Resonance FM Blog

Tonight hear some of our highlights from the Sonar Festival in Barclelona featuring live sets from:

The Modified Toy Orchestra, Jake, Senior Coconut , Tucker, Schneider TM and Marina Yangisawa show to be broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM Monday June 26th at 7pm also available as a podcast and download at www.youarehear.co.uk

http://feeds.feedburner.com/youarehearpodcast

Japanese Tucker is the man behind “Electoon Wizard” he ploughs his own original furrow - old school hip-hop, with a touch of humour on the organ and a pile of toy instruments.
Part jazz, part funk, part Martian.

http://www.oddjob.jp/

The Modified Toy Orchestra if you thought every instrument possible had been invented, think again. Here is Brian Duffy is the man behind Warm Circuit Records who has been adapting toys for years to make them into musical objects that are as entertaining as they are original.

Jake a North American’s and the man behind the infamous “Jack the Rapper” brings together a mass of influences, styles and benchmarks, to make his lyrics into a true musical feast that is not suitable for purists.
http://www.jakelovesyou.com/

Senior Coconut Uwe Shmidt’s maverick spirit and a fascination for Latin music has led to him playing a key role in the history of electronic music. The latest is “Yellow Fever!” a tribute to the legendary Yellow Magic Orchestra, in an electronic cumbia, bolero and cha-cha-cha style. Pure magic.

http://www.essayrecordings.com/

Schneider TM from Germany present a melange of sounds which mixes guitar arrangements with beats and breaks with pop and glitch as if they were predestined to be together.

http://www.schneidertm.net/

Marina Yangisawa Marina Yanagisawa’s “Howlin” is a unique musical instrument largely inspired by the legendary Theremin, one of the oldest electronic instruments. This device built from acrylic pipes and microphones makes minimal howling sounds.

If you do miss it you can listen online where you will also hear specially recorded sessions, concerts and new You Are Hear shows with specials from the some of the best summer festivals. The Glade, Green Man and Big Chill forthcoming.

youarehear.co.uk

or get the podcast feed from

http://feeds.feedburner.com/youarehearpodcast

Wordsmith’s word of the day is Baxter. (You can subscribe to “A Word A Day” by visiting http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/)

baxter (BAK-stuhr) noun : A baker, especially a female baker.

[From Old English baecestre, feminine of baecere, from bacan (to bake).]

Other names for bakers have been backster, backmann, becker, furner (literally, one who is in charge of an oven), and pistor (literally,one who pounded the grain: a miller or a baker).

“Than all the baxters will I ban
That mixes bread with dust and bran.”
David Lyndsay; Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis; 16th c.

This week the Arting Around duo, in love as ever with the blurring edges between art and everyday life, wander into a collective of public performance that will make you say ‘Wowwee zowee, how suffocatingly sombre winter in the galleries was!’

The season of sunny exploit and outdoor exhibition is upon us.

Camberwell Festival puts it own twist on the summer celebration with small pockets of interactive improvised acts and insanely titled events.

E.g. the Peckham pet-tastic fancy dress dog picnic, Borrow Me (borrowing people instead of books) or Be My Guest (the immersive, theatrical installation in a victorian garden picnic).

Anne Lawlor Director of Camberwell Arts brings a few of the festival crowd into the studio to illustrate…

Also a look into a mainstream alternative on par with the Zoo Art Fair. Organisers of the Art Car Boot Fair extravaganza reveal themselves to Resonancefm. How they turn a garage in the Truman brewery into a place of the unimaginable with interactive art of strangeness and real car boot sales. Everything from car sticker to transaction becomes ‘art’, or not?

Update:
Poor Jo had a run in with some criminals on her pedal bike, but will not relent, she intends to trade in her serious briefcase for a shocking pink child’s one. But will it deter future muggers or simply raise their creative standards?

Between marking her students’ thesis and writing her own PHD, Jo has two juicy little munchkins (who love the sweets | send them) and is taking part in a trip to a far away island, as advising artist in the definitive discussion ‘what actually constitutes art?’

Fari is regenerating the Elephant and preparing for festival season when she sometimes plays under the name The token brown girl, and sometimes just plays.

More from us later.

Now, as someone who used to work in IT, I remember very clearly the nightmare of having to deal with staff who had opened an AOL account and then had trouble changing it. It was always pretty clear that one method of these megacorp ISPs is to make cancelling so damn hard you can never do it.

So, after running a story on how AOL tries to retain the accounts of the deceased, Consumerist.com has finally recorded an attempt to cancel, and the result is, well, both side-splitting and kinda scary.

Check it out here

….falling out of a club in london bridge we waved a minicab (anyone old car that would stop) we drove far east into the night. It was going to be a loud one. Amongst the barren dock landscape we found the roundabout and spotted another cab full of revellers. “This must be it” no-one else would be here for no reason at this time of night.

