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Show 977: CONTINUUM (Usmaradio)



CONTINUUM
collaborative network radio performance

TACTUS Radio Festival
Republic of San Marino and worldwide
2.12.2023

CONTINUUM a collaborative radio performance conceived by Roberto Paci Dalò for TACTUS Radio Festival on the 2nd of December 2023 between 19:00 and 20:00 CET, it was broadcast on Usmaradio together with a global network of radio stations.

The challenge was to work on radical improvisation without any conduction and prior rules, giving a maximum of freedom to the participants. Most of the artists, performing from different locations, didn’t know each other and actually never talked to each other before the performance. Obviously the key of the project was an extreme attention during the performance from any single artist: “the art of listening” with 18 people performing together on-site in the Republic of San Marino and remotely from the USA, Germany, and Austria.

The result was surprising: a subtle texture of sounds with an amazing quantity of moments of silence despite the massive use of live electronics. The performance somehow proved that the planned lack of conduction can be balanced by the level of attention and involvement from the performers. It was a mesmerizing immersion in an acoustical world where electronics graciously merged with acoustical instruments and voices; a nocturnal winterreise across galaxies.

CONTINUUM intended to develop the praxis of the “telematic performance” which developed in the beginning of the 1990s. Especially around activators such as the programme ORF Kunstradio in Austria, the Ars Electronica Festival and L’Arte dell’Ascolto radio festival, seminal projects such as Cheap Radio, Horizontal Radio, Rivers&Bridges, and Realtime , designed an innovative use of telecommunication technologies including the nascent Internet in conjunction with the broadcast and telephone networks. The artist Robert Adrian was one of the major inspirations for many artists in the field.

The arrival of the Internet obviously greatly expanded the possibilities for global interaction between artists who could now participate from their personal spaces and with minimal need for financial support. But at the same time this provoked national broadcasting corporations to step back and reduce their involvement in such experimental projects. Let’s think of the infrastructure, technologies and the great professionals working in radio stations. The role of the engineers and their inspiring relationship with the artists has always been crucially important in such projects.
CONTINUUM wanted to link these practices from the past by bringing together both independent and broadcasting corporations in order to act in our present and investigate the possibilities of today’s technologies. À suivre…


Continuum
Idea: Roberto Paci Dalò
Station manager and general coordination: Alessandro Renzi
Mixing board: Lorenzo Ricci
Post-production and mastering: Alessandro Renzi

Live performers:
From the Republic of San Marino:
Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, L’Impero della Luce, NicoNote, Roberto Paci Dalò, Tobia Bandini, Vittoria Assembri

From Santa Cruz, California:
Anna Friz

From Vienna:
alien productions (Andrea Sodomka and Robert Math)

From Weimar:
Bauhaus Radio Ensemble (Tilman Böhnke, Fritzi Buhtz, Adrian Ciesielski, Lefteris Krysalis, Finn Röhmer-Litzmann, João Afonso Soares Leiria Parreira Ticão, Amir Shokati, Karlotta Sperling)

Broadcasted live on:
Usmaradio, San Marino RTV, bauhaus.fm (Weimar), Wave Farm (New York’s Upper Hudson Valley), ARTxFM / WXOX 97.1 FM  (Louisville, Kentucky), Beware The Radio (United Kingdom), Radio Tsonami (Chile), diffusion FM (Australia), Radio Bloc ORAL (Canada) and in Italy: Fango Radio, Radio Raheem, and NEU Radio.

