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EPISODE 16
Les Grands Transparents
ORIGINAL SERIES
EPISODE 15
Original Airdate from No Bounds Radio 14 Dec 2022
Episode Fifteen: The calendar year winds down with whispers across the cities, winds over the globe, a spread of tarot cards, an untitled radio transmission, and a burst of new Xmas rituals. We wind down to the darkest day of the year.
Music:
Karta Tik: Eleni Poulou
Aeriality: Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Tarot: Moor Mother (feat. Yatta & Dudu Kouate)
Untitled Radio (futile, fertile): Lia Kohl
New Christmas Rituals, Coventry Carol, O Come O Come Emmanuel: Laura Cannell & André Bosman
EPISODE 14
Original Airdate 8 Nov 2022
Episode Fourteen: The story of Ivy in words and music. Ivy Jervis is a worried young wife – worried mostly because she and her husband have run through all of the money she married him for. Her would-be lover comes from a well-established family, but has no money. There’s a tycoon on the horizon, but how to get rid of her problems? The film based on Marie Belloc Lowndes’ novel was supposed to feature a Hoagy Carmichael song, but things came out a bit differently. After murder and poison, we recover with ethereal music from Aleksandra Ionowa.
Texts:
Ivy (1947) Joan Fontaine. Dir. Sam Wood.
The Story of Ivy (1927) Marie Belloc Lowndes
Music:
‘Ivy’ – Jo Stafford with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
‘Ivy’ – Dick Haymes with Gordon Jenkins & his Orchestra
Music from the film Ivy – Daniele Amfitheatrof
Improvisations on the Grand Piano – Aleksandra Ionowa
EPISODE THIRTEEN
Original Airdate 7 Oct 2022
Episode Thirteen: Surreal Aural Collage – come with me on a journey through space and time, from a rainy porch in Hudson NY to a farm in the wilds of upstate NY to London, Newcastle and Dundee, as well as Japan. There may even be a story or two recorded live and occasional bouts of theremin.
EPISODE TWELVE
Original Audio 14 Sep 2022
Episode Twelve: Loving Highsmith – inspired by watching the film directed by Eva Vitija I decided to read out a random assortment of diary and journal entries from the recently published collection, playing some equally random soundscapes on my Orba between entries. It’s a huge tome and I didn’t get far, but it helps to follow the always up and down path of a creative person.
Audio:
Organza Ray: Flimmer
Organza Ray: Blue Butterfly
NoHe NoShe: Healing Music
Texts:
Loving Highsmith: directed by Eva Vitija (2022)
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks Ed. Anna von Planta (2021)
EPISODE ELEVEN
Original Audio 19 Aug 2022
Episode Eleven: The Three Faces of Letty Lynton. We take a look at the three different versions of the story Letty Lynton: the pre-code Hollywood film starring Joan Crawford and the internationally famous gown; the 1931 novel that inspired it; and the true crime basis of the story.
Audio:
All tracks from Strega Musica released 2022 by Make Noise
Caterina Barbieri - Verge of Extinction
Hiro Kone - Long Exposure
Julianna Barwick - Fly
Kali Malone - Fast Goodbye
Marta Salogni - Tremate, Tremate (abbreviated sample)
Texts:
Letty Lynton (MGM film) 1932
Letty Lynton – Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1931
Noted Murder Mysteries – Philip Curtin (Marie Belloc Lowndes) 1914
EPISODE TEN
Original Audio 17 May 2022
Episode Ten: Deep Listening from the 21st century back to the 14th—immersive sound to stop time and feed your ears
Audio:
Pauline Oliveros: Big Slow Bog (Mills Tape Center 1966-7)
Olga Wojciechowska: Labyrinth Made of Labyrinths
Laura Cannell: Unlocking Rituals 1) In a Falling Shadow 2) Locked in My Bones 3) Lay Down by the Golden Reeds 4) Through Barley Fields and Hollows
EPISODE NINE
Original Audio 22 Apr 2022
Episode Nine: Wearing My Last Skin: A dissection of Leonora Carrington’s ‘My Mother is a Cow’ as featured in last year’s ISSS Surrealisms world-wide conference. The story covers magic, myth, ritual, sacrifice and dancing. Because of course it does.
