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Show 323: “Colapso” by Vasco Vidigal and Carlos Norton

2011/06/06 rreis 1 Comment

Colapso

A Artadentro, em colaboração com a Rádio Zero (http://www.radiozero.pt/), apresenta a obra sonora Colapso, da autoria de Vasco Vidigal e Carlos Norton.

Destinada a ser transmitida através da rede internacional RADIA (http://radia.fm/), esta obra inclui excertos ou peças completas de: Ana André, Ana Borralho & João Galante, Luís Ene & Pedro Leote Mendes, Mariana Ramos, Mauro Amaral, Nuno Murta & Daniel Almeida, Sara Martins e Teresa Ramos. Inclui também excertos de debates entre os principais líderes políticos portugueses, o tema “Traffic Lights” dos Monty Python e as vozes “RUA FM” de: Pedro Duarte, Leila Leiras e Vasco Ribeiro Casais.

A partir da ideia de colapso — termo que designa a origem súbita de desabamento ou desfalecimento, da súbita diminuição da energia do cérebro e de todas as forças nervosas, ou a um estado de decadência, de degradação, de ruína —, são alinhados quase aleatoriamente, testemunhos sonoros de diferentes tipos de discurso: tecnológico, mediático, artístico e político. Aglutinados pelo actual ambiente de sentido, estes fragmentos sonoros desconexos, mais pela emoção que pela razão, acabam por compor um todo coerente.

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Show 322: “Pamela” by Sebastian Dicenaire

2011/05/30 kika Leave a comment

“Pamela” by Sebastian Dicenaire for Radio Campus Bruxelles
a metaphysical cheap sentimental novel (in french)

SEBASTIAN DICENAIRE
Sebastian Dicenaire is a french writer and a radio artist living in Brussels, Belgium. He has published two books of experimental poetry (Döner-kebab ; Personnologue) and he is currently working on Pamela, based on cheap sentimental novels. He performs his texts in various places like theaters, public librairies, cafés, festivals and accompagnies himself with self-composed soundtracks. He has shown his work in France, Switzerland, Lebanon and Belgium. He also regularily takes part in collective performances conceived for radio as well as for festivals. Recently he collaborated with Maja Jantar and Vincent Tholomé on the Kirkjubæjarklaustur project for the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris. The Belgian radio La Première / RTBF has already broadcast two of his radio work : Personnologue in 2009 and Kirkjubæjarklaustur in 2011.

PAMELA, chapitre 1
Pamela, c’est un roman Harlequin métaphysique. Pamela, c’est une jeune femme blonde accoudée à la balustrade en bois de teck blanc qui surplombe la baie de Palm Beach. Pamela, c’est une héroïne de feuilleton à l’eau de rose embarquée malgré elle dans un mythe de la Fin des Temps dont elle devient le prophète. Pamela, c’est le nom du cyclone économique qui menace d’engloutir la société capitaliste qui l’a engendré. Pamela*, c’est le nom d’un dreamware* buggué dont le virus s’étend à la réalité. Pamela, c’est un film sans image à écouter dans le noir. Pamela, c’est du cinéma dans la tête. Pamela, c’est une héroïne de feuilleton à l’eau de rose dont le virus s’étend à la réalité. Pamela, c’est le nom du cyclone économique qui menace d’engloutir une jeune femme blonde accoudée à la balustrade en bois de teck blanc. Pamela, c’est un roman à l’eau de rose qui surplombe la société capitaliste qui l’a engendré. Pamela, c’est un film sans image embarqué dans un cyclone métaphysique malgré lui. Pamela, c’est/Pamela, c’est/Pamela, c’est/Pamela, c’est/Pamela, c’est/Pamela, c’est/Pamela, c’est/Pamela, c’est/Pamela, c’est/Pamela, c’

* oniriciel, jeu vidéonirique

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Show 321: Andalusian Sound Journey by Anna Keleher

2011/05/23 knut Leave a comment

Anna Keleher is a contemporary artist who collaborates with people, places and things. While you were snug indoors this Christmas, Anna was winter camping at Sierra Subbéticas Geopark in Southern Spain where the limestone geology has attracted a vast array of life to seek shelter in its cavities. This audio piece is a journey into the richness of these Andalusian ancestral homelands. Have fun and don´t forget your raincoat!

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Show 320: An evening with Froggies by Etienne Noiseau

2011/05/16 floriane Leave a comment

Because it had to be done, the Radia piece #320 from Radio Grenouille is about… frogs.

So you’re going to hear the Mediterranean Tree Frog alias Hyla meridionalis and also some froggies looking for amphibians such as newts, and other bipeds more distant and busy with their own sounding party. Disclaimer, no frogs were eaten during the making of this piece as far as we can tell.

The whole material of this piece was recorded between 9 and 11 PM on the 30th of April 2011, during a naturalist outing led by Groupe Ornithologique du Roussillon and Chevaux & Chemins on the plateau of Roupidère.

