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Show 175: How far from home are we?

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An Illustrated Radio Journey By Anna Keleher and Claire Long Journey Collaborators, Rebecca Beinart, Claire Long and Anna and Mark Keleher.
Based on a journey from the UK to Helsinki and back by land and sea, the “illustrated radio journey” sits somewhere between sound art and travel documentary.

Based on a journey from the UK to Helsinki and back by land and sea, the “illustrated radio journey” sits somewhere between sound art and travel documentary. On-site recordings, ambient sounds, creative reflection and narration are woven together to give the listener glimpses of the experiences of the journey. Collaborative drawings and tally-sticks also created on the journey provide a visual counterpart to the radio piece. The illustrated radio journey lives on the web at http://journey.uber.com and through a series of coordinated installations and radio broadcasts.

Visit the Radio Journey Project website at: http://journey.uber.com

Claire Long and Anna Keleher have been collaborating since October, 2007. Their collaborative practice arose from shared interests in archaeology, Dartmoor, walking and sound collection and has evolved through continued exploration of place, site-specific and sound-based works.

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Show 174: Grenade

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Grenade : une pièce phonographique à partir des marches expérimentales des associations Medit. en Andalousie.

Captations : robin R., carole Lorthiois et Unuagist.

Finalisation : robin R. et étienne Noiseau.

Composition : robin R. et Unuagist.

« Grenade est une ville
Grenade est un fruit
Grenade est un explosif…

Grenade devient pour moi une pièce phonographique: la source d’une joie immense, une adresse à des amitiés aériennes… il me sera toujours difficile d’en parler tant de sentiments se sont mêlés à ce voyage exotérique ! Je sais qu’il y a quelque chose de déterminant là-dedans, de tragique. J’espère qu’il ne s’agit pas d’un paradis perdu…. Soulevons-nous ! -criait cet homme dans son porte-voix, avant que la police espagnole l’embarque devant la sortie d’une église, face à une population muselée, incapable de le défendre. »

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Show 172: sechzehn kleine noise etüden by stefan beck

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with his sixteen small noise exercises stefan beck offers a selection of training units for lovers of abstract & non-representational audio arts.

the piece was conceived and created for radiator x / radia.fm international art radio network in april 2008.

stefan beck is an artist active in several field of analog and digital media, including text, audio/sound/noise and radio plays, a whole range of performative productions and last but not least web based works.
since the mid-1990ies, he’s running the frankfurt node of the thing.

find further info on the following websites:
www.stefanbeck.de – www.scratchbeck.net – www.noise-concept.de
www.thing-frankfurt.de

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Show 171: Audio Tourismus

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Audio Tourismus was a one week rechercheproject in Halle. Eight artists from Kaliningrad and Halle collected sounds and produced this radia-show live in the rooms of Corax and on-air. The artists were orientating on common Tourism, but the used accoustic impressions instead of visuals. There will be a similiar project in Kaliningrad later.
The artists from Halle were: Bjoern Kliem, Andreas Theile, Claus Stoermer and Erik Wycisk – from Kaliningrad came Danil AkimovStirliTZ (Andrey Kolomyjcev)Urri (Andrey Gladkov)Vadim Chalyj from Media-Lab Kaliningrad

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Show 170: Radio Wonderland by Joshua Fried

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Joshua Fried contributes free103point9’s latest show for the Radia network. The Radio Wonderland slogan is “turning the bits and bytes of commercial culture into the driving backbeat to our dance of independence.” (Wait a a minute–doesn’t THAT sound like an ad right there? Oh, the recursion is making us dizzy.) Every Radio Wonderland show starts with an empty palette, and all sounds are gathered from a live boombox playing commercial FM radio. All processing is done in Max/MSP software written by Joshua Fried. And all the processing is controlled in real time by Fried, using a vintage steering wheel (from a Buick 6), old shoes hit with sticks, and various gizmos. The surreal touch of using these ordinary objects is meant to underscore the absurd disconnect between digital controller (drum pad, mouse, infra red) and the sound it triggers or controls. This live recording was made in February ’08 at the Spark Festival, Minneapolis Minnesota. The 35 minute raw material was condensed and gently remixed by NYC producer DJ Easy Beat.

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Show 169: stille zone/silent zone

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European soccer championship – an acoustic invasion of the city. Fearing the masses and the noise. Such were the expectations – wandering around the fanzone the days before the upcoming event.
No entry – closed – under construction: The fanzone is creating deserted spaces of silence. The noise ephemeral.
A story of expectations not being met. Imagine a fanzone and no one turns up.

Authors: Michael Fischer, Caroline Hofer, Barbara Kaiser, Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Fiona Steinert

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Show 166: Deep, Down and Under by Jean-Philippe Renoult

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“Deep, Down and Under” is a contemplative audio work that plays with the natural resonances of underground spaces. The piece begins in the main station of Helsinki where the icy cold sharpness of Winter amplify the comings and goings of the trains. From there we are taken to a number of diverse sonic locations; from the empty metro tunnels of Oslo, down to the subterranean underpaths of Montreal, through the 18 km labyrinth of Gallo-Roman chalk vaults in the champagne cellars in Reims, ending up in a tiny toy shop down a claustrophobic alley in Venice.

production : Jean-Philippe Renoult
mastering : Jano B @ Parisson

Jean-Philippe Renoult is a sound artist, radio producer, writer and music journalist based in Paris. His work focuses on field recordings and electroacoustical transformation of environmental sounds. Recent commissions and collaborations include I could never make that Music Again, for the Radiodays festival, De Appel gallery, Amsterdam. The album won “Best Artist” prize at the Qwartz Electronic Music awards 2008. He also curated and presented the Voir et Entendre (See and Hear) cycle of conferences at the Pompidou Centre Paris. His audio works have been played on Resonance FM, Kunst Radio, France Culture, ABC Classic, and have been edited on Deep Wireless 2008 edition, Vibrö 2 (the Broken Tale issue), Aphasia, Subrosa labels.