Name: #21 – Origins Again by Colliding Lines
Duration: 2 h

Colliding Lines present live sessions, cross-genre collaborations and left-field recordings drawn from the London, UK and international experimental scenes; a long-form love letter to recorded audio as soundtrack, as sound art and as storyteller.

This month we re-run and remix an episode from June 2020, 'Origin Stories'. Featuring interviews with Alexander Carson, Gaze is Ghost, Nikki Marrone and Broads, the show is about things beginning at home, in the family or in birth. Post-pandemic, these artists are releasing new books and music, and touring for the first time in literally years. We're happy to share again if you're happy to join us. Featuring scenes of childbirth, dramatic windswept narration, and the memorable quote "you're sitting in your pants, shovelling Häagen-Dazs in your face and crying at The Simpsons". Theresa Elflein joins us presenting some fresh tracks, and the show is presented by Wesley Freeman-Smith and, in parts, by Martin Clarke.

Colliding Lines airs on Resonance Extra on the third Thursday of every month, with listen back options for all of our shows on Mixcloud, Soundcloud, and wherever you get your podcasts.

#21 – Origins Again

'Devil Dancer' - First single by AMORE MEOW.

devil dancer

A Hungry Mouth
To mould and change
A crackling earth
Delt in chains

Heed the warning cry
Almost at the edge
Under a yawning sky 
fated to amend

Broken means
But to what end?
Call it growth 
Call this a friend?

Heed the warning cry
Almost at the edge
Under a yawning sky fated to amend

The waiting sky 
The scramble above the torrent
Wade through night
The hope, heavy on us
Do we fold or can we begin to make whole?

Holy work
Let me know how
to build and not destroy

Oh the warning cry
Almost at the edge
Under yawning sky fated to amend

The waiting sky 
The scramble above the torrent
Wade through night
The cost, heavy on us
Do we fold or can we begin to make whole?

How to build it better make it work?
When the flesh in question cannot help but wither and turn
Questions that are fated to disperse

I can no longer see if this is enough

Is this enough?
To the heart I ask what I need
[Is this enough?]
While the light is falling
[Is this enough?]
To the heart I ask what I leave
While the night is calling
To the heart I ask what I l need
Is this enough?

Abacus

Tinywind

A selection of experimental frequencies, interviews and sessions plus cuts from the First Terrace label by Alex Ives (Specimens) and Joe Summers.

This episode: After a mix of some recently released gems (including G-bop Orchestra, Valium, Chaotic Reality, Lucy Liyou, Alex Dowling & more) Joe goes through various materials recorded during the recent First Terrace tour in Japan, including live sets from Chihei Hatakeyama, Sofheso, Vida Vojić, Specimens & Takkiduda.

Resonance Extra - 24/7 sound art, radio art and global music. Listen on DAB+ in Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, London and Norwich or via http://extra.resonance.fm

First Terrace #22 - Japan Tour Special - Tuesday 14th April 2020

Colliding Lines present live sessions, cross-genre collaborations and left-field recordings drawn from the London, UK and international experimental scenes; a long-form love letter to recorded audio as soundtrack, as sound art and as storyteller.

In this episode, non-physical spaces, dreams as performance, and the body as instrument, object and obstacle. Featuring new music and interviews from Lou Barnell, sound & poetry collective Catching Shadows, and art-pop band MAW. Writer Abi Palmer reads from her recent book 'Sanatorium', released through Penned in the Margins. Wes Freeman-Smith and Martin Clarke host.

Resonance Extra - 24/7 sound art, radio art and global music. Listen on DAB+ in Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, London and Norwich or via http://extra.resonance.fm

Colliding Lines #4 - (dis)Embodied - Thursday 21st May 2020

- fwrdmtn return after a top drawer, two show debut over at Soho Radio. Just search us up on MixCloud for our latest -

How are you keeping? Well? Keeping indoors when you can right? It's been a mad time this whole quarantine/lockdown malarkey, but we're back, bringing you them... "vviibbeess"

we got Avenhue, Ham, Kemanci, /WeirdToday and Latekid - The key thing for this release? Experimentation and leaving our comfort zones... Oh, how used to all of this we are.

