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Show 571: Taxonomy of sonorous order (Radio Orange 94.0)

Foto: Dagmar Brunow
Photo: Dagmar Brunow

Categorising, tagging, assigning and conducting research as a creative process. Where do art and order come together? How do artists use archives or archived material? Does the digital card index therefore need a digital artist? How can digital archives be handled artistically? What are the interests of community radio stations? What is the infrastructure like? Lale Rodgarkia-Dara and Karl Schönswetter want to use a live (radio) performance to transform material from archives and on-site recordings into a live feedback transmission and thereby establish a seamless transition between a reticent lecture and an in-your-face live show. What happens if the public annotates the transmission and creates a new work of art out of the archive molasses? An acoustic overwriting of a long day of busy conferencing mixed with archive material from the conference participants. Well, now we know.

Lale Rodgarkia-Dara and Karl Schönswetter from Vienna used an analog catalogue of the Cultural Broadcasting Archive and Live-Recordings from the conference “Radio Archives in European Community Media” to activate free radio archives.
“Taxonomy of sonorous order” was recorded 6th june 2015 in Halle.
Twitter-Feed of Live-Performance-Feedback-Looping here: #c4ptch4

Show 570: Come to Halle! (Radio Corax)

From 1st to 30th of October 2016 a great celebration of radio art will take place in Halle an der Saale in Germany: The Radio Revolten Festival. This Radia show is an invitation to visit Halle this autumn. A 20 minute performance by Radio Revolten curators Knut Aufermann, Anna Friz, Sarah Washington and Ralf Wendt, recorded for Arts Birthday in Vienna last January hopefully provides enough time to start researching your travel options. Come and join us in Halle!

This might be the Radio Revolten logo, or it might not...
This might be the Radio Revolten logo, or it might not…

Show 569: Unintentional Autobiography By Michael McLaren

I raced around my attic quarters, scavenging a textbook, an old high school essay, a favourite story.
An autobiographical work told through readings chosen both with and without intent.
The dice serve a dual purpose. As a composing utility, the uncertainty of dice and related methods beings me joy unparalleled. As for the product, it is the better for being in some small way freed from my own limited vision.

Show 568: Back Again by Laura Morris ( Campus Paris)

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The search for something new encompasses the search for a new you. Why travel? To see new places? Or for the chance to be or become someone else? Who are you in a new, anonymous crowd?

But the further we go, the longer we stay, the closer we are to something essential, the same rope of reactions, the same anchor of thoughts.

In the piece certain sounds return again and again, sometimes altered, but ultimately the same.

These recordings come from three weeks spent mostly on trains in the Balkan countries (Bosnia, Servia, Croatia, as well as Hungary, Slovenia, and Austria). The recordings are presented in a mostly chronological order.

Laura Morris is sometimes a painter, always a New Yorker, and certainly a radio producer living and working in Paris.

Show 566: TO THE LIMIT OF ENDURANCE by GABI SCHAFFNER for radio x

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radia season 36 – show #566 (radio x) – TO THE LIMIT OF ENDURANCE by GABI SCHAFFNER
– playing from february 1 to february 7, 2016 –

TO THE LIMIT OF ENDURANCE
by GABI SCHAFFNER

He was a slender man of average height in his 60s, adressing the Lido with his back turned to the city. At first, there was noone around listening, eventually, later, some passer-bys stopped… just like me. He never turned around, he didn’t even cast a glance at his listeners. I had the most awful stomach cramps from having eaten something I shouldn’t, my forehead was covered in sweat from pain – but I held the recorder… just so.

