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Show 739: The Horse by Radio Worm/Klangendum

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The Horse Alexander Iezzi 2019

The Horse is a psychological thriller centered around one narrator’s struggles with socialization, and his relationship with a therapist.


Music and production: Alexander Iezzi
Voices:Hannah Endrulat, Alexander Iezzi, Steven Tyler, Gene Autry

Produced by Lukas Simonis for RadioWorm/Klangendum/Concertzender/Radia.fm

Alexander Iezzi is an artist and musician currently based in Rotterdam. He is a graduate of The New School in New York and the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. His work continuously draws on ideas and perspectives of what cohabitation entails as an experience and an experiment. The work manifests through a variety of mediums – sound, sculpture, film, performance – in order to reorganize, reshuffle, and shift perspective on collected experiences. These transformations takes place via touch, language, mashing, and mixing, as well as through reactions between different (chemical, social, hormonal, psychological, reproductive) elements. Recent performances and exhibitions include: “Femke Hears A Who” with Clementine Edwards at Peach, Rotterdam (2019)“Aminals” with Viktor Timofeev at 427 Gallery, Riga (2019), “Signs of Invasion” (performance) with Billy Bultheel at Ku’damm Kuree, Berlin (2018), “Kunsthalle For Music” (performance) at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2018); “My New Feelings Whip” (performance) at Galleri Syster, Luleå (2017).f art making.

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Show 738: This is a mistake! by Wiener Radia Kollektiv for Radio Orange 94.0

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The word “Glitch” is everywhere those days. In movies and TV shows, in clubs and galeries, on billboards, in magazines and all around the social network. Most people see it as a Digital failure, at best as a nice effect or plot device. But it’s so much more: Some kind of natural accuring Digital art. A new dynamic in modern Electronic music. A way to breech the boundries of the (Computer) system. A crack in the Utopian facade and a way to exploid the unknown possibilities of imperfection.

Peter Wetzelsberger and Lale Rodgarkia-Dara of the Wiener Radia Kollektiv attempted a brief history of Glitch, including some examples:

  • The tracks loneloft, practice and Brunch mit Darwin by Austrian glitch artist Wolfwetz.
  • Some alcohol induced Philosophic outbursts by Gregor Fröhlich, Dita Mukane and Stefan Nowak. (Examples of the brain as a corrupted system)
  • Lale Rodgarkia-Dara’s failed interview with the theorist and feminist art curator Jelena Petrovic about the Glitch and the Dichotomy between the Digital and Analogue, supplemented by two Music pieces based on recordings with the counter-tenor Marin Vitas and a fan.
  • The piece Biomechanics (raw data of Günther Witzany’s “Biocommunication and Natural Genome Editing”) and excerpts of Meine Kleine Nachtmusik, generated by Lale’s broken Intercom system.

Wolfwetz
http://wolfwetz.bandcamp.com

Jelena Petrovic
http://redmined.org/

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Show 737: No Ravens Left for the Funeral by André Damião (for Radio CORAX)

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“No Ravens Left for the Funeral” discusses the juxtaposition of different forms of sound definition mediated by instrumental improvisation with prepared electronic guitar, self-built circuits and other electronic instruments.

André Damião works transversally between the fields of music and electronic art. He graduated in Composition at the State University of São paulo (UNESP), and holds a PhD in Sonology at the University of São Paulo (USP). Currently he is a fellow of the Radio Art Residency at Radio CORAX in Halle (Saale), which is awarded in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut and supported by the Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt. (radioart-residency.net)

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Show 736: Mother Drone and Other Ancient Spirits of Great Power (by Jeremy Kerr for CFRC)

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I came up with the name Mother Drone and Other Ancient Spirits of Great Power after googling how to summon demons. I stumbled upon the image of a being called Caim which is depicted as a thrush and drew the album cover. Prior to this I had been working on some music built around the idea of reverb trails, as in taking source material, applying reverb and cutting away as much as possible except the reverb to create a new timbre. As experimental music can be quite cold I felt that by making the piece about the character of Mother Drone I could give it a personality rather than just showcasing whatever technical process I came up with. As such Mother Drone became the spirit of the piece, and the piece became the story of Mother Drone.

Jeremy Kerr is a musician and sound artist based in Kingston, Ontario. He got his start writing and recording music while living in the middle of nowhere as a kid with no internet and nothing better to do. He attended queens university in Kingston and obtained his Bachelor of Music degree in 2018. He continues to make music in a variety of styles and plays regularly around Kingston. He is currently playing bass in the Meringues and working on a noise-pop/drone album titled In the End Everyone Lets You Down.