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Ryan Frame - buses, walks and radges
Ryan Frame - buses, walks and radges
31 August 2023 11:30 pm - 1 September 2023 1:30 am
A selection of phone recordings of morning and evening walks, radges in the streets and buses of Edinburgh and random noises including the frying of eggs and a few other things. Improv mixed via a digital DJ app with a few crass effects thrown in the mix.
Ryan Frame bio: Lo-fi experimental field recording enthusiast from the Scottish central belt. Tracks mainly built around one take Iphone voice recordings. Everyday sounds of the streets, buses, random pub conversations and noise. Borderline sound art.
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Parazit Radio Ep 2 Parasito
Parazit Radio Ep 2 Parasito
1 September 2023 1:30 am - 2:00 am
Radio Parazit–in English, “Parasite Radio”–contains and broadcasts my explorations around ‘Diasporic Imaginaries.’ Through a series of experimental radio broadcasts, I think and share out loud about experiences, thoughts, and hopes with material derived from personal stories rendered in artistic and acoustic explorations. My voice, however, is not singular. Instead, I suggest a singular perspective of a constellation of voices I have encountered over the years. These voices have shaped my own and have shortened the distance between the subjects and places that build my own diasporic experience in this world.
A series of 4 episodes connecting to ideas around Diaspora, the Indigenous, the Planet, and Symbiosis.
- Diáspora
- Parásito
- Tensión Lunar
- Otrxs Mutualismxs
Biography:
Nicolás Kisic Aguirre is an architect and trans-disciplinary sound artist who creates machines that explore and illuminate the social and political nature of sound in public space. In 2018, he graduated from the MIT program in Art, Culture and Technology. Informed by his background in architecture and a lifelong fascination with machines, Kisic Aguirre designs and builds sound instruments that explore the connection between public space, power, technology, and sound. His critical and aesthetic practice is open-source, collaborative, and deeply engaged with the public. Nicolás is currently a Ph.D. student in the DXArts program at the University of Washington Seattle.
http://www.nka.pe
internet@nka.pe
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Radio Concrete 36 - Or Rimer (Hybrid Moments)
Radio Concrete 36 - Or Rimer (Hybrid Moments)
1 September 2023 2:00 am - 2:30 am
Title: Radio Concrete 36 - Or Rimer (Hybrid Moments)
Description:
Composed by Or Rimer out of original music and sounds, mixed and edited together with the following:
Amos Korman - tabla, Asaf Setty- violin, Voice of Roberto Benigni in Jim Jarmusch 1986 movie DOWN BY LOW, Robert Ashley - private parts 1978, Bill Ruyle, Peter Zummo & the London Contemporary Orchestra present the UK premiere of Arthur Russell's Tower Of Meaning with Oliver Coates, live from Kings Place, Carl Stone -Figli, Mika Levi-Hosting, additional sounds from woman giving natural birth
Short Bio:
Rimer, born in 1986, is a musician and composer based in Tel Aviv who plays in several bands and works with a variety of artists, including video and film makers, choreographers, and visual and performance artists, for whom he creates original scores and soundscapes. He also trains soccer teams.
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John Dombroski - The Broadcast Project: 91.7FM KOOP Austin, Texas
John Dombroski - The Broadcast Project: 91.7FM KOOP Austin, Texas
1 September 2023 2:30 am - 3:30 am
The Broadcast Project, by artist John Dombroski, is an ongoing series of site-specific performances broadcast live on local radio stations during a journey across the USA with no destination... Each performance is a collage of sampled local obscure and forgotten music, culturally significant audio artifacts, field recordings, home-made modular synthesizer, and gender-swapped vocal processing… To date, there have been nine broadcasts on nine different stations, and the project continues with the road... While donations for gas money are always welcome, The Broadcast Project is archived online and accessible for free at:
TheBroadcastProject.bandcamp.com.
johndombroski.net
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Sam Bland - 66 Montclaire
Sam Bland - 66 Montclaire
1 September 2023 3:30 am - 4:00 am
Pieces in order of play:
1) Arkle 64, 7’32”.
2) The Fish and Meat Market, 8’26”.
3) Three Generations, 11’43”.
This project is based around a collection of cassette tapes I discovered. Recorded by my grandfather before I was born, the tapes contain a mixture of recorded family discussions, radio recordings and music compilations, all recorded in the same council house in South Wales, 66 Montclaire Avenue. My intention as a composer, was both to explore the nuanced environment held within the tapes, as well as the people themselves and the wider social and political issues presented. This, I hope, allows for a meaningful relationship between sound and context to be created, one that conjures nostalgia and evokes memories.
Sam Bland is a sonic artist, composer and workshop leader, interested in the potential of sound art to investigate social history. He is a recent post-graduate from the University of Birmingham, where he completed an MA in Electroacoustic Composition. His work often combines interviews, field and archive recordings and electronics, to produce dense and politically engaged soundscapes. His recent project, 66 Montclaire, was selected for the Daegu International Computer Music Festival 2022. Sam has also received commissions from Croydon Council, the Croydon Art Store and We're All Bats Listening Arts Channel, to run community based sound projects.
https://www.instagram.com/samblandmusic/
https://www.samblandmusic.com/
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NOMADIC COSMOLOGIES AND FUGITIVE POWER: Red Forest Radiogram #8: Poetics of Liberation.
NOMADIC COSMOLOGIES AND FUGITIVE POWER: Red Forest Radiogram #8: Poetics of Liberation.
1 September 2023 4:00 am - 6:00 am
A call for nourishing pluralistic ways of being. With Sezgin Boynik, Alberto Torres, Giovanna Esposito Yussif and Sónia Vaz Borges, Sonic Intervention with DJ Zhao This final sonic and experiential conversation navigates the myriad topics raised over the course of Nomadic Cosmologies and Fugitive Power, weaving climate struggles with environmental justice and transformative futures. This closing is also an opening and an invitation to engage with the socio-ecological dimension of energy and people’s resistance against the epistemic injustice that is present in extractivism, datafication and a narrative that claims it cannot be otherwise. It is also a call to celebrate and defend the many forms of life that need space to flourish on their own terms. To mobilize with the overcrossing rebellious rhythms and the ancestrality of resistance. Sezgin Boynik, lives and works in Helsinki, having completed his PhD on the Cultural Politics of Black Wave in Yugoslavia from 1963 to 1972 at Jyväskylä University’s Social Science department. He has been published on numerous topics, including punk, the relation between aesthetics and politics, cultural nationalism, Situationist International and Yugoslav cinema. He is editor of Rab-Rab: Journal for Political and Formal Inquiries in Art ( http://www.rabrab.fi). Alberto Torres is a Doctoral candidate and Master in Latin American Studies-UNAM. He is currently Lecturer in Latin American Studies in the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, UNAM. His research focuses on the indigenous in guerrilla groups of the 60s and 70s in Latin America, encounters and missed-encounters of resistances and rebellions towards the exercise of common knowledge. Giovanna Esposito Yussif engages with curatorial praxis and research. Her background is in art history, museology, and critical theory. Giovanna has a long-standing commitment to non-dominant praxes, dissentient imaginations, and epistemologies in resistance. In 2019 she curated the Pavilion of Finland at the 58th Venice Biennale with the Miracle Workers Collective. She is currently artistic director of Museum of Impossible Forms (MIF), co-artistic director of Drifts Festival, curator for M_itä biennale 2023, and co-curator for Helsinki Biennale 2023 with MIF. Sónia Vaz Borges is a militant interdisciplinary historian and long-time social and political organizer. Her publications in German, Portuguese and English, include the essays Na pó di Spera: Die koloniale Peripherie Lissabons, In Decolonize the City. Zur Kolonialität der Stadt – Gespräche (Unrast); On Space of imaginations and the space of memories: Remembering Conakry PAIGC headquarters (The Funambulist), and the book Na Pó Di Spéra. Percursos nos Bairros da Estrada Militar, de Santa Filomena e da Encosta Nascente (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian). Her recent book Militant Education, liberation struggle and consciousness. The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978 (Peter Lang) focuses on liberation schools and the concept and praxis developed by the PAIGC. DJ Zhao brings contemporary and classic dance music together from all five continents, with focus on Africa. While his DJ sets reach from culture centers to remote areas of the globe, and from now back through the ages, DJ Zhao’s remix and mashup work directly connects "East" and "West", acoustic and electronic, traditional and hyper-modern. https://www.goethe.de/ins/it/en/sta/mai/ver/tri.html
The Red Forest is a loose knit assemblage based on affinities and overlapping practices that grounds together research, art, political imagination, and social actions striving for transformative justice and ecological reparations. In 2021 they initiated a pan-continental research focusing on the intersections between contemporary extractivism and datification processes. Red Forest assembles and organizes their work with infrastructures of collective reciprocity and interdependency as actual potentiality. Their research contributes to the theoretical framework of Energetic Materialism to conceptualize urgent cultural and social processes in the defense of life and the construction of pluriversal futures in dignified flux.
Red Forest is mobilized by David Muñoz-Alcántara, Diana McCarty, Mijke van der Drift and Oleksiy Radynski, after their collective practices super collided during a 2019-2020 BAK Fellowship in Utrecht. It unfolds as a growing constellation of artists, activists, researchers, media producers, filmmakers, philosophers, educators and time travelers realizing interdisciplinary projects. In 2021, their ongoing research on Extractivism, Datafication, and Transformative Justice was supported by the Kone Foundation in Finland led to: producing an experimental social and durational performance series in Kyiv and Berlin titled Sambatas Stagings, supported by Goethe-Institut Co-Production Fund Kyiv and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and in 2022, they convened Red Forest Radiograms - Nomadic Cosmologies & Fugitive Power - as the German Pavilion of the the 23rd Triennale Milano. In 2023, their KONE supported research is on "Energy-Matters in the context of war. Neo-extractivism, fossil fascism, and the post-national question”. They are currently producing "On the Loss of Energy. Radiogram from the remnants of collisions", an experimental audio piece for the 2023 Helsinki Biennale.
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williwaw - a mast amassing sound (version 1)
williwaw - a mast amassing sound (version 1)
1 September 2023 6:00 am - 6:30 am
The radio tower lies In the transitional space between soundwave and airwave, but it is a space far from the margins. The steel mast exerts power near and far, dominating the near electromagnetic field and landmarking the far horizon. Here we focus on the near, listening to these high-perched steel masts as conductive as well as disruptive objects, playing with and through the interference in the tower’s proximity to sound out the spire. williwaw routinely explores the aesthetics of technological failure through the medium of heavily amplified ’ukulele. http://www.donkeyscratch.com.
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Alice Jackson - The Bridge Between Me and Sleep
Alice Jackson - The Bridge Between Me and Sleep
1 September 2023 6:30 am - 7:00 am
An intimate snapshot into the delicate and intense world of guiding a baby to sleep. Singing, soothing, shushing and white noise have all become essential sonic elements in our sleep ritual determining whether the wave will break furiously or glide calmly onto shore. We are all taught how to get to sleep, to trust the transition from waking to sleeping, from outside world to self created world and it is within this key liminal space that I spend a lot of my day.
Alice Jackson is a mother and an artist who co-runs a small DIY space in West Yorkshire. She's currently negotiating her art practice around new motherhood and running a business.
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Manja Ristić - Desiderium Animae
Manja Ristić - Desiderium Animae
1 September 2023 7:00 am - 8:00 am
I dedicate Desiderium Animae in loving memory of a dear friend and mentor Nataša Jovanović, professor of violoncello and chamber music from Belgrade, who left us too soon.
On October 31st, 2021 I accidentally discovered Tunnel Grič in central Zagreb. It is 1 kilometer long WWII air-raid shelter, now a pedestrian tunnel recently reopened for the public after being sealed for decades.
This is the integral field recording of my first encounter with the tunnel and its incredible acoustics, interacting with passers-by, examining its sonic properties, feeling its dense memory field, while walking up and down and holding the recorder in my hand.
The recording is later enriched by minimal ambient interventions. Manja Ristić is a violinist, sound artist, poet, curator and researcher active in the fields of electroacoustic and classical music, instrumental improvisation and experimental sound art. Her work blends intuitive composition and field recording practices while focusing on interdisciplinary approaches to acousmatic forms, radio art, and acoustic ecology. Manja Ristić currently works and lives on the island of Korčula, Croatia. http://manjaristic.blogspot.comhttps://manjaristic.bandcamp.com
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Shorts 12
Shorts 12
1 September 2023 8:00 am - 9:00 am
1) Aaron Haddad - Indignation Miscegenation (6:43) 2) Ruby Conner - New Recording 81 (8:39) 3) Dixie Treichel - Twist (1:29) 4) Jorge Martinez Valderrama - Voces en el mar polar (Voices of the polar sea) (6:33) 5) Ruaridh Law - Three Tells: Circle Square Cross Star Wavy Lines (14:00) 6) Serge Bulat - Normality (5:55) 7) Magda Lampropoulou - Floating Stars Snevaeh YretaW (Watery Heavens) (2:26) 8) Mary Hooper - Pond Goddess and Dragons (2:37) 9) Dominik Irtenkauf and Smaely P - Your and My Forest (6:40) 10) Alex McGlynn - The Rapture 3.13pm, 1st of May, 2023, (2:08) 1) Aaron Haddad - Indignation Miscegenation A layered, unaltered, improvised single takes all voiced by Aaron Haddad and based on his original poetry. The result is a convulsing soundscape that offers different semantic and audio layers for the listener to glide, rise or fall into. Aural imperfections in the piece are valued and intentionally left as is as a response to the polish and synthetic intelligence of this era of humanity's destruction of its creative being. The piece hopelessly but sincerely seeks to destroy the intersections and politics of boxing and live freely in the space of Being. At time of writing Aaron Haddad carries out life in a place called Canada. He is a human with heritages derived from the movement of peoples across large bodies of Water. His piece Or Be Lost Forever was selected for broadcast in the 2022 run of Radiophrenia. 2) Ruby Conner - New Recording 81 Ruby Conner originally from Stockport can be found roaming the streets of Glasgow Alone In a anorak Carrying a plastic carrier bag https://verybonbooks.persona.co3) Dixie Treichel - Twist Twist is an experimental radio art, sound collage created with found sounds. It aired on various radio stations internationally during the Fluxus celebration of Art's Birthday 2021, and is in the Kunstradio Art's Birthday gift pool. Dixie Treichel is a composer, sound artist, sound designer and radio broadcaster. She is a sonic explorer who likes creating with any and all sounds, generating rich sonic textures that invite the listener on a journey into the unknown. Her works have been heard internationally on radio, in art galleries, sound art festivals, new music concerts, theaters and streaming festivals. 4) Jorge Martinez Valderrama - Voces en el mar polar (Voices of the polar sea) An acousmatic work created with recordings of vocalizations and movements of the crabeater seal. These sound samples have been used in their original format and also edited and manipulated using some synthesis tools and digital processes with the purpose of evoking narratives and metaphorical soundscapes. This work is part of the Polar Sounds project ( https://citiesandmemory.com/polar-sounds) which invites the composers (and audience) to re-imagine some of the little-heard sounds of the Arctic and Antarctic regions, reflecting on climate change and the evolving sounds of polar seascapes, imagining alternative perspectives on scientific data. As a composer and sound artist, his work reflects on various aesthetic phenomena and concepts within contemporary, electro-acoustic and acousmatic music. Some of his works have been presented in forums, festivals and digital programs in countries such as México, US, Canada, Colombia, Perú, Bolivia, Portugal, UK, Austria and Japan, among others. His work is based on field recording and is developed under the concepts of perception, alteration, poetics and pareidolia. His artistic interest focuses on listening and reflecting on the implications of sound in different contexts and ecosystems, collective creation and sound-environmental activism. jamva.mx IG: @jorche_mx 5) Ruaridh Law - Three Tells: Circle Square Cross Star Wavy Lines http://ruaridhTVO.com6) Serge Bulat - Normality "Normality" dares to question our definition of normality. Delivered by means of interpretive sound design, visuals, and spoken word, its' goal is to create space for the rise of the new formula. Following the Rorschach test principle, it invites the audience's interpretation. What is your definition of normality? Is your formula influenced by your recent experience of the environment? "I strongly disagree with the definition of "normal" and hope my project will broaden the understanding of individuality, identity; embracing differences, and treating them as advantages and not faults" - Serge Bulat. https://sergebulat.com/media7) Magda Lampropoulou - Floating Stars Snevaeh YretaW (Watery Heavens) “Floating Stars_Snevaeh YretaW” (Watery Heavens) invites the listeners to an inner auditory journey wandering in a sea of floating stars diving into her sound. https://magdoulas6.wixsite.com/magda-lampropoulou/in-situ8) Mary Hooper - Pond Goddess and Dragons The legendary and wonderful ‘Pete the Pond’ at Hampden Park Pond sharing his knowledge about the wonderful biodiversity and history of ponds and waterways. He talks of his passion for the environment through the generation and restoration of ponds and the flora and fauna that colonise a healthy pond and water way and how important that is for us all. The soundscape layered into the piece is recorded in and around the pond, and you will also hear Pete's parrot contributing to the commentary. The parrot accompanies him on all of his field trips. 9) Dominik Irtenkauf and Smaely P - Your and My Forest Your forest and mine is haunted by two people: Ursula and Ernst. Ernst remembers Ernst Jünger, a hundred-year-old forest walker who simply gets lost in the forest and the many echoes it throws back. Then Ursula appears, remembering Ursula K. Le Guin, who excelled with ethnologically dense science fiction. Ursula retreats into the forest to protect it. In doing so, she finds rare peace of mind. ‘Your and My Forest’ brings together two people who might never have met and invites you on an acoustic journey, a first step towards a common forest that we can share by listening closely. English language version of original piece: Dein und Mein Wald (German). Voice, composition, sound design and production, translation and adaptation by Smaely P (aka Ypsmael), based on a text by Dominik Irtenkauf (whose voice appears towards the end). Dominik Irtenkauf is a Berlin-based freelance writer and journalist, he writes for TELEPOLIS and DAS SCIENCE FICTION JAHR, amongst others. He met SmaelyP at the symposium "Dual Sessions #1" in Sankt Georgen (Black Forest) on the subject of "Dual turntables and digitalisation". He works as an editor for genre, especially science fiction, at an online multimedia magazine. http://www.anthropop.de (currently under construction) Smaely P (aka Ypsmael) is an alias of experimental / non-music audio works and live electronics performances by Black Forest-bred improviser and sound collagist NM. Recent solo and collaborative releases are available on the Chocolate Monk label (Brighton) and Eh? Cassettes (San Francisco). https://ypsmael.com10) Alex McGlynn - The Rapture 3.13pm, 1st of May, 2023 I am an artist based in London, working in the context of narrative representation, gathering stories and generating output in response to discoveries. During Covid I photographed the dying plants abandoned in offices and shop windows. After Covid, some street preachers expressed their causation of it, others stayed within the more familiar territories of the general public as ‘sinners in hell’ if they didn’t shape up.
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Louise Romain - Immersive sound journey through Brasil
Louise Romain - Immersive sound journey through Brasil
1 September 2023 9:00 am - 9:30 am
In autumn 2022, I travelled to Brazil at the time of the national elections. I went with the intention to record sounds and stories of resistance and resilience, in times of collapse and crisis. This sound journey is a way of bringing people on the road with me. As your guide, I will take you through some of the country's most iconic landscapes, from the Coast of Bahia to the heart of the Amazon, sharing songs and prayers from the Pataxó people, bringing you the entrancing chant of the Yoruba ocean goddess Yemanja, and even get you involved into Brasilian politics. Biography: Louise trained as an anthropologist and works as a campaigner for climate justice and Indigenous rights. In 2022, she travelled through Canada and Brasil to connect with lands, waterways and peoples impacted by the fossil fuels, logging and mining industries. She gathered authentic stories, sounds from nature and atmospheric recordings and is now exploring the production of immersive soundscapes and experimental storytelling through her podcast show ‘Circle of Voices’. Recently, Louise also co-founded ‘Translating Terra’ with Jose Lobo, which offers translation services to amplify voices from the Global South who are actively protecting biodiversity, dismantling petro-capitalism and resisting extractivism and ecocide. LINKS http://tuneintotheworld.com/https://soundcloud.com/tune-intotheworld/https://open.spotify.com/show/2EYkHP6ASCUCvWU2job8vE
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John Hall - Follies Of 1931
John Hall - Follies Of 1931
1 September 2023 9:30 am - 10:00 am
Evidence from the North West Daily Mail of 1931 suggests that the psychic imbalance visited upon the world during that year may have reached critical mass during April the 22nd and 23rd. Comprising national and international reports of crime and tragedy, and family histories of violent fishing disputes in Askam In Furness over both days, Follies Of 1931 summons the era's seedy demagogues, gangsters and moral exemplars alongside its desperate unknowns. The surrounding murk is brightened by the popular music of the day. Devised by John Hall, featuring the voices of John Murphy, Kevin Alexander, Oswald Mosley and Mahatma Ghandi. John Hall is based in South Cumbria, He explores archives, rotting plastic bags in charity shops and all things inbetween to make audio, video,music and print about ritual, tradition and communal memory. He is artist / director of Artspace, and produces Flypaper, a zine on vernacular creativity. "A weirdly thrilling project" (Wire magazine) http://www.johnhallartist.com/
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Jasmina Al-Qaisi - Bine Bine
Jasmina Al-Qaisi - Bine Bine
1 September 2023 10:00 am - 10:45 am
Biene (2020) which is an audio text, mixing the speculation with facts about the Apidae family and reinterpreted opinions on the topic of obligation in relation to what we can call genealogies of care. Bine (good in Romanian) Biene (bee in German) is a trilingual poem which embodies in many ways "a history which did not reach the table". More here: https://jasminescu.com/bine-biene se/5387545?ev=rb
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Antje Vowinkel - Second floor
Antje Vowinkel - Second floor
1 September 2023 10:45 am - 11:00 am
Most of the recordings were taken from the second floor of a historic windmill in East Westphalia. Stones, levers, ropes and chains were set in motion for me by a volunteer caretaker. The mill sounds are combined with other noise recordings as well as few sounds of the soprano saxophone (vocal fry sounds recorded through the corpus, multi-phonics), played by myself. The title refers to the second floor of the mill, but also to the second flour or the floor of the second. Antje Vowinckel is a Berlin based composer, radio artist and music performer. She works for a variety of public radio stations and venues. Her focus is on the musicality of spoken word and speech improvisation. In recent years she developed her own methods like automatic speaking and dialect karaoke for vocal performers. She also creates installations and performances in public space, i.e., a quartet for car drivers and vibrating speakers. Her works have received several awards, i.e., Prix Europa, Karl-Sczuka-Förderpreis, honorary mentions of Prix Ars Electronica/Linz and Phonurgia Nova/Paris. http://www.antjevowinckel.de
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Edwina Stevens & Carly Fischer - Velodrome
Edwina Stevens & Carly Fischer - Velodrome
1 September 2023 11:00 am - 11:30 am
Velodrome is a collaborative soundscape by Edwina Stevens and Carly Fischer that oscillates around the industrial peripheries of their local area of Coburg, Melbourne, reflecting on how these in-between zones and their accumulations of forgotten fragments, traces and tones reveal hidden histories and generate improvisational dialogues with local places. Drawing on field recordings that wander around factories, former quarries and scrap yards, as well as synthesised drones played through discarded infrastructure, the soundscape has been composed through a randomised playback process, generating incidental overlaps and trajectories that open up alternate dialogues with the place. Edwina Stevens (Otepoti/Dunedin, Naarm/Melbourne) is an audiovisual artist working across composition, installation and live performance, exploring processes of engaging with places that are improvisational, tangential and incidental, through synthesised sound, field recordings, found acoustic elements and obsolete media. Carly Fischer (Naarm/Melbourne) is a sculptural and audio artist who engages with the smaller details, hidden histories and peripheral dialogues of places, through assemblages of objects, sounds and materialities. Carly and Edwina began collaborating in 2018 to develop sculptural and audiovisual projects that generate improvisational dialogues with local places, incorporating collected and reconstructed fragments, field recordings, archives and synthesised sound. Edwina Stevens https://www.disrhythms.nethttp://www.instagram.com/eves.disrhythmsedwinastevens@protonmail.comCarly Fischer https://www.carlyfischer.comhttp://www.instagram.com/carlyfischer_carly_fischer@yahoo.com.au
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Jim Colquhoun and Jamie McNeill - BLACK POWDER
Jim Colquhoun and Jamie McNeill - BLACK POWDER
1 September 2023 11:30 am - 11:45 am
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Buffer Zone
Buffer Zone
1 September 2023 11:45 am - 12:00 pm
1) Jasmina Al-Qaisi - Half-Hug (from 'leaning (on) paranthesis') (2:25)
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Robert Machiri – “Going round and coming again”
Robert Machiri – “Going round and coming again”
1 September 2023 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
This piece is composed of free improvised music and material from a performance recorded in Recklinghausen, a small town in Germany. As part of an experiential itinerant intervention between the town and Berlin, I attempt to interpret the resonance felt through the town’s labour history as an ex-mining-industrial location. To foreground a dystopian image. The failure for truth to hold capacity when it’s displayed within a cacophonic membrane. When landscape turns into a site for resistance. When time and temporality offer fractality as hope. This composition assembles elements from a personal music collection; biographically compiled with Zimbabwean liberation songs, African music ethnologically extracted and personal compositions of electronic music. I punctuate this cacophonic mix with other found archival materials. A timeless piece of James Baldwin in conversation with Giovanni that foregrounds ideas on the black family and its losses to historical catastrophes such as industrialisation and slavery. A documentary piece on Henry Ford and his close ally Frederick Taylor- except on scientific management and founder of organisational studies- which zooms in on labour exploitation, its benefits to capitalism and the global geopolitical dynamics involved. Robert ‘Chi’ Machiri born in 1978, in Zimbabwe is an artist who works primarily through sound mediation. Machiri’s work exists at the juncture of two streams of practice; his intuition and a post-disciplinary production of works that draw on discourses that are presented through embodied critique, learning and unlearning, interweaving sound, music and images. His most notable project PUNGWE is a mutable project that circles pan African soundings with related contemporary arts discourses and spaces. https://listeningatpungwe.wordpress.comhttps://www.hoerspielundfeature.de/hoerstueck-ueber-stimmen-aus-afrika-dzimudzangara-spektrale-100.htmlhttps://soundcloud.com/user-799683378/sets/accra-sound-trails
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Nicky Stott and Nat Grant with Luc Yong - Terrania
Nicky Stott and Nat Grant with Luc Yong - Terrania
1 September 2023 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Terrania is a gothic-eco-drama podcast exploring gender-queer and disability in the face of climate catastrophe. This project draws on contemporary environmental realities to explore how (dis)abled, genderqueer bodies might be reimagined in dystopian andutopian futurity narratives. The podcast consists of a series of micro-episodes with a specifically composed music soundtrack. Listeners experience these otherwordly geographies through the perspective of dual protagonist viewpoints and a sonic environment that evokes hope in the face of impending doom. It locates (dis)abled, genderqueer bodies on the frontline of climate emergency. Terrania is produced on unceded Wurundjeri Country.
