Monthly Archives: December 2007
Special: 3 JOURNEYS THROUGH RADIA, JOURNEY 2 by Etienne Noiseau
Kunstradio asked Etienne Noiseau from the crew of Radio Grenouille in Marseille for a selection of recent pieces from Radia. He replied with a three-show series that would include the best pieces (to his opinion) of all the Radia stations during the 2006-2007 period. With Floriane Pochon who is the presenter of the weekly Radia show on Radio Grenouille, they selected fourteen pieces, i.e. one piece per Radia station during the period.
Then Etienne selected one relevant excerpt per piece. He based his choice only on sound affinities and combined all the excerpts one another into three pieces so as to form “3 journeys through Radia”.
JOURNEY 2:
Second journey through the universe of Radia,
Possibly, as if seconds were numbered, on fingertips, experienced at first hand, eyes closed and mind open.
Second foray,
Possibly, as if we could serve our time at the table of contents, in the faintest glimmer of a vanishing vision,
Possibly, as if we could escape an organic prison out of a clinical vertigo.
Second exploration,
Possibly, as if the hours of dreams could become digital and leave their prints in the near future.
Second slide,
Possibly, as if slaves could only stand for chain reactions, keeping everything under numerical control,
Possibly, as if a magnetic cloud could break down the social climate, in a universal time, measured in emergency.
Second immersion, in a focused and suffocated crowd, unable to give even its word, and unable to commit to what could be only a war of toys.
SOURCES OF JOURNEY 2:
PIECE: Lament for the London Olympic Site (show #114)
ARTIST: Stephen Cornford
GENRE: electroacoustic composition
RADIO: SounDart Radio, Dartington
PIECE: Gérard Clamart’s strange adventure (show #104)
ARTIST: Irvic D’Olivier
GENRE: radio drama
RADIO: Radio Campus, Brussels
PIECE: The Demonstration (show #78)
ARTIST: Anna Friz
GENRE: radio-art
RADIO: Free103point9, New York
PIECE: BriefVision (or PismoVidenie) (show #115)
ARTIST: Lale Rodgarkia-Dara
GENRE: Hörspiel
RADIO: Radio Orange, Wien
Show 143: A Radiotale of 2 Walls by fran ilich
In “a Radiotale of 2 walls’, a Mexico city girl runs away with her boyfriend towards the North, but is stranded in faraway Tijuana where she explores the possibilties of crossing the border, making a strange friendship with a shady waiter at the trashy Avenida Revolución (the street of perpetual spring break), a woman of Juárez who reappears as a ‘ghost of internet past’. She’s trying to escape from her past life, her family and trying to start anew, but in the process discovers a new border world full of casualties, contradiction and stories. The character discovers slowly that the people whom she tought of as ‘criminals dealing in the border’ are humans, victims of nationalistic socioeconomical agendas, not unlike the people surrounding the drama of the Berlin Wall and the Germany of the Cold War years.
Radio-novela is the immediate antecessor of the latin-american soap opera (telenovela), and even though is a genre based on audio, it hasn’t completely disappeared, even if it’s not as strong as it used to be decades ago. Sagas would last for years, something which to this day, not even telenovelas are able to achieve. But latin american Telenovelas have crossed the borders and oceans not only into eastern europe, africa, and middle east, but into the us and europe, and in the case of Ugly Betty: a half-breed sitcom/telenovela, just the fact that is not a traditional melodrama inadvertently comments the fact of mexicans migrating into the u.s. become something else: a detail that major latin-american entertainment conglomerates haven’t been able to target with their nationalistic and traditional approaches.
This production was comissioned by Diana Mccarty for Berlin Backyard Radio and it’s a serialized fiction paying hommage to Charles Dickens “A tale of two cities’, which was originally published one chapter at a time in english newspapers. Directed by fran ilich, with several actors including Adriana Segura.
Show 142: Radio Dialysis by Tom Wallace
This programme explores the haemodialysis unit at Kings College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London. Treating people with kidney failure the unit treats up to a 100 patients on a weekly basis. Doctors, nurses and technicians discuss the nature of kidney failure and how this life saving treatment is delivered. Patients describe their experiences of coming to the unit three times a week for treatment. This is set against a backdrop of recordings made of the dialysis machines and associated machinery that make the unit function. Produced by Tom Wallace
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Special: 3 JOURNEYS THROUGH RADIA, JOURNEY 1 by Etienne Noiseau
Kunstradio asked Etienne Noiseau from the crew of Radio Grenouille in Marseille for a selection of recent pieces from Radia. He replied with a three-show series that would include the best pieces (to his opinion) of all the Radia stations during the 2006-2007 period. With Floriane Pochon who is the presenter of the weekly Radia show on Radio Grenouille, they selected fourteen pieces, i.e. one piece per Radia station during the period.
