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September through December 2014, Resonance 104.4fm is in residence at the Science Gallery Pop-Up Space, London Bridge, presenting a series of innovative live radio concerts featuring experimental electronic music performances, sound-art interventions and installations, just yards from the Shard. Featuring: Resonance104.4fm “Embedded” artist-in-residence Dan Wilson; Prof Andrew Prescott, Theme Fellow at AHRC Digital Transformations; Gwaith Swn Collective; Resonance Radio Orchestra; and collaborations with London College of Communication, Crafts Council, Creative Exchange Knowledge Hub and Royal College of Art.

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Tuning to Spheres.

Performance with sine tone generators, wine glasses and turntables by Dawn Scarfe, discussed at Points Of Listening # 11 - Apparatus of the Imposter. Tuning to Spheres uses a range of wine glasses as 'lenses' to amplify sound from small loudspeakers. Photo: Mark Peter Wright.

http://www.dawnscarfe.co.uk/project_tuning

http://www.melangeedition.com/catalogue2.html

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Making Conversations at 12 noon 16 December 2014

In the final programme of the current series, Professor Andrew Prescott of the University of Glasgow, AHRC Theme Leader Fellow for Digital Transformations, is joined by Dr Alex Mclean from Leeds University and Dr Becky Stewart of Anti-Alias Labs to explore how textiles, weaving and knitting are being reconceptualised, both literally and metaphorically, by computer code. [Repeated Saturday 2.30pm.]

http://resonancefm.com/listen

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Making Conversations at 12 noon 9 December 2014

In today's Making Conversations, Bronac Ferran focuses on Making Things Open (archives, collections and data). Guests are Mahendra Mahey and Ben O'Steen from the British Library BL Labs project, Julie Freeman of the Open Data Institute and Alf Eaton, who has been working with the British Library BL Labs and Sound Archive on ways of making the Resonance archives accessible and potentially available for creative reuse. What kinds of creative works have resulted from the recent openness trend with collections and data and what possibilities might arise in future? [Repeated Saturday 2.30pm.]

http://resonancefm.com/listen

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Points of Listening PoL # 11 - Apparatus of the Imposter - with Dawn Scarfe

Science Gallery Pop up Space, Boland House, St Thomas Street,  London SE1 9RT (basement underneath McDonalds, entrance through courtyard)

To book a seat email [email protected]

Cloud chamber, metronome, radiometer, resonator, sine wave generator, tuning fork… This Points of Listening session, 
PoL # 11 produced in collaboration with Resonance104.4fm, explores the sound of artworks in which scientific instruments take centre stage. It asks what these works might reveal about artistic and scientific approaches to sound, hearing and listening. After an extended listening session, there will be an opportunity to discuss the form and function of the instruments and the experimental processes involved in the production and performance of the works.

“I distrust the prism and its fantastic spectrum. I regard it as an art of enchantment, as an unfaithful mirror of nature, more proper by its brilliance to create flights of imagination and to serve error than to nourish minds solidly and to draw obscure truth from deep wells. The prism is the apparatus of the imposter.” Louis Bertrand Castel (1688-1757), inventor of the ocular harpsichord. Image: Pierre-Laurent Cassière 2010.

http://pointsoflistening.wordpress.com/

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Paul Freeman performs at Relics, Science Gallery London Pop Up Space, 27/11/14. photo by Daniel Linn-Pearl

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Making Conversations - 12pm 2 December 2014

This week's Making Conversations at noon today addresses the growing involvement of artists, craftspeople and designers in medical research and development scenarios - from the imaginative application of stem cells to personalised breast reconstructions deploying new and traditional materials producing new challenges and opportunities from aesthetic, ethical and technical perspectives. Bronac Ferran is in conversation with Gina Czarnecki, Matt Durran, Dr Karen Ingham and Rhian Solomon. This programme was made in association with the Crafts Council's Make:Shift conference and produced by Carlos Zaghis Jr. of the Sound Design Course at Ravensbourne.   

