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Show 310: Idea of North

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The Idea of North Revisited.

In 1967 Glen Gould, a famous Canadian pianist, produced a radio piece called “The Idea of North” for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.  The original “Idea of North” consists of five overlapping interviews mixed with ambient noises and has since become iconic in its representation of the Canadian themes of isolation, withdrawal, and solitude.  I always felt that perhaps the most interesting thing about this peice is that Gould neglected to interview a single Inuit person about his or her “Idea of North.”  So I felt that it would be an interesting and rewarding experiment to re-mix this peice with different perspectives of the north.  The Idea of North Revisited splices and dices the original radio work along with field recordings of the north; beat-boxing; phone messages; news footage of Canadian military expansion in the north; throat singers Ida Oweetaluk, Margaret Miner, Lisa Kasudluak, Anisie Nowkawalk; hip-hop beats constructed by youth from the Inter-Tribal Youth Centre in Montreal through the CKUT beat workshop; elders speaking about climate change in the arctic from the film Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change by Zacharias Kanuk and Dr. Ian Mauro; DJ Mad Eskimo, spoken-word artist Mosha Folger; field recordings by Nimalan Yoganathan; and a collage of sounds from Jana Winderen’s installation Energy Field.  Thanks to everyone who participated and left all those great messages on my phone!

Artist Bio: Cathy Inouye co-hosts the radio-art show Easy Sonic Living on CKUT.  She has previously collaborated on the Radia show Snow Squabbles with Neil Griffith and Caroline Kunzle.  As Ovaries of Steel she has performed at the Megapolis Festival in Baltimore in 2010 and in the 2011 edition of Nuit Blanche in Montreal.  She also plays tuba with the radical street marching band the Chaotic Insurection Ensemble and has played with Nic Caloia’s Ratchet Orchestra.

http://easysonicliving.wordpress.com

www.inukjuaksoundmap.com

www.isuma.tv
Radio CKUT 90.3 FM

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Show 309: Raw Audio Recording #1 by Gabi Schaffner

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RAR – Raw Audio Recording #1
Gabi Schaffner/rawaudio/interdisciplinary artist

In my work, I try to encourage communicaton, non-hierarchic perspectives and sharing. This is why I like the amalgamation of
different media and the experimental shift of identity into/between different cultures. Within this frame, field recording is treated as a carrier of cultural concepts, just as (documentary) photography is a carrier of visually encoded cultural messages.

Tracklist:
01 Boatmotor, 00:19, 2009 *
02 Introduction into Raw Audio, 02:25, 2011
03 Hamepilvet 1, 02:36, 2005 *
04 Saippuakaupias 1, 00:36, 2005 *
05 Lumilaulu, 00:53, 2005 *
06 Lumivalssi 1, 01:35, 2005 *
07 Bells + Cars short, 00:33, 2009 ***
08 Lumenkulta, 02:20, 2006 *
09 Uima Uima, 00:24, 2009 ***
10 Broken Chamber, 01:55, 2006 **
11 Jazzy Tank, 03:23, 2006 **
12 Fragments of Pipi, 03:12, 2006 **
13 kantelePT, 04:47, 2010 ****
14 La Nautilus II, 01:52, 2009 ***
15 WhiteFoam, 01:35, 2006 ***
16 Otto Mötö (part a) 01:46, 2009 ***

*
„ Finnish Snow-walks and Dances“
A compilation of Finnish snow music and a mixture of traditional as well as current arrangements and fieldrecordings. Collected and compiled between 2002 and 2004 by the music anthopologist Sisukas Poronainen and myself. inofficially Eine Kompilation finnischer Schneemusiken. Released in 2005 as a vinyl (and vinyl only!) by gruenrekorder, Frankfurt.

**
„ Music for Bathrooms & Toilets“

Fieldrecordings/ Sample-Compositions Audioinstallation-CD for use in wet rooms only.
 27:31 min. Laminated artist edition (waterproof).
Price: 18 Euro
 12 copies.

