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Elevation Through Sound
Mike Harding hosts the show with Alejandro Cohen for Dublab Radio’s Elevation Through Sound at 10am on 21st January 2015

In this third episode of a new series, Mike talks to Myke Dodge Weiskopf and BJNilsen

Elevation Through Sound
Mike Harding hosts the show with Alejandro Cohen for Dublab Radio’s Elevation Through Sound at 10am on 3rd December 2014

In this second episode of a new series, Mike talks to Richard Chartier (LINE, pinkcourtesyphone)

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Elevation Through Sound
Mike Harding hosts the show with Alejandro Cohen for Dublab Radio’s Elevation Through Sound at 10am on 22nd September 2014

In this first episode of a new series, after the two appearances on Elevation Through Sound and A Noiseful Joy, Mike talks to Michael Esposito (Phantom Airwaves), the EVP researcher…

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Elevation Through Sound

Mike Harding hosted today’s show with Alejandro Cohen for Dublab Radio’s Elevation Through Sound at 10am on 6th August 2014

Playlist:

Thomas Ankersmit – Figueroa Terrace (excerpt) – Figueroa Terrace – Touch
Jana Winderen – Aquaculture – Energy Field – Touch
Chris Watson – Telegraph Cove at Night – unreleased
Jana Winderen – Dive – unreleased
Hazard – Landmass – Wind – Ash International
Bruce Gilbert – Sliding Off the World – Touch 25 – Touch
Mika Vainio – From Behind the Radiators A – From Behind the Radiators – Touch
Fennesz vs Matthews – Amoroso – Amoroso – Touch
Rosy Parlane – Willow – Willow – Touch
Various Artists – Touch Ritual Cut Up – Touch
Touch 33 – Mach .853 (Moscow Air Traffic Control) – Touch Sampler 00 – Touch
Chris Watson – Friday the 13th – Touch Sampler 00 – Touch
Chris Watson – A Celebration – Touch Sampler 00 – Touch
Biosphere – Deviation – Autour de la Lune – Touch
BJNilsen – Londinium – Eye of the Microphone – Touch
Leif Elggren – Mother!!? – Antitrade – Ash International
Unknown – In a Constant State of Rebellion – Antitrade – Ash International
Charles Matthews plays Giacinto Scelsi – In Nomine Lucis – Spire Live in Bergen – The Tapeworm
Fennesz – Badminton Girl – Endless Summer – Editions Mego
Sohrab – Amookhtan Baraye Zistan – unreleased

A Noiseful Joy

Mike Harding interviewed by Jake Viator for Dublab Radio’s A Noiseful Joy at 10am on 29th July 2014

31st December – Charlie Campagna – Recording Sound for Film
Charlie Campagna, composer, sound designer, sound librarian, sound recordist, musician, talks about working with sound in Hollywood.

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Track listing:

1. Corvette ZR1 for The Last Stand.
2. Slinky – Traditional slinky suspended and stretched out with two contact mics through a couple of guitar processors. This was recorded for Star Trek.
3. Gunshots for Django Unchained.
4. Creating thunder for Prometheus
5. The elevator shaft was recorded for the movie Devil by M Night Shyamalan. I stumbled upon this leaving a friend’s house at 2am; the drone was actually quite loud and I was lucky to have a dpa 5100 rig with me. I added a Waves Mondo Mod to the front right channel and to the surround left with a very slow sweep. I then duplicated that plug-in instance and inserted that on the front left and right surround. The aim was to have an out-of-phase occurrence when the plug-ins crosspaths to create an unsettling feeling. You would need to monitor this in a 5.0 environment to hear the full effect – I hope subtle but effective.
6. Hurricane Irene, (inside and outside perspective). When visiting family in Baltimore, Maryland, we discovered all flights out of the eastern coast were cancelled due to the storm, leaving me nothing else to due but read and record. The 1st segment is one 800T mic in a crack of a window pane that was very vocal from the wind creating a eerie vocal moan good for many uses. The second segment is a recording of the storm approaching (interior perspective). I was surprised to find out how warm and misty the rain was – it was truly a tropical storm, I felt “this is it?? Wimpy warm misty rain??” After the first 40 minutes I noticed my B&K 4011s were sensitive to the lightning spiking my signal, maybe because they were near the window pane. Then we switch to an interior perspective for the 3rd section of these recordings.
The 4th and last segment is the storm in full fury, exterior perspective. By the 3rd hour power transformers exploded and 200 hundred year-old oak trees were ripped out of the earth like toothpicks. The mics in standard zepplins held their composure as I was in a covered entrance way out of the direct sideways gale force gusts. The sound you hear is mostly oak trees blown from the side. I remember a parking sign blown by in a blink of an eye.
7. Quarks – High Neighbor (1991). Directed/edited by Steven Soderbergh. Starring Ron Bartlett (drums), Charlie Campagna (guitar), Oscar Mitt (vocals), Forrest Pierson (guitar), Eric Potter (bass). You can watch the video here
8. Long Wave mix – Skin Would Shed (Trip Dance Theatre, 2002) – Bell Frenzy (Trip Dance Theatre, 2004) – The Lights in the Sky are Called Stars (Commissioned by Erica Rebollar Dance Theatre, Modern Dance, Created in the tempo of 120 BPM (actual time) so the clocks and watches can create the polyrhythmic structure, gated guitar, layered cello) – Guitar Pattern x5 (2013)
Station IDs: Eva & Pepa

