Resonance FM Blog

30.05.06

23:30hrs

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Hi

I have just despatched 2CDRs - they represent ‘work in progress’ and so would be grateful for any feedback - they were both made from samples from site recordings and in away i think represent ideas or themes in my earlier electronic work - but using actual events.  Rain - certainly parodies rhythmic music - and summer parodies ‘drone’ - there is ambivalence however between parody of the artificial and the artificial rendering of the real - which is where Kant comes in, again perhaps pretentious - or perhaps not.

Perhaps they represent a bridge between electronic and conceptual drawing on the methods used in the more recent noise works. I resisted the temptation to ‘over process’ so perhaps a casual listener would suppose some uniform time flowing through the work…and not become aware of its method - blithely thinking then this is an example of a field recording of ‘things in
themselves’….

Cheers - james
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previous mail -

hi james

look forward to receiving the disks. i will try my best to lend my thoughts to your new work.
i like the idea of “summer parodies ‘drone’”

i mean, to start off a work using location recordings is to
immediately borrow from nature?? i guess. but i had not really thought about it as a parody before. the idea of
reality simulation is i think different from parodying reality, there
is something more
concrete about parody and something more transcendental about simulation.

also the real/unreal paradox.

i think radio is a good place to explore these notions as it is
somewhat removed from a tangible reality?  ie - faceless voice/disembodied voice. this idea is something central to my show, if not very noticable.
cheers
Lee
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Resonance FM is the first ever Community Radio Station to have a programme nominated for a Sony Award since the awards started over 24 years ago.

Yay!

And talking with the organisers I get the sense that they want Community Stations to apply more often…

The Good Drugs Guide series was a bit of a slog to put together so getting nominated was a really great reward. I wanted to do all the shows live because that’s my favourite kind of radio. My co-presenter David wanted to pre-record everything and make it shiny.

I still think live is great but I have to admit the episode that we chose to send in was a pre-recorded one, edited over seven mad hours just before transmission by David. It was also controversial (we had academics on who questioned whether “addiction” is a useful concept), fast moving and cheeky.

Since they didn’t hassle us to get tickets for the awards ceremony David (correctly) assumed we hadn’t actually won anything. I am an optimist, and a sucker for a schmoozing opportunity so I bought a ready tied bowtie and turned up. The first thing I saw was the celebrity meatrack experience where all the celebs take their turn to stand in a little corral enclosure and get shouted at by the photographers - “Over here - To me - Look over here - One more straight at ME love - Please one more - Over here - to me - TO ME”. I was very impressed at how many of the celebs could keep smiling serenely at every lens in turn for their whole session. One less experienced celeb kept muttering sorry, presumably feeling that she was failing in some way.

The bar was rammed. I was freaked and failing to network. I met a nice woman from a magazine who told me she knew who had won already (she had to interview the winners before her copy deadline which meant getting to them before they were actually winners). She asked me what show I was from. I told her. She looked away. Thanks.

Then I saw that the table I had been allocated was the furthest from the podium. Having been the MC at awards ceremonies I know that you need the winners someplace where they can get to the podium quickly. It would have taken me about fifteen minutes, with a machete. So I stopped polishing my acceptance speech and toyed with my entree.

The organisers have a webcast going throughout the event and I got invited up for an interview. Kevin Greening asked some friendly questions and even let me get a plea in for a new transmitter for Resonance. He said that he loved the station but that not enough people have heard of us. Actually I think he said no one had heard of us. In the end I spent so long defending The Good Drugs Guide that I failed to plug my new show on Resonance..

Mind The Gap on Sundays at Six

One of the weirdest moments of the awards ceremony was when the host was reading out the list of nominees for Best Radio Coverage Of A Jolly Big Event. “The London bombings” - huge cheer “The closure of Longbridge and loss of thousands of jobs” - rapturous applause “The death of the Pope” - wild delighted shouting.

You can watch the webcast elsewhere on the following website. But this link is to “Tips on how to win and how there’s no way to win or even get nominated if you don’t get round to sending the application form in…”

go for it

and I think this is the very beginning of a standing ovation for Terry Wogan

Some bright spark had the good sense to read the small print of the ‘MySpace’ terms and conditions and look what they found!…

Once an artist posts up any content (including songs), it then belongs to My Space (AKA Rupert Murdoch) and they can do what they want with it throughout the world without payng the artist.

Because of this, cuddly revolutionarym, Billy Bragg has boycotted My Space and his record company have had to take down all his songs. More people will and are undoudtedly following suit. Small clips being put up are seen as a temporary safer option.