CONTINUUM has been heard globally through streaming, satellite (Eutelsat Hotbird 13B, channels 520, 93) and Digitale Terrestre 831 (Italy) with the collaboration of San Marino RTV (the National Broadcasting Corporation of the Republic of San Marino)
In Europe and the USA has been heard locally via FM:
bauhaus.fm UKW 106.6 MHz (Weimar), Republic of San Marino RTV 98.90 MHz (Romagna/Marche), WGXC 90.7-FM (New York’s Upper Hudson Valley), ARTxFM / WXOX 97.1 FM (Louisville, Kentucky)


TACTUS Radio Festival
Republic of San Marino, 1-3 December 2023

TACTUS Radio Festival is an international Radio Art project promoted by Usmaradio. Within the spaces of the Antico Monastero Santa Chiara, the festival offered three days of art of listening open to the public: narrations, round tables, performances, listening, live radio broadcasts and podcasts.

Artistic direction: Roberto Paci Dalò
Curatorial team: Gianni Gozzoli, Roberto Paci Dalò, Alessandro Renzi
General coordination: Alessandro Renzi
Head of production and organization: Anna Guerra
Communication: Sara Seu, Maria Chiara Romano
Graphic design: Davide Di Gennaro (Tomo Tomo)
Collaboration to the graphic design: Sara Seu
Mixing board: Lorenzo Ricci
Journal: Natalia Soldati
Documentation photographs and video: Emanuele Lumini
Press office: Jeffrey Zani
Setting-up spaces: CoseMatte (Alessio Abdolahian, Matteo Giustozzi, Orsetta Rocchetto)
Hosting: Natalia Soldati, Rebecca Rizzo
Website: Alessandro Renzi

A project of Usmaradio – Research Centre for Radiophonic Studies
Production: Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino
Support: Segreteria di Stato alla Cultura della Repubblica di San Marino, Transcultures/City Sonic 20 years and Pépinières Européennes de Création
Patronage: Segreteria di Stato per l’Istruzione e la Cultura, l’Università e la Ricerca Scientifica, le Politiche Giovanili; Segreteria di Stato per il Turismo, le Poste, la Cooperazione ed Expo
Partners: Experimentelles Radio an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, ORF Kunstradio, RaiPlay Sound, RTV San Marino, Giardini Pensili, Sentire le voci – festa del podcast, Wave Farm, Congerie, Smagliature Urbane, Radia, Arci Servizio Civile Rimini APS, Farmhouse Rimini, CUE Press, Tempo Reale, Radio Papesse, Fango Radio, Neu Radio, Radioimmaginaria, Radio Raheem, ARTxFM / WXOX 97.1 FM, Radio Tsonami, Beware The Radio, Transcultures/City Sonic 20 years and Pépinières Européennes de Création, Radio Campus Paris 93.9 FM, diffusionFM, Radio Bloc ORAL
Media partners: Altre Velocità, Gagarin Orbite Culturali

Sound Exhibition:
Morse Mountain (2022)
Absolute Value of Noise and Anna Friz
A generative radio art piece
Transmitting on radiolada.net from the 1st December 2023
Visit: usmaradio.org/tactusfestival

L'Impero della Luce CONTINUUM - Collaborative Radio Performance - TACTUS Radio Festival | Usmaradio Gaia Ginevra Giorgi CONTINUUM - Collaborative Radio Performance - TACTUS Radio Festival | Usmaradio NicoNote CONTINUUM - Collaborative Radio Performance - TACTUS Radio Festival | Usmaradio

Tobia Bandini CONTINUUM - Collaborative Radio Performance - TACTUS Radio Festival | Usmaradio CONTINUUM - Collaborative Radio Performance - TACTUS Radio Festival | Usmaradio Roberto Paci Dalò CONTINUUM - Collaborative Radio Performance - TACTUS Radio Festival | Usmaradio

Pictures by Emanuele Lumini


Usmaradio – Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale per la Radiofonia (CRIR) / Interdepartmental Research Centre for Radio Studies, is a workplace of The School of Radio to develop an innovative radio pedagogy. Workshops, work sessions, meetings, presentations of live performance as sections of the project. Produced by UNIRSM | Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino. usmaradio.org / theschoolofradio.org / unirsm.sm


 

Show 951: The Cave – Dialogue (Usmaradio)




Usmaradio presents
THE CAVE
DIALOGUE

A reflection on the community approach of music research, waiving together different methodologies in the making of sound, from improvisation to structured compositions, passing through live set and A\V performance and any kind of other related attitudes.

