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The ResonanceFM Auction


From February 11th-19th  inclusive a intensely creative barrage of events, collectible items and unique experiences will be auctioned live, ON AIR on Resonance104.4FM

Tune in and take part. Browse the items here.

https://fundraiser.resonance.fm/

Resonance104.4fm Fundraiser - Saturday 13th Feb with Resonate Festival


Free Lab Radio, Saturday 13th Feb, 11-midnight. Repeats Tuesday 16th Feb, 4-5am GMT
Also plays out on Fridays, weekly at 5pm GMT on Resonance Extra in Brighton

Auction Special - Resonate Festival
Tracks from performers at this year's 6-day Serbian festival and conference including Squarepusher, Omar Souleyman, Hans Joachim Roedelius (Cluster). Two Resonate FULL tickets (Live + Conference). Resonate is a yearly platform for networking, knowledge sharing and education, providing an overview of current happenings in music, visual arts and digital culture. Guest artists, lecturers and participants represent the cutting edge of contemporary creativity across the world. This Belgrade festival offers the opportunity of participating in a forward-looking debate on and experience of the position of technology in art and culture today.

Tickets are worth 249 (nearly £200) each.
www.resonate.io/2016

Confirmed Resonate Conference 2016 Participants  
Nicholas Felton, Moment Factory, Chris Sugrue, Jürg Lehni, Alex Evans (Media Molecule), Romain Tardy, Atau Tanaka, Murat Pak, Memo Akten, Daniel Hirschmann, Phoenix Perry, Rebecca Fiebrink, Artists & Engineers, Ishac Bertran, Bethany Koby (Technology Will Save Us), Joshua Noble, Darran Anderson, Andreas Müller, Karsten Schmidt, Neil Mendoza, Darsha Hewitt, Jonathan Wohl, Random Studio, PeLang,  James Auger, Shane Walter, onedotzero, Jakob Bak (CIID), Dennis P Paul (HfK), Joreg (vvvv), Cathrine Kramer, Domestic Data Streamers, Playmodes, Sophi Kravitz, Refik Anadol, Dan Hett, Gorka Cortazar, Gael Hugo, Bengler + MORE 

Confirmed Resonate Live 2016 Participants
Squarepusher, Omar Souleyman, Hans Joachim Roedelius, Rashad Becker + MANY MORE TBA


Rooms in Belgrade are super-cheap! Check Air BnB. 
https://www.airbnb.com/s/Belgrade--Serbia



New Podcast - Mind's Medicine Free Lab Takeover

Mind's Medicine presents 'Microtuning Your Health in 2016' a musical healing project in Chico, Butte County, California, USA. 

Mind's Medicine says for this mix 'MicroTuning' for Free Lab Radio:
"All songs in this mix are retuned using .tun files and omnisphere, based on a 432hz tuning of middle A. I have been enjoying the Harmonic Scale recently and all my music is written in it." 
Free Lab broadcasts 11-midnight GMT, Saturday nights on 104.4fm to half a million core listeners across London, online elsewhere, repeating Tuesday 4am.

We are also on Fridays 19:30 GMT on ResonanceFM's offshoot station Resonance Extra, which broadcasts on digital and online in Brighton, UK.
Podcasts -  www.mixcloud.com/fari


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.

Listen on air across London on 104.4FM or elsewhere online with this handy app.
http://radioplayer.resonancefm.com/console/

Inter-generational arm wrestling.


All will be revealed....

Are you in a prison? No. Where you at? I'm nowhere man.

A Gray/Test Transmission mash up of two tracks one of which involves a phone call by the artist to the operator.

Remember the operator?

A human at the end of the line. The fortunate/unfortunate Basuiat burnt himself out but not before he made a significant contribution to art, music and the history of art. There's also a terrible human tragedy that surrounds not just his life but those he frequented. What is the use of tragedy? It's without doubt contains elements of a didactic nature, encoded with an example to onlookers; DO NOT REPEAT. Yet we are willfully ignorant again and again. Don't give up on people or exploit their weaknesses, especially the creatives. It will passively make you evil. Basquiat's (1960-88) unseen notebooks will be at Brooklyn Museum in 2015.

Are you in a prison? No. Where you at? I'm nowhere man....

xxxxMixxx - New Podcast Up #FreeLabRadio



Featuring The Impossible Girl, Alesia, Filet Mignon, Vesper Town, G. Jones, Grace Jones, De Hofnar and Sam Feldt, Haywyre, Brigitte Fontaine, Sander van Doorn and more. First broadcast in July 2014 on UK's art-music radio station Resonance104.4FM. 

