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radia#92, season 10, show 3 from orange 94.0, vienna [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
03:09 PM, 27 Dec 2006 by ernst reitermaier Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 10 Show 2 (Radia 91) from Resonance104.4fm [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
A x-mas special collage by Harmon E. Phraisyar and Xobo Beedlebrot. Full marks to those who can identify the female voice at the beginning...
Best wishes to all the Radia players and listeners!
12:23 PM, 25 Dec 2006 by Knut Aufermann Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 10 Show 1 (show 90) from Grenouille [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
François Parra usually uses sound as a structural material of devices and interactive installations. Thus he’s more familiar with relations between sound and space than with composition.
This time for Radia listeners, he conceived a trajectory-piece whose title, ma[Marseille], sounds as a series of singular points of views on the city where he lives – and maybe as an ironic reference to MySpace?... This stammering title also calls into question what one means with that word: Marseille has become a product as well, a trademark, that local decision-makers are selling – some would add ‘cheaply’.
ma[Marseille] is a work on the meaning of the words through how they sound. François captured melody, phrasing and accent in inhabitants’ voices and returned them into a musical form. In counterpoint he processed disembodied synthesis voices. His composition questions the words that have been pinned on his city. Actually, Marseille has for ages and from all sides been covered with words, images and legends, always contradictory and continually renewed.
11:58 AM, 15 Dec 2006 by etienne noiseau Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 9 Show 11 (show 89) from free103point9 [www.free103point9.org]
free103point9 Program Director and Transmission Artist Tom Roe will present a Radio Lab workshop as well as discuss his work with Joe Milutis's students in The Department of Modern Culture & Media at Brown University. Roe discusses free103point9's early history, and microcasting history in the United States in the 1990s, as well as exploring transmission art and playing brief examples of performances from free103point9's Tune (In))) The Kitchen with Scanner, Gregory Whitehead, Thurston Moore, Michelle Nagia, and others.
03:36 PM, 11 Dec 2006 by etienne noiseau Permalink | Comments (1)
Radia Season 9 Show 10 (show 88) from Lemurie [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
Sargasso sea - The nest
the documentation of the sound and music program The Nest of Games, located in the Rudolfinum Gallery in Prague 2000. A three weeks exhibition of sound objects, performances, concerts.
The recording collage recall the event visited by 20 000 people, interacting with approximatelly 30 sound installations, creating noise unheard in the decent gallery for contemporary art. The project was conceived by Intermedia artist Petr Nikl. In the collage included fragments from sound performances of Hans van Koolwijk, Bambuso Sonoro, Oldrich Janota, Lubos Fidler, Horologe of Dreamers and a field recording from a gasholder in Kladno. recordings: Michael Delia
01:31 PM, 06 Dec 2006 by etienne noiseau Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 9 Show 9 (show 87)from radio orange 94,0 vienna [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
journal banal
a collective diary of the days october 25th to october 28th 2006 written and read by barbara kaiser, caroline hofer, elffriede, elisabeth prinz, ernst reitermaier, fiona steinert, florian kmet, herbert gnauer and lale rodgarkia dara
insprired by an idea of elffriede and joerg piringer who found an old diary on a fleamarket which contained a lot of useless informations.
the sounds you will hear in this show have been recorded in the same period of time, october 25th to 28th 2006 and come from the daily surroundings of the autors
radio cut was done by ernst reitermaier.
03:22 PM, 27 Nov 2006 by ernst reitermaier Permalink | Comments (1)
Season 9, Show 8, Radia # 86 - NO EXOTIC COCTAILCORE - by SERHAT KOKSAL AKA 2/5 BZ [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
12:19 PM, 22 Nov 2006 by Diana Mc Permalink | Comments (2)
Radia Season 9 Show 7 (show 85) from Kanal 103 [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
The show features music created with processed guitar sounds and software synths.
it may disturb you or make you sleep. or may pass you by. take u to vast cosmos teritories or deep underground chambers... it's up to u.. produced by electroacoustuc artist alexander nikof for radia network.
enjoy.
09:12 AM, 16 Nov 2006 by etienne noiseau Permalink | Comments (1)
Radia Season 9 Show 6 (show 84) from Resonance104.4fm [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
The show features a live recording of the Dutch Art Institute Radio Orchestra (DAIRO) at the Gasometer Oberhausen in Germany.
This recording was made at the KlangLangWelle event which was a Resonance104.4fm intervention as part of the radio.territories project.
