We're back....!

Yep, the news you've been waiting for in your dozens...

Now that Resonance FM have successfully relocated to their beautiful new studios in South London audition The Sound323 Radio Programme will begin its third series from This Sunday 30th September at 7PM (BST)

We are pleased to announce that by popular demand the show has been extended to 90 minutes every week, so you now have 50% more audition to tune into every week, you lucky listeners!

We are fully recharged and ready to go after our summer break. There are many plans being formed for themed shows, exclusive recordings, interviews and possibly some live performances once all of the new studio is up and running. Resonance FM have a new website you can visit at the link over there on the right. You can currently view a film there of the new studio under construction.

To celebrate we have toiled long and hard to completely overhaul the audition website to hopefully bring you a better, easier to use site. There are a few new pages, including full playlist listings in the archive pages, a new audition Exclusives download page, and up and running soon will be an archive of artist and label links from our playlists that we hope will build over time into a useful contacts resource. We have also added half or dozen or so more MP3 recordings of early shows that were missing from the previous site archives.
The site is still very new and likely to have a few bugs and broken links. Please let us know if you find any, either here or via our new email address, which is Mail (at) auditionradio (dot) info.

We still intend to use this blog as much as ever to keep you informed of what is coming up in future shows and to post playlists. We welcome your comments here, please let us know what you think about the new show, the music we play and the new website.

Hope you manage to tune in Sunday. If not, we aim to continue to bring you the Mp3 archive of individual shows.

Thank you for listening.

Alastair and Richard

Hey! It's July! Where's the radio programme, you slackers?

Oops. Sorry.

When I wrote that last post I was 99% sure we'd be back in July. However, events at Resonance - mainly moving to a much-needed new studio - have meant that schedules for the next month or so are, erm, fluid. It seemed best all round to wait until the new studio was all ready - probably August - before scheduling the new series of audition.

So you'll have to wait just a little longer for your fix of new experimental music and old jokes. As soon as we have a date for the new series we'll let you know. Meanwhile you can still check out our archives and catch up on any shows you may have missed.

Update

Hello - just a reminder that, everything else being equal, we should be back on Resonance for our third series at the beginning of July.

The sharp-eyed among you will have noticed that I've moved this blog onto the new version of Blogger. I might make a few other (mainly cosmetic) changes here in preparation for the new series, and Richard's looking to give the website a fresh lick of virtual paint too.

As soon as we have a confirmed date for Show 48, I'll be right back here to let you know. Meanwhile, enjoy the long summer evenings (assuming you're in the Northern Hemisphere).

Playlist 47, 1 April 2007

artist: Otomo Yoshihide
title: M6 - Torture
cd: Prisoner – Original Soundtrack
label: Headz
info: label liners trailer

artist: Daphne Oram
title: Tumblewash (edit)
cd: Oramics
label: Paradigm Discs
info: label

artist: Keith Rowe
title: 29 October 2001 (live at Sound 323) – full version
cd: n/a
label: n/a
info: Rowe at Wikipedia

artist: Daphne Oram
title: Contrasts Essconic
cd: Oramics
label: Paradigm Discs
info: "The unsung pioneer of techno", apparently

artist: Jakob Ullmann
title: A Catalogue of Sounds 1995-1997 (excerpt)
cd: A Catalogue of Sounds 1995-1997
label: Edition RZ
info: label

Playlist 46, 25 March 2007

artist: Bryan Eubanks / David Rothbaum
title: Track 1
cd: Bryan Eubanks / David Rothbaum
label: EMR
info: label

artist: Thomas Korber / Bernd Schurer
title: 250904 (excerpt)
cd: 250904
label: Balloon & Needle
info: label Korber

artist: Tetuzi Akiyama / Taku Sugimoto
title: Blue Monk
cassette: The Logic of Exception
label: Slub
info: Akiyama Sugimoto

artist: Traw
title: Part 3 / Rhan 3
cd: Congratulations To The Young Men of Nelson
label: Fourier Transform
info: label

artist: Marginal Consort
title Disc 3 (excerpt)
cd: Marginal Consort
label: Improvised Music for Japan
info: label

artist:Bonnie Jones
title: Body 3
cd: Vines
label: EMR
info: label

artist: Jazkamer
title: Blues For Sterling Hayden
cd: Balls The Size Of Texas Liver the Size Of Brazil
label: Purple Soil
info: label Jaz(z)kam(m)er

Overseas listeners - here is your biannual BST call

British Summer Time started last night, so we're an hour ahead of GMT until October. So if your country didn't put the clocks forward this weekend we'll be an hour earlier tonight and until the Autumn - 6pm (1800) GMT, 7pm (1900) BST. You know the drill by now.