The last line is the most sinister and hypocritical of the whole clause. Even if you withdraw from ‘My Space’ any ‘residual’ copies that “my Space may have are still the property of ‘my Space’ so even withdrawal is not a safe precaution… I always prefered the rythmn method myself! Oi, this is no time for levity!
Below is the offending clause. Bragg’s people are hoping to start a small revolution (in true Bragg style) to try and put a stop to this. Idealogically sound ‘My Space’rs  can do their bit by posting out a bulletin to all their ‘friends’ and badger ‘Tom’ with e-mails letting him know how disgustingly unfair and hypocritical this clause is (not least because you can’t hear Billy on there anymore!).

It’s such a bloody shame ‘cos the great thing about My Space is how fast we can all communicate and hear new music. Hopefully if we all do our bit something might change… yeah right!… oh you never know? (see ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again…(P. Townsend)).

TERMS: (as of 17th March 2006)

 By displaying or publishing (”posting”) any Content, messages, text,
 files, images, photos, video, sounds, profiles, works of authorship,
 or any other materials (collectively, “Content”) on or through the
 Services, you hereby grant to MySpace.com, a non-exclusive, fully-
 paid and royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to
 sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy,
 modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store,
 reproduce, transmit, and distribute such Content on and through the
 Services. This license will terminate at the time you remove such
 Content from the Services. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a back-up
 or residual copy of the Content posted by you may remain on the
 MySpace.com servers after you have removed the Content from the
 Services, and MySpace.com retains the rights to those copies.

I came across this link on the Ninja Tune forum and thought it was of some interest. Apparently DFA requested that their tracks be removed from the popular Headfone Sex blog, stating that posting them in advance of their release in this manner was highly detrimental to their sales etc.

Read the article here

In doing so they highlight a growing issue in music, namely: does the model currently used to pay artists for their musical works actually stand up in 2006? Now that piracy has grown beyond all control - be it via P2P, newsgroups, YouSendIt links or music blogs - its safe to say that if you want to avoid buying an album, you can certainly do so… and in the process ensure that the artist does not get fair remuneration for their efforts.

Word also reaches me that AIM (the Association of Independent Music) are now lobbying the UK government, urging them to re-think the laws governing Intellectual Property. The complete details are vague, but I believe the main jist is that AIM would like to see taxes placed on consumer goods such as CDRs, MP3 players, ISP accounts etc., from which monies would be distributed to those artists whose music is downloaded. I can see the benefit here: it would mean music would effectively become free, with your downloads being monitored more (presumably) and the collected tax monies being redistributed according to what’s been downloaded.

Changing times are upon us… but what do YOU think?

… investigates summer - toy drums-shorthand- Kate Bush, today 5:15

We’ve something special for this Sunday’s installment of audition: an hour long interview with Keith Rowe conducted in April of this year, in which he discusses his working methods and thought processes at length.

Covering ground from onstage haircuts to zen archery and everything in between, if you have any interest in Keith’s music you really won’t want to miss this. 7pm, 14 May.

www.auditionradio.info

www.auditionradio.blogspot.com

Nothing takes off the stress in a lunch hour like putting on some quality death metal and drumming along:

Next week: Kev D’ead cuts loose with some speed metal guitar solos on his teabreak.

HORSE HOSPITAL RADIO play a live funkadelic experience at the Battersea Arts Centre launch of new label MUSICBRUT this Saturday

MUSICBRUT

Full line up :

Horse Hospital Radio
Hugh Metcalfe and Matt Scott
Edwige
Baby Grand
The Schizos
Sjaak van de Bent
DJ Christain Wright

13 May 2006
19:30
10.00 (Concs 6.00)

Reflecting notions of outsider and the visionary from the visual arts, Mark Webber presents an evening of performance in celebration of musicians working on the margins of musical culture. Unclassifiable and unpredictable, the event promises an eclectic and diverse mix of styles.

Box Office Opening Hours (Telephone Bookings)
Mon 10.30am - 6pm
Tue - Fri 10.30am - 7pm
Saturday - Sunday 4pm - 7pm

Box Office on 020 7223 2223.

www.thehorsehospital.com
www.myspace.com/horsehospitalradio

party with paint things thurs night, all res welcome wine + whine then bar, 34 Dover St, Piccadilly W1S 4NF

09:05:06 ^ 23:30hrs

Evol (Mego/Alku) : A+R HDJset……..

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“A+R, the Barcelona duo behind the Evol project, the Alku label and the hard to pigeonhole obfuscated software platform called Imbecil, at the resonanceFM decks. Anything goes in a A+R HDJ set, from bluegrass to electroacoustics and everything else in between”

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