Gowanus Over and Out follows the aural traces of the narrowcast audio exhibit Sib Radio Gowanus curated last year for the exhibition “Postcards from Gowanus” (Cabinet Magazine Gallery, March 17-20 2010, Gowanus, Brooklyn, New York). The conceptual backbone of the project was to create a sonic wallpaper that would reflect the aural undertones, both real and imagined, of the area surrounding the gallery. It also served as an organic sonotopia that inhabited the audiovisual exhibits in a process of associative interaction. Responding to a call for works, a total of 44 U.S. and international artists from diverse creative backgrounds contributed works ranging from drones and field recordings to spoken word pieces and experimental sonic artworks. Gowanus Over and Out attempts to offer a glimpse into some of the different facets of the exhibit while at the same time being its own self-expanding universe of sounds.
More information at http://sibradio.blogspot.com/
Gowanus Over and Out is produced by Maria Papadomanolaki for Radia network member free103point9 and their newly launched full-power FM station WGXC-90.7-FM in upstate New York.
The piece features samples of the following works:
Myke Dodge Weiskopf – Helicopter http://www.myke.me/wordpress/
Sogar – Tapete
http://www.monohr.com/Sogar.html
Knut Aufermann – avi5
http://knut.klingt.org/
Sterling Basement – Drowned in the Canal
http://www.johnroach.net/pages/2002_sterling_basement.html
Solo Andata – Ablation
http://solo-andata.com/ http://soundcloud.com/soloandata
verdi_spirali – on_earth@in_space
http://www.myspace.com/verdispirali
Jonny Farrow – Gowanus Walk
http://jonnyfarrow.net/
Radio Ruido – all artifacts
http://radioruidotriangulation.blogspot.com
Maria Papadomanolaki – Cabinet
http://www.voicesoundtext.com/
Lina Lapelyte – MATB1
http://www.myspace.com/lapelyte
Maria Papadomanolaki – Playground (Radia edit)
http://www.voicesoundtext.com/
Todd Merrell – As March Times On
http://www.toddmerrell.com
Mark Templeton – Safely into March
http://www.fieldsawake.com/
Bryan Zimmerman – Blobs Of Yellow-Green Sun
http://www.free103point9.org/artists/998
Last Days – Walls
http://www.lastdaysmusic.co.uk/
A.G – Polygon:08|1
http://agpolygon08.blogspot.com/
Myke Dodge Weiskopf – VNG
http://www.myke.me/wordpress/
Maria Papadomanolaki is a Greek artist working primarily with sound in the context of phonography, audience-centered performance pieces, and radio art. Her background in language studies and interest in environmental sound inform her artistic practice. Papadomanolaki often combines these two elements in her work to amplify the intrinsic physical and psychological qualities of an experienced time and space. In 2006, she marked her transition from French language and literature to the sonic arts with Stoma—an interactive voice piece based on Samuel Beckett’s Not I exhibited in the UK and Greece. As a researcher and writer, she has presented at international conferences. Her paper, “Radio as the voice of community, locality, interactivity and experimentation,” presented at The Cyprus University of Technology and the ECREA Radio Research Section 2009 conference, will be published in the forthcoming volume Radio Content in the Digital Age: The Evolution of a Sound Medium (2011, Intellect Books). Papadomanolaki currently resides in New York where she works as a freelance artist.
Distortion in image due to sstv encoding/transmission/reception/decoding over a broadband link. Terrestrial radio broadcast/reception can introduce more and varied distortions of the original information.