WIRELESS PROGRAMMES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19808, 1 December 1927, Page 17

WIRELESS PROGRAMMES

THIS EVENING'S BROADCASTS. * MANY INTERESTING ITEMS. FEATURES FOh TO-MORROW. Details of programmes to be sent out by New Zealand and Australian broadcasting 'Stations to-day are as follows: — Auckland, 11" A (533 metres J.—3 p.m., studio concert; 6 p.m., children's session; 7.15 p.m., talk ou "fancied Trips and Real Ones," by "Gargoyle"; 7.3U p.m., news seivice; 8 p.m., selections by Aeolian Orchestra; 8.35, Miss lna Thomson, contralto, songs; 8.43, Aeolian Orchestra; 9*o, weather forecast; 9.2, Mr. Frank Sutherland, baritone, songs; 9.7, Aeolian Orchestra; 9.22, Miss Thomson, songs; 9.26, orchestra; 9.46, Mr. Sutherland, songs; 9.50, orchestra. Wellington, 2¥A (42u metres). —3 p.m., studio concert, including talk on the care of the hair, by Miss Mclveowen; relay of "orchestral music at Adelphi Cabaret; 6 p.m., children's session; 7 p.m., news service; 7.40, fjalk on Esperanto, by Mr. VV. King; 8 p.m., relay of concert by pupils of Otaki Maori College at Otaki. Christchurch, 3YA (306 metres). —3 p.m., studio concert; 6 p.m., children's session; 7.15 p.m., news service; 8 p.m., relay of orchestral music at Everybody's Picture Theatre; Miss B. Renaut, contralto, songs; Mr. Russell Sumner, tenor, songs; selections by Christchurch Broadcasting Instrumental Trio; 8.30, relay of selections at Male Voice Ch' : r's concert at Choral Hall; Miss M. Juriss, recital; Mr. T. D. Williams, bass, songs; Miss A. Warren, piano solos; Messrs. Sumner and Williams, vocal (filet. Dunedin, 4YA (463 metres). —7 p.m., request gramophone concert; 7.30 p.m., news service; 8 p.m., Miss A. D. Allen, piano solos; Miss M. Edgar, soprano, songs; Mr. A. W. Duff, violin solos; Mr. W. Lang, baritone, songs; Mr. M. Horn, saxophone solos; relay of orchestral music at Empire Picture Theatre; 8.45/ talk on "The Humanitarian Activities of the League of Nations," by Mrs. D. Leech; further vocal and instrumental items. Australian Stations. Sydney, 2FC (442 metres).—B.ls p.m., talks to children by "Hello Man"; dinner music; 9.30 p.m., news service; 10 p.m., concert programme, including vocal and instrumental items; studio presentation of comedy, "Nothing But the Truth"; dance music. Sydney, 2BL (353 metres). —8.15 p.m., chijdren's session; 9.15 p.m., news service; 10.30 p.m., concert programme, including selections by Broadcasters' Topical Chorus; vocal and instrumental items; dance music. Melbourne, 3LO (371 metres). —8 p.m., children's session; 9 p.m., news service; 10.30 p.m., concert programme, including vocal and instrumental items; orchestral music; danco music. Brisbane, 4QG (335 metres).—9 p.m., children's session: 9.30 p.m., news service, including talk of interest to farmers; 10.30 p.m., v concert programme, including vocal and instrumental items: orchestral music.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. The Aeolian Orchestra will provide the greater portion of the programme to he sent out by the Auckland station this evening. The orchestra's numbers will include the "Merry Wives of Windsor" overture, "Militnrv" Rvmphonv, gavotte "Mignon." and "The Funeral March of the Marionettes." The Wellington sin Hon will attempt an interestig relay this evening. A concert is being given by pupils of the Otaki Maori Cot!o<ro. and a land-line will onn Tiect the Wellington station. The items will inlcude Maori songs and choruses. FEATURES. Features of programmes to bo sent out l>v the Auckland and Wellington stations to-morrow are as follows: Auckland. IYA f 37»3 metres). —7.15 n.m., talk on motoring, bv "Garpovle": R n.m., concert programme, re'iv of orchestral music at Prince Fdward . vocal and instrumental items. Welh'ncton. ?YA tAOf) —fl n.m . • I ndin mrieer+ W Commercial Travellers' Vmla Vo;Vo rho.V rVTQrTC ?T TT "PTO. VISITORS ACCOMMODATED. 3LO, Melbourne, is unique among the broadcasting studios of Australia, and almost so among those of the world, in that it affords to numbers of its broadcast audience the opportunity to " look in " as well as listen-in. Its larger studio will accommodate comfortably- 200 visitors, who are thus en- ( abled to look on at performers in the 1 very act of facing the microphone, and in their very habits as they live. Besides adding interest, however, to the audience, this procedure has a scientific sanction. Those who occupy the comfo*tabio cushioned wicker settees become themselves part of the broadcasting mechanism, and take their share in the actual performance. That is to say, being in a studio designed to give the best effect of resonance to the sound waves picked up by the microphone on the elevated platform at one'end, the audience is also of use as a resonance regulator. A " full house. " at Studio No. 1, Melbourne Ptace, produces definite technical effect' --snd the management are always sorry if the audience dwindles, particularly when singing or delicate instrumental effects are lx ig broadcast. It is not only rude to leave the room during the performance of a number, but it is actualy injurious, if only in a minor degree, to the excellence of the broadcasting. SEARCH FOR QIJATJTY. MELBOURNE EXPERIMENTS. A great deal of scientific study has been made of late years in tho question of resonance '.n occupied rooms. Besides the effect of tho audience, there is also the big problem of furnishings, carpets and wall coverings. Everyone knows that the old-fashioned idea of using the drawing room piano as a pedestal for vases, books and the general collection of modern ornaments is not over-conducive to good music, as they have a way of vibrating for themselves, sometimes in an audible and distressing manner. In a broadcasting studio, with a sensitive microphone and amplifier attached, the engineers have to bo meticulously careful even about pictures on tho walls, nay, even of the very stuff the walls are rnado of and its windows and general drapery. At 3LO, Melbourne this has been the matter of many prolonged experiments, and at present the "business end." so to speak, of the big studio is swathed in an ornate draping of heavy black material, relieved to the eve by brilliantly coloured "jazz" designs. Over the central doorway is an effective and colourful portrayal of a parti-coloured clown in red, blue and gold, and other decorations depict hunting incidents in a more or less symbolic manner. The object of this drapery and its designs heavily loaded with colour is to deaden the disturbing resonances produced by t.ho unadorned smooth walls adjacent to the performers and tho microphone, and the efficiency of tho arrangement is being closely studied by observers with whom 3LO, Melbourne, is J in touch. With the same end in view, carpets of a heavy pile aro laid on the platform of the larger studio and cover the floor of the smaller studio at its rear, when band performances are usually broadcast. This smaller studio has also been draped and is under study in the same exhaustive manner. • ,