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Gwaith Sŵn presents... Relics

sound performances exploring decline and decay

Thursday 27th November 2014 at 7.30pm Science Gallery Pop Up Space, Boland House, St Thomas Street,  London SE1 9RT (basement underneath McDonalds, entrance through KCL courtyard)

Free entry. Featuring Kevin Ka Wei Chan, Sam Conran, Paul Freeman, Daniel Linn-Pearl, Jonathan Mayne, Gyorgy Ono and Resonance Radio Orchestra under the direction of Ed Baxter

Advance booking recommended, RSVP:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resonance-1044fm-and-gwaith-swn-present-relics-tickets-14290582517

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Making Conversations - Tuesday 11 November at noon

On 21 November as part of the Crafts Council's Make:Shift:Do various projects across the city will open their doors to new visitors and participants. Bronac Ferran and John McMahon (Head of Learning at the Crafts Council) discuss the proliferation of these Maker Spaces - which encourage hands on, low cost access to tools and resources, as well as informal skills and knowledge sharing - with Jessica Mello of London Sculpture Workshop; Andy Merritt of Makerversity; Tom Lynch of South London Maker Space; and Ben Stopher of Elephant & Castle Maker Mini-Maker Faire.

http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/makeshiftdo/

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Reflected Back Into Space - a brief review by Ed Baxter (BASCA "Sonic Arts" Composer of the Year)

Reflected Back Into Space was recently exhibited at the Science Gallery London Pop Up as part of Resonance104.4fm's residency. Realised by the sound-art collective Gwaith Sŵn, it was a multi-channel audio installation which used highly directional speakers in a pitch black setting to create a sense of how architectural space is heard as much as it is seen or felt. Plunged into darkness with only a length of fluorescent cord to serve as a guide, visitors were faced with the cartoon like outline of a floor and two columns, indicative of a cool negative space. But while one might have clutched briefly for hints of Manny Farber, the dissolution of one's own body here in the dark meant that heightened abstraction was the order of the day. Pacing carefully through the void, one came abruptly on sounds bouncing off hard surfaces, sometimes immediately above, more often seemingly on the edge of perception. This was an acoustic work, deliberately cryptic and decidedly self-effacing. Gwaith Sŵn favour small, discrete gestures - chewing, swallowing, exasperated asides from the far reaches of the process of consumption - in which individual contributions were impossible to identify. An anonymous exercise in recalcitrant aesthetics, Reflected Back Into Space provided an elegant, enigmatic and muted antidote to the cracked bombast and overwhelming information overload which typifies our cultural moment - the Age of Spectacular Infantilism. For the record, the contributing artists were Kevin Ka Wei Chan, Sam Conran, Paul Freeman, Daniel Linn-Pearl, Jonathan Mayne, Gyorgy Ono and Stephen Stamper. A live event by Gwaith Sŵn will be presented at SGL Pop Up on 27 November at 7.30pm.

Visit gwaith-swn.tumblr.com for more information.

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Making Conversations at Noon, Tuesday 4th November

What stories can artists and researchers tell each each other and who lets the public in? In Making Conversations at noon Bronac Ferran talks to Tony White, novelist and publisher/progenitor of the artists' book imprint Piece of Paper Press. White's inimitable capacity for the making of stories drawing on close interdisciplinary encounters has brought him into various academic and public engagement contexts. As Creative Entrepreneur in Residence at the French Department at King's College London he has been conducting a loose collaboration with Dr Sanja Perovic, Senior Lecturer and author of The Calendar in Revolutionary France. Perovic joins White for this conversation along with Chris Shaw, Research Fellow, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Sussex.

[Repeated Saturday 2.30pm.]

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Michael Umney presents... Frequencies at 1pm

In this week’s Frequencies Michael Umney presents exclusive live recordings of three exciting new collaborations arranged by The Science Gallery, London, a new space for collaborations and conversations between the worlds of art and Science. 

Singer, musician and performance artist Bishi, performs In Sleep accompanied by Neil Kaczor with live electronics and a setting for the writing of Hanef Kureshi with James McVinnie on the organ. In Sleep was developed in collaboration with the Children’s Sleep Centre at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital. 

From the Central Hall of St Thomas’s hospital Nick Jones performs a new composition developed during the time he spent with hospital porters Antonino Ama and Jenasky Verass. Featuring live performance on gas cylinders and pill bottles.

Also recorded in St Thomas’s hospital you’ll hear an extract from Stewart Pemberton’s performance a new collaboration between Stewart, a juggler and tap dancer, loop peddle utilising percussionist Jules and young people from the Evelina London Children’s Hospital whose recorded voices feature in the piece.