21 master students from the Dutch Art Institute in Enschede were equipped with portable radios to create a live mix of a specially prepared soundtrack which was broadcast to them through a small FM transmitter. All this happened in the tallest venue in Europe with the most extreme acoustics, the 117m high and 68m wide gasometer in Oberhausen.
DAIRO performers were: Adamantia Nika, Anna Korteweg, Astrid Marit, Bani Bannwar, Chris Meighan, Dagmar Kriegesmann, Danielle Davidson, Emily Williams, Iris Tenkirk, Jae-min Kim, Jolanda Jansen, Julien Grossmann, Kamilla Szejnoch, Kevin Immanuel, Kristina Koskentola, Machteld Aardse, Meiyu Tao, Paula Bugni, Pavlina Verouki, Sonia Ribeiro, Tatia Skhirtladze.
Idea and production of the event and this show: Sarah Washington + Knut Aufermann (Mobile Radio)
Another show from the KlangLangWelle event can be found here.
05:16 PM, 04 Nov 2006 by Knut Aufermann Permalink | Comments (1)
Radia Season 9 Show 5 (show 83) from Radio Zero [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
What kind of space is build by mixed references and what story can be build with them?
This lie that I bring you is a deception on senses. Like hidden small children hitting keys on a loose keyboard behind a curtain in front of an intelectual assistance. Well, what kind of "great art" do they perceive? Another way to put it is to go to a party and jump around conversations. Call it collage, call it pastiche but also composing and directing. It's all about this: cut this bit here and join it there and present it through this very small door opening. What does it mean? The answer is, off course, between each pair of ears.
A program by Ricardo Reis
02:49 PM, 30 Oct 2006 by Ricardo Reis Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 9 Show 4 (show 82) from Radio Campus Brussels [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
09:58 AM, 24 Oct 2006 by Pierre De Jaeger Permalink | Comments (1)
Radia Season 9 Show 3 (show 81) from Orange 94.0 [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
-media-space-society-
conference of the project radio.territories: interventions in urban space, vienna september 14th-17th 2006
based on recordings during the -media-space-society- conference and the audio-performance of reni hofmüller's polyphonic orchestra, a small variation of memories and snipplets are cut up and newly arranged with some audio-glue.
pre-cut ernst reitermaier
production lale rodgarkia-dara
09:25 AM, 16 Oct 2006 by ernst reitermaier Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 9 Show 1 (show 79) from Grenouille [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
The title tells a lot about this show. There's not much to add, only what Emy will explain to you about her work in the intro.
09:36 AM, 25 Sep 2006 by etienne noiseau Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 8 Show 11 (show 78) from free103point9 [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
Originally designed for pirate radio broadcast as part of a youth theatre/media and democracy project in Toronto, Canada, spring 2006. Friz created a series of pieces to serve as mediascapes surrounding actors in a physical theatre, reflecting on themes suggested by participating high school students (ages 16-18) such as power, commercialized culture and media saturation, justice, and freedom. The pieces were heard from radios suspended in the theatre, broadcast on four watts FM.
This broadcast is part of the weekly Radia network broadcast on free103point9. The audio file is also available here: http://www.free103point9.org/audioarchives/archivedmp3s/Radia_TheDemonstration.mp3
Anna Friz is a sound and radio artist who divides her time between Montreal and Toronto. For the past eight years she has predominantly created self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work.
05:24 AM, 25 Sep 2006 by Tom Roe Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 8 Show 10 (show 77) from Lemurie [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
Shortcut from periodocal live radio sessions of radio Lemurie T.A.Z.
First part of this programme (15 minutes) is dedicated to change of the status of the planet (ex_planet) Pluto. With a tiny intention to be serius we are discussing fictional facts that are surrounding Pluto (planet or not).
Second part of this programme is going in a very different direction _ surrounded by poetry written by a Slovenian underground poet `Josip Kalashnikov`. Getting little bit harder,getting deeper under>ground.. Amongst others this part is in Slovenian, German and English.
Forget all information!
Silence for Pluto!
