Monthly Archives: May 2011

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Show 322: “Pamela” by Sebastian Dicenaire

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“Pamela” by Sebastian Dicenaire for Radio Campus Bruxelles
a metaphysical cheap sentimental novel (in french)

SEBASTIAN DICENAIRE
Sebastian Dicenaire is a french writer and a radio artist living in Brussels, Belgium. He has published two books of experimental poetry (Döner-kebab ; Personnologue) and he is currently working on Pamela, based on cheap sentimental novels. He performs his texts in various places like theaters, public librairies, cafés, festivals and accompagnies himself with self-composed soundtracks. He has shown his work in France, Switzerland, Lebanon and Belgium. He also regularily takes part in collective performances conceived for radio as well as for festivals. Recently he collaborated with Maja Jantar and Vincent Tholomé on the Kirkjubæjarklaustur project for the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris. The Belgian radio La Première / RTBF has already broadcast two of his radio work : Personnologue in 2009 and Kirkjubæjarklaustur in 2011.

PAMELA, chapitre 1
Pamela, c’est un roman Harlequin métaphysique. Pamela, c’est une jeune femme blonde accoudée à la balustrade en bois de teck blanc qui surplombe la baie de Palm Beach. Pamela, c’est une héroïne de feuilleton à l’eau de rose embarquée malgré elle dans un mythe de la Fin des Temps dont elle devient le prophète. Pamela, c’est le nom du cyclone économique qui menace d’engloutir la société capitaliste qui l’a engendré. Pamela*, c’est le nom d’un dreamware* buggué dont le virus s’étend à la réalité. Pamela, c’est un film sans image à écouter dans le noir. Pamela, c’est du cinéma dans la tête. Pamela, c’est une héroïne de feuilleton à l’eau de rose dont le virus s’étend à la réalité. Pamela, c’est le nom du cyclone économique qui menace d’engloutir une jeune femme blonde accoudée à la balustrade en bois de teck blanc. Pamela, c’est un roman à l’eau de rose qui surplombe la société capitaliste qui l’a engendré. Pamela, c’est un film sans image embarqué dans un cyclone métaphysique malgré lui. Pamela, c’est/Pamela, c’est/Pamela, c’est/Pamela, c’est/Pamela, c’est/Pamela, c’est/Pamela, c’est/Pamela, c’est/Pamela, c’est/Pamela, c’

* oniriciel, jeu vidéonirique

#26

Show 321: Andalusian Sound Journey by Anna Keleher

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Anna Keleher is a contemporary artist  who collaborates with people, places and things. While you were snug indoors this Christmas, Anna was winter camping at Sierra Subbéticas Geopark in Southern Spain where the limestone geology has attracted a vast array of life to seek shelter in its cavities. This audio piece is a journey into the richness of these Andalusian ancestral homelands. Have fun and don´t forget your raincoat!

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Show 320: An evening with Froggies by Etienne Noiseau

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Because it had to be done, the Radia piece #320 from Radio Grenouille is about… frogs.

So you’re going to hear the Mediterranean Tree Frog alias Hyla meridionalis and also some froggies looking for amphibians such as newts, and other bipeds more distant and busy with their own sounding party. Disclaimer, no frogs were eaten during the making of this piece as far as we can tell.

The whole material of this piece was recorded between 9 and 11 PM on the 30th of April 2011, during a naturalist outing led by Groupe Ornithologique du Roussillon and Chevaux & Chemins on the plateau of Roupidère.

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Show 319: Gowanus Over and Out, by Maria Papadomanolaki

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Gowanus Over and Out follows the aural traces of the narrowcast audio exhibit Sib Radio Gowanus curated last year for the exhibition “Postcards from Gowanus” (Cabinet Magazine Gallery, March 17-20 2010, Gowanus, Brooklyn, New York). The conceptual backbone of the project was to create a sonic wallpaper that would reflect the aural undertones, both real and imagined, of the area surrounding the gallery. It also served as an organic sonotopia that inhabited the audiovisual exhibits in a process of associative interaction. Responding to a call for works, a total of 44 U.S. and international artists from diverse creative backgrounds contributed works ranging from drones and field recordings to spoken word pieces and experimental sonic artworks. Gowanus Over and Out attempts to offer a glimpse into some of the different facets of the exhibit while at the same time being its own self-expanding universe of sounds.

More information at http://sibradio.blogspot.com/

Gowanus Over and Out is produced by Maria Papadomanolaki for Radia network member free103point9 and their newly launched full-power FM station WGXC-90.7-FM in upstate New York.

The piece features samples of the following works:

Myke Dodge Weiskopf – Helicopter     http://www.myke.me/wordpress/

Sogar – Tapete
      http://www.monohr.com/Sogar.html

Knut Aufermann – avi5
     http://knut.klingt.org/

Sterling Basement – Drowned in the Canal
      http://www.johnroach.net/pages/2002_sterling_basement.html

Solo Andata – Ablation
     http://solo-andata.com/ http://soundcloud.com/soloandata

verdi_spirali – on_earth@in_space
     http://www.myspace.com/verdispirali

Jonny Farrow – Gowanus Walk
      http://jonnyfarrow.net/

Radio Ruido – all artifacts
     http://radioruidotriangulation.blogspot.com

Maria Papadomanolaki – Cabinet
    http://www.voicesoundtext.com/

Lina Lapelyte – MATB1
      http://www.myspace.com/lapelyte

Maria Papadomanolaki – Playground (Radia edit)
 http://www.voicesoundtext.com/

Todd Merrell – As March Times On
     http://www.toddmerrell.com

Mark Templeton – Safely into March
    http://www.fieldsawake.com/

Bryan Zimmerman – Blobs Of Yellow-Green Sun
  http://www.free103point9.org/artists/998

Last Days – Walls
      http://www.lastdaysmusic.co.uk/

A.G – Polygon:08|1
   http://agpolygon08.blogspot.com/

Myke Dodge Weiskopf – VNG
   http://www.myke.me/wordpress/

Maria Papadomanolaki is a Greek artist working primarily with sound in the context of phonography, audience-centered performance pieces, and radio art. Her background in language studies and interest in environmental sound inform her artistic practice. Papadomanolaki often combines these two elements in her work to amplify the intrinsic physical and psychological qualities of an experienced time and space. In 2006, she marked her transition from French language and literature to the sonic arts with Stoma—an interactive voice piece based on Samuel Beckett’s Not I exhibited in the UK and Greece. As a researcher and writer, she has presented at international conferences. Her paper, “Radio as the voice of community, locality, interactivity and experimentation,” presented at The Cyprus University of Technology and the ECREA Radio Research Section 2009 conference, will be published in the forthcoming volume Radio Content in the Digital Age: The Evolution of a Sound Medium (2011, Intellect Books). Papadomanolaki currently resides in New York where she works as a freelance artist.