How it is is deals with the tension between the description of a work and the work itself.
Produced by Max Höfler for Radio Helsinki, Graz – Austria 2019
Max Höfler born in 1978, is a Graz, Austria, based author, sound artist, curator and part of the artist association Forum Stadtpark. He is the co-founder of the international literature network CROWD and studied German literature, philosophy and history of art and did his doctor degree on Post-Wittgensteinian aesthetics. Max Höfler is writing experimental texts, which are influenced by the avant-garde movements of the early 20th century. For his books he was awarded several prizes and grants. Regularly international readings and performances (London, Peking, Berlin, Helsinki, Prag, etc) He is the publisher of the so-called screening literature magazine GLORY HOLE – messages from the other side.
One of seven events as part of “Suspensions: London->Manchester,” “Passage” was a live transmission on Resonance Extra from a moving train between London Euston and Manchester Piccadilly, on 5 September 2019, co-curated by Agata Kik and Ania Mokrzycka (Irruptive Chora), David Rousell (Biosocial Lab, Manchester Metropolitan University) and Catharine Cary (Royal College of Art/SenseLab). The concept for this broadcast was “moving from one place to another, changing in one way or another, moving through, across, under, between, allowing oneself to be moved.” Joined by artists Jasper Llewellyn, Andre Fogliano, Nicola Tirrabasso, John Hardy, Erik Lintunen and Cole Robertson, on this journey the curators were attuned to what the philosopher Erin Manning has called “Minor Movements.” The broadcast audio, featuring contributions from all the aforementioned, was cut up and moved about by Ed Baxter on 6 September 2019 for this Radia transmission. The live broadcast producer and on air announcer was Michael Umney.
One of seven events as part of “Suspensions: London->Manchester,” “Passage” was a live transmission on Resonance Extra from a moving train between London Euston and Manchester Piccadilly, on 5 September 2019, co-curated by Agata Kik and Ania Mokrzycka (Irruptive Chora), David Rousell (Biosocial Lab, Manchester Metropolitan University) and Catharine Cary (Royal College of Art/SenseLab). The concept for this broadcast was “moving from one place to another, changing in one way or another, moving through, across, under, between, allowing oneself to be moved.” Joined by artists Jasper Llewellyn, Andre Fogliano, Nicola Tirrabasso, John Hardy, Erik Lintunen and Cole Robertson, on this journey the curators were attuned to what the philosopher Erin Manning has called “Minor Movements.” The broadcast audio, featuring contributions from all the aforementioned, was cut up and moved about by Ed Baxter on 6 September 2019 for this Radia transmission. The live broadcast producer and on air announcer was Michael Umney.
At the end of Jun of 2019, a group of sound artists went on a 2 weeks trip to the distant village of Letea, at the Danube delta in Romania. The purpose was to records field recordings and soundscapes of this remote place and experiment with them. After a flight, a long trip with bus and a trip with a boat, we put our stuff at a back of a truck and head towards Letea on a sandy and bumpy road. There was nothing much in this place except vast wetlands, frogs, lots of mosquitos and of course sounds. Lots of sounds. Exactly what we needed for our purpose there. The days were very hot and humid, but also quiet, and not much interesting sound wise. Opposite to this, the nights were full of mosquitos, but also noise that was appearing immediately after the sunset. The complete darkness full of stars was perfect for recordings these soundscapes. The forest, the wild horses, frogs, mosquitos, the boat trips, the Lipovean babushkas and the rich quietness of the Danube Delta were the true leitmotif of our stay there.
At one point at the end of our stay we also did 24 hours open channel at LOCUS SONUS, preceded by a live radio show, presenting stories and glamorous raw recordings in a broadcast from our beautiful traditional wood house. We opened the microphones installed on the straw roof, on the South border of the village, by a small and charming channel of the Danube, full of wildlife positively expressive at that time of the night and day, for the listeners to dive into. This is a small part of what we were listening to those days at Letea.
Recorded and produced by Toni Dimitrov during Sonic Future Residencies in Danube Delta, 2019, organised by www.semisilent.ro.
“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid” once said G. K. Chesterton. Language can be described often both as “flower of the mouth” or a deadly virus, evil and menacing. As it stutters through an array of physical and material manifestations, sooner or later, it will sweetly or not progressively enact a strong invisble poison which lays and sediments not only on meaning as on secretions: saliva spit burp, they leave a trace on the air, they come through it. James 3.10: “From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.” If you run across an archive of a recorded voice, and indulge in remaining there for a while, you come to believe the traces, the dejects, the excreta, are not actually a bag of meaningful prayers but a sort of deranged anisotropic which possess you in the end. As Michaux put it clearly: “One of the things you can do: exorcism.”
” Nuno Pinto é performer , actor, músico patafisico e afins. O seu trabalho é uma reflexão sobre a voz e a linguagem. Esbatem se as fronteiras entre linguagem enquanto expressão de presença e linguagem enquanto material de fala prefabricado. A voz é tratada segundo padrões formais musicais ou arquitectónicos – repetição, distorção, sobreposição, ruído, grito – para uma música de várias línguas, transformando o acto da fala em acontecimento, em situação, em corpo falante. “
The Hypnotists, formerly known as the “Tropical Eskimos”, “Burning Theremins” or even DJ Banzé for afro matinees south of Atlas, developed a passion for conceiving and transmitting radio shows on extreme landscapes. As a collective, which never actually met, they engaged on nomad farming but taking each weekend to devise short wave antennas for the needy, plant old radios on backyards and nearby woods. They also work as ghost-writers for motivational and self help books of several sound artists.
show 754 was demixed and produced by Paulo Raposo. plus castagnets.
As radio programmes can time travel, this show comes from Radiocamp, Bodensee, in the year 3019. The inclusive, intergalactic nature of the camp is expressed through the many languages, human and otherwise, that tell this story.
Created by Haya Al Sawaf, Henning Luetje, Lara Possler, Lars Schmitz, Lerato Phiri, Loic Rodrigues, Luca Piparo, Luuk, Max, Reyhan Mutlu, Silke Bauer, Susanne Bayer at Radiocamp. Produced by Lucinda Guy at Soundart Radio.
