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Show 985: A los cuatro vientos by Félix Blume (Guestslot, Radio Campus Paris)

“Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.” – Novalis

In ancient civilizations, the god of wind (Eole, Aiolos, Aeolus) has an important place. He manifests himself through aeolian harps built for him. In his piece “A los cuatro vientos”, French sound artist and sound engineer Félix Blume presents wind sounds being played in four different places of America, recorded between 2011 and 2014. In one case only it is an aeolian harp (Chile), built with the purpose of interacting with the wind. In other cases, there are power posts of low and high voltage (California, Chile, Mexico) or posts of an old ski lift (Bolivia). The electrical wires are the ropes; posts and steel structures are the resonant body; tubes are the organ… Are these modern buildings the aeolian harps of our times?

For Radia, Félix Blume remixes the recordings used for “A los cuatro vientos” in order to present a new, continuous 28-minute sound work under the same name.

As R. Murray Schafer comments in “The Soundscape”, the installation of electricity in the houses at the beginning of the nineteenth century changed the rural soundscape with the high voltage power lines. Dr Philip Dickinson from the “Research Institute of Sound and Vibrations” mentions the case of a woman who attempted suicide because she continually heard a sound inaudible to others. After several tests, they discovered that some power lines resonated and produced sound between 30 and 40 Hertz. This same sound has been recorded in other places, depending on temperature, humidity and wind.

Félix Blume is a sound artist and sound engineer. He currently works and lives between Mexico, Brazil and France.

He uses sound as a basic material in sound pieces, videos, actions and installations. His process is often collaborative, working with communities and using public space as the context within which he explores and presents his works. His practice involves an extended understanding of listening, as a way to encourage the awareness of the imperceptible and as an act of encounter with others. His work incorporates the sounds of different beings and species, from the buzzing of a bee, the steps of a turtle or the chirp of a cricket, as well as human dialogues both with natural and urban contexts. He is interested in myths and their contemporary interpretation, in what voices can tell beyond words.

Show 788: “L’inconnu est notre forme” by Anaïs Denaux (Campus Paris)

Mixing is a collage, that’s how I understand it. Some of raw recordings, some other are made from bits and pieces of elaborate works : films, songs,radio programmes – we’re thieves, and we make something out of our larcenies. Jean-Luc Godard suggested that better then making political films we should make films politically. I try to apply the same idea to radio. I’m Anaïs Denaux, I’m a member of the groups Le Bruitagène and Asu (Association Sonore et Utopique). We make documentaries and other more creative audio pieces, we don’t believe in being impartial. We are also organising public listening sessions and the audio artist residency Utopie Sonore. We believe in collective experiment.

Here are the audio pieces I chose for this Radia programme..

Biodiversité – Biodiversity, the sound you can hear now in the background, I made to answer the call of Mixage Fou, to mix different given sounds into a 80 second piece.

The Meaning of Life, a piece I made for the second digital album by Fair Play, a compilation of pieces by cis and trans female artists – The Meaning of Life is a collage with Nostalghia, The Mirror, Solaris and Stalker by Tarkovsky, the voice of Orson Welles on BBC4, Alphaville by Godard, a few words by Vaughan Supple about Tarkovsky’s work – and says on how mankind cope with the absurd of existence, wants to understand, knows the question is vain, but still wants to reproduce.

La Tempête des géants – Tempest of the Giants, a piece I created for my girlfriend during the Yellow Vest movement and is about the aburdity of police violence.

Followed by Restez chez vous which is a short piece by Leslie Doumerc at Radio Panik, with Gaëlle Morand and me as cops telling the population to stay at home during de pandemic.

Une Certaine dose de tendresse – A Certain Dose of Tenderness – a piece I made during the evacuation of the zad of Notre-Dame-des-Landes in April 2018. The title is from the famous speech by Subcomandate Marcos which says « A certain dose of tenderness is necessary in order to walk when there is so much against you / in order to awaken when you’re so exhausted. A certain dose of tenderness is necessary in order to see, in this darkness, a small ray of light / in order to make order from shame and obligations. […] But sometimes a certain dose of tenderness is not enough and it’s necessary to add… a certain dose of bullets. »

And Stalker, the last piece, by Clémence Fermé – with La Jetée by Chris Marker, Stalker by Tarkovsky, Alphaville by Godard, Roma by Fellini, Metropolis by Fritz Lang – this piece was carried out for L’Acentrale, radio held by a large group of people to speak out for strikers, workers and social riots. 

