Statement: I wanted to create a sound art piece only with (processed) field recordings, no synths or instruments. ´Sound Art For Radia´ is the result.

bio: DR, born 1982, is a sound artist from Lower Saxony, Germany. Uses synthesizers, acoustic instruments (Ukulele & Cavaquinho ) field recordings, tape loops & granular synthesis to create melancholy ambient / drone soundscapes.

What is existence?
Existence is what?
Is existence what?

A woman of errant composure trudges on a tiled walkway, head bowed forward, eyes peering down. She is looking for discarded, half-smoked cigarettes. She has to, in order to endure Existence.

The 35 year old skateboarder says, “this is the only thing I have,” and kicks his foot forward to send the wooden plank rolling on the platform.

The call to prayer resounds, cutting the blocks of stale air that have become lodged between the building blocks. To put thoughts into people’s heads is the meaning of existence for the navigator of the minaret.

The hot car rolls down the street. The bicycles hit the subtle bumps on the track, bells ringling involuntarily. The person in the doughnut and coffee store winks his eyes few times, at a long interval, while the droning of the machines is filling the ambiance with the stuff of sound frequencies.

The river of existence coils into a vortex, and uncoils again. Who is in the eye of the vortex? Do my eyes help move this thing or does it exist on its own.

Pythagoras’ String Part I

The piece is a mix of field recordings and music made over a long period of time. Everything is structured around theories of human development.

It is an experiment of mixing parts of my creative history together, that was never intended to be experienced together. The connecting point of the different pieces is me, the composer.

Voice Narrator: Jan Palmkvist

Some of the people that appears: Jon Benbow, Prof. S.K Chakraborty, Gorana Pop-Georgieva, Ken Blawatt, Beppe Eliasson

Kristian Eliasson is a composer, musician and field recordist. He is part of societymusic.org

Artists interested in field recording and related musical practices are invited to a five day Audio Workshop “Architecture and time” in Stari Grad on island Hvar in Croatia headed by the musician and artist Schneider TM. The workshop took place in towns music school located in the Biankini Palace – Stari Grad Museum. Over a period of 5 days the participants explored the two parameters of architecture and time with the aim to translate them into music /soundscapes / audio pieces. Both topics were reflected in sound. One aspect is the architecture of the city itself and the other is the architecture of sound structures, whether it is a soundscape, sound art or a song. The aspect of time can be taken as history of the city, but also as linear sound produced by the use of architecture like reverb / resonance or by playing with the material structures of found architecture, formed by certain spacial specifications.The final works were presented in a live session in the museum´s garden. This is a short presentation of that presentation.

Concept:

Each movement is a moment, a place in separate time. All the sequences have been placed together in order when they were first originally recorded. These sounds are all found in our world. Some natural, some man-made.
They are mostly, apart from one or two, all field recordings, everyday sounds of the forgotten, music that we choose to ignore or music that just passes through and hides within our subconscious.
I have altered these recordings and given them a new life, new breath.

Mixed and Mastered in my kitchen on a Monday morning.
Jared Sagar

Bio:

Jared Sagar is a composer from the United Kingdom. He specialises mostly in the experimental genre mixing drone/ambient/minimalism and abstraction together. His works feature field recordings as the basis to the sound, then he manipulates these recordings to give life to something new, something different and fresh.
Jared has released works on several labels including Sonospace, Phonographiq, Post Global Recordings and Petroglyph.

soundcloud.com/jaredsagar
discogs.com/jaredsagar

“The survival of the West depends on Americans reaffirming their Western identity and Westerners accepting their civilization as unique The New Era in World Politics universal and uniting to renew and preserve it against challenges from non-Western societies. Avoidance of a global war of civilizations depends on world leaders accepting and cooperating to maintain the multicivilizational character of global politics.”

One nice and warm November night, several days before the so called Paris terrorist attack, several streets away where it happened, several artists were recording the 23rd Un-public session at La Générale Nord-Est. Un-public is a project started by Harold Schellinx and Emmanuel Rebus, with intention to invite international artists joining the ad hoc sessions in order to make recordings using almost everything as an instrument and with no audience. This session there was a lots of feedback and sneezing too. And the rest is history…
Participants at the 23rd Un-public were: Dimitrov, Chi, Zhang, Lambeski, Rébus & Har$
Place and date: La Générale Nord-Est, PARIS, 8 NOVEMBER 2015

Un-public Sunday evening session on November 8th 2015 at La Générale Nord-Est, avenue Parmentier, Paris XI. With Toni Dimitrov (Zoom recorder, feedback), Po-Hao Chi (electronics), Manli Zhang (toy piano, bells, things), Jovan Lambeski (voice, toy piano, mandoline, things), E_Rébus (toy piano, intratonal metallophone, dictaphones, electronics, bells, things) & Har$ (Korg MS20, Sharp RD 303 reel-to-reel recorder, intratonal metallophone, dictaphones, things)

We had several spare days for the Easter holidays, so we went to small town Resen and Prespa Lake. There was still snow on the mountains around, on Baba and Galichica, but here the day was sunny and bright. There are several nice villages around the lake and we took long walk from Stenje to Konjsko. The others went to the near monastery, but i went to the small beach of Konjsko. On the way down to the beach there was a huge dump, the results of the civilization. Obviously it was done by the people of the village. Whenever they go to the beach they have to pass by it. And of course nobody was doing anything about it. Reminding us of our civilization and its consequences.

I set at the sand near the water and was listening to the birds that were flying or diving into the water. There are lots of endemic bird species nesting around on the bay and on the near island. I started playing with the shells and the cane branches. Was relaxing and meditative. The water drops, shells, cane crackling… Birds were singing… making me forgot about all that was surrounding me.

This is an audio story of this day, written through recordings done on the small beach of the village Konjsko. This is an audio story about nature, but also about our civilization.

Story, recordings and editing: Toni Dimitrov for Kanal103 and Radia.fm

Slowless is a conceptual sound of elements of music slowed down beyond recognition with sounds retrieved from violin, vocals, synthesizers and other noise sounds from the city. This sound might be sound of any city you want it to be. Each city has its own unique sound, but anyone who works with the sound knows that every city has a inimitable soundscape . So let’s make a musical journey through the cities. Martin Georgievski is a conceptual artist, sound designer, musician, and graphic designer. Experimenting with different sounds of guitar, synths and field recordings, Macedonian producer Martin Georgievski a.k.a Amplidyne Effect creates an interpolation of ambient, experimental and electronic music, ranging from subtle drones to noise-rock. This is a piece specially produced for RADIA.fm inspired and dedicated to the city.