Enjoy, and remember; The Motion is Always Forward

God & The Cloud Valve - /WeirdToday

Colliding Lines present live sessions, cross-genre collaborations and left-field recordings drawn from the London, UK and international experimental scenes; a long-form love letter to recorded audio as soundtrack, as sound art and as storyteller.

This month we take the theme of beginnings, origins – artists and works that begin at home, in the family, or in birth. Through field recordings Broads explore the landscapes and history of their native county Norfolk; Gaze is Ghost and poet Nikki Marrone debut new collaborations and discuss motherhood and creativity; and we welcome Alexander Carson performing in session live from his living room. Finally, longtime CL collaborator Derek Yau debuts his first solo record, ‘May’, out June 25th.

Resonance Extra - 24/7 sound art, radio art and global music. Listen on DAB+ in Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, London and Norwich or via http://extra.resonance.fm

Colliding Lines #5 - Origin Stories - Thursday 18th June 2020

Colliding Lines present live sessions, cross-genre collaborations and left-field recordings drawn from the London, UK and international experimental scenes; a long-form love letter to recorded audio as soundtrack, as sound art and as storyteller.

This month we spend two hours with two artists – Rita Says, who with her Orchestra revives and reclaims 20th century experimental classics in the spirit of their modern punk equivalents; and Reuben Kyriakides, elusive composer-producer whose diverse portfolio includes dance scores, hip-hop, alternatively tuned piano, and at least one sound installation about Billy Elliot.

Resonance Extra - 24/7 sound art, radio art and global music. Listen on DAB+ in Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, London and Norwich or via http://extra.resonance.fm

Colliding Lines #6 - Rita Says & Reuben Kyriakides - Thursday 16th July 2020

Wild Geese

Little one can I tell you
of before
a world that was wild and wide and more?
I hold you up my love, that I can show you
This winter sky
Alive with a thousand geese in flight.

The curlew call, the geese that come home
3000 miles in odd weather.
Lapwing, osprey in the sunlit bay
I will try to do better

Little one tight I hold you
point to the sky 
carved up in vs that split the night.
The dark it spills from the marsh, 
it fills the space inside,
the feral body soft and wild

The curlew call, the geese that come home
3000 miles in odd weather.
Lapwing, osprey in the sunlit bay
I will try to do better

The curlew call, the geese that come home
3000 miles in odd weather.
Lapwing, osprey in the sunlit bay
I will try to do better
I will try to do better
I will try to do better

Wild Geese

Lyrics

The beat on the concrete, run
quicken the feet and blood,
Beckon breath to come.
Rattle of bone behind
Off-beat but keeping time,
That net ain’t mine.

While out on the water
a pull on the line,
and I take up from under
The cold, white gleam of bone tied. 

On to an empty road
Buildings left long ago
Concrete over-grown
The rattle of bone behind
I’m fading with the light, the light. 

Sing to the bones, cut and cut the net.
It’s caught in the throat, a hip, a bone, a neck
Until sleep calls me home, singing for the dead
And in the night she sits up, covers her bones with skin and says

No Nail rest upon my hand
Took to a Northern land
Built a boat for man
Sailed upon the flood then came back when all was done
But that is only half a lie, half

Sing to the bones, cut and cut the net.
It’s caught in the throat, a hip, a bone, a neck
’til sleep calls me home, I’m singing for the dead
And in the night she sits up, covers her bones with skin and says

Fecund flesh, I’m breathing deeper this time
Made my arms, thighs stronger
Rooted to the earth I am fine
Made it like I never saw that sea
I feel the answer to all that these bones can be
I feel the answer to all that

Sing to the bones, cut and cut the net.
It’s caught in the throat, a hip, a bone, a neck
’til sleep calls me home, I’m singing for the dead
And in the night she sits up, covers her bones with skin and says

Feather and Bone

Colliding Lines produce high quality, cross-disciplinary live shows and projects that draw together artists from different fields, including dance, music, spoken word, interactive theatre and film. Together we publish, promote and curate new collaborations, taking joy in creative risks and producing work that matters. By working collectively, we create a space for artists to develop and innovate, exploring new ideas and unfamiliar territories together. However diverse, the unifying characteristics of every Colliding Lines performance or project are that they are immersive, challenging, and unique.

#21 – Origins Again

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