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Ema Bonifacic

Letters for Monica Pidgeon

Su Rogers, Barbara Goldstein, Dargan Bullivant, Kenneth Frampton, and Peter Murray join the AA Radio to share stories of their professional and personal relationships with the late Monica Pidgeon, editor of Architectural Design magazine from 1946-1975, who passed away in September 2009 at the age of 95. Asked by the Radio to each bring 5 letters of the alphabet, each standing for a word and story about Monica, the anecdotes and memories journey from Bloomsbury to Buckminster Fuller to Berlin, Lunches at L'Escargot, St. Anne's Close, Walter Segal, Jacobsen stools, Saturday afternoon Talks in the garden, Team X and CIAM, Pidgeon Audio Visual, and Monica's Independence, Dedication, Passion, and Loyalty.

This conversation was recorded on Saturday, November 21, 2009 at the AA, 36 Bedford Square, London. Visit the Pidgeon Digital archive at www.pidgeondigital.com

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Play 63:28 min, Ema Bonifacic 21/11/2009

John Berger: reading from ‘Among Animals and Plants’ by Andrey Platanov

John Berger takes us, through the eyes of Soviet writer Platanov, into the forest. Reading extracted from the evening event on October 23, 2008 at the London Review of Books bookshop for the launch of Artesian magazine; full event broadcast here on AAIR under show title 'Artesian - John Berger, Rosalyn Driscoll, Iona Heath, Deborah Levy, Peter Whitehead'. #

Play 12:51 min, Ema Bonifacic 24/10/2008

Artesian – John Berger, Rosalyn Driscoll, Iona Heath, Deborah Levy, Peter Whitehead

Artesian magazine launch at the London Review of Books bookshop, October 23, 2008, with John Berger, Rosalyn Driscoll, Iona Heath, Deborah Levy, and Peter Whitehead. "Marking the launch of a new twice-yearly journal celebrating committed creativity in art and life, a unique evening of readings from work of enduring value by a highly distinguished line-up of writers, artists, doctors and film-makers. Ranging widely across art forms and human activity, Artesian seeks a dynamic dialogue between disciplines and between art and experience." Readings - Peter Whitehead reads from 'Peaks and Vales' by James Hillman; Iona Heath reads 3 poems by Polish poet Zbygniev Herbert and 1 poem by the English poet John Burnside; Rosalyn Driscoll reads from 'The Timeless Way of Building' by architect Christopher Alexander; Deborah Levy reads from 'The Enigma of Arrival' by V.S. Naipul; John Berger reads from 'Among Animals and Plants' by Andrey Platanov. www.gotogetherpress.com, www.secondrundvd.com, www.lrbshop.co.uk #

Play 59:27 min, Ema Bonifacic 24/10/2008

Peter Cusack & A Catastrophic Silence

Lecture by Peter Cusack, Senior Lecturer Sound Arts & Design at the London College of Communication, as invited by the AA Summer School unit 'A Catastrophic Silence' run by Steve Bates, Joshua Bonnetta, and Douglas Moffat (http://catastrophicsilence.tumblr.com). Peter talks through his own projects exploring the sounds characteristic to different cities and the role these sounds play in the lives of the city inhabitants. Your Favorite London Sound and Your Favorite Beijing Sound are followed by another of Peter's research into the sonic conditions of what he terms 'Dangerous Places' - urban environments which have experienced sudden and major devastation. Peter Cusack, based in London, works as a sound artist, musician and environmental recordist with a special interest in environmental sound and acoustic ecology. Projects move from community arts to research into the contribution of sound to our senses of place to recordings that document areas of special sonic interest, e.g. Lake Baikal, Siberia, and Xinjang, China’s most western province. Recently involved in 'Sound & the City' the British Council sound art project in Beijing 2005. His current project 'Sounds From Dangerous Places’ examines the soundscapes of sites of major environmental damage, e.g. Chernobyl, the Azerbaijan oil fields, controversial dams on the Tigris and Euphratees river systems in south east Turkey. #

Play 105:51 min, Ema Bonifacic 18/7/2008

William Saroyan ‘Talking and trying to read from some of his novels, plays and stories’

"An American of Armenian descent, born in Fresno, California in 1908, William Saroyan is one of the most vivid personalities in the contemporary literary world. His first book of short stories, 'The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze' (1934), struck an original, lively and attractively egoistic note; and his first play, 'The Time of Your Life', produced by the Theater Guild in 1939, is now one of the recognized classics of our stage. This latter work was awarded the Pulitzer prize, but this honor was rejected by Saroyan - one of the few authors ever to refuse an award. Saroyan served with the U.S. Army during the Second World War, and he has written several novels on war themes [including] 'The Human Comedy'. ... Among his many other books are 'Inhale and Exhale', 'The Trouble with Tigers', 'My Name is Aram', and 'The Bicycle Rider in Beverly Hills'." Distinguished Authors Reading From Their Works, Columbia Literary Series, Edited by Goddard Lieberson. These William Saroyan recordings are from 1953 and include JIM DANDY, Fat Man In A Famine (Excerpts), ROCK WAGRAM (Excerpt), THE PARABLE OF THE LOVELINESS OF FAITH IN GOD AND HOW IT SAVED THE LIFE OF AT LEAST ONE GOOD MAN (From 'Saroyan's Fables'), DON'T GO AWAY MAD (Excerpt), and COMMON PRAYER. #

Play 28:33 min, Ema Bonifacic 30/3/2008