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Interview with Tamio Shiraishi

An excerpt from the Duo for Radio Stations (1992), a surrealist live radio show hosted by Judy Dunaway and Chris Nelson. Together they interviewed Tamio Shiraishi via telephone from Japan. This short conversation of improvised airwaves is including recordings of various noises and types of static from radio and television signals (FM, AM, UHF, VHF and short-wave) and a telephone beeper. #

Play 3:29 min, AAIR 4/9/2008

Pig City Platters

Listen up little piglets! After much pondering of possible playlists for a suitably smoky-bacon-flavoured soundtrack to skyscraper farming (partly inspired by the perky Pig City project presented last year at the AA by Winy Maas), our hamfisted new DJ Pig Bodine Jr has finally freed himself from his paranoid-critical pork-brained delirium to freshly prepare these fifteen porcine platters for your listening pleasure! Oink! Oink! The Spam Song, Terry Jones; Pigfucker, Naked City; Piggies, The Beatles; Pig, Sparklehorse; War Pigs, Black Sabbath; Peter Percival Patterson’s Pet Pig Porky, The Monkees; Ground Hog, Duke Pearson; Ham ‘N’ Eggs, A Tribe Called Quest; Piggy Bank Love, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band; Sex Food and a Pig, Spike Milligan; Pig, Soft Machine; Peppermint Pig, Cocteau Twins; Ground Hog Blues, John Lee Hooker; Eggs and Sausage, Tom Waits; Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Charles Mingus. #

Play 52:53 min, Pig Bodine Jr 13/8/2008

Honeybees at London’s SAVOIR FAYRE

The Savoir Fayre - enough buying, let's learn! Organised by Lynn Chambers, this fair took place on August 9, 2008 at the Hackney City Farm. The idea is the sharing of knowledge and making rather than money or finished products. Free entry to the Fayre offered Londoners the chance to learn how to fix their bike, make their own pinata, learn how to knit, how to do stop-frame animation, among many other exciting things for all ages. The atmosphere was buzzing, not least because there were hundreds of bees busy showing how they make honey - live. We hope the Savoir Fayre comes around again soon. #

Play 3:42 min, AAIR 9/8/2008

Songs from the Finnish Rural Commune

This is the first broadcast of this summer's 'music from the home' series that will start with Finnish Tango, originally contributed by Tessa Katz. The concept is very simple. When coming back from holidays, instead of the usual holiday pictures bring back a song or two from your home country and share them with other students in the radio. 'Täysikuu/Full moon' by Olavi Virta; 'Elsa, Kohtalon lapsi/Elsa, Destiny's Child' by Martti Innanen; 'Laulu Suomalaisesta Maalaiskunnasta/Song about the Finnish Rural Commune' by Rauli Badding-Somerjoki; 'Valkea Sisar/Sister in White' by Georg Malmsten; 'Unohtumaton Koti/Unforgettable Home' by Olavi Virta; 'Pilvet Karkaa niin minäkin/Clouds are escaping, so do I' by Markus Allan #

Play 18:13 min, Taneli Mansikkamaki 19/7/2008

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