[repeats Saturday 3.30pm]

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Ela Orleans + HOLOVR at 8pm on Resonance FM

In tonight’s Clear Spot, Peter Lanceley presents excerpts from Ela Orleans’ and HOLOVR’s performance at Science Gallery London, 17th October 2014. HOLOVR is the moniker of Opal Tapes’ Jimmy Billingham, who presents a continuous half-hour mix of works from his forthcoming album. In the second half, Ela Orleans – a luminary of the Glasgow experimental and noise scenes – performs her ‘Movies for Ears’ live show. Ela is currently recording her new LP with Howie B (Bjork, U2, Elisa, Mukul Deora and The Gift). For more information on performances at the Science Gallery London Pop Up Space, visit notesfromunderground.fm. For more concert recordings by Peter Lanceley, visit mixcloud.com/peterlanceley. [repeats Wednesday 9am]

More Ela Orleans: http://elaorleans.com/

More HOLOVR: http://holovr.tumblr.com

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Reflected Back Into Space

Reflected Back Into Space begins with the initial premise that space is heard as much as it is seen and felt. We experience space sonically through the room’s acoustics, listening to the reflections of sound bouncing across its surfaces. The installation explores this concept through the use of highly directional speakers that focus sound waves and reflect them around a location, distorting the sound’s expected behaviour. Combined with a low-light setting this presents an opportunity to explore a space in an unusual manner, encouraging you to navigate the warped acoustic environment with your ears. The sound content of the installation considers the immediate and wider area in which the gallery sits, positioned in more ways than one, in the underbelly of consumption.

Contributing artists: Kevin Ka Wei Chan, Sam Conran, Paul Freeman, Daniel Linn-Pearl, Jonathan Mayne, Gyorgy Ono, Stephen Stamper

gwaith-swn.tumblr.com 

Opening Times:

Thursday 30th October 6pm - 9pm;

Friday 31st October 2pm - 9pm;

Saturday 1st November 2pm - 7pm;

Sunday 2nd November 2pm - 7pm

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Making Conversations - 12 noon Tuesday 28th October

Bronac Ferran talks to four artists who work with dynamic circuits and systems often encouraging audience involvement in open ended and participatory ways, reflecting indirectly on the history of science and engineering and setting up dialogues between past and present: Luciana Haill, neuro-feedback artist in residence at Department of Informatics, University of Sussex; Magz Hall, co-founder Radio Arts, Senior Lecturer Canterbury Christ Church University; Dianne Harris, founding director and curator of Kinetica-Museum; and, from Rio de Janeiro, Mariana Manhaes, who makes organic machines with electrical elements and animatronic devices.

http://resonancefm.com/listen

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Photoset: Ela Orleans + HOLOVR at the Science Gallery Pop Up, supported by Resonance FM and Science Gallery London as part of the Merge Festival.

broadcasts on Resonance 104.4fm 31st October, 8pm.

Resonance FM Clear Spot 31st October 2014 // Ela Orleans + HOLOVR in Science Gallery Pop Up 17/10/14 by Peter Lanceley on Mixcloud

mixcloud.com/peterlanceley

photo credit: www.tommophoto.com

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Frequencies at 1pm, Wednesday 22nd October

In today's Frequencies on Resonance 104.4fm, Michael Umney presents one of five talks by Plymouth University's Dr John Matthews, delivered in the Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garden, London Bridge. In this programme, Dr. Matthews examines the practical and symbolic uses of different body parts in the practice, politics and philosophy of performance training. The lecture is adapted from Matthews' new book 'Anatomy of Performance Training', published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama and supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. 

http://resonancefm.com/listen

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Making Conversations 12 noon Tuesday 21 October

Bronac Ferran discusses new models of hybrid publishing in the internet era with guests Doug Sery, Senior Acquisitions Manager for New Media, Games Studies and Design at The MIT Press; Professor Joanna Zylinska of Goldsmiths Department of New Media and Communications, author of "Bioethics in the Age of New Media;" and Ben Pester, Podcasting Coordinator at Goldsmiths. What are the new models in relation to business, knowledge and information-sharing which are influencing academic publishing today? Can we start to predict future trends? What needs to change, when and why? [Repeated Saturday 2.30pm.]

http://mitpress.mit.edu/ http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/contact/