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Show 431: Tuned City Brussels student mix (XL AIR)

The re-entry of XL AIR is a show that consists of various excerpts from radio pieces the RITS radio students made in order to document their installations made for the Brussels version of Tuned City, a platform which proposes an examination of the relations between architecture and sound.

The project draws the traditions of critical discussion about urban space within the architecture and urban planning discourse–as well as its strategies and working methods–into the context of sound art. This expanded discussion reenforces the potential of the spatial and communicative properties of sound as a tool and means of urban practice.

At the foundations of this event are artists’ works and theoretical approaches which examine in a critical and sensitive way the given urban and architectural situations alongside their resulting socio-political implications, that re-use existing spaces or that conceive and open new spaces.

A dialogue will be built at the intersection of both disciplines which traces out the complex relations and interactions of space-sound, both presenting and testing new strategies, methods, possibilities and potentials of sound work within the artistic and applied context.

All info: www.tunedcity.net

www.q-o2.be

Show 430: MuseRuole Radio Edition by JD Zazie for reboot.fm Berlin

Festival Curator JD Zazie has compiled this selection of works by Felicity Ford, Heidrun Schramm & Stini Arn for radia.fm.

MuseRuole is a festival dedicated to experimental music and puts contemporary female musicians and performers at its centre. It is a journey of discovery into the wide world of current musical research, looking for specifically female modes of expression, with its own grammar and personal style. This year (2013) we focus on the theme of radio as a space for musical research and a medium of technological innovation, including  notions of sending and receiving in equal measure.
Even today radio is an important method of communication: it remains one of the most powerful, cheapest, accessible and world spanning of media. Despite its long history and being one of the first mass media of the last century, radio has always been able to renew     itself, adapting to changing realities and remaining in step with the future. And so radio is an instrument of disseminating knowledge as well as a research space for new technologies and formats: as a global platform it offers the possibility to develop innovative networks and ways to connect.

http://museruole.tumblr.com/

http://reboot.fm

Show 429: Fragments from a Deviant by Luka Prinčič (Radio Student/Ljubljana)

I always liked radio. It offers a special mental, bodily and emotional space. At least it used to. Things are so much different these days. It seems it is so hard to find intimacy, time and attention to focus on a single channel. It seems like we are tuned to many different frequencies at once and we’re having an open recording device on each of them. Do we ever go back and listen to those recordings? Have we really experienced each and every one of these channels? If we haven’t, do the recordings matter?

Radiophonicaly I was “born” through so called Ministry for Experiment run by Borut Savski, Marko Košnik and Luka Frelih. Broadcasting seemed such magic. The open radiospace after midnight and the experience of the eXchange network (first web streaming, creating closed loop/chain of online rebroadcasters) provoked a special sense of closeness and distance at the same time.

A recent radio project was a monthly radio show “Fragments from a Deviant”, where various materials – sonic and textual – were manipulated, processed and edited into a collage of dis/appearing messages and references.

What follows is a short edit of some of those radio shows and few original sound pieces.

SOURCES:

* Deviantovi fragmenti [Fragments from a Deviant] #24 (050510): Keith Jarret in conversation with machines

* Deviantovi fragmenti [Fragments from a Deviant] #33: Explicite Hriste

* Deviantovi fragmenti [Fragments from a Deviant] #35: Christian Sexuality

* Undulation of Oud & Nature is the Steppe from “Nova deViator presents Leopoldina Istanbul (from contract to ritual)”

* Luka Prinčič live sound performance at RŠ44, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana

* “switch” by Luka Prinčič (unpublished)

Luka Prinčič is a musician, sound designer and media artist who worksand lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. http://deviator.si

Show 428: Everything is Eel Transmission by Sam Sebren from free103point9/WGXC

American eels. Image from Wikipedia.

Sam Sebren and Liz LoGiudice to bring you a glimpse into the transmission of Anguilla rostrata, aka the American eel. Sebren and LoGiudice trace the eel’s story from the Hudson River to the Caribbean, sometimes by way of Europe and the Pacific. Sebren and LoGiudice look at the American Eel Project’s Hudson River Estuary Program. Teams of scientists, students, and over 200 community volunteers monitor and count glass eels at 12 HREP sample stream locations along the Hudson River in New York State in the United States.

Each year, glass eels – the tiny, transparent young fish – navigate the Atlantic Ocean all the way from the Sargasso Sea to the rivers along the East Coast. Every March and April, these young fish migrate into the rivers and freshwater streams, where they mature for 20 years or more before returning to the Sargasso Sea to mate and die. This episode of “Radia” tracks their progress in the Hudson River, and around the world. The entire show serves as a metaphor for the “Radia” stations and weekly transmission.

Liz LoGiudice is an environmental educator and eel devotee who helps to coordinate the Hudson River Eel Project in Greene County. Sam Sebren is a volunteer citizen scientist for the HREP American Eel Research project, and a multidisciplinary artist who began his career in the East Village New York arts scene in the 1980s. A prolific maker, Sebren’s visual works take form in installation, collage, painting, photography, video, and public works. His sound-based works have ties to noise and no-genre music (Menlo Park Recordings). Sebren also uses the medium of radio to activate dialogue around ecological and social justice issues impacting New York’s upper Hudson Valley. LoGiudice and Sebren collected and edited audio from various eel experts and volunteers of all ages at various locations during the 2012 eel counting season. For more information about the Hudson River Estuary Program, or to volunteer, go here: http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/49580.html

This episode was produced through the Wave Farm studios at WGXC 90.7-FM in New York, in the United States.

