We're back!

Yes, the waiting is over...the first programme in the autumn series of audition will be on Sunday 8 October at 7pm, London time. We look forward to you listening in.

Latest news

Hope everyone has had a nice summer. We're just waiting for confirmation of the time slot for the new series of audition from Resonance HQ, and as soon as we know it we'll publish it here. We're chomping at the bit! Richard and I haven't been idle over the summer though - far from it.

Richard has started a record label, Cathnor Recordings, and already has two very strong releases available - Archi.Texture Vol 1 by Herve Boghossian, Mark Wastell and John Tilbury, and Body And Limbs Still Look To Light by Will Guthrie. Both releases are available now from Sound 323.

I spent some time in Sydney, Australia, picking up as much new music as I could and checking out gigs at The Now Now and Pelt. I also spent some time in the Cook Islands, but the experimental music scene isn't quite as big there...

Not to be outdone by Richard, I too have started a record label, Quincunx Sound Recordings. My first release is First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Kommando Raumschiff Zitrone, the duo of Kai Fagaschinski and Christof Kurzmann. Sound 323 should be your first port of call for this, too.

We're really looking forward to broadcasting again. Hope you're looking forward to listening.

Show 23 - visual evidence

Well, MP3s of all the shows are up (if you know where to look, heh heh) with the exception of show 23. We've tried hard, but we just can't get a useful recording of that one. If you have one that you could share with us we'd be much obliged. If we can't get one then we'll look to put up the Beins/Durrant session that formed the centrepiece of that show anyway soon.

Just to prove we really did do a show that week, here's a picture of us in full flow. Picture courtesy of OFCOM's spy camera.

(L-R: Pinnell, Wilson)

While you wait for audition to start broadcasting again, Richard and I are both planning on bringing you some new music this summer. Keep checking back here for the latest news.

Progress with the missing Mp3s!

OK, the first of the missing Mp3s is now up at the archive page on the website.
Many thanks for the patience of anyone waiting for these, they are proving a pain to do, but I am aiming to have them all up before the weekend is over.

If any regular listeners missed our last show and really want to hear it, email me at rcpinnell (at) bt internet.com and I'll put you in touch with someone who can supply you with a copy, but only if you can convince me you don't work for a major label!!!

Playlist 25, 25 June 2006

artist: The Bonzo Dog Band
title: The Intro and the Outro
cd: Gorilla
label: Liberty

artist: The Walker Brothers
title: The Electrician
cd: Nite Flights
label: GTO

artist: Tim Buckley
title: Song To The Siren
cd: Starsailor
label: Straight

artist: Stock, Hausen and Walkman
title: Jumped up little start
cd: Hairballs
label: Hot Air

artist: Stock, Hausen and Walkman
title: Tampooning
cd: Hairballs
label: Hot Air

artist: Disco Inferno
title: A Crash At Every Speed
cd: D.I. Go Pop
label: RoughTrade

artist: Peter Hammill
title: The Jargon King
cd: A Black Box
label: S-Type

artist: Labradford
title: SEDR77
cd: A Stable Reference
label: Kranky

artist: Aphex Twin
title: Digeridoo
cd: Classics
label: R&S Records

artist: Can
title: Moonshake
cd: Future Days
label: Spoon

artist: Art Bears
title: Freedom
cd: The World As It Is Today
label: ReR

artist: Husker Du
title: Eight Miles High
10": Eight Miles High/Makes No Sense At All single
label: SST

artist: My Bloody Valentine
title: To Here Knows When
cd: Loveless
label: Creation

artist: Faust with Tony Conrad
title: From the side of Man and Womankind
cd: From Outside the Dream Syndicate
label: Table of the Elements

artist: Michael Nesmith
title: Beyond The Blue Horizon
cd: Magnetic South
label: RCA Victor

And now, the end is near...

Tomorrow's show is that last one in the current run, as we're taking a break for summer. We'll be back in October, so keep checking the site for updates.

For our last show we've planned something a little different. Because of the nature of it we're unlikely to put a full recording of it in the audio archive (copyright laws, big corporations, etc). So if you want the full, unadulterated, end-of-term audition programme, tune in tomorrow at 7pm. It's after the England match, so you've no excuse!

