Jones on piano and car battery, no date.
2009 January 9th "Hymnos" by Giacinto Scelsi for organ and 2 orchestral groups (1963).
"Satisfaction of Oscillation" by Dajuin Yao (1997).
"Blind Ignorance" by Sutcliffe Jugend (2007).
2008 December 19thChristmas greetings from Wavelength spoken by Maurice Seddon who goes on to talk about heated clothing, windmills and his time spent living in Elgar's house in Hampstead. Charles Matthews plays Giacinto Scelsi: In Nomine Lucis, Live in St. Michel and St. Gudula Cathedral Brussels, from the double LP Spire Live: Fundamentalis (FACT12 Touch Tone 28) 2008.
2008 December 12thBarry Miles; author of In the Sixties, co-founder of Indica Bookshop, publisher of International Times, Europe's first Underground newspaper discusses William Burroughs. Barry Miles is curating an exhibition on Burroughs at Maggs Brothers, Berkeley Square London in January 2009.
2008 December 5thCaptain Maurice Seddon delivers a short address on the subject of "Horselength".
Tracks from A Breeze of Time, The Auricle Archive: Volume XV, and Electric Junk, The Auricle Archive: Volume IX.
2008 November 28th"Houle Hulule" (26 December 1973) 26'48" by Jean Dubuffet from the CD accompanying the book: Jean Dubuffet, Experiences Musicales (Les Cahiers de la Fondation Dubuffet No.1 Paris 2006).
2008 November 21stNick Rochford talking about how he started up the legendary Compendium Bookshop in London's Camden Town. Recorded at the Conway Hall in Summer 2008.
2008 November 14thEdited extracts of an interview with Jonas Mekas by William English and Richard Thomas in July 2008.
2008 November 7th"Richard Nixon" by Rodd, Terri and The MSR Singers from Beat of the Traps MSR Madness Volume 1 (1971)
"Little Ghetto Boy" by Donny Hathaway Live at the Bitter End NY (1972)
"Things have got to change" by Archie Shepp (1971) featuring the voice of Joe Lee Wilson and electronic music by Romulus Franceschini.
2008 October 31stHenry Flynt: Raga Electric Experimental Music 1963-1971: "Central Park Transverse Vocal 1-4 (1963)" Locust Music, followed by an interview with Henry Flynt recorded in London on October 20th in which he speaks mostly about Abstract Film.
"White Lightening" from Back Porch Hillbilly Blues volume 2, Locust Music 2002.
2008 October 24thSt. Paul to St. Paul's. (St. Paul de Vence to St. Paul's London). Wavelength signatures. Chirping birds in Menton. Automatic searching of French radio stations. Trains on Nice station before departing for London.
2008 October 10thI just need to remember what the show was... where was I? Yes, Clive Graham didn't turn up because he was waiting for a plumber.
Stocks crashed again, the streets were full of people crying, pulling their hair out and screaming "my savings!! my pension!!" Flames were licking around the Bank of England as thousands of disaffected employees started bonfire night early.
Double decker buses were turned over and used as barricades.
Financiers and hedge fund managers were being lined up and shot. Apart from that nothing happened.
Henri Chopin: "Les Souffles des Tempetes" and "La Digestion" from Les Mirifliques Tundras et Compagnie (Alga Marghen 1997).
2008 September 26th MMRecordings by Sandra Cross over one year (2006) as part of her ongoing project "What did you eat today?" The recordings were made on the train between Leicester and London, featuring announcements about the MM's Bar (Midland Mainline refreshments bar).
2008 September 19th James Tregaskis Holds The FortJames Tregaskis stands in for William English: How not to listen to the radio by James Tregaskis, Sexton Ming live at the Shunt Lounge; 2 poems and a song, Robert Lyall Patterson and his two seater 1950 engine Ford special recorded at Sturgis 2007,
"Things to do before you die" with John from Birmingham and lastly,
The Golding Institute: The Final Relaxation.
2008 September 5thNational Express coach to Derby. A message from our sponsors: Fotheringay and Braithwaite's organic home made ferret flavoured chutney.
Maurice Seddon takes a trip on the Thames to Runnymede, and remembers friends with ferrets.
2008 August 15thBorder Dissolve in Audiospace (1970) by Liam O'Gallagher from the LP 10+2:12 American Text Sound Pieces 1750 Arch Records. His Eyes, Her Eyes by Paul Dutton from Oralizations. Duke by Mouthus and Yellow Swans Live on Conan Island No-Fi 2008.
2008 September 12thA message from our sponsors: Fotheringay and Braithwaite's organic home made ferret flavoured chutney.
