This Friday, the 26th of February 2021, my programme "Untimely" will air on Resonance FM, 20:00-21:00hrs. It will be repeated at 10am on the following Monday.After that, I'm assuming it will be on Resonance's Mixcloud (will post a link when it's up).
To give you an idea of what it will be about, here's some text composed for me by the ever-brilliant Nicola Woodham:
Many people mention lack of concentration, disjointed thoughts, no motivation and anxiety when they are asked about how they’ve been effected by the Covid-19 pandemic. For Robin Bale, who has two learning difficulties: Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD) and dyspraxia, a condition that effects organising thoughts and memory, the pandemic has been a struggle to navigate through. A performance artist and experimental musician since the 80s, his practice went up in smoke in the last year. He felt he saw his making of unfinished fragments, shifting between styles, working on lots of ideas at once as awkward failures, not fitting for release or performance. He applied to to make a program for Clear Spot with the aim to make the show just about that not being able to focus and disordered textures of lockdown. He’s taking up his work on Benjamin’s constellations again.
The combination of the pandemic and two learning difficulties (ADHD and dyspraxia) has made Robin Bale’s experimental music and sound making even more constellated, unfinished, preposterous. The unfinshed album, the multi-genred EP, the untethered sample all collapse here, unfunctional, awkward, failed. A program designed to help you lack focus, drift, scan without feeling bad for it.
It will comprise of a whole load of unfinished/resolved pieces - sound and verbal - composed over the past plague year. Below is a brief taster - it's not all like that, but I like the chaotic raucousness of this one...