24th December – The Cap Report

The Minister of Caps presents a new work centered around a selection of field recordings collected in Japan during September and October 2013.
In addition to the field recordings are the sounds of the Otamatone, a Japanese instrument he purchased in Japan, as well as the Korg Monotron Duo, a Japanese instrument he did not purchase in Japan. All recordings taken in a variety of arcades, pachinko parlours, trains and temples in Japan (and one park in New York City):

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Track listing:

Nakano Broadway (Tokyo) ● various UFO catcher arcades in Ikebukuro (Tokyo) ● JR Yamanote Line (Tokyo) ● Fushimi Inari Taisha (Kyoto) ● a central Kyoto pachinko parlour ● Koyasan cable car (Koyasan) ● Dōtonbori (Osaka) ● Shinjuku station and surrounding streets (Tokyo) ● Central Park Turtle Pond (New York City, USA)

17th December – Tim Maloney – Film and Sound
Mike Harding interviews Tim Maloney about the history of film and sound

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Track listing:

1. Contact (1997) Dir. Robert Zemeckis
2. Raising Arizona (1987) Dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Music Carter Burwell,
3. M (1931) Dir. Fritz Lang, sound: Paul Falkenberg sound editor, Adolf Jansen sound.
4. The Conversation (1974) Dir. Francis Ford Coppola, Walter Murch sound montage, sound re-recordist, sound editor (uncredited)
5. Taevalaul [Sky Song] (2010) Dir. Mati Kütt, Tõnu Kõrvits music, Horret Kuus sound mixer

10th December – Katja Seltmann with Irene Moon – Insect Harmonics
Mike Harding interviews Katja Seltmann with Irene Moon about insect harmonics

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Track listing:

1. Backing music: Irene Moon. Organ, electronics and insects (flies and cockroaches)
2. Darker Florida (Irene Moon and Pax Titania) – For the Cat People
from the album: History of Darker Florida vol. i. [tin cans and twine, cassette, 2008]
instrumentation: Piano, electronics and insects
3. Graeme Revell: The Insect Musicians – Invaders of the Heart
4. Treehopper courtship sounds from Reginald B. Cocroft
treehoppers.insectmuseum.org
5. Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon – Fly me to the Blossom
from the album SUPLICO [Gods of Tundra, cassette, 2000]
instrumentation: Organ and crickets.
6. Mika Vainio – Outside the Circle of Fire | Hazard – Debugged
From the album Star Switch On [Touch, CD, 2002]. “The artists were commissioned to use the wildlife recordings of Chris Watson published on Stepping Into The Dark and Outside The Circle Of Fire as source material.”
7. Insect Collage – Ants, wasps and other insects…
featuring recordings by Mike Harding, Tom Lawrence & Jana Winderen
Irene Moon’s website

3rd December – Carl Michael von Hausswolff & Michael Esposito about EVP
Mike Harding interviews Carl Michael von Hausswolff & Esposito about EVP [electronic voice phenomena] in Brighton

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Track listing:

1. Carl Michael von Hausswolff & Michael Esposito – Live at St. Andrew’s Church, Hove
2. Carl Michael von Hausswolff – Operations Of Spirit Communication [Die Stadt, 2000]
Studio IDs: Leif Elggren
Carl Michael von Hausswolff’s website
Carl Michael von Hausswolff mentioned PARC and Ash International

26th November – Finnbogi Pétursson
Mike Harding interviews Icelandic artist Finnbogi Pétursson in Krems, Austria. (Present also is Marcus Davidson)

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Track listing:

1. Aero (track 1). Landscape from Ghostigital – Finnbogi Petursson – Skuli Sverrisson [Bad Taste 2008]. www.ghostigital.com
2. Spilhus 2013. Track from a installation in Reykjavik, August 2013. Spilhus
3. Radium, from from Ghostigital Finnbogi Petursson album, CD and 4tr. DVD. released by Bad Taste 2007. Radium
4. Organ – StefanFinnbogaPetursson (Finnbigo and his son Stefan) recorded at home. Unreleased.
Station IDs: Finnbogi Pétursson
Finnbogi Pétursson’s website
Finnbogi mentions Carl Michael von Hausswolff and freq_out

19th November – Storm “St Jude”, the patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes.

