Radio Free Robots transmits from an uncertain future and Point Radiant is a reception in packets which we can’t clearly understand before we can sort them. Point Radiant is the accidental recording of a field of crossed and untidy transmissions, all coming from the same place but emitted at various moments. All of this looks like rough information, like an alternate logic that seems to be intended to us (those robots speak our languages). No matter the time we’ll need to comprehend, our simply human ears can decide for the moment that it’s only music.

For its 10th contribution to Radia, Grenouille asked Radio Free Robots, a collective of robots who live robot adventures in an “uncertain future”, make radio shows for robots in which they discuss robot issues. Radio Free Robots also produced shows and pieces for Epsilonia (Radio Libertaire), Radio Day festival in Amsterdam, performed live in Le Placard and Cannibal Caniche festivals, on Taxi Blind and Radio 404 webradios, made installations in City Sonics in Mons, Belgium, and Visual Arts Center in Hong Kong.

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This program is composed of 2 pieces : R(H)umeur collective, part 2, Maki’s contributive project, and Relax! (we are a democracy) by Floriane Pochon and Etienne Noiseau.

R(H)umeur collective is based on a call for participation which Maki opened to artists and friends around the world, asking 1 minute audio pieces he then mixed all together.

The first part of R(h)umeur collective was broadcast on the Radia network on March 2007. The second one is composed of contributions from :
– Krafia (France) – Choose
– Ben Owen (USA) – Ans-mac 1999e
– Iris Garrelfs (England) – Guide
– David Fenech (France) – Melodica Paste
– Dinahbird (France) – Pigcrescendo
– Lucie Prod’homme (France) – Rouge
– eRikm (France) – Blécut
– Stéphane Possamai (France) – RioTorto
– Pauline Oliveros (USA) – Maki’s Minute
– Étienne Noiseau (France) – Chatouilles
– Andrew Sharpley (England) – Grapefruit
– Samuel Lartisien (France) – Cordida2
– David Gamper (USA) – Silver Bell
– Sarah Washington (England) – New Year Wind
– Mathieu Hours (France) – Waiting in NYC opus 12
– Soël Lymphini (France) – Jeu en Cage, d’escalier
– Tomonari Higaki (Japan) – Impro caoutchouteuse
– Ricardo Reis (Portugal) – Viagem de elevador
– Zol (France) – Stonn
– Collectif TRI (France) – Robots
– Francis Dhomont (France) – L’électro (Jalons – IMED 0365)
– Noël Akchoté (France) – Untitled wrong folk – Take #5
– Maki (France) – Untitled

Relax! (we are a democracy) is a piece by Floriane Pochon and Etienne Noiseau, composed with joy, drowsiness, disgust and worry.

Enjoy?

R(H)umeur collective is a radio piece initiated by Maki for Radia. The original idea of this programme is a “versus” to Sarah Washington’s Time Labs project: she built a radio show with numerous one-minute audio pieces she received after launching an open call via the Internet.

R(H)umeur collective started with a similar call for participations through the Radia network and more widely. The main difference with Time Labs is that Maki included each contribution in its entirety without any other transformation than mixing them all together. It resulted in 2 radio pieces.

This programme is the first part of R(H)umeur collective. The second one will be broadcast in the Radia network and replayed live from the sound-art festival Laps in Main d’oeuvres, Paris, in May 2007.

Participating artists in this programme, in order of appearance:
– Boris Wlassof (France) – Us age
– Knut Aufermann (Hungary) – Nowmediaartisdying
– Lionel Ginoux (France) – 28’15”
– Kazuya Ishigami (Japan) – Usotsuki Shinbun
– Pascal Gobin (France) – (radia)
– Jérome Joy (France) – Quarcetto Italia, 08/06
– Dave Phillips (Switzerland) – for nihilist (excerpt)
– Sound Meccano (Latvia) – untitled
– Bérangère Maximin (France) – Spontane yourself
– Kasper Töplitz (France) – Saturne
– Zbigniew Karkowski (Japan) – o.s.e.
– joachim montessuis (France) – CPAC_xuaedrob
– UrtikR (France) – “extrait du live à l’embobineuse”
– Thierry Madiot (France) – Ziph prise 3
– Napalmed (Czech Rep.) – S3_sector_10
– Cyril Darmedru (France) – là…oupas(ça).
– Julien Berthier (Canada) – Une minute de variations pour une porte et un soupir jouée de mémoire à la guitare électrique
– Caroline Hofer (Austria) – problemtypen-1
– Hervé Boghossian (France) – onde
– Franck Barriac (France) – three_free
– Étienne Brunet (France) – FOR YOU (From Ouarzazate)
– Tetuzi Akiyama (Japan) – upslope
– Minibloc (Canada) – cailloux dans le froid
– the Beige Channel (USA) – Pulling Staples From A Floor
– Nicolas_Mallet (France) – Tenderso
– Carl Stone (USA/Japan) – Al-Noor(radiomix)
– Hélène Prévost (Canada) – bell(e)s vaches
– Maki (France) – untitled

Intro voices: Floriane Pochon & Xavier Thomas

To come in the second part: Andrew Sharpley, Dinahbird, eRikm, Francis Dhomont, Noël Akchoté, Ricardo Reis, Pauline Oliveros, Sarah Washington and many more…

Maki is a self-taught musician, improviser and composer, performer in spatialization, DJ, photographer, curator of festival Konnexions and producer of the radio show Cacophonies on Radio Grenouille.

R(H)umeur collective is 20’ long. As a complement: Brush-up your English, a 1995 composition by Virgile Abela newly remixed by E. N. (Contains The Lovers, a song by The Three Suns)

François Parra usually uses sound as a structural material ofdevices and interactive installations. Thus he’s more familiar with relations between sound and space than with composition.

This time for Radia listeners, he conceived a trajectory-piece whose title, ma[Marseille], sounds as a series of singular points of views on the city where he lives – and maybe as an ironic reference to MySpace?… This stammering title also calls into question what one means with that word: Marseille has become a product as well, a trademark, that local decision-makers are selling – some would add ‘cheaply’.

ma[Marseille] is a work on the meaning of the words through how they sound. François captured melody, phrasing and accent in inhabitants’ voices and returned them into a musical form. In counterpoint he processed disembodied synthesis voices. His composition questions the words that have been pinned on his city. Actually, Marseille has for ages and from all sides been covered with words, images and legends, always contradictory and continually renewed.

The title tells a lot about this show. There’s not much to add, only what Emy will explain to you about her work in the intro.

Hymne aux scories (literally Anthem to scoriae) is made of plundered European nations anthems, spoken words and noise generator. Hymne aux scories is a kind of photographic DIY: snapshots that would look at each other, stolen and ready for transformation.

According to Eva Jacobi, “This is concerned with what have now left us: a paradoxical essence of the phenomenon of communication _and always-renewed disorder. These radiographic pictures come from the best and the worth, so as to present fictive but very living acts.”

Eva Jacobi is Olga Tüdjnik’s harpist – a duet with Fabrice Cesario. Olga Tüdjnik consists of the preparation of a material which has been elaborated in the course of a stage process through theatrical acts. It is an important source of the noise generator used in the making of this program.