Show 735 : Gaia Drifting in the Sky by Julie Rousse (Campus Paris)

Some sonic thoughts on the link between the Earth and the Universe.
From radio to RADIA : creating for the RADIA network a composed play of electromagnetic signals.

With field recordings and electromagnetic reception recordings from around the world, here is a sonic drift about us, the earth and the universe, without much intention for narrative structure. I want to talk about the very little time we have left to make earth a better and peaceful world ; how fragile and wounded nature is, although still offering us pure moments of bliss ; waves link us together with everything. In the end, we are one with the world, time has no meaning, nothing comes first. All in all is all in one.

BIO

Julie Rousse is a sound artist and improviser performer.
Her work is diverse and expressed through several different experimental projects and based on improvisation : live acts, sound installations, music scores for dance, performance, films, visual art and documentary. A passionate phonographer and noise lover, she is always looking for new sonic sources in her worldwide travels, exploring the possibilities of sound capturing in specifically chosen contexts, whilst working with different recording devices. She oscillates between pure field recordings and a special attraction for archaic, lo-fi recording machines. She uses that sonic collection – in an experimental process – as her raw material, an infinite source of rhythms and colors which she shapes with a real time sound treatment software – real time being the essential element of her spontaneous and chaotic approach. She digs in the sound – intruding in the detail – in search of new textures and raw sounds.

http://julie.la.rousse.free.fr
http://soundcloud.com/juliethered
https://vimeo.com/julierousse

In solo or along with musicians from the experimental scene, she has played worldwide in venues and festivals.

Show 707 – Tuning the World by Jean-Philippe Renoult (Campus Paris)

Tuning the World is a series of active field recording transmissions that began over the
Summer 2018 during a residency at Wave Farm (Acra NY), and continued in the mountainous Telemark region of Norway.

My intention is to create an open air dialogue between soundscapes and drone music practices. For this I play a shruti box, an entirely organic drone generator usually used by Indians raga musicians. During these field recording sessions, I play the shruti box quite far from the microphones, mingling in my surroundings.

It is no secret that Tuning the World alludes to R Murray Schafer’s essay “The Tuning of the World” and his concept of wilderness radio. In this edition you can hear swifts swooping around a cemetery in Norway, a motorcycle engine roaring at the bottom of a valley, distant traffic on an American road, the lapping of the waves on a mountain lake, and the timid wildlife of New York state combined with the natural resonances of the Wave Farm Study Centre… and of course the shruti box tuning and retuning to it’s immediate environment.

This “New York to Telemark edition” of Tuning the World is dedicated to Pauline Oliveros.
Wave Farm is close to where she used to live and there is one particularly resonant tree on a wooded part of the property that she played where I too chose to begin, and listen.

credits

environmental recordings : DinahBird 

shruti box, edit and mix : Jean-Philippe Renoult

 

Show 679: Honi soit qui mal y pense by mABuSeKi (Radio Campus Paris)

Titre : « Honi soit qui mal y pense »
La pièce : Europa, Europe, Heureux qui comme Pénélope. Ma foi, langues étrangères à nous-même.
Frédéric II: « Hunde, Wollt Ihr ewig leben? » Cette phrase, l’a-t-il dit afin de motiver ses généraux prussiens la veille d’une bataille ou en vantant son amour pour le français, langue de l’esprit aux côtés de l’allemand, langue de la guerre ? Du côté du Rhin, rien d’autre à signaler que des broutilles du type Die Suppecroisière, Zürich-Strasbourg en une journée et la soupe est toujours chaude. Pfff. Mais qu’apprend-on à l’école ? « Ariane, ma sœur, de quel amour blessée, – Vous mourûtes aux bords où vous fûtes laissée ! » Prochain épisode. « Ti rata poum-pier, t’katz hat yo mâga wé – legt ouf t’er Canapé – oun trink Kaméla thé. »

