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Show 784: Funkensprung featuring the Radio Ironie Orchester (Radio Helsinki)

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Radio Ironie Orchester – Funkensprung

This Show is presented by Adina Camhy and Teonas Borsetto, two members of the orchestra.

An On-the-air- and online radio concert played by Radio Ironie Orchester took place on April 3rd 2020 as part of the festival Klangmanifeste under the topic „Funkensprung“.
Radio Ironie Orchester is a radio-phile orchestra structure that has been existing since 2019 and combines acoustic, electro-acoustic and electronic music with the medium radio. Klangmanifeste is an audio show on the borderline between visual arts and contemporary music. This year’s Klangmanifeste edition should have taken place in Vienna and Graz in Austria.

Due to corona crisis and the current situation regarding physical distancing Klangmanifeste was looking for alternative digital venues on a short notice.In this extraordinary situation different familiar as well as new channels and alternative forms of virtual interacting were employed and established. The solo-listener and the musicians of the Radio Ironie Orchester and played via the free software video conferencing tool Jitsy. The concert was broadcasted live on the radio stations Radio Helsinki in Graz and Radio Orange in Vienna and was streamed live on the recently created website echoraeume.klingt.org  – a virtual concert hall in progress.

The performing musicians of the Radio Ironie Orchester:
Cosima Flora
Betty Hubner (professional listener and part of the orchestra)
Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka
Adina Camhy
Georg Wissa
Teonas Borsetto
Antonia  Sophia
Nicole Sabella
Lale Rodgarkia-Dara

Guests:
Stephanie Castonguay (CAN)
Marcin Morga (Vienna)
Arik Kofranek (Vienna)

Technical Support:
Stefan Voglsinger
Philip Leitner
Christine Schörkhuber
Jogi Hofmüller
Reni Hofmüller

Moderation on Radio Helsinki 92.6- das Freie Radio in Graz and Radio Orange 94.0:Reni Hofmüller

Moderation in the virtual concert hall Echoraeume: Stefan Voglsinger  

Klangmanifeste 2020 is curated by Christine Schörkhuber, Stefan Voglsinger, Ulla Rauter und Veronika Mayer  

Cooperations:
open music Graz, esc medien kunst labor, echoraum, Setzkasten Wien, Institut für Elektronische Musik und Akustik (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz), Radio Orange 94.0 und Radio 92.6 Helsinki-das Freie Radio in Graz.

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Show 783: Close-Shaved Sardine by Ed Baxter (Resonance FM)

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It took a year or more to think of a sequel to The Exeter Whisper (2018), a radio work realised with 400 primary school children in which a short text decayed and revivified under pressure of being passed along individually and being misheard and reinterpreted. This time I searched for a transparent and static text as a point of departure. I settled on the phrase “God Save The Queen” for five reasons. First, it is something one never actually says; secondly, it is something one never actually thinks; thirdly, everyone in the UK knows precisely what it means and carries a civic weight; fourthly, it is essentially meaningless, especially perhaps to a republican atheist such as myself; and finally, it is a phrase which will become extinct when the present Queen dies, as she shortly will. Initially I wanted to have lots of people repeat the phrase so as to provide a map of regional accents and dialect, perhaps drawing on Members of Parliament as speakers. The corona virus crisis meant that faced with the Radia deadline I had instead to do this sketch on the spot, using a standard industrial  sound effects unit which brought out the tones of my own received pronunciation and seemed instantly to dictate rhythm, diction, and a sense of musicality and ham theatre I had not anticipated. This is a live recording made in real time on the afternoon of Tuesday 16 March 2020 in Resonance FM’s Frank Howling Studio. It is dedicated to Michael Umney and Margot Gibbs on the occasion of the postponement of their wedding. Title by Anthony Moore.

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Show 782: Milan Sketches (Kanal 103)

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Sound artists and field recordist Toni Dimitrov was working on several field recordings pieces inspired by cities during his trips. After the sketches from Athens, Belgrade, Ioannina, Bucharest, here is a new piece, dedicated to a city, produced from short sound sketches. This time the sketches are recorded in Milan during his stay for the Radio City festival in spring 2018. The recordings from the Duomo metro station, Sforza Castle, Orto Botanico di Brera, Santa Maria del Carmine church, escalators, bars, parks, etc., interweave subtly, blurring the line between field recording and sound art.

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Show 780: Vertigo 282 by Sue Coulson (Soundart Radio)

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It was autumn 2019.   Britain on the eve of political upheaval, is split over the impending separation from Europe.  Against this shifting background I wound my way on foot down the long valley to the Tamar river that separates Devon and Cornwall, and flows into those vast waters of the Sound.  Two bridges placed side by side span the river at this point.  I intended to cross the water via the pedestrian walkway on the road bridge. But I had to be quick.  Ironically it was about to close that day for long term engineering works.  Vertigo 282 is the soundtrack of my passage across, the narrative constantly shifting, slipping from action to inaction, from reality to fantasy, silence to noisiness, and like life it is on-going (until someone switches it off).

Sue Coulson is a visual fine artist using sound as part of her practice. 

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Show 779: Zugunruhe by Amber Meulenijzer (Radio Campus Bruxelles)

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ZUGUNRUHE (2016/reworked for Radia 2020)

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Zugunruhe was originally conceived as an installation, a piece where the audience lies together on a large mattress and watches 27 stuffed birds fly in a large circle above their heads. A fiction soundcollage dealing with being lost, new horizons, too much clouds, magicians and birds on cruise control. For this reworked version, it is introduced by a nightly fieldrecording in Brussels. A single bird is singing, calling out into the night, confused and at the same time encouraged by street lights and city noises. 

Voices: Tibo Vandenborre, Elise Pierre, Sam Lowyck, Igor Paszkiewicz
Extra music: Mi_les Davis

Amber Meulenijzer (°1994) lives and works in Brussels. As a visual artist with an audio background (RITCS Radio, 2016 | KASK Installation Art 2019), she mainly investigates the relationship between image/installation and sound. Where do decor and soundscape meet?  What does the eye need in order to listen better? Beyond the silence.  
https://ambermeulenijzer.tumblr.com
https://soundcloud.com/amber-meulenijzer 

Curated by Carine Demange for Radio Campus Bruxelles

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Show 778 | Locu – Luciano-Maggiore (Radio Grenouille / Radio Nunc)

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Œuvre électroacoustique créée en 2019, Locu utilise des sons anecdotiques. Par ce procédé Luciano Maggiore poursuit une recherche sur le timbre et la relation entre les sons pris pour eux-mêmes. 

Luciano Maggiore, born in Palermo, lives and works in London. Active musician in the field of electroacoustic music, in recent years he has developed a strong interest in the mechanisms of sound diffusion, using speakers and several analogue and digital devices (walkmans, CD players, tape recorders) as main instruments. His interest is focused on the architectural and psychoacoustic as well as on dynamic and directional values of sound with a strong emphasis on fixed sounds. With Louie Rice is part of NO-PA /PA-ON, a platform for regular but informal realisations of artist scores performed by Luciano Maggiore, Louie Rice and friends, recombining materials of Fluxus origin, expanded concretism and minimal behaviourism. His works are published by Balloon & Needle, Boring Machines, Consumer Waste, Dinzu Artefacts, Hideous Replica, Palustre, Senufo editions, 1000Füssler, Triscele Registrazioni and Tulip records.

Radio nunc : Opened window on the sound landscape surrounding us. Radio nunc is a web radio born in April 2019, in Marseille. It’s an independent and collective radio putting forward the contemporary sound practices, from field recordings to electroacoustic music, focusing on the sound for itself and the freedom of listening.