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Series 2 of Suite (212) on Resonance 104.4fm, broadcast between September 2018 and July 2019. Hosted by Juliet Jacques, Tom Overton and Lara Alonso Corona.

Series 2 (2018-2019)

David Bowie - 'Starman' - SINGLE VOCAL ONLY - AMAZING

David Bowie feat Iggy Pop - The Passenger

More: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/07/16/david-bowie-vocal-track-ziggy-stardust/

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David Bowie's isolated vocal track for "Ziggy Stardust"

Gambari and Olugbenga - Wade In The Water (Produced by Olugbenga w/ backing vocals from Brian Eno and Damon Albarn)
From Record Store Day deluxe edition of 'Maison Des Jeunes'
Release Date: 19/04/14

Pre-order CD edition (released April 21st) : http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/81652

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Wade In The Water (BVs Brian Eno, Damon Albarn)

YouTube user Camilla Brando isolated Freddie Mercury and David Bowie's vocals from Queen's "Under Pressure." While this was really cool of her, the audio was balanced completely on the left side! I grabbed the track and did a VERY quick stereo mix in Audacity, so both ears can enjoy. :) 

Original credit to Camilla Brando: https://youtu.be/1PbHXMJJ-dY

Original ORIGINAL credit to, of course, Mercury/Bowie. RIP, you magnificent weirdos.

Freddie Mercury & David Bowie — "Under Pressure" a capella

Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi (b. 1956) has been documenting the Israel/Palestine conflict, and other issues in Israeli politics, since 1989. He has since made eight award-winning feature films and a number of shorts that forensically examine his home country's character and behaviour, and experiment with the documentary form. Juliet speaks to Mograbi about his life in cinema: how and why he chose film as his primary medium; how video and digital technology changed his practice; the logistics of getting his work funded and shown; and more.

WORKS REFERENCED
Most of Avi Mograbi's films are available via his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCYhnbhUeQTcysINT958qTA

Avi Mograbi filmography: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0595783/

AUGUSTO BOAL, Theatre of the Oppressed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed
Forensic Architecture: https://www.forensic-architecture.org/
Eyal Weizman: https://www.gold.ac.uk/visual-cultures/w-eizman/

Avi Mograbi: Making films in the Middle East

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was one of the last surviving members of the Surrealist movement, and one of the most singular figures in English modernism. A writer, painter and sculptor, who moved from an English country house to Mexico City, via Paris and New York, Carrington’s life spanned incredible political changes and numerous cultural movements, yet her interests and style remained consistent across the different fields in which she worked.

This week, Juliet talks to Mexican novelist and critic Chloe Aridjis about her personal and creative relationship with Carrington, as well as Carrington’s life and work, and its influence on Josh Appignanesi’s new film Female Human Animal, in which Chloe and Juliet both appear.

WORKS REFERENCED

WORKS BY LEONORA CARRINGTON
The Debutante and Other Stories (2017) - https://www.silverpress.org/the-debutante-and-other-stories/
Down Below (1943) - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-strange-irreverent-worlds-of-down-below-and-the-complete-stories-of-leonora-carrington/
The Hearing Trumpet (1974) - https://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2016/07/20/surreal-old-people-leonora-carringtons-the-hearing-trumpet/

Tate Liverpool exhibition (2015)

CHLOE ARIDJIS, Book of Clouds (2009), Asunder (2013) and Sea Monsters (2019) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloe_Aridjis
Homero Aridjis - https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=13
André Breton
Claude Cahun
Robert Capa - https://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/the-mexican-suitcase-a-fascinating-chapter-in-the-history-of-photography/
LEWIS CARROLL, Jabberwocky (1871)
Ithell Colquhoun - http://www.ithellcolquhoun.co.uk/
Salvador Dalí
HUGH SYKES DAVIES, Petron (1935) - http://jacketmagazine.com/20/hsd-watson.html
Toni Del Renzio - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jan/18/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (dir. Peter Greenaway, 2015)
Max Ernst, ‘Two Children Menaced by Nightingale’
Female Human Animal (dir. Josh Appignanesi, 2018) - http://film.britishcouncil.org/female-human-animal
DAVID GASCOYNE, Man’s Life is This Meat (1936) - http://www.bookride.com/2012/08/mans-life-is-this-meat.html
DAVID GASCOYNE, A Short Survey of Surrealism (1935) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/dec/02/poetry
Ernő Goldfinger
Peggy Guggenheim
ALDOUS HUXLEY, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
International Surrealist Exhibition (Burlington Galleries, 1936)
Edward James - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04y9gsw
Humphrey Jennings & Charles Madge - http://jacketmagazine.com/20/meng-jen-madg.html
The Kabala
Frida Kahlo
Edward Lear
E.L.T. Mesens - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/e-l-t-mesens-1624
Violette Nozières - http://unrealisedfutures.tumblr.com/post/162742317295/e-l-t-mesens-violette-nozieres
Octavio Paz
Benjamin Péret - https://www.atlaspress.co.uk/index.cgi?action=view_backlist&number=2
Beatrix Potter
Gisèle Prassinos - https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/43480/gis%C3%A8le-prassinos-reading-her-poems-surrealists
¡Que Viva México! (dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 1932)
HERBERT READ, Surrealism (1936)
Diego Rivera
Mary Shelley
Dylan Thomas
Marina Warner - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/06/leonora-carrington-from-high-society-to-surrealism-in-praise-of-100-years-on
Imre Weisz