Europe is the subject. Maybe the underlining subject of this Klangstück. Some existing languages – like the one used as material for this piece –  are evidence of a transnational reality sometimes forgotten and replaced by the history of the building of the nation-state over several centuries. Europe is an idea that for some time now has the apparence of a political whole, an imperial ambition sometimes mixed with universalism. But with boundaries. They are static, and if one decides to change them, then the question of sovereignty rises. War, conflict, bellicosity.
Citizenship is a nation-state characteristic, a part of the mechanics. Europe cannot be a political whole based solely on this nation-state model. But a European identity can emerge through the idea of citizenship built together from scratch, not a nation-state built and imagined by leaders.
The question of language is at the same time a quality and a difficulty in this construction.
Back to boundaries. The Rhine is the embodiment of a frontier where you can find sounds of what could be a European Heimat : East/West, North/South. We have a long way to go, all of us. Europe is a body with intestinal problems; full of subconsciously deliberate mistakes (actes manqués) and a wealth of several sickly personalities. And if we are winning on one side, we are definitely losing on the other. It is the minimum. But this is only a conversation.

Honi soit qui mal y pense
is a cut up of archive samples recorded all over Europe. A plane over the Balaton lake, a voice in a train through Switzerland, consumptive memories of a person born during WWII in a German town which today is French.

 

Auteur : mABuSeKi (MCOTF / EL)
Ancien bassiste reggae reconverti en claviériste (reggae toujours). Appréciateur en matière de radiophonie, tout du moins sa mise en œuvre, la sorcellerie de la mise en onde. Pour toute réclamation merci de vous adresser à Paul.

mABuSeKi (MCOTF / EL) is a former reggae bass player, reconverted to keyboard player, but still into reggae. He is a great admirer, mover and shaker of all matters related to radiophonics. Any complaints should be addressed to Paul.

Show 648: ‘She’ by Lola Ajima (Radio Campus Paris)

Image by Yukao Nagemi.

1. intro
2. Drama Queen
3. Slander/Backstabbing
4. Victim(self)blaming

« In a time where so much is thought, said and done on behalf of women’s rights you would think that we, as women would support each other even more. But this is not always the case. I was wondering, what it is, that we women do, that doesn’t help our case ?
Inspired by a Buddhist doctrine, which says that our karma is created by what we do, what we say and what we think, I was looking for stories, and I found them : the tale of one woman trying to control another woman’s feminine appearance for the sake of profit, the woman who is backstabbing another woman in her machinery of fear and jealousy, and the woman who’s blaming herself for being raped. It wasn’t easy to find them, no one wants to tell things like this. This is why I found it even more important to share them, not to point fingers, but to shed light and plead for forgiveness and reconciliation among women.
Desmond Tutu said: “Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes make things worse. It is a risky undertaking but in the end it is worthwhile, because in the end only an honest confrontation with reality can bring real healing. Superficial reconciliation can bring only superficial healing.”
I invite you now, dear listener, to be part of this reconciliation, a re-creation of this karma. While you listen, please forgive these women, and reflect upon how we can think, talk and act differently than them »

Thanks to Daphne Tsiouni, Coralie Maurin and Julia Stern for lending me their voices. Thanks to Sonia Rose Gouia for letting me use samples of her cello playing.

Lola Ajima is a musician, singer and composer from Denmark, currently living in France. She is an active performer in the audio-visual group Lola And Yukao Meet and she also composes for mixing classical and electronic music. She is studying Electro-acoustic composition under Christine Groult, Marco Marini and Jonathan Prager at Pantin Conservatory, Paris.

Show 620: Put.Use.When.Can. by DinahBird (Campus Paris)

It is a cold and rainy December evening in Paris and we’re sitting in the studio at Radio Campus, just round the corner from the Place des Vosges. The French radio artist Julia Drouhin is over from Tasmania. We have just finished recording our monthly F-Air Play session, where the artist and composer Ocean Viva Silver set us some sticky questions and we replied as best we could with a selection of field recordings, a thumb piano, voices, a small record player and a melodica. We have 45 minutes left in the studio before the next programme, so we decide to leave the microphones open and to play along to the creaks and squeaks of the studio chair and the friendly buzz of the mixing desk. Never waste a good opportunity we say to ourselves, Put.Use.When.Can.

Produced by DinahBird  for Radio Campus Paris.

Show 594: o u r t i m e t o g e t h e r by Isabelle Stragliati (Radio Campus Paris)

o u r t i m e t o g e t h e r

o u r t i m e t o g e t h e r
an audio collage / a radio piece / a sound diary/an impression / a perception of this very time/July 2016

“What is the chance to meet through experiences, events, etc. ? It seems that time is what will ensure that we can meet.”