Music for Bathrooms and Toilets explores the intriguing melodies of running water within the human habitat. This CD presents a compilation of bathroom recordings and mixed audio material. Some pieces have been cut with samples from other fieldrecordings (mainly from Iceland) and free mp3- tracks from the internet. The intention is to create a relaxing atmosphere – not entirely without humour – for the pleasures enjoyed in a private restroom.

Track 10 + 12. Samples used: Courtesy Peter Ware.

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„ Fieldrecordings“
A collection of field recordings. FI. 2009
Track 14: Organ played by Mi Duncker

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„ Musiques d’ Orion“
11 Field recording compositions FI, F und D. To be released by
entr’acte.uk in 2011
Track 13: Kantele by Teemu Tuonela. Haiku song by Inka Malm.

Planned for 2012. OTTO MÖTÖ: The Archives of Martti Mauri (1947-2001)
“Otto Möto” deals with the lost and found-again archives of Jyväskylä-born motor engine researcher and modern composer Martti Mauri (1935-2003). Experts herald Mauri’s avantgarde compositions as a forerunner of techno and new media music. And yes: This is another concept album by rawaudio. The track broadcasted, „ Otto Mötö“ , is based on fieldrecordings of Finnish motor (environment)s and was edited by Martin Moritz, Hamburg. This is NOT the final version!

CV
http://schaffnerin.net/html/schaffner/schaffnerGB.html

NB this is a replacement show for radio x

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Show 308: Starlings from Hjertøya sing Kurt Schwitters by Wolfgang Müller

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Wolfgang Müllers Housemusic –

Starlings from Hjertøya sing Kurt Schwitters

In summer 1997 discovered Wolfgang Müller the House on the small Island Hjertøya opposite the westnorwegian city Molde, in which Kurt Schwitters stood during summertime from 1932 on. It is full of destroyed Collages, writings and over and over painted plaster columns. Till a few years before the door stood open and everybody could join in.
In front of the house, laying in the grasses, Wolfgang Müller listened once a Starling producing strange noises. He noticed, that in anyway he already knew these sounds from before. And he reminded passages of the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters.
Starlings are masters of Copyart. A former grandfather or grandmother of this starling singing passages of the ursonate should have heared Kurt Schwitters in 1932 on the Island. Wolfgang Müller recorded the voice of the copyartist-starling singing Kurt Schwitters.

Wolfgang Müller is born on 24 October, 1957, in the Lower Saxony town of Wolfsburg. Today he spends most of his time in Berlin and Reykjavík.

News:  www.myspace.com/wolfgangmueller

During his high school days, he puts together a collection of his classmates’ cribs.

He studies at the Faculty of Graphic Design/Visual Communications at Berlin University of the Arts between 1980 and 1985. His degree show, in 1986, is presented in the Faculty of Film Design under Professor Wolfgang Ramsbott: a performance by his group Die Tödliche Doris, founded in 1980.

In 1982, he publishes his book Geniale Dilletanten. A typing error becomes a theme for a collection of writings.

With Ueli Etter in 1986, he embarks on the Galerie Eisenbahnstrasse project, designed to last for one year, in the basement of a house on Manteuffelstrasse, Berlin.

In 1987, Wolfgang Müller dissolves Die Tödliche Doris into an Italian white wine. At the exhibition, vino tavola bianco, at Galerie Swinger in Berlin, vino da tavola bianco is both the exhibit on show and the drink served at the opening. Seven years later, Die Tödliche Doris is poured out at Galerie von Witzleben in Karlsruhe, this time in the form of a white Burgundy from Schweigen. A book documenting the dissolution process is published by Martin Schmitz Verlag.

