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Show 622: Radio Unbroken by Helen Hahmann and Gregory Whitehead (Radio Corax)

The Radio Corax Radia programme presents two radio pieces:

Jubeltöne celebrates the joy to listen deeply to the individual stories of musical instruments: their exultation, their memories and their profound protest. A piece for two zithers played by Helen Hahmann.

Radio Unbroken is a songspiel for Radio Revolten made by Helen Hahmann and Gregory Whitehead. The songspiel uses fragments from the manifestos collected at Radio Revolten, a month-long radio arts festival, which took place in Halle, Germany in October 2016.

Radio Unbroken is composed from three “songs”:
I     Lover in Revolt
II    The Future of Radio is Dirty
III   Radio Unbroken

Show 620: Put.Use.When.Can. by DinahBird (Campus Paris)

It is a cold and rainy December evening in Paris and we’re sitting in the studio at Radio Campus, just round the corner from the Place des Vosges. The French radio artist Julia Drouhin is over from Tasmania. We have just finished recording our monthly F-Air Play session, where the artist and composer Ocean Viva Silver set us some sticky questions and we replied as best we could with a selection of field recordings, a thumb piano, voices, a small record player and a melodica. We have 45 minutes left in the studio before the next programme, so we decide to leave the microphones open and to play along to the creaks and squeaks of the studio chair and the friendly buzz of the mixing desk. Never waste a good opportunity we say to ourselves, Put.Use.When.Can.

Produced by DinahBird  for Radio Campus Paris.

Show 619: Listening Through Walls by Lucreccia Quintanilla (Radio One 91 FM)

In 2014, through the Freedom of Information Act, a series of formerly unavailable files held by the Australia Security Organisation became available to the public. Melbourne-based artist Lucreccia Quintanilla became interested in working with certain of these files, in developing a commissioned work for If People Powered Radio: 40 years of 3CR, an exhibition commemorating the 40th anniversary of important Fitzroy-based community broadcaster 3CR radio station at Gertrude Contemporary gallery in Melbourne, Australia, which ran from 18 March–23 April, 2016.

Through presenting physical and material artefacts, “a combination of recordings, technological hardware, photographic and textual documents from the station’s vast historical archive,”alongside new works, performances and broadcasts by contemporary artists, the exhibition foregrounded “the station’s history of radical broadcasting and how it has thrived in its endeavour to foreground the often unheard voices of Aboriginal people, women, workers, ethnic and GLBTIQ communities, people with disabilities, environmentalists, artists and musicians”and “an opportunity to explore the politics of broadcasting and listening, and the different material and aesthetic supports that facilitate 3CR’s engagement with its diverse and progressive publics.”

The artist writes: “3CR is a grass roots community radio station which has had a very important and continues to play an important role in developing the left politics of Australia and gives a voice to many issues and communities that otherwise do not get airplay.” In developing the work, she found it particularly interesting that part of the archival material of the station included records of the ways in which it was put under surveillance by the very Government it was critiquing.

The initial work was presented as an installation within the gallery at Gertrude Contemporary, where it staged the dynamics of the secret, and spying. Focusing on a document detailing a meeting held in the Melbourne town hall in august 1977 organised by the Australian independence movement, attended by between 400 and 600 people, the sound of the recorded script being read was amplified through a set of very large speakers in a stack that were pointed towards a wall, but this sound could only be heard through the other side of the wall, by placing an ear to one of a set of glasses which had been permanently secured to the wall. This reworking for radio is a reading of the file as a script for two voices.

