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Show 287: You’re on Next by Tom Wallace

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“You’re on Next”

Interviews with DJs from the London free party scene. Produced by Tom Wallace.

This piece explores the experiences of six DJs who have all been involved in the vibrant free party scene in the 1990s. The interviews explore how they got involved in the scene, how they view their craft and recall the magic moments and mishaps along the way. These are set against the warped sonics of the sound systems they played on.

Featuring: Neil Controlled Weirdness, Gizelle, Louise +1, Rowan Megabitch, Jason Warlock and Jerome hill.

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Show 286: Personal Number Station By Disphilharmonia Sounds

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Initially, we are a laptop quartet of five individuals, one robot (barely automated, slightly sentient) and four fleshy humans. Furthermore we host a radio show on Kanal 103 in Macedonia which usually contains much of what we do in our separate electronic production projects, alternative ego’s, or what we do with Disphilharmonia. Since music is taken very lightly lately, we consider that the act of listening to music/sounds should return to a more primitive time where it represents a totem, a symbol of gathering around which special attention should be invested. Our live performances attempt to create this effect by accentuating the visual part, forcing audience to participate with more senses, ritualizing the act of listening music. This time, for Radia, we prepared an almost fake Numbers Station (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station) live, that relays a secret message, when converted/cracked and sent to our mail, results in access to not-yet-released materials of Disphilharmonia and/or affiliates.  Visit www.disphilharmonia.blogspot.com for more free downloadable music, videos, info, crickets, cake and everything.

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Show 285: Hirondelle by Beatriz Rodrigues and António Silva

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While contemplating the mysterious life of the landscape, plants, birds,insects,we dive into the magnetic space where the swallows and echoes of things and their spirits live.

There is iron and straw and the light’s reflection on the water follows the eye, as the beating of the heart echoes through the landscape’s melancholy.

Beatriz Rodrigues and António Silva are two artists from Viseu-Portugal, working together as a couple.

They explore different types of media, such as sound and drawing.

Making use of composition, balance, structure, simbolism, significance, rhythm, etc., they organize emotion and memory that lead us to non-places, abstract and shapeless spaces, in a mixture of noisy and melodic environments.

http://beatrizrodrigues-antoniosilva.blogspot.com

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Show 284: Semantik live @ Radio Sonic

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This show is a live performance made during Radio Sonic, the 4 days long webradio that Radio Campus Bruxelles operated the previous week, to announce a sound art festival in Belgium called City Sonic. (Works and exhibitions are open until the 12th of september, in Mons. Come and visit !)
In the place we were working (Les anciens abattoirs), we met a sound artist working with devices that interrogate our relation to the body and territories. Audio Geolocalised derive & sound installation. He kept sounds he made and transformed to create this live performance one night. Here’s the copyleft result.
Member of the collectif APO33, he’s also performing as live dj with experimental breakcore set, under the name of Semantik.
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Show 283: Fruitcake by Cheyenne und Calypso

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The title of “Fruitcake” evokes a lost world of English teatime, as well as the mixed up and unpredictable nature of this piece.
Produced by two teenage girls as a response to growing up in a quiet but strange Moorland town in the South West of England, “Fruitcake” contains a blend of interviews with older residents of the town, dramatised sections set in an imagined 1950’s community, improvised music and a bit of giggling and mucking about. In their words:
“We’ve been cutting and pasting and things. Basically our story is about two friends growing up in the 1950s in Buckfastleigh. It’s a very hearwarming tale of joy and friendship. And it’s sad and it’s lovely and you’ll love the people in it. You will laugh and you will cry and you will make new friends in this amazing world of Buckfastleigh. Come and visit us. We’re not a bit crazy.”

