Some sonic thoughts on the link between the Earth and the Universe.
From radio to RADIA : creating for the RADIA network a composed play of electromagnetic signals.

With field recordings and electromagnetic reception recordings from around the world, here is a sonic drift about us, the earth and the universe, without much intention for narrative structure. I want to talk about the very little time we have left to make earth a better and peaceful world ; how fragile and wounded nature is, although still offering us pure moments of bliss ; waves link us together with everything. In the end, we are one with the world, time has no meaning, nothing comes first. All in all is all in one.

BIO

Julie Rousse is a sound artist and improviser performer.
Her work is diverse and expressed through several different experimental projects and based on improvisation : live acts, sound installations, music scores for dance, performance, films, visual art and documentary. A passionate phonographer and noise lover, she is always looking for new sonic sources in her worldwide travels, exploring the possibilities of sound capturing in specifically chosen contexts, whilst working with different recording devices. She oscillates between pure field recordings and a special attraction for archaic, lo-fi recording machines. She uses that sonic collection – in an experimental process – as her raw material, an infinite source of rhythms and colors which she shapes with a real time sound treatment software – real time being the essential element of her spontaneous and chaotic approach. She digs in the sound – intruding in the detail – in search of new textures and raw sounds.

http://julie.la.rousse.free.fr
http://soundcloud.com/juliethered
https://vimeo.com/julierousse

In solo or along with musicians from the experimental scene, she has played worldwide in venues and festivals.

Tuning the World is a series of active field recording transmissions that began over the
Summer 2018 during a residency at Wave Farm (Acra NY), and continued in the mountainous Telemark region of Norway.

My intention is to create an open air dialogue between soundscapes and drone music practices. For this I play a shruti box, an entirely organic drone generator usually used by Indians raga musicians. During these field recording sessions, I play the shruti box quite far from the microphones, mingling in my surroundings.

It is no secret that Tuning the World alludes to R Murray Schafer’s essay “The Tuning of the World” and his concept of wilderness radio. In this edition you can hear swifts swooping around a cemetery in Norway, a motorcycle engine roaring at the bottom of a valley, distant traffic on an American road, the lapping of the waves on a mountain lake, and the timid wildlife of New York state combined with the natural resonances of the Wave Farm Study Centre… and of course the shruti box tuning and retuning to it’s immediate environment.

This “New York to Telemark edition” of Tuning the World is dedicated to Pauline Oliveros.
Wave Farm is close to where she used to live and there is one particularly resonant tree on a wooded part of the property that she played where I too chose to begin, and listen.

credits

environmental recordings : DinahBird 

shruti box, edit and mix : Jean-Philippe Renoult

Titre : « Honi soit qui mal y pense »
La pièce : Europa, Europe, Heureux qui comme Pénélope. Ma foi, langues étrangères à nous-même.
Frédéric II: « Hunde, Wollt Ihr ewig leben? » Cette phrase, l’a-t-il dit afin de motiver ses généraux prussiens la veille d’une bataille ou en vantant son amour pour le français, langue de l’esprit aux côtés de l’allemand, langue de la guerre ? Du côté du Rhin, rien d’autre à signaler que des broutilles du type Die Suppecroisière, Zürich-Strasbourg en une journée et la soupe est toujours chaude. Pfff. Mais qu’apprend-on à l’école ? « Ariane, ma sœur, de quel amour blessée, – Vous mourûtes aux bords où vous fûtes laissée ! » Prochain épisode. « Ti rata poum-pier, t’katz hat yo mâga wé – legt ouf t’er Canapé – oun trink Kaméla thé. »

Europe is the subject. Maybe the underlining subject of this Klangstück. Some existing languages – like the one used as material for this piece –  are evidence of a transnational reality sometimes forgotten and replaced by the history of the building of the nation-state over several centuries. Europe is an idea that for some time now has the apparence of a political whole, an imperial ambition sometimes mixed with universalism. But with boundaries. They are static, and if one decides to change them, then the question of sovereignty rises. War, conflict, bellicosity.
Citizenship is a nation-state characteristic, a part of the mechanics. Europe cannot be a political whole based solely on this nation-state model. But a European identity can emerge through the idea of citizenship built together from scratch, not a nation-state built and imagined by leaders.
The question of language is at the same time a quality and a difficulty in this construction.
Back to boundaries. The Rhine is the embodiment of a frontier where you can find sounds of what could be a European Heimat : East/West, North/South. We have a long way to go, all of us. Europe is a body with intestinal problems; full of subconsciously deliberate mistakes (actes manqués) and a wealth of several sickly personalities. And if we are winning on one side, we are definitely losing on the other. It is the minimum. But this is only a conversation.

Honi soit qui mal y pense is a cut up of archive samples recorded all over Europe. A plane over the Balaton lake, a voice in a train through Switzerland, consumptive memories of a person born during WWII in a German town which today is French.

Auteur : mABuSeKi (MCOTF / EL)
Ancien bassiste reggae reconverti en claviériste (reggae toujours). Appréciateur en matière de radiophonie, tout du moins sa mise en œuvre, la sorcellerie de la mise en onde. Pour toute réclamation merci de vous adresser à Paul.

mABuSeKi (MCOTF / EL) is a former reggae bass player, reconverted to keyboard player, but still into reggae. He is a great admirer, mover and shaker of all matters related to radiophonics. Any complaints should be addressed to Paul.

