part 2 of this just now was very interesting. the series looks at connections between art colleges and pop music and is presented by Jarvis Cocker.
there was a substantial interview with John Foxx, who talked about how in the late 60s he designed an ultra-minimal electronic slideshow/soundtrack performance for a 'happening' at Bolton College of Art; this pissed off all the hippies who expected some 'radical' ie. safe psychedelic-style oil and colours thing, and provoked an extreme reaction. he says it taught him "how to subvert a conservative orthodoxy that imagined it was revolutionary".
John Wozencroft of Touch was also interviewed at the Royal College of Art about academic developments in studying sound, and there was a short clip of a Dubstep style track which sounded great but i don't know what it was.
in true BBC tradition you can 'listen again' here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/artofpop/
there was a substantial interview with John Foxx, who talked about how in the late 60s he designed an ultra-minimal electronic slideshow/soundtrack performance for a 'happening' at Bolton College of Art; this pissed off all the hippies who expected some 'radical' ie. safe psychedelic-style oil and colours thing, and provoked an extreme reaction. he says it taught him "how to subvert a conservative orthodoxy that imagined it was revolutionary".
John Wozencroft of Touch was also interviewed at the Royal College of Art about academic developments in studying sound, and there was a short clip of a Dubstep style track which sounded great but i don't know what it was.
in true BBC tradition you can 'listen again' here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/artofpop/