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Show 307: Reality Theft

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REALITY THEFT
The instrument as a pendeling something.
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A talk with the musician Stefan Fraunberger who calls himself a researcher for inner realities in acoustic events. He collected a couple of electroacoustic artists, Richard Bruzek, Daniel Lercher, Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, and Vinzenz Schwab, in the same way he is collecting soundscapes. He stole them.
Together they created an ironic afternnoon of soundscapes and multichanneling by joyfully arranging 12 loudspeakers. The hall  started to swing.

Stefan Fraunberger is doing sound-research concerning noise, language and harmony in the context of
vowels and consonants in different cultural and religious traditions with the aim of what he calls pragmatic sound-results.

This afternoon session on Feb 5th 2011 was presented by Volkmar Klien at the Alte Schmiede in Vienna.
The recording-artist is nothing but a theft.

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Soundscapes in order of acoustic appearance:
Vinzenz Schwab http://vinzenz.klingt.org/film.html
Richard Bruzek
Daniel Lercher http://lercher.klingt.org/
Lale Rodgarkia-Dara http://speis.net
Stefan Fraunberger http://stefan.fraunberger.at/

Live-recording of the multi-channeling setting at the Alte Schmiede:
Vinzenz Schwab

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Show 306: audio diary of a Chris Watson workshop by Dianne Weller

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XL AIR asked Dianne Weller to report on her wild cart into a Chris Watson workshop:
I was lucky enough to be granted access to be a participant in this workshop of the UK based Sound Artist Chris Watson, run by the Rits Radio Department last October 2010.

My inspiration for doing so, was to extend my artistic practices from a vocal performer into sound design and installation work. Since Chris Watson has a diverse background working in music, documentary, film and installation work I thought what better mentor would there be to introduce me to this new and challenging arena.  I don’t mean to sound flippant and as a complete novice to this world, but it was In short,  an experience equatable to learning to be a fighter jet pilot in just a few short days! With his ease and gracious style of lecturing Chris has a impactful manner in imparting his immense knowledge on the subject he is clearly passionately living – Sound. This workshop was centering around the sounds  of the city and we exposed ourselves to the sounds of Brussels and what it has to offer us through the visionary ears of Chris Watson.

I had no idea of what to do with the material I was collecting at the beginning of the week then finally by the end of the journey thought the best way to capture this was to formulate it into this audio Diary I had made of my own experiences. These sound scapes that fill the diary are a collection of the collaborative work of the group and Chris’ personal samples.

Now I feel I have a good headstart to venture into the world of sound.

Dianne Weller

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Show 305: In an Octopus’s Den by Octopus Collective

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The making of Octopus’s Den was initiated by Knut Aufermann and Sarah Washington (AKA Mobile Radio) during a short visit they made to our HQ in Barrow Park. They introduced us to the technique of pause-button recording which is a simple way of realtime editing of live recording using the pause button on the recorder (in this case the Zoom H4n) and suggested that we use it to make a piece of work based on the activity in our office and studios. What you hear is drawn from both significant and mundane events in our collective life over the last few months including:

our ancient plumbing system after flushing the loo
an office meeting to discuss the strategy for our application to Arts Council England for portfolio funding for 2012-15
pieces commissioned for our events on the Bandstand in the park from artists Paul Rooney (Spit Valve) and Mark Vernon (Christmas Rewind)
clearing up glass from a window broken by vandals
John learning the violin
moving equipment around
walking upstairs
and much more…..

we hope you find something to enjoy.

Octopus Collective is a not-for-profit Sound Arts company led by three professional artists with an associate membership drawn from a broad range of practitioners working from the old Park Keeper’s house in the middle of Barrow Park in Barrow in Furness. Alongside their own practice they curate the Full of Noises festival which is an annual programme of experimental music and sound art based in Cumbria UK. The first FON Festival took place in October 2009 with a programme that included 4 residencies/commissions, a weekend of live performances, radio broadcasts and a workshop programme.

www.octopuscollective.org
www.fonfestival.org

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Show 303: Paivascapes

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paivascapes: show 303

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