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Show 190: Black Water Brown Water by David Prior
Black Water Brown Water is an evolving sound piece, originally commissioned as a sound walk for the Stourport canal basins in Worcestershire, UK. The basins form an intersection between the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal and the river Severn and the piece is really about the relationship between these two water systems.
My ‘way in’ was the experience of standing on a lock-gate that separates the canal and the river and on one side there was this chaotic, gushing, brown water and on the other, the water was controlled, black and serene. Black Water Brown Water. The piece is based on an imagined dialogue between the great canal engineer James Brindley and Sabrina, Goddess of the river Severn – but in a way it is a dialogue between the two water systems themselves with these two characters giving voice to the myths that represent them.
The language of the work draws heavily on John Milton¹s Comus and to a lesser extent Michael Drayton¹s Poly Olbion, both of which make reference to Sabrina. Additionally, I¹ve taken a lot from the biography of James Brindley – both real and imagined.
In the original walk, visitors pick up an mp3 player and listen to the piece on a small, man-made island that sits between these water systems. This version though has been re-edited specifically for RADIA.
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In Black Water Brown Water, the readers were John Hall as James Brindley and Ella Turk-Richards as Sabrina.
The Pieces was commissioned by British Waterways with funds from the Arts Council of England, Arts & Business new partners, Advantage West Midlands, Wyre Forest District Council, Heritage Lottery Fund and Stourport Forward.
Black Water Brown Water was created by David Prior for liminal and this radio mix comes from Sound Art Radio, Dartington.
For more information on liminal, please go to www.liminal.org.uk
Show 189: Bloody Manaus by Pali Meursault
At the beginning of winter 2007-2008, Pali Meursault spent 15 days in Mamori Lake with other sound artists from all around the world in the frame of Mamori Art Lab. Then he spent a week in Manaus and made field-recordings for a radio project. The final shape of the piece was not predetermined: a material started to exist from his drifts through the city, through the people he met. When Radio Grenouille invited him to make a Radia show, this gave him a frame.
So Bloody Manaus is at the same time a travel diary, the recomposition of a soundscape and an immersion into this singular city. It’s also a subjective and inevitably superficial point of view, something between sociological amazement and musical fascination for a deafening city.
Pali Meursault is a sound artist who lives and works in Grenoble, France. His works are published on Universinternational in France, Entr’acte in Great Britain and And/oar in the USA. He regularly collaborates with the artists collective Ici-Même.
Show 188: It’s a Money Party – a global youtube election redux
It’s a Money Party – a global youtube election redux, brought to you by Berlin Backyard Radio. Featuring excerpts from youtube remixed news and comedy, presented by the circus runaways.
The circus runaways left Manchester to follow the circus and got stuck somewhere in the midwestern American state of Ohio. This is a youtube mashup of the most popular videos generated around that global media circus called the American Presidential election. Guests include Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, comedians and journalists. Of course, some comments made it into the mix. As the election is nearing an end, this is a little slice of the cacophony of media that made its way onto your only global video sharing site. One day, the runaways hope to make it home to Europe.
Show 187: Les Forteresses du ciel
Les Forteresses du ciel (un hommage) salue Alain Robbe-Grillet.
Une improvisation noisy, un opéra mystérieux, une histoire tragique.
Une pièce enregistrée en studio à CKUT 90.3FM à l’été 2008 à Montréal, Québec.
avec
Léon Lo (violon), Isaiah Ceccarelli (percussion),
Esther b.(tourne-disques), Simon Laperrière (voix), Erin Sexton
(électronique) Montréal, et
Mark Vernon (électronique), Glassgow
à la technique: Dominique Ferraton
Show 186: autophones rlxtended by michael gambacurta and matthias s. krueger
autophones (radio concert – rlxtended)
an autophone produces sounds on its own.
the canadian percussionist michael gambacurta discovered an autophone when he was jogging over the kaiserlei bridge between frankfurt and offenbach. traffic noises transformed into music in his ears: vehicles rolling over the bridge, as well as wind and weathers made the metal strings vibrate and sing.
with contact microphones gambacurta collected the sounds, some during the days, others during the nights.
together with the composer matthias s. krüger he coverted the collected sounds into a work of sound art.
based upon the composition, together with yuki higashino he created an audio-visual installation presented from september 19th to september 21st, 2008, in the framework of festival junger talente at hafen offenbach, vis à vis kaiserlei bridge.
while listening to an audio-loop version of the original autophones concert via headphones visitors could either watch the bridge with its continuous flow of traffic through a telescope or a video documentation of the development of the piece.
at the same time in cooperation with radio x/GUNST autophones had been extended into radiophonic space.
from september 15th onwards, excerpts of the recordings were broadcasted during the daily radio program. thus motorists were able to listen to themselves taking part in the autophone’s ongoing concert.
on september 19th GUNSTradio presented the full lenght (auto)radio concert and introduced the two composers together with their work.
for the radia lx festival (september 20th to 28th, 2008) michael gambacurta and matthias s. krüger created an extended version of the radio concert: autophones (radio concert – rlxtended).
metadata:
autophones (radio concert – rlxtended)
by michael gambacurta and matthias s. krüger
production: miss.gunst / GUNST + radiator x
date: september 2008
station: radio x, frankfurt am main (germany)
length: 28 min.
www.radiox.de – www.gunst.info
additional info:
includes radia jingles (in/out), station and program info/intro/outro (english)
please note the composer matthias s. krüger is a member of GEMA.
therefore its not possible to publish this show under a free licence.
thank you for your kind understanding.
