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This piece is an audio response to the growing unpredictability of seasonal cycles. It reflects on the slow violence of incremental change. Now that 1000-year floods occur frequently, socioecological relationships are increasingly fraught. These instabilities are experienced very unevenly across time, territories, and identities. In place of annual rains and renewal, there are inundations and catastrophic loss. But gradual change continues, beneath and between such events. In this piece, an unbroken take, consistency becomes unrecognizable. Altered by phasing, misled by repetition, frequency becomes unreliable – echoes of environmental processes that remould what it is to observe and to connect.       
 
Tristan Partridge is a writer and composer originally based in Glasgow, now living in Santa Barbara, California. Tristan has written and performed with US / UK acts including Now Anvil (SMHTP Recordings), In Posterface (Winning Sperm Party), Lapsus Linguae, Coagulars, Rungs (Cool Your Jets), and Habit Trail. Recent performances include percussion work in Berlin with Du Yun (The Man Who Swallowed A Snake) and in Los Angeles with A Wake Of Starry Tongues (Echo Park Rising festival). Tristan’s text scores, poems, and commentaries have been published by The Center for Deep Listening, Bottlecap Press, Dead Letter Office, and others. 

 

The Malfunctioning Industrial Machine Investigation and Inspection (MIMII) dataset is composed of over 30,000 recordings of factory sounds.   Created by the Research and Development Group of Hitachi, Ltd., these recordings provide the means to train artificial intelligence to diagnose mechanical faults and apply predictive maintenance models to industrial machinery using computer monitored microphones. The eventual goal is to create factories that can be run without human intervention.  

Sam Rowell is a musician, visual artist, and creative broadcaster living in Los Angeles. For almost a decade, she has produced Special Collections, a live sound collage program. An episode of Special Collections might feature the sounds of resonant architecture, electromagnetic energies recorded in space, volcanic eruptions, or mediums using radio as a means to commune with the dead. Rowell is also co-director of Lookout FM, a collective of low power FM radio stations in the Los Angeles area dedicated to the creation and broadcast of transmission arts. Her work is available online at https://specialcollections.radio.

December 09 RadioTsonami: Swarms, Flocks, Schools, Pods, and Parliaments
ANDY DILALLO (Boulder, CO)•ANNA FRIZ (Santa Cruz, CA)•AUGUST BLACK (Boulder, CO)•BETSEY BIGGS (Boulder, CO)•FLORENCIA CURCI (Valparaiso, Chile)•JEFF ECONOMY (Kingston, NY)•JIMMY GARVER (Leeds, NY)•MAXIMILIAN GOLDFARB (Hudson, NY)•PETER COURTEMANCHE (Vancouver, Canada)•VIRGINIA MANTINIAN (Denver, CO)

The Conduction Series is a collaborative live radio broadcast produced by a group of sound and transmission artists across the Americas on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. The group comes together on the first Friday of every month at 4:10pm ET using the web platform Mezcal. Emphasizing LIVE interactivity and media archaeological methods, the series explores themes of migration, feedback, user participation, low-key and on-site interaction with mobile devices, and remote collaboration at scale.

https://conduction.wavefarm.org/

THEREFORE is a “perpetual” audio-poem which organically mutates and regenerates itself from a stanzacloud of verse. Each whispered line of the poem is relentlessly shifting in relation to every other line, as the poem endlessly renews itself. This is the closest that its creator Simon Le Boggit has come to expressing a state of mind where the physical and psychological suffering caused by the arthritic autoimmune disease Ankylosing Spondylitis shifts the goalposts so randomly and rapidly that you don’t know what you are – let alone who you are, where you are, or where you are going…   Simon Le Boggit is a multimedia artist. He was born, inflated, and will eventually deflate.

