This Radia show is a 28 minute excerpt of the 2 hour long live kitchen show “À table”
broadcast on September 19th 2022 from the social restaurant run by the “Stëmm vun der Strooss” (Voice of the Street) in Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg).
François Martig and Sandra Laborier took microphones there for lunch, opened a sonic window into the space of the cantine and talked to people about the reasons they eat there, about poverty, social justice and politics.
This was one of a series of kitchen shows which were part of Radio Art Zone, a 100-day radio art station as part of the European Capital of Culture Esch2022. Conceived by Mobile Radio and jointly produced with Radio ARA, it broadcast in the south of Luxembourg from June 18th – September 25th 2022.
For more information on Radio Art Zone: www.radioart.zone
“Grotte Song”, a vocal performance by French artist Claire Serres was presented in August 2021 as part of a series of countdown radio shows leading up to Radio Art Zone, a 100-day long celebration of radio art as part of the European Capital of Culture Esch2022 from June 18th – September 25th. It was broadcast from the contemporary art space “Konschthal” in Esch-sur-Alzette that opened to the public a few months after this behind the scenes live exploration.
For more information on “Radio Art Zone” and the live stream: www.radioart.zone
For more information on Claire Serre’s work: https://ligie.org/
Formed in Autumn 2020 RADIOM(e) is a network of radio artists from the Greater Region which is comprised of Luxembourg and the surrounding regions of France, Belgium and Germany. Throughout 2021 the artists from the network sent each other audio postcards from their local area and beyond. Their radio post was revisited by Natalie Rubchenko for this Radia episode. For more information on the artist network, please visit radiom-radiome.eu
Radiom-Radiôme, the network of radio artists from the Greater Region located in between France, Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg, formed in Autumn 2020 and started off with two improvised radio concerts in Saarbrücken (Germany) and Luxembourg in Spring 2021, as well as with producing a series of short radio pieces based on recordings made available in a common pool by all the artists involved in the network.
You will now hear a selection of these miniatures. For more information on the network and the complete set of miniatures, please visit https://radiom-radiome.eu/
Artists involved:
Knut Aufermann (DE) Karim Ait Gacem (BE) Katharina Bihler (DE) Elodie Brochier (FR) Sam Erpelding (LU) Sandra Laborier (LU) François Martig (FR) Martha Regueiro (BE) Stefan Scheib (DE) Claire Thill (LU) Sarah Washington (DE)
The launching of the radio art network Radiom-Radiôme has been made possible by the financial support of the European program INTERREG.
Winter shades – Ecosons Étude II: Ecological Radio Artwork
Director, Field Recordings and Sound Design: Sam Erpelding Speaker: Katrin (MacBook Pro – British english voice) Performers: different Soundscapes around Luxembourg [Pétange, Lasauvage, Prënzebierg, Garnich, Grass, Clemency, Bauschleiden]
Concept: In a visually shaped world, little attention is often paid to the acoustic environment. However, hearing is a vital sense that serves not only for recognition, categorization, monitoring, and surviving, but also for the perception of sound-aesthetic phenomena and eco-sensitive obstacles in real space. Thus, with the help of sound art, abstractions can be guided into real space and certain focal points can be reformulated from the real to the abstract world. With the help of a directional and a contact microphone, various soundscapes in south- and northwestern Luxembourg were recorded in December 2020 and January 2021, and the sound signature unique to each location was crystallized. In essence, it seeks to examine the correlation between biodiversity quality and soundscape quality, as well as to highlight the essential characteristics of naturally left and human-modified spaces. In this way, the listener is left to draw his or her own conclusions and is thus made to think and listen. Sam Erpelding is a sound-artist and sound-engineer based in Luxembourg and in Vienna. He studied computermusic, digital media technologies and sound-engineering in Austria. Under the pseudonym ´Dankwart`, Sam produces electroacoustic and electronic music as well as radio-art. His compositions are based on soundscape research, field recordings, and computermusic strategies.
+++ Warning: THIS AUDIO CONTAINS HIGH-PITCHED FREQUENCIES! If you suffer from musicogenic seizures, you may find this content disturbing. +++
Control is a sonic journey through stories of people living with epilepsy. The composition was created in collaboration with the multimedia project A Life Electric, from which few stories were chosen and re-interpreted.