Instructions for the correct pronunciation of Jonas Mekas from the man himself.
One minute track by Otomo Yoshihide from Ground Zero Live (1992).
Jim White relates a story "the wrong man", recorded live at Rough Trade in 2007 followed by "a perfect day for chasing tornadoes". Masonna/Yamazaki "Masao" Takushi: "Spectrum Ripper (part I-II-III)" (1996-1997) 3.33. More Mekas.
2008 August 8th Publish and be DamnedRecorded at ''Publish and be Damned'' on Sunday 3rd August; brief interviews, incoherent snatches of sound + tracks from a CD on the Ole label bought at the event.
2008 August 1st Interview with Alan and Steve FreemanInterview with Alan and Steve Freeman, proprietors of Leicester shop: Ultima Thule, legendary outlet for recordings of ''Spacy'' electronic music, Krautrock, experimental and progressive music including local outfits such as Volcano the Bear and Black Carrot. Alan and Steve also perform their own music in a variety of identities.
2008 May 30th Cough-InWilliam invites guests to phone in sick with studio guest and living legend Hugh de la Cruz who plays a virtuoso performance on a plastic inhaler.
2008 May 23rd MetronomeSoundtracks from a CD attached to issue No 7 of "Metronome" magazine, published 2001 - this may cause offence. Metronome Number 7 Edited by Clementine Deliss; The Bastard, Magnetic Speech.
2008 May 16th ReichWilliam English Invites Professor James Tregaskis to discuss the word "Reich" and play some audio he brought along.
Wilhelm Reich, Steve Reich, Third Reich are all given short shrift in this exhaustive analysis of JT's thought processes.
2008 May 9th Ian Bone + anonymous 14 year oldIan Bone talks about Class War + an anonymous 14 year old representative of the "Class War Youth Death Squad".
2008 May 2nd Adrian Mitchell, Art and Language, Joseph Beuys, Cornelius Cardew and Fredric RzewskiAdrian Mitchell; Ode on the assassination of President Johnson; To whom it may concern, from the LP A Laugh, A Song, A Hand-Grenade (Transatlantic Records 1968).
Art and Language and the Red Crayola; Corrected Slogans 1976;
An Harangue; Organisation. Joseph Beuys; Excerpt from Cooper Union Dialogue 1980. Cornelius Cardew; Smash the Social Contract, from We Only Want the Earth (2001 musicnow).
Fredric Rzewski; excerpt (finale) from The People United Will Never Be Defeated! 36 Variations on a Chilean Song.
Ursula Oppens, piano (Vanguard 1978).
2008 April 25th Henri Chopin, Alexis Korner, Charles HaywardHenri Chopin; Les Souffles from the LP La Plaine des Respirs (Tochnit Aleph 073 2007) Herbie's Tune by Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated from the CD Red Hot From Alex (CMRCD 293 2001/1964).
Charles Hayward; Sweetheart, from Switch on War (SUB CD017-40 1991).
2008 April 18th Gerry SmithBelgium and the Belgians. Analysis and discussion with Richard Thomas; Resonance station manager whose father once played football for Bruges or was it Ghent? Gerry Smith, artist and Belgian ambassador for Stoke Newington and William English who travelled through Belgium once on a train.
2008 April 11th Patrick SutherlandGuest Patrick Sutherland discusses music from the Spiti region of North West India.
2008 April 4th Yiorgis SakellariouYiorgis Sakellariou returns to introduce sounds by Mecha Orga (Athens). Recorded in a bookshop with a mini dv camera.
2008 March 28th Hell HoundsCaptain Maurice Seddon Part 2: Hell Hounds. The continuing saga of Maurice and the local council who are threatening to remove his dogs. Maurice has lost 3 consecutive court cases and is now considering taking the case to Strasbourg.
2008 March 14th Funk Probideo/Baile FunkFunk Probideo/Baile Funk with filmmaker Yann Beauvais co-founder of Light Cone in Paris and artist Edson Barrus talking via a poor (skype) phone connection from Paris. Several anonymous tracks from a CDR provided by Yann and Edson featuring gunshots and references to bazookas.
2008 March 7th Terry Fox, Jim NollmanAnimal music including Terry Fox, Jim Nollman from the LP Playing Music with Animals; the interspecies communication of Jim Nollman with 300 Turkeys, 12 Wolves, 20 Orca Whales, Bepler (Cremaster 5) and others.
2008 February 29th Marcel DuchampMarcel Duchamp's Erratum 'framed' by both sides of a 'found' record by Bob and Roberta Smith. The single "Knock 3 times on the ceiling if you want me" is appropriated by Bob and Roberta Smith by sticking a new label on the record and calling it a signed limited edition entitled "Lame" and the B side "Worse".
