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RESONANCE LIVE AT LIFT
Tuesday 1st July 2008 6pm
SpeedDataRadio: The art of seeing and the art of being seen. A multiple round-table discussion mixed live to air on Resonance104.4fm. Join Cecilia Wee and her three dozen guests as they discuss surveillance, privacy and identity. SpeedDataRadio allows you to eavesdrop on half a dozen fascinating conversations at […]

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BOP TO ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION
Bop to Architecture is a travelling sound installation visiting several sites around Southwark this July as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2008. This project celebrates the built environment by showcasing compositions constructed from fragments of sound plucked from the chosen sites visited and the surrounding architecture that sets Southwark […]

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On the eve of his return to the UK we will be re-broadcasting a two part interview with poet Martín Espada first broadcast in late 2006. Amongst the subjects of discussion –not to mention poetic reflection- are: his Puerto Rican ancestry; his experiences as a tenant lawyer; the ‘lost’ Chicano novelist Oscar Zeta Acosta –better […]

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Imminent in the next 48 hours are some rather good programmes…
Today, Monday June 23rd, Vermillion Sounds double bill 2 - 4pm
Part 1. 2 - 3pm
Chernobyl Soundscapes - presented by Peter Cusack
“On two trips to Chernobyl in 2006/7 Peter Cusack made many field recordings in and outside the exclusion zone. These include the sounds of wildlife, […]

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Fari Bradley talks to Arash Saedinia, a Los Angeles-based music enthusiast and creator of the Fars Funk website, about his passion for vintage Persian popular recordings. Synthesizing indigenous traditions and Western influences, Iranian artists created a notable body of left-field psychedelic, rock, funk, and folk songs in the sixties and seventies. The show […]

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Monday, 16 June 2008 at 7.30pm Wigmore Hall, London – Sara Laimon – piano will be giving UK premieres of works by the American composers Harold Melzer, Laura Kaminsky and Ezra Laderman. Tickets are £10.£12, £16 £18 available from the box office or on line at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk.
Sara Laimon is particularly known for interpretations of contemporary […]

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Resonance FM is ten! On the 9th of June 1998, at the behest of John Peel, Resonance FM first started broadcasting. At this embryonic stage Resonance FM occupied the 107.3FM frequency. From the 9th until the 15th of June all Resonance FM broadcasting is culled exclusively from this brief but fertile experiment. Tune […]

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Electric Sheep magazine, co-presenter(s) of the Hectic Peelers cinema nights with Resonance FM, has been relaunched as a bigger, glossier magazine by Wallflower Press & is available from various stockists. Electric Sheep is edited by Virginie Selavy and has reviews / interviews by various Resonance programme makers including Virginie, Philip Winter, James DC (all contributors […]

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Dead And Alive have a very special guest in the Resonance FM studio this evening - Friday May 30th - composer Michael Nyman joins Tim Winter and Joshua Meggit… No doubt they’ll discuss composition, Cage, the baroque, pianos, The Portsmouth Sinfonia, collaboration (Nyman notably collaborated with the film director Peter Greenaway) and much […]

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 On now at The Railway Tavern, Station Rise, Tulse Hill (SE27 9BW), I’m ready for my close-up and Strip! contributor (and Bryan Talbot’s Cherubs illustrator) Mark Stafford is exhibiting Pandemonium Carnivale; A series of unfortunate paintings…     

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