Radio and technology have always been related each others, as long as the broad of a growing non-real and immaterial space as this media represents its arial forms.

Physical, social, human, collaborative – left free in the sonic flux’s ether, layered of real time samplings, transformations, overdubbing and stratifications.

‘Dialogue’ meant through a vast array of non-similar sound’s applications reaching and sharing a network, a platform for conceiving and creating a peaceful listening zone, dreams and oscillations.

Jacopo Buda: no-input mixer, trumpet, organ, radio, live electronics;

Demetrio Cecchitelli: found sounds, acoustic guitar, radio, live electronics;

And a special intervention by Simone Doria.

THE CAVE is an artistic project active in the field of electronic and electroacoustic research music since 2021 and based in Rimini, Italy. The journey started during the pandemic time where selected artists’s pieces, coming from the Italian underground music scene, have been streaming live on Usmaradio which also collected them in its archive reachable at the link below. Then, after covid peaked, the project came back on site through different venues and across almost 30 performances in less than two years offering different layers of listening experience to the audience.

Podcast area within all the performances (2021 – 2023)


Usmaradio – Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale per la Radiofonia (CRIR) / Interdepartmental Research Centre for Radio Studies, is a workplace of The School of Radio to develop an innovative radio pedagogy. Workshops, work sessions, meetings, presentations of live performance as sections of the project. Produced by UNIRSM | Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino. usmaradio.org / theschoolofradio.org / unirsm.sm


 

Show 926: Iolanda mi nant de nòmini (Usmaradio)



IOLANDA MI NANT DE NÒMINI (audio documentary, 31 minutes, written and directed by STUDIOLANDA, co-produced by Radio Papesse)

LINK HERE to subtitled version (sardinian dialect / italian – english)

SYNOPSIS Orlanda Sassu, a Sardinian poet and ecologist (1924-2015), carried on a lifelong practice of audio recording to archive the memory of her country and language that she feared to lose. Her voice transcends time barriers and accompanies us to the pivotal places of her existence: the river, the village, the sea, the hut she built around a centuries-old juniper tree on the sand dunes at Pistis, together with her companion Efisio, himself a poet. Iolanda, thus known to the community, has entrusted the magnetic tapes she used to record on, with the power to make her travel through time, to the future, coming down to us as a living, present voice.

BIOGRAPHY Multidisciplinary duo STUDIOLANDA is based in Sardinia: Giorgia Cadeddu and Vittoria Soddu focus their projects on re-use practices with a specific interest in audiovisual, graphic and textual archives.Coming from design and the visual arts, Giorgia and Vittoria bring different technical skills into play: they imagine narrative forms that exceed the rigidity of recognisable categories, combining apparently distant practices of drawing, translation, self-construction and listening.

BROADCAST/FESTIVALS After the premiere held at Lucia Festival in December 2021, Iolanda mi nant de nòmini was broadcasted on Rai Radio 3 within the programme Zazà – meridione, cultura società in April 2022. It was selected to be included in the International Feature Conference held at BBC Wales in May 2022, at Prix Europa in the documentary competition and at Phonurgia Nova for the section “Archives de la parole”.