Lucreccia Quintanilla

is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and DJ. She is currently undertaking a PhD at Monash University. Her most recent exhibitions include Rhythmic Traces at Bus Projects,  If People Powered Radio celebrating the 40th anniversary of Community radio station 3CR at Gertrude Contemporary and Liquid Architecture’s Fem(X) series at Westspace. Quintanilla has received grants from Arts Victoria, the Australia Indonesia institute the National Gallery Women’s Encouragement Award and the Australian Postgraduate Award. Most recently she has been awarded the 2016 NAVA Sainsbury Sculpture grant. She has presented her work in Auckland, Chicago, New York, Berlin, Yogyakarta, Sydney and Melbourne where she is based. Quintanilla has worked as an arts worker at Arts Project Australia, has lectured at Auckland University of Technology and taught at Signal Arts as well as project managing the Multilingual international publication Mapping South. Her collaborative written work with artist/curator Leuli Eshrahi has most recently been published in peer-reviewed journal Writings From Below. She is currently a member of the selection committee at Westspace.

https://lucreccia-quintanilla.squarespace.com
http://www.3cr.org.au/news/if-people-powered-radio-40-years-3cr-gertrude-contemporary

Show 617: Code Name: Villa B by Christophe Havard & Fabrice Arnaud-Crémon (Jet FM)

(english below)

Nom de Code : Villa B par Christophe Havard & Fabrice Arnaud-Crémon pour Jet FM (Nantes, FR)

Composition pour dispositif électro-acoustique et clarinette, enregistrée en binaural pendant le festival Sonor le 15 octobre 2016 à Nantes.

La rencontre d’un espace et l’évidence d’une obsession.
L’espace est un bunker, situé à Saint Marc sur mer, dans lequel Christophe Havard a longtemps enregistré seul ou parfois accompagné, notamment du clarinettiste Fabrice Arnaud-Crémon. Il extraira de ce lieu les éléments sonores qui constituent le corps principal de la composition : des sons épais et harmoniques dus aux matériaux métalliques incrustés dans l’architecture, des jeux plus subtils d’espaces révélés par les effets de résonance, des évocations de présences humaines (respirations, déplacements, souffles, voix hésitantes,…).
“Quand j’enregistre dans un espace tel que celui-ci je le considère comme un personnage de fiction. Je le guette, il me hante, nous nous tournons autour. Ses sols et ses murs deviennent organiques, lentement je les lèche de mes oreilles: sans le son, que serait l’architecture, quelle notion aurions-nous des distances, des mouvements, des textures, de la densité de l’air ? D’où l’obsession, toujours la même. Vouloir baigner à l’intérieur d’un chant sonore qui caresse le corps. J’aime quand le son me touche, parfois avec effleurement et parfois avec force. Le son est à la fois une masse et un souffle sensuel. Ici, l’espace est révélé par un clarinettiste marcheur, écoutant et souffleur. Il nous montre le lieu, joue avec, l’accompagne, se laisse porter par lui et s’y perd. Et si ces espaces sonores se mettaient à jouer de nous, à créer un léger chaos, à devenir des miroirs déformants, des réalités improbables.” Christophe Havard.

Pour que l’expérience d’écoute soit enveloppante, en relief et sensible, le spectateur est plongé dans le même espace que celui des deux musiciens. Le clarinettiste est mobile, jouant à la fois sur les propriétés acoustiques de son instrument ou du lieu et sur les effets d’espace offerts par la captation et le traitement audio. L’électroacousticien créé un dialogue par le son instrumental qu’il place sur les différents points de diffusion et le mixage en live des phonographies.
Quelques lumières posées au sol et programmées selon les mouvements de la composition accentuent l’effet d’immersion en proposant une écoute dans une relative obscurité.

Christophe Havard
A la fois compositeur (musique électroacoustique et instrumentale), interprète, improvisateur et artiste sonore, il commence sa carrière comme saxophoniste de jazz et se dirige progressivement vers l’improvisation et l’expérimentation sonore. Depuis une quinzaine d’années il réalise des installations sonores et des pièces électroacoustiques et radiophoniques. Ses créations s’attachent à l’espace sonore, la qualité du timbre, la notion de mémoire et l’éclatement des frontières stylistiques.
Pour lui, le contact du son sur le corps est fondamental, que ce soit dans une démarche sensuelle et délicate (souffle, voix, déplacement ou jeux d’espace, nuances, …) ou massive voire brutale (puissance, mise en vibration de matériau, épaisseur du spectre sonore, détonations, …).

