It’s an improvised assembly of found footage, gathered over the last three months, from broadcasts we set up in collaboration with the fine people of radio de la Liberté at the Belle Vue brewery in Brussels.
Our Plan B was A Narchy,
X – elle – Air
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Show 325: The audible after-effects of drinking ether by LOKAALRAADIO
“The audible after-effects of drinking ether” is a radioshow that finds the hosts somewhere between lucid dreaming and automatic speech, exploring the interesting phenomena of drinking ether, somewhere in the southern parts of Estonia. The show has been produced for Radia network for Resonance FM in London.
LOKAALRAADIO is a radio art station founded by Raul Keller and Katrin Essenson based in the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia in Tallinn and an experimental live group giving live performances while exploring the immediate surroundings through radio medium. In March 2011, they organized the first radiophonic art festival “Radiaator” in Estonia. See: lokaalraadio.ee
Show 321: Andalusian Sound Journey by Anna Keleher
Anna Keleher is a contemporary artist who collaborates with people, places and things. While you were snug indoors this Christmas, Anna was winter camping at Sierra Subbéticas Geopark in Southern Spain where the limestone geology has attracted a vast array of life to seek shelter in its cavities. This audio piece is a journey into the richness of these Andalusian ancestral homelands. Have fun and don´t forget your raincoat!
Show 318: RADIO BRECHT
RADIO BRECHT is a production of Escuela Creativa de Radio TEA FM 98.9 Zaragoza and it is based on the work of Bertolt Brecht on radio theory (1927) as a resounding tribute from TEA FM School of Radio (www.teafm.net) to the radio environment.
Show 316: CYFARFOD
CYFARFOD by Radio WORM
The second in a series of ‘unradioplays’ by the RW crew. The theme of this one is ‘In A Meeting’. The material is partly found footage, partly self generated, partly self-recorded. The aim of the music in this piece is as an ‘anchor’ for the ‘real’ sounds.
The whole piece just asks one question (or tries to avoid it); ‘So this is real lfe? What quality of recording did you use?’
People who (sometimes involentary) collaborated; Ver 2012, Laslo, nina, Snelwegproject (fire!), Peter Wiesnthaner, H Bakr, Lg 6, Porno 8tr, William Jennings Bryan.
Show 313: Art’s Birthday Cabaret
Celebrate Art’s Birthday with CFRC on Monday, January 17. Art’s Birthday is an annual event first proposed in 1963 by French Fluxus artist Robert Filiou, who suggested that one million years ago, on the 17th of January, Art was born when someone dropped a sponge into a bucket of water. Filiou proposed a public holiday to celebrate the presence of art in our lives.
On January 17, 2011, CFRC presents a day-long program of Art On Air. As part of this broadcast CFRC hosted the Art’s Birthday Radio Cabaret live and direct from The Artel, a local artist-run-living space. The following is an excerpt from that live broadcast. Three unique performances by local Kingston audio artists. The first is a performance by SouB?; Kingston’s only interventionist, improvisation, pop-culture riffing, avant-music group. Following that, Decomposing Pianos performs an evocative piece. And finally, Christine Dewancker and Emre Amasyali, offer a found-sound collaboration
Show 311: Different Looks At Experimentation by YHT
YHT : concepts of experimental sound design for cinematic
audio-experiences and Francois Sallé with Tatsumi Ryusui : free live
experimentation with instruments and electronics between Noise and
Ambient
YHT is an artistic project in the field of electroacoustic sound
experimentation. Having worked together for 6 years now, the two
artists Claus Störmer and Johannes Krause from Halle/Saale can look
back on a large number of different projects. The spectrum of their
work encompasses free sound work and experimental short film scores as
well as radio plays. They regard their sound compositions as being on
the edge of film and its narrative and imaginary character.