Recorded in radio Lemurie in cooperation with Jan Dufek, Pavel Sterec, Ladislav Zelezny - members of Lemurie (mixed and edited by Ladislav Zelezny)
08:55 AM, 21 Sep 2006 by etienne noiseau Permalink | Comments (0)
TIME LABS - a radia live special [conference.o94.at]
The show appears on the frequencies and webstreams of the following radio projects:
free103point9 - New York
Orange 94.0 - Vienna
Lemurie - Prague
Radio Campus - Brussels (TBC)
Radio Grenouille - Marseille
Radio Zero - Lisbon
Resonance104.4fm - London
Tilos Radio - Budapest
Tlis - Bratislava
Time Labs is a radio show that celebrates the EU Culture 2000 project 'radio.territories'. Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann present this microscopic spectacle of radio art live at the radio.territories final conference *media - space - society* in Vienna hosted by Orange 94.0.
The show features one minute works produced by more than 40 artists, highlights of the work that developed from the radio.territories project and micro-appearances in the studio from representatives of the contributing radio stations. Additional live mixing and distortions by Dieb 13.
Produced by Mobile Radio: mobile-radio.net
10:42 PM, 14 Sep 2006 by Knut Aufermann Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 8 Show 9 (show 76) from Tilos Radio [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
01:18 PM, 13 Sep 2006 by Knut Aufermann Permalink | Comments (0)
Underground - Radia # 75 from reboot.fm [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
An Acoustic Composition by the Munich based artist, Marlena Corcoran. Corcoran was raised on the subways of New York. Hop on the Underground with her and listen to the voices of great cities of the world: Berlin, New York, Tokyo, Kyoto and Venice.
Language: German, Italian
Topics: Arts, Medias, Entertainment and Leisure, War & Peace
Additional keywords: soundscape, travel, subway, underground, experimentation
02:54 PM, 12 Sep 2006 by Diana Mc Permalink | Comments (1)
Radia Season 8 Show 7 (show 74) from Resonance104.4fm [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
Produced by Caroline Kraabel with help from Martin Williams
12:37 PM, 29 Aug 2006 by Knut Aufermann Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 8 Show 6 (show 73) from Kanal103 [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
01:02 PM, 28 Aug 2006 by Knut Aufermann Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 8 Show 5 (show 72) from Radio Zero [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
Imagine a time were bananas rule countries, and onions make peaches cry. Imagine a time where all Kofi Annan can do about bad middle eastern restaurant victims is to send his sympathy words. Imagine how Fidel Castro bowel sounds like and you should have a glimpse on what this show is all about. It's not a timeless piece, it's a show about today, about what is happening right now! In a quite alternative fashion, japur and d'Lay improvise some tunes while making no sense at all. They also play some songs that best describe the world today: were a joyfull meaning can be found in bowel cancer. Music, portuguese poetry and congentitallearned stupidity. This is a show about today!
01:33 PM, 14 Aug 2006 by Ricardo Reis Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 8 Show 4 (show 71) from Radio Campus Brussels [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
(english below)
Jacques FOSCHIA
Musicien improvisateur (London Improvisers Orchestra,Canaries, PIM,
Bohman family) il développe depuis quelques années une approche
particulière du médium radiophonique.
Ses travaux les plus récents (Orchestre téléphone, Microphonic)*
www.microphonic.be* témoignent de son intérêt pour les processus
mettant en relation les phénomènes sonores dans une dynamique mobile et
migratoire.
Fidèle au poste, il a collaboré aussi à la webradio japonaise Kinesonus
et réalise des pièces sonores pour la webradio Silenceradio depuis sa
création. Il anime aussi avec son complice Alain Bolle une émission
(Kwad9) sur la radio associative bruxelloise radiopanik. Elément
bruitiste et sonore de la "brocante sonore" récemment constituée (en
trio avec Alain Bolle et Anthony Carcone),il est aussi membre de
l'Atelier de création sonore radiophonique basé à Bruxelles.
www.microphonic.be
www.radiopanic.org
www.anarchy.translocal.jp/kinesonus/index.html
www.silenceradio.org
www.brocantesonore.be
Présentation de la "fiction"
LES NUITS BLANCHES DU CAPITAINE
Fiction sonore en trois épisodes.
Les éléments textuels servent de guide à l'écoute. Le capitaine évolue
essentiellement dans un milieu liquide et flottant. L'usage de
matériaux sonores qui y font constamment référence (le capitaine
échoue dans un océan d'ondes éléctromagnétiques et termine sa course
sur une plage de vinyl) submerge l'auditeur et l'emmène dans sa dérive.
Découpage:
1) Perdition:
Le capitaine évite le naufrage de justesse, sort d' un comas éthylique
avancé, négocie un mouillage plus sûr en même temps qu'il se vôtre
dans la luxure avec la fille de Pharaon.
