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show 1018 Worm Tracks by Richard Scott for Radio Worm

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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.

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Show 1017: 𝓝𝓪𝓾𝓯𝓻𝓪𝓰𝓮 : 𝐹𝓁𝑒𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓈 𝒹’𝑒𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓈 𝒿𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈 ; 𝓃𝓊𝒾𝓉𝓈 𝓈𝑜𝓊𝓇𝒸𝑒 𝒹𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝒷𝑒𝓇𝓉𝑒, by XM Tran (La Mousson/Jet fm)

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A live performance recorded in Les Ateliers Magellan, Nantes, France, on the 4th of July 2024.

With: XM Tran, sound, voices, linocut, ink on paper & Barylin Tone, baritone guitar, objects.

About the performance:
“𝓝𝓪𝓾𝓯𝓻𝓪𝓰𝓮”. Première édition : 𝐹𝓁𝑒𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓈 𝒹’𝑒𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓈 𝒿𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈 ; 𝓃𝓊𝒾𝓉𝓈 𝓈𝑜𝓊𝓇𝒸𝑒 𝒹𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝒷𝑒𝓇𝓉𝑒.
En 1904 est édité le livre “Les Naufragés de la Barbade”, qui décrit l’arrivée accidentelle d’une famille blanche sur une île Caribéenne. Les personnages sont tour à tour horrifiés du manque de confort local, apeurés et fascinés par les “sauvages” peuplant les lieux, et amusés de tuer des espèces animales pour le sport. En tant qu’enfant d’exilé vietnamien dont les trajectoires en bateau ne sont pas qu’accidents de parcours, cette lecture se transforme en une collection d’un livre entier d’œuvres poétiques, dans un élan de réappropriation décoloniale.
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“𝓢𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰”. First edition: 𝒜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒 𝒹𝒶𝓎𝓈; 𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉𝓈 𝓈𝑜𝓊𝓇𝒸𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝑒𝒹𝑜𝓂. The book “The Castaways of Barbados” was published in 1904 and describes the accidental arrival of a white family on a Caribbean island. The characters are first horrified by the lack of local comfort, then frightened and fascinated by the “savages” populating the place, as well as amused to kill animals for sport. As a child of a Vietnamese refugee whose ship trajectories are not just accidental mishaps, the book turns into a collection of deeply personal and decolonial poetic works.

About the artist:
En tant que personne queer issue de la diaspora vietnamienne, le travail artistique de XM TRAN est centré sur la question de l’identité, et notamment sur le vide laissé par l’exil, avec la nécessité de recréer des fictions pour réparer la mémoire familiale. En célébrant la diversité des identités de la diaspora vietnamienne, l’artiste aspire à mettre en lumière ses fantômes grâce à des pratiques révolutionnaires comme la création sonore, la poésie et la linogravure, entre mythologies techniques et paysages fantasmés.
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As a queer person of Vietnamese descent, XM TRAN’s artistic work focuses on the issue of identity, and in particular on the void left by exile, with the need to recreate fictions to repair family memory. By celebrating the diversity of identities of the Vietnamese diaspora, the artist aspires to highlight their ghosts through revolutionary practices such as sound creation, poetry and linocut, between technical mythologies and fantasized landscapes.

🔗 https://linktr.ee/xmtran

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Show 1014: Bratislava: Voices of Freedom (Kanal 103)

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Against the backdrop of Slovakia’s terrifying socio-political turmoil, this documentary radio piece explores Bratislava’s vibrant and courageous independent music and cultural scene and some of the community spaces in which it develops. Now they are facing their biggest challenge, to keep it alive and kicking.

We’ve been there (for the bad parts mostly), and we are still stuck there.

From Skopje to Bratislava, with love.

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Recorded and edited by Gjorgji Janevski (summer 2024)
Additional interviews and recordings by Vid Bešter (Radio Študent)

Voices: Jonáš Gruska, Matúš Kobolka, Adela Mede, Poli, Daniel Vadas, Janneke Van Der Putten, Oliver from the garages, Olja Triaška Stefanović, Rozalia Vlaskova, Tomaš Hučko.