This compositional and aesthetical point of view is reflected in their
piece “RE”, a combination of recorded live performances and produced
radio plays. With structure-borne sound converters which have been
attached to metal plates and with several field recordings, real and
computer-generated rooms have been brought together. As a consequence,
the listener perceives sounds which can either be recognized or not.
The intention is to establish a listening experience at the
intersection of realness and fiction.
The second part of the show will present the current project of two
artists living in Berlin. Francois Sallé (France) and Tatsumi Ryusui
(Japan) bring together their vision of experimentation – each in his
own way: Ryusui by playing guitar in his very own style, Sallé by
contributing field recordings and computer-generated sounds.Their
teamwork yields very intuitive performances with constantly different
progression and character.
reboot.fm 88,4 mhz Berlin
http://reboot.fm
Prod.: Henning Schärfke
http://ypsilonht.com/yht.html
http://www.myspace.com/tatsumiryusui
Show 309: Raw Audio Recording #1 by Gabi Schaffner
RAR – Raw Audio Recording #1
Gabi Schaffner/rawaudio/interdisciplinary artist
In my work, I try to encourage communicaton, non-hierarchic perspectives and sharing. This is why I like the amalgamation of
different media and the experimental shift of identity into/between different cultures. Within this frame, field recording is treated as a carrier of cultural concepts, just as (documentary) photography is a carrier of visually encoded cultural messages.
Tracklist:
01 Boatmotor, 00:19, 2009 *
02 Introduction into Raw Audio, 02:25, 2011
03 Hamepilvet 1, 02:36, 2005 *
04 Saippuakaupias 1, 00:36, 2005 *
05 Lumilaulu, 00:53, 2005 *
06 Lumivalssi 1, 01:35, 2005 *
07 Bells + Cars short, 00:33, 2009 ***
08 Lumenkulta, 02:20, 2006 *
09 Uima Uima, 00:24, 2009 ***
10 Broken Chamber, 01:55, 2006 **
11 Jazzy Tank, 03:23, 2006 **
12 Fragments of Pipi, 03:12, 2006 **
13 kantelePT, 04:47, 2010 ****
14 La Nautilus II, 01:52, 2009 ***
15 WhiteFoam, 01:35, 2006 ***
16 Otto Mötö (part a) 01:46, 2009 ***
*
„ Finnish Snow-walks and Dances“
A compilation of Finnish snow music and a mixture of traditional as well as current arrangements and fieldrecordings. Collected and compiled between 2002 and 2004 by the music anthopologist Sisukas Poronainen and myself. inofficially Eine Kompilation finnischer Schneemusiken. Released in 2005 as a vinyl (and vinyl only!) by gruenrekorder, Frankfurt.
**
„ Music for Bathrooms & Toilets“
Fieldrecordings/ Sample-Compositions Audioinstallation-CD for use in wet rooms only.
27:31 min. Laminated artist edition (waterproof).
Price: 18 Euro
12 copies.
Music for Bathrooms and Toilets explores the intriguing melodies of running water within the human habitat. This CD presents a compilation of bathroom recordings and mixed audio material. Some pieces have been cut with samples from other fieldrecordings (mainly from Iceland) and free mp3- tracks from the internet. The intention is to create a relaxing atmosphere – not entirely without humour – for the pleasures enjoyed in a private restroom.
Track 10 + 12. Samples used: Courtesy Peter Ware.
***
„ Fieldrecordings“
A collection of field recordings. FI. 2009
Track 14: Organ played by Mi Duncker
****
„ Musiques d’ Orion“
11 Field recording compositions FI, F und D. To be released by
entr’acte.uk in 2011
Track 13: Kantele by Teemu Tuonela. Haiku song by Inka Malm.
Planned for 2012. OTTO MÖTÖ: The Archives of Martti Mauri (1947-2001)
“Otto Möto” deals with the lost and found-again archives of Jyväskylä-born motor engine researcher and modern composer Martti Mauri (1935-2003). Experts herald Mauri’s avantgarde compositions as a forerunner of techno and new media music. And yes: This is another concept album by rawaudio. The track broadcasted, „ Otto Mötö“ , is based on fieldrecordings of Finnish motor (environment)s and was edited by Martin Moritz, Hamburg. This is NOT the final version!
