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Show 796: Plastic Whales by BRGS (Radio Student)

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Plastic Whales

Jaka Berger is one of the most active, creative and versatile drummers, composers and improvisers on the Slovenian music scene in the last ten years. In 2006 he released his debut album with Samo Šalamon and Achille Succi for Italian label Splasch records. Since 2014 till today he is regularly publishing music for prepared drums that he is constructing by himself. His albums are reviewed by international media on improvisation and electroacoustic music. He is part of experimental project Partija with visual artist Matej Stupica, member of bands Ludovik Material and Darla Smoking. Performed in independent theatre shows Gremo Vsi!, Novo mesto Readymade and Nein. Toured with EBM legends Borghesia. In 2015 he released an album of graphic composition Treatise by Cornelius Cardew. In 2016 he performed his most complex piece Audiable life stream tentet for ten musicians. In 2017 finished a tour and released second album with the international trio Rieko Okuda and Antti Virtaranta. Currently, he is performing free jazz with Mezei Šalamon Berger trio, Džuklje Berger duo and Šalamon Džukljev Berger – Fresh Dust trio. He has just released his new electro acoustic album dedicated to composer Morton Feldman with pianist Dejan Berden, Fresh Dust trio album at FMR records UK and integrating modular synth into his prepared drumset.

A contribution for Radia Network show 796 is BRGS’s recently released album Plastic Whales, dedicated to all the creatures exposed to the pollution of the oceans and freshwaters.

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“It would be beautiful to be conscious of our past, remembering the mistakes we have made. Unfortunately, presence is full of division among reds, blacks and whites, while we should look forward to the future, each day less certain because of our ignorance to the effect we have for our environment.” #savetheoceans #stopplasticpollution

https://brgstime.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-whales

Radio Študent Radia.fm programme curated by Urška Savič.
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Show 795: A Radiophonic Quilt from Wave Farm

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Writes Karen Werner, “To make this radiophonic quilt, programmers at Wave Farm’s radio station WGXC came together for a day to make short radio art pieces about RADIO. We approached this theme in an imaginative, associative and at times literal way: radio as invisible waves, as a metaphor for communication and longing for community, as nostalgic soundscape, as a relationship between senders and receivers, as an amazing little box.”

Quilt sections in order of presentation:
An SOS from Planet Earth by Liz LoGiudice
The Mountain Blocks the Signal by Alanna Medlock
Continue by Paulus Van Horne
Tableaux Drawing by Max Goldfarb
WGXC Piece by Thatcher Keats
Radia Segment by Tom Roe

Threads and borders throughout the quilt: Gardens of Discordantia by Heather Martin
Voicemails 1 and 2 by Sam Sebren
Edited interview with Garrett Roche
Edited interview with Carline Murphy
Edited interview with Azouke Legba
plus samples from the quilt sections above

A Radiophonic Quilt will broadcast on the 30 international stations that comprise the Radia network, June 22 – 28, 2020, Season 44, Episode 18.

A Radiophonic Quilt was collectively produced as part of a Wave Farm Radio Art Workshop led by Karen Werner, the 2019/2020 Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow, who sewed the quilt together. Many thanks to the whole Wave Farm crew for organizing this event and to everyone who participated. And to Radia for creating an international broadcast platform for radio art.

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Show 794: More than a Pandemia (TEA FM)

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Accelerated by a virus, we have suddenly found ourselves in a possible future. The existen-tial threat appears as if through a magnifying glass, allowing us to perceive the state of the world with increased clarity. With astonishment, we have seen political taboos and unques-tioned assumptions falling by the wayside, allowing our institutions to take action. All of a sudden, the tried and tested arguments of interest-driven politics – economic constraints, technological barriers, unchanging behavioural patterns, individual responsibility – no long-er seem to be guiding the decision-making. Behind this is a growing awareness that the cur-rent socio-political range of actions will be insufficient to cope with future crises, which are just as threatening, but of a completely different nature.

While the world is under pressure to emerge from the coronavirus crisis as intact as possi-ble, the virus has catapulted us to a crossroads. Can we rise to the challenge of the corona-virus phenomenon with answers from yesterday? Or will we look for the answers of tomor-row which also fulfil the various challenges surrounding sustainable development?

The virus has made it clear: the future is now

Dr. Sabin Bieri, Prof. Dr. Thomas Breu, Dr. Andreas Heinimann and Prof. Dr. Peter Messerli

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Show 793: Radio PANdemIK (Radio Panik)

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Go home!

Stay home!

Covid 19, Wednesday 18th March 2020

Brussels is confined

Like half of humanity

Our microphones censored?

Radio silence?

Veto!

Radio Panik created Radio Pandemik,

Eclectic, collective, organic

The crisis as a magnifying microphone, revealing

The voices of the even more precarious are raised

Sounds intermingle, shift, step aside.

Patchwork weave shows,

And crucial viral themes: police repression, prison, feminist movements, mask making, death, Italy, the shock generation .

More than 45 episodes, of which we offer you some fragments…

https://archive.org/details/radia_s44_n793_radiopanik_radio_pandemik

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Show 792: Bouncing Off – 2020 – by René Uijlenhoet (Radio Worm/Klangendum)

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Bouncing Off – 2020 – by René Uijlenhoet

The composers Christine Cornwell and Jago Thornton bounce off on their musical ideas and on what bats might hear while flying inside a room or a chapel. They even muse on the secret afterlife of sound-waves and on the working of their musical brain.
Their introspection  – during an interview – are set into a retro-SciFi sound-scape, depicting the creative human brain as a giant nervous clockwork.

René Uijlenhoet studied composition with Ton Bruynèl. He works as a composer, performer, museum installation builder, teacher, researcher and expert in the field of electronic music.

He taught at the HKU, worked for NEAR and published the complete tape music by pioneers Dick Raaijmakers and Jan Boerman. Since 1997 he is affiliated with the composition department of Codarts Rotterdam.

His music has been published by Donemus, by Basta and also by Peer Verlag. For the purpose of composing and teaching, he investigates new forms of sound synthesis and spectralism, the relationship ‘color’ and ‘timbre’, microtonality, spatial representation (via Ambisonics, among others), algorithmic composing strategies, live electronics in combination with acoustic instruments. , the history of electronic music and analog studio techniques, improvisation using live programming and also sonication of medical research data.

Texts and voice recording by Christine Cornwell and Jago Thornton
The music for Bouncing Off was produced and mixed in the private studio of the composer.

Produced for Worm/Klangendum 2020