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Show 107: An experiment in transmitter feedback by Knut Aufermann

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During the RadioRevolten festival in 2006 Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann used two local FM transmitters to create feedback music.

RadioRevolten was a month-long festival organised by the new Radia member Radio Corax in Halle (Saale) in Germany. For the duration of the festival Radio Corax was allowed to broadcast on two different frequencies, one frequency carrying much of their ususal programme, and the other being used exclusively for special broadcasts for the festival. Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann used this duplicated setup to create live radio feedback with both available transmitters, thus performing each on a separate frequency. The listeners in Halle were asked to isten to both frequencies at the same time by using two radios. Here you can hear the combined sounds of both transmitters feeding back in a special edit for the Radia network.

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Show 106: Sul Suono workshop

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This program is consisted of 2 interwoven parts:
1. Sul Suono workshop on history of experimental music and sound art
Friday-Sunday, 23-25.02.2007, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia lecturer: Enrico Glerean (IT/UK)
2. Improv session with Enrico Glerean (e.g.o) (IT/UK) + every kid on speed (MK)
Sunday, 25.02.2007, Open Graphic Studio, Museum of the city of Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia

This series of lectures follow the path of history of music, reaching contemporary lack of boundaries between sound art and music. It is mainly a workshop about sound and how sound can be used as an artistic medium not only in music but also in contemporary art. Lectures will involve the students to reflect on the meaning of sounds and their possible uses. Starting from basics of psychoacoustics and wave theory, the lectures will follow two parallel paths: path of technology and the artistic path. Through various listening they will see – or actually “hear” – how technology have changed the way we are approaching sound, but also how artists have managed to revolutionize sound even more than technology. This is second workshop from the workshop series project Consumer vs. User.

After the workshop on Sunday, 25.02.2007, there was sound performance, improvisation session with Enrico Glerean (e.g.o) (IT/UK) + every kid on speed (MK) + other participants on the workshop
at the Open Graphic Studio, Museum of the city of Skopje.

Enrico Glerean is a musician (piano studies, bass player, guitar player, accordionist, electronic music), programmer (master in computer science, sound software development) and digital artist. His artistic research is based on two keywords Coding and Memory: spaces are used to control audio parameter, mental processes are used to generate video, images are translated into sounds. Since 2003 contributed his works on many group shows, such as Echoes from the mountains, sound art for the Winter Olympic Games, Cesana, Italy in 2006. Realized many audio performances at: Placard festival, London (UK) in 2006, Placard at Transmediale, Transmediale festival, Berlin, Germany, 2005, Sound is the place, curated by Marco Altavilla and [no.signal], Bologna (IT), in 2005, London Placard, London (UK), 2004, Elementi festival, Bitola (MK), 2004, Avanto festival (with member from Helsinki Computer Orchestra), Gloria Club, Helsinki, Finland, 2003. Workshops: Digital Midia Workshop, workshop on field recording, Mestre, Venice, Italy, 2006-09, Workshop on Digital Sound, curated by A.S.U., Padova, Italy, 2006-03, Sound Art for future curators of contemporary art, Galleria A+A, Venezia, Italy, 2005-2006. Since 2004, co-founder of [no.signal].
www.egzero.org
www.no-signal.net

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Show 104: Gérard Clamart’s strange adventure by Irvic D’Olivier

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there are two versions of this program.
english
français

Gérard Clamart’s strange adventure

It is the dawn of the 22nd century, somewhere in the Brussels city district.

The central administration sends Gérard Clamart on an investigation.

What seems at first to be a simple formality will reveal itself to be a
trip down the past.

Radia and Radio Campus BXL propose the first episode of :

“Gérard Clamart’s strange adventure”

with the voices of : Michel Villée & Tamara Joukovsky

written by Irvic D’Olivier with Fabienne laumonier & Sebastian
Dicenaire.

Translation by : Olivier Taymans

Recorded, edited and mixed by: Irvic D’Olivier

Additional sounds : Jacques Foschia, Christophe Rault, Ritz, Raymond
Scott, Brian Eno.

With the help of l’atelier de création sonore radiophonique (acsr).
Thanks to Etienne Noiseau.

Language: English, French

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Une étrange aventure de Gérard Clamart

A l’aube du XXIIe siècle, quelque part dans le district de
Bruxelles Ville,
L’administration centrale confie à Gérard Clamart une enquête.

