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6:30pm - 10:15pm
The Sentence
A reading of Alistair Fruish's monumental work 'The Sentence,' recorded live at The British Library on 25 March 2018. 'The Sentence' is made up of just one sentence of 46,000 one-syllable words. It’s experimental but also a moving, beautiful and mind altering experience; a grime 'Under Milk Wood' for the 21st century. Readers: Tommy Calderbank, Cee Smith, Graham Gavin, Jeff Young, Rebecca Hearne, and members of the audience. Directed by Daisy Campbell. Recorded by Ana Bartolomeu-Martins and Clark Henry-Brown and edited by Tom Grashion. Thanks to Jon Fawcett, Head of Events, The British Library. First broadcast 7 May 2018.
10:15pm - 12:00am
The End Of The World Service
A series of live performances in Taranto, Italy, on 27th May 2022 by choral collective, Musarc. Featuring Neil Luck and Joseph Kohlmaier in collaboration with Post Disaster Rooftops. Conceived as a diffused oratorio that crosses over between the city and the domain of radio broadcasts, Zoom conversations and the space of the book, The End of the World Service sees the body of the choir endure a modern-day tarantism of colour and sound in the streets and open spaces of the old town.
First, composer Neil Luck (UK) taps into the double trope of the city as a film set and traditional locus of mystery plays with three short tableaus populated by props, choral extras, a wind band and onlookers who happen across the scene at night, pining for a view of the surreal action playing out in the yellow light of Taranto’s street lanterns. Then, Joseph Kohlmaier (UK/AT) takes the audience on a slow-moving choral procession that ambulated through the narrow streets of the old city, a remorseful, humming and mumbling crowd carried along by the sound of the drums and steel instruments of the Complesso Bandistico Città di Crispiano, culminating in a choral and communal recital of a libretto written for the occasion by members of the ensemble.
The End of the World Service was part of Bodies as Infrastructures – a season of events and performances staged in the city of Taranto by curatorial platform Post Disaster Rooftops.
12:00am - 11:59pm
River Of Sound
The inaugural transmission of River Of Sound - a new partnership between Resonance FM and the 11th annual Totally Thames Festival, each September Sunday features 24 hours of experimental radio programming which celebrates the River Thames and all things riverine.
This week’s broadcast - the premiere programme of the series - takes us on a unique sound journey down the Thames from rising to Estuary. Hydrophonic recordings composed into an audio storytelling by Prof Tony Myatt especially for River of Sound. Also, live studio conversations led by Adrian Evans the longtime and founding Director of the Totally Thames Festival, plus a late night, live-to-air, ambient broadcast of improvised "Thames Nocturnes" by noted UK composer/soundtracker (Derek Jarman/BFI silent film series) Simon Fisher Turner on location from the riverside community led 'Hermitage Moorings’ floating Pier House near Tower Bridge.
Other programming guests include New York's stalwart WFMU radio presenter Bob Brainen playing a selection of riverine songs exploring the Thames inspired international influence as seen from afar, along with a dip into the archival recordings of the epic Thames writings of Peter Ackroyd and contemporary provocations on the hot topic of Water Rights - raising the question of ’Is A River Alive’ by leading nature and landscape writer Robert Macfarlane.
Go with the flow on our radio ebb and tide.
In order of appearance:
1. Ships Opera/Myatt ‘Journeying In The Thames’
2. Runnymede/Handel Water Music Suite 1/Piper At The Gates of Dawn
3. Basinski Water Music Part I & II
4. Warburg Nature Reserve
5. Peter Ackroyd ‘Sacred River’
6. Basinski Water Music Part IIv2
7. Macfarlane ‘Is A River Alive’ The Springs
8. Ships Opera/B Catling/J Roedel ‘Three Rivers’/Floating Points
9. Bob Brainen Songs Of The River