Show 770: Marge Alpen Adria by Juliette Qualizza (Radio Student)

Marge Alpen Adria


The area crossed by the Alpe Adria Trail has always been a region of borders from ice age to cold war, but also of connecting paths of different kinds: military, animal, railway ones.
Through some research and walking, we investigated elements of dis / connection on the Alpe Adria Trail, collecting traces, documentation and creating some spontaneous interventions on the path.
We are two Italian and one Austrian artists from different backgrounds such as music, fine arts, game development, engineering and philosophy.
This is a flow of sounds recorded during the last walk in August 2019 along the Italian – Slovenian – Austrian borders. Eleonora Sovrani, visual artist, and Juliette Qualizza, musician walked from Robidišče to Tarvisio, passing through Prossenicco, Montemaggiore, Monteaperta, Gran Monte, Uccea, Saga, Bovec, Kranjska Gora, Canin, Sella Nevea, Cave del Predil, Coccau, Feistrits Alm, Feistritz an del Gail Arnoldstein. We spent the last days in a green house close to the Italian-Austrian border (Thorl Maglern) with Sarah Schalk, philospher and artist from Graz.
Sound suggestions speak of nature, mass tourism, intersections between people, prejudices, tradition, hospitality, isolation.
This was part of the project Interventions on the Alpe Adria Trail in 2019, supported by Österreichisches Bundeskanzleramt für Kunst und Kultur as well as Land Kärnten Kultur and Uti Canal del Ferro Val Canale

Credits: recording in August 2019 by Juliette Qualizza; voices: Eleonora Sovrani, Sarah Schalk,  Matija Sirk, Juliette Qualizza; composing and editing in December 2019 by Juliette Qualizza

Show 769: Subaudible Phonography from the Archives of Christopher DeLaurenti (Wave Farm WGXC 90.7-FM)

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Created by Christopher DeLaurenti.

He writes, “Phonography has been sometimes been defined as “creative field recording,” taking and placing microphones out into the world in unusual ways and unexpected places. In this program phonographer Christopher DeLaurenti presents several specimens of subaudible phonography – field recordings from outside the realm of human hearing.

This program features four examples. “Below the written pitches of Brian Ferneyhough’s ‘Superscriptio’ for solo piccolo” spectrally extracts sound beneath the written pitches of Brian Ferneyhough’s “Superscriptio” to reveal recording anomalies, latent undertones, and mechanical noises. It’s akin to hearing the piece through a hydrophone.

In “Silences normalized from the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen (part 1)” I amplified room tone to reveal the inner workings of an organ and its environment, including residual tones, traffic, stray speech, and tiny electrical anomalies.

The third example is an odd specimen of radio transmission—a rarity for its length and depth of activity: “Open Carrier, Citywide One Manhattan.”

In the United States, an “open carrier” is police parlance for a radio that has been inadvertently left on in Talk/Transmit mode. An open carrier stalls and paralyses broadcast traffic, leaving so-called “dead air” to reveal sudden gaps, smudges of hiss, gently swaying drones, beeping alerts, fragmented words, quick phrases, recessed conversations, and other unexpected artifacts. It’s like butt-dialing everyone who is listening to the radio. I recorded this example by accident in 2004 during the protest against then-president George W. Bush and the Republican National Convention in New York.

The final example is an excerpt from “of silences intemporally sung: Luigi Nono’s Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima.” Here, I have inverted Nono’s only string quartet by muting the audible passages played by a string quartet. Then I elevated room tone, discreet ambiance, and other assumed silences above the threshold of audibility. You will hear on-the-fly tunings, annunciatory gasps, hurried breaths, sul ponticello bowings, and creaking chairs; these eruptions and outcries fuse with flickers of ambient sound. You might also hear artifacts of the recording process, especially digital glitches and artificial echo. Visit delaurenti.net for more about Christopher DeLaurenti and subaudible phonography.”

More information at https://wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/audio-archive/y0dgtt

Show 768: El Mundo Grita / The World Screams by TEAFM & RESONAR & CPR

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It was early October, just a few weeks before the social explosion that rocked Chile in the whole length of its strange geography. An explosion that, in late November, resulted in over 20 deaths, hundreds of mutilated, thousands injured, an indeterminate number of detainees, torture, sexual assault and countless atrocities committed by the police and the armed forces. Just before this shift, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera spoke about the convulsions that swept the rest of the region. He then introduced Chile as an oasis of peace and tranquility in the middle of the storm.

