Long Wave 5.6 | 11th May
Long Wave this month is hosted by Gabie Strong
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Long Wave 5.5
Long Wave 5.5 | 13th April
Mike Harding with Zachary Paul & Geneva Skeen, who supplied the photo above
Long Wave 5.4
Long Wave 5.4 | 9th March
Gabie Strong with Evelena Ruether
Gabie Strong is a California artist and musician exploring spatial constructions of degeneration, drone and decay as a means to improvise new arrangements of self-reflexive meaning. Strong uses sound performance, radio broadcasting, environmental installation, photography and video as a mediums for experimentation. Current themes in her work address the use of ritual acts and fetish collecting to expose constructions of feminine being.
www.crystallinemorphologies.com
https://gabiestrong.bandcamp.com/
Long Wave 5.3
Long Wave 5.3 | 9th February
Mike Harding with Gabie Strong
Gabie Strong is a California artist and musician exploring spatial constructions of degeneration, drone and decay as a means to improvise new arrangements of self-reflexive meaning. Strong uses sound performance, radio broadcasting, environmental installation, photography and video as a mediums for experimentation. Current themes in her work address the use of ritual acts and fetish collecting to expose constructions of feminine being.
www.crystallinemorphologies.com
https://gabiestrong.bandcamp.com/
Long Wave Series 6 | Dublab
Mike Harding launches a sixth series of “Long Wave” and the fifth on Dublab on 8th December 2017 from 2-4pm PT… and will continue for 8 episodes
Episode 5.1 | pinkcourtesyphone
Episode 5.4 | Gabie Strong with Evelena Ruether
Long Wave 5.1
Long Wave 5.1 | 8th December
a chance mix 16 (discarded men)
a shimmeringly soft takeover of Mike Harding’s Long Wave radio show by pinkcourtesyphone with pleasant dissonances, romantic particulates for your
ear palate. Inventive stylings of lustrous sounds from today, yesterday and further
back slower. enjoy.
TRACK LIST:
who killed teddy bear – leslie uggams
wistful wishful wanton – pinkcourtesyphone
oblivion of experience – leyland kirby
there ain’t no sweet man worth the salt of my tears – peggy lee
stargate – chris & cosey
smoke gets in your eyes – eartha kitt
untitled #6 – bellows
christine daniels – bjorn hatterud
faulty connections – pinkcourtesyphone
carribea – raymond scott
love for sale – marc almond
i wish i were a princess – little peggy march
the invisible frame – simon fisher turner
reflection – wzrdry av
candy – tab hunter
hasret – ekin fil
date of loss – pinkcourtesyphone
one minute more – chris & cosey
go away – strawberry switchblade
Ihnaemiauimx – m.e.s.h.
ふしあわせという名の猫 – maki asakawa
drifting – tom dissevelt
uhura – patrick cowley
i’m clean now – grouper
night – david lynch
there will never be another you – hugo winterhalter
swann and odette – aris kindt
harbor lights – martin denny
i’m following you – felicia atkinson
trace it back – emra grid
dressed in black – the pussycats
ivy covered windows – internazionale
darkroom – ryuichi sakamoto
to the minimal great hidden – caretaker
deface I – marc kate
cyclic bit #1 – raymond scott
couldn’t this lengthy therapy – anonymous
Ascending and Decending Sequences of Varying Nature ix – daphne oram
my discarded men (live) – eartha kitt
without him – astrud gilberto
cry me a river – world of skin
shteirlel 2 – zoviet france
romantic threat – pinkcourtesyphone
the other woman (live) – nina simone
drøne – mappa mundi
drøne – mappa mundi
Voice of the People
Horizontal Direction
Telegraphy Beacon
Echo of Hope
Shannon Volmet
[drøne # drøne1]
Limited Edition CD (500 copies)
You can hear an extract here
Release date: 13th October 2017
Now available on Bandcamp
Cover image & font by Nico Van Hoen
This the first CD released by drøne, after two vinyl albums on Anna von Hausswolff’s label, Pomperipossa. In a 5” jacket with artwork and font by nico, who also provided the hand-written text for the vinyl artwork for the 2015 and 2016 releases, “Mappa Mundi” traces and describes audio surrounding and occupying the planet earth.
