March 25, 2012: Andrew Sharpley - Slow - for Radio Boredcast

ANDREW SHARPLEY: SLOW – FOR RADIO BOREDCAST

Ever been in a bar or a restroom with someone who won't stop talking? Logorrhea, I think they call it. A two hour monologue about slowness should be enough to put anyone to sleep: Andrew Sharpley obliges with a leisurely wander up and down the garden path by way of the hind legs of a donkey. You know where the door is.

Andrew Sharpley is perhaps best known as 1/4 then 1/2 of UK sampling unit Stock Hausen and Walkman, formed in 1991, who achieved what they had been working towards in 2001 by splitting up. Relocating to France, Andrew then spent the next ten years undertaking commissions, or playing in bands, from animation festivals to jazz festivals to arts festivals in champagne cellars, by way of wi-fi broadcasts in cars and too many hours spent in vans. His return to the UK in 2O11 found him back where he started, and more productive for it. He presents these two broadcasts,"slow" and "red herring", as evidence, although for what, is as yet unclear.

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