Re-run 9 is a collage of electronic improvisations involving layers of tape, field recordings and various instruments meant to portray movement through particular places. Sounds of a seaside hikes, looped museum commentary and public transportation are meant to evoke a kind of theme that is entirely up to the listener. Andy Armstrong is an American musician and sound artist from Charleston, Illinois. He studied sound art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and cinema at Southern Illinois University. He currently lives in Rennes, France where he works as a teacher and translator. creamwhite.bandcamp.com

As an experimental recording, this soundscape transports you through a day in the landscapes of Guaviare, Colombia. Situated on the edge of the Amazon basin, these landscapes have immense biodiversity threatened by increasing development and agricultural land transformation. These biophonic recordings provide an auditory snapshot of the species currently living in this region, while conveying their entangled ecologies. Composed of a series of temporal recordings from across the landscapes of Guaviare, this piece weaves together the territorial calls of monkeys, bats in series of caves carved by ancient rivers, a typical afternoon rainstorm, and nocturnal birds in the stillness of a flooded forest.

Jacob Moginot is a scientist and sound artist working with landscapes beyond the seen, finding fascinating interactions within natural sonic symphonies heard in changing ecologies. Jacob recorded these soundscapes alongside research with Zannah Matson, who examines the afterlives of coloniality through highway construction in Colombia’s Eastern piedmont landscapes. Her work thinks about power structures, transportation infrastructure, and visual representation of Colombian landscapes, and the impacts that these structural injustices have on the ecosystems and human lives at the edge of the Amazon basin.

https://slowboat.bandcamp.com

1 -Tam Lin - Long Distance (1:55)
2 -Dariusz Mazurowski - Sybil Vanes Final Performance (10:00)
3 -Mark Vernon - Callback Carousel part 4: The Tyrol (4:58)
4 -Juliana Capes -    GOWO MANGO (1:56)
5 -Zael Ortega - Ethel Xochitiotzin, Poeta Nahua (20:00)
6 -Sisters Akousmatika - Border Radio: Chapter One -Phonic Atolls (2:26)
7 -Lorenzo Abattoir - Second Act 01: Breathing Like a Beast (12:45)
8- Patric Simmerud - The scream and beyond (2:15)
9 -Dream Diary - OST #1 A1 (1:00)

1- Tam Lin - Long Distance

Long Distance is a narrative piece in the form of a voicemail. Tam drew on early memories of calls with his mother when she travelled to different countries for work. These calls would carry a fragile quality, often slightly rushed, and occurring at strange times of the day.

Tam Lines is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and musician. Their work touches on the boundaries between the human and nonhuman, incorporating new materialism and queer theory, cybernetics, horror media and introspective poetic approaches. They compose industrial soundscapes, crooked loops and cramped beats under the moniker Tam Lin.

http://www.tamlines.com
http://www.instagram.com/thatwhichcrawls

2 - Dariusz Mazurowski - Sybil Vanes Final Performance

Commissioned by the Antenna Non Grata record label for the upcoming radio compilation CD album. The main source material here: random selection of radio broadcasts recorded during the first months of 2023 – noises, crackles, distorted dialogues, etc. Some are heavily processed, others have been left almost untouched. I also used archival fragments of my radio interviews (in Polish, English and Czech) and an my own interpretation of a single phrase from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

Dariusz Mazurowski is a Polish electroacoustic music composer and performer born and residing in Gdansk. While the majority of his compositional activity has focused on acousmatic works, he has also composed instrumental music in conjunction with electronics, audio installations and improvised electroacoustic music. Mazurowski’s music has been broadcast by radio stations all over the world, and he has performed at festivals and other events in Europe, North America, South America and Asia.

https://deemstudio.com/

3 - Mark Vernon - Callback Carousel part 4: The Tyrol

4 - Juliana Capes - GOWO MANGO

“GOWO MANGO" an album of song sketches by visual artist and describer Juliana Capes,  commissioned as expanded audio description by artist Laura Aldridge,  as part of an audio interpretation of her recent monograph THINGS THAT SOAK YOU.

Capes's descriptions of Aldridge's sculptures have morphed through conversation into sketches of songs, through exploration of Laura's working methods of expanded collage, shared enthusiasm about musical influences and love of mash up and the encouragement burgeoning friendship and collaboration.

Juliana Capes has worked in the field of integrated and expanded visual description within her own practise and those of others since 2015.

