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show 1018 Worm Tracks by Richard Scott for Radio Worm

 

 

The first electronic music I ever played as a teenager was on a Hammond organ. The drum machine and rhythm generators in particular fascinated me; simplistic devices but somehow very creative, and something in the sound was strangely compelling. I heard Lee Scratch Perry, Sly and the Family Stone, Cabaret Voltaire and Suicide do some remarkably enduring music with such drum boxes, which of course later went on to become a basic element of electronic dance music in general. With this piece I revisit some of these dusty old machines and also some of the other vintage instruments in the studio at Worm, plus my modular synthesiser and sampler, instruments from Rob Hordijk and some occasional blasts of modulated radio.


Richard Scott is a Berlin-based creator and performer of forward-leaning electronic and electroacoustic music. Once a saxophonist focused on free jazz and group improvisation, for the past two decades he has been working intensely with a variety of technologies, methods and musical forms. In recent years he has concentrated his energies on creative composition, improvisation and production, with a particular emphasis on analogue modular synthesisers; including those remarkable instruments created by Don Buchla, EMS, Serge Tcherepnin, Émilie Gillet and Rob Hordijk.


https://www.richard-scott.net/
Recorded and composed in the Worm/Klangendum Studio, Rotterdam, July 2024, a Worm/Klangendum/Concertzender production.

show 1018 Worm Tracks by Richard Scott for Radio Worm : Radio Worm, Richard Scott : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Show 994: underneath the rubble my hand became a will (radioworm)

A new radiopiece made by Palestinian soundartist Dirar Kalash in the Worm studio, february/march 2024
“underneath the rubble my hand became a will”
 a description:

This piece is made up entirely from sounds collected from Palestine, and is composed from different field recordings : protests, nature, markets, city streets, and from different locations across Palestine.
Those sounds were then heavily processed and composed, as an analogical approach to the political realities of Palestine, and the spatial and temporal transformation of both the land and the people –their movements, their lives, and their deaths.

Dirar Kalash (b. 1982) is a musician and sound artist whose work spans a wide range of musical and sonic practices within a variety of instrumental, compositional and improvisational contexts. Kalash also extends his practice into inter-disciplinary theoretical research. He has produced several solo and collaborative music albums and is active as an improvising musician.

Show 970: Much (scored out) love, A. / Excerpt (radioworm)

In her performances, Antrianna Moutoula, repeats the same format: a table, a laptop, a projector, and a woman who talks and writes nonstop. In Much (scored out) love, A. her starting point is a series of letters from her family archive, the correspondence of two Greek women with their partners in exile, between 1958 and 1971. The result is an overload of words, thoughts, quotes, memories, transcriptions, and citations, all seeking their own linearity. The performance was developed during Moutoula’s residency in the Creative Lab of CCA Glasgow, a partnership between radio WORM and Radiophrenia Glasgow. This is a 28′ excerpt from the live-to-air performance during Radiophrenia in August 2023.

Antrianna Moutoula (GR, 1994) lives and works in Amsterdam. Primarily language-based her work spans performance, film, radio, and writing. Driven by the desire to articulate the continuous present, her ongoing research focuses on nonstop languaging, an autotheoretical practice in which she performs streams of consciousness by tracing her thoughts through language simultaneously in spoken and written form. By engaging with this practice in various contexts, she aims to contribute to a renegotiation of the confinements of knowledge production within artistic academic discourse. Always seeking ephemeral encounters with necessary others, she explores nonstop languaging as a biweekly radio performance at Radio WORM. Moutoula’s practice is currently supported by the Artist Start Grant of the Mondriaan Fonds (NL).

Website: antriannamoutoula.com

 

 

Show 944: My Complex Me And Brain (for Radio Worm)

A new WORM production by Lieuwe Zelle

made for Worm/Klangendum/Concertzender/RadiaFM, april 2023

Name: Lieuwe Anthonie Zelle
06-03-1956 The Hague
they/them

Original a toy salesman working in a toyshop technical toys like model-railroad trains and stuff and plastic
model kits and so on. In that time you had to have a diploma to sell toys or to be a shop-manger.
Besides that I played drums in a´Hard Rock band’. Later-on in life I found that playing music an working in a toyshop was not enough to support my family.
Due to my family history -I am related to Mata Hari whose real name was Margaretha Geertruida Zelle (Leeuwarden, 7 augustus 1876 – Vincennes, 15 oktober 1917) sometimes I would be her or even have a relation with her across time and gender.