This Week's Free Lab Radio - N Egypt and DeBruit - Turkish Mixxx

DeBruit with his signature mask
THIS WEEK FREE LAB RADIO FEATURES AN EGYPTIAN YOUTH MIX OF TROLLSTEP-STYLE SLOW ELECTRONICA HAND-MADE TUNES, BLASTED WITH LOVE FROM EGYPT ON LIVE 2 STEREO BY RAINSTICK. 

FOLLOWED BY MASTER PRODUCER DEBRUIT WITH HIS BESPOKE TURKISH MIX.

LISTEN IN SATURDAY JUNE 14TH ON RESONANCEFM 104.4FM IN LONDON OR 11PM ONLINE
http://radioplayer.resonancefm.com/console/

REPEATS WEDNESDAY 2AM

Tonight's Free Lab Radio - DJ Wrongspeed


DJ Wrongspeed tunes in to Dicken's Little Dorrit, the soundscapes of the
Thai & Malay forests and Bangkok then onwards into a chaotic vinyl set
including the Firesign Theatre company and beyond.
Heidegger interlopes throughout.

Listen in from 11-midnight on Resonance104.4FM, on your radio dial in London, online elsewhere via this handy little WIDGET.

Amon Tobin Finger Painting

Yes, musicians make 'art'!
 This unnamed beauty is the result of Amon Tobin donating his finger print to artist Greg Angus, who then rendered the print creatively in oil and melted wax. To its credit it does look like the effect of sound on water, and that's intriguing. But it also looks like a tie-dye finger painting made on a computer. As it's the great electronic visionary producer, responsible for the likes of ISAM and other wonders however, you might not be satisfied with CDs, downloads, tee shirts, baseball hats and concert tickets...you might want to take your adoration up a notch. Here's the press release which makes some amazing claims:

In anticipation of Greg Angus’ upcoming Los Angeles exhibition, ‘electronic’, Verve Projects is pleased to release Amon Tobin’s fingerprint painting.
These prints are based on Greg’s original encaustic paintings featuring the top electronic musicians in the world. The prints are a closed limited edition of 100, at 36” x 36” each, and they are hand signed by the artist Greg Angus and printed on the highest quality archival (museum quality) paper. Subsequently, the original paintings that these prints are derived from will be unveiled at an exhibition reception in Los Angeles in 2015. Exploring themes of identity in his work, the inspiration in Angus’ paintings are derived from fingerprints. In 2013, Angus met with Amon Tobin to collect his actual fingerprints. He subsequently manipulated them, developing interesting contours and shapes that he used to guide his painting. In his original paintings, his technique involves mixing oil paint with melted wax, (encaustic) and layering a myriad of colors over one another. He then scrapes and carves out his patterns creating texturally complex works. Earlier works have a close relation to the fingerprint Angus begins with, while more recent works have a looser, more organic interpretation. The work is rich with tactile detail, peaks, valleys, and ridges that characterize our distinctive physical stamp. Kinetic use of color is signature in Angus’ work. The high-saturation and brights vibrate with energy drawing us through many pathways in the image. Our natural inclination for individuality and our need to investigate and celebrate the diversity of experience on which we build our identities is reflected in Angus’ works, and reflected in his desire to honour truly exceptional individuals who have left their creative mark on the world.

#FreeLabRadio Podcast - Deep White Sound


deepwhitesound (DWS) an international online label of free experimental music, sent us the best and the breadth of their collective works for this week's show.

DWS promotes more challenging work available for free download than most sites at the moment. A community of artists working at the fringe of art, technology and society - their practices range from interdisciplinary work in new media, installation and performance to generative and web-based mediums that "expand the possibilities of how sound-based art is experienced, distributed and discussed." This way they do this is not just apparent in the audio, but many works are accompanied by imagery or feature as part of longer listening experiences, or are live takes from performances.

DWS mission statement: Female, queer and ethnic minority experimental artists comprise a woefully under-represented and under-supported demographic and thus are also of particular interest to DWS. That stated, DWS seeks and supports work from all people, everywhere, who wish to broaden the scope of what is possible.