Nicky Stott is a writer, media activist andartist working with analog and digital media since 1991. They have produced 3CRCommunity Radio’s environmental current affairs program Earth Matters since 2010. Dr. Nat Grant is a sound artist working across live performance, recording and broadcast, digital arts, andcommunity arts. Nat has created original chamber music, durational sound artworks, has composed and created sound design for theatre, dance, film, and live art, and in 2018 received the Age Music Victoria award for best Experimental/Avant-Garde Act. Luc Yong is a potter, writer, musician, and painter.
Nicky Stott https://linktr.ee/nickystott
Nat Grant http://natgrantmusic.com
Luc Yong http://lucslikeit.com
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Shorts 26
Shorts 26
1 September 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
1 - Aleatory Music Systems - SOS (5:19) 2 - Marc Rose - Twisted Epiphanies: The Estate Sale (06:40) 3 - Meryll Hardt - Drom vāta śunel ćirla (9:55) 4 - Kim Buikema - Lag-4-E (3:34) 5 - Graham Nathan Harris - Two Passages (9:53) 6 - Ariel Mioduser - Selfie (3:44) 7 - Emma Bowen - Postcard (2:50) 8 - Alistair Zaldua & Lauren Redhead - experimentalstudio (5:53) 9 - Johnny Dixon - A pop song playing in the background (0:55) 10 - Dante Tanzi - Pari (8:03) 1 - Robert Baldock - SOS (5:19) SOS, a new generative work by Robert Baldock (Aleatory Music Systems) explores the role of radio waves in relation to navigation, to safe passage, to the human cry for help. Building on Morse code, weather forecasts and the static of long wave radio and satellite, SOS continues Aleatory Music Systems ongoing investigation into the boundaries of order and chaos in systems music and electronic music, and the sonic collisions that mark the border of what will be heard and saved, and what may be lost. Robert Baldock is a Scottish-based composer who has been making and performing experimental music under the name Aleatory Music Systems (AMS) since 2002. In 2017 he survived a serious ischemic stroke and now lives with a suite of acute communication impairments. Expressing himself through the act of composing has never been more crucial for him. A recent recipient of the Francis Chagrin Award, Robert is returning to music with mentoring from composer Michael Begg. His work has been performed previously at ‘Seeing Sound’ Bath Spa University, ‘Generation’, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh Art Festival and ‘Neon Digital’ Dundee Contemporary Art. https://aleatorymusicsystems.bandcamp.com/https://soundcloud.com/aleatory-music-systems2 - Marc Rose - Twisted Epiphanies: The Estate Sale Spoken word piece written and read by the Jodi Lorimer. Post production music, sound design by Marc Rose. http://www.TheFuseboxShow.com 3 - Meryll Hardt - Drom vāta śunel ćirla https://www.instagram.com/meryll_hardt/ https://soundcloud.com/meryllh4 - Kim Buikema Lag-4-E Lag - 4 - E is an experimental poem that combines methods of permutation, 12-tone music composition, and musical canon to experiment with musicalizing spoken words. The phrase “the catch is the lag between two kinds of knowledge,” (penned by Adalaide Morris) refers to poet and writer Gertrude Stein, who experimented with permutations of words and syllables to make new meaning. It also describes the place between instinctual, embodied knowing and cognitive, learned thinking. For me, the catch is also a bridge that reflects how humans experience music as performers and listeners – in ways that are both visceral and cognitive. Kim Buikema is a Midwest-born, Brooklyn-based audio producer, media maker, and screenwriter. https://kimbuikema.wixsite.com/kimberly-buikema 5 - Graham Harris - Two Passages This work describes in sound two voyages (or 'passages'). It is notable that some of the samples used are from my own conventional acoustic ensemble piece for 8 instruments called 'Ritual Ballet' (2017). These samples are particularly used in the first 'passage'. I was fascinated how the samples, when manipulated electronically, transform into something totally different in concept and provide the material for a completely different work, yet still retain some aspects of the original vibe of the source work. The opening of the electronic work here submitted reminds the composer of a steam train setting off, but on an unpredictable dark journey. The two passages are separated by a short interlude. Graham Harris is based in London UK and has studied composition at Goldsmiths, Royal Holloway and Surrey University. He achieved a masters degree in composition (MMus Composition with distinction) in 2020. He was awarded Soundhub associate composer of the London Symphony Orchestra in 2017, and has received 4 awards for composition between 2021-22 in Italy, Vienna, Serbia, UK. He is now recently published by Universal Edition, Vienna. He has written both solo and chamber/ensemble works, electronic works, and also orchestral works. https://soundcloud.com/nathanharris336 - Ariel Mioduser - Selfie This piece evolves around an endless loop of the words “Ego” and “Click” as a reflection on the Selfie culture and the extension of the desire to propagate and publish the self, which, in the end, is just a repetitive image of the external. I am a media artist focusing on sound art, animation, and digital painting. Along the years my sound works have evolved from the use of field recordings and electronic instruments to being mainly based on my voice in a broad sense, processed to the point where sometimes it is not recognizable as a human voice, but still carries the warmth and vibration of the original. The visual raw material is the bare pixel as the building block of digital art. In all my works, the visual and the sound combine into one experience. https://arielmio4.wixsite.com/website 7 - Emma Bowen - Postcard This is a sonic postcard from Edinburgh. It explores sound from different positions in and around the city centre. The composition combines field recordings of airborne sounds from walks, with electromagnetic and local transport recordings. Through a deeper listening practise, the city sounds begin to form rhythms and loops. http://www.emmagbowen.com8 - Alistair Zaldua & Lauren Redhead - experimentalstudio SouthWestApril is a collection of four experimental sound poems that combine speech, improvisation and live electronics that can be heard as separate pieces or a continuous set. The texts were created using extended Oulipo techniques, while the e-violin interacts with live electronics that sample and process the improvised sound in real time. These pieces were recorded at the SWR Experimentalstudio in Freiburg, Germany, in April 2023; live electronics were performed in the studio by Maurice Oeser. Alistair Zaldua is a composer, improviser and violinist based in Manchester. In addition to his work as a solo improviser, he performs in a duet for organ and live electronics with Lauren Redhead. http://www.alistair-zaldua.de Lauren Redhead is a composer of experimental music whose work is published by Material Press (Berlin) and by Firehead Organ Works (UK). Her music is released on the pan y rosas discos and sfz music labels. She is also a performer of music for organ and electronics, often working in a duet with Alistair Zaldua. https://laurenredhead.eu/ 9 - Johnny Dixon - A pop song playing in the background 10 - Dante Tanzi - Pari Pari is inspired by ritual-type ceremonies and, more generally, by those practices which, by modulating the quality of listening, aim to draw on particular dimensions of experience. Pari has a linear-cyclic trend that develops over six tracks and is based on the repetition of an ordered sequence of 13 female voice samples, immersed in electronic sounds. The samples include words of the Italian language and meaningless vocal expressions, of an emotional type: Prati, Con, Gheu, Pari, Oss, Alti, Se, Sol, Boi, Mmhs, Ella, Za, Onde. The words and vocal expressions are underlined and accompanied by the melodies of a synthetic wind instrument. Dante Tanzi is a composer and performer of acousmatic music. https://www.audior.eu/chi-siamo/
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Pablo Sanz - Lanzarote
Pablo Sanz - Lanzarote
1 September 2023 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
LANZAROTE (22:22) This work centers on Timanfaya, a territory molded by its volcanic eruptions over six years in 1730-36, and again in 1824. The composition listens with other animal species that dwell around the rugged coast, endeavoring into their intimate “lifeworlds.” It also traverses the aural expressions of multiple materialities, attending to crackling lava rocks, energy-making devices and ground vibrations in a zone of shallow geothermal anomalies, and to the endless flux of “intra-actions” among wind, water, and earth. CANARIAS SOUNDWALK explores the sonic ecologies of the Canary Islands archipelago, presenting seven compositions for headphone listening created with environmental sound materials from each of the seven main islands: El Hierro, La Gomera, La Palma, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, and Lanzarote. The project investigates the vitality of more-than-human entities and realities, aiming to promote less anthropocentric ways of being and thinking. Through different listening strategies and audio technologies, the work concentrates on what usually remains hidden or unnoticed, on the limits and thresholds of perception and attention. The project focuses on the voices and audible presence of animal and plant species, air, soil, water, weather, and landscape formations. Furthermore, it acknowledges the affective power of sounds themselves. This project embraces listening as a creative act, a form of attention, and a tool to investigate the world. It attempts to cultivate intimate sensory encounters favouring affectivity over signification and representation. The project was originally commissioned by the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in the US as a permanent public invisible artwork available at multiple locations in Washington, DC. Additional support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI), the Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Konstnärsnämnden) and the Visby International Centre for Composers (VICC). Fieldwork and production assistance: Palma E. Christian Martínez. Special thanks to Garajonay National Park, Teide National Park, and Timanfaya National Park. http://pablosanz.infohttps://pablosanz.bandcamp.comhttps://soundcloud.com/pablosanzhttps://www.instagram.com/pabloooosanz/https://www.facebook.com/pablooosanz
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Omer Eilam - A Day at Hambacher Forst
Omer Eilam - A Day at Hambacher Forst
1 September 2023 2:20 pm - 3:00 pm
A couple of years ago I spent a day at the Hambach Forest in West Germany together with a group of activists who were occupying the forest and trying to save it from destruction for the sake of coal mining. The piece is a musical-storytelling journey combining spoken word with synthesised sounds and samples wherein I tried to capture those 24 hours and put them in a broader context of the environmental movement and of human society. The work is dedicated to all activists, environmentalists and spiritual warriors who devote their lives to protecting the Hambach Forest.
Originally from Tel Aviv I began my academic studies with a Bachelor degree in Neuroscience and later continued to a PhD in Computational Biology and research of the Human Microbiome. In 2014 I moved to The Netherlands to study electronic music in The Institute of Sonology. Focusing on the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen I acquired my Master's degree and later trained as a sound projectionist and synthesizer creator for the Aus LICHT production in Holland Festival 2019. Since 2021 I live in Falkensee (Germany) and continue to explore the many facets of the human condition through music, activism, Yoga and Anthroposophy.
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Ruaridh Law / Ronan Doyle / Morag Law - Where The Waves Erode The Heavens (live in studio)
Ruaridh Law / Ronan Doyle / Morag Law - Where The Waves Erode The Heavens (live in studio)
1 September 2023 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Sound artist Ruaridh Law presents a brand new piece for live electronics and two voices, "Where The Waves Erode The Heavens", accompanied live by the voices of Ronan Doyle and Morag Law. Using music from the Isle of Lewis - via chanter, clarsach, waulking songs and psalms - the three weave together a tapestry of interlocking voices, from the past to right now, linking the landscape of the island with the stars and beyond. http://ruaridhTVO.comhttps://www.infinityartists.com/actors/ronan-doylehttps://www.luath.co.uk/mrag-law
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Trouble Tracer - Autofahrt (radio version)
Trouble Tracer - Autofahrt (radio version)
1 September 2023 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Facing ignition issues? Looking to identify the symptoms to understand where the problem lies? Our handy Trouble Tracer guide offers clear audio examples that will help you diagnose the problem. Whether it be Corona Discharge Stains, Cold/Carbon Fouling, Pad Contamination, Flash Over, Ash Deposits or Detonation we’re here to help! At Trouble Tracer® we know one thing: quality is in the details. And what's true for technological developments is true for adequately identifying issues and matching them with the appropriate solution. At Trouble Tracer® we also believe that accuracy is best attained by working together. That's why we openly share solutions and lay out in a to-the-point and concise manner a reliable way to diagnose contamination, wear, damage and other potential issues, and how to best return to the ideal standards of performance and efficiency we work with dedication to maintain. The Trouble Tracer® guide doesn't always give you enough information for you to know exactly what's wrong, but it does mean that you can eliminate everything from the input to the point where the signal changes. It's important to understand that when fault finding, any anomalous voltage is a symptom of the fault, and is not the fault itself. With its unique patented technology, Trouble Tracer® produces audio and visual signals that technicians easily catch when they tap the target. But nevertheless it does not require bending, cutting, freezing or any other actions that can damage cables. Autofahrt is ideal for individuals that have difficulty in differentiating between static and leak noise on an electronic listening stick! Trouble Tracer are Fritz Welch and Mark Vernon. Biographies Fritz Welch is a drummer, percussionist and vocalist determined to stretch the escalator of possibilities into the bloodshot eye of results. He was a founding member of Asparagus Piss Raindrop, Peeesseye and Lambs Gamble. He currently plays in EGO DEPLETION (with Adam Campbell), Dome Riders (with Armin Sturm, Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh and Mike Parr Burman), Zoming Flakes (with Iain Findlay Walsh and Louise Ahl), and has ongoing duo collaborations with Olivier Di Placido, Mariam Rezaei and Aniela Piasecka. A longtime Brooklynite of Texas origins, Welch is now based in Glasgow Scotland. http://www.humansacrifice.netMark Vernon is a Glasgow based sound artist who works with found tapes and acousmatic presence. His work explores themes of magnetic memory, audio archaeology, voyeurism and nostalgia. His solo music projects have been published through labels including Kye, Glistening Examples, Flaming Pines, Misanthropic Agenda, Entr’acte and Canti Magnetici. He co-runs and curates Glasgow art radio station, Radiophrenia and has produced programmes for stations internationally. http://meagreresource.com
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Isaac Heard - Ultra Heart
Isaac Heard - Ultra Heart
1 September 2023 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
This piece was inspired by the idea of different life forms experiencing life at different speeds based upon their heartbeats. So a mouse may experience time very quickly with a fast heartbeat and live only two years while a blue whale may live 90 years and experience time very slowly. The sounds in the piece each respond to a unique animals heartbeat.
Bio: Isaac Heard (b.1995, Croydon) lives and works in Glasgow. Heard is a visual artist primarily working with video and animation to create fictional narratives exploring our relationship to environment and memory. Heard graduated with 1st class honours from his BA studies of Fine Art at Lancaster University (2019), having spent a year studying abroad at the University of Colorado, Boulder campus (2018). Heard graduated from his masters in Fine Art Practise at the Glasgow School of Art with Distinction. For his 2022 Mlitt Degree Show, Heard screened Sharon, a work combining video and animation as the protagonist reflects on her memories and relationship to her mother. In 2022 Heard worked on an extended animation project Bone Flower composed of hand drawn chalk images that explore the relationship between mind and environment. Heard has also taught at various higher education institutions such as Lancaster University.
Instagram: @IsaacHeardArt
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Kunstradio 5 - Polywave über der Ringstrasse by GX Jupiter-Larsen
Kunstradio 5 - Polywave über der Ringstrasse by GX Jupiter-Larsen
1 September 2023 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
During his many visits to Vienna from 1989 to 2012, GX very much enjoyed his frequent strolls along Ringstrasse. He would often conduct field recordings from one end of the street to the other.
Foregoing the temporal order, to simulate the experience of a walking tour, GX presents these recordings in geographical order from west to east, from Wiener Staatsoper to Sigmund Freud Park, and on to the banks of The Danube.
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Manja Ristic - More tuge - The Sea of Sorrow
Manja Ristic - More tuge - The Sea of Sorrow
1 September 2023 5:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Manja Ristić is a violinist, sound artist, poet, curator and researcher active in the fields of electroacoustic and classical music, instrumental improvisation and experimental sound art. Her work blends intuitive composition and field recording practices while focusing on interdisciplinary approaches to acousmatic forms, radio art, and acoustic ecology. Manja Ristić currently works and lives on the island of Korčula, Croatia.