TO THE LIMIT OF ENDURANCE assembles field recordings from Venice, Italy. Snippets of a gondola race, excerpts from church mass, voices and choices of the Biennale and a memorable poetry reading are combined into a collage that is dedicated to the power and beauty of languages, both spoken and lost. Dear unknown poet, thank you for your words.
Additional musical support: Trumpet improvisation by Claudio Comandini, recorded in Wedding, Berlin.
Field recordings, editing and mix: Gabi Schaffner/raw audio recordings 2015/2016

GABI SCHAFFNER
is an audio artist, writer and photographer based in berlin and travelling everywhere to collect sounds, images and imaginations. Her works in the field of radio art have been broadcasted by many international radio stations, including commissions for Deutschlandradio, WDR, HR and many more. Plus, over the past years she has created several pieces for radia.fm. She is also a passionate radio gardener (www.datscharadio.de).

Find out more about her projects at rawaudio.de and at www.schaffnerin.net

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metadata:
TO THE LIMIT OF ENDURANCE
by GABI SCHAFFNER
radia production: miss.gunst [GUNST + radiator x]
production date: january 2016
station: radio x, frankfurt am main (germany)
length: 28 min.
licence: (cc-by-nc) GABI SCHAFFNER
www.radiox.dewww.gunst.inforawaudio.dewww.schaffnerin.net

credits:
great many thanks to GABI SCHAFFNER
plus special thanks to Claudio Commandini for his trumpet solo!

additional info:
includes radia jingles (in/out), station and program info/intro (english)

links:
radio x & radiator x: www.radiox.dewww.radiox.de/radiator-x
GUNSTradio & radiator x: www.gunst.infowww.gunst.info/radiator
Gabi Schaffner: rawaudio.dewww.schaffnerin.net

pics:
verena kuni (cc-by-nc-sa)

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Radia Show 565: CHANT IV by Golem Mecanique for Jet FM

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CANTO IV

Electro acoustic composition for radiophonic broadcast

Golem Mecanique : Voice , magnetic tape recorders device, drone box
Antoine Lang : Voice, reading
Alexis Degrenier : Mixing and mastering

I walked for a long time with Dante on my mind
Wandering in the infernal circles was for me a true allegory of my perpetual search of meaning.
In Canto IV, I chewed the words, I drew a new topography of the circles, I distorted the speech.
A work that I started years ago with”Inferno”, a reinterpretation of sound process and over recording from and that I used in Canto IV
I invited Antoine Lang a Swiss artist who works on the destruction and organic manipulation of the spoken, sung , whispered sound.
His guttural appearances intensify the idea of a perceptible hell.
An invisible forest. A tense contemplation.
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CHANT IV

Pièce electro-acoustique pour diffusion radiophonique.

Golem Mecanique : Voix, dispositif magnétophones à bandes, boite à bourdons
Antoine Lang : Voix et lecture
Alexis Degrenier : Mixage et Mastering

Longtemps je me suis promenée avec Dante dans mon esprit.
La déambulation dans les cercles infernaux était pour moi la juste allégorie de ma recherche perpétuelle d’un sens.
Pour Chant IV , j’ai remâché les mots, j’ai redessiné la topographie des cercles ,altérant la parole . Un travail que j’ai commencé depuis quelques années avec notamment “Inferno ” , un travail de réinterpretation du procédé de sur-enregistrement d’Alvin Lucier et dont je me sers dans Chant IV.
J’ai convié Antoine Lang un artiste suisse qui travaille sur la destruction et la manipulation organique du son chanté, parlé, murmurée.
Ses apparitions gutturales renforcent l’idée d’un enfer perceptible.
Une forêt invisible. Une contemplation tendue.

Radia Show 564 | Radio Papesse | RADIO création poétique contemporaine by Anne-James Chaton

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This show is a 28 minutes mix of RADIO a poetry live on air event, conceived and produced by Anne-James Chaton

RADIO has been a 24-hour celebration of contemporary poetry broadcasted live from the Fondation Luis Vuitton in Paris on Dec. 11th and 12th, 2015.