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Show 319: Gowanus Over and Out, by Maria Papadomanolaki

2011/05/09 friz Leave a comment

Gowanus Over and Out follows the aural traces of the narrowcast audio exhibit Sib Radio Gowanus curated last year for the exhibition “Postcards from Gowanus” (Cabinet Magazine Gallery, March 17-20 2010, Gowanus, Brooklyn, New York). The conceptual backbone of the project was to create a sonic wallpaper that would reflect the aural undertones, both real and imagined, of the area surrounding the gallery. It also served as an organic sonotopia that inhabited the audiovisual exhibits in a process of associative interaction. Responding to a call for works, a total of 44 U.S. and international artists from diverse creative backgrounds contributed works ranging from drones and field recordings to spoken word pieces and experimental sonic artworks. Gowanus Over and Out attempts to offer a glimpse into some of the different facets of the exhibit while at the same time being its own self-expanding universe of sounds.

More information at http://sibradio.blogspot.com/

Gowanus Over and Out is produced by Maria Papadomanolaki for Radia network member free103point9 and their newly launched full-power FM station WGXC-90.7-FM in upstate New York.

The piece features samples of the following works:

Myke Dodge Weiskopf – Helicopter http://www.myke.me/wordpress/

Sogar – Tapete  http://www.monohr.com/Sogar.html

Knut Aufermann – avi5  http://knut.klingt.org/

Sterling Basement – Drowned in the Canal  http://www.johnroach.net/pages/2002_sterling_basement.html

Solo Andata – Ablation  http://solo-andata.com/ http://soundcloud.com/soloandata

verdi_spirali – on_earth@in_space  http://www.myspace.com/verdispirali

Jonny Farrow – Gowanus Walk  http://jonnyfarrow.net/

Radio Ruido – all artifacts  http://radioruidotriangulation.blogspot.com

Maria Papadomanolaki – Cabinet  http://www.voicesoundtext.com/

Lina Lapelyte – MATB1  http://www.myspace.com/lapelyte

Maria Papadomanolaki – Playground (Radia edit)  http://www.voicesoundtext.com/

Todd Merrell – As March Times On  http://www.toddmerrell.com

Mark Templeton – Safely into March  http://www.fieldsawake.com/

Bryan Zimmerman – Blobs Of Yellow-Green Sun  http://www.free103point9.org/artists/998

Last Days – Walls  http://www.lastdaysmusic.co.uk/

A.G – Polygon:08|1  http://agpolygon08.blogspot.com/

Myke Dodge Weiskopf – VNG  http://www.myke.me/wordpress/

Maria Papadomanolaki is a Greek artist working primarily with sound in the context of phonography, audience-centered performance pieces, and radio art. Her background in language studies and interest in environmental sound inform her artistic practice. Papadomanolaki often combines these two elements in her work to amplify the intrinsic physical and psychological qualities of an experienced time and space. In 2006, she marked her transition from French language and literature to the sonic arts with Stoma—an interactive voice piece based on Samuel Beckett’s Not I exhibited in the UK and Greece. As a researcher and writer, she has presented at international conferences. Her paper, “Radio as the voice of community, locality, interactivity and experimentation,” presented at The Cyprus University of Technology and the ECREA Radio Research Section 2009 conference, will be published in the forthcoming volume Radio Content in the Digital Age: The Evolution of a Sound Medium (2011, Intellect Books). Papadomanolaki currently resides in New York where she works as a freelance artist.

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Show 318: RADIO BRECHT

2011/05/02 knut Leave a comment

RADIO BRECHT is a production of Escuela Creativa de Radio TEA FM 98.9 Zaragoza and it is based on the work of Bertolt Brecht on radio theory (1927) as a resounding tribute from TEA FM School of Radio (www.teafm.net) to the radio environment.

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Show 317: alarmist plot, by Maxime Blanpain

2011/04/25 panik Leave a comment

‘alarmist plot’
presented by Radio Panik

Some people say there are only 609 days left for human kind (according to the Maya calendar). Others pretend the Last Judgment is ongoing. Then that is little time to read again Mathew (24-25) or the Book of Revelations.

This work started with the will to use the words of a preacher i recorded few years ago in Basel (CH).

Not that i wanted to discuss the relevance/rightness of an apocalyptic preach, but something in that speech had to be pursued.
That led me to associate the vehemence of the first part with a second one more breathing and rather speechless. Now, that breath of air could either sketch an interpretation of the Noah’s journey on his arch (mentioned by the preacher), or be a response to the alarmists passion, or be a free space of no-response needed.

produced by Maxime Blanpain
mixed by Yann Leguay

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Show 316: CYFARFOD

2011/04/18 knut Leave a comment

CYFARFOD by Radio WORM

The second in a series of ‘unradioplays’ by the RW crew. The theme of this one is ‘In A Meeting’. The material is partly found footage, partly self generated, partly self-recorded. The aim of the music in this piece is as an ‘anchor’ for the ‘real’ sounds.
The whole piece just asks one question (or tries to avoid it); ‘So this is real lfe? What quality of recording did you use?’
People who (sometimes involentary) collaborated; Ver 2012, Laslo, nina, Snelwegproject (fire!), Peter Wiesnthaner, H Bakr, Lg 6, Porno 8tr, William Jennings Bryan.

