Home Recording from 1912
Transcribed to digital format in March 2011. A jovial, informally-made recording found in an Edison blank cylinder box. Written on the underside of the box is “Xmas 1912” and other illegible writing which might read “First Impressions”. A…
Robert Yates
Recorded on 24th of March 2011 at Resonance 104.4FM, London SE1. Robert Yates is a contemporary poet and translator from French, German and Ancient Egyptian, based in London. The poems read on this wax cylinder are taken from his…
Elaine Mitchener
Recorded on 5th April 2011 in London. Vocals -Triple Wax Inscriptions Elaine started singing as a youngster in gospel groups & choirs and graduated from Trinity College of Music, where her interest in new music for the voice began. She…
Meat Sweats
Recorded in April 2011. Big Boss Level 1 (for cylinder) Influenced as much by primitive rockabilly as electronic noise, Meat Sweats are a London- based improvising power-trio.Their explosive and baffling improvised performances involve screaming 8-bit Elvis vocals, masks, hacked children’s…
Ute Wassermann
Recorded July 15th 2009 at St. Peter’s Church, Whitstable. Voice In 2009 I had the chance (thanks to Evan Parker) to spend a day recording duos (voice & birdcall whistles / strohviola & musical saw) with Aleks Kolkowski in St….
Tetsuo Kogawa
Photo © A. Kolkowski Recorded at Wilton’s Music Hall, London, on November 4th, 2010. FM Micro-Radio Transmitter, Tesla Coils Tetsuo Kogawa’s interests range over a variety of disciplines and critical approaches. After studying philosophy at Sophia and Waseda universities, he…
Spanish Language Cylinder
Photo © A. Kolkowski Entremeses (hors d’oeuvre) From a collection of early home- recordings with readings from foreign language-learning course books. The record has been made by a native speaker and it’s my guess that this one-of-a-kind cylinder was made…
Richard Crow
Photo © A. Kolkowski Recorded on October 21st 2010 in London. Our Father (Bum Cheese), 1964, 2010 The piece “Our Father” could and should be subtitled Bum Cheese, which are the two words that I inserted into the prayer on…
Rexine
Recorded 30th June, 2010. Paper Dolls Rexine are: cathy – bass emma – vocals + guitar graeme – drums shona – guitar Rexine are based in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, U.K. The promoters of a recent gig described them as: “Three girls and…
Phill Niblock
Photo © Metod Blejec Recorded in London on 17th February 2011. Sethwork (extract) American minimalist composer Phill Niblock has been active in his multimedia endeavors since the mid-’60s. His shows usually incorporate film footage (generally are long takes of non-Western people…
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