Juliana Capes is a multi disciplinary visual artist.  Her current artwork is influenced by her experiences of working as a visual describer in Scottish galleries and museums, the unrelenting beauty of the world and by the processes of feeling, seeing and believing.

She has recently shown work at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Art Festival, Alchemy Film Festival, CCA , Glasgow and Campleline Gallery.

http://www.julianacapes.co.uk

4 - Zael Ortega - Ethel Xochitiotzin, Poeta Nahua

Part of "Eco-Listen: Sound Creation for an Ethics of Caring for Life", a co-creation project with two Nahua poets from the State of Tlaxcala (Mexico): Ethel Xochitiotzin Pérez and Fabiola Carrillo Tieco, which was awarded by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico through the National Center for the Arts (CENART) and the Chapultepec Project, Nature and Culture of the Government of Mexico, to create two sound works of 20 minutes each. This project has been presented in Bolivia, Colombia and Argentina.

Zael Ortega is a Philosopher and Sound Creator since 2000. He has received four awards from the International Radio Biennial and from Radio UNAM (Mexico). His electroacoustic, sound and radio works have been presented in thirteen countries around the world. He has been benefited on two occasions by the National Fund for Culture and the Arts of Mexico. In 2018 he created the project "Learn to Listen: Sound Creation on Indigenous Poetry", which has been presented in eight countries around the world. He received an award from the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico through the National Center for the Arts (CENART) and the Chapultepec, Nature and Culture Project for his project "Eco-Listen: Sound Creation for an Ethics of Caring for Life", which has been presented in Bolivia, Colombia and Argentina.

https://zaelortega.com

5 - Sisters Akousmatika - Border Radio: Chapter One -Phonic Atolls

Border_Radio is a conceptual inquiry about ownership of the airwaves. Originally commissioned as a video and ‘radio play’ script for Donner forme a l’ether Espace Multimedia Gatner (France). The Border_Radio play is written in three acts: Phonic atolls ~  Spectrum Auction ~ Decolonising Wavelengths. Each act represents an unfolding conceptual space, exploring questions about sovereignty, ownership, transmission law and international treaties, history and potentialities.

Sisters Akousmatica is the collaborative, expanded radio project of Julia Drouhin and Phillipa (Pip) Stafford – exploring the radical possibilities of transmission since 2016. Sisters Akousmatica weave projects in, around, with and for radio. Their work is concerned with collective, feminist radio practices and auditory-spatial exploration.

radioqueens.art

6 - Lorenzo Abattoir - Second Act 01: Breathing Like a Beast

From the album ‘The second act’ on Vice de Forme. The continuation of a metamorphosis process started one year ago with the album "Disincarnazone". These two tracks were recorded in Torino at the end of 2022 during some sessions of constant reiteration of breathing techniques and imitation of animal sounds into an amplified environment.

Lorenzo Abattoir is a sound artist based in Torino (IT). A key element of his work is the relationship between spiritual practices and unusual methods of audio processing, mainly focusing on the use of microphones as a medium for the amplification of an act. He explores the boundaries between sound and noise using breathing techniques, bodily sounds and different kinds of amplified objects as instruments to structures his performances.

https://vicedeforme.bandcamp.com/album/second-act

7 - Patric Simmerud - The scream and beyond

This is the prologue to Gravities, a piece for percussion, electronics, recitation and video inspired by the novel Gravity's rainbow by the author Thomas Pynchon.

http://simmerud.com/

8 - Dream Diary - OST #1 A1

https://freemusick.bandcamp.com/album/ost-1

It comes from a complicated coming together of branches, experiences, connections—human-, earth- and sky-bound. Every story is a container of richness, a carpet that can be pulled apart and each thread marvelled at, equal in beauty and complexity to the whole. The weave can be re-woven into new pieces, new combinations of colour and line.

The stories my grandmothers told me as a boy are complicated sensory experiences (the smell of their saris, the hum of the ceiling fan, the traffic (or lack of it) out the window, how they patted my head, the rhythm of it, the rain). And then the stories themselves, tangled intertwining of mythology, family anecdotes, gossip that I could hardly follow with my basic Bengali skills. Meaning, language, pattern, sound.

