Thursday, 3 February 2022

Sat 5 Feb - Lap Steel, Country Music and Live Coding


History of lap steel and country music plus live coding experiments from the TOPLAP community in Barcelona.


https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-news-agents-5-february-2022-lap-steel-country-live-coding/





Sat 29 Jan - Nadia al Faghih Hasan & Tidal Cycles


Nadia al Faghih Hasan on drumming circles, African music in London and her band and collaborative projects including Kan Beng. Also more international live coding music created using Tidal Cycles.

https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-news-agents-29-january-2022-nadia-al-faghih-hasan-tidal-cycles/

Sat 22 Jan - Indonesian Pop Nostalgia and Tidal Cycles

Nostalgic Indonesian music looking at the 1960s and 1970s, folk country and romantic songs. Plus, in advance of a special residency with Creative Coding Utrecht and iii (Den Haag) exploring coding in Tidal Cycles, unpicking a couple of basic functions and theory and featuring extracts of live coded music. 


Monday, 10 January 2022

Sat 15 Jan - Sovietwave and Live Coding

Exploring the retrofuturistic world of synthwave from former Soviet Union countries and looking at live coding including fragments of new compositions created using Tidal Wave and Sonic Pi.

Saturday, 1 January 2022

Sat 8 Jan - Live Coding in Artistic Expression

Live coding in music and arts culture Looking at how software such as Tidal Cycles, Supercollider functions in sound art and visual effects created ‘on the fly’ in a computer browser for example Hydra created by Olivia Jack.

Saturday, 25 December 2021

Sat 25 Dec - Christmas Special - Vintage Organs and Soviet-Era Animation

Festive film treats – playing extracts from scores for Soviet era animation, many featuring vintage organs. Frost, detectives, creation myths and colourful foley.

https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-news-agents-christmas-special-2021-vintage-organs-soviet-animation/

Saturday, 18 December 2021

Sat 18 Dec - Conny Prantera - The Seer



Conny Prantera discusses her collaborative work with 'The Seer', philosophies of creation, Cassandra, women and prophesy, plus sounds with Nicola Serra (Dronica). Reports from the Hammond studio at Hastings and new tracks from Montague Armstrong.

https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-news-agents-18-december-2021-conny-prantera-the-seer/