Music excerpts from Adela Mede, Bolka, Jonáš Gruska, Fissures, Patrick Balthrop, Rrrr

The publication of this article is part of PERSPECTIVES – the new label for independent, constructive, multiperspective journalism. The project PERSPECTIVES is being implemented by seven editorial teams from Central Eastern Europe under the leadership of the Goethe-Institut. The author of this article participated in the PERSPECTIVES Journalists-in-Residence Programme at the Goethe-Institut Bratislava.

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Show 1013 Where is my horse? (Soundart Radio)

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Let’s bring some new questions to our radio making

Where do we live? Where is my horse? Where comes the air from? How to build healthy relationships? Wie viele Leute kennst du hier? Is there a silent place here? Warum? Warum gerade jetzt? Why am I here? Welche Eissorte? Warum? When is it 17 o‘ clock? Where is my horse? What do I hear? Where do you live? What sound do you like to hear when falling asleep?

Perhaps we won’t find all the answers this time, but there is always next year, by the lake.

Produced in the ‘long form sound installation’ workshop at Radiocamp, Bodensee, Mai 2024 by Insa Trölenberg, Lukas Zittlan, Lukas Lammer, Alexander Schab, Laszlo Ivanovic, Normann Schuh, Anna Claus, Gerald Wang, Kika Demange, Lisa Humsickes, Roman Kalex, Mo Borghorst, Celik Armet, Susann Tonne, Saskia Ackermann, with Lucinda Guy and Alice Armstrong.

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Show 1011 – The revolution will not be digitalized (Radio Campus)

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The tenth of may 2024 – Bodensee, a lake that seperates Germany from Switzerland. Above the dark and still waters, the majestuaous aurora borealis is visible in all it’s splendour. At the shoreline of the same lake, just a few hours before the electromagnetic solar storm carressed the earth, sound artists Gérald Wang and Sebastian Dingens gave the workshop The Revolution will not be digitalised, in which they returned to the roots of radio; analog technologie, live creation and electromagnetic communication.

In retrospect, the program sounds almost as a forecast of the upcoming events; With the use of any analog tools, we will explore the possibilities of the analog world, to make creative radio. From tape to vinyl, analog wireless transmission and echos from space. We will develop a setup, to perform together in a radio show. 25 radiopeople, professionals and amateurs, particpated. What you are about to hear is the almost intact registration of the final presentation, recorded on tape.
The revolution will not be digitalized – Learn how not to use a computer for making creative radio In this world, computers are everywhere.
It’s becoming very simple to broadcast from anywhere, using the tool everyone have in the pocket. But what if we try something else? With the use of any analog tools, we will enjoy the possibilities that offer the analog world to make creative radio. From tape to vinyl, to analog wireless transmission and echo from space. We will develop a setup, to perform together in a radio show.
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Show 1010 : At the Garden (Radio Grenouille – Euphonia)

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Sound arts in the garden

An action of collective practices with the Mutual Assistance Group bringing together people concerned by psychiatry (Léo, Parenthèses, Gem Marseille and Sentinelles-equality), with whom we have experienced many ways to take sound and listen in several gardens of Marseille.

The sound library made with several hands was staged and sound during a public restitution in the garden of the convent Levat by Julie Rousse, JB Imbert and Nelly Flecher.

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Show 1009: Kaggen by pä (Radio Zero)

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Kaggen is a demiurge and folk hero of the San people of Southern Africa. He is a trickster god who can shape shift, usually taking the form of a praying mantis but also a bull eland, a louse, a snake, and a caterpillar. This piece — inspired by this entity and informed by the elementary principles of neural synthesis — consists of a collage stemming from a series of recording sessions, employing both field recordings and phrases/ phonemes generated by a circuit of analogue components arranged in order to achieve self-generative feedbacks.
BIO:
pä (Paulo da Fonseca and Filipa Campos) started making music as a duo in Lisbon, back in 2015. The sound sources/ studying tools they took on consisted mainly of analogue synthesizers. From then on, pä has become a place of ongoing study, research and experimentation blending historically informed electroacoustic music, poetry, field recordings, graphic design, deep listening music and sound installations.