100717
Johannes Raggam – FM – http://kaum.at/thet
Christian F. Schiller – FX – http://in-dust.org
100717 is a conceptual live improvisation with FM transmitters, FM recievers and electronics for the Radia network contribution from Radio Helsinki in Graz.
100717 plays with the medium radio itself. FM transmitters and radio receivers are connected together and brought into a self oscillating feedback loop. This sound is supported, modified and extended by live electronics software.
In July 2013 on the invitation of Radio Corax’s addicted2random festival Knut Aufermann and Tetsuo Kogawa created a duo performance, with Knut’s feedback electronics set inside the glass hall of the Händel house, and Tetsuo streaming his homemade AM transmitter interference live from Tokyo.
This is a replacement Radia show.
A remix of the Resonance Radio Orchestra work commissioned by Radio Revolten featuring Ed Baxter (concept, texts, electronics), Adam Bushell (percussion), Marie Anne Fliegel (speech), Peter Lanceley (electric guitar, singing), Kim Moore (viola), Joe Qiu (bassoon), James Taylor (vibraphone), Milo Thesiger-Meacham (electronics, harpsichord) and Chris Weaver (electronics).
The spoken part of the text is in German and an illustrated text can be found here. Imagine an x/y axis in which the pedantry of the words is in proportion to the dissolution of the actual broadcast and you are entering into the mind of this work, the last part of a sequence begun in Spring 2015 with Score for Open Heart Surgery on Charlie Watts and continued in 2015/16 with Heart Like a Duck. It is a long-winded meditation on the nature of memory, the violence of identity, the origin of writing, the pressure of locale, all the usual stuff… influenced by Elias Canetti, WG Sebald et al.
The lyrics to the songs, sung in English, are made up of fragments from 1920s’ and 1930s’ rural American blues – Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Willie Brown, Kid Bailey, Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James etc – as was the case with The Death of Kodak (which drew solely on words from a single song by Blind Willie McTell, Travelin’ Blues).
So – a synthesis, one that is self-indulgent, portentous and entirely fugitive. Note: Larry Shipping is the belief of some One Direction fans that two of its members are in a secret gay relationship. In this context, the point is the perverse, subversive and abundantly creative mode of consumption that Larry Shipping entails, and the cordon sanitaire it forms. On first contemplating the area around Halle, the flow of the river in the image above was suggestive.
Recorded at Radiophrenia, Glasgow; Telegraph Hill Festival, London; and Radio Revolten, Halle, Spring 2016 to Spring 2017.
Made in Europe.
Resonance FM
Radia opens its network to the 60 Second Radio International contest and broadcasting project and showcases a few of the artists and laureates who participated in the 2017 edition of this annual radio art event. Since the inception of the contest in 2015, more than 200 artists from 40 countries have submitted their works. They all have a passion for radio and sound art, and chose to tell us so in a succession of 60 second short radio capsules. They have been rewarded in 2017 by Phonurgia Nova in France, Québec University’s School of Media and the National Campus and Community Radio Association of Canada. Hosted by Boris Chassagne.
Bonjour. Aujourd’hui Radia place sur écoute quelques-uns des artistes et lauréats de l’édition 2017 du concours international de création radiophonique, 60 Secondes Radio. La consigne est simple, une idée, un son en 60 secondes précises. Une création radiophonique sur le thème de son choix. Depuis 2015, plus de 200 artistes de 40 pays ont répondu à l’invitation de ce concours multilingue. Ils ont cette année été récompensés par les partenaires de 60 Secondes Radio soit, Phonurgia Nova en France, l’École des Médias de l’Université du Québec à Montréal et l’Association nationale des radios étudiantes et communautaires du Canada. Présenté par Boris Chassagne.
Vous entendrez / You will hear : Molecule (Constantin Katsiris), A Stockholm (Ghislain Gabrelle), Bankok Express (Jean-Baptiste Veyrieras), La Pensée (Florine Mougel), No Son (Michaël Filler), Boats (Dianne Ballon), Mes vêtements dans la forêt (Daniel-Martin Borret), Mr. Morse (Bastien Lambert), Moose FM (Darren Copeland), Pour me rejoindre (Sébastien Anadon, Amandine Fischer), Minut (Domingo Chinchilla), Oblik Grada (Ivana Pejic), Minecraft (Jean Jérôme), The Gift-Le Cadeau (Fabienne Guedy), Le cireur de Tunis (Laure Carrier), Pied Nus (Catherine Konate), Outgribe (James Andean), Des vieux poissons (Eva Gonzales), Good News (Juan Villaba), C’est bien assez (Anne-Line Drocourt), Qu’y a-t-il de plus profond qu’une guerre au centre du monde? (Kaïl Vezza), Somos o No Somos (Franco Falistoco), Bonne chance (Demian Rudel Rey), Putita de Dios (Hernan Giurastante), Lux (Niki Matita), Das Team (Nils Mosh), Call Your Mother (Mitchell Johnson), Effacement (Anne Lepère), and In Apnea (La Cosa Preziosa (Susanna Caprara)).
Contact
Web : www.60secondesradio.com / www.60secondradio.ca / https://www.facebook.com/60radio/
Email : concours60radio@gmail.com
“The sublime revenge of being happy”
composed and conducted by Paulo Chagas
performed by Illustrious Unknown Creative Ensemble
Branching voices
Recognizing the journey through the cypresses
Cold
Far to the city
Away people
(This dance is just for bugs)
Away the sun
Far from a beach of solitary existences
(Woodwind instruments dig a fictitious reunion)
Bitter does not identify
Flying here is the superiority of the dream.
The Swan will never know the silence
There’s also an immense joy
Forgotten between the lines
That makes us shiver
The sublime revenge of being happy
Infinity begins to be a natural thing
The only mystery is life.
Love
Delirium
The free vanishing of ideals
In meditation on the cosmos
Freedom lit
In a huge field of sunflowers
and growing cellos
There is still the sea
The heroic delight of adventure
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PAULO CHAGAS (Portugal)
Composer, teacher and multi-instrumentalist, has dedicated his intervention to several strands of contemporary music, electro-acoustic, ambient, free improvisation, jazz and chamber music. Additionally he works on music production and promotion of improvised music concerts and festivals and also writes for music magazines and blogs. He is artistic director of the MIA Festival and Zpoluras Archives. Along with music, he loves to cook.
http://paulochagas.weebly.com