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Starlings from Hjertøya sing Kurt Schwitters

In summer 1997 discovered Wolfgang Müller the House on the small Island Hjertøya opposite the westnorwegian city Molde, in which Kurt Schwitters stood during summertime from 1932 on. It is full of destroyed Collages, writings and over and over painted plaster columns. Till a few years before the door stood open and everybody could join in.
In front of the house, laying in the grasses, Wolfgang Müller listened once a Starling producing strange noises. He noticed, that in anyway he already knew these sounds from before. And he reminded passages of the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters.
Starlings are masters of Copyart. A former grandfather or grandmother of this starling singing passages of the ursonate should have heared Kurt Schwitters in 1932 on the Island. Wolfgang Müller recorded the voice of the copyartist-starling singing Kurt Schwitters.

Wolfgang Müller is born on 24 October, 1957, in the Lower Saxony town of Wolfsburg. Today he spends most of his time in Berlin and Reykjavík.

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During his high school days, he puts together a collection of his classmates’ cribs.

He studies at the Faculty of Graphic Design/Visual Communications at Berlin University of the Arts between 1980 and 1985. His degree show, in 1986, is presented in the Faculty of Film Design under Professor Wolfgang Ramsbott: a performance by his group Die Tödliche Doris, founded in 1980.

In 1982, he publishes his book Geniale Dilletanten. A typing error becomes a theme for a collection of writings.

With Ueli Etter in 1986, he embarks on the Galerie Eisenbahnstrasse project, designed to last for one year, in the basement of a house on Manteuffelstrasse, Berlin.

In 1987, Wolfgang Müller dissolves Die Tödliche Doris into an Italian white wine. At the exhibition, vino tavola bianco, at Galerie Swinger in Berlin, vino da tavola bianco is both the exhibit on show and the drink served at the opening. Seven years later, Die Tödliche Doris is poured out at Galerie von Witzleben in Karlsruhe, this time in the form of a white Burgundy from Schweigen. A book documenting the dissolution process is published by Martin Schmitz Verlag.

Go with your small radio during the radia show into an exhibition and spread the text without taking contact to the other visitors. Let your radio speak for you. And Christine Oppenheim sing for you.

Ralf Wendt lives and works in Halle/S.- E.Germany. His works surround situations of ill communications – He is trying to deconstruct codes and methods of different languages, spoken, written language and gestures. Wendt is working in the field of performance in public space, istallation in galleries and public, poetry and soundart in radio and gallery. Soundworks for different worldwide radiostations as Kunstradio Vienna, Radia.FM and others. Performances happened in Europe, Asia – such as Vietnam, Phillipines and in the USA. He is an active member of performance-group The Wolf in The Winter.

VuNhatTan is a Vietnamese composer of experimental orchestral/chamber/piano and electro/computer & multimedia works that have been performed in Asia, Europe, United States and elsewhere. Tan studied piano at Vietnam National Academy of Music in Hanoi, where he earned a certificate in 1987 and degrees in secondary education in composition and musicology in 1991. He then studied composition and musicology there from 1991-95 and graduated with his BMus. He later studied computer music and new music at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Cologne in 2000-01, on a scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. His honors include Third Prize in the composition for traditional instruments competition of the Vietnam Composers Association in Hanoi (1992, for Chamber Piece for Traditional Vietnamese Instruments and First Prize in the Saint-German-en-Laye competition (1995, for Ky Uc – Memory).
He has performed on numerous occasions as a pianist and sáo tre (bamboo flute)-player in contemporary and improvisational music in Australia, China and Vietnam. He has lectured on composition and musicology at Vietnam National Academy of Music in Hanoi since 1995. He has also guest-lectured on Vietnamese music in Australia and Vietnam.
His work for radia is composed by soundscaping Hanoi and becomes a part of the ping-pong-collaboration between Corax musicians and vietnamese artists from Hanoi.

RADIORADAR_4 is a relay from some bird voices, wind, electricity, capitalism and a letter from benin mixed by radioerevan in february 2010.

Author is the radio- and performance-artist Marold Langer-Philippsen from Radio CORAX, also working in the field of theatre and video – living in Berlin.

Playlist:
Effi Rabsilber “whataday2”
Muhmood “8300 pillars of altai”
Coronet Instructional Films “Understanding of the Dollar”
also: different bird voices from europe, a letter from benin, some field recordings

Mayon Volcano is the title of a multi-layer art work by Andreas Loeschner Gornau, an artist from Halle living on the Philippines.
Loeschner visited the island from 2006 on several times- also during the catastrophe in 2006 after long rain and volcano activities. Our half an hour pictures the emotional impacts during the travels. Loeschner’s voice got a little help by his personal computer.

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.