Ce qui semblait être une formalité se révélera un voyage à travers
les siècles passés.

Radia et Radio Campus BXL vous proposent d’écouter le premier épisode de:

“Une étrange aventure de Gérard Clamart”

Voix : Pierre Sartenaer et Tamara Joukovsky

Scénario: Irvic D’Olivier avec Fabienne laumonier et Sebastian
Dicenaire.

Prise de son, montage et mixage: Irvic D’Olivier

Sons additionnels : Jacques Foschia, Christophe Rault, Ritz, Raymond
Scott, Brian Eno.

avec l’aide de l’atelier de création sonore radiophonique (acsr).
merci à Etienne Noiseau.

Language: French

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Show 103: STRANGE AID by Michael Fischer

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STRANGE AID is created with a rudimentary setup of 2 – 5 soundgenerators (which are: headphones, microphones and turntables), recorded in a broadcasting-studio this work can also be seen as a contribution to the basic research on electroacoustic music production.
The main aim of STRANGE AID is to convey electroacoustic contents via a series of radio-broadcasts where the method of producing this contents is explained live on air to the listeners. The radio shows where this happens (which Michael Fischer is doing since 1999) main contents are: improvised music, new music, ethnic music and electroacoustic music production.
The incalculability of the result of the sound production needs a high measure of the ability taking risk. Feedbacks are to a certain amount always incalculable. This challange offers on the other hand the possibility to find new musical and technical associations.
This experimentation series is not only a new defintion of a yet predisposed field (the mixing desk as connection between moderator and audience), it is also a contribution to the findings of feedback mechanisms in the electroacoustic compositional/improvisational content production, and an attempt to discuss the politico-social connotations of this method:
– Which effects do have systematic or arbitrary changings of the system parameters on the possibilities of reaction of the current systems interrelations?
– Which criterias of stability do have excalated systems?
(Michael Fischer)
http://www.wuk.at/m.fischer

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Show 102: Floors We Have Known by Lucinda Guy and Alexander Paterson

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Produced by Lucinda Guy and Alexander Paterson.
“Originally we thought about doing a dance/movement piece for radio, but as we worked we became more interested in the variety of sounds the floors here make. Some of the studios we recorded in have been here for decades, as part of Dartington College of Arts which was formed in 1961. The college is now to be closed down, or move 80 miles to merge with a larger institution. It’s the smallest academic institution in England and is no longer considered viable. This piece is a homage to the floors of Dartington with their unique creaks and squeaks, and to a college which could not be replicated anywhere else.”

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Show 101: R(H)umeur collective, part 1

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R(H)umeur collective is a radio piece initiated by Maki for Radia. The original idea of this programme is a “versus” to Sarah Washington’s Time Labs project: she built a radio show with numerous one-minute audio pieces she received after launching an open call via the Internet.

R(H)umeur collective started with a similar call for participations through the Radia network and more widely. The main difference with Time Labs is that Maki included each contribution in its entirety without any other transformation than mixing them all together. It resulted in 2 radio pieces.

This programme is the first part of R(H)umeur collective. The second one will be broadcast in the Radia network and replayed live from the sound-art festival Laps in Main d’oeuvres, Paris, in May 2007.

Participating artists in this programme, in order of appearance:
– Boris Wlassof (France) – Us age
– Knut Aufermann (Hungary) – Nowmediaartisdying
– Lionel Ginoux (France) – 28’15”
– Kazuya Ishigami (Japan) – Usotsuki Shinbun
– Pascal Gobin (France) – (radia)
– Jérome Joy (France) – Quarcetto Italia, 08/06
– Dave Phillips (Switzerland) – for nihilist (excerpt)
– Sound Meccano (Latvia) – untitled
– Bérangère Maximin (France) – Spontane yourself
– Kasper Töplitz (France) – Saturne
– Zbigniew Karkowski (Japan) – o.s.e.
– joachim montessuis (France) – CPAC_xuaedrob
– UrtikR (France) – “extrait du live à l’embobineuse”
– Thierry Madiot (France) – Ziph prise 3
– Napalmed (Czech Rep.) – S3_sector_10
– Cyril Darmedru (France) – là…oupas(ça).
– Julien Berthier (Canada) – Une minute de variations pour une porte et un soupir jouée de mémoire à la guitare électrique
– Caroline Hofer (Austria) – problemtypen-1
– Hervé Boghossian (France) – onde
– Franck Barriac (France) – three_free
– Étienne Brunet (France) – FOR YOU (From Ouarzazate)
– Tetuzi Akiyama (Japan) – upslope
– Minibloc (Canada) – cailloux dans le froid
– the Beige Channel (USA) – Pulling Staples From A Floor
– Nicolas_Mallet (France) – Tenderso
– Carl Stone (USA/Japan) – Al-Noor(radiomix)
– Hélène Prévost (Canada) – bell(e)s vaches
– Maki (France) – untitled

