The HP Show, 1976-1984
The HP Underwater Special.
 
   

Hank Bull and Patrick Ready

The HP Show was a live-program broadcast weekly as a work in progress on, CFRO FM, Vancouver, from January 1976 until September 1984. The HP Show contained many different elements, among them such sub-series as "Tales from the Days of Sail" ("salty stories about two sea dogs and an albatross") or "Captain Bonnard and Captain Lafargue and Carolyne in Space". The weekly installments of these sub-series were also performed live - occasionally even without a manuscript.

"The most memorable show we did...(memorable at least in the doing) was The HP Underwater Special, The World`s First Completely Underwater Radio Show. Everything we did was necessarily low-budget and the only person we knew with a boat was an old watchman who lived in a barge at the foot of Main Street. He took us out into the Burrard Inlet in his dinghy and we gave him a pint of rum. The rum and the condomes were our expenses for this program. The condoms were for putting over microphones under the water..All sound for the show was guaranteed to have been recorded under, or passed through, water before it was broadcast." (P. Ready in "Radio Rethink. Art, Sound and Transmission, ed. by Daina Augaitis and Dan Lander, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre for the Arts, 1994)


The HP Show war eine wöchentliche Live-Sendung die als work in progress auf CFRO FM, Vancouver von Jänner 1976 bis September 1984 gesendet wurde. Die HP Show enthielt u.a. Sub-Serien wie z.B. „Tales from the Days of Sail" („salty stories about two sea dogs and an albatross") oder „Captain Bonnard and Captain Lafargue and Carolyne in Space", deren Folgen häufig ohne Manuskript live realisiert wurden."The most memorable show we did....was: The HP Underwater Special, The World`s First Completely Underwater Radio, (nicht datiert) "All sound for the show was guaranteed to have been recorded under, or passed through, water before it was broadcast." (P. R.) Die Show wurde von einem Boot aus aufgenommen, dessen Besitzer, ein alter Seemann mit einer Flasche Rum bezahlt wurde. Die Mikrophone wurden mithilfe von Kondomen unterwassertauglich gemacht.



Hank Bull also participated at the Audio Scene
Kunst Heute 17.9.1978