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Show 044: Essays on Radio (can I have two minutes of your time?) by Cronica

From RIIST – Future Radio Zero

by Cronica (the folks who did this)

“Essays on Radio” aims to comment on the sound medium, on the technology and the culture of radio.

In the midst of media saturation, radio can easily end by being an overlooked medium, not only due to its lower visibility compared to most mainstream media but mostly because it is an un-visual medium. It is also one of the longer standing and of the oldest electronic media that is still alive, so the novelty factor is not a help.

Radio was the first broadcast medium, as well as the first that was sound-specific and intangible. Historically, radio was the primary responsible for an awareness of sound that went beyond the strict scope of music.

Radio is a saturated live medium, where much happens simultaneously.
Having little or no control about the sources and the interferences during broadcast and reception turns radio into a medium where we can easily and objectively experience noise. Therefore, it was probably through radio that many first heard white noise. It was probably with a radio receiver that many first modulated noise as it was probably through radio that we experienced randomness along with the lack of control and indeterminacy.

This theme was intended to provide the artists with a starting point to approach the work. Unlike we did in the previous compilation, there would be no audio sources provided to the artists beforehand. In this release, what we were looking for were not exercises on composing from shaping any given sound matter but rather on relating the musical pieces to this particular context: Radio.

As a further way to coherently organize the CD, we asked all the artists to produce the pieces with a fixed duration. This symbolic length allowed us to fit work from some of the artists we released so far and a few selected guests and it also served as a strong structure binding all the compositions together. Given the fact that we are closing the 2nd year of Crónica releases, we proposed that all tracks should have the fixed duration of 2 minutes, exactly.

Therefore the sub-title: Can I have two minutes of your time?”

Show 034: Addicted to Life by The Marta

ADDICTED TO LIFE
…directly from Porto by The Marta et al

The Revolution is in danger!…and the human being, too!

Human being failures, error and non sense are the fields of study of The Marta. There is beauty in all of this. In the last 5 minutes the story of the first 55 is told, introducing all characteres of this psych-experimental voyage.

The Marta – all except:
Brian von Kuba aka Macaco Mau aka Donald Bush(2003) – technological juggling
Anne Grabow aka Ted Minsky – last guitar piece

Show 025: by Luis Antero and his project Out Level

here it is, the first out-of-the-house RIST production, bringing a new artist to the sound waves, Luis Antero and his project Out Level. Luis Antero is a self-tought amateur musician working in the experimental music universe. The show is 50 min long, in two sets, using processed electric guitar and samples (TV, spoken word and vinil (these by Aguila). the work is licenced under a creative commons licence.

at the end, has bonus, a production from the second release of a very good netlabel, comfort stand: Twizzle – Soda Fountain