Last week I was in London (bravely done country mouse) on a recreational visit and a radio radio mission. As well as the chance to catch up with long-lost friends, two draws- both radiophonic- broke me out of Devon.
sp23 infoblip
An invitation to come party on the MS Stubnitz, at an all night event held to celebrate the 23rd birthday of the sp23 -a legendary party crew known previously as Spiral Tribe, was a massive and joyful incentive to shake the red soil off my shoes. I am mixing interviews and the OUTSTANDING TECHNO into a special broadcast for Soundart Radio. sp23's quite beautiful activist/ artivist ethos blew me away- the party was everything a party should be, but one of the things about being 'blown away' is finding a way of presenting what was felt and done, after the event... WORKING ON IT OK
Community Radio
I've been formulating plans / wanting to make connections with other community radio stations for some months now, and this visit was perfect to contact and visit several London stations, to find out some about different outfits and broadcasting models, to look at possible collaborative opportunities, and to test the waters of inter-station interactions. I visited Reprezent 107.3FM in Peckham and Reverb 97.2FM in Brighton and was very inspired to see and hear about their projects... MORE ON THIS SOON
Both the sp23 party and the community radio station visits re-enthused my fascination with public delineations / transgressions of territories- ( internal and external, physical and intellectual, formal and creative ). Focusing on the paradoxes thrown up around rights to expression / licences in an age of worldwide communications, disparate access to resources, and morphing global political economic ecological and cultural geographies form part of this Radio Radio project- and the promotion of the airwaves as a TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE in which to celebrate of course :-)
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London got under my skin this time- this time something switched for me. I found I felt like I did when I landed in India in 2001 : I was culturally shook, discomforted (but amazed), kind of electrified, overwhelmed (overjoyed), everything felt new and inexperienced - THIS WAS ASSIMILATION OF A KIND... Rather than passing through on a A-B-C business or tourist trip ( itinerary, set routes, eyes down, same old same old just a different venue) I (maybe? actually? kinda?) 'dérived' some- wondering, constructively drifting developing a relation with that new geography and people, and trying new avenues of 'being her now'. Felt opened, and welcomed it :-)
sp23 infoblip
An invitation to come party on the MS Stubnitz, at an all night event held to celebrate the 23rd birthday of the sp23 -a legendary party crew known previously as Spiral Tribe, was a massive and joyful incentive to shake the red soil off my shoes. I am mixing interviews and the OUTSTANDING TECHNO into a special broadcast for Soundart Radio. sp23's quite beautiful activist/ artivist ethos blew me away- the party was everything a party should be, but one of the things about being 'blown away' is finding a way of presenting what was felt and done, after the event... WORKING ON IT OK
(The MS Stubnitz itself
is a amazing venue. The ship is steel grey and beautiful- in a techno
robust way-
metal, bent economic iron buttressed hull like a
submarine's ballroom. The ship is itself the feature. A culture
ark- an archive for performance and happenings, 800 foot
long, with
a crew of around 25. MS Stubnitz entered British waters for the first
time as a venue for the London Pleasure Gardens – sailing up to dock in the metropolis' east end, bringing a fresh attitude to what
a venue can be in 2012 - a 1960's Russian fishing ship- the harvester
of the fleet- refit to provide stage, dance and exhibition space,
bars and a chill out areas, and a deck for surveying the lights of the
city spread out all around and reflected in the black water.)
Community Radio
I've been formulating plans / wanting to make connections with other community radio stations for some months now, and this visit was perfect to contact and visit several London stations, to find out some about different outfits and broadcasting models, to look at possible collaborative opportunities, and to test the waters of inter-station interactions. I visited Reprezent 107.3FM in Peckham and Reverb 97.2FM in Brighton and was very inspired to see and hear about their projects... MORE ON THIS SOON
Both the sp23 party and the community radio station visits re-enthused my fascination with public delineations / transgressions of territories- ( internal and external, physical and intellectual, formal and creative ). Focusing on the paradoxes thrown up around rights to expression / licences in an age of worldwide communications, disparate access to resources, and morphing global political economic ecological and cultural geographies form part of this Radio Radio project- and the promotion of the airwaves as a TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE in which to celebrate of course :-)
-ln-t)
1. To draw or trace the outline of; sketch out.
2. To represent pictorially; depict.
3. To depict in words or gestures; describe.
trans·gres·sive (tr
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adj.
1. Exceeding a limit or boundary, especially of social acceptability.
2.
Of or relating to a genre of fiction, filmmaking, or art characterized
by depictions of behavior that challenge socially acceptable
norms.
3. Of or relating to geological transgression.
London got under my skin this time- this time something switched for me. I found I felt like I did when I landed in India in 2001 : I was culturally shook, discomforted (but amazed), kind of electrified, overwhelmed (overjoyed), everything felt new and inexperienced - THIS WAS ASSIMILATION OF A KIND... Rather than passing through on a A-B-C business or tourist trip ( itinerary, set routes, eyes down, same old same old just a different venue) I (maybe? actually? kinda?) 'dérived' some- wondering, constructively drifting developing a relation with that new geography and people, and trying new avenues of 'being her now'. Felt opened, and welcomed it :-)
