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Honeybees at London’s SAVOIR FAYRE

The Savoir Fayre - enough buying, let's learn! Organised by Lynn Chambers, this fair took place on August 9, 2008 at the Hackney City Farm. The idea is the sharing of knowledge and making rather than money or finished products. Free entry to the Fayre offered Londoners the chance to learn how to fix their bike, make their own pinata, learn how to knit, how to do stop-frame animation, among many other exciting things for all ages. The atmosphere was buzzing, not least because there were hundreds of bees busy showing how they make honey - live. We hope the Savoir Fayre comes around again soon. #

Play 3:42 min, AAIR 9/8/2008

Songs from the Finnish Rural Commune

This is the first broadcast of this summer's 'music from the home' series that will start with Finnish Tango, originally contributed by Tessa Katz. The concept is very simple. When coming back from holidays, instead of the usual holiday pictures bring back a song or two from your home country and share them with other students in the radio. 'Täysikuu/Full moon' by Olavi Virta; 'Elsa, Kohtalon lapsi/Elsa, Destiny's Child' by Martti Innanen; 'Laulu Suomalaisesta Maalaiskunnasta/Song about the Finnish Rural Commune' by Rauli Badding-Somerjoki; 'Valkea Sisar/Sister in White' by Georg Malmsten; 'Unohtumaton Koti/Unforgettable Home' by Olavi Virta; 'Pilvet Karkaa niin minäkin/Clouds are escaping, so do I' by Markus Allan #

Play 18:13 min, Taneli Mansikkamaki 19/7/2008

Peter Cusack & A Catastrophic Silence

Lecture by Peter Cusack, Senior Lecturer Sound Arts & Design at the London College of Communication, as invited by the AA Summer School unit 'A Catastrophic Silence' run by Steve Bates, Joshua Bonnetta, and Douglas Moffat (http://catastrophicsilence.tumblr.com). Peter talks through his own projects exploring the sounds characteristic to different cities and the role these sounds play in the lives of the city inhabitants. Your Favorite London Sound and Your Favorite Beijing Sound are followed by another of Peter's research into the sonic conditions of what he terms 'Dangerous Places' - urban environments which have experienced sudden and major devastation. Peter Cusack, based in London, works as a sound artist, musician and environmental recordist with a special interest in environmental sound and acoustic ecology. Projects move from community arts to research into the contribution of sound to our senses of place to recordings that document areas of special sonic interest, e.g. Lake Baikal, Siberia, and Xinjang, China’s most western province. Recently involved in 'Sound & the City' the British Council sound art project in Beijing 2005. His current project 'Sounds From Dangerous Places’ examines the soundscapes of sites of major environmental damage, e.g. Chernobyl, the Azerbaijan oil fields, controversial dams on the Tigris and Euphratees river systems in south east Turkey. #

Play 105:51 min, Ema Bonifacic 18/7/2008

kettenwindel [j.t. 122]

hairhopper's dawn / hüpfburgrisiken / hinterzarten / trout goat / umdrehen (a dog box) / fallenlassen (doxa bog) / furtmieke / common umbrellas / bold conjectures / intervening / drahtkonsole (die sau) / contemplatio latitudinaria / grapes oof mumbay / ALL COMPOSITIONS BY KALLABRIS #

Play 19:40 min, AAIR 20/6/2008

The Radio Ham

The bittersweet comic genius of Tony Hancock made him one of Britain’s biggest stars during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Scripted by the prolific Galton and Simpson, his hugely influential radio show Hancock's Half Hour lasted for five years and over a hundred episodes, spawning a successful television series. The show pioneered the development of situation comedy, deriving its humour from the characters responses to everyday life rather than the variety format then dominant in broadcasting. Each week the streets were reported to empty as families gathered together to catch the latest episode. Several shows were instant classics, including ‘The Radio Ham’. As ever, Hancock plays a spectacularly exaggerated version of his own character, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. ‘Tiring, this radio lark’. #

Play 27:40 min, Daisy Blue & Friends 9/4/2008