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An excerpt from a live performance at TMAG (the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery) for the Dark MOFO 2023 festival, by the nipaluna Hobart based Radio Art duo Sisters Akousmatica (Julia Drouhin and Phillipa Stafford).
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Sisters Akousmatica has been expanding radio projects to explore the radical possibilities of transmission since 2015 within collective and feminist radio practices. From Broom Broom car to Sea Hag boat, Sisters Akousmatica navigate on the edges of ‘legitimate’ broadcast.
The initial idea was to work on the site of Corbières in L’Estaque from recordings to restore the current sound panorama.
I knew the place for having traveled it many times during my childhood and having kept in mind a series of scenes and events lived.
When I began the composition I felt the need to bridge between the present and the past, at the time when Les Corbières was not a place of pleasure but essentially of work. A bridge to better understand the incessant flow of becoming, try to situate myself there.
The Tables:
1 The sunrise
2 Sea holes
3 The Waiting
4 The factory 1
5 The Rove Tunnel
6 The storm
7 Passages
8 The factory II
9 Beyond the shore
I thank Luc Ferrari for allowing me to use the recording of 2 sound objects that he had set during his residency at Euphonia / Grenouille in 2OO3, which are part of 2 pieces in: The Anecdotes by Luc Ferrari.
Lucien Bertolina
Panoptique de l’Estaque : Cyprien Parvex de Collombey
Initial work of 2009
Ojú Oró, three pieces by Brazilian artist Ajítẹnà (Marco Scarassatti) featuring special partnerships offers a dive into his partilhar sound world.
The first, Ojú Oró, Strength and Sorrow, is part of the recent album Notes from a distant listening, released by Sirr-ecords label, and featuring Maya Quilolo. This work emerges as a poetic construction of lived, intuited, and imagined spaces, shaped by listening, memory, documentation, archiving, and invention. It is a journey through the layers of listening, the ways of recording, and the attempt to create a listening situation based on sonic fragments gathered from real places, recordings of improvisations, and (re)visits to a repertoire of recordings found in my personal archives—transforming the ordinary into raw material for invention.
The second sound piece is Arisca, from the yet unreleased album Beira, an improvisational album recorded and produced remotely, the result of a collaboration between singer Inés Terra, who explores a multitude of vocal sounds, and sound artist Ajítẹnà (aka Marco Scarassatti), who plays on this track the instrument he invented, called ẹlẹyẹ, or bird-trough. Beira will be released soon by the Scatter Archive and Brava labels.
At last, Txãi kamã kuru, from the album Ni yuxibū xinã rewe, by Ibã Huni Kuin, master of chant from Huni Kui indigenous amazonian people and Ajítẹnà and released by Sirr-ecords. Ni yuxibū xinã rewe which in Portuguese means Sounds of the Spirit of the Forest, emerged from an initial contact between Ajítẹnà and Ibã, in 2016 when recording the chants of Nixi Pae (Ayahuasca), in Porto Seguro, Bahia., Brazil.
Ajítẹnà Marco Scarassatti is a sound artist, composer and researcher whose work spans through unique constructed sculptures and instruments, installations and sound emblems. He is a lecturer at the Federal University of Minas Gerais – UFMG, Brazil