Fabrice Arnaud-Crémon
Clarinettiste depuis l’âge de huit ans, Fabrice Arnaud-Crémon a notamment été l’élève de Michel Arrignon et d’Alain Damiens à Paris. Il s’intéresse à toute la richesse des pratiques liées à son instrument, que ce soit à travers le répertoire (Mozart, Weber, Brahms, Debussy, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Boulez, etc.), les transcriptions (celles de Julien Opic, de Sylvain Blassel ou de
Gérard Chenuet), ou encore la création contemporaine (œuvres de Philippe Boivin, Nicolas Frize, Julien Opic, Sylvain Kassap, Christophe Havard, Arturo Gervasoni, Benoît Granier, Jérôme Joy, Christian Wolff, Keith Rowe, François Rossé…).
Sa curiosité artistique l’amène à se produire dans des contextes très variés et parfois insolites, qui privilégient souvent le jeu en petite formation ou en soliste.

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Radia Show 617
Code Name : Villa B by Christophe Havard & Fabrice Arnaud-Crémon for Jet FM (Nantes, FR)

A composition for clarinets and electroacoustic devices, recorded with the binaural technology during the Sonor festival in Nantes, on October the 15th 2016.

The encounter of a space and an obsession!
The space is a bunker from Saint-Marc sur Mer, inside which Christophe Havard has started to record the sound alone or with the clarinet player Fabrice Arnaud-Crémon. He collected in these huge rooms the sound materials for his composition : some thick harmonics generated from iron structures, the clarinet with some strange reverb effects, some subtle motions of footsteps, voices and breath,…
When I record sounds in such a place, I consider its empty spaces as fictional characters! First, I gaze at them till I can feel them in my whole body. Gradually, the floors and the walls become like an organic structure that I slowly catch with my ears… I am convinced that, without the sound waves, the architecture would not exist: how could we feel the distances, the motions, the textures and maybe even the air density? Then, here comes my obsession, always the same: the desire to go through a sound which caresses my body. I feel so good when the sound affects me with delicacy or sometimes with a strong strength. I want so much to share this sensation with the audience. In this composition, the empty spaces also exist because one day, inside it, the clarinet player walked, breathed, played all kind of strange games and he ended up losing himself. And now, on stage, the games carry on and become unlikely realities and sound distorting mirrors.” Christophe Havard

In order to have a good experience of listening, with a surround space, some relief and more sensibility, the audience is set up on the same stage (or the same place) than the 2 musicians. The clarinet player often moves from one point of the stage to another. Thus he can play with the acoustic features of his instrument in interaction with the room. The electroacoustic player creates a relationship with the music of the clarinet, which he sends on different speakers, and the phonography mixed in live.
Some lights controlled by the Max / MSP program are placed on the floor. According to the movements of the composition, these lights provide a deeper sensation for listening to the music.

Christophe Havard
Composer (of electroacoustic and instrumental music), performer, improviser and sound artist, he began his career as a jazz saxophonist and progressively moved towards improvisation and sound experimentation. For fifteen years or so, he has been creating sound installations and electroacoustic and radiophonic pieces. He has been the guest at sound field residencies.
On stage or in his sound installations and compositions, we can find in Christophe Havard’s creations an interest for sound surroundings, the quality of timbre, the notion of memory and the opening up of stylistic forms.

Fabrice Arnaud-Crémon has been playing the clarinet since the age of eight. He studied notably with Michel Arrignon and Alain Damiens in Paris.
He is interested in all the possibilities of his instrument going through a large range of original repertory (Mozart, Weber, Brahms, Debussy, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Boulez, etc.) and transcriptions (Julien Opic, Sylvain Blassel, Gérard Chenuet). He often takes part to contemporary music (Philippe
Boivin, Nicolas Frize, Julien Opic, Sylvain Kassap, Christophe Havard, Arturo Gervasoni, Benoît Granier, Jérôme Joy, Christian Wolff, Keith Rowe, François Rossé…).
His artistic curiosity brings him into unusual contexts where he is used to playing chamber music or as a solist.

