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P.Carr - The Soul Bellows (Theme)
Hello, and welcome to the Carr Radio.
The Fall - Frenz
A-HA - Take On Me
Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery - Night Train
Hello and that was A-HA, make no mistake, Take on Me and this is me, Paul Carr and a very merry, happy, new year to you all. Thankyou for tuning in this evening, this is the new years honours playlist edition of The Carr Radio.
Today is the first in a series of 6 pilot episodes to be pre-recorded and made available at www.buildmusic.blogspot.com for playback or as a download for all you i-pod people. Each episode will last for the duration of one hour and will evolve over the forthcoming weeks in collaboration with Issue 2 of the Soul Bellows music magazine and Build Music - a radio Reconstruction - currently in operation. Copies of Issue 1 of the Soul Bellows are available by clicking on the PayPal option to the right (left) of this dot blogspot.
We promise you 'no frills' radio programming.
We have a selection box of tracks, not tricks, brought to you by the aid of the sequential rotary option and function of the Pop Dial - a complex circuit board of temperature settings for all fan assisted Chart Toppers.
Lightnin' Hopkins - Can't do it like you used to
The Barnes TV Guide
We interrupt this programme for a short account from the Barnes TV Guide, LIVE from the Elongated Iron Bar, Elephant & Castle.
It was only a theme tune and I thought it would grow on me with further listens, hints of epic spaghetti western baked beans and pork sausages in one sauce. What a palaver. Pallid Specsaver double vision. Tyne & Wear TV programming and Radio phone-in Q&A.
Tom Paulin sported the 'look, look topical revue' on Newsnight Rewind tonight. A full frontal shot trampled over his look-a-like sport shorts and funny hair do, creases ironed out with the harsh studio lighting, cut and blow dried to a neo-tungsten ham slicer. I know, I know. I couldn't believe it either. You know the sort, the kind you see tapered at the edges of any WHSmith foolscap.
And I was slightly disturbed by what followed; Jools Holland on Later supporting what looked like a cannonball just above the waistal region - north east of England and horizontal egg on toast repeat from Tuesday. I prefer to watch the egg run with the sound down these days.
Sub TV Plot A. Ghost drugs 1, 46a
I took a g-host of smoke-drugs, to inject, chew, stare-drug, smell, sawn-off nose-snort, 12 inch whacky, drops, dangle, mangle, Nag, Drag, Cluedo and sawn off wand-drugs. I exchanged the LOT! And happened to catch my short distance drug in Boots the Chemist. The optician sported an optical haze sock full of long distance triennial pitchers.
I didn't tell you I was a magician did I?
I waved my wand for Cluedo fixes and Backgammon Wall Faze. My lovely assistant allowed me to make rectilinear, a conservatory for costume changes.
Sub TV Plot B. Smoke Screens 2, 7 and 12
The soul? Can you feel it. Can you hear it stir inside the fix of the artery glo. Post box sized attendees of the Baize Bar bellow below in the heat-faze
The Botanical Motorway
Somewhere in the aluminium spoke that keeps the M25 spinning in traffic-glo, was LOT 38, pulverized TV wall brackets and 100 yards ahead a further negotiation was followed through.
Pub TV, 1 and 1/4 inch recess into the wall, bypass for the mega-pixels to irritate and whistle around in your Renault Espace. Think about the itching at the back of your eye balls every evening? After a day of deliveries in and around the hip-joint of Centrepoint and knee cap of the Millwall Tunnel? TV wont solve your problems.
Olivier Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time, Verse 5
Eddie Farrell - Stravinksy Mitte Glocken
Robert Wyatt - Born Again Cretin
Welcome to the official opening of the Wave Archive; the inaugural broadcast and recording [by Jenna Collins]
I would like to read a short extract from Local Anaesthetic by Gunter Grass.
"So simple, a wave machine: two pistons alternately exerting pressure on sea water, warmed to 72 degrees (20 minutes of calm followed by 10 minutes of storm). The naive principle is surf mechanized. (Excessive undertow is avoided by divergencies in the rhythm of the rising and falling pistons). Possibly the inventor watched children teaching a pond to make waves by throwing stones into it: now the easily serviced machine is functioning. It suffices to press a button: Wave Pool. Wave Pool!". This is where my interest in waves began, with the wave machines.
The structure of the archive will develop as things get added but at present it comes roughly in two parts. The first is a collection of wave memorabilia at references, again this splits into parts; general waves or the notion of waves, and documentation of specific waves. An example would be from a page in Len Deighton's Spy Story. First we have 'whipping up crested waves that awoke the subs' which is general, plural, then 'the same wave sucked and gurgled at its bow' which refers to a specific, individual, singular wave. These waves are fictional but apparently natural which would cause categorical divergencies of 4 and 5, and which could be followed by media, date, location; 6, 7 and 8. If we go back to the top of the tree the second order of things is work made about waves: all manner of things that relate to or come from thinking about waves.
So although today is the inaugural, opening statement, things, items are already in place.
I have given the false impression that I am interested in categorization and all the trappings of the archive - that I control, understand and master what I can not.
The archive; usually a collection of sanctioned documents in a specific location, but in the case of the wave archive it will be open, scattered. No logo, no naming and numbering protocol and no acid free paper.
And so I set out today with these thoughts, these plans - an absurd endeavor.
If I should ever think or feel I have succeeded in capturing a single wave, that I can hold it in completion after its moment has passed, the archive will close and all contents will be destroyed.
The Smiths - Back to the Old House
Interview with Jenna Collins
Brian Eno - (i) 'Fullness of Wind' from Three Variations on the Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel
Scott Walker - Boy Child
Gobshyte Lowery & His Cardiac Arrest Team - My Sole Remaining Taste Bud
BBC Radio 4 News
Special Thanks to Jenna, Eddie and Steven for their contributions and continued support.
Best wishes for 2009
Paul Carr
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