Tag: William S. Burroughs
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Bruce Haack and his sampling electronic suitcase
Long time listeners and readers of this blog would know my eternal love for Bruce Haack – the electronic genius who sadly still doesn’t get the love he deserves. I’ve seen other clips from his stints on US TV – in fact I think I have posted them with his ‘touch synthesizer’ including Mr Rogers…
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out – cut-ups
Cutting Up The Cut-Up is a great documentary from BBC Radio 4 featuring many artists featured regularly on Radio Clash over the years – Cassetteboy, Vicki People Like Us, DJ Food and Matt Black from Coldcut. Even a shout-out to Negativland! It goes way back into the roots of the audio cutup, to Brion Gysin,…
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Transmitting on Pirate Satellite! No really, Network 21, Pirate TV circa 1986
Something I missed probably because I was either in deepest Shropshire or deepest Surrey…but the only ever London pirate tv station Network21 transmitted in 1986 just under ITV for a year in 1986…and the program was arts based and they lobbied (unsuccessfully, although nighttime TV and cable/satellite probably answered some of those needs) for community…