Showing posts with label touch radio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label touch radio. Show all posts

Sunday, December 1, 2013

From the Radio Archives: Resonance104.4fm interview December 10th

photo: Jon Wozencroft/Touch
Mike Harding interviews Katja Seltmann with Irene Moon about insect harmonics. Part of the Long Wave radio series, these Begonia Society members will be included in Long Wave 10, on December 10, 2012 at 10.30pm in London (530 New York) . Dont miss it!

Long Wave is broadcast on resonance104.4fm


Track listing of the Interview and Music:
[listen]

1. Backing music behind Irene Moon: Organ, electronics and insects (flies and cockroaches)

2. Darker Florida (Irene Moon and Pax Titania) - For the Cat People
from the album: History of Darker Florida vol. i. [tin cans and twine, cassette, 2008]
instrumentation: Piano, electronics and insects

3. Graeme Revell: The Insect Musicians - Invaders of the Heart

4. Treehopper courtship sounds from Reginald B. Cocroft (treehoppers.insectmuseum.org)

5. Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon - Fly me to the Blossom
from the album SUPLICO [Gods of Tundra, cassette, 2000]
instrumentation: Organ and crickets.

6. Mika Vainio - Outside the Circle of Fire | Hazard - Debugged
From the album Star Switch On [Touch, CD, 2002]. "The artists were commissioned to use the wildlife recordings of Chris Watson published on Stepping Into The Dark and Outside The Circle Of Fire as source material."

7. Insect Collage - Ants, wasps and other insects...
featuring recordings by Mike Harding, Tom Lawrence & Jana Winderen


Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Recording of Hurricane Sandy for Touch Radio

Last night, October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy landed upon New York City. I recorded sounds of the wind and rain out of my Bed Stuy apartment window for Touch Radio 86.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Irene Moon on Touch Radio


Touch Radio 58 | Irene Moon

20.12.10 - My Queen & I: An introduction to the bees and their closest relatives – 24:37 - 128 kbps

Recorded live at The Rymer Audorium, Music Research Centre, York on 17th December 2010 by Tony Myatt as one lecture in part of the Bee Symphony. An evening that celebrated one of our favorite pollinators..the bees. This lecture discusses the diversity of bees worldwide, concentrating on demonstrating the complexity of the implications of the word "Bee".

Friday, October 22, 2010

The Bee Symphony

This is a repost from the touch label blog and site. I will be lecturing about bees during the event concerning their lives, habits and beauty of form.

My Queen and I:
An introduction to the bees and their closest relatives.

The Bee Symphony

The Rymer Auditorium, York 17th December 2010

The Bee Symphony
Celebrating the bee in science and art
Friday 17 December 2010 at 7.30pm
Rymer Auditorium

The Bee Symphony, consisting of recordings of bees by Chris Watson ('The Life of Birds', 'The Life of Mammals', 'Life in the Undergrowth' and 'Life in Cold Blood'), Mike Harding (Touch) and a vocal score by Marcus Davidson (Spire) will be performed live by Chris Watson and five singers from the University of York, conducted by Marcus Davidson. The Symphony was originally commissioned as part of Pestival and performed in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Updated details of the full programme can be seen on the The Bee Symphony microsite
"The theme of the evening is really for people to become immersed in the sounds and rhythms of the insects." Chris Watson
In addition to The Bee Symphony the programme will feature other sound performances and talks by scientists on current research on bees and the current perils that they face, including:
Irene Moon - My Queen and I: An introduction to the bees and their closest relatives, also a special episode for TouchRadio

Buy tickets at www.yorkconcerts.co.uk
The Bee Symphony microsite
www.marcusdavidson.net
www.chriswatson.net