http://manjaristic.blogspot.com
https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com
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Ruby Lawrence - Live in the studio
Ruby Lawrence - Live in the studio
1 September 2023 5:15 pm - 5:30 pm
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Buffer Zone
Buffer Zone
1 September 2023 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Jasmina Al-Qaisi - nice to meet you_worked on_(1:21)
Alexandra Spence -communion_touch_mastered (10:55)
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Jasmina Al-Qaisi - To enter the ____’s mouth
Jasmina Al-Qaisi - To enter the ____’s mouth
1 September 2023 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
“To enter the ____’s mouth” might feel like sitting on a flower and looking for trouble. While fighting chronic pain, Gura is building up her character across dimensions. Gura seeks origins of inherited fears and pains mistaking entrances for exits, caves for cavities, venturing confidently in and out of mouths from idiomatic sentences and more. All of these strategies seems necessary for Gura to ride with Hypochondria on an anecdotal journey towards the inside of an MRI. Biography: Jasmina Al-Qaisi is a poet who writes for voice and paper, articulates and performs language with sound, food or care practices towards uncontainable forms of literature. When writing with sound, Jasmina shape-shifts in inexistant institutional forms, invents jobs, engages in human and more than human relations and broadcasts temporarily or mobile on free and public radios. https://jasminescu.com
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Alexandra Spence - Sound Diary Sept-Nov 2022
Alexandra Spence - Sound Diary Sept-Nov 2022
1 September 2023 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Alexandra Spence Sound diary: Sept-Nov 2022 Whilst travelling and touring across Europe in Sept-Nov 2022, instead of field recording - I made short descriptive notes on environmental sounds that piqued my interest. I had been feeling disillusioned with field recording and keeping these notes allowed me to examine what it was I enjoyed in each sound I encountered. For this piece I have used my text descriptions as a kind of score for miniatures, attempting to reimagine and recreate these sounds using various, unrelated sources; allowing these descriptions to re-compose musical memory. +Truck reversing out of town square layered deep resonant drone, like music, Kristiansand +Nescafe in hotel room bubbly mid pitch rising +Bathroom door in teateret squeaky staccato texture, Kristiansand +Saxophone noise show of shower handle in Brunswick hotel, Glasgow +Gentle squeal of gate at Hanley court, London +Man in front of me on train Cologne to Berlin, snapping a piece of the window blind gently creating an elastic band resonance snap sound, blended really well with the Jenny Hval album I was simultaneously listening to +Cheery Berlin tram-stop jingle +Footsteps on cobbled stairs in graffiti alley way, near Intendente, Lisbon +Internal music on train to Paris +Sirens across Europe, bouncing, encircling, spinning off buildings around the city (all the EU sirens sound the same) +2x Cherry pickers in the Tate turbine hall installing Cecilia Vicuña, glissandi drones as they move. Striking, shifting resonant harmonies +Squeaky swing - metal harmonics in a park on Garibaldi Palestrina, Milan +Listening to Kendrick - the Heart Part 5 at take-off, voice awash with loud engine sound +Trolley in Bratislava old town bumping on rails and echoing off buildings - deep club bass tones +Man rubbing a twig against the granite footpath at the Slavin memorial, Bratislava +Voices of Italian tourists bouncing off Soviet memorial staircase, Bratislava +Someone sneezing in a quiet section of a violin and double bass improv set in Stockholm +Rhythm of water dripping off boat into Stockholm harbour +Squeaky mooring of boat and ramp, Stockholm harbour +Rain falling on Filmhuset, Stockholm Biography: Alexandra Spence is a sound artist and musician living on unceded Wangal land in Sydney. Through her practice Alex attempts to reimagine the intricate relationships between the listener, the object, and the surrounding environment as a kind of communion or conversation. Her aesthetic favours field recordings, analogue technologies and object interventions. Alex has presented her in Australia and abroad including BBC Radio; Ausland, Berlin; Café Oto, London; EMS, Stockholm; Punkt Festival, Kristiansand; Standards Studio, Milan; AB Salon, Brussels; Radiophrenia, Glasgow; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Sound Forms Festival, Hong Kong; MONO, Brisbane; The Substation, Melbourne; Soft Centre, Liveworks Festival with Liquid Architecture, Sydney. She regularly collaborates with MP Hopkins as Banana and has released her music with Room40, Longform editions, Mappa, More Mars (Banana), and Canti Magnetici. Weblinks: https://alexandraspence.net/linktr.ee/alexandraspence Social media: https://www.instagram.com/alxandraspence/
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Shorts 18
Shorts 18
1 September 2023 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
1) Anna-Maria Rammou - Fallacy: Our mind is a cracked mould shaping reality (10:08)2) Gardika Gigih ft Javanese Gibbons, Tanijiwo, Swara Owa - Mimpi Owa (4:07) 3) Char Bickley - pool party (11:04) 4) Mark Vernon - Call Back Carousel Ep 1 - Holidays Torquay, 1969 (10:34) 5) Marek Hlavac - Changing Weather 2 - dawn chorus forecast (5:50) 6) Ilaria Boffa - Ode for the Beginners (7:46) 7) Nacho Cordoba Delgado - This Tape Machine Destroys Time 12 - Shoji Mariah - Ritual for the Machines 1 (4:26) 8) Cristina Marras - Les Fleurs (1:00) 9) Dariusz Mazurowski - The Most Historic Telephone Call (3:31)1) Anna-Maria Rammou - Fallacy: Our mind is a cracked mould shaping reality In this track I express feelings of indignation, sadness and fear. Showing how it feels to return home, after 10 years of absence, in a city where economic, social and environmental degradation are so obvious and yet only few seem to notice and care. 2) Gardika Gigih ft Javanese Gibbons, Tanijiwo, Swara Owa - Mimpi Owa This work is my collaboration with the Javanese Gibbons sound in the Petungkriyono Forest, Central Java, Indonesia as a reflection on the relationship between nature and human being in current climate crisis. In August last year, I and friends from Tanijiwo and Musik Sekitar visited the SwaraOwa community in Petungkriyono forest. We were lucky to meet a group of Javanese gibbons calling to each others. I recorded this magical sounds. Later, I composed this music, elaborated the recording of Javanese gibbons, eagles, cicadas and other forest sounds with Sundanese zhiter and basing pacing, a traditional reed instrument from Sulawesi. Gardika Gigih is an Indonesian composer, pianist and soundscape researcher. His works, which have been performed internationaly span numerous genres from concert to contemporary improvisation, film scoring, and sound ethnography. In 2019, Gardika received a fellowship from The Japan Foundation Asia Center to conduct soundscape research as cultural narratives in Southeast Asia, Japan (published in http://www.lostinsound.art). Now, he is staying in New York as Asian Cultural Council Fellows 2023. Recently, his composition “Mimpi Owa”, has been nominated for Sound of The Year Awards, for Composed With Sound Category, held by BBC Radiophonic Institute and The Museum of Sounds. 3) Char Bickley - pool party A sonic splash around the local pool. Using field recordings and interviews with loved-ones, pool_party considers the everyday experience of going to the swimming pool, re-imagining the acoustic character of this familiar space, exploring the relationship between nostalgia and a sense of place. Char Bickley is a sound designer, live artist and DJ, under the alias Carlos. Their current practice is focussed on sacredness and ritual in non-religious settings, and the potential for human connection in celebrating the everyday and mundane. https://charlottebickleyso.wixsite.com/charlotte-bickley-so/listen https://soundcloud.com/carlos_riddims 4) Mark Vernon - Call Back Carousel Episode 1 - Holidays Torquay, 1969 5) Marek Hlavac - Changing Weather 2 - dawn chorus forecast Sound of birds forecasted by time-series forecasting algorithm. Marek Hlavac is sound artist whose work is focused on relation of sound, technology and natural and social environments. His performances, installations, compositions and site-specific projects are based on listening, reflection and speculative reimagining. His live performances often concentrate on relationship between instrument/technological setup and interaction of participants. http://marekhlavac.net6) Ilaria Boffa - Ode for the Beginners Ilaria Boffa is an Italian poet and sound recordist. She writes bilingual poetry and she has published three poetry collections to date. She is one of the eight authors included in NeMLA“Writing in a Different Language’ Vol XL 2018. Her sono-poems, which combine poetry and field recording, have been broadcast on Radiophrenia Glasgow radio art festival and Clyde Built Radio Glasgow. Three of her collaborative audio-video installations have been exhibited at Mahalla Festival Murmuration 2021 in Turkey, Nature&Culture Poetry Film Festival 2021 in Sweden, !Flick! International Film Festival 2023 in the US and MK Architektur Exhibition 2023 in Germany. https://linktr.ee/ilariaboffaIB 7) Nacho Cordoba Delgado - This Tape Machine Destroys Time 12 - Shoji Mariah - Ritual for the Machines 1 TTMDT is a collection series made from January to December 2012. One tape/digital release per month out on MAGIA. The first 6 were created by MAGIA founder Ignacio Córdoba and the rest by close friends and fellow artists Gianluca Elia (IT/DK), Simon Forchhammer (DK), Michał Biel (PL/DK), bjarkebbbb (DK), Louise Vind Nielsen (GE/DK) and the mysterious Shoji Mariah (BR/JP). All the releases focus on tapes, tape machines and machines as destroyers of time, of perception and of the perception of time. Samples, coding, looping, hacking, field recording, plunderphonics and improvisation share the detritus of Time. 8) Cristina Marras - Les Fleurs This piece by Cristina Marras (sound design and production) and Elodie Silberstein (voice) is a delicate and nostalgic exploration of the enchanting world of picture books. Drawing inspiration from the timeless tale of Little Ida's Flowers, by which both artists were captivated during their childhoods, the piece weaves together soundscapes and sonic textures to evoke the magical atmosphere of a childhood classic. Throughout the piece, listeners are swept up in a rich tapestry of emotions blended together to create an ethereal soundscape that feels both alluring and uncanny. As two individuals whose paths crossed in Melbourne, Cristina and Elodie grew up in different places and times – Cameroon, France, and Italy. They set out to create an immersive audio experience to capture the sense of bewilderment that occurs when you seem to remember that elusive – and always fleeting – memory from your childhood. Their work, much like the all-encompassing otherness that permeates the psyche of every traveller, embodies the blending of people, places, and cultures. https://www.cristinamarras.com https://elodiesilberstein.wordpress.com9) Dariusz Mazurowski - The Most Historic Telephone Call Recorded at the Ingrid Studio, Prague, 1994 – 1995. This short radiophonic collage was created as a kind of tribute to the space flight pioneers, especially to Yuri Gagarin, Neil Alden Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Eugene “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr of Apollo 11. Contains authentic audio footage by above mentioned figures, US presidents and unknown radio presenters of that era. https://deemstudio.com/
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Jerome Joy - Sobralasolas! episode 1
Jerome Joy - Sobralasolas! episode 1
1 September 2023 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Sobralasolas ! 1st épisode of the remote radiopera, for live, streamed and recorded sounds. With Jérôme Joy, Kaffe Matthews, Gregory Whitehead, Björn Eriksson, Caroline Bouissou and DinahBird Based on a mix of field recordings, spoken performances & electroacoustic improvisation in a networked playing configuration, SOBRALASOLAS! does not have preestablished scenario or story (neither a documentary nor a radio testimony). It is a place for glossolalies and echolalias. SOBRALASOLAS! intercuts collected and improvised sounds with the aim of recreating a new listening environment that is both fictional and real, time-specific and site-specific. SOBRALASOLAS! aims to condense and slow down the process of listening and, by extension, our way of grasping surroundings in everyday life. It has been played at various international festival and along many radio broadcasts since 2008. Biography: Jérôme Joy. Since the beginning of the eighties and after studies at the Music Conservatory of Bordeaux (France), his work is based on sound intensity & loudness, duration and delay as structure and de-structuring of music. After starting as a performer, improviser and "microphonist" in 1982, he had developed a series of net and art works along the 1990s. He's currently member of some noise music projects : Qwat ?, pizMO, MXPRMNTL, Noii, etc. He was research co-director of Locus Sonus audio in art research lab (2004-2016) and has been involved these last years in collaborative projects (with Keith Rowe, Pauline Oliveros, Eric Letourneau, The Residents, etc.). Weblinks: https://jeromejoy.org/ https://nocinema.org/ https://projetneuf.cc/
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Yulia | Julia Carolin Kothe - Drifting through the haze, one might decide to focus on the garden’s shed
Yulia | Julia Carolin Kothe - Drifting through the haze, one might decide to focus on the garden’s shed
1 September 2023 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
'Drifting through the haze, one might decide to focus on the garden’s shed’ is a 56-minute radiophonic piece in which the listener can encounter an assemblage of tools in a shed or an analysis of a square metre's vegetation.
As guests in this evolving sonic landscape, we navigate through deconstructed moods, personal memories, fractured voices, and field recordings harvested during a residency stay in a private garden somewhere in West Cork. Each step unveils a new facet of the garden's array as we meander amidst the lush lawn and traverse the acoustic tunnel system.
Yulia’s collaboration with the local gardeners – Ralph Ferguson, Johann Gardener, Chris Mac Mahan, Bruv James Slash&Burn – informs the exploration, as they dig out, cultivate and display stories ranging from the eerie to the tender, the space between presence and absence, engine sounds, poems and coffee-filled cups.
Credits:
Featuring the gardeners: Ralph Ferguson, Johann Gardener, Chris Mac Mahan, Bruv James Slash&Burn
… with special thanks to the gardeners, the Crespo Foundation (Ulrike Crespo), Lisa Fabian for joint jam sessions, Maria Kothe, Wolfgang Kothe and to Marcus Maeder for providing soil recordings of the garden.
© 2023, Yulia | Julia Carolin Kothe, Drifting through the haze, one might decide to focus on the garden’s shed, commissioned by radiophrenia and developed during the Glenkeen Garden Residency of the Crespo Foundation.
BIOGRAPHY
Yulia | Julia Carolin Kothe (*Gießen, DE) is a visual artist based between Glasgow (UK) and Frankfurt am Main (DE). She completed two Master's degrees in sculpture with distinction at the Glasgow School of Art and Kunsthochschule Mainz, respectively. She is a studio holder at the Glasgow Sculpture Studios.
Julia Carolin Kothe works at the intersection of sculpture, installation, sound, text and performance. In her site-specific installations and spatial interventions, she explores the connections, discrepancies and tensions of temporal and spatial settings that incorporate elements of personal and collective memory, intersectional feminist theory and archival material. She is interested in relationships that materialise in spaces and in-between bodies, for instance between the physical and the digital, the human and the non-human, and the glitches that emerge between experience, memory, reality and fiction. Yulia (the sonic and performative echo of JCK) is curious about collaborative ways of working that lead to radio episodes, sound works, texts and publications on both physical and digital platforms.
Recent works have been shown internationally at French Street (Glasgow), Rosa Stern (Munich), Kunsthalle Mainz (Mainz), Queens Street Studios (Belfast), POKY – Institute of Contemporary Art (Mainz), Atletika Gallery (Vilnius), mañana bold (Offenbach a.M.) and Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt a.M.), among others. She has participated in a number of residencies, including the CCA: Creative Lab Residency (Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow), the Hospitalfield Graduate Programme (Arbroath) and is a fellow of the Stiftung Kunstfonds (working grant, Bonn).
WEBSITE
http://www.juliacarolinkothe.de
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Shorts 48
Shorts 48
1 September 2023 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
1) Craig Gel - Great Orme Copper Mine (Auto Filter) (4:15) 2) Stuart Low - Fug (1:41) 3) allspringflowers- SPASM (14:03) 4) Marko Paunović - Displacements (3:00) 5) Andrea Borghi - Audiopanorama (4:25) 6) Stuart Low - Goff (0:53) 7) Christiaan Muller - Poetry Soundscapes: Snugness (1:00) 8) LUOM (Luke Drozd & Omar Johnsen) – Live at BEK (20:51) 9) Chloé Hofmann - Pas dormir (1:00) 10) nula cc - slatiny,1 (5:29) 1) Craig Gel - Great Orme Copper Mine (Auto Filter) This piece uses a short field recording made at the Bronze Age copper mines at Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. As the original recording repeats, it is side-chained to a series of automated filters of varying sensitivity, transforming the sound of dripping from the limestone tunnels into an array of synthetic voices. On the third repetition the source audio is muted, leaving just the synthetic signals. Craig Gell is a sound artist, musician and composer based in Folkestone, Kent. His recent work explores the human relationship with the natural environment, using field recordings, geoscience data and creative programming to produce installations, web apps, sound maps and electroacoustic compositions. Craig also writes more conventional music and has composed for a number of short animated films. He also performs with free improvisors the Free Range Orchestra, Canterbury. https://www.craiggellmusic.comhttps://www.soundcloud.com/craiggellhttps://craiggell.bandcamp.com/2) Stuart Low - Fug 3) allspringflowers- SPASM SPASM is the recording of a live performance I performed in August, 2012 at the A.I.D. x Buluntu Takeover in Yalıkavak, Bodrum. It is a fixed-media attempt to create a sonic diary of personal experience and an immersive emotional soundscape. Its raw materials are the sounds of bodies, languages, foraged field recordings, synthesis and other sonic gatherings. allspringflowers (she/they): radio artist and DJ residing in Istanbul. things she mostly deals with: creating eclectic & electronic sets, lingering, producing sonic stories for live performances and radios, planting and growing some seeds, sociology of music, opening up space for solidarity and cooperation in art worlds, weaving cocoons and coming out of them, staying sane in Turkey. https://www.instagram.com/gunsferel/https://soundcloud.com/gunsferel4) Marko Paunović - Displacements 3-channel installation DISPLACEMENTS is based on an accumulation of the voice fragments taken from the Radio Belgrade broadcast “Slow walking in(to)… (fragments about eccentricity in simultaneous expression and suppression of desire)”. The voice of distinguished speaker Marica Milčanović has been treated with three different envelope shapers, which are stipulating the layer’s mutual dynamics. Within that process, conceptual defragmentation of the words and breaths leaves the impression of an “open form”. The piece is produced in Electronic Studio of Radio Belgrade, on EMS Synthi 100. Marko Paunović is an ambient artist and sound sculptor. He works with the synthesis of electro-acoustics and ambiance while researching the sound potential of the melancholic atmosphere of isolated landscapes within frames of minimalism and drones. This work is represented in sound installations, sound performances, radiophonic pieces, sound for independent experimental movies as well as solo albums and collaborations. His poetical-theoretical texts represent the example of conceptual and linguistic (l=a=n=g=u=a=g=e) poetry, and they are simultaneously the starting points for his compositions. As they speak about the act of its own genesis through its auto-reflexivity, as much as of its composing process, with every staging of his work Marko enters the domain of “lecture performance” format. https://markopaunovic.bandcamp.com/https://andagainandagainmusic.bandcamp.com/5) Andrea Broghi - Audiopanorama 6) Stuart Low - Goff 7) Christiaan Muller - Poetry Soundscapes: Snugness Poetry Soundscapes is a podcast that invites listeners to immerse themselves in a world of fieldrecordings, a little music and poetry. The podcast begins with a reflection by Charles Simic on the role of art in expressing the impossible predicament that we all find ourselves in as human beings. In the context of poetry, the predicament often refers to the limitations and challenges that the poet faces in trying to express their thoughts and emotions through language, as well as the existential struggles that are part of the human condition. The host shares a personal story of a childhood experience where he found himself in a cold, dark room counting the tolling of a church bell to pass the time. He argues that the cold and discomfort of the room actually added to the experience, as it allowed him to appreciate the warmth and comfort of his bed. The host reflects on the beauty of the world and the importance of taking the time to appreciate it. He suggests that, like the experience of being cold in a warm bed, we need contrasts in life in order to fully appreciate the moments of joy and beauty. 8) LUOM (Luke Drozd & Omar Johnsen) – Live at BEK Following a residency at BEK (Bergen Senter for Electronisk kunst), Norway, duo LUOM were invited back for a short live performance. Live at BEK is a 20 minute improvised session of two artists trying to find a shared audio language. A playful back and forth that can be filed under: Soft Noise. 9) Chloé Hofmann - Pas dormir Chloé trouve que la nuit ce n'est pas fait pour dormir mais la personne avec qui elle vit n'est pas du même avis. 10) nula cc - slatiny,1 https://nulacc.bandcamp.com/
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Leon Clowes - My Story with Alcohol
Leon Clowes - My Story with Alcohol
1 September 2023 11:00 pm - 11:20 pm
These works from the last twelve months are all part of my current PhD practice research at London College of Music, University of West London. Using autoethnographic techniques, I'm exploring self-compassionate creative exploration of lived trauma (kinship care family, growing up gay during the AIDS crisis, addiction/abuse). 'Secrets keep us sick and pop music brings us closer' is an audio paper selected for Seismograf's 'Grief' edition. (Radiophrenia broadcast 9pm 24th Aug). 'My story with alcohol' is part of an installation at Open School East's Associate Artist exhibition. (Radiophrenia broadcast 11pm 1st September). 'The Haunting' is a music, film and spoken word performance from Naviar Records Haiku Fest at Cafe Oto. (Radiophrenia broadcast 9:30pm 3rd September). In the last three years, leon clowes’ transdisciplinary artworks have featured in, and been commissioned by, Drake Music Scotland/NMC Recordings for pianist Siwan Rhys, BBC News and Sounds podcast, SPILL and Deptford X arts festivals, Frieze Art Fair, Cafe Oto, Squish Rotterdam, Queer Art Projects, Disability Arts Online, Margate Pride, Queer Contemporaries, Datscha Radio Berlin, Britten Pears Arts and Exploding Cinema. Together with Cathy Sloan, and working curatorially with international groups and artists, leon is using lived experience to establish the national Addiction Recovery Arts Network. http://www.leonclowes.com
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The Castle - Greetings from the kitchen
The Castle - Greetings from the kitchen
1 September 2023 11:20 pm - 2 September 2023 12:00 am
This is the first piece served by The Castle, whose name is both a concrete and abstract starting point for their musical research: blurring images of architectures in the middle of a haunting biotope taking over, strangely independent dishes developing a life of their own, hidden spaces and corridors, repetitive patterns versus chaotic processes, cut up voice fragments and illogical complexity. Recorded on March 25th 2023. Mixed by Andreas O. Hirsch, mastered by Thomas Rehnert. Biography: The Castle is a collective for electronic and electro-acoustic improvisation, recently founded by a handful of German and French artists living in rural Finistère in Brittany. With Ursula Döbereiner (no input system), Andreas O. Hirsch (electrified palm leaf & morse key), Patricia Koellges (tashigoto, electric bass & voice), Gaël Moissonnier (modular synths & various electronics) and Thomas Rehnert (doepfer modular synths & percussion). https://www.HirschOnHirsch.comhttp://www.mme-duo.dehttps://thomasrehnert.dehttp://www.ursuladoebereiner.dehttps://zerojardins.org
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The Castle - Greetings from the kitchen
The Castle - Greetings from the kitchen
1 September 2023 11:20 pm - 2 September 2023 12:00 am
This is the first piece served by The Castle, whose name is both a concrete and abstract starting point for their musical research: blurring images of architectures in the middle of a haunting biotope taking over, strangely independent dishes developing a life of their own, hidden spaces and corridors, repetitive patterns versus chaotic processes, cut up voice fragments and illogical complexity. Recorded on March 25th 2023. Mixed by Andreas O. Hirsch, mastered by Thomas Rehnert. Biography: The Castle is a collective for electronic and electro-acoustic improvisation, recently founded by a handful of German and French artists living in rural Finistère in Brittany. With Ursula Döbereiner (no input system), Andreas O. Hirsch (electrified palm leaf & morse key), Patricia Koellges (tashigoto, electric bass & voice), Gaël Moissonnier (modular synths & various electronics) and Thomas Rehnert (doepfer modular synths & percussion). https://www.HirschOnHirsch.comhttp://www.mme-duo.dehttps://thomasrehnert.dehttp://www.ursuladoebereiner.dehttps://zerojardins.org
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Glue Banta (Jonny Farrow) - The Distract and Disable Program Episode 7
Glue Banta (Jonny Farrow) - The Distract and Disable Program Episode 7
2 September 2023 12:00 am - 1:00 am
Glue Banta is a disembodied voice, a host, a nonsense name intended to be an invocation to open the subconscious to non-reality; an imaginary and immersive space for the listener; a place where ghosts manifest, aliens walk among us, systems fail and organisms mutate. The program is recorded as a performance derived from many different sources: vinyl, cassette tape, field recordings, live radio, various texts, film soundtracks from DVD, and paranoid internet ramblings, which are subsequently manipulated through various analog and digital means. This episode features descriptions of Atlantean Crystals as well as the loading of canons. Biography: Jonny Farrow (as Glue Banta) hosted Wave Farm/WGXC's monthly radio show The Distract and Disable Program from 2011-2016, and is part of the NRRF Radio collective. He also makes sculpture, sound art, paintings, and prints. His radio work has been heard worldwide via such festivals as Radiophrenia, Poniia (soundcrack), New Adventures in Sound Art, Safina Radio (Venice Biennale), Electrofest (UAE), and Radioee. His sound work and music has been released by and appeared on Hello CD, Dive Records, Rhinestone Records, Five Leaf Clover, free103point9, and Must Die Records. Contact: Jonny Farrow Email: jonnysounds@gmail.comIG: @jonnyfarrow FB: Jonny Farrow Web: https://jonnyfarrow.netWeblinks: The Distract and Disable Program Blog https://distractanddisable.blogspot.comWave Farm Show/Artist's Page https://wavefarm.org/ta/archive/artists/y0vja9Wave Farm/WGXC Archive https://tinyurl.com/yjvlnks6Jonny Farrow https://jonnyfarrow.netSafina Radio (for Venice Biennale) Circuits±Waves (Jonny Farrow/Glue Banta) https://www.safinaradioproject.org/venice-audio-and-sound NRRF Collective Links: Tumblr: https://nrrfbradio.tumblr.com/Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/nrrf-radio
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Radio Concrete 44 - Musica Nova
Radio Concrete 44 - Musica Nova
2 September 2023 1:00 am - 1:30 am
Title: Radio Concrete 44 - Musica Nova
Description:
The live recording of this episode took place in Schocken6, Tel-Aviv, featuring ensemble Musica Nova (Maayan Tzdaka, Orr Sinay, Yifeat Ziv, Adi Snir) and Hagai Izenberg.
Short Bio:
Ensemble Musica Nova is an Israel-based collective of musicians, composers and artists, collaboratively exploring the vast terrain of experimental music and contemporary sound.
They are working together to expand the borders of the medium and enrich the dialogue between music and the fields of arts, technology and science.
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Radio Parazit - Episode 3 Tension Lunar
Radio Parazit - Episode 3 Tension Lunar
2 September 2023 1:30 am - 2:00 am
Radio Parazit–in English, “Parasite Radio”–contains and broadcasts my explorations around ‘Diasporic Imaginaries.’ Through a series of experimental radio broadcasts, I think and share out loud about experiences, thoughts, and hopes with material derived from personal stories rendered in artistic and acoustic explorations. My voice, however, is not singular. Instead, I suggest a singular perspective of a constellation of voices I have encountered over the years. These voices have shaped my own and have shortened the distance between the subjects and places that build my own diasporic experience in this world.
A series of 4 episodes connecting to ideas around Diaspora, the Indigenous, the Planet, and Symbiosis.
