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Show 1009: Kaggen by pä (Radio Zero)

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Kaggen is a demiurge and folk hero of the San people of Southern Africa. He is a trickster god who can shape shift, usually taking the form of a praying mantis but also a bull eland, a louse, a snake, and a caterpillar. This piece — inspired by this entity and informed by the elementary principles of neural synthesis — consists of a collage stemming from a series of recording sessions, employing both field recordings and phrases/ phonemes generated by a circuit of analogue components arranged in order to achieve self-generative feedbacks.
BIO:
pä (Paulo da Fonseca and Filipa Campos) started making music as a duo in Lisbon, back in 2015. The sound sources/ studying tools they took on consisted mainly of analogue synthesizers. From then on, pä has become a place of ongoing study, research and experimentation blending historically informed electroacoustic music, poetry, field recordings, graphic design, deep listening music and sound installations.
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Show 1008: ZÄRTLICH GEHT DIE WELT ZUGRUNDE: STILL LOOKING FOR MEDUSA by NINA M. W. QUEIßNER & LINDA WEIß

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radia season 52 – show #1008 (radio x) – ZÄRTLICH GEHT DIE WELT ZUGRUNDE: STILL LOOKING FOR MEDUSA – by NINA M. W. QUEIßNER & LINDA WEIß – playing from July 22 to July 28, 2024 –

ZÄRTLICH GEHT DIE WELT ZUGRUNDE: STILL LOOKING FOR MEDUSA
by NINA M. W. QUEIßNER & LINDA WEIß

ZÄRTLICH GEHT DIE WELT ZUGRUNDE: STILL LOOKING FOR MEDUSA is a tribute to corals, the sensitive critters of Gaia’s underwater realms, showcasing their profound ability to forge symbiotic relationships. Corals, as holobionts for zooxanthellae, epitomize interdependence; as reefs, they offer shelter to many marine creatures; as strong formations, they modulate the ocean’s ebb and flow into gentler currents. As the ancient ancestors of Medusa, they hold the spirit of nature’s often misunderstood and transformative powers. Medusa herself, a female figure of Greek mythology, represents the recurring theme of metamorphosis and the complex dynamics of power and seduction, banished to safeguard the male gaze.

Through a rich saturation of marine bioacoustics, noise pollution, mythic tones, Nina M. W. Queißner and Linda Weiß beckon you to immerse yourself in the deep, dark blue soundscape. Here, lose your way, welcome the feeling of otherness, and give yourself to the waves of yearning, and acknowledge cold shivers. Picture Medusa, whose symbiosis sustains the life that thrives beneath the waves.

underwater sound recordings: Coral reefs (Red Sea, Egypt), shipping traffic on the Main River and the English Channel of the Alabaster Coast; additional sound recordings: Baking soda in water, hot oil, ice cubes, crystal glass and water, tadpoles, rain on polyamide, etc., synthesizer, melodica, Sansa.

image: detail tentacular beings under salinity stress, space sound installation Looking for Medusa, Senckenberg Naturmuseum, Frankfurt a. M. (DE), 2023, photo by Linda Weiß.

concept/production: Nina M. W. Queissner

NINA M. W. QUEIßNER adopts a poetic and research-oriented approach using recording technologies and soundscape composition to explore the experiential dimensions of sound and listening, closely integrated with multidisciplinary concepts of landscape and environment. LINDA WEIß creates immersive installations that examine the dynamics of shared spaces, engaging in dialogue with more-than-human collaborators such as fungi and bacteria. Together, they work on the ongoing project LOOKING FOR MEDUSA that invites audiences on a journey through past and future mythologies. Starting with Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the project weaves together references from cosmologies and ecosystems to create an experimental habitat for speculative future coral creatures. Their audio-visual installation was first exhibited at the Senckenberg Nature Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 2023. Follow their research on tempe-corals.tumblr.com

credits:
great many thanks to NINA M. W. QUEIßNER and LINDA WEIß for ZÄRTLICH GEHT DIE WELT ZUGRUNDE: STILL LOOKING FOR MEDUSA!

metadata:
ZÄRTLICH GEHT DIE WELT ZUGRUNDE: STILL LOOKING FOR MEDUSA by NINA M. W. QUEIßNER & LINDA WEIß
radia production: miss.gunst [GUNST + radiator x]
production date: july 2024
station: radio x, frankfurt am main (germany)
length: 28 min.
licence: (cc-by-nc-nd) NINA M. W. QUEIßNER & LINDA WEIß
www.radia.fm – www.radiox.de – www.gunst.info – tempe-corals.tumblr.com

additional info:
includes radia jingles (in/out), station and program info/intro (english)

links:
radio x & radiator x: www.radiox.de – www.radiox.de/radiator-x
GUNSTradio & radiator x: www.gunst.info – www.gunst.info/radiator
Looking for Medusa: tempe-corals.tumblr.com

pic:
Linda Weiß 2023

#52

SHOW 1007. ESCUCHA/LISTEN (TEAFM RADIO WORKSHOP)