2008 February 15th Marcel Duchamp, Ivor CutlerMarcel Duchamp talks about Ready-Mades + tracks from Ivor Cutler's A Flat Man.
2008 February 8th Clive GrahamGuest Clive Graham introduces the latest release on his Paradigm label; Machine by Trevor Wishart.
2008 February 1st Francis PicabiaFrancis Picabia: La Nourrice Americaine (The American Nurse). Slow Version (19.57) So far as is known, Picabia composed just one piece of music, an antagonistic piece performed for the first, and seemingly last, time in 1920; "three notes repeated to infinity" (LTMCD 2509).
2008 January 18th Terry Fox, Typewriter Music, Bagpipes, Flynt and others.Terry Fox; Internal Sound (excerpt) 1979, followed by Typewriter in D by David Smyth, both from Revolutions per Minute (The Art Record) 1982 Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc. Trachea by David Watson with Shelley Hirsch and Makigami Koichi from the CD Throats 2002. Henry Flynt; Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Volume 2 Unidentified track.
2008 January 11th Interview with Bill BurnsInterview with Bill Burns, director of The Museum of Safety Gear for Small Animals on the eve of his exhibition at the ICA London which incorporates Bird Radio and the Flora and Fauna information service.
2007 December 21st Christmas Mix"Had to take Christmas in my overalls" from 3 different versions of Sitting on top of the World + Meeuw Muzak singles and country singer Jim White; Christmas Day from Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (Luaka Bop 2005).
2007 December 14th Inaugural Inaugural concert by Benghazi: Gwenda Jones on paper cup, James Tregaskis on balloons and vomiting and Mtebe Noginga on piledriver and toys. Recorded live in the studio on Borough High Street. Naturally these highly strung individuals came to loggerheads shortly after this event and went their own separate ways only to reform the following day. Tregaskis's distinctive vomiting technique spawned numerous clones, Noginga gained a reputation for extracting the most from a wind up tin toy but little of merit can be said about Gwenda Jones's lacklustre performance which prompted the acrimonious break-up. A classic.
2007 December 7th ChristieRecording from a Christie's Auction, King Street London + Georg Baselitz lecture "The Painters' Equipment" A lecture at the Royal Academy of Arts 1987. (Audio Arts LP, recorded by William Furlong and William Archer).
2007 November 30th The Red Suede Jacket"The Red Suede Jacket": Bob Hughes remembers the 1960s in Leicester. Cut into the interview is a rare track by The Farinas later to become Family, and also Country Line Special by Cyril Davies and his Rhythm and Blues All Stars (1963). The red suede jacket became a fixation for me; worn in the 1960s by John Nixon otherwise known as Jelly for reasons unknown, the jacket became emblematic of that period. Bob Hughes recalls some of the events, recorded in The Modena Cafe in Leicester which has hardly changed since the early 1960s. The Farinas were a Leicester group who later became Family. The track played here is their first and only single apart from an incredibly rare demo disc and features the harmonica playing of James King. My elder brother Jack took me to see The Farinas at The Pit which was a club underneath the notorious Bond Street Cafe in Leicester City Centre. I was probably eleven years old, still in short trousers. The Farinas were playing rhythm and blues and memorably a track about a train, with harmonica by Jim King.
2007 November 23rd London Artists Book Fair at the ICAWandering round the Artists' Book Fair asking various book artists for a definition of what an Artist's Book is and getting a variety of answers.
2007 November 9th La Monte Young and Terry RileyLa Monte Young and Terry Riley 1960 "Concert for Two Pianos and Five Tape Recorders" (1960) With La Monte Young, recorded live 11 May 1960, Nam June Paik Works 1958.1979.Text of Light by Lee Ranaldo, Christian Marclay, Alan Licht, Uli Krieger, DJ Olive (Table of the Elements 2004).
2007 November 2nd Dogs in DatchetTelephone interview with Captain Maurice Seddon who describes his unique telephone apparatus and the ongoing legal battle with his local council and neighbour to retain his dogs. Maurice lives in humble circumstances in Datchet at the end of the Heathrow flight path. Planes fly directly overhead every 90 seconds. The large garden, surrounded by a high but dilapidated wooden fence contains all manner of unwanted and outdated electrical goods, motorcycles, refrigerators, tarpaulins, a small caravan and a pack of 18 mongrels which live wild and occasionally start to bark in unison. Maurice has lived here for 50 years. A neighbour who moved in a few years ago has complained consistently about the noise of the dogs resulting in a series of eccentric court cases. At time of writing the dogs remain in situ.