Intro voices: Floriane Pochon & Xavier Thomas

To come in the second part: Andrew Sharpley, Dinahbird, eRikm, Francis Dhomont, Noël Akchoté, Ricardo Reis, Pauline Oliveros, Sarah Washington and many more…

Maki is a self-taught musician, improviser and composer, performer in spatialization, DJ, photographer, curator of festival Konnexions and producer of the radio show Cacophonies on Radio Grenouille.

R(H)umeur collective is 20’ long. As a complement: Brush-up your English, a 1995 composition by Virgile Abela newly remixed by E. N. (Contains The Lovers, a song by The Three Suns)

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Show 100: Things Got Legs by Matt Bua and Jesse Bercowetz

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Three excepts from interviews from Bua and Bercowetz’s recent show “Things Got Legs” at Derek Eller Gallery in New York.

For this installment the featured authors and filmmaker will be:
* Peter Levenda, Author of Unholy Alliance (a history of Nazi involvement with the Occult) and a three-volume book Sinister Forces (a Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft) discusses a trip he made down to Chile in 1979 in search of the Nazi run Colonia Dignidad.
*William H. Kennedy author of Lucifer’s Lodge (Satanic Ritual Abuse in the Catholic Church) and Satanic Crime (a Threat in the New Millennium) talks about how he came to write his book after a tip from father Malachi Martin.
* Bart Sibrel a filmmaker who’s documentary, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Moon seriously questions the authenticity of the Apollo moon missions, talks about his transition from being one of Apollo’s biggest fans as a child to one of their biggest doubters as an adult.

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Show 099: Retro-Sono-Grafia I

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First part of a personal de-archiving project.How long ago did you listen to that recording you made in 2000 in mountains. When was the last time you heard that composition you made for theater five years ago? We usually do not look into personal archives of any kind very often but when we do we are often surprised with what we find there.

Retro-Sono-Grafia is an attempt of three sound collectors and creators to sink into their archival CDs, DVDs, hard drives, minidiscs and other media, find forgotten/interesting/weird stuff and try to blend it creatively with what others have found..
The found material varies from compositions and musical tracks to field recordings, found materials or even interviews or sound trash.

The show was edited from a live two-hour improvised sound conversation. There is no spoken word left on the final version except for few words and sentences that function more like an addition to sound atmospheres than commentaries. The result is a mix of more than six years of sound collecting – a sound-time-scape…

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Show 098: A Journey Through Found Sound by Sanyi

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– a trip through languages on all sorts of vehicles –
a mix by Sanyi from the literary show Irodalmi lépegetö at Tilos Radio.Mainly English and French archival sound with some Hungarian and Welsh here and there – mixed with music.
Starting with Nina Simone’s French rendering of Ne me quittez pas on the musical front, and Eliot’s Family Reunion on the textual, it plunges into a verbal mix of radio-history, a trip to London – with both Big Ben songs being Hungarian jazz compositions from the sixties – however unlikely it may sound. With Fernand a Londres we switch into French, and fly on with their version of the Apollo 11 trip to arrive back on the Earth with the help of Nicole Louvier. We land in Barcelona, and take an oldschool automobile just to arrive in the office of gangbusters in chicago. And we say good bye with Ella scatting Good Enough to Keep – just to make sense of this jumble of communication forms. (And don’t worry, the only Hungarian you can hear is spoken by some German friends of mine)

Irodalmi Lépegetö is the Sunday afternoon literary show at Budapest’s Tilos Radio, usually using Hungarian texts with different styles of music corresponding to the atmosphere of the spoken word. Also organising live events with writers performing to musical and visual background.