Audio:
Moor Mother: ‘Act 1- Working Machine’ from Circuit City
C. Lavender: ‘Transient Seclusion’
Texts:
Interview with Leonora Carrington and Joanna Moorhead
Leonora Carrington: Complete Short Stories
K. A. Laity: ‘Wearing My Last Skin’ (essay)
EPISODE EIGHT
Original Audio 22 Mar 2022
Episode Eight: Musings on adaptation. Visit from a friend. Longform Editions showcase of complex soundscapes [wear your headphones!]
Audio:
Maggi Payne: Through Space and Time
ulla straus: Hope Sonata
Gavilán Rayna Russom: Trans Feminist Symphonic Music
Texts:
Leave Her to Heaven (1944) novel by Ben Ames Williams
Leave Her to Heaven (1945) American film
Deep Water (1957) novel by Patricia Highsmith
Eaux profondes (1981) French film
Tiefe Wasser (1983) German television mini-series
Deep Water (2022) American film
EPISODE SEVEN
Original Audio 3 Mar 2022
Episode Seven: In the States it’s Black History Month so this episode shares a variety of Black women and centers on Paris, of course the city at the centre of Surrealism, but also with a long history drawing people of colour for art, music and more. Neo-noir comes in the shape of the novels of Charlotte Carter reflecting both her love of music and the City of Lights.
Audio:
Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda: Journey to Satchidananda
Lakeshia Benjamin: Walk with Me (featuring Regina Carter)
Pamela Z: Unknown Person (from Baggage Allowance); Typewriter
Texts:
Charlotte Carter: Coq au Vin
Wendy Grossman: Unmaking Adrienne Fidelin, M/m
EPISODE SIX
Original Audio 23 Dec 21
Episode Six: In the darkest days of the year we tend to hide; with good reason – who knows what might lurk in the dark. Even if it’s only a couple of teenage girls…but wait. Why are their hands so bloody? This episode explores the fact, fiction, and surreal art of a notorious crime.
Audio:
Kate Bush: Snowflake
Laura Canell & Kate Ellis: Fare Thee Well Together
Avi C. Engel: Birdheaded Queen
Joan Armatrading: Something in the Air Tonight
Texts:
Vin Packer (AKA Marijane Meaker): The Evil Friendship (1958)
Peter Graham: So Brilliantly Clever (2011)
Joanne Drayton: The Search for Anne Perry (2012)
Julie Glamuzina: Parker-Hulme: A Lesbian View (1991)
Michelanne Forster: Daughters of Heaven (1991)
The murals: https://parkerhulme.wordpress.com/2016/09/04/the-murals/
EPISODE FIVE
Original Audio 24 Nov 21
Episode Five: Noirvember musings include stalkers, loneliness, travel and cows. Well, one cow anyway. This month noir fans watch the whole range of films that fall under that capacious umbrella, often including neo-noir along with the traditional black and white films from the 40s and 50s.
*Content cautions for mental illness, self-harm and suicide*
Audio:
Clips from The Cry of the Owl (2009)
Wendy Rule: Underworld Queen
Inanna: Diagba
Björk: Loss
Combustible Edison: Cry Me A River
Victoria Squid: Love is a Grift
Texts:
Leonora Carrington: ‘My Mother is a Cow’ The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington, 2017.
Patricia Highsmith: The Cry of the Owl, 1962
EPISODE FOUR
Original Audio 20 Oct 21
Episode Four: Horror – This episode takes as its text Dorothy B. Hughes’ desert noir classic Ride the Pink Horse. A gangster follows a man from Chicago to a small town in New Mexico, seeking revenge. He finds another world in the midst of a distinctly folk horror style festival: the burning of Zozobra. The surreal angle comes from Dorothea Tanning’s Between Lives, a singular sort of memoir. Oddly enough, she has her own encounter with a Chicago gangster.