2) Meurtre à la foreuse
Le ménage prend l'eau...la scène vire au tragique et fini dans un bain
de sang. Ici, on ne sait pas qui est la victime: l'homme, la femme ou
une tièrce personne - en l' ocurence l'auditeur.
3) La chanson du capitaine
Le capitaine rame tout seul sur une plage de vinyl et entame son chant
de litanie...les chants les plus beaux sont les plus déseperés. Rôdent
autour de lui une nuée de corbeaux noirs.
= = = = == === = =
Jacques FOSCHIA is an improviser and has been working for some times on ways to approach the radio medium.
he's a collaborator of the japanese webradio Kinesonus and of the belgian webradio Silenceradio.
other projects include the radio program kwad9 with his accomplice Alain Bolle, on Radio Panik, the "brocante sonore" with Alain Bolle and Anthony Carcone.
He's also a member of the Atelier de Création sonore et radiophonique.
www.microphonic.be
www.radiopanic.org
www.anarchy.translocal.jp/kinesonus/index.html
www.silenceradio.org
www.brocantesonore.be
This piece produced for radia is a fiction in three parts called
LES NUITS BLANCHES DU CAPITAINE (the captain's white nights)
The captain is evolving in a liquid environment. He's drifting in an ocean of electromagnetic waves and will end his course on a vinyl beach.
1) Perdition:
The captain manages to avoid an alcoholic shipwreck and drown himself in lust with the pharao's daughter.
2) Meurtre à la foreuse (murder with a driller?)
Their relationship is sinking. It becomes a tragic bloodbath. We don't know who is the victim : man, woman or listener.
3) La chanson du capitaine (the captain's song)
The captain is rowing, alone on a vinyl beach and start to sing with black crowes hovering above him.
02:47 PM, 05 Aug 2006 by Pierre De Jaeger Permalink | Comments (1)
Radia Season 8 Show 3 (show 70) from Tilos [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
Sztyepp is a DJ and musician, having written for and played in several bands from the experimental ethno band Uzgin Üver through hip hop bands to producing individual remixes. Working with samplers and hard disk recorder, as well as turntables and sequencers whent he is DJ-ing.
THis compilation is from the repertoire of the Chinese show at Tilos, featuring Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean bands like MC Hot Dog and Drunken Tiger.
12:33 PM, 31 Jul 2006 by Pierre De Jaeger Permalink | Comments (1)
Radia Season 8 Show 2 (show 69) from Radio Cult [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
it is a field recording from Sofia done by one bulgaria's most successful
experimental music artists - esem ( http://dot.cult.bg/esem/ )
10:04 AM, 24 Jul 2006 by Pierre De Jaeger Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 8 Show 1 (show 68) from Grenouille [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
According to Eva Jacobi, "This is concerned with what have now left us: a paradoxical essence of the phenomenon of communication _and always-renewed disorder. These radiographic pictures come from the best and the worth, so as to present fictive but very living acts."
Eva Jacobi is Olga Tüdjnik's harpist - a duet with Fabrice Cesario. Olga Tüdjnik consists of the preparation of a material which has been elaborated in the course of a stage process through theatrical acts. It is an important source of the noise generator used in the making of this program.
08:02 AM, 17 Jul 2006 by etienne noiseau Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 7 Show 10 (show 67) from Lemurie [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
the sound files are originating from different sources, films(jacques tati, czech TV), recordings from a festival in old monastery in west bohemia(Plasy)mixed with no apparent pattern
08:00 AM, 17 Jul 2006 by etienne noiseau Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 7 Show 9 (show 66) from Orange [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
transitliteratur is a project where small pieces of literature are placed on transit-trucks. the idea is to use trucks as mobile-media-platform. this radia programme is the auditive attempt of this idea.
during the recording of radia#66 transitliteratur our recording-team followed transit trucks on the way from vienna to bratislava. we were in contact with around 15 people via our cell-phone. by the time the car passed a truck, one of them supplied us with a small reading. the texts had been read in 8 languages (russian, serbian, italian, spanish, english, german, czech, hungarian). the whole project is in realtime and has not been edited.
enjoy the sound of the truck-route between the closest capitals in europe. not the vatikan and rome, but vienna and bratislava.
