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Show 258: algoRHYTHMIC noise of our everyday gadgets
by institute for algorhythmics, radio X
“algoRHYTHMIC noise of our everyday gadgets” consists of a study with short snippets of audio examples about audificated processes of our everyday gadgets like our cell phones, cameras, smart phones and laptops.
ausculations no. 1 to 16 are made by using a electromagnetic coil, no. 17 to 19 are made by audification processes of assembly code on software side (formal materiality) and ausculations no. 20 to 23 are produced with a HF-detector.
“algoRHYTHMIC noise of our everyday gadgets” is also a preliminary work for a more elaborated project about a “sonic archeology of advanced everyday technologies”.
archeology is meant following michel foucault’s notion of thinking that we – when looking for meanings of things, but also their history – need to look not only for documents, but also for monuments. this means that the materiality of things and their physical effects should be investigated not only on the surface, but by “digging deeper into” things or processes and by revealing and explaining the inner structures of black boxes. therefore we think that archeology is a more sophisticated term for hacking.
the institute for algorghythmics/michael chinen & shintaro miyazaki
michael chinen (*1982) is a programmer and musician. He studied composition & computer science at university of washington, seattle/washinton state, electro-acoustic music at dartmouth college and was research student at tokyo denki university. lately he moved to berlin with the Fulbright research grant for wavefield synthesis at technische universit‰t berlin.
shintaro miyazaki (*1980) is a theorist, artist and curator. he studied media studies, philosophy and musicology in basel, switzerland and is currently a PhD researcher at humboldt university berlin under prof. wolfgang ernst, holding a scholarship of the “cogito foundation”. in 2008 he founded the ìinstitute for algorhythmicsî.
find more info at www.algorhythmics.com
Show 257: radioRadar4 by Marold Langer-Philippsen
RADIORADAR_4 is a relay from some bird voices, wind, electricity, capitalism and a letter from benin mixed by radioerevan in february 2010.
Author is the radio- and performance-artist Marold Langer-Philippsen from Radio CORAX, also working in the field of theatre and video – living in Berlin.
Playlist:
Effi Rabsilber “whataday2”
Muhmood “8300 pillars of altai”
Coronet Instructional Films “Understanding of the Dollar”
also: different bird voices from europe, a letter from benin, some field recordings
Show 256: the nocturnal state of the city by Dimitar Dodovski
This piece of radia composition is made of lofi noises, crackles and subtle dubscapes which from the artists view depict the nocturnal state of the city. Inside the house where hums and noises from electronic appliances are generated and outside where distant sounds occupy space, reverbed voices from insomniacs, lovers and lonesome whistlers fill in the silence.
Dimitar Dodovski (Born 1980, Bitola/Macedonia)
authors expressive, melodic music distinguished by synthetic warmth and subtle, miniturized percussion. With an extensive knowledge of electronic music, his productions evoke a diverse range of influences from atmospheric dub to meticulous micro-house.
Show 255: ahoy! ahoy!
Orange 94.0 featuring new radia member Radio Helsinki
Introductory show by Martin Pichler and Max Höfler.
“Ahoy! Ahoy!” these are the words that are considered to be the first words that were transmitted by telephone. The composition analyzes different communication systems and information flows. The piece was first performed on the internet via digital transmission. So the two performers acted as a sender and a receiver at the same time. Afterwards the tracks had been transformed into a special form to accommodate the communication structure of radio.
Show 254: the unheard
Program themed ‘the unheard’ consisting out of 3 smaller parts.
Part 1: Retool Radio
Collage of ephemeral sounds recorded on the Retool Radio research night.
In December 2009 a number of artists were invited to investigate the space where radio can meet performance. Lilia Mestre is a choreographer who ended up in radiophonic spheres through her
antipathetic study of emotions in the performance arts. She’s looking
for ways to resist the dominant visual identification process and the
crystallization of meaning and narrative. As a choreographer she comes
from the theatre of movement and bodies to enter the theatre of sound
and nobodies. Nico Dockx is a visual artist, obsessed with data and archives. In one of his works he investigates the relation between sound and architecture. His film is suggesting that it’s not us, humans, who communicate, but communication itself, as Luhmann already pointed out. Who (or what) is sending? Who (or what) is receiving? Who (or what) is answering? Joris Van Damme is a former RITS student who won the Prix Europa for his fiction play ‘Ik zal het u vertellen’. Inspired by Ulysses, the piece was built up entirely of oral elements. Philosopher Samuel Ijsseling introduced the production. Dennis Tyfus, also a visual artist, ended the Retool Radio night with hidden guerrilla radio in quadraphonic setup.