Playlist 45, 18 March 2007

artist: Christian Weber
title: Osaka solo (excerpt)
cd: Osaka solo
label: C
info: artist/label

artist: Otomo Yoshihide (and Sachiko M)
title: DT-1
cd: Digital Tranquiliser Ver 1.01
label: FMN Sound Factory
info: Otomo Sachiko

artist: Mark Robinson
title: Why Hello, Dali!
cd: EM
label: Teenbeat
info: label

artist: Radu Malfatti
title: Rain Speak Soft Tree Listens (excerpt)
cd; Rain Speak Soft Tree Listens
label: b-boim
info: artist

artist: EBT7 (Michael Evans / Barry Weisblat / Toshio Kajiwara / Lary 7)
title: Side 2 (excerpt)
cassette: EBT7 @ Tonic
label: Analogue Society
info: Weisblat

artist: Mitsuhiro Yoshimura
title: So
cd: And So On
label: (h)earrings
info: label

artist: Felix Hess
title: Air Pressure Fluctuations (excerpt)
cd: Air Pressure Fluctuations
label: Edition RZ
info: label

Playlist 44, 11 March 2007

artist: Richard Kamerman
title: Fv Form / Bandit Presentable / Panacea Truism
cd: Open Your Windows And Play These Discs Loudly (You’re Exempt Mr Pinnell)
label: Obsolete Units
info: Mr P's also exempt from this

artist: Choi Joonyong / Joe Foster / Hong Chulki
title: 701 sec
cd: 4387 sec
label: Balloon and needle
info: label

artist: John Cage
title: Music For Amplified Toy Pianos
cd: John Cage – Nova Musicha n.1
label: Cramps
info: J hn C g

artist: Marcus Schmickler
title: Demos (excerpt)
cd: Demos
label: A-Musik
info:Schmickler

artist: Richard Francis / Anthony Guerra / Mattin / Joel Stern
title: Side 1
7": Untitled 7”
label: CMR
info: label

artist: Axel Dorner/Lucio Capece
title; Track 1 (excerpt)
cd: Axel Dorner / Lucio Capece
label: L’innomable
info: label

Playlist 43, 4 March 2007

artist: Masahiko Okura / Gunter Muller / Otomo Yoshihide
title: Radiant
cd: Metal Tastes Like Orange
label: Amoebic
info: label

artist: Graham Halliwell / Tomas Korber
title: In Mezzo, Nel Mezzo
cd: The Large Glass
label: Cathnor
info: label

artist: ea
title: Balancing Act With Controlled Dynamics (excerpt)
cd: Balancing Act With Controlled Dynamics
label: Winds Measure Recordings
info: label

artist: Zhang Jian (FM3)
title: Bian Jing
cd: Streets of Lhasa
label: Sublime Frequencies
info: label

artist: The Dead C
title: All Channels Open
cd: Vain, Erudite and Stupid: Selected Works 1987-2005
label: Badabing
info: label Nick Cain on NZ noise

Playlist 42, 25 February 2007

artist: The Sealed Knot
title: Second Set (excerpt)
cd: Live At The Red Hedgehog, 29 October 2006
label: Confront Live
info: artist label (sort of)

artist: David Toop
title: Falling Light
cd: Sound Body
label: Samadhisound
info: label

artist: Greg Malcolm / Tetuzi Akiyama
title: Scenic Tunnel
cd: Six Strings
label: Brombron
info: label

artist: Jon Mueller / Martijn Tellinga
title: Ham Baguette
cd: Bowl, Helicopter
label: Brombron
info: label

artist: Morton Subotnick
title: Part 1 (excerpt)
lp: Silver Apples Of The Moon
label: Nonesuch
info: artist review by one of Julian Cope's mates

artist: Cyril Epinat / Matthias Forge
title: Saturday 4th September 2004, Leafy Forest
cd: Duo…
label: Creative Sources
info: label

Playlist 41, 18 February 2007

artist: Luigi Nono
title: Omaggio a Emilio Vedova
cd: Complete solo works for tape
label: Stradivarius
info: label

artist: Xavier Charles
title: Track 6
cd: Exercice
label: No label
info: artist

artist: Taku Sugimoto
title: Whole With Notes
cd: Live in Kansai
label: Slub
info: artist

artist: Jeffrey Allport / Angharad Davies / Chandan Narayan
title: Track 2
cd: Hawker's Delight
label: No label
info: Narayan

artist: Perlonex/Keith Rowe
title: Tensions Disc 1 (excerpt)
cd: Tensions
label: Nexsounds
info: Perlonexposition

artist: Crystal Palace Orchestra and Choir, conductor: Sir August Manns
title: Israel in Egypt (Handel)
wax cylinder: 1888 concert recordings
label: No label
info: Webrarian Edison archive

artist: Lee Patterson / Jez Riley French
title: Thursday 14th December 2006 (excerpt)
cd: Thursday 14th December 2006
label: Self released
info: Jezspace

Thanks

Just a quick note to pass on our thanks to Robert who for the past ten weeks or so has been diligently recording the shows and sending them via email to me so that when I get home from London they await me ready to go up online at the archive. We have managed to get the shows up online regularly every week thanks to this.