Iolanda under her juniper tree, ca. 1980, Italy

Usmaradio – Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale per la Radiofonia (CRIR) / Interdepartmental Research Centre for Radio Studies, is a workplace of The School of Radio to develop an innovative radio pedagogy. Workshops, work sessions, meetings, presentations of live performance as sections of the project. Produced by UNIRSM | Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino. usmaradio.org / theschoolofradio.org / unirsm.sm


 

Show 902: Crown Quartet – A Natural Contract live at NaturArchy Resonance IV (Usmaradio)




Usmaradio presents
Crown Quartet
A Natural Contract
Sound Art in Four Countries
Resonances IV – NaturArchy: Towards a Natural Contract

LIVESTREAM : 23 June 2022, 17:00 – 18:00 CEST
➥ usmaradio.org and a radio network across Europe:
➥ Radio Raheem (Milano)
➥ Neu Radio (Bologna)
➥ Orange 94.0 (Vienna)
➥ Fango Radio (Firenze)
➥ Kanal 103 (Skopje)

Crown Quartet
Croatia: Zahra Mani – double bass, bass & electric guitars, field recordings, live electronics
Italy: Roberto Paci Dalò – clarinet, bass clarinet, voice, live electronics
Hungary: Tibor Szemző – voice, bass flute, flute
Austria: Mia Zabelka – electric violin, vocals, live electronics

Station Manager and sound engineer: Alessandro Renzi
Technical direction at JRC: Denis Novello and Andreas Aschberger

We are pleased to announce the new sound art project A Natural Contract by the Crown Quartet. The project is supported by the festival Resonances IV – NaturArchy: Towards a Natural Contract.

To know the world is to breathe, to breathe is to savour the world. An interspecies dialogue where you find yourself human, vegetable, animal and mineral, in the name of fusion. A world composed not of objects but of streams that penetrate us and that we penetrate, of waves of varying intensity and in perpetual movement. We can no longer perceive the world as a simple collection of objects or as a universal space containing all things, but as the site of a veritable metaphysical mixture. Towards a “multispecies storytelling” (Donna Haraway).

A Natural Contract is created for Resonances IV and it crosses borders through the simultaneity of music and language in a musical exchange between four different European countries. The four countries in the Alps-Adriatic-Region have been barely accessible due to the Corona pandemic. The idea of this live sound art concert at a distance is to invoke notions of memory, a discourse, a call to the most basic elements of humanity and society.

A Natural Contract is a new project for the Crown Quartet, conceived and directed by Usmaradio. In addition to the rich instrumentation of the quartet, A Natural Contract has a textual layer embedded in the compositional structure (which leaves room for spontaneous improvised exchange). As with field recordings in music, the linguistic elements are subjected to selection, processing, reproduction and abstraction of text fragments that acquire new significances in connection with the sounds and the music.The multilingualism of the text fragments reflects the diversity of the musical languages and approaches of the four musicians. Hungarian, Italian, various German accents, English and Croatian meet the abstract vocal sound art of Zabelka and Szemző.
Thus vocal modes of expression are explored and contrasted in their diversity. There is a musical transformation of semantics, reflecting the absurdity that arises when you repeat a word for a long time, highlighting the transitions between language and sound, from noise to music. These processes in turn reflect the shifting meanings of terms such as borders and freedom in theCorona-shaped cultural-political landscape.

All four ensemble members have been working in the field of radio art for many years and have participated in diverse live stream project formats. So far, due to the technical challenges and complexity, these projects have always been implemented in cooperation with public institutions.

The radio as an artistic stage or platform is a unique performance and communication space. It is always a special moment to play live on the radio and to come into intimate contact with listeners in their own four walls. In times of physical distancing, the radio in connection with the internet offers a new enhanced platform for communicative exchange.

A Natural Contract is about overcoming borders through music and language.
A Natural Contract overcomes boundaries that have closed at an astonishing speed due to Covid-19. The long-term social, economic, socio-political implications of the events of the last few months are not yet foreseeable – just as little as we know how the virus and its mutations will affect our futures. In this respect, A Natural Contract is also a memory, a discourse, a reflexion of the most fundamental elements of humanity and society.

The four artists have been connected via internet stream from their studios in Austria, Hungary, Italy and Croatia in an acoustic exchange consisting of music, language and sound. The piece revolves around questioning acoustic materials, their manipulation, meaning, application and aesthetics.

within Resonances IV – “NaturArchy: Towards a Natural Contract “
A Natural Contract is produced by Resonances IV in collaboration with Usmaradio and Giardini Pensili.