09:40 AM, 06 Jul 2006 by Ricardo Reis Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 7 Show 8 (show 65) from reboot.fm [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
03:11 PM, 26 Jun 2006 by Diana Mc Permalink | Comments (1)
Radia Season 7 show 7 (show 64) from Radio Grenouille [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
11:45 PM, 18 Jun 2006 by etienne noiseau Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 7 show 6 (show 63) from Kanal 103 [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
ths is radia 63 from channel 103, skopje, produced by antonio dimitrov. it is produced in sofia on my artist residency here while working with radio cult, sofia radia partner and working on the sound instalation citism that took part at mobile studios project. this 30 min piece is sofia soundscape, sound map or better said my sound diary that reflects the sound of the city and in this case my experiences, mood and state during this residency here and working on citism project. This sound diary is consisted of private conversations, talks of people at bars, office atmosphere, conversations on dinner in some local restaurant, sound of the way from apartment to office and back, street noise, traffic or market sound, birds in the park… all this is produced at beautiful roof terace of our apartment and this nice background sound and the background sound of whole program is is sound of the interactve instalation of my roomate vincent. part of this sound recordings were used as source for citism sound instalation.
09:38 AM, 12 Jun 2006 by Ricardo Reis Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 7 show 5 (show 62) from Radio Zero [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
10:40 AM, 02 Jun 2006 by Ricardo Reis Permalink | Comments (2)
Radia Season 7 show 4 (Radia 61) from Radio Campus [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
This week for Radia, Radio Campus will go and plunder the silenceradio.org database.
SilenceRadio.org is a listening space dedicated to contemporary creative radio.
SilenceRadio.org offers audio pieces from composed work to "rough" material such as an interesting piece of archive or field-recording.
As a web-based project, Silenceradio could be non-geographical. But it's not, or not completely. You can find a lot of homegrown sounds, recorded here in Brussels in their collection. We tried here to put some of those together and send you the result, from Brussels, with love
What you will listen to :
-Midi midi, by Vincent Tholomé
an attempt to formulate the thought of the day in the crowded midi station
-Enfer de zinc, by Philippe Vandendriessche
a storm in a Grimbergen hangar
-Le murmure de Bruxelles, by Miriane Rouillard
holes, walls and people in a torn city
-Plaisir d'hiver, by TeddYbbaT
or Santa Claus as a beatbox
-Expo 58, mixed by Irvic D'Olivier
Sputnik, Atomium, Varèse and the soon to be independent Congo : how 1958 did sound.
-Arrivée du roi
old tape found on the flea market by Fred Meert
-Match au parvis de St-Gilles, by Caroline Jennes
we don't really know where it's happening, but they're waiting, that's for sure.
-Le théorème du Coq, by Raymond Clamart
the Walloon algebraic mantra
if you want to know more about silenceradio, go and listen to silenceradio.org
Our website : radia.fm
Language: French, English
02:01 PM, 22 May 2006 by Pierre De Jaeger Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 7 show 3 (Radia 60) from Tilos Radio [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
caravan is the weekly world music program at Radio Tilos (Budapest, Hungary), dedicated to the promotion of intercultural tolerance through musical dialogue among cultures. kindly play tacks 1 to 8 WAV, or the 28 min. mp3 version
Join the Caravan
Special Remix for Radia.FM
Dj's: Amir Toma
Playlist:
track 1: intro: radia. Fm jingle, sign-in by DJ's Amir & Toma in English & French, contact info of program
track 2: Voices from Tibet
track 3: Voices from Eden 1
track 4: Voices from the Middles East
track 5: Voices from Eden 2
track 6:Voices from planet earth (Stop the War)(6,1 min)
track 7: I have a Dream (5,1 min.)
track 8: end of trip (0,58)
for complete playlist (sources) please visit us at http://www.interkulti.net
01:36 PM, 17 May 2006 by Ricardo Reis Permalink | Comments (0)
Radia Season 7 show 2 (Radia 59) from Radio Cult [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
(...)She took on the courageous task of creating one
full radia lenght piece and it turned out greater than the great
Canadian Mountains. The piece goes up and down with ever changing
landscape like the jagged mountains do too. For any of you who have
never been to Montreal, well this show also look at lot like there.
The samples in Renees mix come from a billion local and not so local
artists… Charles Stankievitch , Frieda Abtan, Lateef, Serviceworks,
Josh Ivy, some children and way more. Renee's mashup style is always
present both in her audio and video works. She is interested in
exploring the possibilities available for sharing within a radio
network and this is apparent sonically throught this piece. Again this
is Renee Sills. She's from Colorado, she lives in Montreal, she owns
an accordeon and she want to visit Bulgaria."