Show 185: RANDALUCIA
RANDALUCIA ARE
RUPERT HUBER: composer and musician, lives in Vienna
piano, electronics, laptop
MLPHILIPPSEN: works in performing arts, lives in Berlin
voice, electronics, rattle
This concert was performed in Bratislava due to the next winter dedicaded to Saint Lucy and all the celebrations of the Midwinter.
MLPhilippsen celebrates weekly show with Ralf Wendt: RadioErevan on Radio CORAX
Show 184: Radio Action III
This 28-minute program for the Radia network profiles free103point9’s recent “Radio Action III” project. “Radio Action III” is a special program for Radio Web MACBA and a free103point9 Audio Dispatch CD. RWM is a radio-phonic project on the MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona) website that explores the possibilities of the internet and radio as spaces of synthesis and exhibition. Radio Action III features five-minute sounds works conceptually tied to ‘Radio’ as instrument or theme, composed by free103point9 Transmission Artists working in collaborative teams. This program features tracks from The Dust Dive and Latitude/Longitude; Tom Roe and Scanner; Joshua Fried and Todd Merrell; neuroTransmitter; and 31 Down and Matt Bua.
Radia is hosted by rotating members of Radia Network including free103point9 (NYC) and Radio Campus, Radio Grenouille, Kanal 103, Lemurie TAZ, Orange 94.0, Resonance FM, Tilos Radio, Radio Zero, Radio Panik, bootlab, InterSpace, and Orf Kunstradio. Airs Thursdays on free103point9 Online Radio, 2-2:30 p.m. (ET, -4 GMT). http://www.radia.fm.
Show 183: fantasia en echo | they also serve who only stand and wait by Gina Mattiello und Pia Palme
“fantasia en echo | they also serve who only stand and wait”
contributed by Gina Mattiello und Pia Palme
based on a performance at
ViennArt, 11-12 Oct, MUSEUM AUF ABRUF (MUSA)
/Pia Palme – Feedbacktubes, electronics, Yoshie Maruoka – Performance, Gina Mattiello – Voice./
“fantasia en echo | they also serve who only stand and wait”
Homage to Jacob van Eyck (ca. 1589 – 1657)
Jacob van Eyck was a remarkable composer of the florishing early baroque period in the Netherlands: born blind, of noble family, educated in music, he turned into a renowned organist, recorder-player, composer and carilloneur. He was famous for his ability to tune bells and carillons. Pia Palme, composing and playing modern recorders, uses contemporary means for her homage to her famous predecessor. A subbass-recorder without its headpiece is used to create sound by means of finely balanced inner microfones and feedback-techniques; sounds which remind of bells, including very deep basses. For the composition Palme plays and processes themes from Eyck’s recorder-pieces by means of electronics.
Texts by John Milton ((1608 – 1674), who turned blind in the course of his life, add another dimension. The title is a quotation from Milton’s poem: “On his Blindness”, describing the author’s willingness to just stand and wait instead of acting.
Palme has studied music and mathematics in Vienna and improvisation at the Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. As a composer/interpreter she combines subbassrecorders (newly developed by the Swiss manufacturer Kueng) and electronics in a unique way, performing solo as well as in various ensembles, such as the trio “Subitized”.
http://www.piapalme.at
http://www.myspace.com/ginamattiellovoice
http://www.eop.at
http://www.musa.at
Show 182: Rumors of the green room staircase by Vincent Matyn-Wallecan
Rumors of the green room staircase: a musical ready-made.
There is a house in Schaerbeek, Brussels. There was the possibility to produce a sound install. In the house is a grand piano. I recorded each single note of the piano, each note separately, holding my finger on the key until the note truly died. Stereo microphones were placed inside the body of the grand piano, and as the notes died out they captured also the growing sounds all around: city life, people working upstairs and myself moving around.
Each note and its subsequent sound environnement became a file, each note/file was distributed along six tracks,and so their order was decided by this limitation and the particular lenght of each note. The composition was made by itself, some kind of musical ready made. There are no effects, the only manipulations made are the removal of the attack of each note, and some reorganisation of the distribution of the notes.
The composition is at times blissfull and at other times it’s gloomy, but I didn’t decide that.
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vincent Matyn-Wallecan
For Radia members, this program is available on the radiozero ftp (radia folder)