The unofficial third member of the audition team, just wanted to say thanks Robert!

Playlist 40, 11 February 2007

artist: Michel Henritzi / Taku Unami
title: Action Directe
cd: Keith Rowe Serves Imperialism
label: w.m.o/r
info: label

artist: Ralf Wehowsky / Bhob Rainey
title: Awaken Elsewhere, Unforseen
cd: I Don’t Think I Can See You Tonight
label: Sedimental
info: Rainey

artist: Greg Kelley
title: Thistlalia
cd: Music Overheard
label: ICA Boston
info: artist

artist: David Papapostolou
title: gs
cd: One And Two
label: self-released
info: artist

artist: Cor Fuhler
title: North-South
cd: Stengam
label: Potlatch
info: label artist

artist: No Spaghetti Edition
title: Black (excerpt)
cd: Sketches Of A Fusion
label: Sofa
info: label artist

an explanation for Richard's link

and some more

artist: Otomo Yoshihide
title: Modulation #1
cd: Cathode
label: Tzadik
info: label artist

Show 39 – Radio Raumschiff Zitrone, 4 February 2007

Part One utilised recordings by the following, all from the Raumschiff Zitrone between 2001-6.

Kai Fagachinski (clarinet) / Axel Doerner (trumpet and computer) / Boris Baltschun (sampler) No Furniture

Burkhard Beins (percussion) / Rhodri Davies (harp) / Mark Wastell (cello) The Sealed Knot

Angharad Davies (violin) / Astrid Weins (bass) / Robin Hayward (tuba)

Part Two utilised recordings by the following, all from the Raumschiff Zitrone between 2001-6.

Joe Williamson (bass)
Olaf Rupp (guitar)
Kyle Bruckmann (oboe)
Ivar Grydeland (guitar) / Ingar Zach (percussion)
Phil Minton (voice) / Axel Doerner (trumpet)
Thomas Ankersmit (sax) / Giuseppe Ielasi (guitar/electronics)
John Bisset (guitar) / Burkhard Beins (percussion)
Michael Renkel (guitar) / Christof Kurzmann (G3, vocals) / Burkhard Stangl (guitar)

Part Three is an edited version of the last set at the Raumschiff Zitrone, 20 October 2006, by Kommando Raumschiff Zitrone: Kai Fagaschinski (clarinet) / Christof Kurzmann (lloopp, coins)

Recordings made available by Marcus Liebig. Thanks to him, Kai and Christof.

Playlist 38, 28 January 2007

artist: Henry J Walmsley
title: Synchronise
cd: Colossus
label: Ambitunes
info: artist/label

artist: Jason Kahn / Tomas Korber / Christian Weber
title: Track 2
cd: Zürcher Aufnahmen
label: Longbox
info: label

artist: Western Grey (Brown / Pateras / Samartzis)
title: Open Space (excerpt)
cd: Glacial Erratic
label: Dr Jim's Records
info: label

artist: Burkhard Beins
title: For Ian Curtis
cd: Improvised Music from Japan EXTRA 2006: Special Berlin Issue
label: Improvised Music From Japan
info: label artist

artist: Burkhard Stangl / Dieb 13
title: eeeh
cd: eh
label: Erstwhile
info: label Stangl 13

artist: Toshimaru Nakamura
title: Untitled
cd: Keichiro Shibuya / Norbert Moslang / Toshimaru Nakamura
label: ATAK
info: label

artist: Matthieu Saladin
title: Seven.17
cd: Intervales
label: L’innomable
info: label

Playlist 37, 21 January 2007

artist: Chris Watson / BJ Nilson
title: No Mans Land (excerpt)
cd: Storm
label: Touch
info: label watson

artist: Toshiya Tsunoda
title: Arrival, Kisarazu Bay, 11th Dec 2004
cd: Ridge of Undulation
label: Håpna
info: label

artist: Jeph Jerman
title: Bees (excerpt)
cd: More Sound
label: Self released
info:artist

artist: Lee Patterson
title: Egg Fry 2
cd: Unreleased
label: Unreleased
info: artist tour dates

artist: Ami Yoshida
title: 動
cd: in drawing
label: Cherry Music
info: label artist

artist: Jeph Jerman
title: Stones, Brush, Wood, Wind etc at Red Tank Draw, Arizona
cd: Derelict 2
label: Self released
info:artist Richard's thoughts on Jerman

artist: Quiet American
title: Roadside Communal Water Pump,Kuhlna, Bangladesh
Pilgrims at a well outside Muang Sing, Laos during a full moon celebration
Village water Pump, Shan State village outside Kalaw, Burma
cd: Plumbing and Irrigation of South Asia
label: and/OAR
info:artist label

artist: Akio Suzuki / Eric La Casa
title: Stones, Oto-Date 2004, Paris
cd: Resonances Ussip Zadkine Catalogue CD
label: Paris museé
info: artist, in japanese

