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Show 359: Radio Readings

free103point9’s contribution to the Radia network comes from a fundraiser for its FM station, WGXC, last summer, with “Radio Readings” from Max Goldfarb and Brian Dewan, Alison Knowles  and Hugh Dancy.

The readings, in order of appearance:

• Artists Max Goldfarb and Brian Dewan produced this “reading” of Velimir Khlebnikov’s The Radio of the Future (1921) in 2011. A canoncial text, “Radio of the Future,” may be the first real conceptualization of transmission art.

• Alison Knowles is a visual artist known for her soundworks, installations, performances, and books. She was a founding member of Fluxus, and recently Knowles offered her iconic performance “The Identical Lunch” to museum visitors as part of the Museum of Modern Art’s Performance Exhibition Series. On the occasion of a summer garden party benefit for free103point9’s FM radio station (WGXC). Alison Knowles performed one of her “Bean Turners,” constructed from beans and paper, Bean Turners and are both book pages and sonic instruments.

• At the same summer garden party, acclaimed film and stage actor Hugh Dancy, performed F.T. Marinetti and Pino Masnata’s “La Radia” (1933) a visionary text, if one that reveals the authors proclivity for Fascism. La Radia asserts what The Radio Must Not Be, what The Radio Abolishes, and what The Radio Will Be.

Show 319: Gowanus Over and Out, by Maria Papadomanolaki

Gowanus Over and Out follows the aural traces of the narrowcast audio exhibit Sib Radio Gowanus curated last year for the exhibition “Postcards from Gowanus” (Cabinet Magazine Gallery, March 17-20 2010, Gowanus, Brooklyn, New York). The conceptual backbone of the project was to create a sonic wallpaper that would reflect the aural undertones, both real and imagined, of the area surrounding the gallery. It also served as an organic sonotopia that inhabited the audiovisual exhibits in a process of associative interaction. Responding to a call for works, a total of 44 U.S. and international artists from diverse creative backgrounds contributed works ranging from drones and field recordings to spoken word pieces and experimental sonic artworks. Gowanus Over and Out attempts to offer a glimpse into some of the different facets of the exhibit while at the same time being its own self-expanding universe of sounds.

More information at http://sibradio.blogspot.com/

Gowanus Over and Out is produced by Maria Papadomanolaki for Radia network member free103point9 and their newly launched full-power FM station WGXC-90.7-FM in upstate New York.

The piece features samples of the following works:

Myke Dodge Weiskopf – Helicopter     http://www.myke.me/wordpress/

Sogar – Tapete
      http://www.monohr.com/Sogar.html

Knut Aufermann – avi5
     http://knut.klingt.org/

Sterling Basement – Drowned in the Canal
      http://www.johnroach.net/pages/2002_sterling_basement.html

Solo Andata – Ablation
     http://solo-andata.com/ http://soundcloud.com/soloandata

verdi_spirali – on_earth@in_space
     http://www.myspace.com/verdispirali

Jonny Farrow – Gowanus Walk
      http://jonnyfarrow.net/

Radio Ruido – all artifacts
     http://radioruidotriangulation.blogspot.com

Maria Papadomanolaki – Cabinet
    http://www.voicesoundtext.com/

Lina Lapelyte – MATB1
      http://www.myspace.com/lapelyte

Maria Papadomanolaki – Playground (Radia edit)
 http://www.voicesoundtext.com/

Todd Merrell – As March Times On
     http://www.toddmerrell.com

Mark Templeton – Safely into March
    http://www.fieldsawake.com/

Bryan Zimmerman – Blobs Of Yellow-Green Sun
  http://www.free103point9.org/artists/998

Last Days – Walls
      http://www.lastdaysmusic.co.uk/

A.G – Polygon:08|1
   http://agpolygon08.blogspot.com/

Myke Dodge Weiskopf – VNG
   http://www.myke.me/wordpress/

Maria Papadomanolaki is a Greek artist working primarily with sound in the context of phonography, audience-centered performance pieces, and radio art. Her background in language studies and interest in environmental sound inform her artistic practice. Papadomanolaki often combines these two elements in her work to amplify the intrinsic physical and psychological qualities of an experienced time and space. In 2006, she marked her transition from French language and literature to the sonic arts with Stoma—an interactive voice piece based on Samuel Beckett’s Not I exhibited in the UK and Greece. As a researcher and writer, she has presented at international conferences. Her paper, “Radio as the voice of community, locality, interactivity and experimentation,” presented at The Cyprus University of Technology and the ECREA Radio Research Section 2009 conference, will be published in the forthcoming volume Radio Content in the Digital Age: The Evolution of a Sound Medium (2011, Intellect Books). Papadomanolaki currently resides in New York where she works as a freelance artist.