- Diáspora
- Parásito
- Tensión Lunar
- Otrxs Mutualismxs
Biography:
Nicolás Kisic Aguirre is an architect and trans-disciplinary sound artist who creates machines that explore and illuminate the social and political nature of sound in public space. In 2018, he graduated from the MIT program in Art, Culture and Technology. Informed by his background in architecture and a lifelong fascination with machines, Kisic Aguirre designs and builds sound instruments that explore the connection between public space, power, technology, and sound. His critical and aesthetic practice is open-source, collaborative, and deeply engaged with the public. Nicolás is currently a Ph.D. student in the DXArts program at the University of Washington Seattle.
http://www.nka.pe
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The Conduction Series - Potential Energy, Ready to Burst
The Conduction Series - Potential Energy, Ready to Burst
2 September 2023 2:00 am - 3:00 am
AUGUST BLACK (Boulder, CO)•BETSEY BIGGS (Boulder, CO)•JEFF ECONOMY (Kingston, NY)•JIMMY GARVER conductor (Leeds, NY)•MAXIMILIAN GOLDFARB (Hudson, NY)•PETER COURTEMANCHE (Vancouver, Canada)•VIRGINIA MANTINIAN (Denver, CO) The Conduction Series is a collaborative live radio broadcast produced by a group of sound and transmission artists across the Americas on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. The group comes together on the first Friday of every month at 4:10pm ET using the web platform Mezcal. Emphasizing LIVE interactivity and media archaeological methods, the series explores themes of migration, feedback, user participation, low-key and on-site interaction with mobile devices, and remote collaboration at scale. https://conduction.wavefarm.org/
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The Conduction Series - Surveillance Rochambeau
The Conduction Series - Surveillance Rochambeau
2 September 2023 3:00 am - 4:00 am
ANNA FRIZ (Vancouver, Canada)•AUGUST BLACK (Boulder, CO)•BETSEY BIGGS (Boulder, CO)•JEFF ECONOMY conductor (Kingston, NY)•PETER COURTEMANCHE (Vancouver, Canada)•VIRGINIA MANTINIAN (Denver, CO) The Conduction Series is a collaborative live radio broadcast produced by a group of sound and transmission artists across the Americas on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. The group comes together on the first Friday of every month at 4:10pm ET using the web platform Mezcal. Emphasizing LIVE interactivity and media archaeological methods, the series explores themes of migration, feedback, user participation, low-key and on-site interaction with mobile devices, and remote collaboration at scale. https://conduction.wavefarm.org/
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The Conduction Series - April Showers
The Conduction Series - April Showers
2 September 2023 4:00 am - 5:00 am
ANNA FRIZ (Santa Cruz, CA)•AUGUST BLACK (Boulder, CO)•AUGUSTÍN GENOUD (Buenos Aires, Argentina)•BETSEY BIGGSconductor (Boulder, CO)•FLORENCIA CURCI (Buenos Aires, Argentina)•JEFF ECONOMY (Kingston, NY)•JIMMY GARVER (Leeds, NY)•MAXIMILIAN GOLDFARB (Hudson, NY)•PETER COURTEMANCHE (Vancouver, Canada)•VIRGINIA MANTINIAN (Denver, CO)
The Conduction Series is a collaborative live radio broadcast produced by a group of sound and transmission artists across the Americas on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. The group comes together on the first Friday of every month at 4:10pm ET using the web platform Mezcal. Emphasizing LIVE interactivity and media archaeological methods, the series explores themes of migration, feedback, user participation, low-key and on-site interaction with mobile devices, and remote collaboration at scale.
https://conduction.wavefarm.org/
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NOMADIC COSMOLOGIES AND FUGITIVE POWER: Red Forest Radiogram #3: Enchanted Technologies of Transmission
NOMADIC COSMOLOGIES AND FUGITIVE POWER: Red Forest Radiogram #3: Enchanted Technologies of Transmission
2 September 2023 5:00 am - 7:00 am
Diana McCarty in conversation with Anna Bromely, Tetsuo Kogawa & Alla Mitrofanova with Sonic Intervention by JD Zazie Radio is not only a media-form but also a phenomenon of radiation. Let us think of radio as an emitting action/process where receiving is part of transmitting. An action of radio transmission-reception would be a kind of self-oscillation and the relationship between this action and the audience would be a resonance that enchants our various emotions and moves our bodies. The point of transmission between technology and nature is our body that might temporarily provide an enchanting process where technology, art and our existence resonate together. Anna Bromley is an artist, radio producer, and writer that got her start in the DDR. Her installations, re-enactments, and sonic projects have been recently commissioned by international festivals such as the documenta14, and the Manifesta 14, and beuys2021| beuysradio. She conducts research and teaches on dissident and clandestine radio practices,and their herstory(s) from below. https://www.annabromley.com/Tetsuo Kogawa in his 80 years of life, teaching, directing and free-radio activisim turned out to be a joke. He is now more concentrating himself on "transmission" practice from "radio without contents" to radiation-art and even to writing as "écriture transmission". https://radioart.jpAlla Mitrofanova is a feminist critic and philosopher working with media art and new ontologies. She writes and lectures on contemporary philosophy, the theory of feminism, art, science and performance. Mitrofanova lives and works in St. Petersburg. JD Zazie (aka Valeria Merlini) is an experimental DJ, avant-turntablist, sound artist and curator from Bolzano based in Berlin. Coming from a DJ and a radiophonic background JD Zazie has explored different approaches to real-time manipulation of fixed recorded sound. In her work she redefines DJ and electroacoustic activities. https://jdzazie.tumblr.com https://www.goethe.de/ins/it/en/sta/mai/ver/tri.html
The Red Forest is a loose knit assemblage based on affinities and overlapping practices that grounds together research, art, political imagination, and social actions striving for transformative justice and ecological reparations. In 2021 they initiated a pan-continental research focusing on the intersections between contemporary extractivism and datification processes. Red Forest assembles and organizes their work with infrastructures of collective reciprocity and interdependency as actual potentiality. Their research contributes to the theoretical framework of Energetic Materialism to conceptualize urgent cultural and social processes in the defense of life and the construction of pluriversal futures in dignified flux.
Red Forest is mobilized by David Muñoz-Alcántara, Diana McCarty, Mijke van der Drift and Oleksiy Radynski, after their collective practices super collided during a 2019-2020 BAK Fellowship in Utrecht. It unfolds as a growing constellation of artists, activists, researchers, media producers, filmmakers, philosophers, educators and time travelers realizing interdisciplinary projects. In 2021, their ongoing research on Extractivism, Datafication, and Transformative Justice was supported by the Kone Foundation in Finland led to: producing an experimental social and durational performance series in Kyiv and Berlin titled Sambatas Stagings, supported by Goethe-Institut Co-Production Fund Kyiv and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and in 2022, they convened Red Forest Radiograms - Nomadic Cosmologies & Fugitive Power - as the German Pavilion of the the 23rd Triennale Milano. In 2023, their KONE supported research is on "Energy-Matters in the context of war. Neo-extractivism, fossil fascism, and the post-national question”. They are currently producing "On the Loss of Energy. Radiogram from the remnants of collisions", an experimental audio piece for the 2023 Helsinki Biennale
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JF Barber - Dawn Birds, Light Traffic, Melodic Machines
JF Barber - Dawn Birds, Light Traffic, Melodic Machines
2 September 2023 7:00 am - 8:00 am
Dawn Birds, Light Traffic, Melodic Machines is a 58:00 sonic narrative collage composed of field recordings from Dubai, Victoria, and Vancouver. This combination seeks to foreground, through either sonic similarity or serendipity, a fluidity of time and place solidly grounded in rich listening experiences. A sense of a place. A believable experience of being in that space. Engagement with listeners’ imaginations to shape images and stories of their own making. Created 2022 by John F. Barber. John F. Barber convenes with The Creative Media & Digital Culture program at Washington State University Vancouver. His radio + sound art have been broadcast and exhibited internationally. A current project is Re-Imagined Radio ( http://www.reimaginedradio.net) which combines media art production, scholarship, and performance to explore documentary performance style storytelling for radio broadcasts, listening events, live streams, and podcasts.
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Shorts 13
Shorts 13
2 September 2023 8:00 am - 9:00 am
1) Vicki Hallett - Upstream (9:21) 2) Bernd Schumann - Étude-tableau (6:31) 3) Wulf Steel - Observing (2:30) 4) Ralph Lewis - Abandoned Ship (14:15) 5) Jamie Flett and Jude Williams - Let Me Hold (Skin To Skin) (4:59) 6) Sharony Green - Kalimbird (5:42) 7) Mark Ferguson - Machair Impressions (10:05) 8) Fiona Grau - Cry Baby (4:58) 1) Vicki Hallett - Upstream Upstream is a long-form sound journey. Listen to the Urban soundscape as we paddle in a kayak, passing underneath the Queens Park one-lane bridge and continue upstream towards the confluence of the Parwan (Barwon) and Moorabool Rivers, in Djilang, Wadawurrung Country, Victoria, Australia, Vicki Hallett is a composer, versatile musician, sound artist and educator with a unique approach of combining acoustic ecology, scientific analysis and innovative performance practices. This exploration has led Vicki to develop a collaborative concept, with Cornell University's Elephant Listening Project. Vicki travels the world recording nature’s sounds as well as improvising in acoustically interesting environments including Mabolel Rock (South Africa) with Hippopotami, and the Amazon jungle. Her focus is to document and record the ever-diminishing habitats and species of our planet through multi-channel and extended field recordings. These are used in installations, live performances, compositions and recordings. http://www.vickihallett.com 2) Bernd Schumann - Étude-tableau 3) Wulf Steel - Observing An excerpt from the collection of poems Fallen. The full collection is yet to be completed but continues to ferment and grow. The excerpt here contains the poems Observing, Holding on, Downfall, Consequence and Ache which are grouped together in the collection. Always been a writer and always wanting to get work out there. A lover of performance, and someone who likes to think. https://www.cityofpoets.com/team/wulfhttps://www.cityofpoets.com/items/clarity-is-sought 4) Ralph Lewis - Abandoned Ship “Abandoned Ship” is the remaining audio jetsam of a larger radio art project. In its original state, This and other movements were meant to be a radio art suite, celebrating the broken-down maritime elements from different angles. In its current form, it is a sort of sinking museum of what lives on when a collaboration crumbles. Get out while you still can! Ralph Lewis is a composer who loves the collaborative, public, and experimental qualities of radio art. Projects through the last years include a commission from Oberlin Arts and Sciences Orchestra for a live-to-Zoom orchestral work “Straight Into Tangles,” collaborations with Dave O Mahoney in their duo Shan-uh-kees, and dance collaborations with Sara Hook, Kayt MacMaster, Abby Williams Chin, Mike Minarcek, and Brant Roberts on “Dick and Janes/Another Chance So Suite.” He received his doctorate in music composition from the University of Illinois in 2021. 5) Jamie Flett & Jude Williams - Let Me Hold (Skin To Skin) Underneath the ecstatic news of Peggy’s birth ran a murkier and more convoluted story, like a peaty black stream under its carapace of sparkling frosted ice. It was revealed only when her mother Jude decided to uncover and excavate it as one part of a means of processing it. Oscillating over the thresholds between life/death; womb/world; home/lost; warmth/austerity; natural/clinical; security/terror; love/pragmatism; control/entropy; mother/father; entrails/soul; Jude and Peggy went from being symbiotically joined to somehow being brutally disconnected. The transfer of physical, emotional and mental bond from within skin to without was interrupted. Simple, primal contact denied. Jamie Flett is a music maker from Aberdeen living in Glasgow. Since his first collection of songs he’s tried to resist the artificial limitations of defining himself as a ‘singer-songwriter.’ This has resulted in attempts to investigate some remoter sonic territories. As well as more songs. https://www.jamieflett.com/ Judith Williams is Peggy’s mother and a multifaceted artist who acts and sings as well as making theatre and poetry. Her work is rooted in a love of all life, relationships, connections, community and transformation. In the form of story, song, ritual, ceremony, events, workshops, making theatre or a walk to the shops. http://www.judithwilliams.me/ 6) Sharony Green - Kalimbird Is it a nest? Bedcovers? A bird and South Africa calling? I mashed sounds around my house at midnight & dawn around the time of the 2023 equinox & merged them w/ the kalimba in my office. That moment between the coldness of winter/metal/technology and warmth of spring/my bed/equator evoked. I teach history at the University of Alabama while making a lot of quirky art in and outside the classroom. I was born in Miami, Florida, with roots in the Deep South and the Bahamas. My book on Zora Neale Hurston’s romp through Honduras is out this fall. I made a doc on the late jazz guitarist Grant Green, my former father in law, that actually played in Edinburgh’s Cameo in 2017. Also showed it in Reykjavik and Harlem. I breathe through the headlines. https://soundcloud.com/sharonyagreen/https://www.mixcloud.com/sagreen1/https://sharonygreen.com/https://www.instagram.com/sharonyagreen/https://twitter.com/sagreen1913https://www.youtube.com/c/SharonyGreen7) Mark Ferguson - Machair Impressions Machair. Gaelic; noun [mass noun]. Fertile, wildflower-rich grassland habitat found on the northwestern coastlines of Scotland and Ireland. Five sonic impressions from the perspective of a great yellow bumblebee, composed out of source materials gathered around the Hebridean Island of South Uist in August 2019: I Open grassland with red clover and knapweed, from Daliburgh to Askernish. II Internal sounds of thistle, burdock, ragwort and Yorkshire fog grass. III Great yellow bumblebee queen (reconstructed nest interior). IV Bumblebee mating activity (reconstructed nest entrance). V North Atlantic surf, from the ancient burial grounds at Cladh Hallan. Mark Ferguson is a wildlife sound recordist and sound artist, best known for his projects exploring UK and European bat, bird and bumblebee species. His award-winning work has been broadcast by the BBC, mentioned by the Guardian, and selected for performance in leading arts and cultural venues around the world. http://www.markfergusonaudio.com8) Fiona Grau - Cry Baby “Cry baby” is a piece about violence. The violence itself is not said, but appears in the interstices of what the female voice tells or rather does not tell. For the sound composition I used the clicketing sounds of plants in distress, the noise of a port, a false eagle and the rumbling sounds of earthquakes. It is a piece not only about the violence present in women’s lives, but also in nature and our ways of treating the earth. Fiona Grau, born 1986 in Germany. She studied philosophy, literature and politics. Since 2020 she has been working as a market gardener and has her own agricultural project in Brussels with bluette_maraichage_et_fleurs (instagram). She writes and has published poetry in several German speaking literary magazines. Instagram: @fiona.grau; gardening project: @bluette_maraichage_et_fleurs
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Mary Farfisa's Outer Space Radio Theater - The Dream Boat
Mary Farfisa's Outer Space Radio Theater - The Dream Boat
2 September 2023 9:00 am - 9:30 am
THE DREAM BOAT - The flying 'Dream Boat' has hit a cloud-berg, and its cargo of musical dreams are escaping. Captain Slumber and his First Mate, Jollypop, ask Mary and Briscoe to help. A children's radio series written and produced by Jim Cheff. Starring Cara Alboucq, Nancy Andrews, Leslie Baker, Jim Cheff, Bill Culbertson, Kris Culbertson, and Miranda Marie. Acoustic guitar music written and performed by Terry Alan. Theme song by Cara Alboucq. ©2017 Jim Cheff, All Rights Reserved. 'Mary Farfisa's Outer Space Radio Theater' was heard every Saturday morning for two years on local station KSZN in Flagstaff Arizona. Its entire run is available now as a podcast. https://medium.com/kidslisten/get-to-know-a-show-mary-farfisas-outer-space-radio-theater-569980d64210rss.com/podcasts/maryfarfisashow jimcheff@suddenlink.net
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Paulina Pikiewicz - SWAMP 4: THE BOGS OF POWER
Paulina Pikiewicz - SWAMP 4: THE BOGS OF POWER
2 September 2023 9:30 am - 10:00 am
A sound design experiment focusing on creating the atmosphere to the fictional game – “SWAMP 4: THE BOGS OF POWER”. You will hear the main theme, units and buildings sounds of 4 races – religious Młakanie, Cibrowitnis as a traffickers, cook enthusiasts - Gruntinesia and military Płotusi. Each of them need Amonnia to their living. That's the aim of a game - to collect Ammonia as much they can. The experiment has its premiere as a sound installation in Department of Sound Katowice, Poland.
Polish radio and sound artist. Creator of an audio doc and audio dramas. Freelancer podcaster, lecturer, sound designer, music columnist. Multi-radio-instrumentalist. Co-founder of Radio Klang and Kulminacja Foundation in Silesia, Poland. Author of drawings and graphics on Instagram account @rysunki_pikiewitz and @pikiewitz.
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Kazuya Ishigami - ANITYA 2023-04-28
Kazuya Ishigami - ANITYA 2023-04-28
2 September 2023 10:00 am - 10:45 am
ANITYA means "impermanence" in Sanskrit.
Every sound has an impermanent radiance. Sound is like a living thing; it is born and dies.
This work is composed of sounds generated in various times and spaces.
KAZUYA ISHIGAMI (b. 1972, Osaka/JAPAN) is a composer, sound designer, sound performer and sound engineer in the field of Electro-acoustic/Acousmatic/Post-Acousmatic/Ambient/Noise, etc. He began playing with the tape recorder and making cut-up and collage works in early childhood.
His pieces have been performed at DR (Deutschland Radio/Germany),WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk/Germany), SR (Radio Saarbruecken/Germany), HR (Hessischer Rundfunk/Germany), IICMC (2015_USA/TEXAS), among others. He has an independent label, NEUS-318, and has released more than 100 works.
https://kazuyaishigami.bandcamp.com/
https://neus318.bandcamp.com/
https://omodaru.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/kazuya_ishigami
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MP Hopkins - Misting - Part 1
MP Hopkins - Misting - Part 1
2 September 2023 10:45 am - 11:00 am
From the forthcoming album 'Misting' on Nice Music.
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Félix Blume - Desierto
Félix Blume - Desierto
2 September 2023 11:00 am - 11:30 am
An invitation to go down the altiplano Potosino, a desertic mexican region. On its elevated plains, desert is far from being empty. We can listen to the inhabitants from the small villages widespread over the desert. Shepards guide us next to their sheep and goats, we travel by donkey or cart for plowing the fields. Between cactus and bushes, cows look for blades of grass. Back in town after a long journey, we found ourselves at the church in the patronal feast. As an echo of the train crossing the vastness, coyotes sing as their way of partying. Félix Blume (France, 1984) is a sound artist and sound engineer. He currently works and lives between Mexico, Brazil and France. He uses sound as a basic material in sound pieces, videos, actions and installations. His work is focused on listening; it invites us to a different perception of our surroundings. His process is often collaborative working with communities, using public space as the context within which he explores and presents his works. He is interested in myths and their contemporary interpretation in human dialogues both with inhabited natural and urban contexts in what voices can tell beyond words. https://felixblume.com/https://felixblume.com/desierto/https://www.instagram.com/felix____blume/https://www.facebook.com/felixblume
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Buffer Zone
Buffer Zone
2 September 2023 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
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Nika Son & Becky Šik - TONFALL – Remember, I must use the stairs
Nika Son & Becky Šik - TONFALL – Remember, I must use the stairs
2 September 2023 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Two strangers matched together, their practices intertwine A blank page Growing from there An open cupboard buzzes and humms Sending snippets in stolen moments The circle drops, opening a wide and generous hole Slippage Talking, passing, exchanging, reasoning, corresponding, joking, transposing Systems cycle in loops Accents, language, tones, intonations, cues, pitch, syllables Prompts The megalithic Ouroboros fun machine that is Barbie Touching an elephant Circles, water, falling sound Escalators, circular systems, sleep, not sleep Words that don’t exist Gleichgewicht Walking with dizzy spells in saturation Reflecting, twisting, alternating, translating, modulating, jumping from On the edges – a Hallwall Again the elephant, transponder, closed water, eyes What does it mean to be open and what slips away? Souffleuse, Echoschwelle, Tonfall X1, mnemonic, delay Asking, loops, deathbed What’s wrong with my eyes, oscillating, brown noise Pulse What is an orbit sound Missing the radiator, voices, vertigo I could spell it fownetikally/ foʊˈnet̬.ɪ.kəl.i Meter eater Mi devas uzi la ŝtuparon
For their Goethe-Institut / Radiophrenia Residency, Nika and Becky will share and intertwine methods and ideas within their individual practices, through field recording, call and response collaging and collaborative audio experimentation. The work will develop from their shared interest of peripheries and the echoes of invisible forces, energies and atmospheres of spaces and events that exist in the in-between.
The piece was developed during a week long residency at CCA funded by the Goethe-Institut Glasgow in collaboration with Radiophrenia. We are grateful for their support.
Becky Šik is an artist filmmaker based in Glasgow whose work spans moving image, installation, sound, music, writing and publishing, often working collaboratively. Their recent moving image work explores the echo, electromagnetic phenomena and technologies as way of understanding the body’s relationship to constructs of time and state.
Becky has presented work across the UK and Internationally, most recently with a film screening at Supernormal festival; Footnotes, a collaborative Radiophrenia broadcast with Sarah Forrest; and the solo exhibition Mercury at Collective Gallery, Edinburgh.
Nika Son studied Fine Arts in Hamburg and has since worked as a musician, artist, film composer, curator and DJ. Influenced by Musique Concre te and the outer space of electronic music, her compositions are built from modified and fragmented field recordings, interwoven with analog synthesis, broken rhythms, rare voice scraps and modulated tape. Sounds of various origin are translated into a very unusual musical language, as if one watches the audible.
She appeared on various labels, such as Mmodemm, Kashual Plastik, VIS, First Terrace Records, TAL, Sky Walking, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray and her own imprint Noctui. Her latest album To Eeyore was released on the label Entr’acte in 2020. A new album is coming this year.
Alongside her solo concerts, she creates radio pieces, video and sound installations, and has collaborated for many years with various companions, most notably with filmmaker and artist Helena Wittmann and musician F#X (Cwelle). In her work as a soundartist for experimental film, she is among other responsible for the score and sound design of Helena Wittmann’s highly acclaimed films DRIFT and Human Flowers of Flesh. For over a decade she hosts regular art and music events at the Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg with various international guests. In 2018 she staged a two-day festival called Eruption, freely based on the musician and video artist Conrad Schnitzler. Since 2019, she co-curates the festival Papiripar together with Felix Kubin and Florian Bräunlich.
http://www.nikason.de
Supported by the Goethe-Institut Glasgow.
