Meet Randall Poster. He’s the guy who picks out the music in all of Wes Anderson’s films, including his latest Moonrise Kingdom (pictured above.) This is how Poster’s job works.
(via npr)
May 25, 2012
May 25, 2012
Researching rock and stone for a new project I came across this rather lovely audio slideshow on the Guardian website.
“Poetry in motion: exploring Simon Armitage’s new Stanza Stone trail in West Yorkshire – audio slideshow
The brooding natural landscape of West Yorkshire has inspired writers for centuries. Now poet Simon Armitage has left his mark on the countryside by carving six verses into rocks along the 47-mile Stanza Stones Trail. He tells Kevin Rushby how keen-eyed walkers might spot a seventh ‘secret stanza’ and reads from his poem Mist”
Click image to watch on the Guardian website
May 10, 2012
More Pejk Malinovski… this time in an excellent jumper… thanks to Jessie Levene for the link.
Passing Stranger: An East Village Poetry Walk - Audio Tour
I wish, i wish, i wish… to be there in New York to walk those streets.
May 10, 2012
Very excited about this feature - coming up on Radio 4 on Monday next week.
Sean Street heard a preview and said it was one of the best radio features he’s ever heard. And you best believe Sean has listened to a LOT of radio features.
“Poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular - Aristotle, Poetics
Poetry, Texas, is a radio documentary by Pejk Malinovski. It’s about Poetry. What is Poetry?
“Haaard work.” According to Rick Rice. He lives alone in a trailer with his dog, in the small Texan town of that name. “It’s a lot of haaard working people. You can see that just driving up and down the road. The bales of hay sitting there. The cattle. It’s just a lot of hard working people, trying to make an honest dime.”
Malinovski, a third generation Danish poet, came across Poetry on Google and decided to venture out there to find the poetry of Poetry.
Poetry is not really a town, it’s a bunch of houses along a road with a gas station in the middle, three churches and a school. And a Taxidermist.
“It’s hard to know where poetry starts and where poetry stops now, back in the day it was well defined.” Says Rick Salisbury of Poetry Taxidermy
Pejk Malinovski takes the listeners gently and humorously by the hand and shows them a fresh way to look at Poetry. Free from dusty books and literary experts, free even from poets. But full of life.
Produced by Pejk Malinovski
A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4.
Click picture to listen (from Monday).
April 28, 2012
Radio Days
Exhibition of photographer Paolo Woods’ photographs, showing as part of the Bristol Photography Festival.
“More than 50% of Haitians are illiterate and only 25% have regular access to electricity. But 97% of the population own a radio, and they all listen to it, all the time. Since the 1960s Haitians have used radio as a political tool, and a public service; when the cholera epidemic broke out in 2010, radios bombarded listeners with instructions on avoiding the deadly disease and getting help for their sick. Low setup costs have made broadcasting widely accessible, closely mirroring society in almost all its political, religious, and social variations. Paolo Woods documents the voices of Haitian radio, highlighting it’s importance as both a form of entertainment and a crucial method of communication.
This first UK showing of Radio Days, from award winning photographer Paolo Woods, is presented by Bristol Festival of Photography in conjunction with Vignette, INSTITUTE, Photographique and the RGB Awards.”
April 28, 2012
For every monument or great building standing tall in the London skyline, somewhere else in the world is a vast hole.
A piece I made about the Isle of Portland and the men who win its stone from the ground (which was kindly funded by In the Dark’s Soundbank scheme) is having its ‘premiere’ this week in London. I will be hiding under a chair with bright red cheeks while it is played. Do come along and watch me squirm.
March 23, 2012
"This book, being about work, is, by its very nature, about violence — to the spirit as well as to the body. It is about ulcers as well as accidents, about shouting matches as well as fistfights, about nervous breakdowns as well as kicking the dog around. It is, above all (or beneath all), about daily humiliations. To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us."
— Studs Terkel, from the introduction to Working, his oral history, where “people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do.” Hear audio of some of the 130 interviews Terkel conducted for the book. It was published in 1974, during another time of great economic upheaval in America. (via theamericannow)
(via nprfreshair)
March 22, 2012
March 21, 2012
Getting Down to Story
March 20th, 2012 | by Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs
“When I sat down with my grandmother Elizabeth Moore Evans in 1990, I thought I was documenting a particular type of African-American sacred singing. When I listened to the tape years later, I realized I’d captured my family relationships and, of course, the voices of my elders.
Now that they’re dying, I realize my tape is invaluable. My grandmother became a great-great-grandmother about a year before she died. She saw the little ones, but they won’t remember her. My family is known for stories, so her descendants will know about her. But they’ll be able to hear her talk and sing because I sat down with a cassette recorder.”
March 21, 2012
Plan B at TedxObserver on Youth, Music and London
March 21, 2012
"Who are we, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopaedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly reshuffled and reordered in every conceivable way."
— Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium
March 20, 2012
March 20, 2012
This week’s Book of the Week on Radio 4, Tim Winton’s Land’s End - A Coastal Memoir, brought childhood memories flooding back for me. Beautiful, evocative writing. While my body was making coffee in my cold kitchen my mind was miles and years away remembering salt water dried to a crust on downy bleached arm hair, damp sand clinging to over-browned feet and whole afternoons spent floating in the sea, ducking under waves as they crashed in.
(Source: nothinglikeaustralia.com.au)
March 20, 2012
March 12, 2012
M.I.A. | Bad Girls
Completely addicted to M.I.A.’s latest. Currently watching this at least once a day.
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