CV
http://schaffnerin.net/html/schaffner/schaffnerGB.html
NB this is a replacement show for radio x
Show 308: Starlings from Hjertøya sing Kurt Schwitters by Wolfgang Müller
Wolfgang Müllers Housemusic –
Starlings from Hjertøya sing Kurt Schwitters
In summer 1997 discovered Wolfgang Müller the House on the small Island Hjertøya opposite the westnorwegian city Molde, in which Kurt Schwitters stood during summertime from 1932 on. It is full of destroyed Collages, writings and over and over painted plaster columns. Till a few years before the door stood open and everybody could join in.
In front of the house, laying in the grasses, Wolfgang Müller listened once a Starling producing strange noises. He noticed, that in anyway he already knew these sounds from before. And he reminded passages of the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters.
Starlings are masters of Copyart. A former grandfather or grandmother of this starling singing passages of the ursonate should have heared Kurt Schwitters in 1932 on the Island. Wolfgang Müller recorded the voice of the copyartist-starling singing Kurt Schwitters.
Wolfgang Müller is born on 24 October, 1957, in the Lower Saxony town of Wolfsburg. Today he spends most of his time in Berlin and Reykjavík.
News: www.myspace.com/wolfgangmueller
During his high school days, he puts together a collection of his classmates’ cribs.
He studies at the Faculty of Graphic Design/Visual Communications at Berlin University of the Arts between 1980 and 1985. His degree show, in 1986, is presented in the Faculty of Film Design under Professor Wolfgang Ramsbott: a performance by his group Die Tödliche Doris, founded in 1980.
In 1982, he publishes his book Geniale Dilletanten. A typing error becomes a theme for a collection of writings.
With Ueli Etter in 1986, he embarks on the Galerie Eisenbahnstrasse project, designed to last for one year, in the basement of a house on Manteuffelstrasse, Berlin.
In 1987, Wolfgang Müller dissolves Die Tödliche Doris into an Italian white wine. At the exhibition, vino tavola bianco, at Galerie Swinger in Berlin, vino da tavola bianco is both the exhibit on show and the drink served at the opening. Seven years later, Die Tödliche Doris is poured out at Galerie von Witzleben in Karlsruhe, this time in the form of a white Burgundy from Schweigen. A book documenting the dissolution process is published by Martin Schmitz Verlag.
Show 305: In an Octopus’s Den by Octopus Collective
The making of Octopus’s Den was initiated by Knut Aufermann and Sarah Washington (AKA Mobile Radio) during a short visit they made to our HQ in Barrow Park. They introduced us to the technique of pause-button recording which is a simple way of realtime editing of live recording using the pause button on the recorder (in this case the Zoom H4n) and suggested that we use it to make a piece of work based on the activity in our office and studios. What you hear is drawn from both significant and mundane events in our collective life over the last few months including:
our ancient plumbing system after flushing the loo
an office meeting to discuss the strategy for our application to Arts Council England for portfolio funding for 2012-15
pieces commissioned for our events on the Bandstand in the park from artists Paul Rooney (Spit Valve) and Mark Vernon (Christmas Rewind)
clearing up glass from a window broken by vandals
John learning the violin
moving equipment around
walking upstairs
and much more…..
we hope you find something to enjoy.
Octopus Collective is a not-for-profit Sound Arts company led by three professional artists with an associate membership drawn from a broad range of practitioners working from the old Park Keeper’s house in the middle of Barrow Park in Barrow in Furness. Alongside their own practice they curate the Full of Noises festival which is an annual programme of experimental music and sound art based in Cumbria UK. The first FON Festival took place in October 2009 with a programme that included 4 residencies/commissions, a weekend of live performances, radio broadcasts and a workshop programme.