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Ivan Rivelli - TRÁNSITO ESQUIZOFÓNICO 42
Ivan Rivelli - TRÁNSITO ESQUIZOFÓNICO 42
2 September 2023 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Unfinished, wandering and constantly changing construction of the collective sound memory of the Comarca Andina. Paralelo 42. El Bolsón. Patagonia Argentina. Soundscapes interpreted and remembered by its habitants. It is memory, it is memory and it is re-signification. Unification of scattered fragments of memories. Union of past and present through listening. Auditory decontextualization. They are soundscapes that carry diverse and broad meanings. The structure of the program reproduces certain changing and confusing patterns, just as memory works. Unifying fragments and repeating. Wandering, changing, unfinished. Sound identity of shared experiences Ivan Rivelli lives in El Bolsón (Río Negro) where he develops his studies and production of sound art. In some cases, the sound piece recovers its own meaning, but most of them are the materialization of a broader process such as a poetic action, a drift or an investigation. The characteristic features of his productions go through studies on the sound identities of the territory, listening, phonographic practice, soundscape, field recording and cartographic processes. He made sound pieces that were published in different compilations published in Chile, Peru, France, the United Kingdom and Bolivia. https://transitosonoro.com.ar/
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Shorts 27
Shorts 27
2 September 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
1) Paolo Montella - Ossa (7:02) 2) Mark Vernon - Call Back Carousel Ep 2 - Scotland 1971 (12:44) 3) Charmaine Bee - Eleven Minutes of Stillness (11:00) 4) Las Exorcistas - Yo conozco tu locura porque también es la mía (5:28) 5) Craig Gell - Holywell Coombe (Sweeping Filter) (8:30) 6) Elene Aladashvili - Dormition of the final light (5:38) 7) Johnny Dixon - Considering the Marlowe template (1:44) 8) Pelayo Del Villar - [in]comunicado 5:07 1) Paolo Montella - Ossa Field recording, as an operation determined by rituals, times, and techniques, qualifies for its non-exhaustive character by releasing the need to be artistically varied. The world seems to arrange itself as a musical paradigm that dictates its syntax and its structural functions. In this work, field recording is grafted onto the practice of interviews. Agata, an 11 years old girl, shows us her field at the center of tense and contradictory forces, between her being a child, wanting to become a woman, her aspirations, and social impositions. Her strength is disarming, and the tone of her voice is exceptionally beautiful. Paolo Montella is an electroacoustic composer. Field recording and radical improvisation practices are central to his aesthetic. He focused his research on the relationship between sound and source, meant as a complex phenomenal system. He studied piano, harmony, and classical composition, moreover, he started studying electroacoustic and electronic music. He graduated in Electronic Music at the Naples Conservatory with M° Elio Martusciello. His works have been performed in festivals such as Sonic Cartography (Chatham, UK), XIII CIM (Ancona, IT), Interferenze (IT), Supersonique Festival (Marseille, FR), Martini Elettrico (Bologna, IT), Fixed Room - Tempo Reale (Firenze, IT). 2) Mark Vernon - Call Back Carousel Ep 2 - Scotland 1971 3) Charmaine Bee - Eleven Minutes of Stillness Eleven Minutes of Stillness is an eleven minute radio interlude of field recordings and serves as a guided meditation of listening to densely populated spaces. In 2019 I worked at a silent meditation retreat and attended a Dharma talk where the teacher stated that the only way to find stillness is to remove ourselves from cities. I find the assertion that the only way to hear ourselves is by removal to be a limiting idea that distances us from the quiet we can find in the denseness of noise. The interludes will contain ambient water sounds, street music and conversations Charmaine Bee is a visual artist and herbalist and uses mediums such as sound, video, writing, movement and textile. Their work explores historically charged materials such as rice and indigo which were cultivated in the Sea Islands of South Carolina where Charmaine was raised. Their work also explores portals as bridges and doorways that connect gaps between space and time and open up our ability to time travel as well as histories of the Black diaspora contained within portal spaces- such as the dreaming space. Charmaine Bee received an MFA from Calarts and resides in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. charmainenbee.info https://soundcloud.com/charmainebee4) Las Exorcistas - Yo conozco tu locura porque también es la mía I know your madness because it is also mine is a spell against lesbophobia that was cast in a ritual that was first held at the event 'Where strength is born', 2018, National University of Colombia, Bogotá. This piece, a strong potion against lesbophobia, features voices from several Latin American artists who self-identify as lesbians, as well as the recorded sound from the 2018 performance. This piece was especially created for National University Radio as part of the launch of the memory of the event. The Exorcists (Ana María Romano G. and Marta Cabrera) is a creative duo who want to rid the multiverse of homo, lesbo and transphobia. https://soundcloud.com/anamariaromanohttps://martacabrera.jimdofree.com/ 5) Craig Gell - Holywell Coombe (Sweeping Filter) This piece consists of a field-recording made in Holywell Coombe, an area of countryside on the outskirts of Folkestone town which is part of the Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment SSSI. A slowly oscillating band-pass filter explores the variety and interplay of sounds concurrent in the landscape (from aircraft to insects) as it passes through the frequencies within which each sound operates. Craig Gell is a sound artist, musician and composer based in Folkestone, Kent. His recent work explores the human relationship with the natural environment, using field recordings, geoscience data and creative programming to produce installations, web apps, sound maps and electroacoustic compositions. Craig also writes more conventional music and has composed for a number of short animated films. He also performs with free improvisors the Free Range Orchestra, Canterbury. https://www.craiggellmusic.comhttps://www.soundcloud.com/craiggellhttps://craiggell.bandcamp.com/6) Elene Aladashvili - Dormition of the final light An experimental piece depicting our beautiful cosmic universe and our home planet that is soon doomed to be destroyed by neglectful human-beings, who always try surpass the cosmological power and become dominant over every inch of matter. Dormition of the final star is a symbol of fading hope, acceptance and mourning. The catastrophic siren letting us know about the fatal death, the death that is happening alone, in darkness, without anyone realizing it… Elene Aladashvili is a Georgian singer and composer, who has just graduated from the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Despite having a background in Classical music, her art projects always differ from one another and tend to combine different genres and aspects of music, by experimenting with the synthesis of modern technological perspectives and the legacy of past centuries. She never declines to face new challenges herself, be it writing music for movies, video games or experimental live performances using MAX/MSP. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfP5OLbLtw5i1m5N-9javwQ https://soundcloud.com/kepler0017) Johnny Dixon - Considering the Marlowe template 8) Pelayo Del Villar [in]comunicado The intercommunication system in the XXI century keeps us in an eternal maelstrom by interconnecting us all the time. Mobile communications, the internet, Whatsapp, video calls, and social networks allow us to even speak about a possible ubiquity but, consequently, silence now has become practically impossible.
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Pablo Sanz - Palma
Pablo Sanz - Palma
2 September 2023 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
PALMA (21:07) La Palma is one of the youngest and currently the most volcanically active of the Canary Islands. This work is based on recordings made in Garafía, in the island’s northwest, during the hottest week on record. The northern region of La Palma is a rugged continuum of steep ravines (barrancos), hills, forests, farmland and settlements accessible through long winding roads and pathways. The composition drifts through different sound spaces, following a 24-hour cycle, from sunrise to late night. It listens to the grajas (an endemic subspecies of red-billed chough), passerine birds, lizards, goats and other animals, the vegetation, the wind, and the rumor of the nearby ocean. CANARIAS SOUNDWALK explores the sonic ecologies of the Canary Islands archipelago, presenting seven compositions for headphone listening created with environmental sound materials from each of the seven main islands: El Hierro, La Gomera, La Palma, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, and Lanzarote. The project investigates the vitality of more-than-human entities and realities, aiming to promote less anthropocentric ways of being and thinking. Through different listening strategies and audio technologies, the work concentrates on what usually remains hidden or unnoticed, on the limits and thresholds of perception and attention. The project focuses on the voices and audible presence of animal and plant species, air, soil, water, weather, and landscape formations. Furthermore, it acknowledges the affective power of sounds themselves. This project embraces listening as a creative act, a form of attention, and a tool to investigate the world. It attempts to cultivate intimate sensory encounters favouring affectivity over signification and representation. The project was originally commissioned by the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in the US as a permanent public invisible artwork available at multiple locations in Washington, DC. Additional support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI), the Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Konstnärsnämnden) and the Visby International Centre for Composers (VICC). Fieldwork and production assistance: Palma E. Christian Martínez. Special thanks to Garajonay National Park, Teide National Park, and Timanfaya National Park. http://pablosanz.infohttps://pablosanz.bandcamp.comhttps://soundcloud.com/pablosanzhttps://www.instagram.com/pabloooosanz/https://www.facebook.com/pablooosanz
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WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW - A telepathic-telematic ritual.
WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW - A telepathic-telematic ritual.
2 September 2023 2:20 pm - 3:00 pm
This hybrid telematic-telepathic listening ritual celebrated the 50th-anniversary of Pauline Oliveros’ seminal work ‘Sonic Meditations’ at Cafe OTO. Composed by Ximena Alarcón, it engaged the audience and the musicians Gloria Damjian, percussion (Vienna), Jane Wang, cello (Boston), and Viv Corringham, voice and electronics (New York), in the sensing, transmission and reception of “what is happening now”. Ximena incorporated two of Oliveros’ pieces “One Word” and “Sound word”, using ‘Jacktrip’ telematic audio software supported by Mike O'Connor, and three loudspeakers in the physical venue. This recording, mastered by Gloria Damjian, documents the ritual bringing musicians’ sonic perspective and the audience’s experience. BIOGRAPHIES XIMENA ALARCÓN sound artist-researcher interested in the resonances left in-between geographical migrations. Deep Listening® certified tutor, PhD in Music Technology and Innovation. https://www.ximenaalarcon.netGLORIA DAMIJAN Extended Toy Piano(s), Berimbau, Percussion, Objects Composer, performer, visual artist http://www.gloriadamijan.comJANE WANG multi-instrumentalist, instrument builder, multimedia artist. She has composed scores for dance and theater. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_WangVIV CORRINGHAM US-based British vocalist and sound artist, “a vital force in improvised music since the late 1970s” (Corey Mwamba, BBC Radio 3). http://www.vivcorringham.orgMIKE O’CONNOR Telematic production coordinator Integrating network and systems technologies to help rehearse, perform, and produce over the Internet.
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Nichola Scrutton & Zoë Strachan - Lying Over Under Another live in studio
Nichola Scrutton & Zoë Strachan - Lying Over Under Another live in studio
2 September 2023 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Responding to the visual richness of the poet Edwin Morgan’s sixteen volumes of unpublished scrapbooks, Nichola and Zoë reimagine the process of scrapbooking through an improvised live-to-broadcast performance combining recorded and live sound with found text from Morgan’s archive. They re-present the diverse materials he collected as bodies (entities) in relation to each other, offering new connections that may be physical, emotional, psychical.
Supported by the Edwin Morgan Trust through The Second Life Award and with thanks to University of Glasgow Archives and Special Collections.
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Nele Möller - H(a)unted Listening
Nele Möller - H(a)unted Listening
2 September 2023 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
H(a)unted Listening is an experimental radio essay about a hunter and a field recordist. A haunted encounter on a misty November morning in a forest in East Germany is the departure for a reflection on (sound)hunting, female forest presence and a strange friendship. The radio essay is part of the research project “The Forest Echoes Back”, which oscillates around the Thuringian Forest in Germany. Like many other forests around the globe, it is very much impacted by the climate crisis and an attendant bark beetle infestation. Through sound and forms of listening, the project wants to retrace the forest’s past, present, and possible futures. Nele Möller is a Brussels-based artist working primarily in sound, performance, and writing. Her research-based practice focuses on forest conversations, historical nature inscriptions, critical field recording and listening practices. Currently, she is working towards a PhD in the Arts at KU Leuven and LUCA School of Arts Brussels. Her research project ‘The Forest Echoes Back‘ is embedded in the artistic research cluster ‘deep histories fragile memories‘. Since 2023 she has been producing ‘Listening Fields’ at the free radio station Radio Panik in Brussels. Besides that, she performs under the pseudonym Kimberly Clark and released records on Futura Resistenza and RDS Rec. Instagram: @nele____moeller Linktree: https://linktr.ee/nelemoeller?fbclid=PAAaZ7UQ1JbEPOiUjjSqha8E5oCRlZanfCBWQ9x8w8XokkLDUhhtOzvYAtDjI
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Radio LOOS - June: Walking on a Lichen
Radio LOOS - June: Walking on a Lichen
2 September 2023 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
A collaborative radio-research project between pantea, located in Barcelona, and Leonie Roessler, located in The Hague. The starting point and initial intention was the creation of a radio piece based on a pattern that is superimposed onto the map of Barcelona and the map of The Hague, determining points which the artists visit and field record. The superimposed structure is that of a Lichen, enlarged many-fold to span a 2.5 km radius around the artists' homes in each respective city. During the month of June pantea and Leonie recorded all the source material for their pieces. The project is now in full swing and the duo is busy with implementing ways of making the map interactive, structuring the radio pieces with all its possibilities of layering the cities, live mixing both locations and further developing the concept of inviting other sound-based communities into this project, e.g. Khamoosh and Sonic Tehran. The map is built on ArcGIS StoryMaps platform with the courtesy of Sonic Tehran Network and can be viewed here: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5b8059639ca64c118c4b3f31e57444acProduced at https://www.loosdenhaag.com/Leonie Roessler - Composer, performer and radio-maker raised in Germany and the US, now based in The Hague, Netherlands. Leonie captures her environment through field recordings, which she uses for electronic live sets, sound installations, and compositions for soloists and ensembles. She had recent residencies at New Media Society and Limited Access Festival (Iran), Forum Wallis (Switzerland), and The Story of Space Festival (India), and Berlin Circus Biennale (Germany), and Altes Finanzamt (Germany), and at LOOS (Netherlands). Her works have been released through Musica Dispersa (Spain/UK), and Noise á Noise (Iran,) Biodiversità Records, and Syrphe Label, and have been physically archived in the British Library. https://leonieroessler.com/pantea is a sound-maker and multidisciplinary artist from Iran engaging with narratives of ecological and more-than-human connection. Her work has incorporated performance, walking, film, photography, and music. More recently, pantea is focused on developing a socially engaged practice by exploring possibilities brought about by sound and listening. She is passionate about the environment, plants, and wetlands. pantea is one half of the design group Studio Informal and a member of Khamoosh, an artistic research collective dedicated to preserving and archiving Iranian sonic heritage. She has works performed and exhibited internationally across the UK, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Croatia, Turkey, Iran and India. https://pantea.bandcamp.com/
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Tim Murray Brown - Agency of Chaos, unmoved live in the studio
Tim Murray Brown - Agency of Chaos, unmoved live in the studio
2 September 2023 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Performed live with real-time AI-rendered audio, Agency of Chaos, Unmoved is a journey on the nature of consciousness. A quotation from Alan Watts is ingested by an AI trained on his work, and gradually transformed into a new form. The struggle of the human combines with the uncanny valley of the AI. In the errors and distortions I hear the struggle of a living being: effort, intention, agency. https://timmb.com/agency-of-chaos-unmoved/Agency of Chaos, Unmoved is a musical work performed live with real-time AI-rendered audio. The computer music pioneer Joel Chadabe described performing with a non-deterministic system as like sailing a boat through stormy seas. A storm has its own agency of chaos, unmoved by whatever intentions I may have in harnessing its forces. In moments of desperation, it’s tempting to think that the storm is aware of our plight as it ushers or torments us. If, like me, you are a purist who likes to experience work with an untainted mind, then you might like to listen to the recording to form your own impression before reading my interpretation here. At the core of this piece are four versions of the audio-generating AI model RAVE. RAVE is an auto-encoder: it ingests sound, encoding it into its own internal language. It then decodes its own language back into sound. To train it, I give it hours of audio, and it optimises the encoding and decoding process to work well for that audio. (Think of a person training to listen, remember and vocalise a sound. They learn what to listen for, what details to remember and how to recreate a sound from those details.) I trained four versions of the RAVE model. One is trained on a corpus of lectures by Alan Watts. Another on every sound I've recorded, including the few seconds attached to each Live Photo taken on my iPhone. A third on all the music and sound art I've ever made. The fourth version is trained on a set of recordings of Adriana Minu, vocal performer and my wife. These were the first recordings of her emergent experimental vocal practice after 10 years of not singing. There is a hint of struggle and vulnerability in her early voice that becomes clearer as her practice continues evolving. I experimented by combining these models together in new ways. If I feed the sound of Alan Watts through the model trained on his own voice, I get a slightly distorted version out. The distortion has an uncanny nature to my ears, less like analogue noise or digital glitch, and more like a skilful robotic imitator slipping up here and there. Next, I tried running the models simultaneously, and feeding the internal language encoded by one model into the decoder of a different model. The sound departs further. The dynamics and rhythm remain. The timbre is reminiscent but not quite there. There was a magic moment where focus of the piece became clear. I was gradually degrading the quality of the Alan Watts model by modulating its internal representation between encoder and decoder. When I fed these encodings from the Alan Watts model directly into the decoder of Adriana’s model, something else emerged. These sounds were eerie. The struggle of the human combines with the uncanny valley of the AI. In the errors and distortions I hear the struggle of a living being: effort, intention, agency. There's an ambiguity in where that struggle is rooted. Is it Adriana's struggle appropriated by the AI? Is it the AI models trying to get through as I reroute their internals into each other, Frankenstein style. Acknowledgements Developed with support from the Machine Agencies research cluster of Concordia University. With thanks to Fenwick McKelvey and Maurice Jones. Thank you to Adriana Minu for letting me use her recordings as training data. The piece uses the RAVE model and nn~ Max external developed by Antoine Caillon at IRCAM.
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Buffer Zone
Buffer Zone
2 September 2023 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
1) Alexandra Spence - Water bugs (3:11) 2) Jenny Hval - Smoking (7 mins)3) Jeanne Debarsy - Sonic Futures Residencies: Maybe Nothing (14:14)1) Alexandra Spence - Water bugs 2) Jenny Hval - Smoking For Works for Radio the five artists have made five new, unique works to be played at The Lake. The works will be presented on March 7th 2023 at a listening event at Cinemateket. Hereafter the works will be in rotation at http://www.thelakeradio.com and presented at Borealis festival (NO), Radiophrenia (SCT) and Colaboradio (DE). Radioart as a genre has a long tradition in public service-institutions where artists, writers and composers have made work specifically for the ether. And as a way to rethink this somehow underrated artistic format, we have annually commissioned new pieces of sound that challenges what art for radio can sound like. This year’s artists have been chosen in collaboration with a jury consisting of Radiophrenia (SCT), Colaboradio (DE), Borealis Festival (NO) and The Lake Radio. “Smoking started out as a series of recordings I made in Oslo wandering around, meeting people, and traveling on public transportation, but keeping my phone under pillows or clothing. I wanted to make something casual, a collage of everyday life, but from under the skin. Of course this led me to start writing about mothers and daughters... and cigarettes.”
3) Jeanne Debarsy - Sonic Futures Residencies: Maybe Nothing Sound compositions made by the artists invited for the 4th edition of SONICFUTURE RESIDENCIES organized by SEMI SILENT, and that took place in the village Port Cetate, Romania, on the border of the Danube, in September 2022.
Artists: Jeanne Debarsy(BE), Veronika Svobodova (CZ), Lloyd Dunn (US/CZ), pablo sanz (ES), JasminaAl-Qaisi (RO), Sillyconductor (RO)
Artistic director: Anamaria Pravicencu
http://semisilent.ro
What happened?
We don't know exactly
Of course, there are rumors and echoes
But they are perhaps only reminiscences
Time and space seem out of tune
Behaviors have also changed
But still, the Danube doesn’t stop flowing.
With this piece, the author wanted to translate a precise feeling that cradled the 10-day residency in the small village of Port Cetate, in Romania: a strange feeling of the end of the world, with a historically low water level that prevented navigation on the Danube, a very prevalent animal kingdom, few humans, the impression of evolving either in the past or in the future but certainly not in the present.
Sound piece composed with recordings made during Sonic Futures Residencies in Port Cetate (Romania), a program by SEMI SILENT, co-produced by Babelfish.
Jeanne Debarsy is a sound artist based in Belgium where she studied to become a sound engineer. She worksi n various domains of sound and collaborates with many artists in cinema, radio, music, and various arts. She is particularly passionate about radio media because it gives her freedom of action and expression precious to her eyes. She continues to develop her own sound language to refine her personal research and to explore the fields of performance and installation.
https://jeannedebarsy.com
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Jim Colquhoun and Jamie McNeill - On Cannibalism considered as one of the fine arts
Jim Colquhoun and Jamie McNeill - On Cannibalism considered as one of the fine arts
2 September 2023 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Colquhoun & McNeill found themselves locked in an airless cellar in Rotterdam for what seemed like an eternity. Surrounded by a bewildering array of vintage synths that neither artist had any idea how to switch on never mind play and as their incessant bickering lurched ever closer to the daily fistfight Colquhoun babbled gibberish into a broken cassette recorder whilst McNeill attempted to electrolyse his frontal lobe and not for the last time.
The trick seemed to be to record everything all the time as every five hours or so a dying synthesiser would vomit a few seconds of barely salvageable audio, its circuits fried by a decrepit power cable or the overzealous application of some Space Echo. From these fragments they were able to construct a gnostic grammar from which to mimic the machines they consistently tried to destroy. Colquhoun had become particularly skilled in apeing the high end screech of a badly patched ARP 2600.
A guitar lead coils itself slowly into a gordian knot like a snake that can’t quite stomach eating its own head, the calcified circuit board reroutes itself as self-immolating electro-pictograms and in the over-defined flicker and glare of the studio lighting Colquhoun mistakes a toaster for a vintage mic spending yet another wasted afternoon whispering enochian incantations into the heating element.
https://soundcloud.com/colquhoun-mcneill https://www.instagram.com/a_topography_of_melancholy/
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Lu Lin - hol(e)y, excess: on porosity in bodies and language
Lu Lin - hol(e)y, excess: on porosity in bodies and language
2 September 2023 6:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Three generations of women eat lunch together. The producer (Lu Lin) was recording her family for a radio documentary and when they took a break to eat, forgot to turn the audio recorder off, culminating in a soundscape of chewing, clanking, slurping, rustling, phatic communication, and other sounds of everyday life. Radio documentary practices relegate this atmospheric material to ‘background noise’, and sounds of slurping and chewing are often tied to table manners and cultural etiquette: excessive and jarring in Western contexts, but normalised in Chinese ones. Inverting these conventions, the producer chose to foreground and accentuate these sounds with echoes, reverbs, and other sound effects, essentially repurposing this ‘surplus’ material into something generative, primal, and musical. This sound work shows how representing and (re)producing matrilineal transmission is beyond a technological process: whereby eating, as an act of sustaining and reproducing one’s own body, also exists in the material process of radio production – even when processes of radio production are suspended, paused.Lu Lin is a writer, researcher, and community radio broadcaster, with a creative practice across text and sound. Her work focuses on the intersection between language, environments, and relationships between (not just) human beings and worlds. https://lu777lin.wordpress.com/http://soundcloud.com/lu777lin/
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Silvia Malnati - Onirica
Silvia Malnati - Onirica
2 September 2023 6:45 pm - 7:00 pm
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Live-to-Air - Áine O’Dwyer / Alexandra Spence / Mathew P Hopkins
Live-to-Air - Áine O’Dwyer / Alexandra Spence / Mathew P Hopkins
2 September 2023 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Tickets are pay what you can and available from: https://www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/live-to-air-%C3%A1ine-odwyer-alexandra-spence-mp-hopkinsÁine O’Dwyer – Court Music Court Music will explore the multi-dimensional reality of the CCA. Microphones will be positioned in different places around the room; underneath the audience, from underneath the stage or from inside an instrument... Áine O’Dwyer is an multi-disciplinary artist whose work is informed by both the conceptual concerns of sound-art and traditional compositional techniques, embracing the broader aesthetics of sound and its relationship to environment, time, audience and structure. She has created works for large-scale and intimate settings which allow for both planned and chance events to co-exist. Often she listens out for the sonic touchstones of time and place to instruct or accompany her. Poems for Daedalus (2018), was a series of site-specific performances which O’Dwyer developed in Athens. The piece was based on the exploration of a building, its intimacies and the surrounding neighbourhood. Her book 'Poems for play' pays homage to the specificity of time and place. Similarly, the notion of the “holding space as extension-of-instrument” can be seen in O'Dwyer's realisation Accompaniment for Captives (Open Ear Festival, 2019) at Horseshoe bay, Sherkin Island, Ireland. The performance was centred around the intentional choreography of two local fishing boats whose horn signals heralded an “environmental sonic tapestry of land, sea, man and animal. Alexandra Spence - Hall, shell, mall, bell. A pitch trembles, not quite here nor there. Thick air shimmering. A note encased, small worlds, subtle rhythms. Resonant space – a saucepan, a hall, inside a shell, tambourine body, a reflective mall: shiny and bouncy, the inside of a wooden clarinet bell. Hall, shell, mall, bell. A twig gets caught between my shoe and the earth. A compositional element came through the exchange. Water boiling two eggs, egg bodies tapping out a rhythm together. I’ve been keeping short descriptive notes on environmental sounds that pique my interest. Keeping these notes allows me to examine what it is I enjoy in each sound encountered. Using my text descriptions as a kind of score for miniatures, I attempt to reimagine and recreate these sounds using various, unrelated sources; allowing these descriptions to re-compose sonic memory. Alexandra Spence is a sound artist and musician living on unceded Wangal land in Sydney. Through her practice Alex attempts to reimagine the intricate relationships between the listener, the object, and the surrounding environment as a kind of communion or conversation. Her aesthetic favours field recordings, analogue technologies and object interventions. MP Hopkins – “Creases” Encoded extras. Concentrating on the almost of saying. A tissue-thin memory that balances one's tongue. Close voice touching. The infeasible inside. Slipping into the upkeep of the word. Debilitated. Mother. Transcription is the most ideal approach to imprint the basic distance. Wrinkles. Doubt in sharp words. Holes. Hexed words are your singular satisfaction. What has been said can't be replayed. Stammering and sense. Creases in the copyist. Taped recollections mumbling endlessly on the loss of home. Entering the record as gas. Reflected words proposing systems for excusing themselves. Liquidation. A recorder that doesn't have the foggiest idea about how to remain in the pained space around productive language. You hear a song in yourself that steers you clear of yourself. Inscription as a testimony to ejection. MP Hopkins is a sound artist and musician working on Gadigal and Wangal land in Sydney, Australia. He uses voice, feedback, recording/playback devices, and text scores within different acoustic environments, which are deconstructed and presented to the listener in delicate and degraded ways.
