Hi Folks,
An interesting out-of-region experience for you ...
On Sunday I was driving down to London along the A10. As I got further South, the pre-set stations on my car radio (Radio4/Norwich, Radio4/Peterborough, Classic FM, Radio3, even Radio Cambridgeshire, and Radio Norfolk) all got worse and worse. South of the Stevenage-Stansted line they were useless, and I had switched off.
Then, stuck in traffic around Wood Green, I thought I'd switch it on again and see if those frequencies would pick up anything in the London area.
All failed -- with the exception of the Radio Norfolk frequency (104.4 FM). I picked up, loud and clear, "Resonance104.4FM":
http://www.resonancefm.com/index1.htm
"Resonance 104.4fm is London's first radio art station, brought to you by London Musicians' Collective."
It was intriguing listening, so I switched it on again on the way back, and even sat through an hour of music mixed with talk in a language I didn't recognise, which turned out to be "Rasaa: Iranian program with music, discussion and chat" devised by the "Iranian Community Group".
So I tracked the station down when I got home (google on "104.4 FM").
The listings (accessible from the above web site) show the variety of the transmissions.
Pity I can't listen on the radio from here -- Radio Norfolk wins, of course -- but I'll be trying their "listen live" resources (Ogg/Real/MP3) when they start transmitting later today.
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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On Tuesday 13 February 2007 09:58, Ted Harding wrote:
All failed -- with the exception of the Radio Norfolk frequency (104.4 FM). I picked up, loud and clear, "Resonance104.4FM":
http://www.resonancefm.com/index1.htm
"Resonance 104.4fm is London's first radio art station, brought to you by London Musicians' Collective."
It was intriguing listening, so I switched it on again on the way back, and even sat through an hour of music mixed with talk in a language I didn't recognise, which turned out to be "Rasaa: Iranian program with music, discussion and chat" devised by the "Iranian Community Group".
So I tracked the station down when I got home (google on "104.4 FM").
The listings (accessible from the above web site) show the variety of the transmissions.
Pity I can't listen on the radio from here -- Radio Norfolk wins, of course -- but I'll be trying their "listen live" resources (Ogg/Real/MP3) when they start transmitting later today.
Ah, Resonance FM. We had Ben Watson[1] at UEA Music last semester to give a postgraduate seminar[2]. He has a show on Resonance FM ("Late Lunch with Out to Lunch"), is a reformed music critic, writes about Adorno and Frank Zappa and is a Marxist.
Cheers, Richard
[1] http://www.militantesthetix.co.uk/ [2] http://www.studios.uea.ac.uk/events/2006-11-06
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