Workers toil in smithies, call signs and chants-at-prayer reveal attempts to order the chaos, which always remains one step ahead. Post-lapsarian for sure, but smoke signals and drums have morphed into the ‘bing bong’ of the attention-grabbing, mind-polluting PA system. The coded simplicity of the whistle (“Start!”) has evolved into a more deliberate attempt to control rather than inform by explicit, structured language. Announcements have become commands; signs bark orders. Thus ‘no’ becomes a powerful rejection, rather than merely a preference; and no-ers are more easily to spot… “You’re going the wrong way”! (To which the only sensitive and mature response is: “Good!”)
Call signs, IDs, audio sigils and signatures all combine to describe a polluted, confusing atmosphere which threatens to leave us powerless and bewildered. “Decipher the sounds and you win the game! First prize is, guess what? You get to take the audio poison! Congratulations! You’ve lost!”.
The first album, ‘reversing into the future’ drew this response from Lend Me Your Ears: “This thrilling piece – surely the most kinetic non-dancefloor record in an age”. Anna herself wrote of the follow up record, ‘a perfect blind’: “I love everything about this release. Such a great presentation and exciting project! And most important: the music is sublime.”
The Quietus wrote: “Last year’s distinctive debut from drøne was likened to a hurtling journey. It’s combination of field recordings, shortwave radio and modular synths possessed an excited, driving energy whose route was hitherto unexplored and destination unknowable. But with an expanded sound pool boasting instruments across the ages – from guitar, through pipe organ and strings to dulcimer and psaltery – its follow-up takes a sideways step into more cognizant, reflective pastures.”
Long Wave 4.7
Episode 4.7 | 13th October
For the October edition of Long Wave, Mike Harding talks to Ken Hollings in The Moon Under Water Public House in Balham, in the south of London.
Recordings and music by William Burroughs, Miles Davis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Suicide, Eliane Radigue, Louis & Bebe Barron and Ymac Sumac
Long Wave 4.4
Episode 4.4 | 14th July
Mike Harding talks to Carl Michael von Hausswolff about his life and times…
1. Mick Ronson – Slaughter on 10th Avenue
2. The Beatles – Within You Without You
3. Blue for Two – Sink or Swim
4. Roedelius/Hausswolff – These Are The Keys (from the album ‘Nordlicht’, Curious Music, 2017)
5. Roxy Music – Ladytron
6. CM von Hausswolff – Still Life Requiem Touch, 2017)
7. freq_out 1.2 ∞ SKANDION (Ash International, 2015)
StationIDs: Andrew Nicolson (The Moon Under Water Public House, 4th July 2017)
Long Wave 4.3
Episode 4.3 | 9th June
Mike Harding talks to Tony Myatt, Professor of Sound at Surrey University about all things ambisonic
1. Chris Watson – El Divisidero, from the album ‘El Tren Fantasma’ [Touch # TO:42, 2011]
2. Russell Haswell – Ant Colony (Featuring Eurofighter Typhoon F2 Flyby), from the album ‘Wild Tracks’ [Editions Mego, 2009]
3. Christophe Charles – HCDC (extract), from the album HCDC [Murmur, 2013]
4. Terre Thaemlitz – Between Empathy And Sympathy Is Time (Apartheid), from the album ‘Love bomb’ [Mille Plateaux, 2003]
5. Polyphonie Corse
6. Chris Watson – A recording made at Embleton Rookery from ‘The Stepping into the Dark’ sessions in 1995
7. Tony Myatt – Placencia Bay [from TouchRadio, 2013]
8. Bulgarian Bagpipes
9. Felix Blume – A La Orilla (extract) [TouchRadio]
Long Wave 4.2
Episode 4.2 | 12th May
Mike Harding talks to Robert Crouch about the AxS festival, The Pasadena Arts Council and his new album, Sublunar (out May 19th 2017)
Long Wave 4.1
Episode 4.1 | 14th April
Mike Harding talks to Austrian filmmaker Edgar Honetschläger, whose most recent film, Los Felis wa shot largely in Los Angeles
Music played features Thomas Köner, Fennesz, Georges Delerue from the film Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) and Sollima Giovanni
drøne – a perfect blind
drøne – a perfect blind
Side A back to the station
