Bobstroll - 7. it's not Picasso yet - 00:03:17

These short stories are based on original backstage material in the life of a serial artist today.
Any similarity to real persons or situations is probably justified.
Concept, text: bobstroll
Voice: aggelita tsougkou

Radio Gallery 1 - Abake - See The Song - 00:60:00

'SEE THE SONG' By Abake (Part of 'Radio Gallery' series of 12 commissioned radio programmes that treat one hour of radio as exhibition space. 'Radio Gallery' was curated and commissioned by Anna Colin for Resonance 104.4FM, London.)

In 1959, the Swedish painter, archeologist, opera singer and polyglot Friedrich Jόrgenson (1903-1987) discovered that he was able - in using a microphone, a tape recorder and an out of tune radio - to record voices from dead people… That method became quickly known worldwide as Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) and Jόrgenson found many followers and friends that built on his research. With EVP, mediums and paranormal believers are replacing the heavy black curtains and the incense of the 19th century with gray suits and classy ties. It is a scientific attempt to deal with the possibility of a life after death and, because it is scientific (the radio and tape recorders were high technology in the 50's-60's and the users presented themselves as researchers), it tries to be an indisputable - yet still highly interpretable - proof. But, in the use of radio, radio waves and noise, EVP questions the radio medium itself, how it is made and how it could be misused. There are two directions in EVP that the exhibition tries to investigate. On the one hand, the aesthetic of ground noise, white noise and lost radio waves. On the other hand, the poetic beauty of the researchers' methods (one could think of the non-flying-objects by Panamarenko), where technical objects are used to produce things they are not supposed to. The artists have been chosen for their ability to deal with one of those two aspects, bringing the show not a presentation of 'beliefs' but the strange beauty of 'investigations'.

Participants to Investigating EVP
- Barbara Breitenfellner (Austria) - www.barbara-breitenfellner.de
- Raymond Cass Foundation (UK) - www.raymondcass.co.uk
- Ceal Floyer (UK)
- Friedrich Jόrgenson / Studio for Audioscopic Research (Sweden)
- Carl Michael von Hausswolff (Sweden)
- Tim Hecker (Canada)
- International Necronautical Society (UK) - www.necronauts.org
- Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven / Club Moral (Belgium) - www.clubmoral.com
- Marie Chartron (France)

For further information visit www.radiogallery.org and www.resonancefm.com

Radio Gallery is funded by Arts Council England. Partners are:
Resonance FM, Electra, Cubitt, Gasworks and Electronest.

To copy, distribute, display, and perform the work providing the copyright holders are credited and the mention 'This production is supported by funding from Arts Council England' is made apparent.

Copyright holders are: the artists, Resonance 104.4FM, London and Anna Colin

Bobstroll - 8. obsession - 00:02:37

These short stories are based on original backstage material in the life of a serial artist today.
Any similarity to real persons or situations is probably justified.
Concept, text: bobstroll
Voice: aggelita tsougkou

Bobstroll - 9. it's the hottest day of the summer - 00:03:49

These short stories are based on original backstage material in the life of a serial artist today.
Any similarity to real persons or situations is probably justified.
Concept, text: bobstroll
Voice: aggelita tsougkou

Carlos Slazenger - audio obstacle course 6 - 00:61:47

Mission Statement for Carlos Slazenger’s Audio Obstacle Course
‘Doncha wish your deejay was wrong like me?, doncha wish your deejay was a freak like me? dontcha?’

I’m on Artwave Radio to trade under the name of Carlos Slazenger- ‘Wrongist’ Dee Jay of  radical, neglected & incredibly strange recorded sound, past present & future. I am a collector who has found that some of the most interesting things that exist are not those that are pushed into your face by the ACME multi-national entertainment corp .I create radio programmes & party nights that are intended to confound & surprise, something that mainstream music seems to have lost its talent for. It ain’t easy to answer what music I play when I’m asked, as I genuinely have no axe to grind regarding any one particular genre, and I am not in the least concerned with clutching at the coat tails of ‘cool’. Though I am a lifelong fan of Captain Beefheart & The Fall, I suffer no pangs of aching credibility by following them with Sabrina or Jethro Tull, I’m happy to play artrock, krautrock, early rockabilly, 50’s & 60’s novelty records, way out exotica, outsider music, regrettable obsolete pop trash or W.H.Y alongside the collected works of The Chic Organization ltd. I choose music by instinct and go for quality and contrast, even if that makes my shows unpredictable…that’s why its called the Audio Obstacle Course!...
I’ve taken my concept to the clubs & bars with my friends as ‘Non Stop Hits’ & I’m currently starting a new night called ‘pub juke box’ with mates from www.black-athena.com which is a homesick ex pats attempt to recreate an English pub experience (without the underlying aggression ). I also dee jay regularly on www.vinylmicrostore.gr. I have every intention of continuing to search for overlooked oddities to charm you with for as long as I have left to inhabit this planet, which judging by the state of them cowboys carbon footprints wont be too long…

P.S if any of you lot out there have got a copy of ‘Band on the Trot’ by Hylda Baker & Arthur Mullard I’m willing to do anything to get my hands on it…anything. Stalk me at www.myspace.com/carlosslazenger