Official Website of Resonance IV Summer School

In 2020 Usmaradio created the series Crown – fighting the lockdown through radio. An international tea time live concerts radio series. 33 daily collaborative telematic performances with the remote participation of artists from all over the world.
CROWN PODCAST CHANNEL IS AVAILABLE HERE
Later on, this experience contributed to the creation of the Crown Quartet project.

Crown Quartet
Zahra Mani (UK, PK, resident in Austria) is a musician, composer and curator. She performs live in various constellations and creates multi-channel installations and radio art. Her work combines field recordings, instruments and voices in an ongoing exploration of sound and music, investigating and revealing the spaces between.
Roberto Paci Dalò is an Italian clarinetist, composer, visual and sound artist. He performs worldwide in the usual and most unusual places.
Tibor Szemző Composer, performer, media artist, lives in Hungary. Oriented by his diverse lines of interest towards the borderline areas of the various genres. His works are present across Europe and beyond.
➥ Austrian violinist, vocalist, improviser and composer Mia Zabelka is at the forefront of international electro-acoustic performance art. She developed a unique musical language she calls “automatic playing”, where the music grows out of her body and gestures and finds its expression in her acoustic/electric violin, electronic devices, alien objects and voice. The violin itself becomes a sound machine.

➥  FULL 46-MIN PERFORMANCE IS AVAILABLE HERE

Pictures by Alessandro Renzi


Usmaradio – Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale per la Radiofonia (CRIR) / Interdepartmental Research Centre for Radio Studies, is a workplace of The School of Radio to develop an innovative radio pedagogy. Workshops, work sessions, meetings, presentations of live performance as sections of the project. Produced by UNIRSM | Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino. usmaradio.org / theschoolofradio.org / unirsm.sm


 

Show 878: Senta, Pasolini (Usmaradio)

Usmaradio – Research Centre for Radiophonic Studies presents a new session of The School of Radio: during December 2021 at Arena del Sole theater in Bologna (Italy), it’s been aired live on Usmaradio the radio performance “Senta, Pasolini” – freely inspired by texts of the italian writer and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini – by and with Anita Barbi, Francesco Cecchi Aglietti, Virginia Cimmino, Dario Fini, Inés García – Pertierra García, Francesca Lepiane, Dino Lopardo, Giulia Mento, Stefano Moretti, Lea Paiella, Andrea Pelliccia, Emanuele Regi and Francesca Miranda Rossi.

This is the result of the session – conducted by Roberto Paci Dalò – of the School of Radio within the course “Theories and practices of new forms of theatrical writing” promoted by the Iolanda Gazzerro Theater School – permanent laboratory for the actor as part of ERT – Emilia Romagna Teatro Foundation.

The participants worked for a week on the theory and practice of radio dramaturgy with particular attention to voice, vocality, technologies and performative radio.

The guest of honor was Andrea Borgnino, director of the new RAI RaiPlay Sound platform which it’s been launched on 8 December 2021 where its genesis and objectives were been exposed in Bologna.

This is a special Radia edit, the complete performance it’s available at this link.

partner ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro, Scuola di Teatro Iolanda Gazzerro – Laboratorio permanente per l’attore, RAI RaiPlay Sound, Arena del Sole di Bologna, Usmaradio, Giardini Pensili

Usmaradio – Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale per la Radiofonia (CRIR) / Interdepartmental Research Centre for Radio Studies, a workplace of The School of Radio to develop an innovative radio pedagogy. Workshops, work sessions, meetings, presentations of live performance as sections of the project. Produced by UNIRSM | Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino. usmaradio.org / theschoolofradio.org / unirsm.sm

Show 852: KIN | Laboratorio radiofonico e performativo a Santarcangelo Festival 2050 (Usmaradio)


The air is full of inaudible sounds that become so thanks to radio receivers.

