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https://www.mixcloud.com/radiocampusbruxelles/playlists/martiensgohome-2023/
The initial idea was to work on the site of Corbières in L’Estaque from recordings to restore the current sound panorama.
I knew the place for having traveled it many times during my childhood and having kept in mind a series of scenes and events lived.
When I began the composition I felt the need to bridge between the present and the past, at the time when Les Corbières was not a place of pleasure but essentially of work. A bridge to better understand the incessant flow of becoming, try to situate myself there.
The Tables:
1 The sunrise
2 Sea holes
3 The Waiting
4 The factory 1
5 The Rove Tunnel
6 The storm
7 Passages
8 The factory II
9 Beyond the shore
I thank Luc Ferrari for allowing me to use the recording of 2 sound objects that he had set during his residency at Euphonia / Grenouille in 2OO3, which are part of 2 pieces in: The Anecdotes by Luc Ferrari.
Lucien Bertolina
Panoptique de l’Estaque : Cyprien Parvex de Collombey
Initial work of 2009
Ojú Oró, three pieces by Brazilian artist Ajítẹnà (Marco Scarassatti) featuring special partnerships offers a dive into his partilhar sound world.
The first, Ojú Oró, Strength and Sorrow, is part of the recent album Notes from a distant listening, released by Sirr-ecords label, and featuring Maya Quilolo. This work emerges as a poetic construction of lived, intuited, and imagined spaces, shaped by listening, memory, documentation, archiving, and invention. It is a journey through the layers of listening, the ways of recording, and the attempt to create a listening situation based on sonic fragments gathered from real places, recordings of improvisations, and (re)visits to a repertoire of recordings found in my personal archives—transforming the ordinary into raw material for invention.
The second sound piece is Arisca, from the yet unreleased album Beira, an improvisational album recorded and produced remotely, the result of a collaboration between singer Inés Terra, who explores a multitude of vocal sounds, and sound artist Ajítẹnà (aka Marco Scarassatti), who plays on this track the instrument he invented, called ẹlẹyẹ, or bird-trough. Beira will be released soon by the Scatter Archive and Brava labels.
At last, Txãi kamã kuru, from the album Ni yuxibū xinã rewe, by Ibã Huni Kuin, master of chant from Huni Kui indigenous amazonian people and Ajítẹnà and released by Sirr-ecords. Ni yuxibū xinã rewe which in Portuguese means Sounds of the Spirit of the Forest, emerged from an initial contact between Ajítẹnà and Ibã, in 2016 when recording the chants of Nixi Pae (Ayahuasca), in Porto Seguro, Bahia., Brazil.
Ajítẹnà Marco Scarassatti is a sound artist, composer and researcher whose work spans through unique constructed sculptures and instruments, installations and sound emblems. He is a lecturer at the Federal University of Minas Gerais – UFMG, Brazil
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Partitura para um sino independente
E assim arranca o quotidiano. Uma subtileza feita de sons que reconhecemos, mas tantas vezes ignoramos. É só um ruído de fundo. Hoje, não há bruxas — há culpa. A voz como espelho do incómodo, da tosse, do grito. E os sinos, sempre lá. Ao longe, persistentes, como uma entidade que dita o compasso dos nossos passos. Num tempo em que ‘liberdade’ se tornou palavra frágil, sussurramos, segredamos, entoamos — e transformamo-nos na multidão que, por instantes, se faz ouvir acima dos sinos.
Foi a partir desta escuta atenta — e inquieta — que, em março de 2025, um grupo de curiosos sonoros se reuniu em Braga para um workshop de arte radiofónica, promovido pela Braga Media Arts, no âmbito de Braga 25 – Capital Portuguesa da Cultura. Sob a orientação de Sarah Washington e Knut Aufermann (Mobile Radio), nasceu uma emissão construída a partir desse fundo sonoro.
Ao pensar-se na identidade sonora de Braga — marcada por uma presença religiosa notável, que lhe valeu o epíteto de “Roma portuguesa” — chega-se sempre aos sinos. Eles habitam as torres das inúmeras igrejas da cidade, marcam o tempo, entoam melodias sagradas, convocam à oração. E parecem, por vezes, perscrutar as almas em busca de pecados. Por existirem — e por se fazerem ouvir — os sinos moldam, inevitavelmente, o nosso quotidiano.
Os sinos e os cordofones que ouvimos nesta peça foram gravados durante ensaios e apresentações do projeto artístico “Novos Ecos de Uma Paisagem Sonora”, do Grupo de Percussão da Universidade do Minho, com direção de João Dias, acompanhados à viola braguesa e cavaquinho por Luís Capela.
Conceção e gravações: Bernardo Pinheiro, Brendan Hemsworth, cátia faísco, José Costa, Líria Varne, Luís Pinto, mi, Pedro Rui, Rui Tavares, Sara Pereira, Steffi Koch, Virgínia Valente, Marta Durão.
Montagem e edição: Brendan Hemsworth
Agradecimentos: João Dias, Luís Capela, Fábio Saraiva, Filipe Abreu, Pedro Arrieche, Simão Veiga, Carlos Jerónimo, Francisco Novais e Sara Borges; Circuito Braga Media Arts / Braga 25; Rádio Universitária do Minho; Fundição de Sinos de Braga.