The live programme explored all aspects of contemporary poetry in the form of debates, readings, concerts, performances, interviews, narrative films and documentaries. With contributions from poets and performers from all over the world, RADIO was not limited by borders.
The mix produced for the Radia Show includes (in order of appearance):

_Antoine BouteModern Poetry magazine – Horoscopes
In his books, readings and events, Belgian artist Antoine Boute seeks out crossovers between written, sound and visual poetry, philosophy, performance and experimental music.
_Brigitte FontaineInterview
Brigitte Fontaine, born in 1939 in Morlaix in the Brittany region of France, is a singer of avant-garde music.[1][2] During the course of her career she has employed numerous unusual musical styles such melding rock and roll, folk, jazz, electronica, spoken word poetry and world rhythms. She is also a novelist, writer, actress, playwright, and poet.
_Rudy RicciottiStudio guest on Modern Poetry magazine
Rudy Ricciotti, an architect and engineer who has won the Grand Prix National d’Architecture (2006), the Gold Medal from the Académie d’Architecture, and is a member of the Académie des technologies, combines creative flair with an appetite for construction.
_Xavier VeilhanStudio guest on Modern Poetry magazine
In a broad-ranging body of work that dates back to the mid-1980s, Xavier Veilhan crafts contemporary interpretations of the motifs of modernity and classical statuary. His Architectones series of exhibitions (2012-2014) illustrated the ongoing dialogue between art and architecture in seven modernist buildings around the world.
_Gérard PessonModern Poetry magazine – Gardening
One of the most talented and popular composers of his generation, Gérard Pesson creates playful and dreamy that flits tastefully between genres. His work is characterised by a pared-down sound and his incessant probing of the musical tradition. A gifted writer, he has also published a journal, Cran d’arrêt du beau temps.
_Anna Holveck
Student of Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lyon invited for School on the Air
_Jaap BlonkThe Big Live Show
Jaap Blonk is a Dutch self-taught composer, performer and poet. From his roots as an unforgettable vocal performer, he began experimenting with synthesisers and sampling his own voice around the turn of the millennium. Since 2006 he has been tweaking algorithms to compose music, poetry and multimedia shows.
_TarwaterThe Big Live Show
Berlin-based electronica group Tarwater was founded in the 1990s by Bernd Jestram and Ronald Lippok, two figureheads of the alternative scene in the East Berlin’s legendary Prenzlauer Berg neighbourhood.
_Vladislav DelayThe Big Live Show
Vladislav Delay, born Sasu Ripatti, is an internationally-acclaimed electronica artist, jazz drummer, composer of minimal and ambient techno, and maestro of glitch music. His stage names – depending on the genre – include Luomo, Uusitalo, Vladislav Delay, Sistol and Conoco.
_Charles PennequinPoetry in the Home
Widely published French poet Charles Pennequin also dabbles in drawings, videos and performance readings. In 2007 he co-founded L’Armée noire, a multi-faceted collective of artists which organises performances, readings and publications.
_Pierre HerméOn the Tip of the Tongue
The fourth generation in an Alsace family of bakers and pastry chefs, Pierre Hermé began his career at the age of 14 under Gaston Lenôtre. Feted in the US, France and Japan, the man who Vogue has dubbed the “Picasso of Pastry” has brought a taste of originality to pâtisserie. Unafraid to challenge pastry-making conventions, he strips his creations of unnecessary embellishment and seasons with sugar to explore new dimensions of flavour.
_Movies extracts of Si j’avais quatre dromadaires (If I Had Four Dromedaries) by Chris Marker, Le Mythe dans le ville (Myth in the city) by Jacques Villeglé
_Mathieu AmalricPoetry on Screen – Audio description of a narrative film of Guy Gilles Le clair de terre (Earth Light)
_Jacques VillegléThe Big Interview
Painter, mixed-media and graphic artist Jacques Villeglé is known for his ripped posters and ‘socio-political alphabet’. He and letterist poet François Dufrêne are thought to have coined the term “poésie sonore” (sound poetry) in a text on Henri Chopin which they co-authored in 1958. Jacques Villeglé was one of the signatories of the Nouveau Réalisme manifesto in 1960.

