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Show 425: Captain Klangedum on tour

Show 425: Captain Klangedum on tour
by: Radio WORM
Recorded april 19th, Rotterdam at the Red Ear Festival
musicians; Peter Van Bergen, Robbert van Hulzen, Lukas Simonis
3 musicians were invited by the Red Ear Festival to tour 6 restaurants in the surrounding area of the festival (the so-called ‘Rotterdam Manhattan At The Maas’ district) with unexpecting audiences.
These are recording of 4 of their performances, sometimes lasting 2 minutes before they were told (very politely) to go away. there’s also lots of recordings of the musicians NOT playing.
Any unsuspected conclusions? Yes. Free Improv music goes down well with eaters of red meat (Gauchos!).

Show 416: Shadow-walks (Florence) by Viv Corringham for Radio Papesse

Knowing where you are, is knowing who you are
Steven Feld
Your footsteps follow not what is outside the eyes, but what is within, buried, erased.
Italo Calvino. Invisible Cities.
Shadow-walks (Florence) is the Italian chapter of Viv Corringham’s ongoing project that responds to people’s relationship with familiar places and explores how that bond links to an interior landscape of personal history, memory and association.
In Florence she has been walking together with an actress, a street vendor, a graphic designer, a performer and a former school teacher; they took her to the post office, the market, villas closed by walls, the hospital, an occupied house and cafés… she then walked the same routes by herself creating her own rendering through vocal improvisation.
The project involves three main activities: walking with others, listening and singing; it relates with soundscape, the explored places and its inhabitants keeping in mind that knowing where you are is knowing who you are.
Viv Corringham knows how to listen; in fact, this is the common thread that unites her work: vocal virtuosity, composition and improvisation are tools aimed at listening, our listening. Shadow Walk (Florence) is a five-stop walk in search of Florence out of the limelight. Like a game of Chinese boxes, one way of listening opens the door to another: from the street, we enter a bar and then the post office, from the fishmonger we go to the market, we go through the country and sit down in the hospital. Viv Corringham’s work does not mean to be a documentary or sociological, it does not claim to tell any particular ‘stories’, but as it drags us through the daily life of a neighborhood, it illustrates points of view that are unexpected or usually taken for granted.
Shadow Walks (Florence) is a work by Viv Corringham for Nuovi Paesaggi [radiopapesse.org/nuovipaesaggi], a project by Radio Papesse and Villa Romana; it is produced by Radio Papesse and curated by Lucia Farinati.
Viv Corringham lives and works in Minneapolis, US.
This work was recorded in Florence (Italy) and produced in Autumn 2012.
htto://radiopapesse.org
http://vivcorringham.org/home

Show 383: Dreams for Delia by Radio Valerie

In 1964 British composer Delia Derbyshire collaborated with the actor and director Barry Bermange collaborated on Inventions for Radio, a piece made from Bermange’s recordings of dreams. The dreams they collected were examined for common themes, and the sections relating to each theme were extracted from individual dreams and edited together into montages. The sections were Running, Falling, Land, Water and Colour. Derbyshire added eerie electronic drones.

Our piece, Dreams for Delia, is a re-staging of this piece, a kind of psychic group portrait. Radio Valerie’s listeners were invited to ring us and leave a voicemail message detailing one or more dreams. The themes which emerged from our listeners’ dreams were Friends, Families, Flying, Fear, Forgetting and Animals.

Melbourne composers who either had shows on Valerie or were otherwise connected with the station were then invited to compose music for one of the voice montages. The montages which – and composers who – made it into the episode were, in order:

Animals, Steven Harris

Fear, Byron Dean

Families, Jason Heller

and Flying, Marcus/Default Jamerson