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Show 561: ‘Balfron Tower’ by The Bermuda Triangle Test Transmission Broadcasts for Resonance FM

Poplar, East London: Erno Goldfinger’s Balfron Tower hums. Melanie Clifford & Howard Jacques are two of the artists living and working there with Bow Arts, while the tower awaits renovation. For this 28 minute portrait they recorded and played back on various devices sounds from within the building: the humming of the enormous, ancient heating system; the lifts; radios in the basement; playing marbles in the stairwell and sounds from outside: the derelict playground at the base of the tower; kicking a football; stroking the concrete. The piece is constructed from live improvisational play: all sounds are field recordings played at varying speeds.

Testing sounds and ideas within and without the broadcast studio: The Bermuda Triangle Test TransmissionBroadcasts is a weekly radio programme made by sound artists HowardJacques & Melanie Clifford with collaborators. Broadcast live on London’s radio arts station Resonance 104.4FM & online www.resonancefm.com Thursdays 23.00 – 00.00 GMT. Each programme is a unique improvisation, constructed live. Recent broadcasts archived here: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/playlists/bermuda-triangle-test-transmissions

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Show 560: Un-public by Rébus & Har$, Kanal 103 Skopje

radia Show 560One nice and warm November night, several days before the so called Paris terrorist attack, several streets away where it happened, several artists were recording the 23rd Un-public session at La Générale Nord-Est. Un-public is a project started by Harold Schellinx and Emmanuel Rebus, with intention to invite international artists joining the ad hoc sessions in order to make recordings using almost everything as an instrument and with no audience. This session there was a lots of feedback and sneezing too. And the rest is history…
Participants at the 23rd Un-public were: Dimitrov, Chi, Zhang, Lambeski, Rébus & Har$
Place and date: La Générale Nord-Est, PARIS, 8 NOVEMBER 2015

Un-public Sunday evening session on November 8th 2015 at La Générale Nord-Est, avenue Parmentier, Paris XI. With Toni Dimitrov (Zoom recorder, feedback), Po-Hao Chi (electronics), Manli Zhang (toy piano, bells, things), Jovan Lambeski (voice, toy piano, mandoline, things), E_Rébus (toy piano, intratonal metallophone, dictaphones, electronics, bells, things) & Har$ (Korg MS20, Sharp RD 303 reel-to-reel recorder, intratonal metallophone, dictaphones, things)

Show 559: “I promise not to feed back in love again” by Mestre André & Paulo Raposo, Radio Zero, PT

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Mestre André: cassete feedback
Paulo Raposo: cassetes, field-recordings and assorted sinewaves

André G Pinto Aka Mestre André:
MA in Musical Arts at New University of Lisbon with a research visit to SFU Burnaby, supervised by Barry Truax. BA in Sound Arts and Design (First Class Honours) at University of Arts London.
Explored rupture aesthetics and theorised on the ‘social and political aesthetics of art and noise’ (“The Territory from Chaos to Noise”, Pinto, A., 2012). Now involved with ecological thinking of the arts practice and aesthetic relationships with the natural and non-natural environments. André has developed work as a Sound Artist, Field-Recordist, Performer, Installation Artist, Free Improviser, Composer and Sound Designer, doing live Sound Design for movies and theatre plays, sound installations and automated/interactive live concerts, amongst other things…
He is a member of the band Älforjs and the ensemble Tratado de Cardew, which has been performing Cardew’s score: Treatise.
Currently his work develops around deep listening as an ecological approach towards sound and music. As a composer he explores the ‘grief of incommunicability’ that exists in the attempt of exchange/comprehension/ communication between the human and humanised world/perception and what exceeds it, developing methods to somehow recreate or relate to the natural environment through the means of sound mapping and sound making.

Show 558: “The Curiosity Overcomes You” by Alice Armstrong, Soundart Radio, Devon, UK

The curiosity overcomes you.

An audio exploration into learning the ancient skill of flint knapping.

Led by our ears & intuition we listen into the echoes of a shared material past.flint_knapping

“What we’ve learn’t and what we’ve found,

What we know and what we are,

And where we’re from

….you can hear what it’s made of.”

Alice Armstrong & Ben Fielding.

