Wavelength - Bob Parks

Tuesday 11th April 2017 14:00 - 15:00 BST

This week's Wavelength features a recording of Bob Parks and the Recreationals playing at a Resonance fundraiser at Kansas Smitty's bar in Hackney one month ago, with Arike on harp and harmonica (Peter Green had asked him to be in Fleetwood Mac in the 60s). Bob will be live in the studio to discuss and explain his theory of "Conceptual Rhythm n' Blues" plus music by Otis Rush.

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Tuesday 28th March 2017 14:00 - 15:00 BST

This week: Mob Action Against the State: Speeches from the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair from the multi CD collection Ranters, Reformers and Raconteurs volume 2 featuring Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Stephen Dunifer, Harry Britt and others and with the dawning of Spring; Cranfield and Slade sing Warmth of the Sun + tracks by Rodney Graham and Roberta Settels.

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Tuesday 21st March 2017 14:00 - 15:00 GMT

This week: Woodslippercounterclatter by Susan Howe (voice) and David Grubbs (piano), a 42'35" piece including fragments of quotations, half sentences, split words and letters spoken by Howe to piano accompaniment by Grubbs. Plus other spoken word pieces by poets, orators and authors.

Wavelength - International Women's Day Special

Tuesday 14th March 2017 14:00 - 15:00 GMT

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Tuesday 7th March 2017 14:00 - 15:00 GMT

This week: Spoken word recordings from Walter de la Mare, Iain Sinclair, Aleister Crowley recites his own poetry and calls aethyrs in Enochian. Violin solos by Aisha Orazbayeva. London is Paranoid by Chloe Poems and Death and Destruction by Rosie Lugosi.

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Tuesday 28th February 2017 14:00 - 15:00 GMT

This week: Orlando Harrison is talking to William. Orlando is the son of art historian and critic; Charles Harrison, long time associate of the influential conceptual art group Art and Language, and Orlando’s voice (aged 2) is to be heard on Corrected Slogans, the first album by Art and Language issued in 1976. Known for his work with bands such as the Alabama 3 (Soprano’s theme tune), and Daughters of God, Orlando is presently artist in residence at Senate House Library creating an installation based on the Radical Voices Exhibition.

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Tuesday 14th February 2017 14:00 - 15:00 GMT

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Tuesday 14th February 2017 14:00 - 15:00 GMT

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Tuesday 7th February 2017 14:00 - 15:00 GMT

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Tuesday 31st January 2017 14:00 - 15:00 GMT

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Tuesday 24th January 2017 14:00 - 15:00 GMT

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Tuesday 17th January 2017 14:00 - 15:00 GMT

Now: more spoken word tracks, including one of the strangest that we have encountered so far: 'This Is You proposes a metaphysical feedback loop involving the lens, a broadcast system, biological ocular-centrism and the Sun. Using the birth of user-generated content as the starting point, the work traces the 25-year history of the TV programme Funniest Home Videos in an attempt to describe the prism of existence as solar vanity. This Is You meditates on the desires of the self, bathed in light and rawly exposed without any more intent than being itself.' Australian composer Chris Cobilis set about transcribing episodes of both Australia’s and America’s Funniest Home Videos to develop an animated graphic score and accompanying script which conceptually speaks of the feedback loop This Is You proposes. The work was performed live in studio by Chicago’s Spektral Quartet and American poet Kenneth Goldsmith at Electrical Audio with engineer Steve Albini. Plus Spanish for slow learners; poetry by Jean Luc Parant; and prose by Gerard Rudolf from Orpahaned Lullabyes.

Wavelength (x) (r)

Monday 25th July 2016 15:00 - 16:00 BST

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Monday 18th July 2016 15:00 - 16:00 BST

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Monday 11th July 2016 15:00 - 16:00 BST

This week: The return of a previous guest via telephone, Hugh de la Cruz, who is doggedly pursuing the holy grail of perpetual motion to the detriment of his own health. Dan Wilson will assist in obtaining a suitable analogue recording of the conversation to be used later as part of a soundtrack to a film of the same name by William English.