– John Cage

KIN by Usmaradio / Roberto Paci Dalò is a radio and performative project with workshop sessions of The School of Radio guided by talented and professional radio-makers. The italian town of Santarcangelo di Romagna is “occupied” with the broadcasting of a schedule composed of materials related to Santarcangelo Festival (the 51 years old festival devoted to experimental performing arts), citizens’s voices and original materials created by the working group. All spread in public and private spaces with listening spots, improvisations, electronics, remote collaborative radio activities.

“The undifferentiated mass is expressed with a single voice, with slogans repeated in unison, so that the individualities blend vocally. Plurality, on the other hand, is expressed in a plurisonic way, producing not a single voice and not even a cacophony, but what I call a pluriphony, where each singular voice retains its uniqueness and reverberates with each other. ” (Adriana Cavarero). Texts and guiding voices are those of John Cage and Donna Haraway.

KIN team
Benedetta Bronzetti, Teresa Chiauzzi, Irene Dani, Bárbara Ermeti, Sara Guazzarini, Alessandro Mazzoni, Domenico Martinese, Alice Molari, Roberto Paci Dalo, Paolo Petrangolini, Alessandro Renzi, Lorenzo Salvatori, Margherita Wolenski

participants / authors
Vittoria Assembri, Verdiana Benatti, Oreste Campagner,  Martina Conte, Luca Gallio, Dania Grechi, Domenico Martinese, Lucrezia Nediani, Roberto Paolini, Cristina Previtali,  Riccardo Santalucia, Giulia Savorani, Matilde Solbiati 

guests

Andrea Borgnino, Daria Corrias, Gabriele Frasca, Ilaria Gadenz, Gianni Gozzoli, Carola Haupt, Wissal Houbabi, Graciela Martínez Matías, Mauro Pescio, Rodolfo Sacchettini,  Elisabeth Zimmermann

production Usmaradio, Giardini Pensili
in collaboration with Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino, Comune di Pesaro, Radio Papesse, ImperfettoArt , Radio Lada, Scuola comunale di musica G. Faini – Associazione Banda Musicale Città di Santarcangelo, TeamBòta, Ven èulta Santarcangelo, Centro studi e ricerche José Bleger, Fablab Romagna
media partner RAI Radio Techete’

radioworks’s excerpts for this Radia programme (running order)
1. “Nino” a live session dedicated to the Italian poet Nino Pedretti (1923-1981); sounds by Riccardo Santalucia, Luca Gallio, Alessandro Mazzoni with the voice of Nicoletta Fabbri joined by Santarcangelo’s citizens
2. “Respiro” (on background)
3. “Chiroptera FM”; voices and sounds by Riccardo Santalucia, Luca Gallio, Dania Grechi, Domenico Martinese, Irene Dani, Alessandro Mazzoni, Vittoria Assembri
4. “Final Jam Session” within all “Kinners”

> Podcast area of KIN – Santarcangelo Festival
https://www.spreaker.com/show/santarcangelo-festival-2050

> Santarcangelo Festival official website
https://www.santarcangelofestival.com/show/kin-2/

Pictures by Claudia Borgia, Lisa Capasso, Alice Molari, Domenico Martinese, Roberto Paci Dalò, Alessandro Renzi




Usmaradio – Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale per la Radiofonia (CRIR) / Interdepartmental Research Centre for Radio Studies, a workplace of The School of Radio to develop an innovative radio pedagogy. Workshops, work sessions, meetings, presentations of live performance as sections of the project. Produced by UNIRSM | Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino.
usmaradio.org / theschoolofradio.org / unirsm.sm


Show 825: Into the Gray forest – L’Impero della Luce (Usmaradio)



