I’m starting a new series of fortnightly radio programmes at Repeater Radio on Sunday 26 June 2022 with a pre-recorded session of Drift of Signifieds at 20:00 BST (see the Repeater schedule for times in your geographical location). The sessions are also repeated at later dates to suit other time zones.
The Live and Indirect Sessions will feature a wide variety of artists and styles, and the central premise is that they are generally constructed live (or are recordings of live events) and are broadcast at a later date, though this definition is somewhat loose and open to interpretation.
The inaugural session was an electronic (re)possession, a séance where time capsule cassette recordings layered and manipulated by Norns scripts meet modular meanders as the past is revisited and eviscerated in murky atonal circumstances that have yet to be fully explained.
Feel free to drop by and chat on the Discord server while the sessions are on air.
Tonight, in the second Live and Indirect Session of the series:
“One of the questions that the Entropy Circus stream will address is what it means to make music. Not surprising because that’s been the only question we’ve been asking for the last five years, or maybe forever.”
Philippe Petit - Multiversal
Live and Indirect at Repeater Radio 17 July 2022
My desire is to invite to breathe, to relax, to pamper the listener through the various stages of listening while at the same time keeping in mind how alienating and menacing existence may be, when the capitalist society around us is encroaching more and more on the human space.
The electronics are played on the Buchla 200 + EMS Synthi A analog synthesizers.
Kyper Belt’s specially commissioned Songs From The Blue Hour session of synthwave-adjacent tunes comes to Repeater Radio on Sunday 7 August at 20:00 BST.
Films flicker in a run down cinema, outside the rain is falling but nobody gets wet. In a hotel room there is an unmade bed and a red lamp illuminates some black and white photos of shop mannequins. There is the smell of perfume, some underwear, and an empty street below. Glasses half filled with wine, the darkness slowly begins to creep in, this is the blue hour.
Kyper Belt is Gary Parsons - Synthesizers, Piano, Guitar, Voice.
Addendum: Plus a bonus session immediately after Kyper Belt as well:
Sunday 21 August 2022 finds MICROCORPS, AKA Alex Tucker in modular mood, bringing a Live and Indirect session to Repeater Radio at 20:00 BST. The session was recorded live at Cafe OTO on 5 August 2022.
Join us in the lounge - it’s very relaxed in there.
Absolute zero is the point at which the fundamental particles of nature have, for all intents and purposes, stopped. Similarly, psychic zero stations are places where all mental and psychic energy has ceased. They are an inversion or a reverse of the commonplace, a turning of the sock inside out. Yet, like Go in Monopoly, to pass through them can also mean to start the next round of the game anew.
DAONA invite you to join them for an exploration of these stations, with the expert assistance of very special guests Michael Serafin-Wells, Mike Rivard and Georgina Ragazza.
20:00 BST as usual, this Sunday, 4 September 2022, at Repeater Radio.
As seems to be becoming a habit, there will be a supplementary session from me as DoS afterwards, with Three Études, where otherwise placeless meanders join together to become pretty much the sum of their parts in more or less in chronological order.
This fortnight’s session sees a return for Philippe Petit, this time with Antonella Eye Porcelluzi + Black Sifichi; they will be Not Repeating at 20:00 BST on Sunday 18 September 2022. As ever, catch y’all in the lounge.
Coming live and indirect from a set recorded at Images in Plymouth in August 2022 is the inimitable Ekoplekz (Planet Mu, Mordant Music, etc etc).
There will be a short extra from Drift of Signifieds afterwards too. Everything starts at 20:00 BST - and the lounge is now also hosted at the Repeater Radio Discord server.
It might get repeated once or twice, but please note that the Ekoplekz session will not be archived on Soundcloud. But the Drift of Signifeds set has been:
The three stories for Hallowe’en are: The Open Window, by Saki ; World’s End, by LTC Rolt ; and Les Cimetières by Anatole Le Braz (the latter read in French and then English).
There will also be a separate Live and Indirect Hallowe’en special at 20:00 GMT on the same evening from special guests Sedna Chronicles:
Sedna Chronicles are Grey Malkin and Andy Sharp. They released their first LP this summer to plaudits. For this session for Repeater Radio, they reconfigure elements of the album in striking new forms and debut demo material especially written for the show.
This fortnight’s Live and Indirect Sessions on Sunday evening (from 20:00 GMT /UTC) features Noodle Twister and No Masters (@Fin25) .
Noodle Twister is a sound artist in Northern England. Ambient electronica, experimental and field recording are some of the current focus. A series of mostly generative pieces against a sonic backdrop of ambient darkness. Produced in the studio in the United Kingdom 2022.
Some of the instruments used in no particular order were - Monome Norns with Jase Knighter’s Flora script and Ambalek’s Fall script. Meng Qi’s Wing Pinger. Aquabeat Hydrophone recording of a large pond. Cassette dictaphone recordings. Make Noise Morphagene and other modules. Bespoke synth for capturing jams and Pure Magnetik plugins in some instances.
Trying to make as much noise as I can with just one synth and some distortion. The set breaks down into three parts, more because that’s just how it turned out than any particular plan. That’s the fun of live improvisation, I guess, not even I know what’s going to happen.