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Show 315: Epic Fail No. 9 mit Paukenschlag by marufura fufunjiru

2011/04/11 hoemax Leave a comment

There are two main approaches to my artistic output. One is based on ideas. Thinking, considering, rejecting, building, destroying – everything inside my head. Mostly without notes, definitely without interim results. And then sooner or later the whole „product“ comes out like a chicken egg, ready to be published, staged….. or thrown away. The other approach is based on experiment. I simply throw myself into a situation with no ideas how to deal with them and work from there. It’s a bit like blindfolding myself and slowly removing the blindfold by running into things with my head.

For „Epic fail No. 9 mit Paukenschlag“ I followed the second approach. I had old but never published material on my computer. Mostly short notes (loops) of noise and beats. So I used chance operations to determine the length of every single track to be used („track“ as in multi-track-recording) and to determine when in time it would appear in my piece. There were over 130 tracks of lengths from a few seconds to several minutes. It all made no sense.

Up to this point I hadn’t used my ears to compose the piece. Then I listened to this first „result“ and it was…… well…… interesting. So I listened again and again and each time shortened some tracks or changed their volume. It was like tidying up a room where „a bomb had exploded“. At first I didn’t allow myself to delete any tracks at all but later changed that rule. My work here could be compared to having a sheet of paper full of random characters and then deleting some to build words of the remaining ones. Without the possibility to get them back after deletion. You have to be very careful not to destroy better possibilities for not so great ones. And you must be very careful not to lose the overview of the whole piece. Often my mind zoomed into the music to work on details and I had to force myself to regularly zoom out again for that overview.

The result is something that I first made just to entertain myself (very much me and my tastes) then „destroyed“ by chance operations (nature and not caring about whoever’s taste it may be) and finally broke down to….. have a tidy room where I could sleep and dream of sheep.

Actually I (and I guess you too) do that many times every day in real life. And usually am as unsuccesful at it as I was with „Epic Fail No. 9 mit Paukenschlag“.

“Epic Fail No. 9 mit Paukenschlag” is presented by Radio Helsinki.

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Show 314: Crossings by Barbara De Dominicis

2011/04/04 radio papesse Leave a comment

CROSSINGS is an emporium of memories documenting Naples and New York along the imaginary 41°parallel that ties them on the same latitude line. Two cities in continuous metamorphosis, revealing how fragile the fringes between reality and the imaginary may be. Analog and digital meet to witness sounds of strangers, unknown horizon, private memories and crowded streets.These sound collecting events are aimed at creating a dislocation in the listener’s uncertain perception of space through sound: a sort of unerasable ‘shadow zone’ for the imaginary city walker to inhabit a no man’s land where the boundaries between the two cities are hardly palpable, proposing a displacing where gaps between audio fragments become for a few instants a sole ‘modified’ city.

credits: most sounds have been gathered in New York and Naples (sometime between october 2009 and february 2011) then manipulated filtered and and re-worked. The track makes use of field recordings, found sounds, synthesizers, filters, Luigi’s Pizza Fritta conversations; liturgical rituals at Napoli Dome (during the days of San Gennaro’s blood miracle) Akira Kasai ‘s Buthoh Performance at the National Museum, Napoli; Porta Capuana Fruit market; Peppino reading excerpts of ‘Alzaia’ by Erri de Luca; Banda and voices during the San Rocco Parade in Nyc; Coney Island subway stations and library sounds from the american radio archive, The Naked City, Union Square Farmer Market (nyc); student’s protests in Napoli; Marc Ribot concert at the Rose-Brooklyn; New York and Napoli harbours/seagulls/ships; open/broken cables, children; vocal and spoken words and cries, casual frequencies and a few more sources…
Recorded with MD Sony, telephone, Zoom digital recorder with a stereo microphone and in-ear binaural condenser mics, Edirol R4 Pro and Rode Shot-Gun mic.

short bio
Soon Apres (Barbara De Dominicis) likes to record natural or urban sounds and merge them in her music. Her projects include Cabaret Noir (with Pasquale Bardaro), The Body exposed, Poe-Si (with Mirko Signorile and 99 Posse dubber Marco Messina); Kuul-Ma, an audio-visual project in collaboration with the media artist Davide Lonardi. In 2008 she wrote and produced the songs of her album Anti-Gone based on a narrative theme of Greek mythology. In the same years she met the canadian cello player Julia Kent; together they brought into existence Parallel 41a musical/visual/improvisatory project. Her growing interest in Sound Portraiture, led her to work on A tale of two cities, an audio collage documenting Naples and New York. In 2011 with a dozen of other artists, she gave life to Exquisite-What! a collective web/project based on surrealist’s Exquisite Cadaver pratice. At the moment she is working on a new solo album under the moniker Apres Soon: an assemblage of drones and field recordings, electronics, voices and string instruments.

Crossings is presented by Radio Papesse.

You can download the show here