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Show 774: Kevlar by Francesco Giomi (Usmaradio)

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Francesco Giomi | Kevlar

Musical Improvisation for one live performer (2019)

Francesco Giomi, radio and synthesizer

Kevlar is an aramidic heat-resistant and strong synthetic fiber. Developed by Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont in 1965, this high-strength material was used first commercially in the early 1970s as a replacement for steel in racing tires.

Kevlar is not a composition but a process of “polarized” total improvisation, a sound performance where the model of kevlar allows a series of synthetic fibres and pulsations to born: a regular alternation between continuous distended textures and unrelenting rhythms. Kevlar has a structure that is constantly moving and iridescent, also thanks to the use of an analog radio device without presets. 

By deriving from a series of collaborations with the Italian coreographer Simona Bertozzi, the project is the last step of a path that moves from the dance universe to a completely musical expressive autonomy.

The piece was live recorded in March 2019 at Cango-Cantieri Goldonetta (Florence)

Francesco Giomi (Florence, 1963)

Composer and performer of electronic music. He has collaborated with Luciano Berio and other relevant composers, musicians, choreographers and directors besides orchestras and ensembles from Italy and abroad. He has lead the live electronics staff of Tempo Reale in theatres and festivals all over the world. His works are regularly performed all over the world in festivals and concerts while his music is selected for and awarded by italian and foreign festivals. In the last five years he has started new creative projects for the investigation of the relations between electroacoustic music and improvisation, conducting collective music performances in Florence, Bologna, Bremen, Bruxelles, Manchester. He is professor of Electroacoustic Music Composition at the Music Conservatory in Bologna and director of Tempo Reale in Florence.

USMARADIO is a workplace of The School of Radio to develop an innovative radio pedagogy. Workshops, work sessions, meetings, presentations of live performance as sections of the project.
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Show 773: Natacha Orestes_Silence to Language (radioart106)

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Natacha Orestes aka #ProjetoHisteria is a lesbian mother artist who mixes her communication skills as a copywriter/creative planner/social media analyst and also her self-taught DJ abilities with the purpose of creating global awareness to the resistance of females in Latin America through art and technologies. 

Her goals as a Brazilian activist is to withdraw a law (12.318/2010) based on Gardner’s pedophile theories and to abolish child marriage in Brazil.

In Brazil, official data clearly shows that the most dangerous place for a child is their home. More than 50% of reported rapes are against children, 80% of these children are abused in their houses and 50% by fathers/fathers in law. The other 50% are raped by other male family members. 

Produced by Meira Asher (radioart106) for radia.fm

http://www.sominas-e-music.tumblr.com

https://aredatora.wixsite.com/mulherartistaresista

IG:

@natacha_o

@sominasemusic 

@brasilcontrasap 

@fimdocasamentoinfantil 

@mulherartistaresista

Featuring:

White House – Bird Seed // LIJEL – sub.ob.e.jct // Meira Asher – Good to Go (feat. Anita Jackson, Mahade Pako, Chris Conteh) // MC Carol – Não Foi Cabral // Pago Funk – Se Prepara, ananindeusa tambatajá

Elza Soares – Firmeza (MARGINAL MEN BADSISTA Official Remix).

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Show 772: Barangaroo by Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson (DiffusionFM91.9)

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Barangaroo by Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson
Several years ago I took a field recorder to several constructions sites around Sydney Australia. I transcribed the audio recordings I made into graphic notation. I then used the resulting graphic charts as improvisation platforms. This piece is from the Barangaroo construction site. I have been saving it and I have never improvised from it before (although I did transcribe it some time ago).

Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson is a fingerstyle noise guitarist from Sydney.

https://sebastiansequoiah-grayson.bandcamp.com/

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Show 771: LATITUDE (AFRO SONIC SEXTANT) by Satch Hoyt (Reboot.fm)

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Composed, played, arranged and produced by Satch Hoyt.
for reboot.fm for the radia.fm network of free cultural radios.

Satch Hoyt is a visual artist and musician living in Berlin.
His projects are related to the transnational African diaspora and revolve around the cultural and political role of sonicity.
By combining music, art and historical narrative, he has developed a complex of works that explore what he calls the “migration of the eternal African sonic signifier.”

He began his research for Afro-Sonic Mapping in 2016 and documents them on the blog of the same name: www.afrosonicmapping.com