Mata Hari

Myth:
history.
But even if the truth is historically justified with facts and documents, the myth is stronger than the truth/facts. In a number of cases the myth changes to divine status, hero stories about the saints of the Roman Catholic Church and even Greek and Roman mythology.
Or even closer stories in the time of which the real facts are difficult to find out, such as a story from the family about Red Devil, an inland shipping flat-bottomed skipper from the early 1800s or so. But also a book that has largely determined our European and Dutch society, the Bible is not good at determining what histories are correct or where it is more a testimony of faith and society from the time of the writers.
Let’s now talk about my great-great-aunt and great-uncle, each of whom has achieved some fame. And with some narcissistic pleasure also myself your undersigned writer to introduce you, because if you don’t imagine yourself, you’re nothing.

Margreet Zelle ls daughter of Adam Zelle was already a free-spirited young lady/girl in her youth, the favorite of her father who, by the way, was not devoid of any kind of exaggeration in who and what he was. A fairly successful businessman and seller of hats and caps from his shop in Leeuwarden. But business failures ensure that dad goes bankrupt and Margreet is referred to looking for a husband, as it were.
Hum yes you can see the rest of the story in the movie Mata Hari The naked spy or read the book about the history of Mata Hari.

As I want to be.
I am Mata Hari eye of the day.
I am light let disappear the darkness yes your light of day woman nor man I am goddess and god at the same time beauty and inspiration I am Mata Hari,
Goddess and God I am man and woman and give you light, light of the world through the world.
As a few in time and eternity I descend and give my light, wisdom, and blinded you with beauty to all who are worthy of my temptation in money and power but I remain light and the darkness behind me and before me.
Paris :
I was posing for a famous artist in Paris frivolously yet virtuous when the Director of the Opera came in and invited me to present myself in a new production as a young virtuous lady as a kind of introduction. Since I still had good hopes of obtaining custody of my daughter back in Holland, I have to decline the offer, a virtuous life is necessary for custody.
Rotterdam 1904
I am now at the Tivoli as there are no rehearsals so I have a moment to discuss a few
things with you my dear second cousin. You are my voice you are my body my survival on stage in front of the audience.
Rotterdam 2019
Dear Aunt, it is a lot that you ask me, but may I be with many my Aunt my Aunt Margreet.
Parijs
Played or better I danced tonight at Musée Guim for the first time to general amazement
only a few who looked and really saw. Yes my dear be with many my voice my body my name.
Rotterdam 2019.
We are Mata Hari we are the eye we are Margreet Zelle.
Now Listen to my sound and music or what I call a sound-experience.

Rotterdam 10-04-2023
Lieuwe Zelle they/them

Show 918: Shadowside Of Sound (Worm)

SHADOWSIDE OF SOUND

A radiopiece by Coolhaven

SHADOWSIDE OF SOUND is an ongoing project, dedicated to works by Rotterdam composers, known and unknown, who have fallen into oblivion. Progressive or conservative. Fairly or unfairly; that will determine history. As you know, there are various points of view regarding whether or not acceptance is there. In general, it can be assumed that the circuit must have the power to handle the work. The other view is a chimera of the one who gives himself a stunning victory before playing time is up.

In this radiopiece, especially constructed for the Radia Network, we focus on Julie Bruins Rampart. Coolhaven was already deeply involved in her work when they discovered the existence of her twins, Sybille and Plasma, who never really ‘met ‘her mother (after they were born that is) and were raised in Devon, UK. Coolhaven went there to interview the twins. The radiopiece exists of the interview and some of Rampart’s re-interpreted works by Coolhaven.