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Monday 4th July 2016 15:00 - 16:00 BST

This week: Ein Hortraum: Teil 2 from Orpheus by Hartmut Geerken. 5 Rimbaud 1 Verlaine by Ghedalia Tazartes, both issued on vinyl by Holidays Records in 2016. After which, some Charles Hayward with and without This Heat, MC5, File Under Europop by Rodney Graham, and Dr Strangelove.

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Monday 27th June 2016 15:00 - 16:00 BST

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Monday 20th June 2016 15:00 - 16:00 BST

This week: Wavelength follows a railway theme with Harry Partch's "U.S. Highball" (musical account of a transcontinental hobo trip); Chris Watson's "El Tren Fantasma" from The Signal Man's Mix; "Etude aux Chemins de Fer" by Pierre Schaeffer; part of "Different Trains" by Steve Reich; and "This Train" by Chrysta Bell (produced by David Lynch).

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Monday 13th June 2016 15:00 - 16:00 BST

This week: "Roars Bangs Boom"s (2014) by Alessandro Eramo, vocal interpretation of a selection of eight onomatopoeic words taken from Russolo's "The Art of Noises"; "Capital Decor" (2011) by Stephanie Kiwitt, voice by Christophe Piette; "Lecture a Rieuchaud" (2003) by Jean-Luc Parant.

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Monday 6th June 2016 15:00 - 16:00 BST

This week: Mr. District Attorney solves The Case of the Money Machine (1951), Bob Larson on the subject of rock music, a flexi disc by Tiny Tim, Jimi vs. Heino (****intosh), Heino: "Seiner Grossten Erfolge" and Song of Reproduction by Flanders and Swann.

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Monday 30th May 2016 15:00 - 16:00 BST

This week's previously advertised programme is replaced by a repeat from 15th April 2016: Spoon River anthology etc, an eclectic montage of mostly spoken word tracks: David Hindmarch; The Long Trick. Henry Flynt; Central Park Transverse Vocal 1-4. Uncle Bouqui of Haiti read by Augusta Baker. Jimmy Robert; Suspended closure, suspended. Karl Holmqvist. John T. Gast. Acid Brass/What Time is Love [Version P-Royal Oak Mix], and Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters performed by the UCLA Theatre Group.

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Monday 23rd May 2016 15:00 - 16:00 BST

This week: The Arrangement and Care of Flowers by Constance Spry competes for attention with Greek Tragedy performed by Katina Paxinou and Alexis Minotis in Greek, seasoned with extracts from Adam Bohman, Marcel Duchamp, and Jim Morrison's Celebration of the Lizard (Experimental work in progress).

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Monday 16th May 2016 15:00 - 16:00 BST

This week: Discursos. Pronunciados por el Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos: Lic. Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, (authoritarian president of Mexico 1964-70) delivers various speeches recorded on a double vinyl LP in 1967, and competes for our attention against The Griots, ministers of the Spoken Word recorded in West Africa by Samuel Charters, Robert Ashley's In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven there were men and women, Isaac Hayes and Gil Scott Heron. A rich mixture contributing to the inscrutability of the world.

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Monday 9th May 2016 15:00 - 16:00 BST

Continuing with unlikely superimpositions of spoken word tracks, this week includes a new release on Sub Rosa by Dutch painter Karel Appel from Musique Barbare; 73 poems by Joan La Barbara (Baa Baa Black sheep and Baa Baa Baa, Baa Barbara Ann); Anna Russell; music by Paddy Roberts - and a deservedly obscure play based on the life of Emily Dickinson.

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Monday 2nd May 2016 15:00 - 16:00 BST

This week: "Your World and the Berlin Wall" by Paul 'Tex' Yearout plus scenes from "The Devils" juxtaposed with a Pfizer medical recording about depression, all interrupted by random extracts from "Farewell to Studio Nine" and "Sing a Song of Motor Cars; Volkswagen and Toyota."