On November 18th in the Main Square of Cochabamba, mobilization against the supreme decree that gives impunity to the military. By D.E. from Cochabamba.

They ask for justice for those killed, they call the international press to cover and the local press to stop being biased. They also ask for Añez’s resignation and Evo’s return to pacify the country.

In Colombia, the mobilizations formally began with the massive national strike on Thursday, November 21, a day that ended with an unprecedented and massive cacerolazo that resonated strongly throughout the night in different corners of Colombia. The objective was to claim the peaceful protest that at the end of the afternoon had been tarnished by some riots. From then on, various calls began to multiply, more or less spontaneous and mostly festive, which began to have their own scores.

Latin America screams, but also other places in the world. It is time to hear the cries of citizenship, which asks for respect, justice, future. The world screams. Do we hear it?

This creative radio documentary is the first step in the new path that TEA FM, CPR Spain and RESONAR start together. With audios collected in different demonstrations and protests in several cities in Latin America and Europe in october and november 2019.

Show 767: ça déménage / it’s moving – Alerte Niveau 5 for Radio Panik

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“It’s moving” – Alerte Niveau 5 [www.radiopanik.org/emissions/alerte-niveau-5/]

Broadcast produced as part as Radio Panik (Brussels, Belgium) thematic program [www.radiopanik.org/topiks/thematiques/ca-demenage/] during November 2019 on the theme of Moving.

Be part of these people who buy electronic products on aliexpress, killing small local business in Brussels.
Receive or Get some envelopes packages with addresses from very exotic shippers.
Be partly responsible for the development of an internationals exchanges forum currently in Liège: www.liegeairport.com/flexport/en/actualites/alibaba/
Evacuate or Relieve his ecological uneasy feeling mixing all of this in words and sounds.

This collective was created after 2016 Brussels bombings as an independent and uncontrolled mean of expression, as a recurrent collective work mixing experimental and creative writing, music and sound effects.

Photo credit: Alain Delorme

“ça déménage” – Alerte Niveau 5 [www.radiopanik.org/emissions/alerte-niveau-5/]

Émission réalisée dans le cadre d’une programmation thématique [www.radiopanik.org/topiks/thematiques/ca-demenage/] de Radio Panik (Bruxelles, Belgique) au mois de novembre 2019, sur le thème du déménagement.

Faire partie de ces personnes qui achètent sur aliexpress du matos électronique qui tue les petits commerces indépendants bruxellois.
Recevoir une collection d’enveloppes avec des adresses d’expéditeurs très exotiques.
Être en partie responsable de la croissance d’une plateforme d’échanges internationaux en cours à Liège: www.liegeairport.com/flexport/en/actualites/alibaba/
Évacuer son mal-être écologique en triturant tout ça en mots/sons.

Alerte Niveau 5 est un collectif créé après les attentats de 2016 à Bruxelles comme une expression indépendante et incontrôlée, comme de régulières expérimentations en écriture créative, musique et effets sonores.

Crédit photo: Alain Delorme

Show 766: The Story Of Alvarenga by Lucija Gregor for Radio Worm/Klangendum

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I based the idea on a very personal “return to self” which was symbolically but also quite literally connected to the sea as a place of my childhood, fascination with its sonic qualities and colour. This radio piece is imagined as a personal search to reconnect again to a place that for me feels like home (a physical place and a mind space). That is how the story of Salvador Alvarenga, the sea wonderer who was lost at sea for 14 months served as a leading plot to underline my own personal wondering.

Lucija Gregov is a cellist, improviser and a liquid artist who creates and explores new sonic landscapes using cello, analogue synthesizers and processed field recordings. Her visceral approach to improvisation proposes a radically different way of creating, co-creating, thinking and performing in and about current sonic dynamic. Following indicators of flow, experimentation, investigation of unexplored physical and spiritual spaces, she enables emergence of practice and sound materials that are open-ended and continuously transformative. The sonic language she creates in her solo and collaborative performances comes close to what could be called a lang uage of memory and dreams.

Produced by Worm/Klangendum 2019

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Composed and written by Lucija Gregov