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A unique live-to-air radio concert led by the Resonance Radio Orchestra with special guests Otomo Yoshihide, DJ Sniff and Tam Dean Burn. Featuring live radio-art experiments, musical interludes, specially prepared compositions and much else besides. The centrepiece of the night’s broadcast is a new radiophonic adaptation of RL Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll & Mr.Hyde. Tam Dean Burn plays Jekyll, Cliff McClune is Hyde, Sam Collings is Utterson and Erik Fuller is Lanyon. The work has been adapted by Ed Baxter and features a critical exegesis by Stevenson expert Robert Mighall. RRO musicians include Chris Weaver, Aleks Kolkowski, Ivor Kallin, James Dunn, Fari Bradley, Xentos “Fray” Bentos and Ted Barrow.

Also, on November 24th Resonance Projects presents a live concert with Otomo Yoshihide and guests Steve Beresford, Eddie Prevost, John Edwards, Ben Drew, Louisa Martin, DJ Sniff, Xentos and Tomas Korber. Otomo at Cafe Oto, 18 - 22 Ashwin Street, London E8 3DL. Tickets are £10 or £5 concessions.

To coincide with the special edition of the Atlantic Waves show (this Friday 4pm), we are giving away a pair of tickets to see Corvos and Verdes Anos in Saturday’s concert at the Astoria.

The question is:

What does the Portuguese word Corvos translate as in English?

Answers should be e-mailed to Miguel Santos aredorange@hotmail.com

This is their first concert in the UK

21 Nov 08: Resonance FM, London, UK [4pm-5pm]

22 Nov 08: Astoria 2, London, UK

Book on-line on http://www.wegottickets.com/event/37326

A world music/fado roots concert with two outstanding and highly acclaimed bands from Portugal that are part of an interesting and innovative wave of Portuguese musicians who have been spreading their blend of folk roots and other influences throughout the world.

Oscillatorial Binnage broadcast live from artist Toby Clarkson’s electro-mechanically altered Hackney flat, as part of the “Show Flat” series of open studio performances. Expect harmonically-related vegetable strainers, amplified partition walls and more processed domesticity.

Friday November 22nd to Friday November 30th 2008 10AM-6PM
8 The Mount, Mount Pleasant Lane, Clapton E5 9PD

http://showflat.org/toby_clarkson.php

This Thursday (November 20th 2008) between 4:30 and 5:00pm, Wendy Jones talks to Will Self. Using a gargantuan vocabulary, Will discusses his latest novels The Butt , Liver and his intumescent back catalogue.

Interesting Conversations interviews quality writers. Each week, Wendy Jones talks to a different author about their latest work and their writing in general. It’s usually a wide-ranging and entertaining conversation. Previous guests have included Jacqueline Wilson. Will Self, Marina Warner, Grayson Perry, Nick Hornby, Blake Morrison, Posy Simmons and Max Arthur, among others.

http://www.britishlivertrust.org.uk/home/the-liver.aspx

This evening’s Rockfort (19.11.08 at 7pm) welcomes another great band into the studio for live music and conversation: ANORAAK (http://www.myspace.com/anoraak), who balance poised, contemporary production techniques with retro-80s glamour.
http://www.myspace.com/rockfortshow

Presented by Zoë Baxter.
Zoë pays tribute to the recently departed Reggae & Soca legend Byron Lee. The Dim Sum Lunch Box contains Jerk Chicken Fried Rice and there is a review of the Thai martial arts DVD Chocolate.
Info: http://luckykitty.blogspot.com
Email: luckycatzoe@gmail.com

The Naked Short Club (consenting adults only) is hosted by Dr. Stu and features the Emergency Hedge Fund Helpline - with special guests from the hedge fund industry, heady music and poetry. Nothing to do with anyone’s day job, no promotional agenda, just a bit of light relief- in these “interesting” times - to help to get you back in touch with your Inner Arbitrageur… Feedback to: doctorstu@resonancefm.com
Tonight, Monday 17 November at 9pm for an hour.

Tomorrow’s edition of Wavelength - Friday November 14th, 3:00 - 3:30pm - features edited extracts of an interview with Jonas Mekas conducted by William English and Richard Thomas in July 2008.

Jonas Mekas was driving force behind The New American Cinema Group, editor of Film Culture, founder of the New York Filmmakers’ Co-operative, co-founder of Anthology Film Archives and the New York Cinematheque, prolific filmmaker, polemicist for independent cinema in Movie Journal in The Village Voice.

Wavelength is also repeated every  Tuesday between 7:30 and 8:00pm

A quintet of counter cultural figures and self-styled mavericks join Tracey Moberly at the blast furnaces of The Foundry on Friday at noon.

Detroit poet, former MC5 manager and founder of the White Panther’s, John Sinclair chews the fat with author and artist Bill Drummond, author and former drug runner Howard Marks, political activist and comic Mark Thomas and ergonomic design pioneer John Chris Jones.

Music is vended by Little Boots….

The Late, Late, Breakfast Show, November 12th 2008, 12:00 - 01:00pm.

This Friday, 14 November, 8pm on Resonance 104.4 FM, on-line at resonancefm.com

Edge of Arabia is the first comprehensive group exhibition of contemporary Saudi art to be shown in London. Featuring 17 working artists, the exhibition explores themes of identity and place, spiritual and material realities and the media’s influence on perceptions of the self and culture.

In this programme Ananda Pellerin interviews two of the featured artists, Abdulnasser Gharem and Reem Al-Faisal, who speak candidly about their art, their country and their extraordinary lives. Also, Ananda finds out about the exhibition’s genesis from its curator Stephen Stapleton and its wider context within Middle Eastern art from Venetia Porter, curator of the Islamic collections at the British Museum.

Tune in to Resonance 104.4FM this Friday for a personal insight into the stories behind these works of art from the East that are causing a stir internationally.

Producer: Michael Garrad

Edge of Arabia runs at the Brunei Gallery until 13 December

For more information:

www.edgeofarabia.com

Written interviews with Abdulnasser Gharem and Reem Al-Faisal will be available in Wheel Me Out, the online interview magazine from 20 November

www.wheelmeout.com