Then Etienne selected one relevant excerpt per piece. He based his choice only on sound affinities and combined all the excerpts one another into three pieces so as to form “3 journeys through Radia”.
JOURNEY 1:
First journey through the universe of Radia,
Possibly, as if, sometimes, we could take the time to give us space,
Possibly, as if the world could twist and re-form itself, dissolve or burst in snatches of universes that last a few seconds and then get lost in a multitude of temporary eternities.
First steps out of line, somewhere along these lines of sight that render any running away impossible, and necessary, dangerous and salutary.
First stage,
Possibly, as if we could fill up digestive and cathode-ray tubes, as if we could fall down through vertical skylines and eventually, possibly, feed ghost towns where resound the leprous shades of memory, inner crowds fooling around.
First wandering,
Possibly, as if we could think into familiar voices that cancel us out, beating time excesses,
Possibly, as if a wave of reminiscences could hold us up, back ground swell of sounds.
First deviance,
Possibly, as if people of a sound mind could soon be driven mad but not sad, even if… a fit of laughter…
So what’s the point?
That of no return, of course, because sometimes, we can’t get over it, and it sounds as a spell.
(text by Floriane Pochon)
SOURCES OF JOURNEY 1:
PIECE: Assembly line story (show #83)
ARTIST: Ricardo Reis
GENRE: collage
RADIO: Rádio Zero, Lissabon
PIECE: Algérienne (show #116)
ARTIST: Vincent Matyn-Wallecan
GENRE: documentary / electroacoustic composition
RADIO: Radio Panik, Brüssel
PIECE: no title or the Tape-beatles on Radia (show #119)
ARTIST: The Tape-beatles
GENRE: plunderphonics / collage
RADIO: Resonance, London
PIECE: FieldRec_Sofia (show #69)
ARTIST: esem (aka Georgi Marinov)
GENRE: phonography
RADIO: Radio Cult, Sofia (now Bulgarian member is Interspace: http://www.i-space.org/)
PIECE: Retro-Sono-Grafia (show #99)
ARTIST: Jan Dufek from a show by Lasonick, Jan Dufek and Ladislav Železný
GENRE: collage / mix
RADIO: Lemurie TAZ, Prag
Show 141: Minus 1 by Petar Palankov
program specially made for radia consisted from interludes, edits, cuts, jingles, bonus tracks, samples, credits… a complete Mash-Up of circumstances existing below zero…
Intros and Outros, plus everything in between. Interludes, edits, cuts, jingles, bonus tracks, samples, credits, farewells… None of its up than 1 min longitude! Yes, it’s a Mash-Up of circumstances existing below zero. Don’t try to memorize it, it’s gonna just slipped away. If you think it’s worth to try, fasten your bells and join the sample mania circle.
Due to a long period of hypnosis, low-level drugging and sleep deprivation, the author of Minus 1, Petar Palankov is not in position to write about his past. Rather, he consumes the present with deep breath outside his home and a lot of music inside in his room. Yes, his life is overdosed with music. That’s why he is running a web mag (music.zine) www.otsechka.com and works to end the Annual Report which is going ON 1st part of December. Stay online and god save the internet.
www.kanal103.com.mk
Show 140: Variations of Scale by maksims shentelevs
Radio show consists of introduction which is followed by 23 min long soundwork. Introduction part contains night fieldwalk in Nodar village, Portugal, accompanied by short introduction into notion of scale made by author.
Soundwork ”Variations of Scale” is a contextual continuation of ”soundscape mapping” project developed in Nodar, Portugal, during FRONTE[I]RAS 07, international meeting of transdisciplinary arts. The backbone of “Variations” is formed by fieldmix of water tanks, recorded during Fronteiras in the village of Nodar. Recording of resonating tanks is left untreated, while it skins over with multi textural layers of sound material gathered in different places during recent years. This blend is forming fluent narrative soundscape, whose vibrant shiftiness of scales uncovers conditionality of perception.
”Variations of Scale” were constructed for a quadrophonic live performance in Kumu, Contemporary art museum in Tallinn, Estonia, October 2007.