audition - a new improvised and experimental music radio show

Alastair · January-18th-2006, 06:32 PM

We're pleased to announce the launch of audition, the Sound 323 radio programme, on Resonance 104.4FM, London's first radio art station.

audition plays new improvised music, lowercase sound and experimental music of no fixed genre. In addition to playing CDs we will have exclusive recordings of live concerts and occasional specially-recorded sessions and interviews with musicians. The programme is presented by Alastair Wilson and Richard Pinnell.

audition will broadcast between 21.30 and 22.30 GMT on Sunday nights, with a repeat between 09.00 and 10.00 GMT on Tuesday mornings. You can pick it up on 104.4FM if you're in Central London, or at Resonance FM's listen page wherever you have web access.

We'll publish playlists for the shows shortly after original broadcast and make any announcements related to the show at www.auditionradio.blogspot.com . We'll also use that space to enter a dialogue with you, the listener. Feel free to use the comments boxes - we will be reading them avidly.

Meanwhile, sit back, listen in, and enter the rapidly evolving world of audition.

Alastair & Richard

Jon Abbey · January-18th-2006, 06:56 PM

Brian Olewnick · January-18th-2006, 07:17 PM

Good luck, fellas.

"21.30 and 22.30 GMT"

What's that in real time?

Sergio Zamora · January-18th-2006, 07:28 PM

Good luck, guys. With eai music being the new dance craze with all the kids in the UK, you're sure to be a hit!

kedoane · January-18th-2006, 07:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian Olewnick

Good luck, fellas.

"21.30 and 22.30 GMT"

What's that in real time?

9:30PM & 10:30PM GMT.

I work with 24 hour/military time all the time at work.

Brian Olewnick · January-18th-2006, 07:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kedoane

9:30PM & 10:30PM GMT.

I work with 24 hour/military time all the time at work.

No, no, no. I mean in real time, the only time that matters. New York time!

Richard Pinnell · January-18th-2006, 07:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian Olewnick

No, no, no. I mean in real time, the only time that matters. New York time!

Start time at 4.30 PM Brian on Sunday.

NYC is basically 5 hours behind the UK, although sometimes it feels so much longer....

kedoane · January-18th-2006, 07:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian Olewnick

No, no, no. I mean in real time, the only time that matters. New York time!

Ok. Unfortunately I can't help you there. The only thing that I know is that we are hours behind GMT.

Brian Olewnick · January-18th-2006, 07:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Richard Pinnell

Start time at 4.30 PM Brian on Sunday.

NYC is basically 5 hours behind the UK, although sometimes it feels so much longer....

I know we're supposed to make you Brits feel all good about yourselves and everything, still maintian the illusion that you're a player on the world stage and all, but a line has to be drawn somewhere!

Hey, it's 2AM in Oxford! Get to bed. Stop listening to all that quiet music!

Monte Smith · January-18th-2006, 08:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian Olewnick

...but a line has to be drawn somewhere!

Yeah, I think they call it Greenwich.

Scott Dolan · January-18th-2006, 08:20 PM

*Mo gives Monte a cyber slap upside the back of his pointy head*

bluenoter · January-18th-2006, 09:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Monte Smith

Yeah, I think they call it Greenwich.

That was Mean!

Congratulations, guys!

Alastair · January-19th-2006, 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Richard Pinnell

Start time at 4.30 PM Brian on Sunday.

NYC is basically 5 hours behind the UK, although sometimes it feels so much longer....

Given the time of broadcast I expect all our east coast listeners to sit down while listening, eating crumpets and drinking tea that has been brewed in a tea pot and poured into china cups with saucers. It would be uncivilised to do otherwise.

cuddles · January-23rd-2006, 08:48 PM

and west coasters can listen while watching the weekend football omnibus with the sound off (or is that on Saturdays?).

Alastair · January-27th-2006, 07:29 PM

My sister had a cat called Cuddles.