Julie Bruins Rampart (1922-2005) In her free evening hours, Julie Bruins Rampart composed lustily. Initially, her favorite instrument was the great Baroque flute. We see this instrument in most of her compositions. This changed later when she discovered the possibilities of the electric guitar-sound.Sometimes solo, but often in combination with other instrumentation. What makes Bruins Rampart’s work attractive are the often complex gesticular additions that her works contain. She often stages the performers in a tableau vivant and does not shy away from acting unorthodox. Her work was dismissed as amateurish, a-musical and immoral. Bruins Rampart was active in the VSSM (Study Group Sadomasochism Association) in Rotterdam. The VSSM regularly organizes game meetings. Bruins Rampart strived for inclusiveness. Her series of compositions seem to be based on various agreements and putting them into practice; the so-called “play”. In that sense, her works could be interpreted as politically emancipatory erotic pamphlets. Bruins Rampart came from the PvdA circles that believed in the makeable world at the time. Moralistic, socially critical and also formative.

Credits;

Interviewers; Coolhaven

Sybille & Plasma Guy ; Lucinda & Catherine

interview recorded by Soundart Radio, thanks to Chris Booth.

Music; Julie Bruins Rampart, played by Coolhaven

This is a Worm/Klangendum production

Show 917: WurM IN WorM (Worm)

Three crawlers decided to meet at one point a little bit longer. With Worm as their temporary residence, a continuous cycle took place where sounds
were made, regurgitated and eventually brought to the surface.

Hessel Veldman (NL), Kamilė Rimkutė (LT) and Ruben Verkuylen (NL) differ widely in their musical practices and experiences, but find kinship in
their appreciation of sound as soil for life. At the end of their sojourn, they performed their collection of sounds at Worm and showed their Wurm.

In this production at WORM they found the worm (“wurm’) inside the building, the organisation, in space, in the city, in the universe, in their afterlife, underground and in their friends. During the production days they build short and long fragments of soundbites, by creating several improvisation-settings and used real-time recording for building a sound archive. They mangled and cleaned up the recording results and modulated and arranged them during the final presentation on Sunday May 29 in WORM, Rotterdam; live and for Radio WORM.
Check: https://worm.org

Composers/musicians in residence:
Kamilė Rimkutė
Ruben Verkuylen
Hessel Veldman

Contributing composers/musicians:
Tisa Neza Herlec
Hugo Lioret
Puck Schot / Acidic Male
Thomas Dudckewicz
Marianna Muruyama

Sound Bites by Saskia McCracken from her short story Sister/Worm.

Also an unknown/unpublished track by Enno Velthuys is wrapped in the WurM.

Hessel Veldman (Y Create, Forbidden Photographs, FNTC). Hessel is a composer, musician and radio-producer in the electro-acoustic field.
Watch: Y Create Forbidden Photographs @ Headroom, OT301.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v1-WumW89o&t=1154s

Ruben Verkuylen Ruben is devoted to sound through a mixed practice of DJ’ing, producing and running two music labels (BAKK and Rubber). Ruben is also an independent graphic designer in the creative industry and co-runs cinema platform WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get).

Kamile Rimkute aka Caline With C. Kamile graduated from Master’s degree in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, where she created interactive sound installations and did mixing classes, but most of the things she learned through working with sound in her own studio. She does live sound for electronic bands/artists occasionally. And she also does mastering (cd, vinyl, cassette) work.
Watch: Caline with C live for Pinkman District.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btyvGf26PPU

Show 0895: GASP by Christian Rønn & Helena Berglund (Radio WORM)

A rendition of what happens when you spend 6 days in Ton studio Worm while the world is burning with war, post-pandemic dystopia nightmares, weird santa´s and the bubbling spring-time vibes of Rotterdam. The piece is an attempt to combine Christian Rønn´s freeform playing-practice on keyboard-instruments (Piano, Church Organ, Rhodes & Würlitzer in combination with electronics) with Helena Berglund´s evocative performance-poetry. The duo releases music under the name “MäRK”, and while working on this piece in Ton Studio Worm, they used a “one-take-Dogma” which involved minimal editing and post-editing, partly to separate this work from their previous releases, which are all intensively edited studio-productions.

https://www.christianronn.dk
https://bit.ly/36jva0Y (Rønn´s music on Soundcloud)
https://bit.ly/3IaFuWk (MäRK on Bandcamp)
https://spoti.fi/3q2z2uG (MäRK on SPotify)