Recordings made in south west London from 5am on the morning of October 29th 2013. This storm was responsible for the deaths of four people… compare the typhoon which hit The Philippines in November, which destroyed towns and many thousands of lives…

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12th November – Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
recorded in Bergen railway station, Norway

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Track listing

1. Benarus (LongWave version)
2. Elegy for for the City Expired | Landscape in Metamorphoses (LongWave mix)
3. Danse Industrielle sketches from the upcoming work
Train leaving platform 1 for Arna…
Station IDs: Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay’s website

5th November – Sohrab
Featuring the music of Iranian-born musician, Sohrab

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Track listing:

1. Aamookhtan Baraye Zistan (learning for life)
2. In The East
3. Himmel Über Tehran
4. Europa
5. Pedagogicheskaya Poema
6. You Are Not Alone remixed by JG.Thirlwell, Achim Mohné & Jóhann Jóhannsson

Station IDs: Sohrab
Voice: Mandy H
Sohrab’s website

29th October – The Tapeworm
Compiled by The Wyrm

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The Tapeworm presents a choice selection from its cassette catalogue. Your host – recorded on a Sony Professional Walkman – Mr Stephen Wrench.

Track listing:

1: Wouter van Veldhoven “Second”
2: Philip Jeck “A4.30”
3: Achim Mohné “How To Use This Cassette”
4: Zachary James Watkins “Black Spirituals II-IV” (excerpt)
5: Tongues Of Mount Meru “The Delight Of Assembly” (excerpt)
6: Stefan Goldmann “Remiksz” (excerpt)
7: Fennesz “Szampler” (excerpt)
8: Robert Curgenven “The Internal Meta-Narrative Of Turner’s Tempest…” (excerpt)
9: Philip Marshall “Aggressive” (excerpt)
10: Jean Baudrillard “Le xerox et l’infini” (excerpt)
11: Ken Hollings “Parasitic Infestation” (Live at Worm Eats Bear)
12: Dale Cornish “Straw Camel Back”
13: Zerocrop “So High”
14: Leslie Winer “John Says”
15: Elektro Guzzi “Hexenschuss”
16: Ray Gallon “Nam June Paik – A Work For Radio” (excerpt)
17: Othon “Kali Dances”
18: Andrew Poppy “Number Crunch #2”
19: Simon Fisher Turner “Solo Piano Improvisation #54” (excerpt)
Station IDs: Dale Cornish

22nd October – Generator

Record store | Performance Space | Sound Installations | Meeting Point | Art Gallery – New York City, late 1980s…

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Interview with Ken Montgomery, conducted by Mike Harding in New York City, October 2013

Track listing:

1-3. What’s in Generator – part one: a selection of music which featured in Generator during the late 1980s and early 90s, including Giancarlo Tonutti, Francisco Lopez, Autopsia, Beequeen, Warworld, Esplendor Geometrico, Jesus Dream, Laughing Hands, Colin Potter, Fast Forward, The Ski-a-delics, Das Frei Orchestra, PGR Thessalonians, Dan Joseph…
4. PHAUSS performs “Final Folklore”, live at Generator 15th July 1989 with Carl Michael von Hausswolff.
Station IDs: Ken Montgomery

15th October – Spire

Interviews with Charles Matthews and Marcus Davidson, conducted by Mike Harding over a dodgy Skype connection, September 2013

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Track listing:

1. Charles Camilleri – Lento (from Sonata Semplice)
Performed by Charles Matthews at Passionskirche, Berlin, 5th February 2012
2. Giacinto Scelsi – In Nomine Lucis
Performed by Charles Matthews live at St. Michael & St. Gudula Cathedral, Brussels, 7th May 2006
3. Marcus Davidson – The Passing
Performed by Marcus Davidson at Passionskirche, Berlin, 5th February 2012
4. Philip Jeck – Live at St. Michael & St. Gudula Cathedral, , 7th May 2006
5. Fennesz – Live in The Chapterhouse, York Minster, 20th January 2007
Intros and outros recorded by Dave Knapik in Brooklyn, 7th October.
Station IDs: Marcus Davidson

8th October – Phill Niblock

Interview with Phill Niblock conducted by Mike Harding over a dodgy Skype connection from Phill’s hotel room in Japan, September 2013

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Track listing:

Phill Niblock – Stosspeng – taken from the album ‘Touch Strings’ [Touch # TO:79, 2009]
Phill Niblock – FeedCorn Ear – taken from the album ‘Touch Five’ [Touch # TO:91, 2013]
Phill Niblock – Hurdy Hurry – take from the album ‘Touch Works’ [Touch # TO:49, 2000]
Phill Niblock’s website
Intros and outros recorded by Jana Winderen in Glasgow, 28th September and Pascal Wyse in London, 18th September; with thanks to Brains & Hunch.
Station IDs: BJNilsen