2007 October 12th Reto ScheiberInterview with St. Martin's graduate Reto Scheiber. Reto Scheiber admitted to having suffered from depression but after embracing religion and using this in his Art his state of mind improved. After leaving St Martin's he took a job in East London but quickly decided to return to his Alpine homeland. Recorded in the studio on Borough High Street.
2007 October 5th TracksPamelia Kurstin; Eschschloraque, from Thinking Out Loud (Tzadik 2007). Iron and Wine; Resurrection Fern, from The Shepherd's Dog (Transgressive 2007). Camberwell Now; Ghost Trade, from All's Well (ReCDec 1015). The Handsome Family; There's a City, from Smothered and Covered (2002), a personal gathering of rarities including odd covers, bathroom demos and orphaned songs.
2006 August 27th Short TracksShort Tracks, mostly one minute or less: Aram Saroyan, Chris Burden, Wild Man Fischer, Muslimgauze, Buckethead, Peterson, Yoko Ono, Augusto de Campos, Handsome Family, Henry Flynt, John Wynne, Conlon Nancarrow, Moondog, Wolfgang Fuchs, Peter Brotzmann, Rodney Graham.
2007 July 6th William phones Weaverville CaliforniaWilliam phones Weaverville California and gets an insight into thrift shops from James Tregaskis. Recorded before he became Professor.
2007 June 22nd Finally a good connectionFinally a good connection to Captain Maurice Seddon demonstrating his idiosyncratic telephone apparatus. Captain Maurice Seddon, Royal Signals (retired), now in his 80s, inventor of electrically heated clothing. Maurice's telephone operates on a one-way basis making interruption impossible and conversation frustrating.
2007 June 15th Explorer and bon viveurExplorer and bon viveur James Tregaskis speculates on his forthcoming motorcycle journey to Alaska.
2007 June 8th Clive GrahamClive Graham host of the long standing Resonance104.4fm programme Sound Poets Exposed brings in a new release on the Paradigm label: I.D. ART 2 (PD23) Paradigm Discs 2007.
2007 June 1st Captain Maurice SeddonCaptain Maurice Seddon Royal Signal Corps (retired) shows Sandra Cross his thrombosis. Sandra by a fountain in a garden near to London Wall. Jonathan Kane from the CD "February" 2005 (Table of the Elements).
2006 December 22nd Wavelength Christmas PartyWavelength Christmas Party including Meeuw Muzak singles.
2006 December 15th Nuclear and other warsThe Ballad of the Green Berets, from Songs of Our Fighting Men "The Green Berets" by Sergeant Barry Sadler U.S. Army Special Forces (RCA Victor 1966). Good Morning Vietnam, recorded in Vietnam by Claude Johner (Folkways Records FD 5445 1972). Last Poets; What Will You Do? from Oh, My People (CELL 6108). Conrad Atkinson; The Louis XIV Deterrent, from Revolutions per Minute (The Art Record) (1982 Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc). Nuclear War by Sun Ra. Recorded NY 1982 (RA1). Low Flying Aircraft by Paul Burwell and Anne Bean, small edition vinyl single (1990?).
2006 December 8th Train to KetteringTrain to Kettering, adjusting a clock in Syston. Sten Hanson from the LP The Sonosopher Retrospective (Alga Marghen). Train to Leicester, broke down in Kettering, various announcements and then changed trains after some confusion. The clock in Syston was a prize for long distance running awarded to William Cross, Sandra's grandfather, in Corby some time in the 1930s. The clock is now in a house in Syston, Leicestershire and needs rewinding frequently as we all do. This clock's chiming is the signature tune for Wavelength.
2006 December 1stFluxus Artist Ben Patterson: Early Works.
"A Simple Opera" 15'51" and "Pond" 5'24" (Alga Marghen).
Ben Patterson: "This is not only my first CD, but also the first recordings of these works available to the general public".
2006 November 17th Peter Reiling, Bob Cobbing, Edwin Schlossberg, Art and Language, Henri Chopin.Peter Reiling "So!" from a CDR sent in to the programme by Peter. Birdyak: Bob Cobbing, Ma-Lou Bangerter and Hugh Metcalfe; Make perhaps this out sense of can you from the LP aberration (KZ8801 1988). Edwin Schlossberg; Vibrations/Metaphors from Revolutions per Minute (The Art Record) (1982 Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc). Art and Language and The Red Crayola; It's an Illusion from the 1976 LP Corrected Slogans. Henri Chopin; Le Fond de la Gorge (ou Throat Power) 1974.