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We See You - We Hear You
We See You - We Hear You
2 September 2023 9:30 pm - 10:00 pm
As part of our public engagement activities for 2023 we have worked with four diverse community groups to create a series of radio and sound works for broadcast on Radiophrenia.
“You see things in different lights, and see people in completely different ways…”
‘We Hear You’ is an immersive soundscape of stories and real-life experiences, poetry and music, created and designed by some of the many people supported by Simon Community Scotland’s We See You project. Recording, production and sound design by Steve Urquhart, for Radiophrenia. We See You supports people in Glasgow city centre who use substances, and who are experiencing homelessness. It offers creative sessions, walking groups, drama workshops and psychosocial support for people in a safe, inclusive and open environment, as well as access to harm reduction interventions and treatment, 365 days a year.
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Shorts 41
Shorts 41
2 September 2023 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
01) Jeff Gburek - Inexplicable Cuts (5:54) 02) Instinct Controlled Sounds - Europe Rings (22:41) 03) Mark Vernon - Call Back Carousel Episode 3: Brighton Trip (11:30) 04) Dream Diary - OST #1 A6 (1:00) 05) Mark Ferguson - Machair Impressions (10:05) 06) Anna Vienna Ho - Dynamic Zero (1:00) 07) Cameron Naylor - Spent (7:00) 01) Jeff Gburek - Inexplicable Cuts Composed of field recordings from Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria, the Inexplicable Cuts sequence presents a layered view of 2 years of travel in Eastern Europe that maps changes in climate and mood through means of sound. The aim is to present some purely sonological data to assess the effects of invasiveness. Jeff Gburek is a poet, sound-artist, musician & traveller currently based in Poznan, Poland. Jeff Gburek has bandcamp, soundcloud sites. His blog can be searched either by using his name, spellled G-B-U-R-E-K or by typing in Transparent Abelard. http://transparent-abelard.blogspot.com/http://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburekhttps://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/ 02) Instinct Controlled Sounds - Europe Rings Compilation of sounds from all over the globe. Live radio manipulation, field recordings, live guzheng, synthetic smooth-overs and electric tremolo. Sounds sculpt, paint and otherwise give form to the imaginary and terrific.that surrounds us all always. https://www.youtube.com/@ICS_Productions03) Mark Vernon - Call Back Carousel Episode 3: Brighton Trip 04) Dream Diary - OST #1: A6 05) Mark Ferguson - Machair Impressions Machair. Gaelic; noun [mass noun]. Fertile, wildflower-rich grassland habitat found on the northwestern coastlines of Scotland and Ireland. Five sonic impressions from the perspective of a great yellow bumblebee, composed out of source materials gathered around the Hebridean Island of South Uist in August 2019: I Open grassland with red clover and knapweed, from Daliburgh to Askernish. II Internal sounds of thistle, burdock, ragwort and Yorkshire fog grass. III Great yellow bumblebee queen (reconstructed nest interior). IV Bumblebee mating activity (reconstructed nest entrance). V North Atlantic surf, from the ancient burial grounds at Cladh Hallan. Mark Ferguson is a wildlife sound recordist and sound artist, best known for his projects exploring UK and European bat, bird and bumblebee species. His award-winning work has been broadcast by the BBC, mentioned by the Guardian, and selected for performance in leading arts and cultural venues around the world. http://www.markfergusonaudio.com06) Anna Vienna Ho - Dynamic Zero In 2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) reached Hong Kong. Many people died and the city was in terror. We wore masks and stopped having face to face lessons, and the economy was badly affected. In December 2019, a new strain of coronavirus closely related to the one that caused SARS, was discovered. The new strain causes COVID-19, a disease that has since spread worldwide, leading to an ongoing pandemic that has killed millions. These years, people in HK are Fighting COVID-19. I used different sounds to express and describe the situation and how people live under the pandemic. Anna Vienna Ho is a versatile musician who is a concert pianist, répétiteur, composer, singer and conductor rolled into one. Anna gained an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma and a Master of Music from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. She is currently an artist of Du Vert a L'infini and the Syntropy States. Anna's compositions include instrumental, vocal, electroacoustic, multi-media and operatic works. She has collaborated with many organizations, including London Oriana Choir, Tête à Tête Opera Festival, Birmingham Opera Company, Fifteen Minutes of Fame project among others. Her compositions are included in the RMN Classical albums. https://annaviennaho.wixsite.com/pianosoprano07) Cameron Naylor - Spent Spent is an exploration of deconstruction, abstraction, and assemblage of sounds to create a series of shifting spaces and contexts. Through the manipulation of a single sound source, I aimed to create a wealth of sound material with which I could piece together to create a new and evolving soundworld, with allusions to both real and abstract spaces and materials, free of all original context. Cameron Naylor is an electroacoustic composer and sound artist. Through the manipulation of field recording and abstract sound material, his compositions explore sound and space as a metaphor in musical storytelling. His research interests focus on exploring the dramatic potential of sound in a variety of formats, including acousmatic music, sound installations, soundscape for theatre and radio, as well as composition for film and spoken word. Having completed a Masters in Electroacoustic Composition and Interactive Media at the University of Manchester in 2022, he has since gone on to perform and Convergence, MANTIS, SC2022, and SOUND/IMAGE.
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Shorts 49 - after watershed
Shorts 49 - after watershed
2 September 2023 11:00 pm - 3 September 2023 12:00 am
| 1) Mat Ward - Breakfast At Charlies Contained no Fucks Whatsoever (3:53)
2) Chin Ting Chan - Mirror Sculpture (9:08)
3) George Finlay Ramsay & Rudi Zygadlo - Raven's Reprise (21:44)
4) Émile Fegté - First Go (2:14)
5) Finbarr Dillon - Weddellscape (22:21)
1) Mat Ward - Breakfast At Charlies Contained no Fucks Whatsoever
Mat Ward is a musician and researcher whose practice encompasses performance, installation, film scoring, noise art, sonic portraiture, free improvisation and site-specific response. He collaborates extensively with artists across the world and is currently co-ordinating an international art music collective titled Then She Reaches For The Gun featuring more than 50 musicians from 20 countries. Ward's current research focus is the examination of the acoustic structure of noise; pulling apart field recordings to investigate how the properties of noise have both disruptive and cohesive elements and their relationship to human emotion and communication.
Then She Reaches for the Gun was formed in 2021 to bring together some of Ward’s disparate collaborative projects through experimental sound collage. Ward invites people (not just musicians) to send him files which he arranges ‘as suggested by the work’ including field recordings, spoken word, noise and pet sounds as well as instrumental grabs. Both the aesthetic and the compositional methods extensively use what Frank Zappa called Xenocrony - the mixing together of separately recorded and rhythmically opposing musical phrases to create polyrhythmic and polytempi compositions that defy easy classification. A lot of it is also funny as fuck.
https://www.matward.net/
https://soundcloud.com/no-mates-ensemble
2) Chin Ting Chan - Mirror Sculpture
Mirror Sculpture is inspired by over twenty years of observation on a Ficus tree. While its surrounding has changed dramatically, the tree remains vigorous and intact. This shows the impact of time on things at different pace. Our perception or memory of them can vary dynamically, transforming them into a mirror that reflects who we are at different times and stages of our lives. When we are able to adapt to our surrounding with an open mind and curiosity, we not only see a clearer image of ourselves from this mirror, but also through it.
Hong Kong composer Chin Ting CHAN has been a guest composer at festivals such as IRCAM's ManiFeste, ISCM World Music Days Festival, and UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers. He has worked with ensembles such as City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Ensemble intercontemporain (France), Ensemble Metamorphosis (Serbia), Ensemble Signal (U.S.), eighth blackbird (U.S.), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, and Mivos Quartet (U.S.), with performances in more than twenty countries. His recordings appear in more than fifteen albums, and his scores are published through BabelScores and Universal Edition. He is an Assistant Professor of Music Composition at Ball State University. http://www.chintingchan.com
3) George Finlay Ramsay & Rudi Zygadlo - Raven's Reprise
An invisible film for an end of the wurld.
Like a radio play but faster and louder. Verbal gymnastics & contrapuntal bubblegum do a dance with interspecies sex in Walmart parking lots, punch-ups in Morley’s chicken shops & ancient myths dissolved into Instagram memes. Inspired by the trickster origin myths of Northern Pacific cultures & the Coronavirus pandemic. Raven travels through the landscape of the 2020s, transforming herself, from toddler to teen to adult, battling her nemesis Lord Fatberg (who smells suspiciously like Trump & BoJo), hanging out with extinct species at a seaside resort & re-making the wurld to her better designs.
GF Ramsay (b. 1988, Dundee, Scotland) is an artist working with poetry, ritual and analogue film-making. In 2017 & 2018 he burned hundreds of people's regrets inside volcanoes across Eurasia. His fake epic poem Raven's Reprise (2020) tells of a trickster raven travelling through the pandemic and remaking the world to her better designs. His short film CASTOROCENE (2021) sees beavers re-build the world after humans have destroyed it. Mid length film Family Fugue (2022) is about how we are haunted by, and in turn haunt our ancestors. He is currently making plans to have his body thrown into a volcano after he dies. Ramsay’s work has been presented at Art Basel (CH), Barbican (UK), Beijing People’s Art Theatre (CN), BFI Southbank (UK), Camden Arts Centre (UK), Matadero (SP), Meyerhold Centre (RU), Mubi.com, NTS Radio, L’Orto Botanico di Roma (IT), LUX Scotland (SC), Rupert Residency (LT).
georgefinlayramsay.com
Glasgow based citizen of the world, Rudi Zygadlo began putting out electronic music in 2010. He released two albums and an EP with Planet Mu records, an EP on Pictures Music, a single on Diplo’s Mad Decent and a host of one offs on his own imprint, RZ. With an appetite for trickery and disguise, Rudi has also released numerous singles and EPs under the names of Lully and Golden Ratio Syrup. He has remixed Clean Bandit, Leanne La Havas, Sunset Sons, Amadou and Miriam and Electric Guest among others. He has also undertaken various multimedia collaborations. In 2014, he attended Red Bull Academy in New York where he produced a track with Thundercat, and in 2017, created the sound design for Gorillaz award winning Humanz app. He has composed two string quartets and, in collaboration with artist GF Ramsay, Rudi scored Oscar Winner, Tim Yip’s new film Love Infinity, an epic docu-drama about the queer art underworld of London, starring Daniel Lismore, Vivienne Westwood and Gilbert and George set for released on MUBI in 2022.
4) Émile Fegté - First Go
A pick-up truck arrives at the off-the-grid community. The gentile farmer has lost too many chickens. Something needed to change. A girl, surrounded by her community, reaches for an adulthood.
Émile Fegté is a collaborative artist with a penchant for relational dynamics, identity, and religion. Projects he's worked on have been presented by institutions such as SFMoMA, BAM, Framework Radio Visions Du Reel, Viennale, NYFF, NPR, the New School, and covered by publications including the NYTimes, the New Yorker, Vice, Mother Jones, and GQ. He currently lives in California.
5) Finbarr Dillon - Weddellscape
This piece is based on a recoding of the Weddell Seals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weddell_seal recorded under the ice cap in the remote, frozen Southern Ocean around Antarctica, by the McMurdo Oceanographic Observatory, 21 meters below the sea ice. This piece was my entry into the ‘2022 Phonurgia Nova’ field recordings section in the competition, http://phonurgia.fr/en/
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Shorts 49 - after watershed
Shorts 49 - after watershed
2 September 2023 11:00 pm - 3 September 2023 12:00 am
| 1) Mat Ward - Breakfast At Charlies Contained no Fucks Whatsoever (3:53)
2) Chin Ting Chan - Mirror Sculpture (9:08)
3) George Finlay Ramsay & Rudi Zygadlo - Raven's Reprise (21:44)
4) Émile Fegté - First Go (2:14)
5) Finbarr Dillon - Weddellscape (22:21)
1) Mat Ward - Breakfast At Charlies Contained no Fucks Whatsoever
Mat Ward is a musician and researcher whose practice encompasses performance, installation, film scoring, noise art, sonic portraiture, free improvisation and site-specific response. He collaborates extensively with artists across the world and is currently co-ordinating an international art music collective titled Then She Reaches For The Gun featuring more than 50 musicians from 20 countries. Ward's current research focus is the examination of the acoustic structure of noise; pulling apart field recordings to investigate how the properties of noise have both disruptive and cohesive elements and their relationship to human emotion and communication.
Then She Reaches for the Gun was formed in 2021 to bring together some of Ward’s disparate collaborative projects through experimental sound collage. Ward invites people (not just musicians) to send him files which he arranges ‘as suggested by the work’ including field recordings, spoken word, noise and pet sounds as well as instrumental grabs. Both the aesthetic and the compositional methods extensively use what Frank Zappa called Xenocrony - the mixing together of separately recorded and rhythmically opposing musical phrases to create polyrhythmic and polytempi compositions that defy easy classification. A lot of it is also funny as fuck.
https://www.matward.net/
https://soundcloud.com/no-mates-ensemble
2) Chin Ting Chan - Mirror Sculpture
Mirror Sculpture is inspired by over twenty years of observation on a Ficus tree. While its surrounding has changed dramatically, the tree remains vigorous and intact. This shows the impact of time on things at different pace. Our perception or memory of them can vary dynamically, transforming them into a mirror that reflects who we are at different times and stages of our lives. When we are able to adapt to our surrounding with an open mind and curiosity, we not only see a clearer image of ourselves from this mirror, but also through it.
Hong Kong composer Chin Ting CHAN has been a guest composer at festivals such as IRCAM's ManiFeste, ISCM World Music Days Festival, and UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers. He has worked with ensembles such as City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Ensemble intercontemporain (France), Ensemble Metamorphosis (Serbia), Ensemble Signal (U.S.), eighth blackbird (U.S.), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, and Mivos Quartet (U.S.), with performances in more than twenty countries. His recordings appear in more than fifteen albums, and his scores are published through BabelScores and Universal Edition. He is an Assistant Professor of Music Composition at Ball State University. http://www.chintingchan.com
3) George Finlay Ramsay & Rudi Zygadlo - Raven's Reprise
An invisible film for an end of the wurld.
Like a radio play but faster and louder. Verbal gymnastics & contrapuntal bubblegum do a dance with interspecies sex in Walmart parking lots, punch-ups in Morley’s chicken shops & ancient myths dissolved into Instagram memes. Inspired by the trickster origin myths of Northern Pacific cultures & the Coronavirus pandemic. Raven travels through the landscape of the 2020s, transforming herself, from toddler to teen to adult, battling her nemesis Lord Fatberg (who smells suspiciously like Trump & BoJo), hanging out with extinct species at a seaside resort & re-making the wurld to her better designs.
GF Ramsay (b. 1988, Dundee, Scotland) is an artist working with poetry, ritual and analogue film-making. In 2017 & 2018 he burned hundreds of people's regrets inside volcanoes across Eurasia. His fake epic poem Raven's Reprise (2020) tells of a trickster raven travelling through the pandemic and remaking the world to her better designs. His short film CASTOROCENE (2021) sees beavers re-build the world after humans have destroyed it. Mid length film Family Fugue (2022) is about how we are haunted by, and in turn haunt our ancestors. He is currently making plans to have his body thrown into a volcano after he dies. Ramsay’s work has been presented at Art Basel (CH), Barbican (UK), Beijing People’s Art Theatre (CN), BFI Southbank (UK), Camden Arts Centre (UK), Matadero (SP), Meyerhold Centre (RU), Mubi.com, NTS Radio, L’Orto Botanico di Roma (IT), LUX Scotland (SC), Rupert Residency (LT).
georgefinlayramsay.com
Glasgow based citizen of the world, Rudi Zygadlo began putting out electronic music in 2010. He released two albums and an EP with Planet Mu records, an EP on Pictures Music, a single on Diplo’s Mad Decent and a host of one offs on his own imprint, RZ. With an appetite for trickery and disguise, Rudi has also released numerous singles and EPs under the names of Lully and Golden Ratio Syrup. He has remixed Clean Bandit, Leanne La Havas, Sunset Sons, Amadou and Miriam and Electric Guest among others. He has also undertaken various multimedia collaborations. In 2014, he attended Red Bull Academy in New York where he produced a track with Thundercat, and in 2017, created the sound design for Gorillaz award winning Humanz app. He has composed two string quartets and, in collaboration with artist GF Ramsay, Rudi scored Oscar Winner, Tim Yip’s new film Love Infinity, an epic docu-drama about the queer art underworld of London, starring Daniel Lismore, Vivienne Westwood and Gilbert and George set for released on MUBI in 2022.
4) Émile Fegté - First Go
A pick-up truck arrives at the off-the-grid community. The gentile farmer has lost too many chickens. Something needed to change. A girl, surrounded by her community, reaches for an adulthood.
Émile Fegté is a collaborative artist with a penchant for relational dynamics, identity, and religion. Projects he's worked on have been presented by institutions such as SFMoMA, BAM, Framework Radio Visions Du Reel, Viennale, NYFF, NPR, the New School, and covered by publications including the NYTimes, the New Yorker, Vice, Mother Jones, and GQ. He currently lives in California.
5) Finbarr Dillon - Weddellscape
This piece is based on a recoding of the Weddell Seals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weddell_seal recorded under the ice cap in the remote, frozen Southern Ocean around Antarctica, by the McMurdo Oceanographic Observatory, 21 meters below the sea ice. This piece was my entry into the ‘2022 Phonurgia Nova’ field recordings section in the competition, http://phonurgia.fr/en/
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Astro)(Mélange - A Radiophonic Dream
Astro)(Mélange - A Radiophonic Dream
3 September 2023 12:00 am - 1:00 am
Astro)(Mélange are Shaun Robert sound art musician producer director of Institute For Alien Research label and the infamous C. GlöOmy of MK Ultraterrestrial Broadcasting.
shaunrobert.bandcamp.com
comakultur.bandcamp.com
Institute For Alien Research - Label for sound art, musique concrète and similar operated by Shaun Robert. ifarmusiqueconcretecompilation.bandcamp.com
MK Ultraterrestrial Broadcasting
ra.co/dj/c-gloomy
archive.org/details/@mk_ultraterrestrial_broadcasting
Obscure dwellers and hi-jacked shows.
Stay safe, stay weird.
Grtzzzzz, Chandor GlöOmy
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Radio Concrete 45 (Felixbrodt, Otherscapes, Tape Festival)
Radio Concrete 45 (Felixbrodt, Otherscapes, Tape Festival)
3 September 2023 1:00 am - 1:30 am
Title: Radio Concrete 45 (Felixbrodt, Otherscapes, Tape Festival)
Description:
This episode is composed of 3 different live sets:
- Studio Recordings with Maya Felixbrodt
- Live in Tivon with Dani Williamson (Otherscapes)
- Recordings from 2022 Tape Festival (Zimmer TLV) by Yaniv Schonfeld
Short Bio:
Maya Felixbrodt - Artistic director, co-founder, moving musician, composer choreographer at Moving Strings
Otherscapes is a live Audio-Visual collaboration between Dani Wiliamson and Hagai Izenberg. Light itself is a powerful tool, which when combined with sound, can transform and create new spaces
Yaniv Schonfeld is an interdisciplinary artist who creates work that explores the relationship between the artistic experience of the audience, technology, and music.
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Parazit Radio Episode 4 - Test Render 6
Parazit Radio Episode 4 - Test Render 6
3 September 2023 1:30 am - 2:00 am
Radio Parazit–in English, “Parasite Radio”–contains and broadcasts my explorations around ‘Diasporic Imaginaries.’ Through a series of experimental radio broadcasts, I think and share out loud about experiences, thoughts, and hopes with material derived from personal stories rendered in artistic and acoustic explorations. My voice, however, is not singular. Instead, I suggest a singular perspective of a constellation of voices I have encountered over the years. These voices have shaped my own and have shortened the distance between the subjects and places that build my own diasporic experience in this world.
A series of 4 episodes connecting to ideas around Diaspora, the Indigenous, the Planet, and Symbiosis.
- Diáspora
- Parásito
- Tensión Lunar
- Otrxs Mutualismxs
Biography:
Nicolás Kisic Aguirre is an architect and trans-disciplinary sound artist who creates machines that explore and illuminate the social and political nature of sound in public space. In 2018, he graduated from the MIT program in Art, Culture and Technology. Informed by his background in architecture and a lifelong fascination with machines, Kisic Aguirre designs and builds sound instruments that explore the connection between public space, power, technology, and sound. His critical and aesthetic practice is open-source, collaborative, and deeply engaged with the public. Nicolás is currently a Ph.D. student in the DXArts program at the University of Washington Seattle.
http://www.nka.pe
internet@nka.pe
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Tristan Partridge - Flood Pulse Projections 1
Tristan Partridge - Flood Pulse Projections 1
3 September 2023 2:00 am - 2:30 am
This piece is an audio response to the growing unpredictability of seasonal cycles. It reflects on the slow violence of incremental change. Now that 1000-year floods occur frequently, socioecological relationships are increasingly fraught. These instabilities are experienced very unevenly across time, territories, and identities. In place of annual rains and renewal, there are inundations and catastrophic loss. But gradual change continues, beneath and between such events. In this piece, an unbroken take, consistency becomes unrecognizable. Altered by phasing, misled by repetition, frequency becomes unreliable – echoes of environmental processes that remould what it is to observe and to connect.
