PO BOX 25/4 LID a short story for FON AIR, Christmas 2013

A short story for FON AIR's seasonal broadcast, featuring Glenn Boulter on live Breadboard Lutes with  me reading and on fx from Octopus's studio at Piel View in Barrow.

 The video is largely unedited, here too is  the edited audio version, with added sound,  for broadcast . (it's shorter..less pauses.)

https://soundcloud.com/the-cardboard-lung/po-box-25-stroke-4-lid-new

Merry Christmas.

PAPER CONE MUSIC with Mark Vernon and the Octopus Collectives Hack Group

A live radio performance devised and led by Mark Vernon and featuring members of the Octopus Hack lab including me, Fiona Ogilvie and Steve Povey ( below). Broadcast live on Fon Air from our hq at PVH in Barrow Park. 

Marks notes read: "A group performance for paper cones, turntables, contact mics and sound effects records. Ideally up to 4 performers with 4 turntables  and up to 12 mics with stands. Using rolled up paper cones and sewing needles or scalpel blades as a stylus the performers play the records attempting to play each record simultaneously from as may different points as they can. The mechanism of the turntables is also miked up using contact mics. Each performer is in control of their own mix.  Gradually they build up a live soundscape from dead recordings of locations and events that were captured and imprinted on vinyl decades ago.
This version is a post-considered edit that blends a number of advance rehearsals and experiments with a live performance  of the piece by the Piel View Hackers Group."

There's more great work  from Mark Vernon and information about his many activities here:  http://meagreresource.com/

https://archive.org/details/PaperConeMusic

HOW TO GIVE YOURSELF. A 2 channel piece for radio.

The 2 halves of a 2 channel piece recorded for the Dubbel Radio weekend in Stockholm in August 2013 , and broadcast simultaneously on frequencies loaned by 2 of the city's radio stations. Thanks to Knut and Sarah at Mobile Radio.

https://soundcloud.com/artspacebarrow/how-to-give-yourself-right

https://soundcloud.com/artspacebarrow/how-to-give-yourself-left

And both halves together, because life's too short..

IMPROMPTU FOR 2 HOMEMADE VIOLINS AND RADIO 4

Ingredients: wood, plastic rulers, drawing pins, pie case, tinfoil pie case, tinfoil, Slim Whitman lp cover.

FIELD TRIP 2: SEVERAL YARDS OF RIVER.

A Sketch for Field Trip 2. Video and wild track recorded in and around the River Rother, Tupton, Derbyshire. Music recorded outdoors in Ulverston, Cumbria. The video is pretty compressed so best watched small-screen.

"A FIELD TRIP" with Glenn Boulter, Jim Tetlow, Mike Willoughby and the voice of Bob Dickinson, at Lanternhouse, 2011

December 2011. A composition for four radios and 4 players. Narrative read by Bob Dickinson at BBC Manchester (the last session before they levelled the place). The music  came through 4 small practice amps and the narrative was broadcast through 4 transistor radios set around the studio upstairs at Lanternhouse, Ulverston. The quality of the sound was affected by  the positioning and movement of the audience, reflecting the key themes of the piece. The recording was made on a Zoom, and through the in-camera mic, rather than through a desk in order to include these variations.

DUBBELRADIO, "HOW TO GIVE YOURSELF" FROM STOCKHOLM, COURTESY KONSTHALLC AND MOBILE RADIO.

Konsthall C and Mobile Radio present Dubbelradio, a 24 hour radio art festival transmitted simultaneously on two city-wide FM frequencies  95,3 and101,1 FM in Stockholm starting at noon on 21st September 2013. Dubbelradio will be broadcast live from Konsthall C (part art space, part communal laundry) in the southern suburb of Hökarängen.A mix of live and pre-recorded pieces , including my  " How To Give Yourself." The programme is published every hour.

http://konsthallc.se/

Ive been managing 3 Digital arts residencies in Barrow, and working on visual arts/play projects at Bram Longstaffe Nursery ....heres the website

http://artspacebarrow.webeden.co.uk/

A quick scan across my visual arts education work.

johnhallartistineducation.webeden.co.uk

HEX BUGS VRS AUTOHARPS FOR MR EVANS

EARLY FILE SHARING.

From John Jackson's wildly overpriced box of 45's comes this shortbread-flavoured gem. An audiopostcard from a more innocent and irritating time.

BARROW IN FURNESS 1960

Work in progress. An excerpt from a documentary made by the Barrow Cinema Club in 1960, with a new soundtrack featuring residents of Station View House, including Margaret on vocals. Our thanks to Ali Rigg and Jody Watson of Tonguetide for their work on this project.

TELSTAR CARDBOARD LUNG REMIX FOR THE OCCASION OF THE FUNERAL OF MARGARET THATCHER

This was Mrs Thatcher's favourite record, so what better way to mark her funeral than a very long  remix done largely by the computer on its own while I had  a bath.  

https://soundcloud.com/the-cardboard-lung/telstar-cardboard-lung-remix

MUTESOUND / 1 Minute Autohypnosis CD.

Real Stuff in the post..cant beat it. The new Mutesound/1 Minute Autohypnosis CD kicking off with my Rudyard Kipling cut-up  and loads more great and unlikely stuff with free unplayable latex EP all in a beautiful  homemade envelope..thanks very much to Pedro Bericat at http://www.mutesound.org/?page_id=83  
for this excellent project.  Hear it here http://www.mutesound.org/?page_id=1683

" YOUR DAILY FEARS" JOHN HALL AND GLENN BOULTER AT THE SAO PAULO BIENALE

6 hours of "Your Daily Fears" edited down into 2 bite size chunks, oddly prescient in the light of the horsemeat scandal and the floods, chock full of versions of the theme from A Question Of Sport, Mr Ed,  Patti Smith covers, the horoscope sung to school piano and the seductive sound of the Barrow In Furness Tidetables as read by a BBC Siren from a rock in the South Atlantic.
Our thanks to Mobile Radio, our lovely hosts.

https://soundcloud.com/mobile-radio/octopus-collective-daily-fears

https://soundcloud.com/mobile-radio/octopus-collective-daily

THE INCREDIBLE STRUNG PAN

Christened the Panjo by Gordon Jones,  a solo, and a duet with Mike Willoughby on Bouzouki, 

A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS, WITH PABLO MESQUALITO

https://soundcloud.com/the-cardboard-lung/pablo-mesqualito-john-hall-a
A live broadcast as part of  the Octopus Collective FON AIR programme, me and my good pal Pablo Mesqualito and a bunch of advertising flexidiscs,  tie-ins and other bizzare promos from the golden age of whatever this is.

BISCUIT TIN SHAMISEN.

The Biscuit Tin Shamisen, built during an Octopus Collective workshop led by Ryoko and Yuki Akama. Modified with a little amp, and further modified since  with an internal speaker.