Rhodri Davies/Mark Wastell gig, this Friday

Rhodri Davies (Amplified Harp/Electronics)

Mark Wastell (Tuned Percussion/Tam Tam)

at the Charing X Gallery, 2nd Floor 121-125 Charing Cross Road, London

Friday 23rd June, 8pm

Five Pounds

(come and say hello, we'll be there)

Playlist 24, 18 June 2006

artist: Gyorgy Ligeti / LaSalle Quartet
title: String Quartet No.2 (Part 3)
cd: String Quartet No 2 ao
label: Deutsche Grammophon
info: Ligeti

artist: Derek Bailey
title: Improvisation 104b
cd: Incus Taps
label: Cortical Foundation
info: label artist

artist: Rhodri Davies / Taku Sugimoto / Mark Wastell
title: Live at Sound 323 22 March 2002
info: Sugimoto Davies Wastell

artist: Toshiya Tsunoda / John Cage
title: 4'33"
cd: 45'18" Nine versions of 4'33"
label: Korm Plastics
info: label

artist: Werner Dafeldecker / Uli Fussenegger / Dieter Kovacic
title: Dun
cd: Printer
label: Durian
info: label

artist: John Butcher
title: Atelier
cd: Invisible Ear
label: Fringes
info: label artist

artist: Mersault
title: Track 3
cd: Mersault
label: Quakebasket
info: label korber

Playlist 23, 11 June 2006

artist: Toshimaru Nakamura
title: Hank
cd: Improvised Music from Japan 2002 – 2003
label: Improvised Music from Japan
info: label

artist: Steve Roden
title: Oder Delias or Butterflies (excerpt)
cd: Oder Delias or Butterflies
label: NonVisual Objects
info: artist

artist: Burkhards Beins / Phil Durrant
title: Live at Sound 323 30/08/03
info: Beins Durrant

artist: Pauline Oliveros
title: Bye Bye Butterfly (excerpt)
cd: OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music 1948 - 1980
label: Ellipsis Arts
info: label (!) artist

artist: Prelapse
title: Blood Sucking Freaks
cd: Prelapse
label: Avant
info: interview

artist: Jeph Jerman
title: Harvester Ants (excerpt)
cd: Harvester Ants
label: Autumn Leaves Series
info: label

Playlist 22, 4 June 2006

artist: Quiet American
title: Hotel Elite toilet and thunder, Kathmandu, Nepal
cd: Plumbing and irrigation of South Asia
label: and/Oar records
info: artist label

artist: Phosphor
title: P5
cd: Phosphor
label: Potlatch
info: label

artist: Sean Meehan / Mark Wastell
title: Live at Sound 323 26/06/04
info: Meehan Wastell

artist: Ryan Gregory and Christine Jeanine
title: 1123 Morley Ave, July 15th 2005 (excerpt)
cd: 1123 Morley Ave, July 15th 2005
label: Autumn Records Leaves Series
info: label more free stuff

Playlist 21, 28 May 2006

artist: Such
title: Para' 13
cd: The Issue at Hand
label: Matchless
info: label

artist: Philip Samartzis
title: NHK Tokyo
cd: Strewth! an abstract compilation from Australia and New Zealand
label: Synaesthesia
info: label artist

artist: Mark Wastell / David Lacey / Paul Vogel
title: Dublin 01.04.06 (excerpt)
cd: Dublin 01.04.06
label: Confront Performance Series
info: label i and e festival

artist: The Year Of
title: Calling Sky
cd: Slow Days
label: Morr Music
info: label fleischmann

artist: Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words
title: Settling Dust
cd: 11 Instances Of Dead Letters And Words
label: Ideal Recordings
info: artist label

artist: Michael Renkel
title: Errorkoerper III (excerpt)
cd: Errorkoerper III
label: Absinth
info: label artist

Website update

We've redesigned our website! Well, Richard has, I just annoyed him with my constant whining. I think it's looking even better than ever and now you can even see what we look like (warning: do not look at the "about audition" page on a full stomach).

Have a look here.

Playlist 20, 21 May 2006

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

artist: Tisha Mukarji
title: For Yvette Brackman
cd: Miscellaneous recordings 2005
label: Private Cd-r
info: artist

artist: Tatsuya Umeda
title: Across A Bridge
cd: Ocket
label: Improvised Music from Japan
info: label

artist: Otomo Yoshihide
title: Thawing – End Titles
cd: The Day The Sun Turned Cold - OST
label: BMG Victor
info: review of the film

artist: Polwechsel
title: Mirror
cd: Archives of the North
label: Hatology
info: label

artist: Rick Reed
title: Music For The Rothko Chapel Part 1
lp: Music For The Rothko Chapel (10” LP)
label: Beta-Lactam Ring Records
info: label

LMC Website relaunched and a teaser for tomorrow's show

The London Musicians' Collective's website has just been relaunched, so go here to satisfy all your London Musician and London-Musician-related needs. Excellent work, chaps.

As well as a useful calendar of gigs in London, there's a text archive which includes the fascinating "25 Years From Scratch" booklet, and an MP3 archive with sets from last November's LMC Festival featuring the likes of Dieb 13, Tisha Mukarji, Xavier Charles, Trio Sowari and Mattin. So, if you want to find out whether those blasts during the first part of Mattin's set was as loud as you've been told, check out the downloads here.

Tune in tomorrow for a host of new releases and some exclusive material from one of the participants in the above-mentioned LMC festival. We're too good to you, really we are.

