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Show 249: A New Year Show by Lucinda Guy

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This is a traditional story about when the moon fell in the river, became trapped by bad fairies and rescued by villagers. I’ve retold it for Radia including recordings made during the last year, mostly of my children and friends playing in a river. There’s also music improvised by children. There are some hymns and carols, some of which first appeared as part of my ‘swimming in the stream’ radio series, using our station’s webstream to create loops and effects.

Thanks to:
Children at Bidwell Brook school, Dartington, who created some of the music Catherine Guy, who sings Shakespeare’s full fathom 5 with me
Ergo Phizmiz who reads the part of the man who fell in.
Beowulf, Artemis, Marlowe and Demeter who played in the river and chatted.
Ariane Delaunois, Nell Harrison and Kate Paxman who also recorded the children at our workshops last summer.

Happy New Year from all at Soundart Radio

Specials

Special: Small Journeys, Long Distance by Lucinda Guy

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“Shows from the Radia Network travel… from one artist’s ears to another’s. From one small community to another, far away. Within the shows journeys take place too, whether a walk through the shopping centre or a trip into space.
This collage, built from fragments of some of 2009’s contributions, celebrates these journeys large and small; what they have in common and what sets them apart.”

Lucinda Guy, artist, composer and co-founder of Soundart Radio, has compiled a 37-minutes radio journey through last year’s Radia universe for Kunstradio, using extracts of the following productions:

·         Out of Space, War of the Worlds from Orange 94.0, Vienna

·         Our Domestic Radiation by Anna Friz for Free103point9, New York

·         Snow Squabbles by Neil Griffith, Cathy Inouye  Caroline Kunzle for Ckut, Montreal

·         Incidental Parallels by Pôm Bouvier B. for Radio Grenouille

·         Radiodance Opus.01: Y Do B?, by F. Ribeiro, for Rádio Zero

·         Silence Radio: Ruisselle by Philippe Vandendriessche; Greetings from Italy by Damien Magnette; Nous, les Défunts by Yannick Dauby. From Radio Campus, Bruxelles

·         Stiller Marktschrei  by Stephan Roth from Orange 94.0, Vienna

·         Closing Down, by GilbertandGrape from Soundart Radio, Dartington

·         This Means War by Andrej  Ancevski for Kanal 103, Skopje

·         Fragments of Stratford Shopping Centre  by Martin Williams, for Resonance 104.4fm, London

·         The Forester And Me (Burning Ice) by Maarten Lauwaert and Joris Van Damme for XL Air

·         Rug Radio by Maria Papadomanolaki for Free103point9 New York

·         Flare: Real Energy World / Niger Delta By Eva Ursprung for Klubradio/Herbstradio Berlin

·         Why Don’t You Go Home? by Cathryn Morgan Richards for  Soundart Radio, Dartington

·         Awaiting for the Waters to Rise by Frederic Alstadt  for Radio Campus Brussels

·         Mayon Volcano  by Andreas Loeschner Gornau for Radio Corax, Halle

·         Playground: Art Games by Miss Gunst for Radio X, Frankfurt

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Show 248: Albert & Serge by Erik Samakh

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Erik Samakh was in residence in Cameroon by the end of December 2008. Thanks to his partnership with a Pallisco-certified logging company that implements sustainable forest management, he had the chance to visit the forest area in the upper Nyong division of Eastern Cameroon.

He meant to bring the forest sounds back to the urban space, as a way to highlight the break that is often felt by inhabitants in large urban mega-cities .

A sensory way to remind the major importance – on symbolic, emotional and environmental levels – of a forest that physical distance could devote to a silent degradation.

For Radia, Erik Samakh offers an immersive experience in the most remote zone of Makalayathat mountains, a quasi-primary forest, still untapped, where ape calls keep resounding in a near-dialogue with humans, Albert and Serge…

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Show 246: Memento: Internationale by Adrian Hall

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This an atmospheric work for radio which takes place inside the head, and the history, of an elderly man.

He dwells on moments and places he may have been, and the life in turn of his father.
The work is initially set in the shaving mirror of his home, and touches on mortality, and the trades of working men everywhere, be they learned in the military, or as an apprentice.
There is too a hint of criminal violence. Another way of making a living.
A recurring theme of blood, consumer objects and the nostalgic history of radio itself allows him to meander in his mind, and to reflect on a life of change. A single human voice is contrasted with recordings of vintage radio commercials extolling the virtues of the workers behind production lines, now derelict: and the narrations of the old man are largely carried by synthesised voices from a computer. The purring of a cat overtakes and completes his domestic reveries.

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Show 244: work.labour.the grind

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We all do it: work!
CKUT invites you to explore the diverse, and sometimes absurd, world of jobs.

work.labour.the grind
by ckut / Eric Boivin / Gabrielle Anctil / Jamie Woollard / Adelaid / Ashley Bowa / Cathy Inoyue / Esther B / Dominique Ferraton / Kaitlin Prest / Rachel Ni Chuinn
production: Rachel Ni Chuinn + friends

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Show 243: playground : art games

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join us on the playground and enjoy…

miss gunst wants to thank the following artists and sound creators for creating wonderful pieces and sharing them on freesound:
lonemonk, shades, freesound, dobroide, cognito perceptu, freqman, jaava73, onive and fieldmuzick as well as freesound for being such a great resource for sound workers.

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Show 242: Mayon Volcano by Andreas Loeschner Gornau

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Mayon Volcano is the title of a multi-layer art work by Andreas Loeschner Gornau, an artist from Halle living on the Philippines.
Loeschner visited the island from 2006 on several times- also during the catastrophe in 2006 after long rain and volcano activities. Our half an hour pictures the emotional impacts during the travels. Loeschner’s voice got a little help by his personal computer.

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Show 241: Tarikh Korula NY Art Book Fair

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This Radia show from free103point9 in New York comes from Tarikh Korula’s performance Sat. Oct. 3 at the NY Art Book Fair sponsored by the Printed Matter book store at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens. Korula says of the performance: “I’ve always been too cheap to collect vinyl. Instead, over the past decade, I’ve amassed an eclectic mix of sound files that I’ve used in installation and improvised performance. For the Book Fair show, I’m using two turntables and a broken crossfader to que, mix and manipulate sound from my quirky archive. Sounds include brown noise, EMS dispatches, contact mic recordings of buildings, personal compositions, reappropriated media and archival news and radio reports. The hope is to create a spartan and at times dense collage of sound, documentation and fiction.”