Speaker

Speaker (M.Mayer) by Steven Ball, 2009, 3:20, stereo

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Speaker by Michael Mayer, 2001, Kompakt Records

Sounds Spoken podcast and playlist

Ed Pinsent's The Sound Projector Radio Show
25th September 2009
Resonance 104.4FM
Curated and co-presented by Steven Ball
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1. And The Native Hipsters, ‘There Goes Concorde Again’
   Heater Volume Records HVR 003 single (1980)
2. Dajuin Yao, ‘Satisfaction of Oscillation’ (1997)
   From An Anthology of Chinese Experimental Music (1992-2008), Sub Rosa SR265 CD (2008)
3. Neil Mills, ‘Seven Number Poems’
   From Experiments in Disintegrating Language/Konkrete Canticle, Arts Council of Great Britain LP (1971)
4. Caroline Bergvall, ‘Ride’
   From Via: Poems 1994-2004, Rockdrill #8 CD (2005)
5. Caroline Bergvall, ‘Rapid Eye Movement, Part 2′
   From Via: Poems 1994-2004, Rockdrill #8 CD (2005)
6. Simon Wickham-Smith, ‘Three Versions of Appreciative’
   From Rapt, DISPOSABLE THUMB RECORDINGS DTR-011 CD (2003)
7. Jas H Duke, ‘Bloodshot Eyes’
   From Poems of Life and Death, NMA Publications, Cassette (1989)
8. Chris Mann, ‘Maybe if You Hit it Hard 3′
   From Maybe if You Hit it Hard, http://theuse.info mp3 (2009)
9. Chris Mann, ‘Maybe if You Hit it Hard 4′
   From Maybe if You Hit it Hard, http://theuse.info mp3 (2009)
10. Unamunos Quorum, ‘She’s Going With the Boys’
    From Strange Visitors, Unamunos Quorum CD (2006)
11. Arf Arf, ‘Someone Said ‘
    From Clanguage, Arf Arf CD (1996)
12. Arf Arf, ‘Bronson’
    From Clanguage, Arf Arf CD (1996)
13. Bob Cobbing, ‘Computer Poem’ (1968)
    From The Spoken Word: Bob Cobbing Early Recordings 1965-1973, British Library NSACD 42 CD (2009)
14. Konkrete Canticle, ‘Hymn To The Sacred Mushroom’ (1971)
    From The Spoken Word: Bob Cobbing Early Recordings 1965-1973, British Library NSACD 42 CD (2009)
15. Furious Pig, ‘I Don’t Like Your Face’
    From I Don’t Like Your Face, Rough Trade RT064 EP (1981)
16. AGF, ‘Letters Make No Meaning (Weapons No War Germs No Disease)’
    From Words Are Missing, AGF PRODUCKTION MDM55082 CD (2008)
17. Augusto De Campos & Caetano Veloso, ‘Dias Dias Dias’
    From Caixa Preta, Edições Invenção single (1975)
18. Augusto De Campos & Caetano Veloso, ‘Pulsar’
    From Caixa Preta, Edições Invenção single (1975)
19. Peter Roehr, ‘Auf Der Tapete’
    From Tonmontagen I+II, suppose koln ISBN 3-932513-35-5 LC 10439 CD (2002)
20. Gregory Whitehead, ‘Market Share – Mumbo Momo-All About Squid’
    From Writing Aloud, Errant Bodies Press/Ground Fault Recordings ISBN 0-9655570-3-0 book/CD (2001)

Sounds Spoken

Presenting a collection of recordings of experimental spoken word in poetry, permutation and performance. Also contains language.

Sounds Spoken
Steven Ball and Ed Pinsent
The Sound Projector Radio Show
Friday 25 September, 5:30 - 7:00pm
Resonance 104.4 FM
Live from London on radio and webstream.

Sub Zero Degrees

Musing about the sometimes held misunderstanding between 'structuralism' in British experimental film and the same name given to post-existentialist French philosophy, I was excited to see that Sam Renseiw had appropriated Say Zero, positing an intriguing suggestion of what French Structuralism applied to a moving image work can produce. Refining his text, I attend to the grain of the voice, on the distinction between jouissance and identification in illusion.

Herstory

Goddess Loop

In My House

Je--s

Free Speech

The sound pieces that I am posting this week were made in response to a project initiated by no.w.here as part of The Free Cinema School. Based at The Centre for Possible Studies on Edgware Road, London for a good part of August and September, no.w.here has been making a film from moving image and sound material created for the project by anyone interested in participating. I became interested in Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, a short distance from Edgware Road, as a site for gathering material for spoken word sound works. I spent a fascinating afternoon recording some of the speakers and have been experimenting with ways of developing, re-performing and reworking both the sound and the spoken text. The sound pieces being posted here represent the first results of this work, I have donated them and their source recordings to no.w.here for working into the film however seems appropriate. I’m looking forward to seeing the results and how the sound is contextualized when the film is screened this coming Friday 11 September at the Park Nights screening in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion.

Name One Goddess

I'm Gonna Sing...

This Global Warning