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World Listening Day is an annual celebration held on July 18 to promote the importance of conscious and attentive listening in daily life. This event is organized by the World Listening Project, an organization dedicated to education and research on sound and listening.
The goal of World Listening Day is to raise awareness about the acoustic environment, fostering a greater awareness of the sounds around us and how they influence our lives and the environment.
This day also aims to highlight the importance of listening as a tool for understanding and connection between people, as well as for environmental care, helping to identify and mitigate noise pollution and other sound-related issues.
The celebration includes activities such as soundwalks, field recordings, workshops, concerts, and other forms of sound-related art and education.
This year, we went to the town of Escucha in the Bajo Aragón region, in the Cuencas Mineras district, to honor the name of the town and… listen.

 

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Show 1006: shiny reflexions (Wiener Radia Kollektiv)

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Erwin Reiter, Linz Foto: Barbara Huber

Another programme from the “Elements” series. Previous parts: Earth, water. This time it’s about metal.

“Heinrich, der Wagen bricht!” 
“Nein, Herr, der Wagen nicht, Es ist ein Band von meinem Herzen, 
Das da lag in großen Schmerzen, Als Ihr in dem Brunnen saßt 

Und in einen Frosch verzaubert wart.” 

Gebrüder Grimm – Der Froschkönig

The Viennese radia collective thematically revolves around the largest group of chemical elements. In addition to the collage of characteristic soundscapes, the group embarks on a fabulous and mystical search for clues.

A programme by (in alphabetical order):

Barbara Huber, Barbara Kaiser, Stefan Nussbaumer, Marian Potocar, Karl Schönswetter, Kaiser Wilhelm

Thanks to: Martina, Cuco

Recording Session at Radio Orange 94.0. f.l.t.r.: Karl Schönswetter, Barbara Huber, Barbara Kaiser, Stefan Nussbauer. Foto: Karl Schönswetter

spoken passages of text:

Peter Schilling – Metall (Song):

Metall Um meinen Hals
Metall Auf meiner Haut
Metall Wir fühlen nichts Doch uns geht es glänzend
Metall An meiner Hand
Metall Auf meinem Haupt
Metall Wir sind schön Wir sind blank polierte Menschen

A ballad poet (around 1887) – “Die Sage vom Erzberg” (The tale of the Erzberg):

Und wählet Ihr ein silbern Herz,
Wählt Ihr den gold’nen Fuß
Bedenkt, daß Silber und auch Gold
Gar bald Euch schwinden muß.
Doch wählet Ihr von dunklem Erz
Den festen Eisenhut,
Das Eisen, – ew’ge Zeiten währt’s,
Der Hut hält lang und gut.

Gebrüder Grimm – Der Froschkönig:

“Heinrich, der Wagen bricht!”
“Nein, Herr, der Wagen nicht,
Es ist ein Band von meinem Herzen,
Das da lag in großen Schmerzen,
Als Ihr in dem Brunnen saßt
Und in einen Frosch verzaubert wart.”

Ovid – Metamorphosen:

Latin:

Aurea prima sata est aetas, quae vindice nullo, sponte sua, sine lege fidem rectumque colebat. poena metusque aberant, nec verba minantia fixo aere legebantur, nec supplex turba timebat iudicis ora sui, sed erant sine vindice tuti.

German:

Als erstes entstand das Goldene Zeitalter, welches ohne einen Strafvollstrecker, freiwillig und ohne ein Gesetz immer die Aufrichtigkeit und das rechte Tun hochhielt. Strafe und Furcht gab es nicht, auch las man keine drohenden Worte, in Erz geschrieben; keine flehende Menge zitterte vor dem Spruch ihres Richters, sondern alle waren in Sicherheit ohne einen Rächer.

 

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show 1005: Scratch (*Duuu Radio)

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*Duuu Radio invites Théo Robine-Langlois, Mia Trabalon and Emilien Chesnot to broadcast a sound piece on the edge of poetry, recorded reading and scratching practice. SCRATCH lets you hear loops where punchlines, words or phrases shouted, sung or rapped are amalgamated. These vocal loops, polyphonic and sometimes abstract, combined with moments of reading and reflection around this practice, constitute the sound activation of the first tracks produced of the CROSS VOLUME vinyl, published by *Duuu Radio.

Project supported by the CNAP – Support for digital arts.
Recorded at *Duuu studio in Paris.