A Mexican Fairy Tale: The life and work of Leonora Carrington

How does capitalism hijack the idea of creativity for profit? Why does it encourage us to be 'creative' in every move we make? Does this make the very concept of 'creativity' meaningless, or can it be reclaimed?

This week, Tom Overton talks to Oli Mould about his new book 'Against Creativity' (Verso, 2018 - https://www.versobooks.com/books/2852-against-creativity).  They discuss how neoliberalism and particularly the New Labour project have used the concept, how it has fed into gentrification, its relationship with Silicon Valley and its 'algocracy', and with the social and bio-medical models of disability.

OLI MOULD, Urban Subversion and the Creative City - https://tacity.co.uk/books/urbansubversion/

THEODOR W. ADORNO & MAX HORKHEIMER - Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/frankfurt-school-dialectic-of-enlightenment
LEWIS CARROLL, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Class War and the Cereal Killers café - https://infinitelyfullofhope.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/a-note-on-the-cereal-cafe-getting-attacked/
Jack Coulter (painter) - https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/art-2/meet-artist-turning-synesthesia-art/
Chris Downey (architect) - http://www.arch4blind.com/
Tracey Emin
RICHARD FLORIDA, The Rise of the Creative Class (2002) - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/oct/26/gentrification-richard-florida-interview-creative-class-new-urban-crisis
Noel Gallagher
ADAM GRANT, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (2016) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/16/originals-adam-grant-end-of-average-todd-rose-review
ARTHUR KOESTLER, The Act of Creation (1964) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Act_of_Creation
MARCEL MAUSS, The Gift (1925) - https://libcom.org/files/Mauss%20-%20The%20Gift.pdf
Space Hijackers - http://www.culturalhijack.org/index.php/participating-artists/88-space-hijackers
The Spice Girls

Against Creativity: An interview with Oli Mould

John Calder (1927-2018) was a giant of 20th century literary publishing, and a champion of free speech. Best known for publishing Samuel Beckett's novels and poetry, he brought much of the most innovative European literature of the 20th century to an English-speaking audience, ultimately won a landmark obscenity trial over Hubert Selby Jr's 'Last Exit to Brooklyn' and has inspired several generations of exciting writers and publishers.

Joining Juliet to discuss Calder's life and legacy is Alex Kovacs, author of 'The Currency of Paper' (2013), who worked in Calder's bookshop in London in 2008-10.

Alessandro Gallenzi's obituary for John Calder: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/21/john-calder-obituary
Huw Nesbitt's interview with John Calder (2008) - https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/nndv5k/john-calder-443-v15n12

