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Selected Radiophonic Works - three hour special on BBC Radio 7

More Radiophonic noise for you, via my dad who keeps on eye on such things, in the form of Selected Radiophonic Works, a 3 hour special on the Radiophonic Workshop, presented by Richard Coles. 


It includes the usual blatherings from Coldcut, Inferno Revisited - "a sonic drama set in the ruins of Hell", The Dreams - Delia Derbyshire and Barry Bermange combining cut-up voices with shit-scary tape electronics, Electric Tunesmiths - a documentary about the Workshop and its staff, an episode of the Goon Show, and Relativity - an "exploration in sound of Einstein's celebrated theory of relativity".

 

It's up on the BBC iPlayer until Saturday 27th December.

Filed under  //   bbc   electronics   music   radiophonicworkshop  
Posted December 21, 2008
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SimCity on the iPhone/iPod Touch - first impressions and cartoon love


Really quick SimCity iPhone/iPod Touch first impressions article over on paper-jam. Karen Frawl, the cartoon "entertainment advisor" is almost as great as Constance Lee, dammit...

 

 


Filed under  //   appstore   game   iphone   ipodtouch   simcity  
Posted December 17, 2008
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Stephen Fry on the iPhone's smartphone competitors

I'm struggling to grab a short quote from Stephen Fry's massive blog post on recent major iPhone competitors, but here goes anyway - on the success of the iPhone:

This is no triumph of style over substance. iPhone is all about function, all about ease and pleasure of real, hard-working use, all about the fundamental understanding that is Steve Jobs and Jony Ive’s great contribution to digital (and therefore cultural) life in our time – that human beings, willy-nilly, forge relationships even with inanimate objects and that those relationships, being human, take on all the colours of emotion: it is in our DNA for this to be the case... this is a deep and important human psychological truth that allows machines to function better: much, much better.

And from the comments comes a suggestion for a syncing Apple's iCal and Google Calendar - Calaboration - seems to work admirably.

Filed under  //   design   iphone   stephenfry   userinterface  
Posted December 11, 2008
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The acid stylophone gives up the cv/gate secrets

Courtesy of Paul in the comments for my way-too overexcited Gakken SX-150 unboxing post, who just emailed the genius behind all those YouTube videos featuring stunning looking home-made analogue sequencers somehow jacked in to the SX-150, and asked him how he did it - comes this photo which details where to poke your soldering iron to get cv/gate inputs. Thanks to Paul and denha.

Filed under  //   gakken   hack   synth  
Posted December 10, 2008
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Sinister inflatable pink elephant watches over Broadgate


 Stumbling around Coventry last night we came across this... Sheep Purple and Andy McGeechan have some better photos.

 

Update: Tentorsman on Flickr reports that he installed the pink pachyderm for a "local consortium" (CVOne, right?) and their "purpose will become clear".


Filed under  //   christmas   coventry  
Posted December 7, 2008
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New art gallery in Coventry - The Fishbone Gallery


Blimey. Came across this flyer in Browns last night for The Fishbone Gallery, a new gallery based in a red brick Victorian chapel in Longford in Coventry. Here's what they say about their first exhibition:

Fishbone Gallery are proud to announce that - ENTRANCE - our inaugural exhibition, opens to the public on Saturday 29th November 2008. The show presents a diverse selection of art works by Coventry and West Midlands artists practicing in a wide range of media, from photography and video, to print, sculpture and installation.

Coventry is a major city that has, up till now, suffered from the singular lack of a gallery that answers the needs and promotes the work of new and experimental artists. Fishbone Gallery is that gallery and ENTRANCE the show that will set the standard for future exhibitions in Coventry.

The arts in Coventry really are on the mend, and we want you to be instrumental in the enterprise. We do hope you will find the time to come along and make this exhibition the success that we all , for so many and varied reasons, need it to be. 

Good luck to everyone involved, I'll be along as soon as I've worked out my Christmas shopping.

Filed under  //   art   coventry   exhibition   gallery  
Posted December 6, 2008
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Covscene Chrimbo Bash - 20th December at Playtime Warehouse

Thoria! Christ.
 
Some good names, if nothing else - I like the sound of Drag Queen Bingo, and I really want Marmaduke Hussy to be called Marmaduke and the Hussys.

There's a thread on about this event over at the Covscene forum, and here's the inevitable Facebook event.

We popped over to the Playtime Warehouse about a month or two ago, and it looks like it could be a really good space, but they've really got to update their website: the next event is slated to be Justin Robertson on the 15th November...

Filed under  //   coventry   events   gig   music   playtimewarehouse  
Posted December 6, 2008
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Kermit sings "New York I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down"


...by LCD Soundsystem. Stick with it to the end. (via bestfootforward).

Filed under  //   dfa   lcdsoundsystem   video   youtube  
Posted December 6, 2008
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Regional auditoriums - our lost cinemas


How many of these have been replaced by bland multiplexes?

Filed under  //   cinema   flickr   photos  
Posted December 4, 2008
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Amazon MP3 store launches in the UK


Finally. At 256kbps, VBR, no DRM. 

Posted December 3, 2008
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