Show 557: “The Valley” by Baby Kruger – Radio Campus Bruxelles

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 “The Valley”
Une expérience psychomagique

Dans cette navigation initiatique, la frontière entre le réel et l’imaginaire n’est pas définie. Est ce un rêve? Pas vraiment.
C’est une autre réalité qui jaillit d’une expérience concrète et ce, dans un but de transformation.
On commence par l’acte psychomagique, on s’adresse ainsi à l’inconscient.
Plus l’acte sera difficile à réaliser, plus il sera bénéfique.
Un point périlleux est atteint, on rencontre ses propres démons qui se révèlent être des alliés. La danse s’installe, les percussions servent la transe-formation.
La liberté est aussi dangereuse qu’exaltante, mais parce qu’elle est essentielle, on reste, on se familiarise, on agit, on décide et on s’explore.
Il reste, comme lors des rêves, des souvenirs. Puis les choses s’apaisent, mais la réflexion reste. Et puis on finit par comprendre que tout est déjà là, tout est possible, il suffit de reprendre le pouvoir.
Chacun peut poser les mots qu’il souhaite : voyage ou transe onirique, aventure fantastique ou chamanique, pour moi c’est simplement un appel à la conscience.

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” The Valley “
A psychomagic experience

In this initiatic travel, the line between what’s real and what’s imaginary isn’t well defined. Is it a dream? Not really.
It’s another reality poping out from a down to earth experience, in order to achieve a transformation.
We begin by the psycho-magical action, we talk to the unconscient.
The more difficult the action will be, the stronger the benefit will be.
A perilous point is reached, we meet our own demons and they turn out to be our allies. Then the dance starts, the drums are the tools of the trance-formation.
The feeling of total freedom is as exciting as it is dangerous, but, as it’s an essential part of the process, we stay and get used to it.
Some memories will remain, like after a dream, then the effects will decrease, but the brainstorming stays.
Finally, we end up acknowledging that everything has always been here, that everything is already possible, we just need to take our power back.
Everyone can define it with his own words : trip or dreamy trance, fantastic or shamanistic adventure. As far as i’m concerned it’s a call to consciousness.

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Baby Kruger



Nathalie Garcia is a French electronic musician and sound designer, based in Belgium.

Her conceptions of sound and music are versatile enough to work in a wide range of application such as film making, theater, sound art, post production and live performance.

After several years at the forefront of the Industrial Rock scene of Bordeaux within the sulfuric and avant-gardist band “Black Hole” which she joined at the age of 18, she courted the electro scene. She became a DJ, composer and promoter of events.
Then she went on to perform her own live electronic music where the efficiency of her mighty breakbeats combined with rich harmonic tones were worked clearly with electroacoustic and electronica values.
In the meantime, she creates the new project “White Drama”, which integrates an abstract hip hop touch and a vocal work, to serve us a unique tapestry of sound in a strange language.

As Nathalie was receiving the 1st price of acousmatic composition at the Conservatoire Musical de Bordeaux, Baby Kruger recorded the album “Selkie” for the Miami-based Schematic Records, which was founded by Josh Kay of Phoenecia and released the EP “SIIS” on the german label Doumen Records.

She is actually working her magic on different fronts like radiophonic projects and has just ended the first part of a serie of hybrid documentaries on the animistic practices.

She also organizes spatialization concerts and lectures with her Brussels-based collective “Maldita”.

http://audioblog.arteradio.com/blog/3040619/nathalie_garcia/

Show 556: Sounds of Between; J.B. Imbert for Radio Grenouille

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Sounds of Between

Where are these sounds?
Between the words.
It is the chinks which we throw.
They sometimes hide behind.

The harmful garbage of our broadcasting.

Microphone swallows sounds, all of them, the parasites, and in spite of our closed gates, it receives undesirables.

All between ours speeches about the world, between words, this universe made of breathes and tongues smack, is too transmitted, stowaway of the waves.

There are almost more than words.

These connections, these hesitations, these parasites, these chairs which creak are here for the foreground, taking the place which we usually refuse them.

All the sound materials used here were recorded in the Radio Grenouille Studio.
Mixed at Euphonia.

……………….Jean-Baptiste IMBERT

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Les Sons de l’Entre Deux

Où sont ces sons ?

Entre les mots.
Ce sont les interstices que l’on jette.
Ils se cachent parfois derrière.
Les détritus nuisibles de la communication radiophonique.

Le microphone avale les sons, tous les sons, les parasites et malgré nos portes fermées, il accueille les indésirables.

Tout ce qu’il y a entre notre évocation du monde, entre les mots maîtrisés, cet univers porté par des souffles et des claquements de langues, est lui aussi transmis, passager clandestin des ondes.

Ils sont presque plus nombreux que les mots prononcés.

Ces liaisons, ces hésitations, ces parasites, ces chaises qui grincent sont ici au premier plan, prenant la place que nous leur refusons d’habitude.

Tous les matériaux sonores utilisés ici ont été enregistrés au studio de Radio Grenouille.
Mixé à Euphonia.

………………Jean-Baptiste IMBERT