Blog : Audiopollen

Audiopollen broadcasts on 4ZZZ 102.1FM in  Brisbane Australia every Wednesday night at 11pm.  We play Noise,  Esoterica, Outsider POP, Psych, Sound Art, Babble, Minimalism, Volk, Heavy Shit,  Shambles, and much more. Playlists are posted regularly to the half/theory blog.  Feel free to cut, paste  and mail it around. Your hosts are Lloyd Barrett and  Joel Stern.

contact us -  skon[at]halftheory[dot]com
send us music  - Audiopollen, c/o 4ZZZ, PO BOX 509, Fortitude Valley, QLD AUSTRALIA,  4006

Audiopollen Social Club is a weekly  off-the-wall, dada improv, noise folk, sound performance social club that  happens here in Brisbane, Ausralia, usually on Sunday's. APSC is helping to  revitalise the Brisbane sub-underground avant-community and also provide  opportunities for habitually reclusive noise artists to socialise themselves in  a non-judgemental environment.

book yourself in -  joel[at]otherfilm[dot]org

Audiopollen playlists August 9th and 16th

hello friends and acquaintances,
audiopollen is a weekly radio program exploring experimental, avant-garde, outsider, noise and other forms of music. it broadcasts in brisbane on 4ZZZ 102.1fm on Wednesdays at 11pm and will eventually stream to the world in one way or another...

these editions of audiopollen were hosted by joel stern and lloyd barrett....

August 9th....

Track 1 of Eugene Carchesio & Leighton Craig - Leaves (naturestrip)
The entirety of Leighton Craig - Organ Notes (cassette, C15 on kindling)
Track 14 of Antony Milton - Guitar Has Strings (black petal cdr)
Oren Ambarchi live on Set ABC

http://www.kindlingrecords.com/

August 16th....

Sue Harding - Dot Matrix - wagga space program
Track 1 of Castings - Allo Hickory (spanish magic cdr)
Middlemarch Hop pt 2 and The Pequed meets the Rachel by... Read more

Added by joel on 22 August 2006

Audiopollen August 2nd 2006

hello friends and acquaintances,
audiopollen is a weekly radio program exploring experimental, avant-garde, outsider, noise and other forms of music. it broadcasts in brisbane on 4ZZZ 102.1fm on Wednesdays at 11pm and will eventually stream to the world in one way or another...

tonights edition of audiopollen is hosted by joel stern.

We start todays program with a track by Brisbane visual and sound artist Eugene Carchesio which comes from the audio CD produced for his exhibition Everything Takes Time / Time Takes Everything held at the Brisbane IMA (10 June 0 22 July 2006). The exhibition consisted of a wall painting, this soundtrack and 'the space between'. Eugene's music for the exhibition consists of beautifully intricate electro-acoustic compositions focussing almost exclusively on rhythm. This minimalistic, microsonic mode of composition overlaps perfectly with Eugene's geometric post op-art style of abstract painting.

We move... Read more

Added by joel on 8 August 2006

Audiopollen July 26th 2006

hello friends and acquaintances,
audiopollen is a weekly radio program exploring experimental, avant-garde, outsider, noise and other forms of music. it broadcasts in brisbane on 4ZZZ 102.1fm and will eventually stream to the world in one way or another...

tonights edition of audiopollen is hosted as per usual by joel stern and lloyd barrett.

We began the show with an incredible new release that has been receiving a lot of critical analysis and review. Many listeners relate the music of Scott Walker to films by Bergman and Tarkovsky rather than other music. Yes, there is something instensly cinematic and literary in his new work.

artist - track - album - label
Scott Walker - Cossacks - The Drift - 4AD

Next we moved on to an incredible piece of 'sound art' by Lebanese artist/musician Mazen Kerbaj.

Mazen is part of the small but impressive Beirut free improvisation scene and has been producing... Read more

Added by joel on 1 August 2006

Audiopollen 19/07/06

Catching up again.  The drought has given way to a plethora of activities in the last few weeks and those coming up - B.I.F.F. and S.O.O.B. being two acronyms worth exploring google-wise!

Ok this show was slanted very much towards individualistic takes on more conventional forms.

The show started with two tracks from Etron Fou LeLoublan (Crazy Shit, The White Wolf) a french band associated with the Rock In Opposition movement figureheaded by Chris Cutler of Henry Cow, Art Bears infamy.

Exposition Universelle and Nicole La Musique both taken from 43 songs - a 3cd compilation of all their studio material.