Sort-of playlist, show 19, 14 May 2006

For those of you who were wondering what music interspersed tonight's Keith Rowe interview, here's a list of the CDs we used in order of appearance:

LMC 13th Festival: Guitar (no label)

Harsh (Grob)

A Dimension of Perfectly Ordinary Reality (Matchless)

Fibre (with Tomas Korber) (For4Ears)

Duos For Doris (with John Tilbury) (Erstwhile)

between (with Toshimaru Nakamura) (Erstwhile)

Erstlive 001 (with Burkhard Beins) (Erstlive)

Keith Rowe interview on audition

We've something special for this Sunday's installment of audition: an hour long interview with Keith Rowe conducted in April of this year, in which he discusses his working methods and thought processes at length.

Covering ground from onstage haircuts to zen archery and everything in between, if you have any interest in Keith's music you really won't want to miss this. 7pm, 14 May.

Keith Rowe Nottingham Concert details

Apologies for the delay in posting this. Its Alastair's fault, he forgot to remind me. :)

Tuesday 9th May

AVP and Sonic Research Groups at schools of Fine Art and Visual Communications,
Nottingham Trent University present in collaboration with Southwell Artspace:

Soundscapes -
performance and workshop with Keith Rowe & prof_lofi

Performance: Tuesday 9th May 8pm
Admission on door £7 conc. £5
At: Southwell Artspace, 48 Westgate Southwell NG25 0JX
01636 814 421
07887 912 447
info@southwellartspace.com
or contact, David Reid david.reid@ntu.ac.uk
For anyone traveling from Nottingham for this event please note - A special bus will be available from outside the Bonington Building, Shakespeare St at 7pm, to take you to Southwell. The bus will return from Southwell Artspace for Bonington Building after the performance at at 10.30pm.
Full details at - http://www.southwellartspace.com/watchthisspace.htm

Playlist 18, 7 May 2006

artist: Dion Workman
title: For i/x
cd: Strewth!
label: Synaesthesia
info: label artist

artist: VHF
title: G-15
cd: Statics
label: L’innomable
info: label

artist: Will Guthrie / Adam Sussmann / Matthew Earle
title: Bridges 3
cd: Bridges
label: Antboy
info: artist/label

artist: Sidsel Endresen / Christian Wallumrød / Helge Sten
title: Ectrik
cd: Merriwinkle
label: Jazzland
info: label

artist: Yasuhiro Otani
title: Music for 50 iMacs
cd: Improvised Music from Japan (10CD Box)
label: Improvised Music from Japan
info: label artist

artist: Eddie Prevost
title: Entelechy
cd: Entelechy
label: Matchless
info: artist/label

Interactive programming on audition - get voting!

Between 2001 and 2004 there were some great concerts in the basement of Sound 323, many of them recorded by Tim Fletcher. Four of the best have been released on the Sound 323 label but we've been through the list of remaining gigs and come up with what we think are the first XI of so-far-unheard recordings from the basement.

We'd like to share some of them with you on the show. Vote via email for the three you'd most like to hear - use the link on the right of the page - and let us know by showtime, Sunday 14 May. We'll then play the winners on our June shows.

Here's that list. Every one's a winner!

1. monday 26th february 2001
john butcher: saxophones
steve noble: percussion
rhodri davies: harp
mark wastell: cello

2. saturday 13th october 2001
simon vincent: electronics
graham halliwell: alto saxophone & electronics

3. monday 25th february 2002
thomas ankersmit (germany): alto saxophone, computer & analogue synthesizer
hugh davies: invented instruments

4. friday 22nd march 2002
taku sugimoto (japan): acoustic guitar
rhodri davies: acoustic harp
mark wastell: acoustic cello

5. saturday 18th may 2002
joel stern: computer/field recordings/radio
anthony guerra: guitar/electronics

6. friday 7th june 2002
ignaz schick (germany): electronics
phil durrant: electronics

7. saturday 8th march 2003
burkhard stangl (austria): guitar

8. saturday 30th august 2003
burkhard beins (germany): percussion
phil durrant: laptop

9. saturday 31st january 2004
alfredo costa monteiro (spain): accordion
ruth barberán (spain): trumpet
ferran fages (spain): acoustic turntable

10. saturday 26th june 2004
sean meehan (usa): snare drum, cymbal
mark wastell: tam tam, nepalese bowls

11. saturday 2nd october 2004
mattin (basque country): computer
taku unami (japan): computer

Playlist 17, 30 April 2006

artist: Rhodri Davies
title: Berant
cd: Trem
label: Confront
info: label artist

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

artist: Civil War
title: The Brutality of Fact part V
cd: The Brutality Of Fact
label: Longbox
info: label

artist: Chandan Narayan
title: Track 6
cd: Eight Vignettes For Solo Autoharp
label: Self-released
info: artist contact

artist: Otomo Yoshihde
title: Cathode #5
cd: Ensemble Cathode
label: Improvised Music from Japan
info: artist/label