'Here among the blocks you at last find an image of yourself free of the hazards of time and space.'






Turin, 2005
Terminal Beach begins as an experimental/outsider music radio show on Turin's only remaining independent and militant/alternative radio station, Radio Blackout (105.250 FM). As well as presenting a broad selection of new music the show experiments with radio format through deterritorialized mixes and other strategies of listener disorientation, as well as a number of themed programmes including shows on glossolalia, night, the colour black, interlunar spaces and amniotic regression.
Music for/to/from the end of time. Or time for the end of music.

Selected show playlists from 2005-2006

9/10/06 Goodbye To Love
Film sound - Tears - Vive l'amour (Tsai Ming Liang)
John Duncan - Voicechoir - John See Soundtracks
Cheryl Studer/Staatskapelle Dresden - Isoldes Liebestod (Wagner) - Strauss/Wagner Lieder
Film sound - 'Maybe the next time...' - Crash (Cronenberg)
David Toop - Apartment Thunder (Eros + Sacrifice) - Black Chamber
Georges Delerue - Hiroshima Mon Amour (Musique, dialogues et ambiance) - The Music of Georges Delerue
Josquin DesPrez - Plein de deuil - Adieu mes amours
Shigeru Umebayashi - Long Journey - 2046 (OST)
Fursaxa - Twilight of Desire - Mandrake
John Duncan - Breathchoir mix - John See Soundtracks
Otomo Yoshihide New Jazz Ensemble - A-shi-ta - OYNJE
Film sound - Car Wash - Crash (Cronenberg)
Georges Delerue - Le Mépris (Musique, dialogues et ambiance) - The Music of Georges Delerue
Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home a Heartache - The Early Years
Naked City - Leng Tch'e - Black Box
Yellow Swans - High On the Mountain of Love - Bring the Neon War Home
Film sound - Club Silencio - Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
The Carpenters - Goodbye to Love - The Singles '69-'73


2/10/06
Strangers Die Every Day - There's No 'I' in Fuck You - They Have Already Defeated Us at What We Know Best
Grizzly Bear - Marla - Yellow House
Aiko Shimada - Mezame (Morning Pt. 1) - Blue Marble
Skullflower - Silver Stars Rot Mindlessly - Tribulation
GHQ - Twelve Events - Twelve Events
Chieko Mori - Fly Away - Jumping Rabbit
Boxhead Ensemble - Nocturne 2 - Nocturnes
Luc Ferrari - Presque rien No. 2 - Presque rien
Tod Dockstader - Whisper - Aerial 3
Hair Police - Track 1 - Drawn Dead
Iannis Xenakis - La Légende d'Eer (excerpt) - La Légende d'Eer
Minamo - We Were - Shining
Stephan Mathieu & Janek Schaefer - Quartet for flute,piano & cello - Hidden Name
Tim Hecker - Whitecaps of White Noise (1&2) - Harmonies in Ultraviolet


18/09/06 Keyboards of the Aurora Borealis
Alva Noto + Ryuishi Sakamoto - Aurora - Insen
Aki Tsuyuko - Aquilo - Hokane
Harold Budd - The Oak of the Golden Dreams - The Oak of the Golden Dreams
Elodie Lauten - Clearly Identified Floating Objects - Inscapes from Exile
John Zorn - Que Tran - New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands
Gyorgy Ligeti - Arc-en-ciel - Preludes
Margaret Leng Tan - The Heavenly Spheres are Illuminated by Lights - Plays the Music of Somei Satoh
Fursaxa - Tyranny - Lepidoptera
Religious Knives - Electricity and Air - Bind Them/Electricity and Air
William Basinski - (untitled) 12 - Melancholia
Christina Carter - School Song - Bastard Wing
John Cale - Sun Blindness Music - Sun Blindness Music
Bang On a Can - Piano Piece No. 4 (Rzewski) - Cheating, Lying, Stealing
Terry Riley - Land's End - The Harp of New Albion



December 2005









A special all-night broadcast takes place in December 2005 during the occupation of Venaus in the Susa Valley, part of the on-going resistance to a planned high-speed train link between Turin and Lyon (TAV). Direct broadcasts from the site of the occupation and the barricades alternated with a selection of music and readings on speed and slowness, capitalism and revolt.
















Summer 2006

TERMINAL TENT
on
TERMINAL BEACH

Our first season of broadcasting culminates with a Terminal Beach sound installation at the annual Blackout three-day festival, produced in collaboration with our friend Tax, guitarist of the mythical 80s punk band Negazione.

The installation, mainly composed of existing recordings (including extracts from pieces by Eliane Radigue, Thomas Köner, Ryoji Ikeda, Robert Schumann, Haco, Akira Rabelais, Angus Maclise and Thuja) mixed and reconfigured as instrumental voices in a meta-music continuum, ran on a loop for three days and three nights in a sand-filled 1970s style holiday tent in the garden of the Turin club Spazio 211, which was lit from the inside by a powerful battery of red spotlights designed to suggest Ballard’s ‘thermonuclear noon’.

Outside the tent was an attaché case containing loose leaf photocopied pages of Ballard's story that visitors could take away with them and attempt to reconstruct the narrative or reinvent their own “Terminal Beach” from the fragments available. As a series of punk hard-core bands thrashed in violent, impotent rage inside the club, the seemingly innocuous Terminal Beach tent continued to emit a relentless doomy pulse, inviting visitors to meet and inhabit it on their own terms.

You can see us bathing in a Ballardian thermonuclear noon in the pictures above and below















along with other terminal visitors...








































































October 2006
Terminal Beach begins its second season









October 16
TB opens for Brooklyn experimental improv outfit PSI at their show at Turin's Soundfactory with a DJ set featuring a composed mix of free-noise/drone/avant-folk luminaries.










The same evening we dedicate our radio programme to Danièle Huillet, broadcasting the sound from the last Straub-Huillet film, Quei loro incontri - one of the most radical cinematic oeuvres of the last 50 years.

- E credi ai mostri, credi ai corpi imbestiati, ai sassi vivi, ai sorrisi divini, alle parole che annientavano?
- Credo in ciò che ogni uomo ha sperato e patito. Se un tempo salirono su queste alture di sassi o cercarono paludi mortali sotto il cielo, fu perché ci trovavano qualcosa che noi non sappiamo. Non era il pane né il piacere né la cara salute. Queste cose si sa dove stanno. Non qui. E noi che viviamo lontano lungo il mare o nei campi, l'altra cosa l'abbiamo perduta.
- Dilla dunque, la cosa.
- Quei loro incontri.

(Cesare Pavese, Dialoghi con Leucò, "Gli dèi")