Tristan Partridge is a writer and composer originally based in Glasgow, now living in Santa Barbara, California. Tristan has written and performed with US / UK acts including Now Anvil (SMHTP Recordings), In Posterface (Winning Sperm Party), Lapsus Linguae, Coagulars, Rungs (Cool Your Jets), and Habit Trail. Recent performances include percussion work in Berlin with Du Yun (The Man Who Swallowed A Snake) and in Los Angeles with A Wake Of Starry Tongues (Echo Park Rising festival). Tristan’s text scores, poems, and commentaries have been published by The Center for Deep Listening, Bottlecap Press, Dead Letter Office, and others.
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Dosimat - Tones For Mechanisms
Dosimat - Tones For Mechanisms
3 September 2023 2:30 am - 3:00 am
Slideout of summer and ease into autumn. A Collaborative ensemble of Dosimatis a polyglot depot for municipal events.
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The Conduction Series - Swarms, Flocks, Schools, Pods, and Parliaments
The Conduction Series - Swarms, Flocks, Schools, Pods, and Parliaments
3 September 2023 3:00 am - 4:00 am
ANNA FRIZ (Santa Cruz, CA)•AUGUST BLACK (Boulder, CO)•BETSEY BIGGS (Boulder, CO)•FLORENCIA CURCI (Buenos Aires, Argentina)•JEFF ECONOMY (Kingston, NY)•JIMMY GARVER (Leeds, NY)•MAXIMILIAN GOLDFARB (Hudson, NY)•PETER COURTEMANCHE (Vancouver, Canada)•VIRGINIA MANTINIAN (Denver, CO) The Conduction Series is a collaborative live radio broadcast produced by a group of sound and transmission artists across the Americas on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. The group comes together on the first Friday of every month at 4:10pm ET using the web platform Mezcal. Emphasizing LIVE interactivity and media archaeological methods, the series explores themes of migration, feedback, user participation, low-key and on-site interaction with mobile devices, and remote collaboration at scale. https://conduction.wavefarm.org/
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Simon LeBoggit - Therefore
Simon LeBoggit - Therefore
3 September 2023 4:00 am - 5:45 am
THEREFORE is a “perpetual” audio-poem which organically mutates and regenerates itself from a stanzacloud of verse. Each whispered line of the poem is relentlessly shifting in relation to every other line, as the poem endlessly renews itself. This is the closest that its creator Simon Le Boggit has come to expressing a state of mind where the physical and psychological suffering caused by the arthritic autoimmune disease Ankylosing Spondylitis shifts the goalposts so randomly and rapidly that you don’t know what you are – let alone who you are, where you are, or where you are going… Simon Le Boggit is a multimedia artist. He was born, inflated, and will eventually deflate.
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Martin Eccles - Island Suite: movement 2; Alnay
Martin Eccles - Island Suite: movement 2; Alnay
3 September 2023 5:45 am - 10:00 am
I am on Alnay, a remote island in the foothills of a Northumbrian mountain; an imaginary island in the foothills of a Northumbrian mountain. I walk this island of my imagining. On Midsummers Day I walk its shore. A summer solstice sunwise walk. I walk from southern lowlands to the cliffs of the north. I walk from sun to rain; I walk from shelter to wind and back to shelter. I walk 10 miles; I walk four hours; I walk Alnay’s edge, tracing out its shoreline with sound and poetry. My practice reflects my experience of being in and walking through natural environments. I use sound recording and text to present time, place, distance and movement in the landscape and to provide an opportunity for a listener to consider what it means to move through the landscape at a human pace and scale. Written or spoken and transcribed notes made whilst walking provide the material for poems, often in the form of haiku, and other text works. I have exhibited nationally and internationally and have created radio works for Framework Radio, Resonance EXTRA and Radiophrenia. https://martinpeccles.com
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Milo Thesiger Meacham - Audible Heat
Milo Thesiger Meacham - Audible Heat
3 September 2023 10:00 am - 11:20 am
Accompanied by his own field recordings and music, and with spoken contributions by writer and translator Cristina Viti and Iraqi filmmaker Ahmed Yassin Aldaradji, Milo Thesiger–Meacham reads a text of his on the sound of the cicada as "audible heat" in human history and culture. This transcontinental narrative argues that the cicada's sound informs feelings of isolation and vulnerability in the heat of unfamiliar landscapes. Historical and contemporary topics include: the fears of early colonists in Northeastern America, tongue twisters, Socrates's dread of dehydration in Plato's Phaedrus, the hurdy-gurdy, Geronimo's hatred of telegraphy, entomological science, squinting, the slow body language of Clint Eastwood, insects on the film sets of Sergio Leone's Spanish Westerns, 12th-century Moorish poetry, YouTube, military reenactment,the botanist Donald C. Peattie's terror of the inescapable buzz of mortality, and ancient cooking implements. Milo Thesiger–Meacham is an artist based in London. His work combines sound, musical composition, text, visual material and performance. He has worked on solo and ensemble projects for Tate Modern, The V&A Museum, the European Capital of Culture, London Fashion Week, The Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Radiophrenia, Cafe Oto, Gaias Garden, Iklectik Art Lab, the European Poetry Festival, Radio Revolten, the IvyNODE/Tierra Vivente residency and symposium, and Echoraeume, among others. He is also the manager and curator of Resonance Extra, an international arts radio station. https://soundcloud.com/milotmhttps://vimeo.com/milotmhttps://www.instagram.com/_milotm_/
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Alicia Mathews
Alicia Mathews
3 September 2023 11:20 am - 11:35 am
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Helen McCrorie - School is a Prison
Helen McCrorie - School is a Prison
3 September 2023 11:30 am - 11:45 am
Developed from workshops and a screening at CCA with classes from Glasgow Primary Schools. Helen worked with the groups two years previously on the film We know a better word than happy, 2021, exploring the urgency of outdoor play. Due to covid restrictions then, the children were unable to do sound recording. The piece explores the children’s reaction to the film and questions, two years later, and their hands-on sonic-play with loose-parts, during what is for many their first visit to an art gallery. What is the potential of a circular art practice?
Helen McCrorie is an artist based in Scotland, on the Highland fault line, working in film, video and sound. Her practice combines documentary methods with collaborative sound workshops. She films community groups and friends engaged in work, play and ritual, exploring how we connect with each other and our environment through embodied learning.
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Buffer Zone
Buffer Zone
3 September 2023 11:45 am - 12:00 pm
1) Mute Frequencies - Humming Top Orchestra (7:42) The Humming Top Orchestra documents an interactive performance conducted at the Open House Festival in London, 2022. The performance took place on Hackney’s Beck Road, a street known for its artistic community. The audience was invited to spin a set of humming tops laid out under a railway bridge. Each of these toys emitted a drone when spun. They were miked up and the signal processed live through a bank of effects. The intention was to keep the humming tops spinning indefinitely, creating a long hypnotic symphony of drones that interacted with the passing trains and incidental street sounds. Mute Frequencies – Ilia and Laura Rogatchevski – are a London based duo working within the intersections of sound, performance and visual media. They have exhibited at various venues in the UK (Dilston Grove, IKLECTIK, DivFuse) and performed at the festivals Radio Revolten, Dronica, Splice, Supernormal and Open House. The project name is both a reference to the inaudible frequencies of the audio spectrum and the electromagnetic frequencies that have the potential to transmit information, such as radio waves. mutefrequencies.com 2) Johnny Dixon - PenintaMES - 4 (3:10)
The new ‘PenintaMES’ form takes 50 lines of Mark E Smith’s lyrics from his songs with The Fall group. Although clearly derived from the Cento form, invented to give new and abstract life to Homer’s verse, the PenintaMES is a new poetic form specifically and specially invented for Radiophrenia 2023 to play a little with Mark E Smith’s words. Lines were selected using the FallFriday hashtag on the now defunct Twitter app. Any single quoted line or, if more than one line was quoted then the first or middle line, was used. If no lines were quoted in the tweet a quick glance at the whole song lyrics was enough to take a single line. A debt of gratitude is owed to The Annotated Fall website for compiling the complete lyrics, and to everyone who has ever tweeted using the FallFriday hashtag. And of course to MES for the endless diversions his work provides.
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Jim Colquhoun and Jamie McNeill - On Cannibalism considered as one of the fine arts
Jim Colquhoun and Jamie McNeill - On Cannibalism considered as one of the fine arts
3 September 2023 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Colquhoun & McNeill found themselves locked in an airless cellar in Rotterdam for what seemed like an eternity. Surrounded by a bewildering array of vintage synths that neither artist had any idea how to switch on never mind play and as their incessant bickering lurched ever closer to the daily fistfight Colquhoun babbled gibberish into a broken cassette recorder whilst McNeill attempted to electrolyse his frontal lobe and not for the last time. The trick seemed to be to record everything all the time as every five hours or so a dying synthesiser would vomit a few seconds of barely salvageable audio, its circuits fried by a decrepit power cable or the overzealous application of some Space Echo. From these fragments they were able to construct a gnostic grammar from which to mimic the machines they consistently tried to destroy. Colquhoun had become particularly skilled in apeing the high end screech of a badly patched ARP 2600. A guitar lead coils itself slowly into a gordian knot like a snake that can’t quite stomach eating its own head, the calcified circuit board reroutes itself as self-immolating electro-pictograms and in the over-defined flicker and glare of the studio lighting Colquhoun mistakes a toaster for a vintage mic spending yet another wasted afternoon whispering enochian incantations into the heating element. https://soundcloud.com/colquhoun-mcneill https://www.instagram.com/a_topography_of_melancholy/
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butteredfeet - Christmas Special
butteredfeet - Christmas Special
3 September 2023 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Project from two writers based in Newcastle upon Tyne. butteredfeet is a fiction
Each episode takes us to an ill-timed moment when characters tragic lives are steeped in metaphor and irony.
It’s poignant, sharp and bitterly familiar.
Suzie is better than musky Arnold, but fears a life alone with Shiraz. The Logans are Bonnie and Clyde drinking Monster cans. Dylan and Thomas enjoy a dusty market. Sam and Bex are a new-build couple laced in lies. Aiden and Beth love crisps as much as each other. Catherine and James are riddled with pretentiousness and their Peloton. Caitlin is a desperately lonely insomniac but has the best bubble writing.
butteredfeet are Phil McDonald and Chris Smith. They’re writers from Newcastle upon Tyne also working in teaching and men's mental health. This project is their way of commenting on the absurdity, hilarity and poignant of relationships. They’re mostly inspired by standing in the queue at Morrisons.
Short-podcast now available on Spotify and iTunes.
@butteredfeet (Twitter)
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Shorts 28
Shorts 28
3 September 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
1) Nacho Cordoba Delgado - This Tape Machine Destroys Time 07 - Gianluca Elia - Side A (15:00) 2) Millie Player - 1988 (9:49) 3) Marek Hlavac - Changing Weather 7-dry digital wind (7:15) 4) Sam C Roberts - Be Wary of the Rumbling (6:53) 5) Dorota Blaszczak - Walking and Listening (15:00) 6) Johnny Dixon - IC UR hands (1:03) 7) Vincent Eoppolo - The Ascension (3:33) 1) Nacho Cordoba Delgado - This Tape Machine Destroys Time 07 - Gianluca Elia - Side A TTMDT is a collection series made from January to December 2012. One tape/digital release per month out on MAGIA. The first 6 were created by MAGIA founder Ignacio Córdoba and the rest by close friends and fellow artists Gianluca Elia (IT/DK), Simon Forchhammer (DK), Michał Biel (PL/DK), bjarkebbbb (DK), Louise Vind Nielsen (GE/DK) and the mysterious Shoji Mariah (BR/JP). All the releases focus on tapes, tape machines and machines as destroyers of time, of perception and of the perception of time. Samples, coding, looping, hacking, field recording, plunderphonics and improvisation share the detritus of Time. 2) Millie Player - 1988 Silent, solitary walks around a Dunbar beach led me to glowing internet tabs. Lonely anti-tank blocks sat stubbornly in the emptiness of a Dunbar beach. Silent, solitary walks drove me to glowing internet tabs, as I questioned who had been here before me. I visited a Bollywood film set, a hermit-saint taking refuge, peeped through 24-hour bird-watching cameras. I learnt that lighthouse keepers no longer exist, instead automated by radios and telephones. I changed between tabs and ideas like radio frequencies. I came to wonder if lighthouses got lonely, if they were now just digital ghosts- listening, trying to find connections too. Millie Player is a visual artist based in Scotland. Her practice currently exists within a boundary between drawing, metal sculpture and installations of sound and light. She lingers on visualisations of time, mythologizing lives and narratives, pouring perceptions into the past. ‘In all the ways we think about time, we always view it as something external, a measurement devoid of feeling and unconnected to the duration of our bodies. I aim to document the quiet resonance of different existences; my work is a talisman for the temporal suspension I experience. https://millieplayer.cargo.site/3) Marek Hlavac - Changing Weather 7: dry digital wind From a series of digitally modelled speculative soundscapes: machine-learned sound of wind field recordings were recorded around Marloes, Wales in January 2021 and in Prague, May 2021 Marek Hlavac is sound artist whose work is focused on relation of sound, technology and natural and social environments. His performances, installations, compositions and site-specific projects are based on listening, reflection and speculative reimagining. His live performances often concentrate on relationship between instrument/technological setup and interaction of participants. He does occasional curatorial work (eg. Prague small guerilla style sound-art festival Transient Zones). http://marekhlavac.net4) Sam C Roberts - Be Wary of the Rumbling This work is a narrated sonic story from the fictional future of Eden & Nova, created by Sam C. Roberts. A grizzled old timer, long retired from prospecting the wilderness of New Earth, tells the story of his encounter with a ‘Terraformer’ – a giant, life-creating machine, designed during the final years of Old Earth to give humanity one more chance at survival. A brief glimpse into life on a conceptual, post-apocalyptic planet Earth. Sam C. Roberts is an experimental composer, sonic artist and musician from the UK. His work seeks to fuse musical complexity, improvisation, field recording and original texts into pieces that span instrumental, abstract-ambient and narrative disciplines. Performances and exhibitions include appearances at Audiograft Festival, RAMA Festival (Aarhus, Denmark), Adelaide Festival (Australia), The Bath Fringe and many other venues and events across the UK and Europe. He has also worked extensively as a freelance bass guitarist and in professional audio since 2004. http://www.samcroberts.co.ukhttp://www.samcroberts.bandcamp.comhttp://www.instagram.com/sascrob5) Dorota Blaszczak - Walking and Listening I was involved in creating sound for virtual environments where you could notice and hear more when you stop. I went to Copenhagen in 2022 for an exhibition of those Char Davies' VR works in Fotografisk Center. On Sunday morning Jun 05, I recorded a real walk, with a recorder in a belly bag, from the city center, by the hotel to the art gallery. My movement and steps were masking other sounds, only pausing was opening an acoustic horizon for listening and noticing more. Dorota Blaszczak works in Polish Radio Archives and at Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. She teaches courses in interactive sound, works in sound restoration and preservation, creates audio works and interactive projects. http://www.dorotablaszczak.pl6) Johnny Dixon - IC UR hands 7) Vincent Eoppolo - The Ascension Vincent Eoppolo (Ioppolo) is an American composer from Wilmington, Delaware. Initially trained as both a Classical and Jazz guitarist, Eoppolo began composing and recording electronic music in the early 1980’s shortly after the development of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) and the introduction of affordable home computers and recording equipment. During the 1980-90’s Eoppolo’s fixed media compositions were regularly featured on university new music radio programs in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania region. Additionally, Eoppolo’s works received recognition in music publications Keyboard Magazine and Computer Music Journal. In recent years, Eoppolo’s fixed media works have been presented at the New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, Mise_En Place New Music Festival in Brooklyn, Utopie Sonore in Nantes, France and De Natura Sonorum in Rome, Italy. Eoppolo’s compositions have been released by Moscow based independent music label Meticulous Midgets and his works are regularly featured on new music radio and internet programs throughout Europe and North America. Eoppolo’s compositions are a mix of various sound art traditions such as musique concrete, acousmatic music, electro-acoustic music and radio art. Eoppolo refers to his works as sonic cinema and he cites film directors such as Antonioni, Tarkovsky and Fellini as influences. Eoppolo’s music is available on all major streaming platforms such as Spotify, ITunes, YouTube and Amazon as well as Soundcloud.
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Pablo Sanz - Tenerife
Pablo Sanz - Tenerife
3 September 2023 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
TENERIFE (19:08) Tenerife is the largest of the Canary Islands. The fieldwork centered on the Teide National Park, a spacious territory at 2.000 meters of altitude located around Mount Teide (3.715 meters), the highest elevation in all of Spain and among all the islands in the Atlantic Ocean. This composition explores quiet, small and unnoticed sonic events, some of them inaudible to human ears, that occur throughout the expansive, seemingly immobile volcanic mountain landscape. Exploding retama seeds, ELF/VLF atmospheric noise, ultrasonic vocalizations of bats, and the sounds of insects and avian inhabitants. Furthermore, the piece includes underwater recordings made in the ocean, featuring the calls of the short-finned pilot whale and the Blainville beaked whale. CANARIAS SOUNDWALK explores the sonic ecologies of the Canary Islands archipelago, presenting seven compositions for headphone listening created with environmental sound materials from each of the seven main islands: El Hierro, La Gomera, La Palma, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, and Lanzarote. The project investigates the vitality of more-than-human entities and realities, aiming to promote less anthropocentric ways of being and thinking. Through different listening strategies and audio technologies, the work concentrates on what usually remains hidden or unnoticed, on the limits and thresholds of perception and attention. The project focuses on the voices and audible presence of animal and plant species, air, soil, water, weather, and landscape formations. Furthermore, it acknowledges the affective power of sounds themselves. This project embraces listening as a creative act, a form of attention, and a tool to investigate the world. It attempts to cultivate intimate sensory encounters favouring affectivity over signification and representation. The project was originally commissioned by the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in the US as a permanent public invisible artwork available at multiple locations in Washington, DC. Additional support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI), the Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Konstnärsnämnden) and the Visby International Centre for Composers (VICC). Fieldwork and production assistance: Palma E. Christian Martínez. Special thanks to Garajonay National Park, Teide National Park, and Timanfaya National Park. http://pablosanz.infohttps://pablosanz.bandcamp.comhttps://soundcloud.com/pablosanzhttps://www.instagram.com/pabloooosanz/https://www.facebook.com/pablooosanz
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Dariusz Mazurowski - 30 Novembers
Dariusz Mazurowski - 30 Novembers
3 September 2023 2:20 pm - 3:00 pm
Radiophonic large scale composition, commissioned by the Czech Radio (station Vltava, devoted to classical and modern music) to celebrate 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia. After political changes in Poland same transitions in other countries of the Eastern block followed, which changed the world forever, ending communism in Europe, opening space for democratic and economical changes. Premiere broadcast of 30 Novembers, aired by Czech Radio, station Vltava on Wednesday, November 27. This piece contains historic audio footage provided by Czech Radio, documenting these events in Prague. Dariusz Mazurowski is a Polish electroacoustic music composer and performer born and residing in Gdansk. While the majority of his compositional activity has focused on acousmatic works, he has also composed instrumental music in conjunction with electronics, audio installations and improvised electroacoustic music. Mazurowski’s music has been broadcast by radio stations all over the world, and he has performed at festivals and other events in Europe, North America, South America and Asia. https://deemstudio.com/
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Anna Kravets - An Emotional Encyclopedia of War
Anna Kravets - An Emotional Encyclopedia of War
3 September 2023 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
An auto-ethnographic radio essay about emotional emergency Trying to get a grip on the new emotional states, questioning the imperceptibility of war experience, I realized how discordant it is with the life beyond its borders, trying to invent a framework that would overcome the framing barriers of mass media coverage. A limited number of people were invited to interact in recording sessions at basement locations in Brussels and Berlin. The radio essay combines those basement interactions, documented emotions, reflections on war and the changing perceptions of it, bits of wartime daily life, rapid-perception poetry, imaginary dialogues and conceptual debates. Contributors, participants and special thanks: Aditi Srivastava Alessandra Prado Soler Alice Hui-Sheng Chang Anamaria Pravicencu Amin Behmanesh Anna Khvyl Annu Koetter Atelier de création sonore radiophonique Bastien Hidalgo Ruiz Carmelo Ianuzzo Caroline Profanter Constanze Aka CTM Festival Diana Duta Dimitra Kousteridou Emma Courtine Erika Sirola Golo Föllmer Grand Hospice Greg Kieser Hanna Sauer Isabelle Delforge Joachim Glaude Julia Eckhardt Juliette Escudé Kai-Uwe Reinhold Laetitia Defendini Lilli Ebert Lisette Zeeuw Mamoru Watanabe Marie Marth Van Keirsbilck Matt Thompson Michel Ivor Nir Jacob Q-O2 Sabri Meddeb SEMI SILENT slinko Tanya Ringer Taïca Replansky Tatiana Golub Virgile Loiseau Wouter Hillaert Wynona Ringer The initial project and the piece was prompted and supported by SEMI SILENT and co-produced together with ACSR and Q-O2. The piece was commissioned by Deutschlandradio Kultur and CTM Festival, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Ö1 Kunstradio. Anna Kravets is a radio and performance artist, journalist and documentary podcast producer based in Kyiv, Ukraine. In her work, she uses direct and recorded speech, stages recorded interactions, makes sonic experiments with materials, spaces and soundscape. https://soundcloud.com/anna-kravets
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Johnny Dixon - ‘PenintaMES – 4’
Johnny Dixon - ‘PenintaMES – 4’
3 September 2023 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
The new ‘PenintaMES’ form takes 50 lines of Mark E Smith’slyrics from his songs with The Fall group. Although clearly derived from the Cento form, invented togive new and abstract life to Homer’s verse, the PenintaMES is a new poeticform specifically and specially invented for Radiophrenia 2023 to play a littlewith Mark E Smith’s words. Lines were selected using the FallFriday hashtag on the nowdefunct Twitter app. Any single quoted line or, if more than one line wasquoted then the first or middle line, was used. If no lines were quoted in thetweet a quick glance at the whole song lyrics was enough to take a single line. A debt of gratitude is owed to The Annotated Fall websitefor compiling the complete lyrics, and to everyone who has ever tweeted usingthe FallFriday hashtag. And of course to MES for the endless diversions hiswork provides.
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Steven George Jones - Haruka 01
Steven George Jones - Haruka 01
3 September 2023 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
An electronically-treated travelogue collaged from field recordings made in Kyoto, Japan whilst collaborating with the Kyoto-based Antibodies Collective. Steven George Jones is a musician, sound artist and non-fiction filmmaker based in Newport, South Wales. bosch01.bandcamp.com http://www.youtube.com/@senojnevets
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Panayiotis Kokoras - AI Phantasy
Panayiotis Kokoras - AI Phantasy
3 September 2023 4:45 pm - 5:00 pm
AI Phantasy (2020) electroacoustic sound composition. The word Phantasy refers to a phantasy with “Ph” as a state of mind of an infant child during the early stages of development. Phantasies are constructed from internal and external reality, modified by feelings and emotions, and then projected into both real and imaginary objects. On the other hand, Fantasy (with “F”) is a reverie, a daydream, an imagined unreality that anyone can create. We fantasize consciously about future possibilities and fulfillment of our basic needs and wishes. Fantasies may well include elements of the deeper unconscious phantasies. Kokoras is a Professor of composition and CEMI director at the University of North Texas. Born in Greece, he studied classical guitar and composition in Athens, Greece and York, England; he taught for many years at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki. Kokoras's sound compositions use sound as the only structural unit. His concept of "holophonic musical texture" describes his goal that each independent sound (phonos), contributes equally into the synthesis of the total (holos). web links: https://www.panayiotiskokroas.com
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No Noise Projects - Chris Biddlecombe & David Trouton ‘A slow adjustment to the sound of solipsism’
No Noise Projects - Chris Biddlecombe & David Trouton ‘A slow adjustment to the sound of solipsism’
3 September 2023 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
‘As travellers, our happiest moments always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.’
