Tag Archives: Kanal 103

Show 256: the nocturnal state of the city by Dimitar Dodovski

This piece of radia composition is made of lofi noises, crackles and subtle dubscapes which from the artists view depict the nocturnal state of the city. Inside the house where hums and noises from electronic appliances are generated and outside where distant sounds occupy space, reverbed voices from insomniacs, lovers and lonesome whistlers fill in the silence.

Dimitar Dodovski (Born 1980, Bitola/Macedonia)
authors expressive, melodic music distinguished by synthetic warmth and subtle, miniturized percussion. With an extensive knowledge of electronic music, his productions evoke a diverse range of influences from atmospheric dub to meticulous micro-house.

Show 236: A sound piece by artist menmonic45

The work is based on AM radio frequencies and parts of Claude Debussy’s Clair De Lune concert for an ensemble of violins.

menmonic45 is Goce Gliguriovski from bitola, a sound artist working under the name menmonic45. He is combining ambient sound with dubby influences producing contemporary dub/ambient tehno sound, often interrupted by some AM radio sound.

Show 222: this means war by Andrej Ancevski

This weeks radia show with title “This means war” is produced by andrej ancevski recent kanal103 colaborator and dj that hosts morning program. About this show he sais: “As the mass-media continues to spread mass paranoia over chemical and nuclear warfare, rogue nations and terrorism, the classic radio-drama on little green men butchering us all makes a comeback”

Show 208: In the name of Science by Andrej Ancevski/Andreas Hz

In a dark and dusty basement in suburban Skopje, we have found an analogue AM radio receiver dating from 1954. Tinkering with the knobs we scanned Europe’s AM airwaves and recorded the process. The first half of the show is some of the raw recording, while the second are two tracks made by experimental artists Andrej Ancevski (AHz) and Martin Anastasovski using the only the recorded samples as generated sounds, layered and run through various effects.

Andrej Ancevski/Andreas Hz is an electronics engineer, music producer and everything in between. Likes to listen to radio and the world around him, tinker with machines and gadgets, play some music to nice people in clubs and sip martini when no one is looking.

Show 179: Orange = happiness, enthusiasm, dignity, prosperity

Orange = happiness, enthusiasm, dignity, prosperity. This is the colour that radiates optimism, stimulates activity, appetite, and encourages socialization. In the search of other symbolic meanings of the orange colour , I realised that the black box is in fact orange. Hence, this concept is directly taken from the aeronautical use of the device that commonly is known as a black box, which records the audio environment within the flight deck of an aircraft and it is only used for the purpose of investigating an airplane accident. Here the black box replica has the same purpose, only it is used in a different context. Positioned in jardinière in the city square Macedonia, it recorded the sounds from its immediate vicinity. Noise, rustle, sounds of footsteps, words, conversations, thoughts… Those are the sounds that should be read as signs when posing the questions and giving the answers regarding the “fall” of a society and its lost values, as well as perceiving the human role in that process. This piece does not play on the presumption that this society has already fallen, but uses its means for observation of the society in order to detect its state.

NOVEMBER 8TH 2007
SKOPJE, REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
CITY SQUARE MACEDONIA
The black box was positioned and initialized on November 1st 2007 at 13:44:25h. On November 8th at 16:35:16 it was switched off. This transcript represents the last 31 minutes before its switching off.

Show 165: Swiss-Balkan Creative Music Project

this weeks radia program is a mix from 2 improv sessions done in prishtina and skopje as a part of the Swiss-Balkan Creative Music Project. The project happened in several cities on Balkans and several concerts in this cities happened mixing swiss with balkan musicians. The aim of this project is to developp new links between swiss and balkan musicians in the field of contemporary improvised music.The working sessions give to the musicians possibility to explore together new and fresh practices in electro-acoustic improvised music. The music is made of sonic architectures, colours and textures and moves between pure sound and abstract noise complexity.
The project is realised in 3 phases : April 2007, November 2007 and spring 2008. For the first and second phase, the Ensemble Rue du Nord is travelling and meeting different local musicians. The third phase will permit to have several concerts in different cities and mix the balkan musicians in the spirit of the « Company Weeks » by Derek Bailey.
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Participants for the tour on March-April 2008: Kaltrina Shala, flute; Vedran Tuce, bassclarinet; Dugagjin Muhaxheri, clarinet; Rosen Zahariev, trompet/percussion; Biliana Voutchkova, violin; Visar Kuqi, violin; Miran Zrimsek, cello; Vladimir Blagojevic, accordion; Svetlana Marash, piano; Liburn Jupolli, piano; Lukatoyboy, electronics/toys; Robert Rosza, electronics; Srdjan Muc, guitar/electronics; Every kid on speed, laptop
& Ensemble Rue du Nord: Laurent Bruttin, clarinet & bass clarinet; Anne Gillot, recorders; Jonas Kocher, accordion; John Menoud, e-guit., electronics; Dragos Tara, doublebass, electronics; Benoît Moreau, piano, clarinet

Show 141: Minus 1 by Petar Palankov

program specially made for radia consisted from interludes, edits, cuts, jingles, bonus tracks, samples, credits… a complete Mash-Up of circumstances existing below zero…

Intros and Outros, plus everything in between. Interludes, edits, cuts, jingles, bonus tracks, samples, credits, farewells… None of its up than 1 min longitude! Yes, it’s a Mash-Up of circumstances existing below zero. Don’t try to memorize it, it’s gonna just slipped away. If you think it’s worth to try, fasten your bells and join the sample mania circle.

Due to a long period of hypnosis, low-level drugging and sleep deprivation, the author of Minus 1, Petar Palankov is not in position to write about his past. Rather, he consumes the present with deep breath outside his home and a lot of music inside in his room. Yes, his life is overdosed with music. That’s why he is running a web mag (music.zine) www.otsechka.com and works to end the Annual Report which is going ON 1st part of December. Stay online and god save the internet.

www.kanal103.com.mk

Show 129: Aco Stankovski and Nikola Gelevski playing chess

aco stankovski and nikola gelevski two eminent persons of macedonian culture are playing chess in front of microphone in channel 103…

aco stankovski – eminent macedonian popart painter/director/writer/theoretician and nikola gelevski – theoretician/writer/publishing house/galery owner are playing chess live in front of microphone in channel 103. they are talking about chess, cold war, patriarchat art, global politics, philosophy and other theoretic topics opening various questions during their game… its lucid philosophic verbal chess… genious and inspiring… unfortunately language is macedonian only.. edited and effected version of the program was broadcasted later in the slot of program svirachinja.

Show 118: Svirachinja

“Svirachinja” – new group of young artists that started hosting program on kanal 103… artistic group consisted of sculptors, painters, writers..

svirachinja is new group of young artists that started hosting program on kanal 103 couple months ago. artistic group consisted of sculptors, painters, writers.. but they r also making music as a band under the name svirachinja.. making various art performances, movies/video art.. and at the end making art programs on radio.. this is one of their sound experiments/programs broadcasted live. pure example of their way of work. chaotic mix of sound, music, live performance with various strange instruments in the studio, inteviews where questions are on different lenguage than the answer, reading poetry, realtime edditing, manipulating pre recorded material, playing chess in the studio… art on radio or radio art?

Show 106: Sul Suono workshop

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