Wavelength
Wavelength is broadcast on Resonance 104.4fm, on Fridays at 2:30pm and repeats on Mondays at 5am.Medical Clowning
Clive Graham in the studio to discuss the latest release on his paradigm discs label: Originally released in Israel in 1983 and only available in a handmade edition of just fifty copies, Amnon Raviv’s LP Mirror is now finally available in a regular edition.
There’s nothing else quite like it from that era, let alone from Israel, although it does have some parallels with earlier avant garde/outsider music from the US and Europe. It may well be the strangest, as well as one of the most obscure records to ever come out of Israel. The instruments used are flamenco and acoustic guitar, flute, violin and sax. Some of the playing is free form and some is complex notation, but all the tracks contain collages of effects and noisy field recordings which often dominate the picture – bubbling water, a chicken farm, feedback, transistor radio, metal percussion, vacuum cleaner, etc.
Raviv is still active as a musician, but he also holds a PhD in medical clowning and his main work these days is as a medical clown, incorporating smiles and laughter as a therapy to help recovering patients on Tel Aviv’s cancer wards.