Wednesday 8 September 2010

Audiovisual 2010


December 11
KH in conversation with Dolly Dolly, Glimmung and Dr Champagne on the subject pulp esoterica, alchemic texts and lure of decay – podcast available as a download from the Found 0bjects blog.

October 10
Resovision live broadcast from the Frieze Art Fair: the lecture delivered as online simulcast from the Resonance FM Art Fair Studio  

September 10
‘From Gameboy to Armageddon’
Repeat broadcast of this Radio 3 feature, written and presented by KH and produced by Mark Burman, September 7.
Related posts:
From Gameboy to Armageddon Online
From Gameboy to Armageddon
Full Spectrum Dominator

‘Film – the Music of the Future: the Cinema of Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’
‘Hollingsville’ special – Ken Hollings and his guests Tai Shani and Chris Bohn discuss the films of this controversial German filmmaker in advance of an all-day screening of his seven-hour masterwork, ‘Hitler: A Film from Germany’. Engineered by Richard Thomas for Resonance 104.4 FM – first broadcast September 2.
Related posts:
Hollingsville Update

August 10
‘Welcome to Mars’
Marathon repeat of the entire ‘Welcome to Mars’ radio series in two 3-hour sequences as part of Resonance FM’ summer schedule. For more information of this 12-part series, on the evenings of August 28 and August 29.
Related posts:
Welcome to Mars

‘An Overloaded Transmission from a Quasi-Personal Stellar Source’
In a live transmission from John Latham’s Flat Time House KH talks about Tristram Shandy, the aphorism and the digression as literary forms. Engineered by Richard Thomas and first broadcast August 2 by Resonance 104.4 FM   in association with Sound Threshold and Flat Time House.

‘SpaceBaby: Guinea Pigs Don’t Dream’
London Fieldworks  put their film SpaceBaby: Guinea Pigs Don’t Dream up, scripted by Ken Hollings on Vimeo. ‘This video work incorporates SpaceBaby performance documentation and choreographed laboratory procedure with CG elements in collaboration with the composer Dugal McKinnon and writer Ken Hollings with narration by Roddy Maude-Roxby.’ – from the London Fieldworks post.
Related posts:
Spacebaby Screening at Less Remote

‘Read This: You Need Us’
Short film featuring an early Biting Tongues performance with spoken-word by Ken Hollings, posted on YouTube.
Related posts:
Biting Tongues

July 10
‘Spaceship UK’
A ‘Hollingsville’ special, a brief history of British electronic music, illustrated by selected readings from the 1951 Festival of Britain exhibition guide, first broadcast July 1 by Resonance 104.4 FM  . This is to coincide with the publication of my essay Spaceship UK: The British Space Programme as Musical Exploration – The Untold Story, commissioned by Sound and Music for Sonar 10, and a shorter online version  being available from June 2010 issue of INTO magazine.

June 10
‘Monsters’
Fair Warning: Hollingsville TX 10/12, featuring contributions from Laurie Lipton, Mark Pilkington, with musical interludes by the McCarricks, first broadcast on Resonance FM, June 17.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 10/12

‘Wounds’
Blood on The Streets: Hollingsville TX9/12, featuring contributions from Cathi Unsworth and Ross MacFarlane, with musical interludes by Unicazürn, first broadcast by Resonance 104.4 FM, June 10.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 9/12

‘Trash’
The Gasp between Clichés: Hollingsville TX8/12, featuring contributions from Roger K Burton and Edwin Pouncey, with musical interludes by Savage Pencil, first broadcast by Resonance 104.4 FM, June 3.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 8/12

May 10
‘Events’
The Birth of Chance: Hollingsville TX 7/12 , featuring contributions from Richard Strange and Tai Shani, with musical interludes by Graham Massey, first broadcast by Resonance 104.4 FM, May 27.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 7/12

‘Spaces’
Buildings Dream Too: Hollingsville TX 6/12, featuring contributions from Mark Fisher and Andy Sharp, with musical interludes by English Heretic, first broadcast by Resonance 104.4 FM, May 20.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 6/12

‘Dreams’
While the City Sleeps: Hollingsville TX 5/12, featuring contributions from Julian House, with musical interludes by David Knight, first broadcast by Resonance 104.4 FM, May 13.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 5/12

‘Networks’
Welcome to the Labyrinth: Hollingsville TX4/12, featuring contributions from Becky Hogge, with musical interludes by Richard H Kirk, first broadcast by Resonance 104.4 FM, May 6.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 4/12

‘Imreadyformycloseup’
Special extended edition of this programme featuring Ken Hollings in conversation with experimental filmmaker Craig Baldwin, first broadcast May 7 on Resonance 104.4 FM.
Related posts:
With Craig Baldwin at the Resonance FM studios

April 10
‘Machines’
History and Hardware: Hollingsville TX3/12, featuring contributions from Bruce Woolley and James Bridle, with musical interludes by Radiophonic, first broadcast by Resonance 104.4 FM, April 29.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 3/12

‘Media’
The Extensions of God: Hollingsville TX2/12, featuring contributions from Russell Dabies and Richard Thomas, with musical interludes by Graham Massey, first broadcast by Resonance 104.4 FM, April 22.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 2/12

‘The Future’
‘Suddenly it’s 1960!’: Hollingsville TX1/12, , featuring contributions from Matt Jones and Steve Beard, with musical interludes by Graham Massey, first broadcast by Resonance 104.4 FM, April 15.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 1/12  

‘Varese in Five Locations’
A talked on the musical experiments of Edgard Varese based on the Ken Hollings essay of the same name, published in the April issue of The Wire, first broadcast April 13 on Resonance 104.4 FM.

‘Imreadyformycloseup’
Two-part edition featuring Ken Hollings in conversation with experimental filmmaker Craig Baldwin first broadcast April 16 and 23 7 on Resonance 104.4 FM.
Related posts:
With Craig Baldwin at the Resonance FM studios


February 10
‘From Gameboy to Armageddon’
Special feature on military use of videogames, combat simulations and special effects, written and presented by KH on Radio 3, produced by Mark Burman. The programme includes in-depth interviews with SIMNET founder Jack Thorpe, military games expert Jim Dunnigen and Tim Lenoir. First broadcast February 21. An MP3 of the programme is available from speechification.The feature was repeated on BBC Radio 3, Septemeber 7, 2010.
Related posts:
From Gameboy to Armageddon
From Gameboy to Armageddon Online
Full Spectrum Dominator

‘Pathological Oversharing’
Broadcast of public panel discussion featuring Ken Hollings, Becky Hogge and Paul May as part of 2009 Media Playground, first broadcast February 8 on Resonance 104.4 FM.
Related posts:
Media Playground Appearance
Pathological Oversharing Panel on Vimeo