Slade Transmissions Podcast | The Slade Occupation
Listen here to the ongoing series of radio programs made by The Slade Occupation for Resonance 104.4fm. The program is a platform for people’s audio artworks, music, current affairs features, talking, readings and other miscellaneous sounds, and represents a weekly aural glimpse into the inner workings of the school. The program is broadcast every Tuesday afternoon at 5.00pm and also streamed online. Listen live online at the Resonance 104.4fm website. Click on the play icons below for a download option.
June
Claire and Tom set off to talk on the phone. Alan misses his fishes. People are told to get out of Wimbledon. The show is then massively hijacked by Tom’s trip to Croydon. Wind. Vibrant. Damp Coconuts.
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This Tuesday at 5 o’clock is cheese o’clock: A cheesy study into cheesy music with Dante Rendle Traynor.
May
Vanessa Visual and Virginia Verbal take you on an ekphrastic tour of Charleston House in East Sussex where Vanessa and Clive Bell and Duncan Grant lived and worked.
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In a follow-up to the 22nd of March program, Ellen Kim and Will Saunders discuss issues surrounding art school admissions policies, fees, and seminars.
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What do you get when you mix Howlin’ Wolf, Tom Rees, Dante Rendle Traynor, Nick Hart, music, politics, Arthur Prior, Dantella, writing, Ambar Sethi, laughter, Will Saunders, and backwards? This.
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Helen C Benigson Aka Princess Belsize Dollar and special guest Mosie talk about love, music and everything in between.
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Will Saunders and Dante Rendle Traynor discuss the practice of ‘gibberish’.
April
Bill McCool presents tracks from his ‘Concentrated’ collection. Produced by Will Saunders
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slade transmissions tom clark and claire boyd SPICY EYEBALLS dante sudocrem elephants funny irony sincerity idiotic downright cheeky jingle.. (Part 2)
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slade transmissions tom clark and claire boyd SPICY EYEBALLS dante sudocrem elephants funny irony sincerity idiotic downright cheeky jingle.. (Part 1)
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A bunged up Ian Chan breathes for half an hour.
March
Lecture/performance given by artist Merlin Carpenter at The Slade, with ‘interventions’ by students at the school.
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Short stories, skits, rants, laments and jingles. With coverage from the UCL occupation of the registry and the UCU strike. Written, read and produced by Nina Prader, Tom Rees, Ambar Sethi, Harriet Poznansky, Arthur Prior, Zou Zhoa, Michael Lewis and an anonymous caller.
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Helen C Benigson Aka Princess Belsize Dollar presents a program on love, life and everything in between and plays some of her favourite music.
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Aaron Angell presents: ‘Unknown artists, unknown tracks’.
February
Will Saunders reads his controversial ‘Thoughts on Art School’, followed by an absurdist Resonance FM studio improvisation by Slade students. Produced by Dante Rendle Traynor.
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Special feature on the ‘Platform 1’ event held at The Bloomsbury Theatre on the 2nd/3rd of February. Featuring work by Ellen Kim, Tom Clark, Lily Hawkes, Sophie Rose Askwith, Tom Rees and Jennifer Martin, along with “technical commentary” featuring Eve, Steve and Andreas. Produced by Dante Rendle Traynor and Tom Clark.
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Coverage of the ‘Arts Against Cuts’ British Museum teach in and work made by and given to Slade students. With Simon Werner, Gamaliel Rendle Traynor’s quartet, Claire Boyd, Dante Rendle Traynor, The Voolas, Tom Rees and The Golden Boys. Produced by Dante Rendle Traynor.
January
Coverage of the continuing student demonstrations in the new year and work made by and given to Slade students. With ‘Ben’, Simon Werner, The Versatile Dreamers, eccentric performer Hugh Hughes, The Golden Boys, Laura Cooper, Tom Rees, Dante Rendle Traynor and Gamaliel Rendle Traynor. Produced by Dante Rendle Traynor.
December
Recorded and produced inside the Slade occupation.
Coverage of the Slade occupation, the student demonstrations and work made by Slade staff and students inside the occupation. With Gary Woodley, Lauren Godfrey, Claire Boyd, RCA Students, Dante Rendle Traynor, Sharon Morris, Aaron Angell and Sophie Rose Askwith. Also featuring The Slade School re-performing Slade’s 1973 festive hit ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’. Produced by Dante Rendle Traynor.
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Recorded and produced inside the Slade occupation.
Intimate coverage of the Slade School Of Fine Art going into occupation and the student movement behind it. With Tom Clark, Sophie Lee, Mark MacGowan, Aaron Angell, Alex Springer, Dante Rendle Traynor and Tom Rees. Produced by Dante Rendle Traynor.
