We bring to you, a wonderful recently unearthed musique électronique radio show from the early twenties, in the United States of America. They probably used awkward analogue computer mechanisms as big as twenty twenty twenty story buildings to be able to produce this kind of music. More info @ www.disphilharmonia.blogspot.com
Show 303: Paivascapes
This piece, created by the Binaural/Nodar collective, is a sound narrative about the Paiva River, located in Northern Portugal. This river runs for about 112 Km. It’s spring is near the village of Carapito in Moimenta da Beira Municipality and it ends in the Douro River, near Castelo de Paiva. Not many years ago the Paiva was considered one of the least polluted rivers in Europe and is classified by EU as a Site of Community Importance within the Natura 2000 network.
The Paiva is a mountain river with a rocky bed (granite and slate stone) that can either show its rebellious side (strong currents associated with the seasonal variations of its torrent and with the narrowness and unevenness of its bed in several areas), or gently slide through terraces of agricultural fields, crossing small rural riverside villages that live in close connection with it.
The narrative revolves around the uncertainties that exist about the exact spot where the river starts. You can listen a villager pinpointing the exact locations where different small streams gather to form the river, others discuss different theories and don’t reach any positive conclusion and one lady asserts that the river begins in two different locations: one of them being an hermitage on top of a mountain, the Senhora da Lapa, where people gather in pilgrimage once a year. Other themes are also present: the agricultural use of riverside lands, the names of particular “poços” or depressions where people claim “the river is bottomless”, the locations of the watermills where people used to grind corn and the places where fish was or still is abundant.
The recordings of the river itself are taken from different perspectives: overall soundscapes of different sections of the river and details of the water flow and the local fauna, both recorded above water and underwater.
Binaural/Nodar is will be organizing, from March 4th to 8th, the Paiva River Sound Festival, that will include a series of exhibitions, performances and conferences totally dedicated to the Paiva River and will take place in several venues and riverside locations in the Paiva valley. In particular, around 15 international artists will present the result of the projects they began last year in a series of artist residencies in different locations along the Paiva River. For more information you can visit http://binauralmedia.org or http://paivascapes.org.
Brodcasted from 17/01/11 > 23/01/11
Show 302: Leave in Silence by Patrick Thinsy
Leave in silence by Patrick Thinsy
“Turntables, Coxyde, Improvisation, Pipe Recording, Silence, Noise, Electro-magnetic sounds.”
Patrick Thinsy is a part of the radio show Martiensgohome on Radio Campus Bruxelles.
Patrick’s website : http://pthandaround.wordpress.com/
“Leave in silence” was produced by Patrick Thinsy for Radio Campus Bruxelles
janvier 2011 – www.radiocampusbruxelles.org
Show 301: surface sound by David Strang
Show 300: the exclamation of a Lilliputian discovering Gulliver
Ekin Degull
Whatever the power of words, we already are on the other side, where the universe of Swift, Verne, London mingle happily to embark us on a ship, drifting from the surface to the underwaters depths …
A prism of preposterous stories with many fascinating animals coming from the dawn of time, just for traumatizing children.
A radio time in 2 times & 3 movements for a listening where you are the hero.
Ekina Degull
Peu importe le pouvoir des mots, nous venons de passer de l’autre coté, là où les univers de Swift, Verne, London se mélangent joyeusement pour nous embarquer dans une aventure improbable, sur un navire qui dérive de la surface aux profondeurs sous-marines…
Un prisme d’histoires abracadabrantesques avec des animaux extraordinaires venus de la nuit des temps, juste pour traumatiser les enfants.
Une création radiophonique en 2 temps & 3 mouvements pour une écoute dont vous êtes le héros.
Réalisation : Loise Bulot, Tony Regnauld, Floriane Pochon
Show 299: The Tetrahedron – Snowhere
The Tetrahedron is a fundamental sonic volume with 4 sides. A regular Tetrahedron is formed by 4 equilateral broadcasts, taking parts in an asymmetric radiophonic rotation system.
Even if Snowhere was done in a cold Brussels winter, the Tetrahedron still at a basement temperature by screaming like a 4 bits chaman, whispering some headwinds into the basement,
then finaly making peace after a white war by an acoustic orgy.
With: Jean-François Blanquet, Jean-Marcel Busson, Fabrice Cesario, Aymeric
De Tapol and Yann Leguay
Voices by: Maxime Blanpain and Suzy Bretchkov
Recorded in december 2010 at his Aunt’s basement , Brussels
www.le-tetraedre.org
Show 298: The Worm Radio Song Poem Radia Show
This show consists of a number of songs that were made by the Radio WORM Song Poem Crew at the STRP Festival in Eindhoven (november 2010). The theme was ’80ties cassette culture’ and the idea was that the audience could choose a genre from a menu, write a text, pay 3 euro’s, and then the Radio WORM Song Poem Crew would make the song with ‘original’ 80ties gear (the most advanced device being a 4track cassette machine), hence the ‘vintage’ sound qualities of the pieces. The song was delivered within a short time (5 – 30 minutes) to the client on cassette tape. The available genres on the menu were; Depressing Lo Fi Noise, Boring Art Shit, Early Happy Commodore, Gay Budget Beats, Industrial SM Love Songs, Echoïstic Melancholia Dub, Fucked Up Cassette Hardcore and Incredible Cheap Casio-Pop. There were 19 songs made in a few hours, the best of them you’ll find here. Text subjects vary from ode’s to leaving colleague’s, the impossibilities of having a love affair where one lives in Eindhoven and the other in Amsterdam, Statements about Radio Art, a Monty Cantsin Neoist Song and lots of boring and horrible poetry. Enjoy!