Score for an independent bell
And so everyday life begins. A subtlety made up of sounds that we recognise but so often ignore. It’s just background noise. Today, there are no witches — there is guilt. The voice as a mirror of discomfort, of coughing, of screaming. And the bells, always there. In the distance, persistent, like an entity dictating the pace of our steps. At a time when “freedom” has become a fragile word, we whisper, we murmur, we chant — and we become the crowd that, for a moment, makes itself heard above the bells.
It was from this attentive — and restless — listening that, in March 2025, a group of curious sound enthusiasts gathered in Braga for a radio art workshop, promoted by Braga Media Arts, as part of Braga 25 — Portuguese Capital of Culture. Under the guidance of Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann (Mobile Radio), a broadcast was created from this soundscape.
When thinking about the sound identity of Braga — marked by a notable religious presence, which earned it the epithet ‘Portuguese Rome’ — one always comes back to bells. They inhabit the towers of the city’s countless churches, mark time, sing sacred melodies, call people to prayer. And sometimes they seem to scrutinise souls in search of sins. Because they exist — and because they make themselves heard — bells inevitably shape our daily lives.
The bells and chordophones heard in this piece were recorded during rehearsals and performances of the artistic project ‘Novos Ecos de Uma Paisagem Sonora’ (New Echoes of a Soundscape), by the Percussion Group of the University of Minho, directed by João Dias, accompanied on the Braguesa guitar and cavaquinho by Luís Capela.
Concept and recordings: Bernardo Pinheiro, Brendan Hemsworth, Cátia Faísco, José Costa, Líria Varne, Luís Pinto, Mi, Pedro Rui, Rui Tavares, Sara Pereira, Steffi Koch, Virgínia Valente, Marta Durão.
Editing and production: Brendan Hemsworth
Acknowledgements: João Dias, Luís Capela, Fábio Saraiva, Filipe Abreu, Pedro Arrieche, Simão Veiga, Carlos Jerónimo, Francisco Novais and Sara Borges; Circuito Braga Media Arts / Braga 25; Rádio Universitária do Minho; Fundição de Sinos de Braga.
radia season 54 – show #1053 (radio x) – FLOATING FIELD RESEARCH – by GABI SCHAFFNER
– playing from June 2 to June 8, 2025 –
FLOATING FIELD RESEARCH
in two pieces by GABI SCHAFFNER
The first piece is
Kukka Shop Overdrive (2021)
The location: A small kiosk selling flowers and eggs, next to a heavily trafficked road on the island of Lajasalo in Helsinki. The shop has been in the neighborhood for the last 20 years I was told, but egg sales occur only on Wednesdays. They are sold in trays by 40 pieces only. The weather was gritty, slush and gravel spurted from the cars in the road and form the overall backdrop of the ‘kukka’ shop conversations.
The recordings: All recordings originate either from the site of the ‘kukka’ shop at Lajasalo and another flower shop in Mäntta – and finally a private greenhouse in Taiwan.
Additional sounds derive from the frying of several eggs and a visit to a chicken shack in Ruovesi to collect more eggs.
Credits for Kukka Shop Overdrive (2021)
Field Recordings and composition: Gabi Schaffner.
Voice Taiwan: Margaret Shiu, Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei.
Chicken: Tyyra Jukka, Ruovesi.
The second piece is
Schweben | Floating (2023)
“Schweben” is an invitation to immerse you in a series of short narratives about body musings. The narratives have been collected on the legendary art ship MS Stubnitz, located at Hamburg harbour.
“Schweben” takes ‘float(ing)’ literally: Guests, passers-by and members of the Stubnitz staff were asked about their experiences in floating or hovering in the air…
Other bodies of water and air whirl alongside, from vitamin tablets to ship ventilators.
The piano belongs to the MS Stubnitz. We listen to it in an improvisation played by the crew’s cook, Renard.
Credits for Schweben | Floating (2023)
Stimmen/Voices: Claudia, H.W., Karim, Jann, L., Mathias, Tina.
Piano: Renard.
Fieldrecordings: Gabi Schaffner.
Other: “Ein Zimmer voller Sterne”, Schaffner, 2020.
GABI SCHAFFNER
Gabi Schaffner works as an interdisciplinary sound artist and curator. Her artistic practice is determined by the methods of poetic ethnography in connection with fluxus-like mise-en-scènes, radio-making and sound art performances. Much of her work originates from journeys. Next to her radiophonic productions, Schaffner creates speculative musical genres and inserts them into music history in order to raise awareness for cultural, gender-related and/or geographical conditions. Schaffner has been realising award-winning productions with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, radia.fm, Hessian Cultural Radio and ABC Australia. Since 2012 she maintains DATSCHA RADIO, a nomadic transmission project that links the medium of radio to current ecological issues.
Find out more about DATSCHA RADIO at www.datscharadio.de
and about GABI SCHAFFNERs projects in a broader perspective at www.schaffnerin.net
credits:
great many thanks to GABI SCHAFFNER for FLOATING FIELD RESEARCH … and we also say thank you to her artistic collaborators, contributors and donators – especially to Augustin the cat!
metadata:
FLOATING FIELD RESEARCH by GABI SCHAFFNER
radia production: miss.gunst [GUNST + radiator x]
production date: may 2025
station: radio x, frankfurt am main (germany)
length: 28 min.
licence: (cc-by-nc-nd) GABI SCHAFFNER
www.radiox.de – www.gunst.info – www.datscharadio.de – www.schaffnerin.net
additional info:
includes radia jingles (in/out), station and program info/intro (english)
links:
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radia art radio network: radia.fm
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(c) Gabi Schaffner 2025