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HP

HP was a collaboration between Hank Bull and Patrick Ready. Beginning in 1975 HP produced a weekly radio show, [The HP Radio Show], which ran on Vancouver Co-operative Radio for 8 years. Devoted to the idea that radio could be activated as an art medium, the two hosts developed an idiosyncratic style and a quick following. A forum for new inventions, telephone music and various types of listener participation, the show made heavy use of sound effects, experiments with tape recorders and scripted serials with names like The Cavemen, Tales from the Days of Sail, and Captain Bonnard and Captain Lafarge and Carolyne in Space. Many of the artists who came to the Western Front in Vancouver would be incorporated into the show. By 1978, in a prime-time Sunday evening slot, the title was changed to the HP Dinner Show, "scientifically designed to help you prepare, eat and digest, your dinner". Hank Bull has lived in Vancouver and worked at the Western Front since 1973. He became involved in radio and television in 1975. He has been active as an organizer of international artists' projects using electronic networks and continues various pursuits as a 'TOTALmedia' artist. Patrick Ready is a Vancouver-based writer, inventor and radio artist. His collaborative radio plays, were first produced in 1973 and have since been performed in galleries in Toronto and Vancouver. In 1989, he invented the 'water radio,' as artist-in-residence at The Banff Centre.
Creator Id: 96
Collaboration: Hank Bull & Patrick Ready
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Beginning Year: 1967
City: Vancouver
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist
Ending Year: 1984
Gender: Undeclared
Mediums: audio, performance
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HP

Work ID: 71070

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HP

Work ID: 71068

Description: Hank Bull and Patrick Ready begin research into Pataphysics, cut-up, time dilation, distillation, new religion and inventing.

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HP

Work ID: 71071

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HP

Work ID: 71069

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HP Tesla Coil

Work ID: 71072

Description: 200,000 volts, six foot arc to extended finger, presented as part of the HP Shadow Play.

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HP at A Space

Work ID: 71074

Description: Curated by Victor Coleman, HP presents two live radio shows, a shadow play, an evening of bicycle-generated movies, a mummer play and a demonstration of whiskey distillation. [at A Space, Toronto].

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HP Radio Show

Work ID: 71073

Description: World's first regular broadcast of radio art, later called the HP Dinner Show, "scientifically designed to help you prepare, eat and digest your dinner," runs 90 minutes a week for 8 years on CFRO-FM.

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HP Whiskey Still

Work ID: 71086

Description: Supported by a grant 0f $184 from the Canada Council.

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HP Drum Machine

Work ID: 71085

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HP Underwater Radio

Work ID: 71088

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HP Underwater Radio

Work ID: 71087

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HP [Patrick Ready]

Work ID: 71076

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HP

Work ID: 71095

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HP [Patrick Ready]

Work ID: 71077

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HP

Work ID: 71090

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HP

Work ID: 71081

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HP [Hank Bull & Patrick Ready]

Work ID: 71075

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HP

Work ID: 71082

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HP

Work ID: 71094

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HP

Work ID: 71093

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HP

Work ID: 71091

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HP

Work ID: 71079

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HP

Work ID: 71084

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HP

Work ID: 71080

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HP

Work ID: 71089

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HP

Work ID: 71092

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HP

Work ID: 71083

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HP

Work ID: 71078

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