My creative (ethnographic) practice has always been about seeking the sounds outside my hearing, those that weren’t coming out of radio speakers or on the suburban streets and playgrounds. The sounds of Hindustani classical music were as precious and as fierce to me as the 2-Tone music of England in the mid-80s—they both were from a world that I didn’t see but represented a powerful experience and worldview that hummed at the edges of my consciousness. I knew that these sounds made up, or were part of, a picture of the breadth of what I wanted my life to be (and others’ as well).

Every story is grown.

My story was more than the colour of my skin, or my Canadian accent, or my hard-won burgeoning Bengali abilities. My story was all of those things coexisting with a million other descriptions. As I came to understand this and (slowly, tentatively) celebrate it, I realized (am still realizing) that this was true of stories in general, for all of us. And that if true, then the stories that we hold are as interwoven with the sensorium as anyone’s, each one a weave of place, language, senses, experience (and a weave is a map, with many routes in and through).

Sound is, for me, the route to discovering the rich confluence of ideas and sense-experience held in the story, and in the moment of the telling of it. The quiet, singsong tones of a half-understood language in the afternoon heat is a repository of meaning in itself, as well as a vector of information. The pauses in the telling of the myth to call out instructions to the cook holds a part of the image, is a path.

When I seek to uncover the story of a place or time or moment, I understand that this uncovering is connected to the land, the air, the sounds and smells and time that passed there, the people who told stories standing exactly at that place before the moment I stood on that spot, and after—where you are now, right now, exactly there: someone told a story to their child, their people, their lover, the stars.

Every story is grown.

In the city the body rests is the second in a series of radiophonic works that look at known phenomena and attempt to deconstruct and re-imagine them. The first in this series, The Light, was broadcast on Deutschlandradio Kultur in 2012. Most of the text for In the city… was written on a trip to Kolkata, India during the 2015 Christmas season. Dhakuria Bridge is a work that I generated using machine learning tools and neural networks trained on field recordings I’ve collected over many trips there.

Kolkata plays a large part in my audio work—it is the anchor of many sound compositions, installations, videos and performance works I have devised over the years, and my experience of being south Asian in Canada has been largely informed by my relationship to this city and my familial, cultural and spiritual connection to it.

Writing the text for In the city… (the first work of the two) started out as a project to crystallize many of my thoughts about Kolkata, but, as I wrote, I realized that my thoughts on the city—coloured and romanticized as I made them—were actually a direct expression (or perhaps were the foundation for) how I think about urban spaces, and the roles they play in human culture and larger arcs of pre- and post-human time.

Looking deeper, these two works are an expression of the multimodal experience of the space of the city and the story we could construct from it. I’m drawn to the concept of multimodality—it implies an acceptance of the totality of the place/moment, building a space and time for an ecology wherein we are listening and listened to, as Robinson puts it above.

It is undeniable to me that a place simultaneously encodes and expresses the sum total of its time—both the long thread of history of the land, witnessed by human and non-human beings, and the endless pointillistic moment of observation, the sounds, smells, heat, dirt, wind and sun. The story of the thread and the moment coexist and complicate/support the observation, and the observer. It is impossible to break out the moment into only one mode of apprehension.

And so an entangled, multimodal ethnography: a system of observing and recording that takes all of it in, in all its confusing complexity, and allows it all to be present in the story we tell. 

