New Free Lab Radio Podcast - The Sisters of Perpetual Resistance

Free Lab Radio - Sisters of Perpetual Resistance by Fari B

Tracks selected by a few members of the Sisters of Perpetual Resistance ahead of their group show 'The Art of Resistance' October 2015 Southwark. A rumbling of equality-demanding and anti-capitalist sentiment and action this month, in a series of workshops and events occur alongside the group exhibition of artworks made on residencies at Miss Pokeno's studio.

Broadcast Saturdays 11-midnight, repeated the following Tuesdays GMT.
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This Week's Free Lab Radio - Thea Farhadian

Broadcasts Saturday Oct 10th 11-midnight on 104.4FM, repeats Tuesdays 4am. Listen online.

Various recordings and music by composer and violinist Thea Farhadian (USA/Berlin). Collaborations with & KLAUS KÜRVERS: eXcavations, and Dean Santomieri, Redblue. 

Thea Farhadian violinist/composer, comes from the background of new contemporary music and has worked with a number of multi-disciplinary projects including composing music for video. Her solo work with the violin and interactive electronics integrates extended techniques with tonal structures and sound-based material. She has performed with Amy X Neuburg, Korhan Erel, Gerhard Uebele, Daniel Schorno, Daphna Naphtali, and S.F. Sound.

VOICES FROM BEHIND THE VEIL, 21:23, 2004 (English/Arabic)

Voices from Behind the Veil, integrates interviews of Egyptian women on the subject of the hijab (the various head and body coverings of Islamic women) into a multilingual sound collage of women's voices. By weaving women's opinions, stories, and discussions about the hijab together, Voices from Behind the Veil reveals the multifaceted opinions and emotions by using a variety of communication styles, some completed statements and other partially revealed dialogues, yielding a richness of diversity in sound and content. The primary impetus of this project is to shift the (western) gaze from stereotypical assumptions easily conjured by visual images of veiled women to an aural encounter where the women (both veiled and not veiled) speak for themselves. 

Material for this project was gathered in the summer or 2003, where Farhadian was studying Arabic music with Egypt’s well-known violinist, Alfred Gamil. The interviews are comprised of all Egyptian women who represent varied perspectives on veiling—two women are unveiled, one woman wears a more “Spanish” veil, another with a traditional hijab (head-covering that covers all of the hair), and one with. The participants were diverse with respect to their age, socio-economic class, and education. Subjects covered in the interviews include personal stories, historical and cultural phenomena, relationship to the body, other women, men, fashion, family, the western world, the workplace, Islam, and societal expectations. Behind the layered interviews, the streets in Cairo play out. 

Tattoos and Other Markings
46:00, In 4 sections, 2006-2008

"Tattoos and Other Markings" explores the experience of memory, weaving
together concepts of the old and the new, past and present; traditional
and processed sounds from Armenia and Egypt, spoken text, and machine
sounds.

All tracks composed and mixed by Thea Farhadian.
The voice of Komitas (CD 4275) courtesy of Traditional Crossroads.

THEA FARHADIAN & KLAUS KÜRVERS: eXcavations
http://cdbaby.com/cd/theafarhadianklauskurver

Thea Farhadian - Violin
Klaus Kürvers - Bass

Recorded by Klaus Kürvers
Mastered by Myles Boisen at Headless Buddha Mastering Lab
Art - Klaus Kürvers
Design - Nicolas Wiese

www.theafarhadian.com 

This Week's Free Lab Radio - The Sisters of Perpetual Resistance

Tonight: La Femme Écoute - tracks by and for women, selected by the Sisters of Perpetual Resistance ahead of their group show The Art of Resistance, running from 9th to 25th October.

 At work, Fari B wearing 'phones, Miss P is stiching

From The Savages to Habibi, the music is selected by the Sisters for you to hear.

This October Southwark is witness to a rumbling of equality-demanding and anti-capitalist sentiment and action this month, as a series of workshops and events occur alongside a group exhibition of artworks made on residency at Miss Pokeno's studio.

Here we are at Pokeno's table burnt with the words women remember being thrown at them; sewing, listening to audio and communicating.

Exhibition open hours are 10-4pm weekdays and by appointment at other times.

Debbie Harry Wearing a Miss Pokeno

Broadcasts Saturday 3rd October, 11-midnight, repeats the following Tuesday 4am GMT.

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Inter-generational arm wrestling.

All will be revealed....