RADIO production team: Thomas Baumgartner, Laurence Bossé, Anne-James Chaton, Jean-Michel Espitallier, Bastien Gallet, Françoise Lebeau, Emmanuelle de Montgazon, David Sanson, Claire Staebler.

Presenters: Thomas Baumgartner, Anne-James Chaton, Hubert Colas, Thomas Corlin, Jean-Michel Espitallier, Bastien Gallet, Philippe Langlois, Françoise Lebeau, David Sanson, Emmanuel Rabu and Nathalie Viot

With the participation of Radio On, the radio station of the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts du Mans (ESBA TALM)
Station controller: Mathilde Faist
Reporters: Wendie Autrique, Thomas Becka, Solal Boutoux, Jeanne Minier
Station branding/sound design: Arnaud Ouin, Benoît Villemont, Thomas Rotureau
Teaching supervisor: Diane Debuisser
Coordinator: Philippe Langlois

This weekly Radia Show introduces a brand new collaboration between Radio Papesse and the Fondation Luis Vuitton in Paris…more sound poetry to come!

Show 563: ‘At The Edge of the Emptiness of All Things’ by Dieter Sperl & Michael Fischer for Radio Helsinki

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At The Edge of the Emptiness of All Things

For several years now, the saxophonist and instant composer Michael Fischer, founder and director of the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra, and the author and language-performance artist Dieter Sperl have been exploring poetical-musical auditory spaces in a freely improvised interplay of text, sound, and noise. In 2014, the two attempted for the first time an interaction between the feedback saxophone developed by Fischer and the lyrical-philosophical linguistic particles that Sperl extracted from his text-generating machine when the landscape ceases (http://www.hls-software.at/frame_sperl_en.html).

The feedback saxophone is an exclusively analog instrument: a microphone inside the saxophone connected to a speaker near the instrument serves as a tone generator that is modulated by the motion of the instrument’s keys and the musician’s voice. On the basis of resonance and overtone series, multilayered sound and noise sculptures arise. Besides the creation, ordering, and processing of material (attained and to be attained), a network of meanings connected to language and sound is produced, and convergences and divergences in space become audible and experienceable within the flow of time. Sperl, for his part, constantly generates poetic images, thoughts, and scenes, repeating them, abandoning them somewhere or other, taking them up again, and suddenly cutting them off, or he lets them oscillate in his oral space: paradoxes, platitudes, proverbs, idioms, and everyday wisdom are always located in their radius of action between construction and deconstruction, where the Now unfolds its full powers, flaring up for a moment just to disappear again in the next instant, as if they had never existed …

Fischer: “A meandering agent of reflection and creation, from the innermost to the outermost, from the outermost to the innermost … in the space between, the being of what is expressed, in a constant transformation of its appearance …; a field of probability formed from the linguistic metaphors of the texture of the sound/noise and the tonal texture of language.”

Sperl: “When we play together, I simply sit there and watch what is happening. I plan nothing and let everything happen.”

Translation by Geoffrey C. Howes

Show 562: ‘Impure Waves’ by Stefano Giannotti for Worm/Klangendum

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Impure Waves is a radio-piece for voice, harmonica, oscillators and mobile phones.

It is entirely born during the author’s residency at the Worm Foundation in November 2015.

The piece starts with a quotation of the Wikipedia definition of waves read by the author; successively, the text has been smashed by dozens and dozens of Google translations until it has been reduced at the single sentence Plate ten. A Christian family?

Words, landscapes, scretches recorded on a mobile phone interact with sounds produced by old modular synthesizers like ARP 2500, ARP 2600 and VCS3.

The piece proceeds as a series of abstract sound paintings, based on the idea that life is made of contamination, impure waves which at the end make us all happy (the very last picture proposes a sort of salterello based on a woman laughing).

Produced by Dr Klangendum for Worm & Concertzender