06:07 PM, 16 May 2006 by Ricardo Reis Permalink | Comments (0)
Season 7 (#58) - Resonance104.4fm [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
Harmon finally settles the old argument of which is better, life in the big city or small village? All facts were supplied by the second tourism council of Birmingham airport. Essential listening for estate agents and arms manufacturers alike.
01:30 PM, 06 May 2006 by Knut Aufermann Permalink | Comments (0)
Season 6 (#57) - Lemorona presents (Lemurie) [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
includes: J.S.Bach Goldberg variations 6:09 min, origin unknown, "It is no recital at all". 12 min a 8 min - fragment from the sound mini workshop at The Fine Art Academy Brno. includes voice and sounds by Filip Nerad and Monika Fricova.
recorded, composed and edited by Ladislav Zelezny. member of the lemurie brotherhood
09:15 AM, 28 Apr 2006 by Pierre De Jaeger Permalink | Comments (0)
Season 6 - Sofielseelend (Orange 94.0) [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
"Sofielseelend" is based on a series of field recordings we made earlier this winter inside the ruins of Vienna´s "Sofiensäle" ["Sofie"]. This bourgeois assembly hall was originally built in the 1840s - used as a swimming pool, concert hall, ballroom, recording studio and theatre, as a venue for political congresses and non-political clubbings. "Sofie" burned down in 2001 under still unsolved circumstances. Carelessly neglected since then, her ruins now provide a derelict picture of her past, replacing her historically-charged atmosphere with an environment of silent decay.
Not completely silent, though. Located in Marxergasse, just a few steps away from Vienna´s centre, "Sofie" represents a sonic blankspace, isolated and fenced off – nevertheless, since her walls broke down, her roof collapsed, the borders between the inside and the outside are beginning to blur. "Sofie" involuntarily opened herself to the surrounding city life, street sounds infiltrate the building, swallowed and damped.
On the one hand our field recordings aimed at capturing "Sofie´s" acoustical presence. On the other hand they are also results of us consciously intervening in her surroundings. The recording process can therefore be described as a shifting between pure documentation – leaving sounds as they are - and active intrusion – treating and instrumentalizing found objects, spaces and conditions as musical material.
Much of the recorded sound material derived from an old grand piano we discovered left behind in the former ballroom – an arduously belted setting of rusted chords and broken keys, its body full of rubble and water. In its deserted and half-destroyed state the grand piano perfectly reflected the situation in which it was embedded, unveiling an ensemble of sounds and noises, more than slightly out of tune, where every single expression seemed to comment on its very own historical background, a sonic symbol of blooming decay.
After recording we rearranged and recomposed the field recordings on the computer. "Sofielseelend" was structured more like a film – with different scenes alternating, each of them presenting one sound-family as a protagonist. A couple of texts, spoken in Englisch and German, were supplemented – all oft them referring to "Sofie", though each from a different perspective.
Text: Lale Rodgarkia-Dara
Narrator: Wolfgang Pratl
Sound recording/editing: Maria Fuchs, Andreas Trobollowitsch, Johannes Tröndle
[jan-april 2006]
10:46 AM, 21 Apr 2006 by Fiona Steinert Permalink | Comments (0)
Season 6 - Fabrice Cesario (Grenouille) [radioswap2.ulb.ac.be]
The sound material for this program was recorded during 3 impro sessions where program maker Fabrice Cesario (multi-effects, radio, tape, whistling tube and solo analog synthesizer) invited other fellows. At first he played with Olivier Maurel (cello, multi-effects, FM and HF radio). Then joined Andy Bolus (homemade audioswitch) and Erik Minkkinen (pitched voice, 80's electronic drum) - this 4-person band was named 'Phantom Power' for this occasion (Andy insisted). The last session was a set by 'Olga Tüdjnik': a duet with Eva Jacobi (voice, toys and sound files). The program is a result of an editing of this material (recorded at each time on multi-tracks) with parsimonious addition of Fabrice's solo performances.
Fabrice Cesario attempts to free music from the word 'free' - that has been a label among others which format and level music. He wants to put weight on the other scale of the machine.
About this program, Fabrice says: "My music happens at the very moment I'm making it. What you can perceive in this radio program is not exactly the music I made: it is an 'écorché' (a cutaway - litterally 'skinned' in French) in the same way you won't see life on anatomy boards." So, let's make it music anew by experiencing its listening!
07:58 AM, 12 Apr 2006 by Ricardo Reis Permalink | Comments (0)
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