Audio:
Muistatko Monrepos’n – Annikki Tähti and Marko Haavisto & Poutahaukat
I Wake Up Alone – Amy Winehouse
Barabara Strozzi’s L’amante segreto: Voglio, voglio morire – Catherine Bott
Me & Dorothy Parker – The Flash Girls
Lonely Cowgirl – Sylvie Simmons
Happy Phantom (Live) – Tori Amos
Texts:
Ride the Pink Horse – Dorothy B. Hughes
Between Lives – Dorothea Tanning
EPISODE THREE
Original Audio 22 Sep 21
Episode Three: Traveling – Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith introduces the concept of criss-cross for the perfect murder. As these things always go, it’s not so perfect after all. Highsmith is seldom interested in ‘whodunit’ and instead follows up on what happens next. Traveling has its perils, but also its rewards. Alice Rahon began as a poet but the shock of seeing ancient cave paintings awoke a desire to take up the brush and wander the world.
Audio:
Healing Music: Nohe Noshe (single)
Ashes in the Wind: Rachel Portman, Chocolat Soundtrack
Kyla Vuotti Uutta Kuuta: Värttinä, Seleniko
Mangrove Forest: Kayla Painter, Somewhen
Language is an Ocean: Bishi (single)
Oya’s Song: Ubaka Hill, Shapeshifters
Texts:
Strangers on a Train: Patricia Highsmith, 1950
Exhibition Catalogue, Willard Gallery: Alice Rahon, 1951
‘I File the Bars’, The House of Thirst 2: Alice Rahon, translated by Anna Kisby, 2018
Chocolat: Joanne Harris, 1999
EPISODE TWO
Original Audio 25 Aug 21
Episode Two: Surreal portraiture—-Muse or artist? Can you fall in love with a picture? Can you fall in love with someone from a picture? What about self-portrait? How do you conjure the image of yourself? How much do you reveal? How much do you hide? The image of women in much of recorded history has so often been through the male gaze, defining women according to what value they were to him. How do women see/draw/paint/write themselves and for whom?
Audio:
Old Boyfriends: Crystal Gale, One from the Heart
I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend: Petty Booka, Let’s Talk Dirty in Hawaiian
Trouble in Mind: Odetta, Best of
Fear Not: Ulla Suokko, Bridge of Light
Vallåtar från Gammelboning (Herding Calls from Gammelboning, Sweden): Susanne Rosenberg, Wizard Women of the North
Manaus: Tellu, Wizard Women of the North
Sunny Side Down: Lys Guillorn, Sunny Side Down EP
Texts:
Laura: Vera Caspary
Surrealist Women’s Writing: A Critical Exploration: ed. Anna Watz
Leonor Fini Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings: eds. Richard Overstreet & Neil Zukerman
Shirley: Charlotte Brontë
EPISODE ONE
Original Audio 19 Jul 21
Episode One: An introduction to the dark places where the noir and the surreal intersect and the shadows that grow there:
Audio:
Clips from In A Lonely Place (1950)
Pauline Oliveros: The Last Time/La Ultima Vez from Ghostdance (1998)
Various Artists: Musica Sveciae tracks 2,3,4,5,7 and 9 (1991)
Laura Cannell & Rhodri Davies: The Glimmering from Feathered Swing of the Raven (2012)
Sarah Angliss: Raven (Memory) from Air Loom (2019)
Kassia Flux: The Song for After from Ergot in the Wine (2019)
Texts:
Leonora Carrington: Down Below (1983)
Pauline Oliveros: Deep Listening (2005)
Dorothy B. Hughes: In a Lonely Place (1947)
Remedios Varo: Letters, Dreams & Other Writings (translated by Margaret Carson 2018)