Thanks to DB Amorin for the selection. Amorin is founder of deepwhitesound, born in Honolulu, HI USA and currently lived in Portland, OR USA. An experimental artist himself he supports a small, but evergrowing international community and, in an age when many working with digital distribution fight for copyrights Amorin works to "propagate the ideology that art should be free to access and share". 

He currently works for ProjectGrow, an art studio and urban farm for adults with developmental disabilities and The Creative Music Guild, an all-volunteer non-profit organization facilitating creatively experimental performance in Portland, OR. As a visual and sound artist, his work typically deals with perception, identity and representation, using cheap reproduction methods and DIY techniques to explore malfunction and abstraction in form. For information visit www.dbamorin.com

Playlist 

Pregnant Spore (Chicago, IL USA) is the noise/audio collage/electronics project of Justin Marc Lloyd.

Yacob (Oakland, CA USA) is the solo project of punk / noise musician and multi-instrumentalist Jacob McCann.

Talk Midway (New York, NY USA) is the tape-loop / ambient project of musician Patrick Nylen.

Dreamboat Crusaderz (New York, NY USA) is the vocal loop project of queer composer Jesse

Matthias Boss (Biel, Switzerland) is an improvisational violin and viola player.

Marcello Magliocchi (Italy) is a percussionist using non-traditional objects and surfaces, such as bronze sound sculptures.

Lomz (Belgrade, Serbia) is the solo electronic project of Vukasin Stancevic utilizing digital processing and handmade instruments.

Lezet (Pozega, Serbia) is a one-man experimental music project ranging from processed piano to purely electronic compositions.

Idol Eyes (Phoeniz, AZ USA) is the experimental sonic awareness project of Andrew Craze.

Tomas Tello (Lima, Peru) is a DIY electronic performer and composer utilizing cassettes, radios and altered electronic devices.

New Fast (Oakland, CA USA) is a solo ambient / drone / r&b / tape music influenced project.

George Christian (Bahia, Brazil) is a self-taught guitarist and composer of works that push the boundaries of form and textures.

Colon Apostrophe Semicolon is a DIY sound artist experimenting in home-recorded loops for tape and electronics.

City Dragon (Paris, France) is the solo electronic noise project of Max Kaario.

Andrew and the TV Cowboys (Boston, MA USA) is the solo home recording project of Andrew Cosentino using field recordings and live instrumentations.

DAITSE (Antwerp, Belgium) is the moniker of self-taught pianist and generative sound artist Pieter Van de Walle.

Portland Bike Ensemble (Portland OR USA) is a decade-old loose collective of improvisational musicians using their bicycles as instruments.

Consumer (Portland, OR USA) is the moniker of Matt Palenske who creates abrasive, lo-fi, improvisational beats using his voice and DIY electronics.

Mason Butler (Minneapolis, MN USA) is a multi-instrumentalist and all-over experimental musician using found sound, electronics, lo-fi recording and non-traditional media for musical exploration.

The Music Video and Art


Labor45 - Electronic Toys
We're loving German experimental artists Labor45, who collaborate here with Spenza to create this u:ber video to Take Me To Your Leader. As nostalgically 80s and so German as it is, flashing influences of the visual aesthetic of Kraftwerk and sounding like something you couldn't quite put in a box. Following is their video and a little about them but first here are some thoughts their video has raised:

With new media art moving in a wider, yet more confluent direction and with viewing platforms diversifying all the time, the rise of MTV in the late 80s and capitalists like Lady Gaga who claim to create "art" in their music and videos has done little to influence the genre. Instead the area in which video art and the music video have blurred is one which was touched by enduring acts such as Kraftwerk and in the art world, and by the work of Nam June Paik of Fluxus in the art world who was part of a movement challenging conventions of art and music in public space. Didn't John Cage say that one way to write music was to study Duchamp? While the music video generally tends to allude to or add to the narrative, it can also transpose a music video from the realm of 'music' to 'art', and vice versa while contributing to a growing pool of work that celebrates and aesthetic driven by current trends in technology (going right back to Channel 4's The Chart Show, 1986 where videos were linked by their then state of the art computer graphics).

As the conventions of viewing video art change, moving out of the gallery online to anywhere one can fix a screen (recent 'public art' projects for London regeneration saw our own video streamed on loop in a run down estate in North London), the language of video art also changes. Yet is has never quite broken away from convention or explored the possible enough. Only new developments in technology and the occasionally brilliant directive (see Michel Gondry's video for Bjork's Declare Independence - which we post on here some years ago, who also plan to screen their new 40 minute 3D film in museums rather than any other kind of venue) push the medium of music video into the realm of art. Still, it is a blurred line that is as yet unexplored in any conclusive manner.



