Transmission
Waves over the waves
A special live show...
Photo: Reid Dudley-Peirson
A special live edition of the Radiogram as an experiment.
When you are a podcast/radio producer you are in charge of, well, pretty much everything. You do the interviews, you edit the recordings, you choose the music, and you choose when the music appears, and control the mood and meaning of the whole programme.
What if it was different? What if I gave up my power as a producer?
To find out what would happen I asked two classically trained musicians to perform the music for this programme live in front of an audience. They had not heard the interviews before – they had only a written transcription and my 'conducting' them in and out to guide them through the start- and end-timings of the clips. What would they do to the mood of the programme? Would it still make as much sense as if I had stayed at home and done it all myself? Would the audience like it or would I be run out of town? To add to the overall sense of daftness I decided we on stage should all dress up in 1950s golden-age-of-radio outfits. Nobody else did.
Let me know what you think. Email here. Twitter at @SonicCircles.
When you are a podcast/radio producer you are in charge of, well, pretty much everything. You do the interviews, you edit the recordings, you choose the music, and you choose when the music appears, and control the mood and meaning of the whole programme.
What if it was different? What if I gave up my power as a producer?
To find out what would happen I asked two classically trained musicians to perform the music for this programme live in front of an audience. They had not heard the interviews before – they had only a written transcription and my 'conducting' them in and out to guide them through the start- and end-timings of the clips. What would they do to the mood of the programme? Would it still make as much sense as if I had stayed at home and done it all myself? Would the audience like it or would I be run out of town? To add to the overall sense of daftness I decided we on stage should all dress up in 1950s golden-age-of-radio outfits. Nobody else did.
Let me know what you think. Email here. Twitter at @SonicCircles.
Peter Weatherall
Amateur radio enthusiast from Canterbury.
Joe & Oliver: Epizootics! presenters
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Magz Hall
A sound, radio artist and founder of Radio Arts, Magz Hall's sound work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, British Museum, The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Sainsbury Centre, The Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP), Whitechapel Gallery, Jerwood Visual Arts, Barbican, MACBA Barcelona, Denmark, Italy, Germany, Norway, Morocco, Holland, Canada and the USA.
Rose Beer
Rose Beer (third from left, in the Reliant) is a poet, originally from Faversham but now living in Eastry.
Music: Sam Bailey & Tom Jackson
Sam Bailey (piano and harmonium) is a musician, teacher, improviser, composer, curator and promoter. He lives in Canterbury, Kent and runs the award-winning arts charity Free Range that presents world-class, free-entry experimental music events every week from October to March.
https://www.sambailey.space/
www.freerangecanterbury.org
www.pianointhewoods.com
https://www.sambailey.space/
www.freerangecanterbury.org
www.pianointhewoods.com
Photo: Nick Rutter
Tom Jackson is a clarinettist and saxophonist active in London and Europe, largely dedicated to the fields of contemporary classical music and free improvisation.
