Resonance104.4fm

Wavelength at 2.45pm is a programme of multiple agendas presented by William English. This week’s show features recordings by Christian Marclay who is exhibiting and performing at The White Cube Bermondsey until April. Including tracks by Milan Knizak (Broken Music) and Jimi Hendrix. Visit williamenglish.com for more information or contact wenglish@blueyonder.co.uk. [Repeated Sunday 9am.]

Tonight’s Clear Spot at 8pm is the monthly Ora. Episode 19 of these voyages into listening and writing is entitled Against Interpretation. Daniela Cascella and Salomé Voegelin borrow the title from Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking 1964 essay to read, play and perform a number of texts and sounds in close sequence and then start a conversation. Mike Kelley with Sonic Youth’s Plato’s Cave, Rothko’s Chapel, Lincoln’s Profile performance and an excerpt from Coil’s The Angelic Conversation featuring one of Shakespeare’s Sonnets are juxtaposed with words by Georges Bataille and Clarice Lispector, not to interpret according to given rules or expectations, but to offer a plurality of openings and possibilities into listening to sound and writing after sound. [Repeated Friday 9am.]

On Panel Borders at 11am Alex Fitch explores the art and culture of comics and graphic novels with practitioners worldwide. Today’s show concludes a month of shows about Masters of American Comics. Alex Fitch talks to a quartet of comics experts and historians about the 75th anniversary of Will Eisner’s seminal crime comic The Spirit. Richard Reynolds, Ian Rakoff, Guy Lawley and Steve Edgell discuss the early days of American adventure comics and the other characters Eisner created in the 1930’s, how The Spirit was influenced by film noir, and representations of racial minorities in the author’s work. For more information visit www.panelborders.wordpress.com. [Repeated Saturday 7am.]