In this episode, we will take a listen to 3 audio pieces, created by radiostudents from RITS, Brussels. Tom Van Gysegem, Hanne De Nil and Jeroen Uyttendaele all created an artistic oriented audio piece during their time as a student at RITS. More info can be found at www.rits.be or at www.xlair.be.
Special: Radia 2008 Review by Ricardo Reis and João Bacalhau
35 minutes to highlight the production for the whole year of 2008 of the Radia network would compress the 44 radio programs (1232 minutes), in a 0.028 ratio…
The 2008 review mix for Kunstradio represents a personal choice (compiled by Ricardo Reis and João Bacalhau) of the amazingly large spectrum of material that was produced throughout 2008. A list identifying the shows that were plundered for this work is given bellow (no special order). We hope it entices listeners’ curiosity to listen to more Radia shows and check the descriptions on http://www.radia.fm. And, YES, if you are an artist, send an email to the station nearer you and propose a program to Radia.
“The Dispatcher” by Kristin Lucas, show #146, from free103point9 “
radioradar_x” by Marold Langer-Philippsen, show #147, from Radio Corax
radiophonic, show #148 from Radio Grenouille
“Canticles of the First Floor” by Pedro Coelho, show #152 from Rádio Zero
“Learning Tibetan” by earweego (Echo Ho and Hannes Hoelzl), show #153, from Resonance104.4FM
“I was listening wind of Himalaya in My former life…” by Lasonick, show #156, from Lemurie Prague
“wolves in Greenland” by Ralf Wendt, show #158, from Radio Corax
“Silent Zone” by Michael Fischer, Caroline Hofer, Barbara Kaiser, Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Fiona Steinert, show #169, from Radio Orange “
lisbon underground” by Amadeu, show #169, from Radio Zero
“Northern relationships”, show #173 (from CKUT)
“Mechanical water” by Aymeric de Tapol, show #177, from Radio Campus
“Blackbox, Sounds of a Society”, show #179 from Kanal 103
“state of radio”, show #181 from XL Air
“autophones rlxtended” by Michael Gambacurta and Matthias S. Krüger, show #186, from RadioX
It’s a Money Party – A global youtube election redux” by Berlin Backyard Radio, show #188, from Reboot
“Black Water Brown Water” by David Prior, show #190, from Soundart
“mixing borders”, show #195 from Resonance104.4fm
Show 195: Mixing Borders
Listening to the radio is like traveling and when you travel you cross borders. How does it sound when you mix borders? Borders on your map, borders in your head. Enjoy a cup of tea, or a good cognac, while listening to Mixing Borders.
Produced by Selma Gültoprak, Keiko Takahashi, David Hahlbrock, Franziska Windisch, Julia Weißenberg and Oliver Salkic.
This show is one of the outcomes of the Airtime seminar at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. http://www2.khm.de/airtime/
Show 194: There is a Tommy pilot in the end by Ricardo Reis
Another dada collage by yours truly. An I tell you the truth, the is a Tommy pilot in the end.
Backup show for Kanal103 slot
Show 193: The Military Landscape Show by Jay Needham
Lange Beschreibung The sonic resonance that surround current and former military landscapes have intrigued artists working with sound. Memories of power and technology settle as an uneasy layer in these environments, creating opportunities for artists. I intend for this to be an on-going series, hopefully weaving in writings, interviews and inviting collaborations.
1.Richard Lerman, Aleutian Internment (7:01)
Inside a hunting dwelling on the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea (amplified whale bone, grass, rain, wild celery and a wind harp) Funter Bay Internment camp (slats of the goldmine camp building where they were interned, windharp, rain) Windharp and weeds at a Cemetery across from the Internment camp at Funter BaySeals on St Paul Island, the Pribilofs Ugadaga Bay, looking towards Biorka Island and an Iris in the wind and snow, recorded on Unalaska Island.
2. Louise K. Wilson “Black Beacon Receiver mix” ( 5:46)
Mixed-down version of the seven soundscapes produced for “Black Beacon Receiver”. From A Record of Fear
3. Louise K. Wilson, “U amplified choir. Sine oscillator ” Yannais Kyriakides, Composer (7:20)
A specially composed piece for Exmoor Singers, made for temporary installation in Lab 5 at Orford Ness.