Show 893: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena by Barry Whittaker (RadioWORM)

Barry Whittaker

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (2022)

Humans have a history of hurling objects into space. Rockets, satellites, animals, humans, plants, and insects have all graced the skies above the earth. Beyond the occasional launch event where objects are lobbed into the air, signals are constantly beamed into space. Messages, images, and sounds are spread across the electromagnetic spectrum, radiating outward to infinity. A gold-plated record and a Tesla with David Bowie’s “A Space Oddity” also float through the void, waiting for an audience. Who, or what, will be first to listen to our noises, and what will they hear?  This project imagines the interstellar journey of the sonic time capsules carried by objects and waves as they float across the vastness of space.    

Credits: 

Barry Whittaker — field recordings, synthesizers, electric guitar, bass guitar, drum machines, percussion, text

Yuka Ueda — voice

Public domain recordings sampled: 

Laughing Song (Especialidad de Risas) (Especialidade de Risos)Henry Klausen

My South Polar ExpeditionSpoken by: Lt. Ernest H. Shackleton

I am the Edison PhonographSpoken by: Thomas A. Edison

The Serenade Herbert, Victor

Nasa Apollo 11 Recordings

Produced April 2022 while in residence at WORM/Klangendum Studio.

Bio:

Barry Whittaker is a multi-media artist, designer, musician, and Associate Professor of Art at the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, USA. 

Website:

http://barrywhittaker.com

 

Show 869: Jacco Weener Speaks by Radioworm

 

This piece is inspired by recollections and vague remembrances of rock and roll music from my childhood. This childhood was in The Hague (The Netherlands), the city that is the centre of many things. In many aspects it was the centre of European occult sciences (See Fredrick V of the Palatinate who took refuge in The Hague after being ousted as the king of Bohemia, also the influence of huguenots), but also the birthplace of “Indo-rock”, one of the first Dutch rock and roll phenomenon influenced by Indonesian culture combined with Martial sounds from USA military bases.
It is a mental puzzle piece of the idea of rock and roll, not reality, and then performed in stream. To amplify the working class mysticism element of it and the idea of the ritual as pure entertainment. From a love of outsider rnr music. I believe many things that are considered hidden are now actually present, but in a different way. In many ways considered low-culture. Squats and brothels, the afromented rock and roll music, evangelical preachers. They are now the spiritual reality

all sounds by Jacco Weener

produced by radioworm/Lukas Simonis

show 842: Royal Raymond Rife And His Mortal Oscillatory Rates by Radio Worm

Dr. Rife Audios


This radiophonic piece is inspired by the work of Royal Raymond Rife  (1888 – 1971). He was a  scientist, engineer and inventor now considered ‘The Nikola Tesla of the Medical World’. In 1931 he built the Universal Microscope achieving optical magnifications of over 30,000 times.  It enabled him to observe microorganisms and viruses in a living state.
Rife believed that if he could discover the vibrational frequencies at which disease-causing microorganisms vibrated, he then could bombard them with that frequency until they shook so hard they exploded.
By endless watching and trying out frequencies Rife claimed to have documented  “Mortal Oscillatory Rates” for various pathogenic organisms and by sending out those rates with a  Beam Ray Device Rife cured significant numbers of people infected with various infections.
Incredible claims of success (including cure for cancer) and support by credible observers were institutionally avoided, minimized and obstructed so that–if there was indeed evidence to support them– would never see the light of day or any chance of acceptance by mainstream medicine. Royal Raymond Rife remains one of the unsung heroes of the fringe science underground.
For this piece original Rife radio frequencies have  been scalar-converted into audible range. Two Rife frequency sets will be broadcasted claiming to destroy Covid19.
Other healing sounds used in this work are; Solfeggio frequencies, the sound of the Multiple Wave Oscillator (Georges Lakhovsky), High Voltage Electro Therapy (Nicola Tesla), Binaural Beats (Heinrich Wilhelm Dove)).
Made by Robert Kroos, www.duckfood.nl

Produced by Worm/Lukas Simonis