Work Type:audio, radio broadcast
Date of work:1995
Measurements:duration : (broadcast) - ( 8.30PM - MIDNIGHT 28 APRIL 6.30AM - MIDNIGHT 29 APR - 5 MAY 1995)
Style Period:contemporary art
Technique:curating, performance, broadcast
Collection:Video Postive Archive 1989 - 2000
Description:
These newly commissioned audio works will be broadcast every day between 6.30am and midnight, frequency 105.8 FM. Check Hearing Is Believing brochure for details.


Ronald Fraser Munro: Jingle and links presenter introduces an earful of audio deliciousness to liberate your mind and refresh your jaded body and soul.


Nigel Charnock: ALONE AT LAST: the co-founder of DV8 makes the air waves blush with an orgy of words guaranteed to make any wireless titter.


Alexandra McGlynn: PANTHERER LEO: an exploration of the more ominous side of keeping animals in captivity, including our own pets.


Michael Atavar: 101 NITES: Kylie with a gun, Mr Blobby in the supermarket and Des O'Connor's lucky bingo night out. How could you resist that?


John Coleman: I LAY DOWN UPON THE GROUND AMONG THE TREES: Wake up to a dream of birdsong, recorded from daybreak to nightfall in open countryside and woodland.


Evelyn Ficarra: FRANTIC MID-ATLANTIC: an aural landscape of static, half-heard messages, and strange mechanical beeps coming to you from all parts of the globe and beyond.


Pascal Brannan: MY ENTRANCE - ON AIR: follow the journey of Orpheus' singing head, torn from his body, thrown into the river and carried to the island of Lesbos.



George Barber: VIRTUALLY LIVERPOOL: three people record impressions of a walk through Liverpool under the influence of three movie sound tracks.


John Carson: The WEE JOHNNY CARSON SHOW: a live one-hour special of stories, songs, interviews and guests - all under 5'3.


Chris Cheek: THE JITTERS: a dark-side monolgue - its tongue firmly in its ear - inspired by actual radio broadcasts of Mr Kipling's poltergeist voice.


Martin Vincent & David Mackintosh: LIVERPOOL DRIVETIME: Tune in if you're driving to work, and let the sound of the traffic coming through the car radio merge with the ambience of your own car.



Bobby Baker/Pol Brown: LISTEN WITH FOOD: take a trip to the supermarket with Southport Young Women's Support Group and South Sefton Women's Advisory Network.



William Furlong: mealtime conversation with topics from the very domestic to the national and international.



Forced Entertainment: FORCED ENTERTAINMENT'S GUILT MARATHON: purge yourself of modern sins with live confessions made on air throughout Sunday evening.



Bruce Gottlieb: LIVERPOOL FANTASY: explores the memories of ex-pat Liverpudlians in his live phone-in.


Plus: Soundworks from Canada - 2 hour package curated by curator/artist Dan Lander and a host of national and international broadcast programmes previously unheard on British radio.



Student Projects: a series of New Works for Radio by students at: Wimbledon Schoool of Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College Dundee, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Liverpool University and the University of Humberside.


With support from the Arts Council of England, New Collaborations and Live Arts Department; North West Arts Board; Paul Hamlyn Foundation; Liverpool City Council; PH Holt Charitable Trust; The Canadian High Commission; Quebec Council, Stella Artois Dry.
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Source:"Video Positive 95", festival catalogue
Date of source:1995