Saturday 26th May - Oscillatorial Binnage

To celebrate our forthcoming gig for the Association of Musical Marxists (I kid you not) we'll be broadcasting a two hour jam by noise group Oscillatorial Binnage. 11pm-midnight as ever.

Catch us June 7th blowing ears and blowing minds at The Blue Posts, Rupert St, W1. Feminist Nina Power will be speaking, as well as Ben Watson, presenter of Resonance 104.4FM's Late Out to Lunch show.

Here we are pictured, at the first ever Wellcome Collection live music event to be held in London. Click the picture to find out how noisy it really was. Other times, as a group we've played with water and kitchen implements on stage, inside one of our kitchen for a party and live broadcast in association with Serpentine Gallery, at Tate Modern vibrating steel and inside a huge empty warehouse where the building itself was the instrument creating resonant frequencies.
Miles and miles of cable for that one!

I Don't See Any God up Here - Sat 26th April 2011

"I don't see any God up here" - A Celebration of the half-centenary of Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut's first journey into outer space in April 1961 .

Featuring music from:
Spaceheads
Gagarin
Sound of the Sun Vs Oscillatorial Binnage

Plus a presentation by journalist, broadcaster and author Ken Hollings, live video mixing from Rucksack Cinema, and images from space from photographer Owen Llewellyn. DJ Karina Townend and DJ Webbcore will be playing spaced out music on the decks.

Spaceheads are a duo of trumpet and drums. Andy Diagram plays trumpet through various bits of electronics creating brass loops. Richard Harrison plays drums and percussion. They have been playing together since 1989, touring the world and releasing many CDs.

Gagarin - Warm electronica and soundscaping from London-based Graham Dowdall, who's worked with Nico, Sons of Arqua, John Cale and Cabaret Voltaire, among others. The Gagarin sound is produced pretty much live, with drum patterns tapped out and samples triggered on the spot.

Sound of the Sun is an improvising rock band comprising Simon King - guitar, Paul May - drums and Chris Cornetto- Korg, trumpet, tape recorder and noise. The band are in the Kosmische tradition, creating post-psychedelic free-form rock that owes more to Ornette Coleman than motorik 4/4 rhythm-driven rock.

Oscillatorial Binnage is the ground-breaking experimental combo of
Fari Bradley and Chris Weaver. They make an awesome racket of profound philosophical and technical complexity based on the analysis and amplification of the resonant frequencies of everyday objects. “If Doctor John Dee had made musique concrete,” the late John Michell wrote, “it would probably have sounded like the Binnage.”

Ken Hollings is a writer based in London. His work appears in a wide range of journals and publications, including The Wire, Sight and Sound, Strange Attractor. He has written and presented critically acclaimed programmes for BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, Resonance FM, NPS in Holland and ABC Australia. His new book, Welcome to Mars: Science and the American Century 1947-1959, is out now from Strange Attractor Press."

Rucksack Cinema (aka Jaime Rory Lucy) has a long history as a tour manager for many well-known rock groups. He now creates stunning esoteric video mixes for live music, bringing a rare visual sensibility to any event he is involved in.

Owen Llewellyn is a folk musician, maths teacher and photographer specialising in astronomical and macro photography, producing ravishing images of the night sky.

I Don't See Any God Up Here...

Tonight, to mark Oscillatorial Binnage's performance April 23rd we will from midnight to 1am launch with Sanskrit invocations from the Vedic period (1500-500 BC) with inter-referential space frequencies श्रीगणपत्यथर्वशीर्षोपनिषद्

From 11pm we pick up where we left off last week with 8 bit deconstructed noise, after a brief lament for precious time lost in the sole pursuit of monetary gain. We also celebrate the launch of Deadelus's new album Bespoke, Doris Day, a 14 year old producer from New Orleans, the little known genius Ramsilver, Gang Gang dance (with tracks called "∞ ∞" - how do you say that on air>???) and more....(and less).
Hear the 8 Bit podcast from Fari last week, dedicated to winter baccy lovers...

I Don't See Any God Up Here with Spaceheads, Gagarin, Sound of the Sun and Oscillatorial Binnage
The Grosvenor, 17 Sydney Road, Stockwell, SW9

All Hallows Even

At midnight is it 1am again? So we are playing over ourselves in time....

Free Lab Radio enjoys a werewolf surf and 'billy set leading up to midnight, will be dancing on each other's graves?

Free Lab Radio also brings in All Hallows Day with a live set of improvised sonic art by Oscillatorial Binnage. The group tune in to the stratospheric feedback of unsettled vibrations in an attempt to sooth them before the dawning of the day, using hand built circuits, tailor made electronics and intuitive toys....

If you want to see my chosen video for this Halloween, check my blog www.faribradley.co.uk

Meanwhile, let us know what you been doing tonight - and did you bake any soul cakes for the soulers tonight?

Uprise Festival and Jellyfish Theatre Performance

On this day the 2nd of October, in London town on the banks for the river Thames, we, the band Oscillatorial Binnage will endeavour to process sounds both acoustic and electronic into the perfect fusion of avant gard and ancient Indian ragaa. An ongoing project by the band.

Basically we prepare for tomorrow's live performance at the pop-up theatre in London Bridge, one more week until this AMAZING structure is torn down.

Two Resonance Radio Orchestra pieces, one by Chris Weaver - called Utility Frequency and another by Fari Bradley - called EQ (Emotional Quotient) based on the Persian Book of Kings will be on the same bill.

In the first hour, capping Sat night Fari B will be playing some of the tracks from her set at the famous anti-racism festival Uprise (formerly Respect) tomorrow at Finsbury Park. This event is a huge testimony to the determination of the London community, the most diverse city in the UK, possibly in Europe. We are one of the most integrated cities and as such we know best if we need an anti-racism festival. Boris, sitting in his drawing room, and his hurried advisors, are not. Basically, Londoners are paying it for themselves.

Sat, 25 September, 23:00 – Sun, 26 September, 23.00-01:00

Tonight's broadcast is on the theme of meditation, Indian ragaas are transformed with electronics and processors. A recording of a pre concert warm up, for the festival of Navaratri, the idea of this is the forcing of the electronic tonalities into the frequency domain of classical Indian ragaas. The main programming behind this piece is by award winning sonic artist Dan Wilson, concept and harmonium and voice by Fari Bradley.

In the second half of the show we have an interview with Dj Sniff, artistic director of Steim, the electronic music institute based in Holland, that's followed by a live performance by Chris Weaver recorded last year at the Noise=Noise event in the Foundry. More information on Steim and Dj Sniff can be found at www.steim.org and
www.djsniff.com

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Sat 4th Sept - Radical Sound Practises

This week's Free Lab Radio wind down session is a live performance by Oscillatorial Binnage based at the abandoned factory space Woodmill, Southwark a large scale architectural performance utilising multiple speaker microphone arrays.

Building up to midnight is Fari B with a set based on the sonic conclusions of this year's summer.

EXIT - Serbia! Plus a huge version of Variation For Room Tones and Speakers....

Fari B is leaving for a DJ set at Exit Festival, Serbia to play Iranian 1970s funk disco. We celebrate with a premidnight foray into ethno electro, a genre Fari regales in (and has probably pioneered - check it)

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A bigger, better version of our broadcast after midnight on the first ever Free Lab Radio show - the rooms at Resonance104.4FM begin to resonate and give off the right frequencies to make your slipping into Sunday a harmonious and pleasant trip, as Oscillatorial Binnage reveal the sonic scale of each room live on air.