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Show 979: cancelled
Show 976: Armen by Andrius Arutiunian (Radio Papesse)
Since 2019, the weekend closest to December 13th Radio Papesse turns the volume on LUCIA, a small independent and international festival dedicated to possible forms of audio narratives and shared listenings.
This week should have been LUCIA’s, but starting this year the festival becomes a biennial event and, looking forward to 2024, this RADIA show throws back to the sounds that have been shared.
So here comes Andrius Arutiunian’s Armen as it has been broadcasted during LUCIA 2020 (the transmission-only edition broadcasted in pandemic times).
Enjoy and find you again in 2024!
Armen | Andrius Arutiunian
Armen is a sound work and collection which Andrius Arutiunian has been developing since 2016 related to the diasporic music.
It traces obscure Armenian disco releases from the 80’s, remakes little-known pop songs from different parts of the Armenian diaspora, and navigates this treacherous sonic field in polyphonous, and sometimes contradictive ways.
Armen is also a homage to one of the most common Armenian names.
In 2017 an iteration of Armen was published as a vinyl release. As writer Monika Kalinauskaitė wrote in her text for this publication: “But right now, at this moment, on a rug, in a car, by the monotonous music machine, the only circles you draw are your first ones, spinning the body and thought, breaking the world’s axis into millions of dancing small figures. You may as well hear of those rivers – it’s a miracle, but they reach everywhere, populating the world with gold-headed fish. Only blood and bodies alter their flows, oh look, we are now trapped in an island that was not here before, I believe we are also humming songs we never knew, but somehow remember.”
Bio | Andrius Arutiunian
Andrius Arutiunian is a sound artist and composer based in the Netherlands. He works through sound and hybrid forms of media, with a particular interest in sonic artefacts, aural identities, and digital, automated technologies.
Sonic dissent, alternate modes of political and musical organisation, and playful investigation of esoteric and vernacular histories form Arutiunian’s most recent works.
Using hypnotic and enigmatic forms, Arutiunian’s works often question the notion of musical and political attunement.
In 2022 Andrius Arutiunian represented Armenia at the 59th Venice Art Biennale with a solo show entitled Gharīb. Other recent solo shows include Counterfates (Meduza Vilnius, 2023) Diaphonics (Centrala Birmingham, 2023), and Incantations (CTM and silent green, Berlin, 2021).
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Show 925: À table! by Radio Art Zone (Radio ARA)
This Radia show is a 28 minute excerpt of the 2 hour long live kitchen show “À table”
broadcast on September 19th 2022 from the social restaurant run by the “Stëmm vun der Strooss” (Voice of the Street) in Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg).
François Martig and Sandra Laborier took microphones there for lunch, opened a sonic window into the space of the cantine and talked to people about the reasons they eat there, about poverty, social justice and politics.
This was one of a series of kitchen shows which were part of Radio Art Zone, a 100-day radio art station as part of the European Capital of Culture Esch2022. Conceived by Mobile Radio and jointly produced with Radio ARA, it broadcast in the south of Luxembourg from June 18th – September 25th 2022.
For more information on Radio Art Zone: www.radioart.zone