Category Archives: #38

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

Show 611: Yannick Dauby, what does sunset mean to you? (Radio Zero)

Field recordings realised in Hong-Kong during the mentorship program organised by soundpocket, between October 2014 and April 2015. Composed in Spring 2016.

Tai Po Kau, I couldn’t imagine such a peaceful forest as a first intimate contact with this territory.
A harbour in Chai-Wan, the light and the heat, a meeting on the pier, someone borrowed my equipment.
Lamma Island and its rural landscapes, a place where my guide and friend should own a house.
The street intersections are sonified by a system which adapt the level of its signals by measuring the intensity of the sound of the traffic. The intentions are probably good, trying to preserve a little bit of the relative quietness, but made me feel like my aural sensitivity was alternatively increasing and decreasing.
Mai Po Nature Reserve offers to walk through the frontier into the mangrove, to listen to the birds between the two systems, to observe thousands of amphibians fishes jumping in their little holes while the nearby brand new megapolis exhales something undefined.

During a public workshop led by one of the participants of the program, we visited a tiny hill which pretend to be an island. And I took their voices.
On Tung Ping Chau Island, I found a shell of a dangerous mollusc and some shards of old ceramic, but maybe it wasn’t so significant. The shores were reminding me the Mediterranean Sea. At Kadoorie Farm, the eyes of the some friendly flying mammals caught my attention. Near Apliu street, an old lady was selling dusty cassettes and the eyes of Sun Ma Sze Tsang convinced me. During their trip in Taiwan, each of them was recording a small message for me on the same cassette tape. But at the end, the Maxell C60 type I was containing only hiss, clicks and rumble and a few seconds of some random FM radio.
And finally I understood that the title wasn’t a question.

All my gratitude to the team of soundpocket, all my friendship to the participants of this program and to the people I met during my short but intense visits in Hong-Kong.
www.soundpocket.org.hk

Special radio version for Radia curated by Paulo Raposo.

Yannick Dauby is a sound artist living in Taiwan. Obsessed by listening the environment. Feels naked when he doesn’t wear microphones and headphones. In a special relationship with treefrogs and modular synthesizer. Improvises with branches and stones. Collaborates with communities in Hakka and Austronesian territories.

Show 610: Täglich Tapes by Lucinda Guy (Soundart Radio)

With my family, I spent October at the Radio Revolten Festival in Halle (Saale) along with many other Radia artists, and the global radio art community. This extraordinary, elaborate, dignified and vital event broadcast live on FM and MW in the city, and through many other channels. Live art surrounded us, including performances at the festival HQ, and a rich sense of community, built through artistic collaborations, late night conversations, shared food, and care for one another and for those we were broadcasting to. As the outside world felt at danger from the rise of reactive, violent political perspectives, the need to broadcast art, and for that art to be whatever it needed to be, felt increasingly significant.

30 days of Radio Revolten, 30 C15 cassette tapes, 1 tape filled each day. 1 minute of each tape is selected here for you.

These are not a representation of this amazing festival, its artists and broadcasts, but mostly a tuning-in to the moments in between. In the heat of experiencing radio art, I rarely remembered to record anything. The cassette players were awkward to carry around, and sometimes I couldn’t be bothered. Moments of Revolten broadcasts were taped back at the flat we stayed in, and sometimes off the radio set downstairs in the Revolten HQ cafe. These recordings are low quality, irritating, and vague.

Listening to the radio art installations at Rathausstraße 4 brought a new ear to Halle’s city centre, roaring away outside the building. Trams, buskers, church bells, passing conversation and weather kept the festival radiating around the city for anyone who had passed through the building. Choosing to capture my month in Halle on cassette freed me from trying to make beautiful and precise digital recordings. The tape recorder often stayed in my bag, was grabbed by others, or licked by the coypu in the park. Still the sounds shine through the medium – here my memories are not relived, eerily like the original moment, but behave more as memories do in my mind – damaged, deteriorated, remade, rearranged and lost in time.

Thanks, love and apologies to everyone at Revolten, particularly those whose voices have unwittingly appeared here.

Show 609: Enfonçures by Thomas Turine (Radio Campus Bruxelles)

enfoncures Hichem Dahes-1

For acsr 20th birthday party, Thomas Turine performed an electronic live version of Enfonçures. He previously composed this soundtrack for Caroline Logiou’s theater piece based on Didier-Georges Gabily’s poem, about the 1st Gulf War.

Thomas Turine is a composer, a musician and a sound artist. He has created and is leading the Cosipie Ensemble which gathers musicians, singers and actors. They work together on his contemporary musical compositions and his musical theatre pieces (“88 Constellations“).

He also works with artists from performing arts, plastic arts and auteur cinema. He started off his musical journey as a child with folk music, then he discovered new wave music (LVDCR), rock music (Major Deluxe 2001-2009), acid-house and electronic music (Sitoid 1996-:::).

Since 2002, he’s been closely working with stagedirectors, movie makers and choreographers who are interested in exploring contemporary forms and making new creations. He both composes the music pieces and designs audio spaces. He has created the electro-acoustic sound system for about 60 pieces. He invents his own instrumental composition process, either on computers or on paper. He turns his composition into something more plastic. He likes to take on a visual representation of the world and creates a new one. His work on space, both in the matter of his musical composition or the sound spatialisation tends to work itself in a subliminal way so that the perception of his pieces are organic. The body of the listener has to be engaged and engrossed. He intends his music to be a place of encounter with the listener.

In 2013 with acsr, he creates HO, an abstract radio piece based on sounds collected in Iceland. With the acsr too and the ONA, Thomas launched in 2016 the In Ouïe project, a thinking and exchange project on hearing, between blind people, sound practitioners and everyone.

picture © Hichem Dahes

www.thomasturine.com cosipie.bandcamp.com www.acsr.be/production/ho

Show 608: APL-C06_GH (Radio Grenouille)

APL-C06_GH
1 minute + 1 minute (remix) x12

Here is a sound collage composed of works of students in Plastic Arts (Aix-Marseille University).

Radia_s38_n608_Radio-Grenouille_APL-C06_GH

Code : APL-C06_GH – Plastique Sonore
Setpoint 1 : realize a 1mn piece, focusing on the editing effects.
Set 2 : the piece is transmitted to another student to be remixed.

Each student then produces a piece and then receives one to be remixed.
The sources are free, but the exercise is designed to explore the characteristics of the selected sounds and their shaping by digital audio mixing and editing tools.
You will hear a minute, then his remix, in a course sometimes crude, where the sounds explode.

The first and last pieces are solitary because they were produced last year.
A circulation, from one cycle to another …

Final assembly made at Atelier-Studio Euphonia

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Voilà un collage sonore composé de travaux d’étudiants en Arts Plastiques (Licence 2 – Aix-Marseille Université).

Code : APL-C06_GH – Plastique Sonore
Consigne 1 : réaliser une pièce de 1mn, en se concentrant sur les effets de montage.
Consigne 2 : la pièce est transmise à un autre étudiant pour être remixée.

Chaque étudiant produit donc une pièce puis en reçoit une à remixer.
Les sources sont libres, mais l’exercice vise à explorer les caractéristiques des sons choisis et leur façonnage par les outils de montage et mixage audio-numérique.
Vous entendrez une minute, puis son remix, dans un parcours parfois brut, là où s’explorent les sons.

La première et la dernière pièce sont solitaires, car produites l’année passée.
Une circulation, d’un cycle à l’autre…

Montage final réalisé à l’Atelier-Studio Euphonia