People involved; Lukas Simonis, Henk Bakker, Robert Kroos, Merijn van Ham, Joost Bult, Alexander van Straten, Annemarie Nijhof, Rik Den Dood
Show 297: data radio, pt.4 by Johannes Raggam
johannes raggam for radio helsinki
data radio, pt.4 is an experiment to transmit encoded digital data over a civil FM radio network. the sounds received can be decoded using special, freely available software or – if available – hardware devices. with the process of encoding digital data, transmitting it over terrestrial radio networks and decoding at endpoints an simple alternative to the network called internet is created.
in fact, such guerrilla networks were successfully created by different parties in crisis/war situations. for example, the serbian radio b92 used CB radio transmission for exchanging information with isolated parts of former yugoslavia.
listeners of radia.fm are encouraged to decode or record (for later decoding) the data or just listen to the stream of fax noise.
for decoding, follow these instructions:
* install the software to decode the encoded data and configure it according to the settings explained below.
* connect the line-out of your stereo with the line-in of your computer.
alternatively, but trickier, redirect an internet audio stream to the decoding software.
“data radio” – in german “datenradio” – started as a project for the “netart community convention 2009″ in graz by johannes raggam in collaboration with christian pointner. for more information (in german) see [1][2].
Settings for HamFax on linux
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carrier 800Hz
deviation 400Hz
modulation FM
filter middle
lpm 200
color mode
Software for decoding
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linux
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HamFax: http://hamfax.sourceforge.net/
windows (untested)
”””””””””
MultiPSK: http://f6cte.free.fr/index_anglais.htm
MultiFAX: http://www.qsl.net/n2zde/index.html
OSX (untested)
”””””””
MultiMode: http://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/multimode.html
References
[1] https://wiki.mur.at/ncc09/DatenRadio
[2] http://ncc09.mur.at/doku/media.html
Special: Curated by RADIA: und ein und aus by Barbara Kaiser
The last part of Radia’s series for Kunstradio’s „Curated by“ is a work by Vienna based artist Barbara Kaiser. She puts the intimate and nearly silent physical act of breathing in contrast to the vast metal cylinder of the Gasometer in Oberhausen, where a 48-hours-workshop was held this summer.
Radia, a network of independent radio stations and radio artists in Europe and beyond, has invited eight people to spend time together in the industrial monument. From the material that was recorded and produced there, the artists have created five pieces. Each very different, they share the experience of the Radio Art Camp in Oberhausen as well as the reference to the Gasometer.
„the basis for my piece are recordings of the participating artists breathing when climbing up the exterior staircase of the gasometer – 592 steps. on the other hand i use the acoustic frequences animated by playing back these sound in the interior of the building.“
(Barbara Kaiser)
Show 296: Life Expectations by Alessandro Bosetti
Somewhere in between musical compositions, songs, literary essays, poems or unreligious mantras, close to Robert Ashley, Rene Lussier, Peter Ablinger, Ornette Coleman (or even the asymmetrical rhythms of Steve Coleman and Henry Threadgill), Life Expectation by Alessandro Bosetti is constructed around the intricate emotional, rhythmic and melodic counterpoints of a casual conversation.
Bosetti translates intonations of speech into complex and seemingly orchestral scores where meaning, tone and noise are melted into each other. Several variations of techniques known as shadowing or convolution were used in the making of it. Sometimes digital devices were used, some other times analogue – almost hand made – techniques. He has been pouring words into notes. Notes into noise and then again noise into meaning. He has been exploring spoken languages and the implication of repetition.
“Life Expectations” is taken from Royal, his latest album released last october 2010.
Life Expectations – CC Alessandro Bosetti 2010
Electronics, other Instruments and Field Recordings : Alessandro Bosetti
Text by Alessandro Bosetti after words of Chris Heenan and Fernanda Farah
Mastering : Martin Siewert
Alessandro Bosetti was born in Milan, Italy in 1973. He is a composer and multidisciplinary artist working on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication, producing text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcastings and published recordings. In his work he moves across the line between sound anthropology and composition, often including translation and misunderstanding in the creative process. Field research and interviews build the basis for abstract compositions, along with electro-acoustic and acoustic collages, relational strategies, trained and untrained instrumental practices, vocal explorations and digital manipulations. Recent text sound projects include African Feedback (Errant Bodies press), the interactive speaking machine “MaskMirror” (STEIM, Kunstradio.at a.o. ) and his own ensemble Trophies with guitar player Kenta Nagai, vocalist Christian Kesten, and drummers Morten J.Olsen and Ches Smith. Alessandro Bosetti has been touring extensively in europe, USA and Asia and lives in Berlin (Germany).
www.melgun.net