Artist: L’Impero della Luce
Submitted soundwork: Into the Gray forest



L’Impero della Luce / The Empire of Light is an Italian experimental music duo that explores the sounds of electric current by using the technique of electromagnetic induction. This particular approach to music allows the listener to get closer to the sound of the electron, the physical and historical source of electronic music.
“Il Mare di Dirac ” / The Dirac Sea (2020) is their first album.
From 2020, L’Impero della Luce is part of Key Change  European Project and endorser of SOMA Laboratory.
L’Impero della Luce is: Johann Merrich and eeviac.

http://www.imperodellaluce.com
https://imperodellaluce.bandcamp.com/releases



SOUNDWORK
Into the Gray forest
This oniric improvisation​ was recorded in 2018 and published in July 2020 by Obsolete Capitalism and Stefano Oliva as supplement of ​La Deleuziana​: Rhythm, Chaos and Nonpulsed Man magazine (10th volume celebration).



Usmaradio – Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale per la Radiofonia (CRIR) / Interdepartmental Research Centre for Radio Studies, a workplace of The School of Radio to develop an innovative radio pedagogy. Workshops, work sessions, meetings, presentations of live performance as sections of the project. Produced by UNIRSM | Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino.
usmaradio.org / theschoolofradio.org / unirsm.sm

Show 803: CROWN (Radio Papesse + USMARADIO)

It has been many months now that we’ve all been asking ourselves : how’s life in the time of viruses? The answers have been constantly changing and probably still will.

During the long months of lockdown in Italy, Radio Papesse joined forces with the artists and producers at USMARADIO and became an amplifier for the CROWN project. Like many others, fighting the lockdown through radio.

So… what’s happened exactly?
For 30 days, every day, artists from all over the world came together for a live improvised session of radio, music, words and sound experiments together with Roberto Paci Dalò.

To play together from different locations, yet united through radio.
To listen together, from different locations, thanks to the medium of radio.

This RADIA show presents bits and pieces from some of the CROWN sessions, sewn together by fragments of a long conversation with Roberto Paci Dalò.

Enjoy!

Included in this show are excerpts from:

CROWN n.11 _ Johann Merrich / L’Impero della Luce
CROWN n.30 _ with Lello Voce
CROWN n.22 _ with Paolo Dellapiana
CROWN n.23 _ with Zahra Mani

www.radiopapesse.org
www.usmaradio.org

You can find and listen to all the CROWN sessions from here


Show 800: KIN (Usmaradio)


I wish our activities were more social, and social in an anarchic way.

– John Cage

KIN by Usmaradio and Roberto Paci Dalò is a radiophonic city scale performative project that began the week before the performing arts Santarcangelo Festival (Italy) with a workshop session by The School of Radio, then continued throughout the official program with 120 non-stop hours of radio. Santarcangelo has been occupied with the airing of a programme which included artists present at the festival, the citizens themselves and original materials created by the working group. All this has been diffused throughout public and private spaces with listening points (including an outdoor large P.A.), improvisations, electronics, and collaborative radio performances with artists not physically present at the festival. Texts by Franco Bifo Berardi, Paolo Fabbri, Gabriele Frasca and Donna Haraway.
KIN is for Paolo Fabbri (1939-2020)

KIN team
Francesco Angelini, Teresa Chiauzzi,  Bárbara Ermeti, Sara Guazzarini, Irene Aurora Paci, Roberto Paci Dalo, Paolo Petrangolini, Alessandro Renzi, Margherita Wolenski.