Alastair · January-27th-2006, 07:30 PM

We're pleased to announce the first of a monthly series of exclusive live recordings on audition.

This Sunday and on the last Sunday of each month we'll be highlighting a previously unheard recording from a concert presented under the Sound 323 umbrella.

First up we have Rhodri Davies (harp) and Joel Stern (electronics) from St Cyprians, London.

Tune in this Sunday at 9.30pm (or Tuesday morning at 9.00am) for what I think you'll agree is a great start to the series.

Richard Pinnell · January-28th-2006, 04:22 AM

Keith Harris had a monkey called cuddles

Nim Chimpsky · January-28th-2006, 06:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alastair

the Sound 323 umbrella

EAI rainwear! Not only keeps you dry, but also records the ambient sound of precipitation and puts it out in a limited edition of 12 in exquisite handmade packaging.

Alastair · January-28th-2006, 06:34 AM

Looks like your dog is wearing one.

frankiepop · January-30th-2006, 10:19 AM

it's a good show...however, the show is far too short. i like the longer format afforded to the 'onkyo' show that seems to have disappeared. the hours were awful, but the length allowed attention to wane and return...on dialup i couldnt listen to resonance radio for months with my real media player. now i am on cable and i am playing resonance again at hourly rates daily....i wish sirius would install that station.

what would be nice, would be to make an archive or podcast available.....if feasible...

Alastair · January-30th-2006, 12:21 PM

Hey frankie, glad you're listening and thanks for the kind words.

As I was on the train home after the show last night I was thinking about the length of the show. We no sooner start than it seems that we're ending, owing to the length of tracks we want to play - we average fewer than six tracks a show. Resonance refreshes its schedule every 13 weeks at the moment so we might see if we can get a longer slot later this year. The refreshing of the channel is probably why Paul Hood's show isn't on at present - I believe that Resonance like to "rest" shows every now and then, to keep them fresh.

Resonance doesn't (as yet) have a "listen later" function. We're working on archiving our own shows so that you can listen to them on demand, probably from our website (www.auditionradio.blogspot.com until further notice). When we have a solution we'll announce it here.

Richard Pinnell · January-30th-2006, 02:18 PM

Yes thanks Frankie, your kind words are much appreciated.

I'll echo Al's thoughts that the show flies past in no time at all. It would be good to have longer. What we need is to establish a really big audience and then we can arrange a march on the LMC HQ to give us a longer slot

Alastair · February-5th-2006, 06:33 PM

Our website had a few problems but is back up now. In case you still can't see it and you want our playlist from earlier tonight, here 'tis:

artist: Brandlmayr/Dafeldecker/Nemeth/Siewert
title: Part 4
CD: Die Instabillitat der Symmetrie
label: Grob/dOc
info: http://www.churchofgrob.com http://doc.test.at/

artist: Le Quan Ninh
title: La ville et des sinsoides a petit budget
CD: intransitive twenty three
label: Intransitive
info: http://www.intransitiverecordings.com http://www.lequanninh.net

artist: Eric La Casa/Jean-Luc Guionnet/Dan Warburton
title: Music Station
CD: Insight
label: Xing-Wu
info: http://www.yat.ch/xingwu

artist: Joe Colley
title: Rehearsal for Highspeed Paralysis
CD:Psychic Stress Soundtracks
label: Antifrost
info: http://www.antifrost.gr

artist: Tomas Korber
title: The Synaptic Spell
CD: Effacement
label: Cut
info: http://www.cut.fm http://www.tomaskorber.com

artist: Mattin / Dion Workman
title: S3 (Excerpt)
CD: S3
label: Formed
info: http://www.formedrecords.com http://www,mattin.org

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letchhausen · February-6th-2006, 07:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alastair

We're pleased to announce the launch of audition, the Sound 323 radio programme, on Resonance 104.4FM, London's first radio art station.

audition plays new improvised music, lowercase sound and experimental music of no fixed genre. In addition to playing CDs we will have exclusive recordings of live concerts and occasional specially-recorded sessions and interviews with musicians. The programme is presented by Alastair Wilson and Richard Pinnell.

audition will broadcast between 21.30 and 22.30 GMT on Sunday nights, with a repeat between 09.00 and 10.00 GMT on Tuesday mornings. You can pick it up on 104.4FM if you're in Central London, or at Resonance FM's listen page wherever you have web access.

