Show 665: Screaming Tower by Carlos Santos & Nuno Torres (stress.fm)

Screaming Tower is a sound project by
Carlos Santos: electronics, field recordings
Nuno Torres: alto saxophone.

Screaming Tower is a site-specific audio performance based on the flux of water delivery public system, and uses electronics, alto saxophone and field recordings diffused by a set of mobile loudspeakers. 

The performance took place in the last level of a resonant water tower, about 40 meters high, located in Barreiro city, Portugal, in June 2017, as part of a performance event commemorating 80 years of public water delivery.

The architectural space is the “motor” for the development of the piece. Each of the generating sound elements: electronics, field recordings, saxophone, contribute as all for the displacement of sound in the resonant circular dome of the water tower. The usage of low and high pitch sound material, small percussive elements found in field recordings or played by the saxophone, were distributed by realtime mixing process of carefully placed speakers, 
so that space could vibrate revealing its hidden “music”, as the last character in this broader sound spectrum process.
Music for vertical structures.

Mixed and mastered by Carlos Santos
Photos by Vera Marmelo

Show 664: Avant moi / Before me (Jet fm)

“Pourquoi le moustique, il mange le sang
de nous et pas des pâtes ? (Why mosquitos eat our blood and not pasta?)
Pourquoi quand je regarde par la fenêtre,
elle bouge la maison ? (Why, when i look out the window, the house is moving?)
Pourquoi les lapins qui courent, ils sont en poils
et ceux qu’on mange, ils sont en viande ? (Why the running rabbits are made of furs but those we eat are meat?)
Pourquoi les fleurs, elles défleurissent ? (Why flowers unflowered?)
Où j’étais avant d’être dans ton ventre ? (Where am i before growing inside you?)
Avant moi, y’avait quoi ? (What’s before me?)”

Avant moi (Before me) is a play for kids created in october 2017 by the theatre company Rachel Mademoizelle.It’s about origin of life, creation of the planets, life on earth and evolution (in the darwin way) until our birth. Inspired by a same title childbook by drawner Emmanuelle Houssais it’s a tiny tale for 3 – 6 aged. Annaïck Domergue did the script and played, Henri Landré made the sound, played live each time, with parts of improvisation and accident (as life).
This is a radiophonic version of the play without any words (except the introduction), just trying to make sense about the evolution with sounds only.
Contains samples by Pierre Henry, David Hykes, Rafael Toral & Chris Watson. Introducing Misha Landré Domergue.

Show 663: a radio séance for Vera Wyse Munro, by Celeste Oram (Radio One 91FM, NZ)

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Vera Wyse Munro (1897-1966) was a pioneering New Zealand ham radio broadcaster, improviser, and sonic experimenter. Her primary media were amateur radio broadcasts, Morse poetry, and sono-topographical scores. Via her broadcasts, which were frequently received by amateur radio operators as far afield as the United States and Europe, Munro initiated some of the earliest telematic performances, in which she would perform prepared violin in structured improvisations with other musicians broadcasting from elsewhere in the world. Munro’s work was often necessarily clandestine, as a result of legislation curbing amateur radio activity in New Zealand. As a result of this, as well as the absence of extant documentation about her life and her ephemeral practice, Munro’s work is only now starting to be regarded amidst New Zealand’s cultural history.

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this improvisational radio play is part-homage, part-seance, part-instructional score for the home listener. it joins an ongoing series of broadcast re-enactments relating to Vera Wyse Munro by artist and researcher Celeste Oram. here, the radio is a medium through which we channel the lost histories of Vera Wyse Munro’s pioneering radio experiments back into audibility, utilising the opportunity provided by the global reach of the international radia network as a way of calling on radio artists and enthusiasts around the globe to collectively keep vigil on the ionosphere. the hope is to summon the spirit of Vera Wyse Munro by attempting to receive her final radio broadcasts.

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improvisation re-constructions by Keir GoGwilt & Alex Taylor
starling poems by Keir GoGwilt
written & produced by Celeste Oram

http://verawysemunro.nz/

 

Show 662: Architecture & Time (Kanal 103)

Artists interested in field recording and related musical practices are invited to a five day Audio Workshop “Architecture and time” in Stari Grad on island Hvar in Croatia headed by the musician and artist Schneider TM. The workshop took place in towns music school located in the Biankini Palace – Stari Grad Museum. Over a period of 5 days the participants explored the two parameters of architecture and time with the aim to translate them into music /soundscapes / audio pieces. Both topics were reflected in sound. One aspect is the architecture of the city itself and the other is the architecture of sound structures, whether it is a soundscape, sound art or a song. The aspect of time can be taken as history of the city, but also as linear sound produced by the use of architecture like reverb / resonance or by playing with the material structures of found architecture, formed by certain spacial specifications.The final works were presented in a live session in the museum´s garden. This is a short presentation of that presentation.