participants / authors
Tobia Bandini, Gloria Barbanti, Claudio Basso, Davide Buglisi, Margherita Kay Budillon, Alessandra Cappelletti, Chiara Cecconello, Alice Citarella, Paolo Dellapiana, Elena Lunghi, Federica Marra, Alessandro Mazzoni, Mariagloria Posani, Roberto Scappin, Francesco Toscani

speakers

Franco Bifo Berardi, Andrea Borgnino, Tiziano Bonini, Anna Bromley, Janete El Haouli, Pinotto Fava, Gabriele Frasca, Anna Friz, Ilaria Gadenz, Lorenza Ghinelli, Gianni Gozzoli, Carola Haupt, Wissal Houbabi, Eleftherios Krysalis, Hardi Kurda, Federica Minzitti, Graciela Martínez Matías, Johann Merrich / L’Impero della Luce, Leonardo Montecchi, Iolanda Pensa, Oderso Rubini, Rodolfo Sacchettini, Nathalie Singer, Stefano Spada, Christiane Voss, Jonathan Zenti, Elisabeth Zimmermann

production Usmaradio, Giardini Pensili
in collaboration with Scuola di Radiofonia – The School of Radio, Santarcangelo Festival 2050, ImperfettoArt, Radio Lada, Galerie Mazzoli, Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino, Centro Studi e Ricerche José Bleger, Radio Papesse, Scuola comunale di musica G. Faini – Associazione Banda Città di Santarcangelo, shift.fm – bauhaus.fm – Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

radioworks for this radia programme (running order)
1. Respirare camminando – Federica Marra
2. Impero notturno part I – Gloria Barbanti
3. Futuro Fantastico – Alessandro Mazzoni
4. Avvistamenti ep I – Margherita Kay Budillon, Chiara Cecconello and Francesco Toscani
5. Il mondo è un bel posto – Alice Citarella and Davide Buglisi
6. Racconti dall’Apocalisse part VIII – Claudio Basso and Paolo Dellapiana
7. Messa per l’Apocalisse – Tobia Bandini
8. Respirare. Audioguida per post-umani – Alessandra Cappelletti
9. Manifesto per un futuro futuribile post queer – Maria Gloria Posani, Claudio Basso, Margherita Kay Budillon and Elena Lunghi


> Podcast area within radioworks in extended play
https://www.spreaker.com/show/santarcangelo-festival-2050

Pictures by Chiara Bruschini, Claudia Borgia, Francesco Angelini, Alessandro Renzi



Usmaradio – Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale per la Radiofonia (CRIR) / Interdepartmental Research Centre for Radio Studies, a workplace of The School of Radio to develop an innovative radio pedagogy. Workshops, work sessions, meetings, presentations of live performance as sections of the project. Produced by UNIRSM | Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino.
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Show 774: Kevlar by Francesco Giomi (Usmaradio)

Francesco Giomi | Kevlar

Musical Improvisation for one live performer (2019)



Kevlar is an aramidic heat-resistant and strong synthetic fiber. Developed by Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont in 1965, this high-strength material was used first commercially in the early 1970s as a replacement for steel in racing tires.

Kevlar is not a composition but a process of “polarized” total improvisation, a sound performance where the model of kevlar allows a series of synthetic fibres and pulsations to born: a regular alternation between continuous distended textures and unrelenting rhythms. Kevlar has a structure that is constantly moving and iridescent, also thanks to the use of an analog radio device without presets. 

By deriving from a series of collaborations with the Italian coreographer Simona Bertozzi, the project is the last step of a path that moves from the dance universe to a completely musical expressive autonomy.

The piece was live recorded in March 2019 at Cango-Cantieri Goldonetta (Florence)

Francesco Giomi (Florence, 1963)

Composer and performer of electronic music. He has collaborated with Luciano Berio and other relevant composers, musicians, choreographers and directors besides orchestras and ensembles from Italy and abroad. He has lead the live electronics staff of Tempo Reale in theatres and festivals all over the world. His works are regularly performed all over the world in festivals and concerts while his music is selected for and awarded by italian and foreign festivals. In the last five years he has started new creative projects for the investigation of the relations between electroacoustic music and improvisation, conducting collective music performances in Florence, Bologna, Bremen, Bruxelles, Manchester. He is professor of Electroacoustic Music Composition at the Music Conservatory in Bologna and director of Tempo Reale in Florence.


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