We'll publish playlists for the shows shortly after original broadcast and make any announcements related to the show at www.auditionradio.blogspot.com . We'll also use that space to enter a dialogue with you, the listener. Feel free to use the comments boxes - we will be reading them avidly.

Meanwhile, sit back, listen in, and enter the rapidly evolving world of audition.

Alastair & Richard

Well, I guess this is one way to get chicks and fame.......

I'm home, lost my job, and incurably ill
You think this is easy, realism
I've got a girl out there, I suppose
I think she's dancing
Feel like Dan Dare lies down
I think she's dancing, what do I know?

I am a D.J., I am what I play
Can't turn around no, can't turn around, no, oh, ooh
I am a D.J., I am what I play
Can't turn around no, can't turn around, no, oh no

I am a D.J., I am what I play
I got believers (kiss-kiss)
Believing me, oh

One more, weekend, of lights and evening faces
Fast food, living nostalgia
Humble pie or bitter fruit

I am a D.J., I am what I play
Can't turn around no, can't turn around no, ooh

I am a D.J., I am what I say
Can't turn around no, can't turn around, ooh
I am a D.J., I am what I play
I've got believers (kiss-kiss)
Believing me

I am a D.J., I am what I play
Can turn around no, can't turn around
I am a D.J., I am what I play
Can turn around no, can't turn around
I am a D.J., I am what I play
Can turn around no (kiss-kiss)

Time flies when you're having fun
Break his heart, break her heart
He used to be my boss and now he is a puppet dancer
I am a D.J., and I've got believers

I've got believers
I've got believers
I've got believers in me
I've got believers
I am a D.J., I am what I play
I am a D.J

Alastair · February-7th-2006, 02:19 PM

Chicks go crazy for Colley.

Alastair · February-12th-2006, 06:51 PM

If you missed it, or even if you heard it and have a hankering to listen again, you can hear Sunday's show here. Kindly ignore the minute or so of the previous show at the beginning...this was a computer-timed recording.

Get it while you can!

The playlist is at our website.

Alastair · February-26th-2006, 06:33 PM

This Sunday's show is available for download here

Playlist on the blog once I can remember what we played...

Alastair · March-4th-2006, 07:17 PM

We're really excited to be bringing you a 2005 improvisation from Annette Krebs and Toshimaru Namamura as the cornerstone of our show tonight. Available only on a self-produced CD-R selection of Annette's recent work, we think this'll be the first time it's been broadcast anywhere in the world. We're sure you'll really enjoy this half-hour set. Tune in at 9.30pm London time for this and more.

Richard Pinnell · March-11th-2006, 04:26 PM

"I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off."

Jeff Beck

This week marks the first in an occasional series of programmes focussed on one instrument. We're dedicating the show to solo guitar tracks that are either very hard to find, or have an unusual approach to the instrument in question, or are performed by someone who you don't usually associate with the guitar. Usually more than one of the above applies!

After our five track show last week, you may be pleased to hear that we'll be playing the most tracks we've ever squeezed into an hour.

We'll keep most of the show under wraps for now, but to whet your appetite I can reveal that we will be playing an extremely rare Keith Rowe track and something from Taku Sugimoto's very first solo guitar album. Even Taku can't track one down these days, or so I'm told.

Now I'm off now to convince Alastair that Hi Ho Silver Lining isn't something we should be playing on the show...

Sergio Zamora · March-11th-2006, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Richard Pinnell

...an extremely rare Keith Rowe track...

Must be the Table of the Elements 7" or the track from the Rastacan compilation.