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It’s my own personal history project stretching back to 2007 – with hundreds of recorded interviews, podcasts and plays. This section of the site is pretty old so don’t expect it to work all the time and ignore it asking for Real Player to be loaded. 

So Listener beware!!! 

Take you pick from a selection of Liverpool audio guides, its musical history, heritage tours, slavery remembrance tours, and Visit England’s official guide.   

The Deep Listening Band – Rain Delay

by | Sep 29, 2008 | Sonic Art | 0 comments

In 1989 The Deep Listening Band (Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis with guests Fritz Hauser and Julie Lyon Balliett) explored the sound properties of the Tarpaper Cave in Rosendale, New York. Rain Delay is from the 1990 CD Troglodyte’s Delight (¿What next?).  

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Music For The Williamson Tunnels: A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water 

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As Brian Eno made music for environments rather than from them (Music For Airports) these CDs are best listened to within the strange damp world of the Williamson Tunnels in Liverpool. The ceilings of these caverns are thin and the sound of dripping water can frequently be heard, but not necessarily seen. It is a sound that has intrigued artists for nigh on a century and this collection brings together historical pieces alongside new compositions from artists who have expanded that first single drip:  Link  

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Eimer Birbeck – Instantanés Vladimir

An exhibition of sound views at the Lost Souls and Stranger Service station from Eimer Birbeck opens on 14th May. Here is a piece from Eimer that she submitted for inclusion on Art in Liverpool FM n Eimer has exhibited at the Cornerhouse in Manchester as part of their...

Eimer Birbeck – Instantanés Vladimir

Eimer Birbeck at Lost souls and stranger service station

27/57 present Daz Disley

Musician & sound-engineer, daz's vst plugins are used throughout this, the first of his looped based contributions - a new piece made up from works previously played on the show. A collusion of neo-conCRET[inism], sampling, manipulation and general chaos. He's...

Mark Jones Bathtub Symphony

Further to yesterdays interview with Mark Jones conducted by Moira Kenny here is the bathtub symphony mentioned in the interview.    Click to listen and for a free download nn 

VOID OV VOID – Drippings Echo

Taken from the Music for the Williamson Tunnels CD  A 9-minute composition by Japanese artists Tetra Tanizaki and RAI from the CD Water in the forest, recorded on the South Japanese island Yakushima for their own Kanata Music label.  nClick to listen and for a free...

Hoor-Paar-Kraat – A Sudden Attack Of Conscience

Taken from the Music for the Williamson Tunnels CD The track, built around the sound of dripping water and chiming bells, was recorded in 2005 in Coral Springs, Florida, by Anthony Mangicapra, Duane Hosein and Jasper Delani, and is a Goat Eater Arts production from...

Jack Behrens – Water Music (John Cage, 1952)

Taken from the Music for the Williamson Tunnels CD   With kind permission from Edition Peters, we are able to include Cage's Water Music  performed by Jack Behrens in 1990 at the Winter Music Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada. Jack lecturers in...

Ben Patterson – Drip Music (George Brecht, 1959)

Taken from the Music for the  Williamson Tunnels CD In researching this project, the question was sent to George Brecht, via the Ludwig Musum, regarding using a version of his 1959 Fluxus score Drip Music as a cornerstone of the Collection. A month or so later came a...

Ben Parry and Tom Rae Smith – The Last Drop At The Edge Of The World

Taken from the Music for the Williamson Tunnels CD  nThe river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall and at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere, and that the present only exists for it,...

27/57 present Badly Worn Toy

Mr Badly Worn is a Sound Engineer, Musician, Experimentalist and a fully paid-up member of the Frying Pan Collective : ambient recordings & noises are sampled, and heavily processing then often deleted, so expect the sounds of various recording technologies being...