Image by Yukao Nagemi.

1. intro
2. Drama Queen
3. Slander/Backstabbing
4. Victim(self)blaming

« In a time where so much is thought, said and done on behalf of women’s rights you would think that we, as women would support each other even more. But this is not always the case. I was wondering, what it is, that we women do, that doesn’t help our case ?
Inspired by a Buddhist doctrine, which says that our karma is created by what we do, what we say and what we think, I was looking for stories, and I found them : the tale of one woman trying to control another woman’s feminine appearance for the sake of profit, the woman who is backstabbing another woman in her machinery of fear and jealousy, and the woman who’s blaming herself for being raped. It wasn’t easy to find them, no one wants to tell things like this. This is why I found it even more important to share them, not to point fingers, but to shed light and plead for forgiveness and reconciliation among women.
Desmond Tutu said: “Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes make things worse. It is a risky undertaking but in the end it is worthwhile, because in the end only an honest confrontation with reality can bring real healing. Superficial reconciliation can bring only superficial healing.”
I invite you now, dear listener, to be part of this reconciliation, a re-creation of this karma. While you listen, please forgive these women, and reflect upon how we can think, talk and act differently than them »

Thanks to Daphne Tsiouni, Coralie Maurin and Julia Stern for lending me their voices. Thanks to Sonia Rose Gouia for letting me use samples of her cello playing.

Lola Ajima is a musician, singer and composer from Denmark, currently living in France. She is an active performer in the audio-visual group Lola And Yukao Meet and she also composes for mixing classical and electronic music. She is studying Electro-acoustic composition under Christine Groult, Marco Marini and Jonathan Prager at Pantin Conservatory, Paris.

o u r t i m e t o g e t h e r
an audio collage / a radio piece / a sound diary/an impression / a perception of this very time/July 2016

“What is the chance to meet through experiences, events, etc. ? It seems that time is what will ensure that we can meet.”

Gibus in Le Jardin, Radio Brume – Grenoble, 1998

with field recordings and voice by Isabelle Stragliati, a few vinyl rareties, and excerpts from the following tapes archives and pieces:

DJ Sprinkles ‎– Sloppy 42nds (IS Orlando Tribute Version)
Sloppy 42nds is A Tribute to the 42nd Street Transsexual Clubs Destroyed by Walt Disney’s Buyout of Times Square
http://www.comatonse.com/releases/c006.html
On IS Orlando Tribute Version, Sloppy 42nds is stretched 12.0616 times
Ultra Red – Cruise Control
Ultra-red defends the LA park gay cruising scene on their vinyl debut, ‘Ode to Johnny Rio’
http://www.comatonse.com/releases/c005.html
Le Jardin (Radio Brume, Grenoble, 1998) with the voices and works from Sophie Decoret, E.N.O.S., Emmanuelle, Gibus
Julian Beck – Je n’ai pas le droit de voyager sans passeport
Gongs of Cambodia and Laos, recorded by Laurent Jeanneau – Kink Gong
Suaves Figures – Nouveaux Gymnastes
Augusto de Campos – Cidade City Cité
Ultra-Red – Movement for Airports-Single Version
Chang Fo Ji, recorded by Laurent Jeanneau – Kink Gong
Square Dance – Jerome Tillié à L’Eurovision : Luxembourg 2001 Instrumix

And extracts from the following texts:
Voisins / Neigbors by Dorothy Allison
Chez moi by Philippe Corbé
https://medium.com/@corbephilippe/chez-moi-12fd6c92d561#.an21ybz0r
Don Quichotte / Don Quixote by Kathy Acker
Vision myope depuis la Baie des Anges by Charles Danzig

Extra snippet from lasonotheque.org

Isabelle Stragliati is a sound artist, field recordist, radio producer, musician and dj living in Grenoble (France).
Coming from the visual arts, she turned to the medium of sound in 2002 through DJing, as an extension of her approach to film editing (under the moniker Rescue). She then practiced numerous aspects of radio production ( radio host, producer, music programmer, technician and program director) before reconciling it with her creative work. Her productions use field recording, documentary, musique concrète or techno, and have been broadcast on national radios (France Culture, Radio Campus France), in festivals and events in Europe (Longueur d’Ondes, Futura, Brouillage, Take You There in France, Radiophrenia in Scotland, CinemaInYourHead in Luxembourg) and in contemporary art centers (CNAC de Grenoble, La Criée à Rennes, Casino Luxembourg).
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The search for something new encompasses the search for a new you. Why travel? To see new places? Or for the chance to be or become someone else? Who are you in a new, anonymous crowd?

But the further we go, the longer we stay, the closer we are to something essential, the same rope of reactions, the same anchor of thoughts.

In the piece certain sounds return again and again, sometimes altered, but ultimately the same.

These recordings come from three weeks spent mostly on trains in the Balkan countries (Bosnia, Servia, Croatia, as well as Hungary, Slovenia, and Austria). The recordings are presented in a mostly chronological order.

Laura Morris is sometimes a painter, always a New Yorker, and certainly a radio producer living and working in Paris.