SELECTED REFERENCES

HENRI ALLEG, La Question (1958) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Question
Lord Altrincham - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Grigg,_2nd_Baron_Altrincham
Fernando Arrabal - http://www.arrabal.org/
ANTONIN ARTAUD, Collected Works (vols. I-IV)
Howard Barker
AUBREY BEARDSLEY, Under the Hill - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Hill
SAMUEL BECKETT, The Unnameable (1953) and Waiting for Godot (1953)
William S. Burroughs
Steven Berkoff
Peter Brook
JOHN CALDER, The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett (2001) and The Theology of Samuel Beckett (2012)
JOHN CALDER, Pursuit (2001) - https://almabooks.com/product/pursuit-memoirs-john-calder/
Henri Chopin - https://www.richardsaltoun.com/artists/35-henri-chopin/overview/
COPI, Eva Perón (1970) - https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/music-and-performance/2012/04/parodying-eva-perón
Ashley Dukes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Dukes
Marguerite Duras
JEAN GENET, The Maids (1947)
Allen Ginsberg
John Glassco
The Godot Company - https://actors.mandy.com/uk/company/18184/the-godot-company
Grove Press
OWEN HATHERLEY, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (2010)
RAYNER HEPPENSTALL, The Woodshed (1962) and Raymond Roussel: A Critical Guide (1966)
ALGER HISS, In the Court of Public Opinion (1957) - https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1957/5/17/hiss-defends-position-in-public-opinion/
I Shot Andy Warhol (dir. Mary Harron, 1996)
Eugène Ionesco
B. S. Johnson
GEORG KAISER, From Morning to Midnight (1912/16) - https://www.cineaste.com/spring2011/from-morning-to-midnight-web-exclusive/
Anna Kavan
ALEX KOVACS, The Currency of Paper (2013) - https://www.newstatesman.com/books/2013/09/currency-paper-alex-kovacs-how-capitalism-affects-art
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, The Bathhouse (1930)
HENRY MILLER, Sexus (1949) and Tropic of Cancer (1934)
EDDIE MILNE, No Shining Armour (1976) - https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj/1976/no093/rees.htm
Carole Morin
Olympia Press (Maurice Girodias) - https://bookblast.com/blog/spotlight-maurice-girodias-olympia-press-indie-publishers-remembered/
Peter Owen (publisher)
Luigi Pirandello
ANN QUIN, Berg (1964) and (1969) - http://thequietus.com/articles/24056-ann-quin-lara-pawson-stewart-home-juliette-jacques-lee-rourke-isabel-waidner
ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET, Jealousy (1957) - http://conversationalreading.com/alain-robbe-grillet-and-jealousy/
Raymond Roussel
Nathalie Sarraute
Jean-Paul Sartre
HUBERT SELBY JR, Last Exit to Brooklyn (1966) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/01/last-exit-to-brooklyn-hubert-selby-appeal-1968
Yulian Semyonov - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulian_Semyonov
Claude Simon
T. Dan Smith - https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/stories-shocked-tyneside-high-rise-7236347
Roland Topor
Alexander Trocchi
TRISTAN TZARA, Seven Dada Manifestos - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80258.Seven_Dada_Manifestos_and_Lampisteries
Kenneth Tynan - https://www.theguardian.com/arts/critic/feature/0,,567652,00.html
Snoo Wilson
Olwen Wymark

Contemporary publishers: And Other Stories; Dalkey Archive Press; Fitzcarraldo Editions; Galley Beggar; Melville House.

John Calder - A Life in Publishing

Despite decades of censorship and neglect, Peter Watkins (http://pwatkins.mnsi.net/) has created a body of work that marks him out as one of the UK’s greatest filmmakers. Born in Surrey in 1935, Watkins began his career pioneering the ‘docu-drama’ in two works for the BBC: historical drama Culloden (1964) about the final battle in the Jacobite rebellion, and The War Game (1965), speculating about a nuclear attack on the UK. The BBC refused to broadcast the latter, and after his feature film Privilege (1968) had a poor commercial and critical reception, Watkins spent the rest of his career in exile.

In his theoretical writing, teaching and filmmaking, Watkins has challenged the ‘monoform’ – a standardisation of Mass Audio-Visual Media that barrages its audience with a rapid flow of changing images and sounds, with the intention of preventing any real contemplation. Joining Juliet to discuss Watkins' work is Gareth Evans, former editor of Vertigo magazine and adjunct Moving Image Curator at Whitechapel Gallery.

Watkins on the monoform and the global media crisis: https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/library/documents/the-dark-side-of-the-moon-the-global-media-crisis/

SELECTED REFERENCES

FILMS BY PETER WATKINS
The Forgotten Faces (1960) - https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-the-forgotten-faces-1961-online
Culloden (1964) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkxW-nB0nNU
The War Game (1965) - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02zy7nt/the-war-game
Privilege (1966) - https://player.bfi.org.uk/rentals/film/watch-privilege-1967-online
The Gladiators (1969) - https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/the-gladiators
Punishment Park (1971) - https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2005/jul/08/4
Edvard Munch (1974) - https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/art-of-the-real-edvard-munch-by-peter-watkins/
The Journey (1987) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsYLt9bSRbw
The Freethinker (1992-94) - http://seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com/2012/01/freethinker.html
La Commune (2000) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ1S18jsyyw