Staggering into the entrance, lit by an oil drum fire, we enter a disused printing warehouse and are greeted with the boom of that now almost extinct idea, “the London Squat Party.” Harrassed by Police, Councils and mostly the ‘darkness,’ the once thriving scene has gone seriously underground or legit.

Splayed over the floor are beautiful colour prints in all shapes and sizes. Folk are helping themselves to the leftover paper supplies and in the middle of this mess is the rig. Dan has setup his buttoned boxes and leads in between 2 huge stacks of speakers. He turns around, looks me in the eye, presses a button and an all consuming bass floods out over the vast space.

This is the Hekate Sound System, which, for 10 years has ploughed an individual, fractured path of experimentalism. ResonanceFM celebrates this most genre defying collective with a Clearspot on Thursday 15th June. We will be airing more sets from 1-7am during that night. Friday & Saturday night also sees more new sets from the nofixedabode night and other friends of redZEROradio.

The Bike Show is 2: Party!

To celebrate 2 years (almost) of the Bike Show on Resonance FM, we’ll be having a party on 30 June, just after Critical Mass, and on the eve of this year’s Tour De France. What better excuse to raise a glass to the transcendental pleasures of the bicycle?!

I’d like to invite all the resonance engineers and other programme-makers.

DJs spinning continental sounds, classic bike films on the screen, a free prize draw and pub prices on the liquor.

8pm-1am, upstairs at the Walrus Social, corner of Westminster Bridge Road and Lower Marsh, in the heart of London’s fabulous Waterloo.

www.bikeshow.blogspot.com

to Caroline and Leslie Bunder of Resonance’s Something Jewish show, on the birth of their daugher, Emily Rebecca Lena, on 7 June 2006. We wish them all the very best.

For more info please check out my post on the forum

Just got back from Deep Wireless festival in Toronto Canada, highlights were many- certainly the Evolution Control Committee’s very own Trade Mark performing - kitchen of the future -playing plunderphonic sounds from his custom made toaster and blender which he was also able to make Margaritas with which tasted great too!! twas a really funny show.

Also really enjoyed Power Play a live radiophonic performance which was Gregory Whitehead led and performed by Anna Fritz, Christine Duncan, Richard Lee and Windeyer taking radio to an other worldly medium- chilling and the most gripping live radio drama I’ve ever experienced. Trevor Wisheart was also a live highlight splurging sound form his body sadly John Oswald’s all request redirect, fell a little flat as a live performance, but if I had tuned in on http://www.free103point9.org/ a arts station worth checking out, I am sure I would have loved it. Also it was great to meet up with Japanese micro radio pioneer Tetsuo Kogawa.
My heart was won over by Montreal though as Toronto is a huge urban polluted city with little charm- the weather was 40 degrees for most of my visit! alternating with huge rain storms- so that’s how they fill up those ocean like lakes, but one of fav places in Toronto was the singing metro station at Dupont, wind seems to get stuck in a glass exit turning it into a musical instrument sounding like a sci- fi theremin.
It was also really exhilarating to descend at 3O miles an hour in the lift though at the CN tower and walk across the glass ceiling at the top - will stick up the footage I took of those very moments. Trick how do you load up films on here?

Also got to cool off a Niagara falls which was fun - as they say its the brides second disappointment and it was smaller than I’d imagined but still impressive the best views were certainly on the Canadian side. Met some lovely people on my visit as well as some inspired activist folks at the launch of a book called “Sociology for Changing the World” about the role of social movements and research which certainly helped balance the extremely conservative impression I was getting of the city.

Managed to find time to catch an hour of a baseball game-all we could stomach-it was blue jays vs. the red sox and god that game is so slow and dull - the only redeeming feature being the breaks to play Dr Who by the KLF!! which the crowd sing along to- thinking its rock and roll by the glitter band, which is also played the experience makes me appreciate football! even cricket is far more interesting.

Anyhow its nice to be back home in sunny blightly!! and to catch up latest episode of Dr Who before heading off to record the Sonar festival next week.

Do check out new www.londonradioart.org.uk site, been adding plently of material to listen to thanks to Patrick and finally the updated www.youarehear.co.uk site which is fully interactive thanks to Damian, for that.

South London Radio Arts workshoppers have made two radio art shows that are being air next week on clearspots at 7pm on the 12th and 16th June full listings are up.

Magz

check these links

deepwireless.ca
londonradioarts.org.uk
youarehear.co.uk
free103point9.org”

As one of the Black Friday presenters I feel it is only my duty to tell you all that today is National Day of Slayer. Henceforth, all day should be spent playing Slayer as loud as possible. Without headphones, of course…

I only wish we’d had time to lobby the Powers That Be™ into airing Slayer all day on the station. Now that would get the listeners in eh?

www.nationaldayofslayer.org