Recorded at Lansdowne Studios, London on August 7, 2005.
Music Director: James Jarvis; Producer Clarissa Farran.
4. Richard Lerman, Trinity Site (5:12)
Trinity Site, near Alamagordo, NM, was recorded in April 1997. Two times a year, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested, is opened up to visitors and many hundreds of people attend. I began recording from the car as I entered the military check point. Later, I recorded sounds from piezo disks attached to glass pieces that I placed into the earth. Also heard are sounds recorded from the fence surrounding ground zero and amplified, grass, weeks and footsteps of persons at the site.
Visit Richard’s site: http://sonicjourneys.com
Visit Louise’s site: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/lsad/staff_pt/l_wilson.htm
Show 192: X-mas time in a month… by zilé
X-mas time in a month… and what it’s all about.
Recorded and mixed by zilé.
Sounds taken walking by in a commercial area in Brussels, november 2008.
Show 191: cancelled
Show 190: Black Water Brown Water by David Prior
Black Water Brown Water is an evolving sound piece, originally commissioned as a sound walk for the Stourport canal basins in Worcestershire, UK. The basins form an intersection between the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal and the river Severn and the piece is really about the relationship between these two water systems.
My ‘way in’ was the experience of standing on a lock-gate that separates the canal and the river and on one side there was this chaotic, gushing, brown water and on the other, the water was controlled, black and serene. Black Water Brown Water. The piece is based on an imagined dialogue between the great canal engineer James Brindley and Sabrina, Goddess of the river Severn – but in a way it is a dialogue between the two water systems themselves with these two characters giving voice to the myths that represent them.
The language of the work draws heavily on John Milton¹s Comus and to a lesser extent Michael Drayton¹s Poly Olbion, both of which make reference to Sabrina. Additionally, I¹ve taken a lot from the biography of James Brindley – both real and imagined.
In the original walk, visitors pick up an mp3 player and listen to the piece on a small, man-made island that sits between these water systems. This version though has been re-edited specifically for RADIA.
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In Black Water Brown Water, the readers were John Hall as James Brindley and Ella Turk-Richards as Sabrina.
The Pieces was commissioned by British Waterways with funds from the Arts Council of England, Arts & Business new partners, Advantage West Midlands, Wyre Forest District Council, Heritage Lottery Fund and Stourport Forward.
Black Water Brown Water was created by David Prior for liminal and this radio mix comes from Sound Art Radio, Dartington.
For more information on liminal, please go to www.liminal.org.uk
Show 189: Bloody Manaus by Pali Meursault
At the beginning of winter 2007-2008, Pali Meursault spent 15 days in Mamori Lake with other sound artists from all around the world in the frame of Mamori Art Lab. Then he spent a week in Manaus and made field-recordings for a radio project. The final shape of the piece was not predetermined: a material started to exist from his drifts through the city, through the people he met. When Radio Grenouille invited him to make a Radia show, this gave him a frame.
So Bloody Manaus is at the same time a travel diary, the recomposition of a soundscape and an immersion into this singular city. It’s also a subjective and inevitably superficial point of view, something between sociological amazement and musical fascination for a deafening city.
Pali Meursault is a sound artist who lives and works in Grenoble, France. His works are published on Universinternational in France, Entr’acte in Great Britain and And/oar in the USA. He regularly collaborates with the artists collective Ici-Même.
Show 188: It’s a Money Party – a global youtube election redux
It’s a Money Party – a global youtube election redux, brought to you by Berlin Backyard Radio. Featuring excerpts from youtube remixed news and comedy, presented by the circus runaways.
The circus runaways left Manchester to follow the circus and got stuck somewhere in the midwestern American state of Ohio. This is a youtube mashup of the most popular videos generated around that global media circus called the American Presidential election. Guests include Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, comedians and journalists. Of course, some comments made it into the mix. As the election is nearing an end, this is a little slice of the cacophony of media that made its way onto your only global video sharing site. One day, the runaways hope to make it home to Europe.