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Show 764: Space – We – Space. A binaural SoundWalk Composition (Radio Corax)

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Space – We – Space. A binaural SoundWalk Composition

The city is music. Daily sounds become extraordinary by a shift in perspective. Just get a little bit closer. Objects speaking. Resonance is anywhere. Listen. Let go. Drift. And find a wonderful, creepy, and ensouled world in the hidden sounds.

This binaural field recording composition is based on a sound walk by Geräuschkulisse that took place on November 10, 2019, during Seanaps Festival for transdisciplinary music in Leipzig. The workshop explored the daily and hidden sounds of a post-industrial area close to an old train station that is now frequented for free-time activities. The composition is the result of a live on air experiment in the temporary online radio station of the festival. While Lena Löhr and Martina Weber were leading the 15 participants of the sound walk, Carina Pesch was wandering around as a microphone on two legs. Via streaming box she sent her collected sound treasures live to the studio where JD Zazie was sitting, modulating and composing in real time before airing the live composition. The original was a two hours radio show. The recordings were done using a set of binaural mics and a contact mic. All edited to half an hour of intensive listening, best with headphones.

Credits:
Sound walk composition: Carina Pesch
Workshop led by Lena Löhr & Martina Weber
Live sound recordings: Carina Pesch
Other sound recordings: JD Zazie, Carina Pesch
Live composition: JD Zazie
Postproduction & composition: Carina Pesch
Production management: Tina Klatte / Radio CORAX
Photo: Leon Seidel
Production: GERÄUSCHKULISSE & Seanaps 2019

Long version: https://soundcloud.com/der-textbote/space-we-space-a-binaural-soundwalk-composition

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Show 749: Magic Sound Box (CKUT)

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sound boxers brought beautiful sonic creations to the ears of many listeners. Sound artists:  Alanna McNevin, Alejandro Saravia, Antonella l.c. Giordano, Britt Wray, Courtney Kirkby, Dominique Ferraton, Elena Stoodley, Eugenie Brin, Jasmine Wilson, Jason Levine, Karen Robins, Marc Messier-Peet, Moe Clark, Miss Lamb, Neil Griffith, Nicolas Vigneau, Rae Dooley

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Show 737: No Ravens Left for the Funeral by André Damião (for Radio CORAX)

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“No Ravens Left for the Funeral” discusses the juxtaposition of different forms of sound definition mediated by instrumental improvisation with prepared electronic guitar, self-built circuits and other electronic instruments.

André Damião works transversally between the fields of music and electronic art. He graduated in Composition at the State University of São paulo (UNESP), and holds a PhD in Sonology at the University of São Paulo (USP). Currently he is a fellow of the Radio Art Residency at Radio CORAX in Halle (Saale), which is awarded in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut and supported by the Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt. (radioart-residency.net)

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Show 723: The Dirty Dozen (Radio ARA)

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Collage by Guy Anthony

The Dirty Dozen

This is the first Radia contribution out of Luxembourg. A dozen people got together to discover new ways of recording and radio making, thrilled by the infinite possibilities of radio art and wildly making use of any recording device they found.

Intentionally focusing on sounds, noises and voices that usually just form the background of recordings – or are not recorded at all. Distracting reverbs, deformed languages, distortions and alien sound worlds have been surrounding us and have now been captured for Radia. Plunge into these soundscapes and enjoy the variety of discoveries we have made.

Special thanks go to Mobile Radio for holding a two-day introduction workshop, of which this show is the result, organised by CNA (Centre national de l’audiovisuel) and Radio ARA, the free radio in Luxembourg.

Produced by Wendy Winn, Ben Dratwicki, Jamie Reinert, Claire Thill, Sandra Laborier, Lars Schmitz, Véronique Faber, Justin Jacquot, Guy Anthony, Monique Hoffmann, Luca Piparo and Isabel Scott with support from Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann. Made with additional recordings by CNA audio archive and SoundBible.com (Daniel Simon).

Photo by Wendy Winn
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Show 716: Identifying as Anonymous: Public Speech In the Anonymous Age (Rip) by marimoriko (reboot.fm)

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Since the dawn of radio, the medium has been used by musicians and artists alike as a material to work with and to subvert conventional formats. The radio is still very much fertile ground for sonic experimentation in the digital age. Through a scripted conversation taken from found material online, Harry, Rosie, Veena, Fiona and Tess discuss the endless possibilities of public speech and identity in the anonymous age.

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Show 696: Cold Cuts by bauhaus.fm (guest producer)

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During the shortest night of 2018, ten students from bauhaus.fm set out to make slow radio from various locations in the city of Weimar in Germany. The recordings of these six hours are chopped up and recombined for Radia, using Dieb13’s software ‘Schnitzel’. Laura Dang and Lefteris Krysalis interlaced a random Schnitzel cut with a more musical one. The outcome of this process is called “Cold Cuts”.

Produced by Dieb13, Laura Dang and Lefteris Krysalis.
Idea by Knut Aufermann.
Original image by Patty Ventura, edited by Laura Dang and Lefteris Krysalis.

Participants of the Slow Radio Show for bauhaus.fm: Julius Baars, Konrad Behr, Laura Dang, Jan Glöckner, Lefteris Krysalis, Grit Lieder, Johann Mittmann, Janine Müller, Severin Schenkel, Anton Worch, Knut Aufermann & Martin Hirsch