The selected part contains a voice that was only broadcasted on the outside of the building and was unheard by the audience. Other sounds are mostly unintended, unheard or neglected bastard sounds from that evening, speech defaults, technical defaults etc. recycled, looped and edited. Some sounds are stolen from the talks or productions (for example the drumming).
Part 2: Servox
2 students (Elke Plancke & Eva Daeleman) looked to find the (unheard)
intonation of people deprived from their biological voice. People with
voice aids tend to have a very monotonous intonation. Through technical gimmicks they hoped to give them back some musicality. An extract of their search.
Part 3: Sample Minds
3 students (Joris Lenaerts, Vincent Van Reysseghem & Mathias Lewis)
are looking for the unheard in sample music. This fragment contains an
analysis of the samples used in ‘Voodoo People’ by The Prodigy
Show 253: RADIO WORM for Resonance104.4fm
In December 2009 the WORM STUDIO organised a ‘philosophical’ workshop about field recordings.
We invited Derek Holzer & Justin Bennett to tell their side of the story, told our side of the story as well (nothing is true, everything is permitted, etc.) and let all the workshop members work in the WORM studio to complete their pieces. And the results were great! So we had to shorten the pieces a bit to fit them in this RADIO WORM number 120, Radia edition.
And that’s the other side of the story; the Electronic/Experimental Radio monthly ‘RADIO WORM’ exists for 10 years now. And we never missed a beat! (never looked for it). So starting in January 2000 we come now to number 120, and we’re very proud to present this to the Radia Network.
http://www.wormweb.nl
http://wormstudio.blogspot.com/2009/02/studio-productions.html
Show 252: Small Journeys Long Distance by Lucinda Guy
Shows from the Radia Network travel… from one artist’s ears to another’s. From one small community to another, far away. Within the shows journeys take place too, whether a walk through the shopping centre or a trip into space.
This collage, built from fragments of some of 2009’s contributions, celebrates these journeys large and small; what they have in common and what sets them apart.
Replacement show
This show is an abridged version of the one made for Kunstradio on ORF in Austria. If you’d like to hear the full version it’s here:
http://www.kunstradio.at/2010A/03_01_10.html
Small Journeys Long Distance features extracts from:
Out of Space, War of the Worlds from Orange 94.0
Our Domestic Radiation by Anna Friz for Free103point9
Snow Squabbles by Neil Griffith, Cathy Inouye Caroline Kunzle for Ckut
Incidental Parallels by Pôm Bouvier B. for Radio Grenouille
Radiodance Opus.01: Y Do B?, by F. Ribeiro, for Rádio Zero
Silence Radio: Ruisselle by Philippe Vandendriessche; Greetings from Italy by Damien Magnette; Nous, les Défunts by Yannick Dauby,from Radio Campus
Stiller Marktschrei by Stephan Roth from Orange 94.0
Closing Down, by GilbertandGrape from Soundart Radio
This Means War by Andrej Ancevski for Kanal 103, Skopje
Fragments of Stratford Shopping Centre by Martin Williams for Resonance 104.4fm
The Forester And Me by Maarten Lauwaert and Joris Van Damme for XL Air
Rug Radio by Maria Papadomanolaki for Free103point9
Flare: Real Energy World By Eva Ursprung for Klubradio/Herbstradio
Why Don’t You Go Home? by Cathryn Morgan Richards for Soundart Radio
Awaiting for the Waters to Rise by Frederic Alstadt for Radio Campus
Mayon Volcano by Andreas Loeschner Gornau for Radio Corax
Playground: Art Games by Miss Gunst for Radio X
Show 251: Glimpses of a revolution backstage
This program, done on behalf of Rádio Zero, consists of the unedited recordings of the military operational communications that occurred during the 25th April 1974 in Portugal, the so called “carnation revolution”. It is a raw window to the dynamic of a military push converted popular revolution that ended 40 years of dictatorship and jump started dreams and hopes which, like all revolutions, are still to be fulfilled.
Show 250: Nouvelles Hybride by Derek Sein
For this Radia show 250, Radio Campus Bruxelles ordered a piece from Derek Sein : Un remix anti-délire du remix délirant de la Nouvelle Hybride consacré à Apomorphine de W.S. Burroughs / Derek Sein’s proposal : Another anti-delirious remix of the delirious remix of a past radio program inspired by Apomorphin, a text by W.S. Burroughs; noise but drony, enjoy!
With Les Nouvelles Hybrides, Derek Sein is creating programs on Radio Campus each saturday night to early sunday, since 20 years, it’s 100% home-made, using no computer…