From 1st to 30th of October 2016 a great celebration of radio art will take place in Halle an der Saale in Germany: The Radio Revolten Festival. This Radia show is an invitation to visit Halle this autumn. A 20 minute performance by Radio Revolten curators Knut Aufermann, Anna Friz, Sarah Washington and Ralf Wendt, recorded for Arts Birthday in Vienna last January hopefully provides enough time to start researching your travel options. Come and join us in Halle!
Monthly Archives: February 2016
Show 569: Unintentional Autobiography By Michael McLaren
I raced around my attic quarters, scavenging a textbook, an old high school essay, a favourite story.
An autobiographical work told through readings chosen both with and without intent.
The dice serve a dual purpose. As a composing utility, the uncertainty of dice and related methods beings me joy unparalleled. As for the product, it is the better for being in some small way freed from my own limited vision.
Show 568: Back Again by Laura Morris ( Campus Paris)
The search for something new encompasses the search for a new you. Why travel? To see new places? Or for the chance to be or become someone else? Who are you in a new, anonymous crowd?
But the further we go, the longer we stay, the closer we are to something essential, the same rope of reactions, the same anchor of thoughts.
In the piece certain sounds return again and again, sometimes altered, but ultimately the same.
These recordings come from three weeks spent mostly on trains in the Balkan countries (Bosnia, Servia, Croatia, as well as Hungary, Slovenia, and Austria). The recordings are presented in a mostly chronological order.
Laura Morris is sometimes a painter, always a New Yorker, and certainly a radio producer living and working in Paris.
Show 567: Werden Sie Mit Mir Tanzen …? by deadpeoplesrecords
One night a friend of mine played me some digitised 78’s of early 20th century Weimar Tangos. They cried out to played with!
“The city had a jewel-like sparkle, the vast cafés reminded me of ocean liners powered by the rhythms of their orchestras. There was music everywhere.” Josephine Baker. Berlin 1925
Show 566: TO THE LIMIT OF ENDURANCE by GABI SCHAFFNER for radio x
radia season 36 – show #566 (radio x) – TO THE LIMIT OF ENDURANCE by GABI SCHAFFNER
– playing from february 1 to february 7, 2016 –
TO THE LIMIT OF ENDURANCE
by GABI SCHAFFNER
He was a slender man of average height in his 60s, adressing the Lido with his back turned to the city. At first, there was noone around listening, eventually, later, some passer-bys stopped… just like me. He never turned around, he didn’t even cast a glance at his listeners. I had the most awful stomach cramps from having eaten something I shouldn’t, my forehead was covered in sweat from pain – but I held the recorder… just so.
TO THE LIMIT OF ENDURANCE assembles field recordings from Venice, Italy. Snippets of a gondola race, excerpts from church mass, voices and choices of the Biennale and a memorable poetry reading are combined into a collage that is dedicated to the power and beauty of languages, both spoken and lost. Dear unknown poet, thank you for your words.
Additional musical support: Trumpet improvisation by Claudio Comandini, recorded in Wedding, Berlin.
Field recordings, editing and mix: Gabi Schaffner/raw audio recordings 2015/2016
GABI SCHAFFNER
is an audio artist, writer and photographer based in berlin and travelling everywhere to collect sounds, images and imaginations. Her works in the field of radio art have been broadcasted by many international radio stations, including commissions for Deutschlandradio, WDR, HR and many more. Plus, over the past years she has created several pieces for radia.fm. She is also a passionate radio gardener (www.datscharadio.de).
Find out more about her projects at rawaudio.de and at www.schaffnerin.net
metadata:
TO THE LIMIT OF ENDURANCE
by GABI SCHAFFNER
radia production: miss.gunst [GUNST + radiator x]
production date: january 2016
station: radio x, frankfurt am main (germany)
length: 28 min.
licence: (cc-by-nc) GABI SCHAFFNER
www.radiox.de – www.gunst.info – rawaudio.de – www.schaffnerin.net
credits:
great many thanks to GABI SCHAFFNER
plus special thanks to Claudio Commandini for his trumpet solo!
additional info:
includes radia jingles (in/out), station and program info/intro (english)
links:
radio x & radiator x: www.radiox.de – www.radiox.de/radiator-x
GUNSTradio & radiator x: www.gunst.info – www.gunst.info/radiator
Gabi Schaffner: rawaudio.de – www.schaffnerin.net
pics:
verena kuni (cc-by-nc-sa)
