by Mark Boombastik & Silvaezta Foturo
Show 064: Histoire d’eau by Christophe Modica
Christophe Modica is a photographer, filmmaker and sound artist.
He made a piece ignoring the borders between countries, treating as equals language and sound, music and voice, as a water sound doesn’t need a translation. There is no secret “Histoire d’eau” is a work on water. Water feeds, washes, it can lack or overflow. Drought kills, so does a tidal wave. With the current, from ebb to flow, through health, hydration, struggle and waste, life is in a floating balance.
http://cmodica.net
Show 063: from Kanal 103
this is radia 63 from channel 103, skopje, produced by antonio dimitrov. it is produced in sofia on my artist residency here while working with radio cult, sofia radia partner and working on the sound instalation citism that took part at mobile studios project. this 30 min piece is sofia soundscape, sound map or better said my sound diary that reflects the sound of the city and in this case my experiences, mood and state during this residency here and working on citism project. This sound diary is consisted of private conversations, talks of people at bars, office atmosphere, conversations on dinner in some local restaurant, sound of the way from apartment to office and back, street noise, traffic or market sound, birds in the park… all this is produced at beautiful roof terace of our apartment and this nice background sound and the background sound of whole program is is sound of the interactve instalation of my roomate vincent. part of this sound recordings were used as source for citism sound instalation.
Show 062: Dubphasing
We attempted to create a composition based on delayed, transformed and modulated sounds, sounds that range from stationary to repetitionary stages, from low to high frequencies range.
Our experience can be seen as an attempt to deceive our states of vigilance,
an attempt to offense and breach our routines, in order to question ourselves about what is really surrounding us.
This piece was created by Tiago Andrade and Filipe Campos, from Radio Zero.
Show 061: silence radia
This week for Radia, Radio Campus will go and plunder the silenceradio.org database.
SilenceRadio.org is a listening space dedicated to contemporary creative radio.
SilenceRadio.org offers audio pieces from composed work to “rough” material such as an interesting piece of archive or field-recording.
As a web-based project, Silenceradio could be non-geographical. But it’s not, or not completely. You can find a lot of homegrown sounds, recorded here in Brussels in their collection. We tried here to put some of those together and send you the result, from Brussels, with love
Show 060: Join the Caravan
Join the Caravan (Amir & Toma, Special Remix)
caravan is the weekly world music program at Radio Tilos (Budapest, Hungary), dedicated to the promotion of intercultural tolerance through musical dialogue among cultures.
Show 059: from Radio Cult
Hello… this is Not That Kyd from Radio Cult and you are listening to Radia Emission number 59. Renee Sills sometimes performs under the moniker Miss Matches. She took on the courageous task of creating one full radia lenght piece and it turned out greater than the great Canadian Mountains. The piece goes up and down with ever changing landscape like the jagged mountains do too. For any of you who have never been to Montreal, well this show also look at lot like there.
The samples in Renees mix come from a billion local and not so local artists… Charles Stankievitch, Frieda Abtan, Lateef, Serviceworks, Josh Ivy, some children and way more. Renee’s mashup style is always present both in her audio and video works. She is interested in exploring the possibilities available for sharing within a radio network and this is apparent sonically throught this piece. Again this is Renee Sills. She’s from Colorado, she lives in Montreal, she owns an accordeon and she want to visit Bulgaria.
Show 058: ‘We all live in a small village by Harmon E. Phraisyar
Harmon finally settles the old argument of which is better, life in the big city or small village? All facts were supplied by the second tourism council of Birmingham airport. Essential listening for estate agents and arms manufacturers alike.
Show 057: Lemorona presents (Lemurie) by Ladislav Zelezny
From the Archives of a Lunatic (Radio Lemurie files)
short sample from the workshop files and sound archives managed by the Art project Lemurie TAZ operating in Prague. Melange of sound files was chosen by an imaginary mascot a night creature named Lemorona who browsed through the dusty boxes full of tapes, records and cassettes..
includes: J.S.Bach Goldberg variations 6:09 min, origin unknown, “It is no recital at all”. 12 min a 8 min – fragment from the sound mini workshop at The Fine Art Academy Brno. includes voice and sounds by Filip Nerad and Monika Fricova.
recorded, composed and edited by Ladislav Zelezny. member of the lemurie brotherhood
Show 056: Sofielseelend
Sofielseelend – a farewell-composition based on concrete sound material recorded inside Vienna´s “Sofiensäle”
contributed by ORANGE 94.0, Vienna
“Sofielseelend” is based on a series of field recordings we made earlier this winter inside the ruins of Vienna´s “Sofiensäle” [“Sofie”]. This bourgeois assembly hall was originally built in the 1840s – used as a swimming pool, concert hall, ballroom, recording studio and theatre, as a venue for political congresses and non-political clubbings. “Sofie” burned down in 2001 under still unsolved circumstances. Carelessly neglected since then, her ruins now provide a derelict picture of her past, replacing her historically-charged atmosphere with an environment of silent decay.
Not completely silent, though. Located in Marxergasse, just a few steps away from Vienna´s centre, “Sofie” represents a sonic blankspace, isolated and fenced off – nevertheless, since her walls broke down, her roof collapsed, the borders between the inside and the outside are beginning to blur. “Sofie” involuntarily opened herself to the surrounding city life, street sounds infiltrate the building, swallowed and damped.
On the one hand our field recordings aimed at capturing “Sofie´s” acoustical presence. On the other hand they are also results of us consciously intervening in her surroundings. The recording process can therefore be described as a shifting between pure documentation – leaving sounds as they are – and active intrusion – treating and instrumentalizing found objects, spaces and conditions as musical material.
Much of the recorded sound material derived from an old grand piano we discovered left behind in the former ballroom – an arduously belted setting of rusted chords and broken keys, its body full of rubble and water. In its deserted and half-destroyed state the grand piano perfectly reflected the situation in which it was embedded, unveiling an ensemble of sounds and noises, more than slightly out of tune, where every single expression seemed to comment on its very own historical background, a sonic symbol of blooming decay.
After recording we rearranged and recomposed the field recordings on the computer. “Sofielseelend” was structured more like a film – with different scenes alternating, each of them presenting one sound-family as a protagonist. A couple of texts, spoken in Englisch and German, were supplemented – all oft them referring to “Sofie”, though each from a different perspective.
Text: Lale Rodgarkia-Dara
Narrator: Wolfgang Pratl
Sound recording/editing: Maria Fuchs, Andreas Trobollowitsch, Johannes Tröndle
[jan-april 2006]