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Show 282: False beginner by Anna Raimondo

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Alors… the Italian as a field… hmmm… of roots. As a thread that ties your own life up, an engine of memories and hidden emotions.
The Italian language course as a game. Languages that run one after another, overlapping each other, recalling themselves in an attempted translation, just like Naples and Marsiglia soundscapes emerging from memoirs of Monique’s, Therese’s, Vivianne’s childhood. All of them are pensioner over sixty, living in Marseilles, with Italian origins. Also meet Flore, Danielle and Eliane that present themselves in the street with their translated names Fiore, Daniela and Eliana.
Immersion in a soup based on Italian, Neapolitan and French, where to find right gender concordance and how to get the right pronunciation.
The Italian class is not a psychoanalytic session.
Yet, speaking Italian gives form to a carnal relation with language, to the childhood memories of “le Panier” known as the “Petite Naples”, and of “la Cabucelle”, two districts in Marseilles that are “really like Italy”. A dream of Italy, warm, sunny and sublimated.
Defined sometimes as babi, spaghetti or ritals, French people with Italian roots are beginners, false beginners, or advanced….
“False beginner” is something like faked beginner, maybe the feeling we have when we speak a second language; maybe the society’s condition with migration’s phenomenon…
“False beginner” is a show based on binaural recordings in Naples’s Quartieri spagnoli and in Panier and Cabucelle districts, recordings in different Italian classes, interviews and dialogues in public spaces.

Specials

Special: Small Journeys, Long Distance by Lucinda Guy

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“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.”

Lucinda Guy, artist, composer and co-founder of Soundart Radio, has compiled a 37-minutes radio journey through last year’s Radia universe for Kunstradio, using extracts of the following productions:

·         Out of Space, War of the Worlds from Orange 94.0, Vienna

·         Our Domestic Radiation by Anna Friz for Free103point9, New York

·         Snow Squabbles by Neil Griffith, Cathy Inouye  Caroline Kunzle for Ckut, Montreal

·         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, Bruxelles

·         Stiller Marktschrei  by Stephan Roth from Orange 94.0, Vienna

·         Closing Down, by GilbertandGrape from Soundart Radio, Dartington

·         This Means War by Andrej  Ancevski for Kanal 103, Skopje

·         Fragments of Stratford Shopping Centre  by Martin Williams, for Resonance 104.4fm, London

·         The Forester And Me (Burning Ice) by Maarten Lauwaert and Joris Van Damme for XL Air

·         Rug Radio by Maria Papadomanolaki for Free103point9 New York

·         Flare: Real Energy World / Niger Delta By Eva Ursprung for Klubradio/Herbstradio Berlin

·         Why Don’t You Go Home? by Cathryn Morgan Richards for  Soundart Radio, Dartington

·         Awaiting for the Waters to Rise by Frederic Alstadt  for Radio Campus Brussels

·         Mayon Volcano  by Andreas Loeschner Gornau for Radio Corax, Halle

·         Playground: Art Games by Miss Gunst for Radio X, Frankfurt

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Show 202: Snow Squabbles

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CKUT’s Radia collective have gathered and distilled the essence of wintertime in Montreal – a far cry from the sugarshacks and Carnival bliss of the stereotypical Quebec winter wonderland.

Neil Griffith, Caroline Kunzle and Cathy Inouye locked themselves in a tiny overheated studio for four nights, incubated by the light of the city’s sodium vapour lamps…this is what transpired.

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Show 201: radiophonic first day by adrian shephard and rinus van alebeek

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you are cordially invited to join the first day of a whole week with 24hrs a day: radio on.
for about 28 minutes at least.
more soon.*
enjoy!

radio on with adrian shephard and rinus van alebeek.
discussions and opinions and bewonderments and bewilderments
on every question possible that doesn’t affect
our economical and philo-exitical state of mind and skin immediately,
but maybe yes.
no playlist, no preperation, no animal tests.
make radio not iq tests.

www.myspace.com/radio0n

* forthcoming in spring 2009:
radio on hours on radio x / GUNST & radiator x
more info & dates of transmission via www.gunst.info

metadata:
radiophonic first day
by radio on / adrian shephard and rinus van alebeek
production: miss.gunst / GUNST + radiator x
date: january 2009
station: radio x, frankfurt am main (germany)
duration: 28 min.
www.radiox.de/radiator-x – www.gunst.info