Difficult Listening goes to air at 9.00 pm WST every Sunday evening on RTR FM 92.1 in Perth, Western Australia. It is also streamed over the RTR FM web site. Links to restreams and play lists are available at the Difficult Listening web site.

The program covers a variety of genres that all push the boundaries of musicality, in areas as diverse as contemporary chamber music, noise, dark ambient, impro, free jazz, musique concrete, spoken word and electronica.

The program has been running since 1989. Its founder and coordinator is Bryce Moore, who has been with the show since its inception, ably assisted by a series of co-presenters, most recently Rosalind Appleby.

07 July 2008

Lawrence English

Meupe presents
The Ambassador From Everywhere 1
featuring Lawrence English

LAWRENCE ENGLISH (Touch, room40 / QLD)

Lawrence English is a media artist, composer and critic based in Brisbane, Australia. London’s Time Out referred to his output as "ambient twisted soundscapes and challenging sonic scree", and US sound journal Signal To Noise described English’s work as "extraordinarily gorgeous modern music concréte". He has performed worldwide solo and alongside the likes of Damo Suzuki, Steinbruchel, Janek Schaefer and KK Null.

English is also boss of the excellent room40 label, which has maintained a relentless and consistent release schedule featuring the likes of Tenniscoats, M. Rösner, Oren Ambarchi, Sebastien Roux, Ben Frost, Tim Hecker and Taylor Deupree amongst many others.

Sunday July 13
Mojo's Bar, Fremantle
6pm / $15

+ M. Rösner (Apestaarje, room40)
+ Chris Cobilis (Meupe)
+ Whalehammer

More details at meupe.net

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