Show 616: Rural Futurism: sonic escapade in the heart of Liminaria (Radio Papesse)

Liminaria is a research field project set to create cultural, social and economic sustainable networks in the Fortore Area, a micro region in the province of Benevento, Italy.

At Liminaria, artists and researchers are invited to work together with local communities in building “actions” within the territory; and “actions” is what Maurizio Chiantone, Fernando Godoy, Miguel Isaza and David Velez set in place during their residency in Summer 2016.

Rural Futurism is an open ear towards their encounters in Fortore: field recordings, candid conversations, manipulated sounds, voices and noises from the villages of Ginestra and Montefalcone.
Performances, concerts and wind all merge into a 28 minutes voyage between past and present; old traditions are renewed into public performances and artists David Velez and Fernando Godoy question themselves on the importance of giving back to the local communities that have welcomed them, meanwhile a 84 years old woman recounts her history and the villages transformation.

The last part of the show takes us in the middle of the joyous cacophony that has been an itinerant bell-concert devised by David Velez and Fernando Godoy which saw the participation of the whole community of Montefalcone.
From the children to the elderly people, dozens crossed the village streets and made the them resonate once again with the rural sounds of animal bells and traditional instruments; a procession guided by the sounds of the village church-bells and a single horse-rider, a girl whom, like a modern Don Quixote, defies the present and looks at the future.

liminaria.org
radiopapesse.org

Show 615: radioraum (radio space) by OPCION and Max Höfler (Radio Helsinki)

What is this space between the sender and the receiver? How does this space sound like? Is it possible to bring the sound of this special space to life? Within the framework of a live show at Radio Helsinki OPCION and Max Höfler explored these questions: They build up and manipulated a feedback loop in between the radio station and the radio receiver so that this intermediate space could get available for acoustic experience.

http://opcion.mur.at/
http://max.hoefler.mur.at/

Show 614: NaEE RoBErts (Radio Nova)

NaEE RoBErts is one of Norwegian visual artist Sandra Mujinga’s audiovisual projects. Mujinga has performed as NaEE RoBErts in both music and art contexts internationally. The materials presented are from “Summer Care”, which is NaEE RoBErts first casette release.

Photo Credit: Hanni Kamaly

www.sandramujinga.com

Show 613: Trajectory by Milo Thesiger-Meacham (Resonance FM)


In this piece, ‘Trajectory’, devised by Milo Thesiger-Meacham, he and Patryk Gierczak very simply explore miscommunication. Recorded simultaneously in two separate studios, without any communication or forethought, this experiment relied only on the musicians being able to hear each other’s sounds. Produced by Milo Thesiger-Meacham, in association with Resonance FM. Painting by Milo Thesiger-Meacham. Engineered by George Rayner-Law.

Show 612: Life Fragments in 11 Movements by Jared Sagar (Kanal 103)

Concept:

Each movement is a moment, a place in separate time. All the sequences have been placed together in order when they were first originally recorded. These sounds are all found in our world. Some natural, some man-made.
They are mostly, apart from one or two, all field recordings, everyday sounds of the forgotten, music that we choose to ignore or music that just passes through and hides within our subconscious.
I have altered these recordings and given them a new life, new breath.

Mixed and Mastered in my kitchen on a Monday morning.
Jared Sagar

Bio:

Jared Sagar is a composer from the United Kingdom. He specialises mostly in the experimental genre mixing drone/ambient/minimalism and abstraction together. His works feature field recordings as the basis to the sound, then he manipulates these recordings to give life to something new, something different and fresh.
Jared has released works on several labels including Sonospace, Phonographiq, Post Global Recordings and Petroglyph.

soundcloud.com/jaredsagar
discogs.com/jaredsagar