(Lawrence Block)
In 2019, while attempting to uncover the forgotten works of Latvian modernist composer Mikos Miskinis, we touched upon his connection with the obscure and obscurist American composer/philosopher Charles Glancer.
At that time we had evidence that the two had met at the celebrated “Ninth International Latvian Song and Dance Festival” in Riga 1938, but were totally unaware that, on at least two occasions, they had collaborated on ground-breaking sound recording projects.
Further research revealed that Miskinis had contributed several recordings to Glancer’s “Percepio Dei” (1946) – an audacious auditory representation of the all-seeing mind of God (after immaterialist philosopher George Berkeley).
We now know that Glancer, as if to return the favour, sent two magnetic tape sound recordings by mail which became part of Miskinis’ first foray into simultaneous intercontinental composition – “Vienlaicīga Improvizācija” (1948) – 67 years before the first internet jam session.
Through their recently re-discovered correspondence and re-conditioned archive recordings, we share an insight into the minds of these early sound pioneers.
Chris Biddlecombe is a sculptor who creates mixed media installations and performances in the UK and internationally.
David Trouton is a musician with a history of working in theatre, dance and other collaborative art-forms.
Together as No Noise Projects, Chris and David have worked together since 1999 creating audio / sculptural collaborations and theatre. Their sound works often use musical instruments, spoken word, found sounds, electronica and sampling, aligned to multi-media installations. Their projects research historical and contemporary truths, listen to curious logic and lateral whispers, to then go on to create new interpretations, hidden stories and believable fictions.
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Jim Colquhoun and Jamie McNeill - THE BURIED CATHEDRAL
Jim Colquhoun and Jamie McNeill - THE BURIED CATHEDRAL
3 September 2023 5:30 pm - 5:45 pm
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Buffer Zone
Buffer Zone
3 September 2023 5:45 pm - 6:00 pm
1) Adriana Minu and Tim Murray-Browne - Driving around Bucharest in the Lupo on 17 November 2018 (6:52)
1) Adriana Minu and Tim Murray-Browne - Driving around Bucharest in the Lupo on 17 November 2018
Driving around Bucharest in the Lupo on 17 November 2018
The Lupo was a special car. One day driving around Bucharest we discovered that if we set the radio to AM static, we could listen to all her electrical activities. The Lupo has now given up the ghost, but our car in Glasgow holds our final analog radio. This broadcast is in memory of the Lupo, that she may sing again in the cars of Glasgow.
Adriana Minu and Tim Murray-Browne are Glasgow-based artists exploring embodiment, intense vocal performance, agency in human-machine relationships and AI mysticism. They make music together as Sun Infuzhiun.
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Nika Son & Becky Šik - TONFALL – Remember, I must use the stairs
Nika Son & Becky Šik - TONFALL – Remember, I must use the stairs
3 September 2023 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Two strangers matched together, their practices intertwine A blank page Growing from there An open cupboard buzzes and humms Sending snippets in stolen moments The circle drops, opening a wide and generous hole Slippage Talking, passing, exchanging, reasoning, corresponding, joking, transposing Systems cycle in loops Accents, language, tones, intonations, cues, pitch, syllables Prompts The megalithic Ouroboros fun machine that is Barbie Touching an elephant Circles, water, falling sound Escalators, circular systems, sleep, not sleep Words that don’t exist Gleichgewicht Walking with dizzy spells in saturation Reflecting, twisting, alternating, translating, modulating, jumping from On the edges – a Hallwall Again the elephant, transponder, closed water, eyes What does it mean to be open and what slips away? Souffleuse, Echoschwelle, Tonfall X1, mnemonic, delay Asking, loops, deathbed What’s wrong with my eyes, oscillating, brown noise Pulse What is an orbit sound Missing the radiator, voices, vertigo I could spell it fownetikally/ foʊˈnet̬.ɪ.kəl.i Meter eater Mi devas uzi la ŝtuparon For their Goethe-Institut / Radiophrenia Residency, Nika and Becky will share and intertwine methods and ideas within their individual practices, through field recording, call and response collaging and collaborative audio experimentation. The work will develop from their shared interest of peripheries and the echoes of invisible forces, energies and atmospheres of spaces and events that exist in the in-between.The piece was developed during a week long residency at CCA funded by the Goethe-Institut Glasgow in collaboration with Radiophrenia. We are grateful for their support. Becky Šik is an artist filmmaker based in Glasgow whose work spans moving image, installation, sound, music, writing and publishing, often working collaboratively. Their recent moving image work explores the echo, electromagnetic phenomena and technologies as way of understanding the body’s relationship to constructs of time and state. Becky has presented work across the UK and Internationally, most recently with a film screening at Supernormal festival; Footnotes, a collaborative Radiophrenia broadcast with Sarah Forrest; and the solo exhibition Mercury at Collective Gallery, Edinburgh. Nika Son studied Fine Arts in Hamburg and has since worked as a musician, artist, film composer, curator and DJ. Influenced by Musique Concre te and the outer space of electronic music, her compositions are built from modified and fragmented field recordings, interwoven with analog synthesis, broken rhythms, rare voice scraps and modulated tape. Sounds of various origin are translated into a very unusual musical language, as if one watches the audible. She appeared on various labels, such as Mmodemm, Kashual Plastik, VIS, First Terrace Records, TAL, Sky Walking, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray and her own imprint Noctui. Her latest album To Eeyore was released on the label Entr’acte in 2020. A new album is coming this year. Alongside her solo concerts, she creates radio pieces, video and sound installations, and has collaborated for many years with various companions, most notably with filmmaker and artist Helena Wittmann and musician F#X (Cwelle). In her work as a soundartist for experimental film, she is among other responsible for the score and sound design of Helena Wittmann’s highly acclaimed films DRIFT and Human Flowers of Flesh. For over a decade she hosts regular art and music events at the Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg with various international guests. In 2018 she staged a two-day festival called Eruption, freely based on the musician and video artist Conrad Schnitzler. Since 2019, she co-curates the festival Papiripar together with Felix Kubin and Florian Bräunlich. http://www.nikason.deSupported by the Goethe-Institut Glasgow.
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Isa Stragliati - Everything has changed already
Isa Stragliati - Everything has changed already
3 September 2023 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
A close friend sent me a voicemail from afar during a difficult time.
Improvised vinyl mix with music and sounds by Fripp & Eno, Multer, Reznicek, Pierre Henry, C-Schultz & Hajsch, Bergen, Institut Für Feinmotorik, Reuber, Eliane Radigue & more
Artistic support and curation for Radio Campus Bruxelles : Carine Demange
All my love and gratitude to Paulo Dantas
Isa Stragliati is sound artist, radio producer, composer and dj. Coming from the visual arts, she turned to the sound medium in 2002 through DJing, as an extension of her approach of the film editing (under the moniker Rescue). She then practiced numerous aspects of radio production before reconciling it with her creative work. Her productions and live performances, involving field recording as much as
documentary, concrete music or techno, are broadcasted on international networks and national radios, during international festivals and events and in contemporary art centres.
http://noearnosound.net/
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elseFly - In the Attic
elseFly - In the Attic
3 September 2023 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
This piece is an attempt to record the early stages of how I would go about selecting audio from my archive when trying to find materials to build structured musical compositions. I open up multiple media windows listening for sections that compliment or clash, and I do this often, sometimes not finding anything at all. Transient and rudimentary overlaps, which if please me, are usually then reduced to loops and motifs which I work on further. Here I wanted to pay closer attention to those transitory moments that get whittled and let their rougher edges and simpler forms play out.
I live in Glasgow working jobs here and there and working with artists and friends here and there. I primarily work with audio, and most often want to organise that audio into some kind of structured musical form. Using Max/MSP, synthesisers, samplers and recorders–engaging with various user interfaces–has led to an interest in animation, from the tight synchronisation of a Looney Tunes score to methods of displaying audio in generative animations. I’m forever ambivalent about utility and uselessness.
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Posset - A little walking and a little talking
Posset - A little walking and a little talking
3 September 2023 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
In a tribute to Adam Bohman’s Talking Tapes and id m theft able’s Babb’s Bridge record, Dictaphone enthusiast Joe Posset walks across Newcastle’s Town Moor and into the handsome Exhibition Park to eventually read the graffiti at the local skate park. As he walks Posset describes what he can see and reminisces about the randomness of park life: seeing Don Letts relaxing with a pint, Park Run Anti Vaxxers, Free Jazz and Kurt Schwitters. Joe Posset is an amateur musician. His work focuses on the inherent sound properties of cassette tape, dictaphones and language to create indistinct yet evocative soundscapes. Posset has released almost 100 tapes and CDrs on numerous DIY labels over the last 20 years and is a frequent collaborator in one-off and longer-lasting collaborative projects (see Molar Crime and Papal Bull). Recently his work has explored ideas of accessibility, inclusion and privilege in the underground music scene Bandcamp: https://posset.bandcamp.com/
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Manja Ristić - arhiva nestajanja, arhiva u nastajanju - Mediterranean Futures
Manja Ristić - arhiva nestajanja, arhiva u nastajanju - Mediterranean Futures
3 September 2023 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Premiered at Trans Balkan Express Radio Festival, curated by Žarko Komar aka Feloneezy, as a part of the Mediterranean Futures series on @movement_athens Field recording gestures and in-situ interventions are gently placed into immersive ambient & drone explorations, while the musical narrative develops around extensive hydrophone recording of the terrigenous sediments and various aquascapes of the Adriatic’s littoral zones. Some of the locations where recordings were taken are the island of Korčula and its surrounding archipelago (islands of Badija & Vrnik), the island of Silba, Neretva River, Dubrovnik old town, and the island of Vis. Manja Ristić is a violinist, sound artist, poet, curator and researcher active in the fields of electroacoustic and classical music, instrumental improvisation and experimental sound art. Her work blends intuitive composition and field recording practices while focusing on interdisciplinary approaches to acousmatic forms, radio art, and acoustic ecology. Manja Ristić currently works and lives on the island of Korčula, Croatia. http://manjaristic.blogspot.comhttps://manjaristic.bandcamp.com
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Kamikaze Jones - Omnibus
Kamikaze Jones - Omnibus
3 September 2023 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm
A series of three individual pieces produced as a commission for Radiophrenia 2023. They have been broadcast separately elsewhere in the schedule but here they can be heard together: The Degeneration LoopsDirectly evoking the work of William Basinksi, The Degeneration Loops are a series of dronescapes using sonic ephemera from queer pornography. Each loop is recorded to tape and subsequently eroded through a deliberate misuse of digitization technology. Jones mines the historicity of the "loop" as an early means of disseminating erotic material, while pondering the innate unknowability of the archive: subject to the shifting attitudes of posterity, ontological dust, spectral intervention, and weaponized erasure. ‘Degeneration Loop 2: Pier Groups’ is a loop from the 1982 gay pornographic film “Pier Groups” which prominently features men cruising the abandoned Pier 52 warehouse of the New York City waterfront. ‘Degeneration Loop 3: My Masters’ is a loop from the 1986 underground gay kink video “My Masters” by Christopher Rage. Both loops have been subjected to multiple scalpels until the tape can no longer fully function. End of the LineEnd of the Line is an experimental radio play that juxtaposes found audio sourced from gay phone sex hotlines with electronically manipulated recordings of hold music from pharmacies across the USA. The hotline is an arguably outmoded telecommunication technology that has sculpted and mediated generations of queer desire. After obtaining a free trial to chat with "local guys" via hotline one lonely December evening, I was granted access to the explicit spoken word bios of men seeking erotic company throughout the United States, some of which seemed to be months-if not years-old. This aural landscape felt both divinatory and predicated on the ideologies of cruising; the faceless ghosts of public sex circulating in a feedback loop. This aura of unfulfilled expectation felt similar to the liminal psychogeographies that occur upon experiencing “hold music”; music created to fill a bureaucratic void and intended to ease the anxieties of waiting. Recorded directly from my phone, I began to document these voices while compiling snippets of hold music from CVS and Walgreens' pharmacies throughout the nation. There were two predominant hold music compositions featured, but depending on the quality of the connection, the recordings were subject to aleatoric distortion and degeneration. These disparate audio sources delineate simultaneously purgatorial and quasi-cartographical spaces, and when in dialogue with each other, create a unique hauntological topography that addresses archival loss, queer longing, the failures of the medical industrial complex, and the occult properties of "being put on hold." BiographyKamikaze Jones is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores extended vocal technique, queer hauntologies, and ritualized erotic transcendence. Utilizing counterarchival impulse and experimental research procedures, Jones endeavors to provide both sonic and ceremonial sanctuary for the ghosts of public sex. His work across mediums has been featured by Anthology Film Archives, Black Mountain College Museum, Montez Press Radio, Wave Farm, The Poetry Project, and Onassis USA. He was a founding member of the poetry and performance collective The Anchoress Syndicate, and the host of the podcast "Pure Garbage: An Oral Examination of John Waters." He is the current arts editor of WUSSY Magazine. https://www.kamikazejones.com
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Leon Clowes - The Haunting
Leon Clowes - The Haunting
3 September 2023 9:30 pm - 10:00 pm
These works from the last twelve months are all part of my current PhD practice research at London College of Music, University of West London. Using autoethnographic techniques, I'm exploring self-compassionate creative exploration of lived trauma (kinship care family, growing up gay during the AIDS crisis, addiction/abuse). 'Secrets keep us sick and pop music brings us closer' is an audio paper selected for Seismograf's 'Grief' edition. Radiophrenia broadcast 9pm 24th Aug. 'My story with alcohol' is part of an installation at Open School East's Associate Artist exhibition. Radiophrenia broadcast 11pm 1st September. 'The Haunting' is a music, film and spoken word performance from Naviar Records Haiku Fest at Cafe Oto. Radiophrenia broadcast 9:30pm 3rd September. In the last three years, leon clowes’ transdisciplinary artworks have featured in, and been commissioned by, Drake Music Scotland/NMC Recordings for pianist Siwan Rhys, BBC News and Sounds podcast, SPILL and Deptford X arts festivals, Frieze Art Fair, Cafe Oto, Squish Rotterdam, Queer Art Projects, Disability Arts Online, Margate Pride, Queer Contemporaries, Datscha Radio Berlin, Britten Pears Arts and Exploding Cinema. Together with Cathy Sloan, and working curatorially with international groups and artists, leon is using lived experience to establish the national Addiction Recovery Arts Network. http://www.leonclowes.com
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Shorts 42
Shorts 42
3 September 2023 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
1) Emma Bowen - Gates (3:46) 2) Anne Marie Deacy - The Anemoia Experience (18:58) 3) Neural Machine - Plums to People (9:27) 4) Joan Schuman - shimmer & loop (12:46) 5) Johannes Christopher Gerard - The Voices In My Head (4:26) 6) Dushume - Kiln (9:25) 1) Emma Bowen - Gates This experimental composition combines field recordings, sound objects, musical saw and modular synth. The hope is to create a soundscape for listeners to project their own narratives and imaginings. Emma Bowen is an AV artist, facilitator and educator based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She works collaboratively on bespoke learning, social care and AV art projects. She has made noises with and for other people at; Concurrent, Edinburgh Art Festival, Glasgow International and for Sci-Fi Theatre in Liverpool. She was awarded an honorary mention and best experimental audio - for two years - at Black & White Festival Internacional Audiovisual, Portugal. She exhibits and screens work locally and internationally. http://www.emmagbowen.com2) Anne Marie Deacy - The Anemoia Experience We’re dreaming of a Noir-Christmas BUT not as you know it and not when you think it would be. Sound-artist, Anne Marie Deacy, and Torch-singer, Claudia Barton, both having a penchant for another time for which they formed The Anemoia Society. With a strong ethos in collective listening and collaborative practices a call went out from the society for sonic contributions, especially evoking a time past. An eve for those who experience Anemoia, ( nostalgia for a past not lived)! All that is needed is a cosy time-machine ( for its first rendition that was a transmission by Sr.Anne Marie followed by torch songs by Sr. Claudia at the cosy Maureen’s, Cork.). This piece is The Anemoia Experience where the unlived experiences join the living, through the medium of radio-transmission, our multiple pasts form a nostalgic future. The piece introduced by radio hero John Cavanagh, includes donations of sounds sent by the public but mainly The Guesthouse Project. From found sounds, to ads lost in time, voices of the past to the setting of a table we are transported. Anne Marie Deacy is a sound artist, based in the west of Ireland. Field recording is the foundation of practice, which is embedded in listening as activism. She is interested in the creation of collective sonic works that explore the resonance of materiality, exploring vibration and sound as a series of memory marks. Through this work she is interested in sounding the heard and discreet and exploring through our auditory perception a new sonic dialogue, frequently using transmission as a portal to fuse ideas that opens up our way of listening and questions our sense of time, place and space. https://www.annemariedeacy.com/3) Neural Machine - Plums to People Plums to People is our first track exploring the relationship we have with machine/s and the underlying communicative process that is always present when using them. It is a reflection on soundwaves and an investigation about how frequencies interact, influencing each other in time and space, as well as how those frequencies communicates with the human and transform when passing through different bodies. Neural Machine aims to bomb the boundaries of mainstream ways of performing, producing, engaging, and interacting with art.Our project embodies a matriarchive of sonic gestures, a critique to the limitless modern art consumption, an experiment of hilarious seriousness, a political manifesto of contemporary times. An answer to our post-industrial societies, where everything is categorised so nothing can uncontrollably exist. 4) Joan Schuman - shimmer & loop Three sound artists consider the theme of fear and climate collapse in their creative practice. Shimmer is an entanglement; fear is a place to spiral in an audible loop. Voices are joined with VLF radio signals recorded in an extractive Chilean lithium mine. The artists also tangle with writer Paul Kingsnorth’s blank pages and loops where the beastly protagonist is not sinister, rather vigilant. Stories may help us to live on this damaged planet so that we can find solace beyond divisions of fear, hope, solutions. These artists are listening, knowing the cycle will return, like air swirling. The audio piece shimmer & loop first appeared on Earlid’s Monsters & Ghosts featuring a number of sonic entanglements attuned to uncertainties in a collapsing world. It features the voices of US artists Joan Schuman, Adriene Lilly and James T. Green. I create radio art, organize sound-makers at Earlid, mentor radio fellows at Wave Farm, and teach sonic culture and production via online courses at The New School for Public Engagement located in New York, working remotely along the coast in Northern California. Earlid: https://www.earlid.org/posts/monsters-ghosts/Joan Schuman: http://www.joanschuman.com5) Johannes Christopher Gerard - The Voices In My Head The sound piece focuses on an unseen but real situation. The theme and sounds are based and relate to the voices and sounds I've been hearing in my head almost constantly for many years. Caused by medical and mental issues. It's a simple attempt of a field trip into my head and to approach sound and noise from another level and place. Under certain circumstances, the voices in my head are capable of creating a temporary space in which things are they behave, act and interact differently, disobeying the normal rules of everyday life Born 1959 in Cologne, German. Currently lives in The Hague, Netherlands. Interdisciplinary and multimedia artist. In January 2022 participation in the Acoustic Interior Project under the sound artist Anne Wellmer in The Hague, Netherlands. Begins to work and experiment seriously with sound through his participation. Since 2022 work has been presented at New Emergences of the Institute of Sonology, Concert Hall Royal Conservatory Royal, The Hague, Netherlands. KAOS 2022, Kranj, Slovenia.“Listing to a Brave New World”, Cinema Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, Centro Negra, AADK SP Blanca, Murcia, Spain. URBANSONIC by Cold Bank, Milan, Italy and CJSW Radio, Calgary, AB, Canada https://www.johannesgerard.com/english/sound/6) Dushume - Kiln Discarded innards from previous unwanted recorded materials are unearthed, grilled, and seared together in an audio claypot. Kiln is a sonic chamber of intermittent and continuous deep bass and insulated harsh noise. Amit D Patel, aka Dushume, is an experimental noise and sound artist, influenced by Asian underground music and DJ culture. His work focuses on performing and improvising with purpose built do-it-yourself instruments, and recording these instruments incorporating looping, re-mixing and re-editing techniques. Lack and loss of control are central to his work. He has a PhD in Music, “Studio Bench: the DIY nomad and Noise Selector” (2019), from the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He is a member of the Sound/Image Research group at the University of Greenwich, London, and Principal Investigator for the AHRC Research Grant “Exploring Cultural Diversity in Experimental Sound” (2021-23) http://www.dushume.co.ukinstagram.com/dushume
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Conor Baird - Hyacinth
Conor Baird - Hyacinth
3 September 2023 11:00 pm - 11:15 pm
Hyacinth is made from recordings taken during a solo trip to Palma de Mallorca immediately after the breakdown of a long term relationship. Layered diaristic voices navigate states of heartbreak against the subtle sounds of a package holiday that was meant for two. A later monologue conceived back home reflects on recent freedoms and conflictions felt around gender, identification and desire.
Conor Baird is a Scottish artist embracing dramaturgies in performance art, film, theatre, sound and writing. Their work unravels personal truths, tensions and nostalgias, reviving them back into an intimate presence. He also hosts Obsession Has Memory - a podcast where guests revisit cultural obsessions from their adolescence and the stories around them.
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Bird & Renoult - High Frequency Feedback
Bird & Renoult - High Frequency Feedback
3 September 2023 11:15 pm - 11:30 pm
High-frequency trading (HFT) uses complex algorithms to analyse multiple markets and execute orders. In trading vocabulary a signal is a pattern of data that influences these algorithms, inciting them to buy or sell shares or cancel an order. In this business each microsecond is crucial, so finding the fastest and most direct paths between the main exchanges is essential. To transmit this data faster than a blink of an eye, an almost forgotten and surprisingly fast technology is used, radio waves. Since 2016 DinahBird & Jean-Philippe Renoult have been mapping these radio routes by finding the pylons, frequencies and relay links that transmit High-frequency trading data back and forth, in loops that cover the Earth. The core material of their HIGH FREQUENCY FEEDBACK composition explores recordings of the Super High Frequency radio waves, signal noise and field recording captured at the base of antennas between Chicago and New York, London and Frankfurt HIGH FREQUENCY FEEDBACK (15:36) is part of the composite project Antenna Gods, an extract from the forthcomming cassette & digital edition GOLD LINES by Bird & Renoult, out soon on Gruenrekorder label. http://bird-renoult.net/
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This Tape Machine Destroys Time 01 - Ignacio Cordoba
This Tape Machine Destroys Time 01 - Ignacio Cordoba
3 September 2023 11:30 pm - 4 September 2023 12:00 am
TTMDT is a collection series made from January to December 2012. One tape/digital release per month out on MAGIA. The first 6 were created by MAGIA founder Ignacio Córdoba and the rest by close friends and fellow artists Gianluca Elia (IT/DK), Simon Forchhammer (DK), Michał Biel (PL/DK), bjarkebbbb (DK), Louise Vind Nielsen (GE/DK) and the mysterious Shoji Mariah (BR/JP). All the releases focus on tapes, tape machines and machines as destroyers of time, of perception and of the perception of time. Samples, coding, looping, hacking, field recording, plunderphonics and improvisation share the detritus of Time.
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