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"Lekka Mozzek Wake up Session" - 24/05

"In Another Place is constructed from the sounds of found materials, domestic objects and self-made mechanisms. Working between Lucerne, Montreal and Huddersfield, we followed simple cues as instructional starting points, responding to a single word to create a sonic response within a specific time-frame. These prompts became starting points for materially engaged, sonic exploration. Each take was a dislocated, improvisation to no-one, confined to our private studios and homes, our headphones and recorders.

Sounds include recordings of ceramic hobs, seaweed, styrofoam, kitchen foil, balloons, resonant tubes, scrap metal, motors, water pumps, spark gaps, lightbulbs, water, wooden dowels and sand paper. The results were layered, re-situated and mixed by matching time-frames and timbre. In Another Place explores the musical potential of everyday materials through disconnection, interpretation and serendipity" - (Tim Shaw)

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"What if COVID-19 had never swept the globe? What if our lives were operating as normal?

There would’ve been Anne-F Jacques from Montreal as ame’s fourth artist-in-residence collaborating, in different scales, with a gang of sound artists and musicians; Julia Eckhardt, Phil Niblock, Tim Shaw, Tania Caroline Chen, Yorkshire Sound Women Network and myself right now, here at Dai Hall, a venue for underground experimental music and art scene in Huddersfield.

The luxury of chaos (I miss that now) would’ve been followed by high-spirited laugher.

When Keiko invited me to make a mini album for Takuroku, I romanticised this hypothesis, the ‘what-if’ theory. Every event has a cause. This Takuroku opportunity has given us a chance to thrive, to get back to our individual creative zone, to listen to the world once more.

Thanks to Cafe OTO." - (Ryoko Akama)

TR055 - Ryoko Akama, Anne-F Jacques and Tim Shaw - 'heat, heat, gravity'

Takuroku has been supporting new work by artists made during lock-down, but now and again we’ll be releasing lost archival gems that we feel need to be heard. This is one of the latter: A fiery session between two key players in OTO’s international community, featuring Denmark’s Julie Kjaer (saxophone) and Thurston Moore (guitar), recorded at neighbouring experimental music hub The Hundred Years Gallery.

Fans of Rudolph Grey/Arthur Doyle and Kaoru Abe/Masayuki Takayanagi explosive symbiosis will relish here in Julie & Thurstons’ bellied roars, tonal dips and dives and thick sheets of sound. Ecstatic spiritual crescendos emerge and collapse, but during which never lose their sense of focus and imaginative interplay. Here’s hoping this duo can play again once things are back to normal (whenever that maybe be).

50% of OTO’s share of the proceeds of this release will be passed to Hundred Years Gallery. Please support their great work in the experimental music community.

New Life Music

TR062 - Thurston Moore & Julie Kjaer - 'New Life Music' [sample]

Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial discuss the bombshell news that Trump has coronavirus. Plus, pressure mounts on Margaret Perrier after breaking covid rules, the Julian Assange extradition hearing closes, the elites driving migrant prison ship plans. 

https://novaramedia.com/2020/10/02/trump-gets-corona/

Novara Audio: Radio For A Different Politics

TyskySour: Trump Gets Corona

Lola Olufemi joins PTO to talk about her new book, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power.  We chatted about the history of black feminist organising, the problem with mainstream liberal feminism, and the generational divide in feminist circles over trans rights.

#98 Feminism, Interrupted w/ Lola Olufemi

Barnaby Raine joins PTO to talk about the EHRC report into antisemitism and the Labour Party, the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn from the party, and what the affair tells us about the treatment of antisemitism in the UK in 2020.

#100 Corbyn, Labour, and the EHRC report w/ Barnaby Raine

London is red. In both 2017 and 2019, the capital city went overwhelmingly red – a story repeated in other English cities, but especially pronounced in London. Yet the left has rarely had much interest in London's socialist story, preferring to deride the capital as a decadent seat of power or a parasitical drain on the rest of the country. But London has a deep, long history as a laboratory of struggle and a crucible of socialist experiment – and once had a city government so radical that Thatcher had to abolish it. Owen Hatherley joins James Butler to argue that it's time to reclaim the Red Metropolis. Red Metropolis is available from Repeater Books now. https://novaramedia.com/?p=27841

Novara Media Podcast

#NovaraFM: Red Flag, South Bank

Brett Christophers joins PTO to talk about his new book, Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? We chatted about the extraordinary dominance of monopolistic rent-seeking in the UK economy, why the concept of rentierisation is more useful and accurate than the notion of financialisation when talking about the trajectory of the UK and world economies, and we also talked about how and why entrepreneurialism and competitiveness are values that are taken up far more by ordinary people in the labour market than by UK business.

You can listen to the extended version of the episode by becoming a £3 supporter on patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/44326998

#103 Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? w/ Brett Christophers

Jeremy Gilbert joins PTO to discuss why the Corbyn and Sanders projects ultimately foundered. We talked about the significance of personality and strategy versus deeper historical tendencies, and why the Corbyn leadership seemed to prefer a critique of austerity to a broader attack on the neoliberal era. Our discussion was prompted by Jeremy's article in Open Democracy, 'We lost because we weren’t big enough'.

UNLOCKED: Jeremy Gilbert on the defeat of the Anglo-American left (part one)

Andreas Malm joins PTO to talk about his new book, 'How To Blow Up a Pipeline'. We chatted about why the climate movement is so fiercely committed to nonviolence, how that hinders climate activism, and how the advocates of nonviolence edit the history of popular struggles and liberations movements in order to downplay the importance of the more militant wings of those struggles.

#107 Climate activism and the fetishisation of nonviolence w/ Andreas Malm

Nadia Idle speaks to Turkish journalist and author Ece Temelkuran about the potency of crowds. Reflecting on their experiences in Tahrir Square and Gezi Park, they talk about feeling powerful in political demonstrations, why raves are infantilising rather than inspiring, and how Covid-19 has put an end to free assembly.

Ece, twice named Turkey's "most read political columnist", has published several novels as well as 2019's How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship, chronicling the rise of right-wing populism in Turkey and the west. She was awarded the Human Rights Association of Turkey's Ayşe Zarakolu Freedom of Thought Award in 2008.

Books: Ece Temelkuran - How to Lose a Country: The 7 steps from Democracy to Dictatorship / Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns - Tweets from Tahrir / Elias Canetti - Crowds and Power

You can read more of Ece's work on her website: https://ecetemelkuran.com

Novara Audio: Radio for a Different Politics

#ACFM Microdose: Ece Temelkuran on Crowds

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#100 Corbyn, Labour, and the EHRC report w/ Barnaby Raine

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