Soho Calls | Laura Cooper
Soho Calls (5.15)
The name “Soho” derives from an old English hunting call, an adaption of ‘Seeho’ which in old hunting lingo means ‘seen a hare’. In Soho calls, six female performers re-enact a hunt, communicating with their voices alone and the non-linguistic sounds of ancient hunting calls. A sound arrangement develops in the public space of Soho, specifically up and around Rupert St, which leads to Berwick street and market. The hunting calls are juxtaposed with the pre-existing urban sound environment and creating an alternative kind of hunting ritual.
Laura is in the postgraduate media department at the Slade.
Merry Xmas Everybody! | The Slade Occupation
Staff and students during the Slade Occupation perform a version of Slade’s 1973 festive hit, ‘Merry Xmas Everybody!’
Click on the play button below to download the track:
Merry Xmas Everybody! (3:46)
With the permission and encouragement of Noddy Holder and management.
Experiment for a Monument | Holly Slingsby
The work is called Experiment for a Monument and is was made for FEM 10 festival in Girona, Spain, 2010.
All images by Gresol / Ana Rita Rodrigues.
“I walk the length of the street folding sheets of A4 into paper aeroplanes. I hold them up to the sky, but instead of throwing them, let them fall to the pavement.”
Duration: ten minutes.
Holly graduated from the Slade MFA in 2010, Degree Show website.
For further information and work see http://www.hollyslingsby.com/
Historical Speech | Junko Otake
Martin Luther King 28.08.1963 (Extract)
Adolf Hitler 1934 (Extract)
Hirohito (Emperor Showa) 15.08.1945 (Extract)
Mahatma Gandhi 17.10.1931 (Extract)
Diana Frances Spencer 09.08.1993
Mixed Media / Sound Installation
2009
Bridge String Melon | Melis van den Berg
Bridge, String, Melon
watermelon, string, bridge, valley
Site-specific installation: Watermelon suspended on a string from a road bridge near Rethymnon, Crete.
The traffic on the road over the bridge, and the wind blowing through the valley made the string vibrate and sing.
This work was made whilst on the Slade Utopia Residency in Crete.
E75 road bridge and valley, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, July 2009
Melis graduated from the Slade MFA in 2009. Degree Show website.
For further information and work see http://www.melisvandenberg.com/.
It Was Gravity Which Pulled Us Down | Holly Slingsbury
It Was Gravity Which Pulled Us Down – performance documentation from Holly Slingsby on Vimeo.
‘It Was Gravity Which Pulled Us Down’ was a performance made especially for Christ Church Spitalfields in 2009. The work juxtaposes live and videoed action. The live performance consisted of gestures of lifting deflated balloons. This was contradicted by the videoed gesture seen with it, of dropping a handful of ash. The naively hopeful act of lifting the balloons – as if they might float again – is in direct disagreement with the melancholy release of the ash.
Holly is a currently completing her MFA in Media, look out for her degree show this summer.
The Voice and Nothing More | Sam Belinfante and Neil Luck
The Voice and Nothing More, January 2009, was a week-long festival exploring the voice as both medium and subject matter in contemporary arts practices. Both established and emerging artists worked with leading vocal performers and composers in an exploration of the voice outside language.
Invited performers included Mikhail Karikis, Lore Lixembourg and Juice, as well as a specially formed large-scale vocal ensemble.
Performers, working with the artists and resident composer Claudia Molitor created new score-objects that culminated in a series of new performances. Artists included Martin Creed, Cornelia Parker, Estelle Thompson and Bruce Mclean.
Video: Kathryn Faulkner and Robin Sewell
Editing: Sam Belinfante
Curated by Sam Belinfante and Neil Luck.
For more information, images and press please go to the Voice and Nothing More website.
Cheek to Cheek (A Family Portrait) | Allison Maletz
I had each of my six family members (and myself) sing Irving Berlin’s song “Cheek To Cheek,” from the 1935 film Top Hat. I recorded each of us separately singing the song to completion at our own paces. Then I overlapped the seven tracks so that we are all singing it together, as a family unit, made up of individuals. It perfectly demonstrates the push and pull affect I am trying to create within my art, of the subjects being so happy together that they are in heavenly bliss, while at the same time there is something unbearably uncomfortable, out of sync, and wrong. The installation of this sound work exists within a domestic setting, and all of the tracks are played simultaneously out of one Gramophone horn.
Allison graduated from the Slade MFA in 2009. Degree Show website.
For further information and work see allisonmaletz.com.
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