The composition is an artistic exploration of the world that surrounds epilepsy, a world often made up of silence, indifference and fears, but also of pure energy, inexplicable phenomena, and still today enveloped in charm and mystery.
Dedicated to all those people who don’t have a voice.
Produced by Luca Piparo Texts and arrangements by Fraser Morton, Luca Piparo Music by Domenico Scjaino, Luca Piparo Voices by Damara, Fraser, Sandra, Shameek, Steffi, Suki, Veronika, Zelah Copyrights CC-BY-NC -@ Luca Piparo
In collaboration with Far Features Ltd:
A Life Electric is a multimedia documentary project exploring epilepsy experiences globally with the goal of bringing humankind’s most misunderstood brain condition out of the shadows through art and education. The project draws upon a hybrid of multimedia techniques to connect people, communities and society to the “lives of epilepsy”.
We enter epilepsy through doorways of personal experiences via interviews, letters, free-writing, biographical filmmaking, documentary techniques, abstract photography, typographical design, sound design, audio storytelling, digital media, print books, magazines and exhibitions to create a multimedia project accessible to all.
The A Life Electric project is personal for writer-director Fraser Morton, which started in his notebook, inspired by the life of his older brother, Blair. Since beginning the project in 2018, Fraser has held more than 100 interviews in person and over the phone. Along with his partner Eszter Papp, the pair have also collected a series of portraits, which will be displayed in photo exhibitions. The A Life Electric feature film is in development and book also coming soon in 2020. Please write to Fraser about book enquiries here: fraser@farfeatures.com
Book release 2020 Photo Exhibitions coming 2020 Feature Film in development Creator/Writer/Director: Fraser Morton Photographer/Producer: Eszter Papp Editor: Sadiq Mansor Designer: Ali Kelly Mentor/Writing Editor: Jade Richardson IT: Mike Cashin Additional Reporting: Risyiana Muthia, Rob Bain Produced by: Far Features Ltd
“A matter of water?” was born from the idea of narrating the marine environment, in all its forms and changes on the occasion of the Nuit de la Culture, in Esch sur Alzette – Luxembourg. But can you imagine? Bringing the sea to Luxembourg? The country where the ocean just doesn’t exist except in the memories of those who live here.
I almost immediately realized that most of the images of the marine environment that I own in my mind, just stop at the surface, I never wondered if what is below is really as shown in museums, encyclopedias or scientific magazines that I was reading when I was a teenager. In fact, I had the same doubt that many of us have when we hear about global warming: “What exactly is going on? Why should we worry? And why should I feel guilty?”
With this feature I tried to give myself some answers, making a small journey through two of the hottest issues related to global warming and the oceans: the climate migrants and the destruction of marine fauna. I gathered some information from those who know more than me about it: media, literature, music and of course… the oceans.
Produced by Luca Piparo Contributors: Sandra Laborier, Lars Schmitz, Ben Dratwicki, Stefanie Plank Poem: Sea is History by Derek Walcott
This is the first Radia contribution out of Luxembourg. A dozen people got together to discover new ways of recording and radio making, thrilled by the infinite possibilities of radio art and wildly making use of any recording device they found.
Intentionally focusing on sounds, noises and voices that usually just form the background of recordings – or are not recorded at all. Distracting reverbs, deformed languages, distortions and alien sound worlds have been surrounding us and have now been captured for Radia. Plunge into these soundscapes and enjoy the variety of discoveries we have made.
Special thanks go to Mobile Radio for holding a two-day introduction workshop, of which this show is the result, organised by CNA (Centre national de l’audiovisuel) and Radio ARA, the free radio in Luxembourg.
Produced by Wendy Winn, Ben Dratwicki, Jamie Reinert, Claire Thill, Sandra Laborier, Lars Schmitz, Véronique Faber, Justin Jacquot, Guy Anthony, Monique Hoffmann, Luca Piparo and Isabel Scott with support from Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann. Made with additional recordings by CNA audio archive and SoundBible.com (Daniel Simon).