Gibus in Le Jardin, Radio Brume – Grenoble, 1998

with field recordings and voice by Isabelle Stragliati, a few vinyl rareties, and excerpts from the following tapes archives and pieces:

DJ Sprinkles ‎– Sloppy 42nds (IS Orlando Tribute Version)
Sloppy 42nds is A Tribute to the 42nd Street Transsexual Clubs Destroyed by Walt Disney’s Buyout of Times Square
http://www.comatonse.com/releases/c006.html
On IS Orlando Tribute Version, Sloppy 42nds is stretched 12.0616 times
Ultra Red – Cruise Control
Ultra-red defends the LA park gay cruising scene on their vinyl debut, ‘Ode to Johnny Rio’
http://www.comatonse.com/releases/c005.html
Le Jardin (Radio Brume, Grenoble, 1998) with the voices and works from Sophie Decoret, E.N.O.S., Emmanuelle, Gibus
Julian Beck – Je n’ai pas le droit de voyager sans passeport
Gongs of Cambodia and Laos, recorded by Laurent Jeanneau – Kink Gong
Suaves Figures – Nouveaux Gymnastes
Augusto de Campos – Cidade City Cité
Ultra-Red – Movement for Airports-Single Version
Chang Fo Ji, recorded by Laurent Jeanneau – Kink Gong
Square Dance – Jerome Tillié à L’Eurovision : Luxembourg 2001 Instrumix

And extracts from the following texts:
Voisins / Neigbors by Dorothy Allison
Chez moi by Philippe Corbé
https://medium.com/@corbephilippe/chez-moi-12fd6c92d561#.an21ybz0r
Don Quichotte / Don Quixote by Kathy Acker
Vision myope depuis la Baie des Anges by Charles Danzig

Extra snippet from lasonotheque.org

Isabelle Stragliati is a sound artist, field recordist, radio producer, musician and dj living in Grenoble (France).
Coming from the visual arts, she turned to the medium of sound in 2002 through DJing, as an extension of her approach to film editing (under the moniker Rescue). She then practiced numerous aspects of radio production ( radio host, producer, music programmer, technician and program director) before reconciling it with her creative work. Her productions use field recording, documentary, musique concrète or techno, and have been broadcast on national radios (France Culture, Radio Campus France), in festivals and events in Europe (Longueur d’Ondes, Futura, Brouillage, Take You There in France, Radiophrenia in Scotland, CinemaInYourHead in Luxembourg) and in contemporary art centers (CNAC de Grenoble, La Criée à Rennes, Casino Luxembourg).
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Show 568: Back Again by Laura Morris ( Campus Paris)

Morris Radia image

The search for something new encompasses the search for a new you. Why travel? To see new places? Or for the chance to be or become someone else? Who are you in a new, anonymous crowd?

But the further we go, the longer we stay, the closer we are to something essential, the same rope of reactions, the same anchor of thoughts.

In the piece certain sounds return again and again, sometimes altered, but ultimately the same.

These recordings come from three weeks spent mostly on trains in the Balkan countries (Bosnia, Servia, Croatia, as well as Hungary, Slovenia, and Austria). The recordings are presented in a mostly chronological order.

Laura Morris is sometimes a painter, always a New Yorker, and certainly a radio producer living and working in Paris.

Show 544: Sentient by OttoannA (Radio Campus Paris)

This is a composite piece from various past and current works by OttoannA  which mixes field recordings with ​acousmatic composition​, multilayered collages, fragmented narration,electronic and electroacoustic synthesis… . A sonic trip through ethereal mindscapes that intertwines the tale of Marko Stepanov, an artist and outsider, whose life was transformed by a​ lightning strike whilst on a solitary mountain hike.

​OttoannA
Formed in Paris in 2004, OttoannA (Rodolphe Alexis and Valérie Vivancos) have been producing sound pieces, devices, publications and participative actions. Their passion for processes has taken various shapes including a software that singles out fragments from TV news and rearranges them into a poetic litany, memories of familiar routes recorded on the edge of hypnosis, one-to-one DJ sets, transposing sounds from the streets of Paris to those of New York via boomboxes, a barely audible live set performed from inside a closet, and audio voyages by boat and in planetariums.
 OttannA Presences Electronique 2014
(Photo by Solenn Le bruchec )