2006 November 3rd Interview with Yiorgis SakellariouInterview with Yiorgis Sakellariou (Mecha Orga). Recorded live in Denmark Street studio for Wavelength hosted by William English.','http://www.archive.org/download/Wavelength2006-11-03/Wavelength-November3rd2006.mp3,', '2006 November 10th Artist Pavel Buchler','Artist Pavel Buchler: "Live"; applause gathered from his collection of live recordings. Pavel Buchler assembled these recordings of applause from his own collection of 351 albums of ?live? recordings of jazz concerts and other musical events and re-released them on a vinyl LP in a limited edition of 351 copies.
2006 October 27th Mecha Orga, David Jackman, Volcano the Bear, Jack Smith, Handsome FamilyMecha/Orga (Yiorgis Sakellariou) "from a piner" "Flak" ten inch vinyl record by David Jackman Volcano the Bear; Oslo Top from Volseptor recorded live 19.6.98 Earthquake Orgy from Tony Conrad's soundtrack for Jack Smith's film Flaming Creatures. Recorded early 1962, from the CD Jack Smith; Les Evening Gowns Damnees, Audio Artkive 01 Natalie Wood by The Handsome Family; Smothered and Covered (Rarities).
2006 October 6th Anatomy of VisionAnatomy of Vision by Vitamin B12 from the double LP "badges" the fifth album by the vitamin b12 edition of 300 copies, followed by Adagio, section 5 from An Angel Moves too fast to See by Rhys Chatham.
2006 August 13th You're a Winner or You're a Sinner"You're a winner or you're a sinner". Evangelist lay preacher recorded at Piccadilly Circus: This lay preacher was a fixture at Oxford Circus for many years, relentlessly preaching to the crowds through a portable megaphone. His mantra was "You're a winner or you're a sinner" along with other rhymes. This recording on a Walkman cassette recorder was made at his later site on Piccadilly Circus. I haven't seen him at either location for at least one year + "Flak" ten inch vinyl record by David Jackman
2006 July 16th Maurice LeMaitreMaurice LeMaitre vinyl EP "Maurice Lemaitre presente Le Lettrisme" ESRF 1171 1958; a very rare record by the maker of Le Film est deja Commence? and numerous Lettriste tracts and videos. Plus tracks by Isidore Isou and Jean Dubuffet.
2006 July 2nd piano/creaking floor/piledriversArt Terry tunes a piano/creaking floor/piledrivers.
One of the prizes for a Resonance fund raising auction was to have a piano tuned by Art Terry, presenter of Is Black Music on Resonance104.4fm. I don't have a piano but placed a winning bid and asked Art if I could film him tuning a piano which he agreed to.
This is the soundtrack of that video film recorded on a mini dv camera superimposed on a recording made at Marcus Campbell Art Books 43 Holland Street, London SE1, of a creaking floor and demolition of the building opposite.
2006 June 4th Percussion tracksEdgard Varese; Ionisation (1931) for 3 bass drums, 2 side drums, 2 snare drums, tarole, 2 bongos, tambourine, tambour militaire, crash cymbal, suspended cymbals, 3 tam tams, gong, 2 anvils, 2 triangles, sleigh bells, chimes, celesta, piano, Chinese blocks, claves, maracas, castanets, slapstick, guiro, high and low sirens, lion's roar (Nonesuch 1974).
Bow Gamelan Ensemble; Black Betty/Pyrotechnics 'Offshore Rig'. From the vinyl LP Great Noises that fill the Air (Klinker Zoundz 8804 1988).Musique Akara.
Tambours de bois. From Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinee (Ocora OCR 86).
Luis Agudo; Agudu from the LP Afrosamba (Red Record VPA 172).
Kip Hanrahan/Jack Bruce: You can tell a guy by his anger, from Exotica 1992.
2005 November 20th Canadian Artist Bill BurnsInterview with Canadian Artist Bill Burns, director of the Museum of Safety Gear for Small Animals.
2005 November 6th Regent's Park Tennis clubSeveral tennis games superimposed. Recorded by William English on a Sony 'Professional' Walkman cassette recorder.
One of the tennis players caught sight of the microphone which was fixed to a wire fence and commented on being spied upon.
Whenever a tennis ball struck the fence an interesting reverberation resulted.
2005 October 10th Perpetual Motion Alan Bridges (alias Hugh de la Cruz) attempts to describe his perpetual motion machine.
Hugh is an inventor of unfinished projects including a motorcycle that doesn't fall over and a trousercoat illustrated in "What did you eat today? Number One; Hugh de la Cruz"
16mm film by William English and Sandra Cross.