Show 427: Crisis, what Crisis? (TEA FM)

Crisis
f. Mutación considerable en una enfermedad tras la cual se produce un empeoramiento o una mejoría: “El enfermo ha conseguido superar la crisis.”
Problema, conflicto, situación delicada: “Esa pareja está pasando por una crisis.”
Cambio importante en el desarrollo de un proceso que da lugar a una inestabilidad: “Crisis económica.”

Estamos en crisis, si. ¿Pero, en qué crisis? ¿Crisis financiera? ¿Crisis moral? ¿De valores? ¿Existencial? ¿Somos conscientes de ella?
Demasiadas preguntas que son una sola. Y respuestas en el aire, en la cabeza de todos y en las manos de muy pocos.
Este documental radiofónico intenta reflejar esta crisis planteando una serie de preguntas con respuesta. La que cada uno podamos darle.
Un trabajo compuesto por audios de Chuse Fernández, Fulvio d’Orazio, Juanjo Palacios, Miss Jenny Tails y Paco Rossique y la voz de Leonor Bruna en los textos en lengua alemana de Bertolt Brecht, Erich Kästner y un poema anónimo junto a recortes sonoros de informativos de la BBC, NBC y La Sexta TV.
Una producción de Chusé Fernández para TEA FM.

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CRISIS, WHAT CRISIS?

Cri • sis
[krahy-sis] noun, plural cri•ses [-seez], adjective
Noun
1. A stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, especially for better or for worse, is determined; turning point.
2. A condition of instability or danger, as in social, economic, political, or international affairs, leading to a decisive change.
3. A dramatic emotional or circumstantial upheaval in a person’s life.
4. Medicine/Medical .
a.The point in the course of a serious disease at which a decisive change occurs, leading either to recovery or to death.
b. The change itself.
5. The point in a play or story at which hostile elements are most tensely opposed to each other.

We are in crisis, yes. But, what crisis? Financial Crisis? Moral Crisis? Crisis of values? Existential? Are we aware of it?
Too many questions that are one. And answers in the air, everyone’s head and into the hands of very few.
This radio documentary attempts to reflect this crisis posing a series of questions to answer which each can give. A work consisting of sounds from Chuse Fernandez, Fulvio d’Orazio, Juanjo Palacios, Miss Jenny Tails and Paco Rossique and Leonor Bruna’s voice in German texts by Bertolt Brecht, Erich Kästner and an anonymous poem with info cuts from BBC news, NBC and La Sexta TV.

A Chusé Fernandez production for TEA FM.
Crisis, what crisis?

Show 426: Ultrasonic city by Wendy Van Wynsberghe (Radio Panik)

“What do you hear in the city? What sounds are only perceptible in the ultrasonic realm, where bats and crickets communicate? Sounds which are so high, our human ears cannot perceive them. This acoustic world becomes audible in Ultrasonic City and they get their place in the sounds of the city and the world.

Director and narrator:
Wendy Van Wynsberghe

Fieldrecordings:
Marion Guillemette

Edits : Vincent Mattyn and yours truly

Thanks for your patience, support and tenacity: Acsr, Carmello, Clementine & Carine

And thanks to
acclivity
hanstimm
roubignolle
aguasonic
dobroide
cajo
Corsica_S
FreqMan
fons
Jovica
pera
klankbeeld
for their sounds under various Creative Commons licenses from Freesound

2013 Creative Commons Attributions Non Commercial Share alike

More:

The urban sound world is quite dense. By extracting the ultrasound I wanted to reveal a sonic universe or even add another layer to the field recordings. When you hear only the ultrasonic layer of the city, you hear a place devoid of human voices. They simply do not reach that high. Some very quiet sounds get enhanced, such as rubbing your fingers together, frottements in French. In a park at sunset you hear the foraging bats, whilst at the same time, our human ears only register ducks, planes and other humans. A swimming pool gets reduced to splashes, you do not hear the children shriek nor play. Plastic, metal, water all produce ultrasounds.
With the help of ACSR, I was able to record the same place in the city ultrasonically and with high quality “normal” microphones. This revealing/unravelling/hiding of layers of sound I want to present in this documentary.

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 424: SAKRA!2013 for Radio Helsinki

SAKRA!2013, found itself on an acoustic search at St. Andrä Church in Graz/Austria on 1/3/13. The installative composition by Marufura Fufunjiru, Johannes Raggam, Christian F. Schiller and Nikos Zachariadis    was    sent    via    numerous    FM- Transmitters to different radios spread across the church, which led to individual tonal responses. An abstract and concentrated examination of the subject luck/bad luck.
http://in-dust.org/SAKRA!2013.html

Show 423: Concert4ghosts by Ralf Wendt (Radio Corax)

The American composer Jason Freeman gave us the permission to use his online-violin-tool to play a concert for ghosts. So i tried to play with this and noises from the nights for ghosts. The voices gave Brian and Sarah Catling from Oxford. Let them in.

Ralf Wendt is living in Halle in East Germany and playing with animal voices, human voices and radio.
http://www.wolfinthewinter.com/wolves/item/ralf_wendt_1_1_1/

Show 422: for Stanley favoured by dust, by Lisa Aalders (CFRC)

On this edition of Radia, CFRC proudly presents:
Kingston (Ontario, Canada) based artist / radio enthusiast
Lisa Aalders and her
experiments in guitar playing
Inspired by youthful angst, dead pets and long fingernails
Forgotten guitars of adolescence and a dusty kalimba are her tools
Recorded in her old bedroom
(listen for those background sounds of domesticity)
The approach is intimate.
The sound is coaxed out, squeezed out
Ripped out
It is ultimately the (clumsy) process of finding these sounds that is revealed
to the listener.