Long Wave

Long Wave 6.1 | 10th August

Long Wave this month is hosted by Mike Harding with special guest, filmmaker Paul McDade

Long Wave 5.8 | 13th July

Long Wave this month is hosted by Mike Harding with special guest Miguel De Pedro/Kid606

Long Wave 5.7 | 8th June

Long Wave this month is hosted by Gabie Strong

Long Wave 5.6 | 11th May

Long Wave this month is hosted by Gabie Strong

Long Wave 5.5 | 13th April

Mike Harding with Zachary Paul & Geneva Skeen, who supplied the photo above

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 | 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 5.2 | 12th January

A Touch special with Jon Wozencroft in conversation with Mike Harding discussing changes in printing and audio with particular reference to the recent publication of Touch MOVEMENTS

Track listing:

AER/Simon Scott/Mika Vainio – TOUCH Movements
(5:04) – Jon Wozencroft l
Philip Jeck – Deed of Gift*
Sohrab – (a pad called) Satyr†
titanic
Bethan Kellough – Twelve*
(25:01) – Jon Wozencroft ll
Mika Vainio – Behind the Radiator Part 2‡
(30:06) – Jon Wozencroft lll
Chris Watson – El Divisadero (The Telegraph)‡
Jóhann Jóhannsson – Mingyun*
the desert fox
(51:47) – Jon Wozencroft lV
Jim O’Rourke – Despite the Water Supply*
Jana Winderen – Ice Zone†
(73:12) – Jon Wozencroft V
Peter Rehberg – Cinecom*
(82:48) – Jon Wozencroft Vl
Strafe FR – Cap de Barbaria†
london in a week
(92:27) – Jon Wozencroft Vll
uptcu
CM von Hausswolff – Sine Missing One*
trickle down
Heitor Alvelos – Expectant v2†
(105:29) – Jon Wozencroft Vll
Mark Van Hoen – Weathered†
de rerum natura
Oren Ambarchi – Testify*

* taken from TOUCH Movements [Folio 002]
† originally submitted for TOUCH Movements but not used:
Strafe FR – Cap de Barbaria [from the forthcoming album ‘The Bird Was Stolen’ [Touch, 2018]
Mark Van Hoen – Weathered [from the forthcoming album ‘Invisible Threads’ [Touch, 2018]
‡ previously released:
Mika Vainio – Behind the Radiator Part 2 [Side B of 7″ ‘Behind the Radiators’ Touch, 2008]
Chris Watson – El Divisadero (The Telegraph) [Side A of 12″ ‘El Tren Fantasma – The Signalman’s Mix’ [Touch, 2011]

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

Episode 4.8 | 10th November

For the November edition of Long Wave, Mike Harding presents an organ special, featuring work by Giacinto Scelsi, Anna von Hausswolff, Maurice Duruflé, Claire M Singer, Marhaug/Asheim, Arvo Pärt, Andrew Glover Whitley, The Eternal Chord and others, including recordings of performances by Charles Matthews

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

Episode 4.6 | 8th September

For the September edition of Long Wave, Mike Harding talks to Franz Kirmann in his studio in south London. Composer, musician, sound designer and editor, he performs in Piano Interrupted, releases solo records and works as a composer for film and TV.

Music by Alpha Blondy, Hedi Jouini, Michael Nyman, Piano Interrupted, Fennesz, Philip Jeck, William Basinski…

Episode 4.5 | 11th August

In the studio, Mike Harding talks to Pasadena-based sound artist Steve Roden, who pioneered the lowercase style of music, where quiet, usually unheard, sounds are amplified to form complex and rich soundscapes.

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)

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]

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)

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