Side B cutting the screen
[Pomperipossa Records # PRLP3]
Limited Edition Vinyl (500 copies)
Release date: 22nd April 2017 [Record Store Day]
And afterwards available on Bandcamp (digital download only)
Cover image by Maria von Hausswolff
Cut by Jason @ Transition
Font by Nico
“I love everything about this release. Such a great presentation and exciting project! And most important: the music is sublime.” [Label boss Anna von Hausswolff]
oleg belyaev – baroque ‘cello
charlie campagna – ‘cello
paul haslinger – piano
philip jeck – pulse
bethan kellough – violin, viola
marie takahashi – baroque viola
anna von hausswolff – voices
baritone guitar & cymbals
dulcimer & psaltery
field recordings
lorenz cipher machine
1877 henry willis organ (union chapel)
short wave
Disruption between then and now/memory and presence, dulcimer, psaltery, ‘cellos, violas and violin embroider radio, static, stray voices and electronics… ‘a perfect blind’ is the second album by drøne (Mark Van Hoen & Mike Harding) with an array of guest artists, including label supremo Anna von Hausswolff, dreamer and composer Paul Haslinger, field recordist and sound designer Charlie Campagna and Touch artists Bethan Kellough & Philip Jeck. Strings by Seattle-based Marie Takahashi and Oleg Belyaev are also layered into this complex and perhaps more musical offering. Moving in all directions, ‘a perfect blind’ continues where ‘reversing into the future’ [pomperipossa records, 2016] left off.
‘a perfect blind’ was conceived and designed in Los Angeles with organ recordings from London (at Union Chapel), short wave radio, treated voices and other archaic sound sources.
A stunning front cover image by Maria von Hausswolff and miss-taken typography by Nico embrace this sense of dislocation; as the mediaeval language which enfolds our collapsing 19th Century institutions fails to find relevance, our sense of entrapment in the old is accompanied by an assault on the senses. The destabilising effect of “post-truth” adds to our sense of unbelonging, of being elsewhere, observers not participants.
‘a perfect blind’ is the term used for the best possible observation point where the viewer is unseen by the object of interest. Is this the best place to be? Memories which slowly fade away, also reverse back from the past shoving us into the future…
Long Wave Series 5 | dublab
Mike Harding hosts a fifth series of “Long Wave” and the fourth on Dublab on 14th April 2017 from 2-4pm PT… and will continue for 8 episodes
Episode 4.1 | Edgar Honetschläger
Long Wave 3.8
Episode 3.8 | 8th March
Alternative National Anthem Special – feat. Lasse Marhaug, Jana Winderen, Chris Watson, Dave Knapik, Geneva Skeen and others…
Photo: Sarah Brownie, Suffolk, England March 2017
Long Wave 3.7
Episode 3.7 | 10th February – with Bill Thompson
Mike Harding introduces UK-based American sound artist Bill Thompson, who talks about his work as a sonic teacher and practitioner heavily influenced by Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Earl Brown, Eliane Radigue, Max Neuhaus, Alvin Lucier and others
Long Wave 3.6
Episode 3.6 | 13th January – The Cap Report: Travels through Thailand and Vietnam, October – November 2015
Long Wave 3.5
Episode 3.5 | 9th December – Vesta
A continuous 2 hour mix… featuring Olivia Block, crys cole, Colleen, Ipek Gorgun, Grouper, Hildur Gudnadottir, Anna von Hausswolff, Bethan Kellough, Signe Lidén, Irene Moon, Claire M Singer, Jana Winderen, Amy Winedeath…
Long Wave 3.4
3.4 | 11th November
In the studio with Claire M Singer discussing all things aeolian. Her debut album, Solas, was released in June 2016 and can be previewed on Bandcamp. Tracks played featured Leif Elggren, Bill Thompson and Hazard, as well as Henryk Gorecki.
Long Wave 3.3
3.3 | 14th October
Interview with filmmaker Paul McDade in Pasadena, September 2016… the travails of a low-budget documentary maker in 21st Century Los Angeles… and his brushes with the paranormal.
With recordings from Simon Scott, Claire M Singer, Raymond Cass, ‘Breakthrough’, Michael Esposito…