We then followed up with some NZ avant/noise/skronk/whatever from the City People's Farmer Music.  Sam Hamilton has something to do with this - he is both a very approachable / amicable chap and something of an all-rounder having his fingers in the more trad guitar based experimentalism as well as visual and performance... Read more

Added by skon on 31 July 2006

Audiopollen July 12th 2006 - SYD BARRETT RIP

hello friends and acquaintances,
audiopollen is a weekly radio program exploring experimental, avant-garde, outsider, noise and other forms of music. it broadcasts in brisbane on 4ZZZ 102.1fm and will eventually stream to the world in one way or another...

tonights edition of audiopollen is hosted as per usual by joel stern and lloyd barrett.

we began the show with a lovely new release
artist - track - album - label
cloudland canyon - carolina fox - requiems der natur 2002/2004 - teepee records

we then moved on to the main part of the show...

SYD BARRETT RIP
artist - track
Syd Barrett - Golden Hair
Syd Barrett - Octopus
Syd Barrett - If its in you
Syd Barrett - Love Song
Syd Barrett - Opel
Syd Barrett - Baby Lemonade

In tribute to Syd we then played three other tracks by artists who have either grappled with mental illnesses or... Read more

Added by joel on 23 July 2006

Audiopollen 05/07/06

Slowly catching up on the playlists.

Audiopollen on this night featured Lloyd soloing while Joel was in Melbourne.  This night I played my entire "Mise En Scene" (room40) album just prior to the launch at the Judith Wright Centre.
 
Also played a track entitled "non-reflective orange hens" from the beautifully difficult Joel Stern/Jim Denley "tape and paint game"(splitcdr9).

Finally I worked the interzone between AP and Morphine and Ice Cream with Baka Tatakau "1st", an intriguing new proposition from Joe Musgrove and Daiji Igarashi.  It is completely their own thing but reference points might include Dean Roberts, Boredoms and some of the less anguished Keiji Haino material.

Relevant links are:

www.room40.org
www.newmusicnetwork.com.au/machine/split14.htm
... Read more

Added by skon on 16 July 2006

Audiopollen June 28th 2006 - Liquid Architecture and Wolf Eyes

hello friends and acquaintances,
audiopollen is a weekly radio program exploring experimental, avant-garde, outsider, noise and other forms of music. it broadcasts in brisbane on 4ZZZ 102.1fm and will eventually stream to the world in one way or another...

tonights edition of audiopollen is hosted as per usual by joel stern and lloyd barrett.

A huge program this week covering the Brisbane visit of both detriot-noise-punk wierdos wolf eyes and the national sound art festival liquid architecture 7

we started with a couple of classic wolf eyes tracks:

1. Half Animal, Half Insane from the album Dread...
2. Black Vomit from the album Burned Mind (subpop)...

We moved on to LA7 stuff with our special in studio guests Dean Roberts (NZ), Greg Davis (USA) and Jeff Jerman (USA). All three were very insightful and poetic when discussing their music, and Jeff revealed his love of... Read more

Added by joel on 14 July 2006

Audiopollen June 21st 2006 - THIS HEAT

hello friends and acquaintances,
audiopollen is a weekly radio program exploring experimental, avant-garde, outsider, noise and other forms of music. it broadcasts in brisbane on 4ZZZ 102.1fm and will eventually stream to the world in one way or another...

tonights edition of audiopollen is hosted as per usual by joel stern and lloyd barrett.

We decicated the show this week to fantastic, unique, seminal English punk-art-abstractionists This Heat. RER has just released a mammoth 6cd box set entitled 'Out of Cold Storage' which contains all the official releases by the band plus BBC peel sessions, a live cd and a beautiful 44 page booklet.

The audiopollen selection was as follows

track - disc
PAPER HATS - DECEIT
NOT WAVING - MADE AVAILABLE (John Peel Sessions)
FALL OF SAIGON - MADE AVAILABLE (John Peel Sessions)
HEALTH AND EFFICIENCY - HEALTH AND EFFICIENCY EP
GRAPHIC... Read more

Added by joel on 22 June 2006

Audiopollen June 15th 2006...

hello friends and acquaintances,
audiopollen is a weekly radio program exploring experimental, avant-garde, outsider, noise and other forms of music. it broadcasts in brisbane on 4ZZZ 102.1fm and will eventually stream to the world in one way or another...

tonights edition of audiopollen is hosted as per usual by joel stern and lloyd barrett.

RIP György Ligeti (1923-2006)

In honor of the great Hungarian composer we played two of his most important pieces...

1. Gyorgy Ligeti - Lux Aeterna (1966)
2. Gyorgy Ligeti - Requiem (1963-65)

Both these pieces reached a mass audience when excerpts were used on the soundtrack recording of the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

and

Long Live The Lost Domain (1989ish - ongoing)

In honor of the great Brisbane free-wheeling psych-improvisation ensemble we played two of their most important pieces...

... Read more

Added by joel on 15 June 2006