Currently Off Air

Here’s some packages that Currently Off Air has put together for Brighton Festival Radio, running thoughout May.

An interview with il pixel rosso’s Silvia Mercuriali. Along with filmmaker, Simon Wilkinson, she has created a show, ‘And the Birds Fell from the Sky’, at the Old Market, Hove as part of the Brighton Festival, which is a mixture of outlaw clowns, interactive film, video goggles and immersive theatre. This piece looks at the controversy that erupted as the Faruk clowns began marauding through the city.
And the Birds Fell from the Sky by IL PIXEL ROSSO by Currently Off Air

An interview with Cine-City Co-Director, Tim Brown, concerning his ‘House’ festival audio installation for Patrick Hamilton’s masterpiece, ‘Hangover Square’. The exhibit, in a former hotel room in Brighton,transports the visitor to 1939 and features extracts narrated by Ashley Cook.
Hangover Square by CINE-CITY by Currently Off Air

An interview with Yael Karavan on the Karavan Ensemble’s new show, ‘Anima’: a unique Site-Specific experience inspired by Light. A journey through dance, physical theatre, live music and visual imagery taking place as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival 2011 ‘…Dreamlike as well as surreal…’ The Guardian. Music by Tristan Shorr.
Anima by THE KARAVAN ENSEMBLE by Currently Off Air

A hunt for Matt Rudkin, a dance maestro whose funny and alarming show, ‘Naive Dance Masterclass’, plays as part of the Brighton Festival at the Nightingale Theatre. Naïve Dance Masterclass is a stand-up and dance-about comedy combining deadpan wordplay and expert physical tomfoolery in a sweet blast of erudite mayhem. Drenched in ecstasy and anguish, ex-contemporary dance star, Matt Rudkin, shares his tale of artistic salvation through the exertions of riot duty training and the love of an immigrant hula-hoopist.
Naive Dance Masterclass by INCONVENIENT SPOOF by Currently Off Air

Artist, Fred Pipes, discusses Artists Open Houses and their 30th anniversary in Brighton, from the comfort of a sofa in the Dragonfly House.
Artists Open Houses by Currently Off Air

Klezmer Clarinetist, Merlin Shepherd and Sam Eden-Green from Brighton-based Balkan Brass band, Fanfara guide us through the music and the legends surrounding Brighton Festival 2011 visitors to the Brighton Dome, Serbia’s Boban & Marko Markovic Orchestra and Romania’s Fanfare Ciocarlia
Balkan Brass by Currently Off Air

Currently Off Air’s first show for Brighton Festival Radio features a hunt for Matt Rudkin, a dance maestro whose funny and alarming show, ‘Naive Dance Masterclass’, plays at the Nightingale Theatre. There is an interview with il pixel rosso’s Silvia Mercuriali. Along with filmmaker, Simon Wilkinson, she has created a show, ‘And the Birds Fell from the Sky’, at the Old Market, which is a mixture of outlaw clowns, interactive film, video goggles and immersive theatre. Also, protest songs, Balkan Brass and various absurdities.

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The A-side of a themed show about life on the road: road songs and roaring engines, Hells Angels, Taxi Drivers, Jack Kerouac, Tom Waits, Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Lee Ranaldo, radio jingle doctors and Bobby Doughnuts reporting on Drunken Wacky Races.

Full tracklisting on ‘PLAYLIST’ page.
The B-Side will follow on 13th May 2011.