Labor45 are Barbara Herold, Katrin Petroschkat, both living in Munich . Their work is often about music, the reception and production of as well as where new date formats and digital advancements are heading:
"LABOR 45 is about artistic research on today's technical features and aims to find new possibilities for usage and expression from within the medium."

Spenza on the other hand are interested in sound, with limited but early work in visuals seemingly led by algorhythmic pulsing and basic visual programme coding, going back to 2010:
 

Static Gallery at Curfew Tower - Free Lab Radio on Resonance104.4fm

On Saturday night 11-midnight we begin a new season of Free Lab Radio nights with a composite of interviews and music from Bill Drummond's Curfew Tower (Country Antrim, N.Ireland) at a point when Static Gallery (Liverpool) were running the residencies. The Gallery put all the artwork they found hanging on walls from years and years of residencies at the Tower, into the dungeon, and instead put singers and artists in rooms with a Tascam 4 track recorder.


 The results of these unique residencies were sold in limited edition vinyl on Ebay by Liverpool based record label PRODUCT Records (Static's comment on the commercial nature of the art commissions) and a the Tower opened with performances by participants, including a piece with Clinic and another with Bill Drummond on bagpipes.



In this show we chat to Static Gallery's Paul Sullivan, performer Jinx Lennon and chef-for-the-night artist Tracey Moberly. Tracks are, in this order:
Harbinger - Paul Sullivan
Get the Tension Out - Jinx Lennon (Beetroot Spikey Head Face Observatory)
A Curfew Tower for Bill Morrison - Ex-Easter Island Head
Curfew Tower in Spring - CLINIC

Many thanks to Void Derry and the Northern Island Tourist Board for making this show possible.

Tonight's Free Lab Radio: El Iqaa - نشر

Remains in the Medium of Time
[photo/installation, 2010 -ongoing]
Detroit-Beirut based artist and musician Joe Namy aka El Iqaa explores his Lebanese identity through sound, archive and the word. For this Saturday's Free Lab Radio Show we journey with him on a two album mix, involving some very short snippets of sound that are an audible connection between his magpie-style practice of picking up sounds around him, and his digital work as a music producer. Catch it on air from 11pm-midnight, details below.  Namy's audio work is interesting to us because in his hands, the music plundered becomes a tool for a sonic exploration, ResonanceFM being the representative home of sonic exploration in the UK. WE met Namy at Art Dubai, and interviewed him for our radio project Eavesdropper/ Falgoosh, but tonight the words are only embedded within the sounds.

#Najwa Karam #Ya Habayeb #1989 #label: relax
 So how does Namy present these explorations? As El Iqaa, Joe Namy works with sampled sounds, documentary / music videos and photography to investigate aspects of identity, memory, power and currents encoded in music. He says his ideas 'often revolve around the space between two technics turntables' - between fading and amplifying.  Namy has produced two albums under the moniker El Iqaa, 'Detroit Beirut' (2007) and 'Circulate'
نشر(2011. Namy explores these issues through quotes and cuts from specific definitive samples (ranging from Abdel Halim Hafez to Pierre Boulez, Amiri Baraka to Trisha Donnelly + much more). The splices in these albums are mixed with original recorded sounds to create a dialogue between the past and the future, in hopes of trying to make sense of the present, and grapple with issues around language and translation, memory, movement, electricity ( as an energy resource) and appropriation.

Namy also hosts a sporadically frequent radio program Electric Kahraba on artonair.org.  You can check more of his sounds and other exploratory projects, often exploring the musical history of his roots, at www.olivetones.com
To listen tune into 104.4FM on your transistor dial if you're one of London's millions of inhabitants, or listen online www.resonancefm.com

14th May 2011 11pm-1am


Tonight's show: Middle Eastern (Lebanon, Iran and more) music from 11pm until midnight with Fari B, prior to her departure for the Venice Biennial where she'll be Djing more Middle Eastern dance hybrids and broadcasting.

Beyond that Chris Weaver will be hosting a set by the enigmatic Stephen Blowfeld, who's performing as part of Resonance 104.4FM's collaboration with the Netaudio weekend at the Camden Roundhouse.