WILLIAM BLAKE, ‘Jerusalem’
Blowup (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
BERTOLT BRECHT, The Days of the Commune (1955) - http://daysofthecommune.com/pages/play.html
A Clockwork Orange (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
GUY DEBORD, ATTILA KOTÁNYI & RAOUL VANEIGEM, ‘Thesis on the Paris Commune’ (1962) – http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/Pariscommune.htm
End of Days (dir. Peter Hyams, 1999)
Future Revolutions: New Perspectives on Peter Watkins (2018) - https://wolfberlin.org/en/wolf-shop/book-new-perspective-on-peter-watkins-future-revolutions
If … (dir. Lindsay Anderson, 1968)
It Happened Here (dir. Kevin Brownlow & Andrew Mollo, 1965) - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/interviews/it-happened-here-kevin-brownlow
Jubilee (dir. Derek Jarman, 1978)
V. I. LENIN, ‘Lessons of the Commune’ (1911) – https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mar/23.htm
The Living Dead (dir. Adam Curtis, 1995) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xoM6-1SWl4
Manfred Mann
KARL MARX, ‘The Civil War in France’ (1871) – https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/index.htm
Ralph Miliband - https://www.marxists.org/archive/miliband/index.htm
The New Babylon (dir. Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyOhcTuFYe0
O Lucky Man! (dir. Lindsay Anderson, 1973)
Stanisław Przybyszewski - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Przybyszewski
Role of a Lifetime (dir. Deimantas Narkevičius, 2003) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69EREtDfYoM
August Strindberg
Threads (dir. Mick Jackson, 1984)
West of the Tracks (dir. Wang Bing, 2002) - https://theartsofslowcinema.com/2017/05/16/west-of-the-tracks-wang-bing-2003/
Who is America? (TV series, 2018)
ÉMILE ZOLA, La Débâcle (1892) - https://readingzola.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/la-debacle-the-downfall/

Peter Watkins: Filmmaking against the global media crisis

Brian Eno's huge back catalogue of work as a solo musician, band member and producer goes back decades, including high-profile work with Roxy Music, Talking Heads, David Bowie, John Cale and many others. He is often credited with inventing ambient music, but this conversation between Juliet and Brian does not talk about the past. Instead, we focused on how Brian has adapted to new music, new technology, and neoliberalism, and what responsibilities artists have to acknowledge and use their cultural capital.

SELECTED REFERENCES

Works by Brian Eno
Discreet Music (1975)
Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)
Spore (2008, video game soundtrack) - https://pitchfork.com/news/30187-brian-eno-makes-interactive-music-for-spore/
The Ship (2016) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn1riJSHhkY
Reflection (2017) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwo-tvmEKhk
Bloom (with Peter Chilvers) - http://www.generativemusic.com/bloom.html

Berlin Horse (dir. Malcolm Le Grice, 1970) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDj8Tc6259o
Gavin Bryars, 'The Sinking of the Titanic' (1975, LP) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oVMRADOq5s
David Byrne & Brian Eno, 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' (1981, LP)
Anna Calvi
Client Earth - https://www.clientearth.org/people/eno-brian/
Richard Dawkins
DiEM25 - https://diem25.org/brian-eno-people-are-rethinking-what-democracy-means
Mark Fisher (k-punk), 'Precarity and Paternalism' - http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/011486.html
Forensic Architecture - https://www.forensic-architecture.org
gal-dem - http://gal-dem.com
PAOLO GERBAUDO, The Digital Party (2019) - https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745335797/the-digital-party/
Stuart Hall
Harmonia & Eno '76 - https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20947-complete-works
Jon Hopkins
Long Now Foundation - http://longnow.org/seminars/02003/nov/14/the-long-now/
Lowly, 'Baglæns' (2018, song) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ydgJenbQA
Henri Matisse
Media Reform Coalition - https://www.mediareform.org.uk/
Tom Rogerson, 'Finding Shore' (2017, LP) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxWMlK31Mpw
Alexei Sayle
Superflux - http://superflux.in
Raymond Williams
Liv Wynter - https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/pamn9v/hero-of-the-week-liv-wynter-who-resigned-as-tate-artist-in-residence

Suite (212) - series 2

An interview with Brian Eno

A 6 minute excerpt of Brian Eno´s and J. Peter Schwalm´s liveremix of Reggie Watts at Punktfestival 2012

Brian Eno and J. Peter Schwalm liveremix of Reggie Watts

Brian Eno's lecture for the "Perspectives '87: Original Vision" symposium at the UCI on November 7, 1987 (Part 2)

Brian Eno - lecture 1987 (Part 2)

Brian Eno's lecture for the "Perspectives '87: Original Vision" symposium at the UCI on November 7, 1987 (Part 1)

Brian Eno - lecture 1987 (Part 1)

Suite (212) is a radio programme, broadcast on Resonance 104.4fm, and podcast that explores the arts in their social, political, cultural and historical contexts, hosted by Juliet Jacques. We take an inter-disciplinary approach, with an emphasis on innovative, underground or avant-garde work. Sometimes, panels discuss cultural politics; sometimes, we focus on a new publication or exhibition, or a specific individual or group whose work we admire.