Resonance FM

Over the next few days on Resonance FM, we have a tartan shopping-trolley full of splendid new shows, one-off Clear Spots and thrilling installments of hardy perennials ploughing at a steady rate of knots through the aisles of the your favourite community-art-radio-whatchamacallit-cultural-anomaly delicatessen.

Thurs Feb 14^th Amenity Space 01:00 - 02:00pm. Audio Architecture. Tony Broomhead and Nicky Kirk talk to artists and designers involved in the HearWear Project. Amenity Space is a radio series dedicated to the built environment hosted by Tony Broomhead and Nicky Kirk, who also practise under the Amenity Space banner http://www.amenityspace.co.uk

The Traditional Music Hour 02:00 – 03:00pm. The folk music of the British Isles and beyond.

Strip! 05:00 – 06:00pm. A Valentine’s Day special - Alex Fitch talks to Alan Moore about his controversial erotic epic Lost Girls, from its inception as a serialised comic in the ground breaking “Taboo” anthology to its publication as a lavish 300 page hardback graphic. Strip! Looks at comics, cartoons, graphic novels and illustrated literature of the present and yesteryear.

Clear Spot 08:00 – 09:00pm. The Basics Of Cardiac Auscultation. An eclectic and perverse Valentines Day collage produced by Montagu Fuchs, himself. This programme collages together stethoscopic recordings of heart abnormalities; movie soundtracks, the sounds of pornography; Victorian Valentine’s Day cards; the Valentines Day Massacre; cardiologists describing the topography of the heart; fragments of music from the Romantic era and elsewhere.

Friday Feb 15^th Small Pool Room (two cuts) 03:30 – 04:00pm. Vintage sound FX on Shellac and wax-cylinder. Produced and presented by Aleks Kolkowski. This week: the sounds of the sea; gulls,boat & ship horns plus the shipping forecast from 1908 on wax cylinder. Clear Spot 08:00 – 09:00pm. Live in session:Yabba Funk. Yabba Funk are a pan African funk group, co-ordinated by British free sax player Adrian Northover.

Saturday 16th The Hello Goodbye Show 12:00 -01:30pm. Resonance FM debut session from miasmic psychedelic, tat folk, electronic doodlers Keshco . Also in session, Thee Intolerable Kidd.

Sunday Feb 17^th The Rocket 88 Rock N Roll And Doo Wop Show 03:00 – 04:00pm. Thermal tremors from the 1950s. A musical fantasia of post-Atom bomb, American capitalist teenage futurism and Afro opulence. Rendolent of acid pinks and leopard skin, cars that resemble UFO’s and swimwear named after H-Bomb test sites. The question is is it kitsch? Presented by Gustave Ferrier. On The Fringe 04:00 – 05:00pm. Claire Cooke’s guide to Off West End Theatre today features a report from the National Review Of Live Art.

Monday Feb 18^th Six Pillars To Persia 01:30 - 02:00pm. This week’s edition features an interview with artist Nooshin Farhid. Interesting Conversations 03:00 - 04:00pm. Emma Jackman of Conscious Chocolate talks about her chocolate factory. Presented by Wendy Jones.

Bike 06:30 – 07:00pm. Jack Thurston’s weekly delve into the transcendental pleasures of cycling profiles Trixie Chix a group of women who meet up to learn how to do (mostly) pointless tricks on their bike. Clear Spot 08:00 – 09:00pm. Profile of cult Irish folk rock group Dr.Strangely Strange. The Sound Riviera 09:00 – 09:30pm. NEW SERIES - Poised between Faustus and The Faust Tapes, sandwiched betwixt documentary and collage, lies The Sound Rivieria. A melange of tape recorders and tape of all stripes - magnetic, ferric, lost, found, chewed and boiled. Presented by Dan Hayhurst and Veronica Lavery. The Sound Riviera is repeated every Friday between 02:00 - 02:30pm.

Tuesday Feb 19^th Clear Spot 08:00 – 09:00pm. Nasim Masoud is podcast co-ordinator and subscriptions manager for Songlines magazine. She is a freelance music journalist who graduated in music from SOAS in 2005. Nasim sings, plays the santour (Persian hammered dulcimer), and teaches the piano. On this programme Nasim will be showcasing some of the biggest stars in North African and Middle Eastern pop.

Wed Feb 20th. I Can Hear The Grass Grow 05:30 - 06:00pm. Sonic horticulture with Mark Aitken. Clear Spot 08:00 - 09:00pm. Trevor Wishart - Machine. As a composition Machine was completed in 1971, though it wasn’t available as a commercial recording until 1973, coming out shortly after Wisharts’ whimsical fantasia Journey Into Space. Machine can be considered Trevor Wishart’s first major electroacoustic composition. Machine was composed at York University with the assistance of students and published as 3 slices of vinyl on the rather blandly monikered tryptch box set, Electronic Music From York, by the University of York’s in-house record label. Machine consists of collaged spoken text and improvised choral work based on the sounds and timbres of industrial noises interpolated with concrete sounds and abstract electronic tones and timbres. Machine is 60 minutes in duration and this Clear Spot marks it debut on British radio, some 37 years after its realisation. Machine is soon to be available on the excellent British experimental/avant-garde label Paradigm-disc.