Solo Rich, Solo Al

This coming week I will be unavailable to broadcast, so Richard will be doing a solo show. Two weeks hence - 4 February - Richard will be unavailable to broadcast, so I will do a solo show. We're trying to take the opportunity of complete control to do something that we wouldn't ordinarily do together, although plans haven't been finalised for either show yet. Don't worry, we won't be indulging in the excesses of Show 25.

We'll be together on the January 28 show and from 11 February we'll be back to normal. Our solo careers do not mean that the band is breaking up: it's just a chance for us to pursue other projects that we've always wanted to do, etc.

Although Richard has been talking to me about how he wants to stage a production of the life story of Keith Rowe. On ice.

the audition annual report - your top twenty of 2006

As voted for by you, our listeners. Thanks to everyone who contributed!

1. Keith Rowe / Toshimaru Nakamura - between (Erstwhile)
2. Nmperign / Jason Lescalleet - Love Me Two Times (Intransitive)
3. Klaus Filip / Toshimaru Nakamura - Aluk (Improvised Music From Japan)
4. [N:Q] - November:Quebec (Esquilo)
5. Ami Yoshida / Christof Kurzmann - a s o (Erstwhile)
6. Kommando Raumschiff Zitrone - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Quincunx)
7. Will Guthrie - Body and Limbs Still Look To Light (Cathnor)
8. Jason Lescalleet - The Pilgrim (Glistening Examples)
9. Lionel Marchetti - Red Dust (Crouton)
10. Olivia Block - Heave To (Sedimental)

11. Mattin / Radu Malfatti - Going Fragile (Formed)
12. Joe Colley / Jason Lescalleet - Annihilate This Week (Brombron)
13. Taku Sugimoto / Taku Unami - Tengu Et Kitsune (Slub)
14. David Lacey / Paul Vogel / Mark Wastell - Live In Dublin 1 April 2006 (Confront)
15. Axel Dörner / Mattin - Berlin (Absurd)
16. Mark Wastell - Amo(u)ngst English Men (Absinth)
17. The Contest Of Pleasures – Albi Days (Potlatch)
18. Eric La Casa - Secousses Panoramiques (Hibari)
19. Giacinto Scelsi - Natura Renovatur (ECM)
20. Keith Rowe / Mark Wastell - Live In Dublin 31 March 2006 (Confront)

Playlist 36, 14 January 2007

artist: Olivia Block
title: Heave To (excerpt)
cd: Heave To
label: Sedimental
info: label

artist: Lionel Marchetti
title: Vision Nocturnae
cd: Red Dust
label: Crouton
info: label

artist: Ami Yoshida / Christof Kurzmann
title: Track 4
cd: a s o
label: Erstwhile
info:label

artist: [N:Q]
title: November (Excerpt)
cd: November Quebec
label: Esquilo
info: label

artist: Klaus Filip / Toshimaru Nakamura
title: Pace
cd: Aluk
label: Improvised Music From Japan
info: label

artist: Nmperign / Jason Lescalleet
title: I Remember
cd: Love Me Two Times
label: Intransitive
info: label

artist: Keith Rowe / Toshimaru Nakamura
title: 13630Khz
cd: between
label: Erstwhile
info: label

Playlist 35, 7 January 2007

artist: Giancinto Scelsi
title: Natura Renovatur
cd: Natura Renovatur
label: ECM
info: label

artist: Eric La Casa
title: Tracks 11-14
cd: Secousses Panoramiques
label: Hibari
info: label lacasa

artist: The Contest of Pleasures
title: Winter Squash
cd: Albi Days
label: Potlatch
info: label

artist: David Lacey / Paul Vogel / Mark Wastell
title: Live in Dublin (excerpt)
cd: Live in Dublin
label: Confront
info: label Irish Progressive Rock Appreciation Society

artist: Joe Colley / Jason Lescalleet
title: Nervous Laughter
cd: Annihilate This Week
label: Brombron
info: label

artist: Mattin / Radu Malfatti
title: Going Fragile (excerpt)
cd: Going Fragile
label: Formed
info: label