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"Real Energy World / Niger Delta"
By Eva Ursprung for Klubradio/Herbstradio Berlin


Since the 1960s, oil extraction by international corporations has been destroying the environment and ecological balance in the Niger Delta, and thus, the basis of life of the local population. The composition works with the sounds of gas flares, as well as interviews with activists and theoreticians from the region, contributed by Sokari Ekine (www.blacklooks.org).

What is radio?
What has your experience with radio been?
Did you ever wonder what a radio host looked like? How the voice would match the face?
Did you ever feel like your radio was talking only to you? Like you could almost see the lips of the radio host nearly pressed up to the microphone, almost uncomfortably so, that the host almost... entered your room?
Have you ever felt trapped by the radio?

Radio has a way of introducing you to thoughts, ideas, perspectives, things and sounds you may have never otherwise found. At any moment, there is something going out over the airwaves, dictated by the whims of the broadcaster. This faceless broadcaster, who enters and leaves through the revolving studio door, creates a relationship with an invisible audience: a one-sided dialogue.

Community radio welcomes the voices of the underworld that have fallen through the cracks to reside in the nooks and crannies in our society, and invites them onto the airwaves.

Radio is access: access to a number of worlds you may never be able to enter physically.

On July 16th, in a darkened box somewhere in Montreal, we invited listeners to sit with a room full of strangers, separated by only space and a thin black clothe from more than a dozen amateur and veteran radio-makers, and asked them to leave themselves to the whim of the radio broadcast. Now we invite you into Radioland - CKUT'S magic sound box - to indulge in musical soundscapes, story-telling, exploratory sonic installations and poetry.

All the sounds, including random sounds emitted by the audience, were captured by microphones dangled above the room, and broadcast over the airwaves of CKUT, reaching the ears of unsuspecting audience members in their cars, bedrooms, living rooms and bathtubs. This piece is a remixed of this very special eve.

Contributors include: Emilie Mouchous, Jay Gillingham, Andrea-Jane Cornell, Neil Griffith, Maria Mavrig, Chris Albinati, Tony Vaughan, Rafael Sacramento, Liz Pieries, Nick Dodd, Kaitlin Prest, Fortner Anderson, Courtney Kirkby and Rachel Ni Chiunn

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Magic Sound Box Redux
by ckut / Emilie Mouchous / Jay Gillingham / Andrea-Jane Cornell / Neil Griffith / Maria Mavrig / Chris Albinati / Tony Vaughan / Rafael Sacramento / Liz Pieries / Nick Dodd / Kaitlin Prest / Fortner Anderson / Courtney Kirkby / Rachel Ni Chuinn
production: Courtney Kirkby / Rachel Ni Chuinn
date: August 2009
station: ckut 90.3FM, montreal, quebec, canada
duration: 29:00.
www.ckut.ca

playing from august 10th to august 16th, 2009

relational (audio (rv av rv))
by achim lengerer
in cooperation with dani gal and william furlong

in the early 1970ies the british artist william furlong started to map the terrain of contemporary art by collecting acoustic data. his recordings and interviews became the medium of his artistic practice and the basis of a life long research. for their project "relational view" achim lengerer and dani gal visited william furlong in his archive of sounds and voices. later the recordings of this visit were transformed into an audio space.

relational (audio (rv av rv)) is based on the audio part of the audio-visual installation "relational view", presented by lengerer and gal at smart poject space in amsterdam in 2007.
in spring 2009, during a studio grant at frankfurter kunstverein, achim lengerer was invited by GUNSTradio. according to the idea to further explore lengerer's relations to audio arts, drawing upon william furlong and his "audio arts" project went along with re-visiting, re-playing and discussing larger parts of the "relational view" audio. becoming a central part of a radio programme seemed almost natural for the piece. thus the decision was made to further develop this perspective and to create a radio programme in its own right for radia.

the title of the show draws back to this development, pointing out the conceptual layers of an audio space itself containing other spaces and perspectives - audio-visual, imaginary and real at the same time.

metadata:
relational (audio (rv av rv))
by achim lengerer
in cooperation with dani gal and william furlong
production: miss.gunst / GUNST + radiator x
date: august 2009
station: radio x, frankfurt am main (germany)
length: 28 min.
www.radiox.de - www.gunst.info

additional info:
includes radia jingles (in/out), station and program info/intro/outro (english)

please note:
this piece has artistic copyrights on it.
therefore its not possible to publish this show under a free licence and/or as a downloadable podcast online.
thank you for your kind understanding.

The intention for the next half an hour was to switch into the subject of CITY - refering to the small east German City Halle and the metropolis Chicago- we decided to choose Babylon as the tertium communis.
"In Babel" can also be used according to the Great Oxford - "babel" means a: a babel of voices, a noisy medley, mostly in today's lingua franca which is English, b: confusion, a scene of confusion, c: as "Tower of Babel" a gigantic project, and finally d: the biblical confusion of languages.
So this musical-linguistic Babel-project is also a prophet and medium of ancient voices from the lowest levels of the tower of Babel.
material: soundscapes in Halle and in the streets and in the elevator of Sear's Tower in Chicago. music recorded and played by Bernd Born -bariton sax Halle- Wolfram Dix -glasses and percussion, Leipzig- Peter Koch - Cello - Dresden- and Christoph Winckel - kontrabass - Leipzig- and Pinguin Moschner -tuba -Halle- in underground water tank in Halle.
Lyrics and voices by Wilhelm Bartsch

Bernd Born is a composer and musician -living in Halle/S. and Wilhelm Bartsch is a writer- working and living in Halle.