In the City the Body Rests – Past issues (wordpress.com)

Driven by a deep commitment to the primacy of sound in creative expression, Debashis Sinha has created numerous audio-centred solo and collaborative projects across Canada and internationally. Sound design and composition credits include works for digital media and theatrical productions with many of Canada’s premiere theatre companies. His speculative mythology-driven sound practice has led to live appearances on stages from Japan to the mountains of Alberta. Currently, Sinha has been researching sound production using machine learning and AI with an ear to uncovering new modes and methods of story creation, releasing recordings on Berlin’s Establishment Records imprint, Gusstaff and elsewhere. He is an assistant professor in The Creative School at X (Ryerson) University in Toronto, Canada.

https://debsinha.com

A radio slips between stations. From static, a voice emerges, reading an elliptical, fragmentary text, interpolated with birdsong, improvised music and sounds of private acts performed in public spaces. The performed text is from a copy of Institutional and Schizophrenia: A Comparative Study of Three Mental Hospitals 1960-68.   The medical/authoritative voice has been erased using Tippex, leaving a poetic, Beckettian remainder which gradually coalesces into a description of the collective experience of those who were compelled to live long-term at Netherne hospital and an emotional, evocative exploration of power structures, dailiness and creativity in the experimental art therapy studio there. Rose Ruane is an artist and writer, living and working in Glasgow. Her debut novel This Is Yesterday was published by Corsair books, with a second to follow in summer 2024. She has made radio work for Radio Scotland, Radio 3 and Radiophrenia and is currently finishing a SGSAH funded PhD at Glasgow University exploring The Adamson Collection: work created during the C20th, in the art therapy studio at Netherne mental hospital, by individuals who were compelled to live there. Wing of Glass was created in collaboration with a sound artist working under the name Local Teenagers.

Pieces in order of play:

1)    Arkle 64, 7’32”.
2)    The Fish and Meat Market, 8’26”.
3)    Three Generations, 11’43”.

This project is based around a collection of cassette tapes I discovered. Recorded by my grandfather before I was born, the tapes contain a mixture of recorded family discussions, radio recordings and music compilations, all recorded in the same council house in South Wales, 66 Montclaire Avenue. My intention as a composer, was both to explore the nuanced environment held within the tapes, as well as the people themselves and the wider social and political issues presented. This, I hope, allows for a meaningful relationship between sound and context to be created, one that conjures nostalgia and evokes memories.

Sam Bland is a sonic artist, composer and workshop leader, interested in the potential of sound art to investigate social history. He is a recent post-graduate from the University of Birmingham, where he completed an MA in Electroacoustic Composition. His work often combines interviews, field and archive recordings and electronics, to produce dense and politically engaged soundscapes. His recent project, 66 Montclaire, was selected for the Daegu International Computer Music Festival 2022. Sam has also received commissions from Croydon Council, the Croydon Art Store and We're All Bats Listening Arts Channel, to run community based sound projects.

https://www.instagram.com/samblandmusic/
https://www.samblandmusic.com/

1) Ezio Piermattei - Gran trotto 6 (from 'Gran trotto') (2:18)
2) Florence Cats - Fall Call (5:10)
3) berni m janssen & vicki hallett - murmurs:melt (6:31)
 
1) Ezio Piermattei - Gran trotto 6 
 
From the tape release 'Gran trotto'.

2) Florence Cats - Fall Call

3) berni m janssen & vicki hallett - murmurs:melt

The river, as ecosystem, connector, memory,metaphor is explored in this collaborative work by berni m janssen (text andvocals) and Vicki Hallett (field recordings and composition). Texts,recordings, composition are streams, responding, joining and swelling to createthe river as a melt of time and place. Hydrophone recordings take us below thesurface into the minutiae of the rivers’ lives and particles, while the textprompts us to imagine what was, what is and what they will become.

berni m janssen is a maker of poems,performances, multidisciplinary art and preserves. She often works withcomposers, musicians, sound artists, performers and visual artists. She livesand works on the unceded land of the Dja Dja Wurrung in Australia.

Vicki Hallett is a musician, acousticecologist and composer. Her focus is to record, compose with, and featureever-diminishing habitats and species. Highlighting unique sounds from themicro to the macro, Hallett utilises sounds we rarely or cannot hear. Halletttravels the world recording sounds as well as performing in environments inAfrica (with hippopotami) and the Amazon jungle. http://www.vickihallett.com

“ And with me in tow, you shuffle” I received this commission proposal on March 14. The same day, my Grandmother Lea turned 99. On the 4th of May, she passed away. Nearly all the field recordings on it were taken on these two dates, in and around  the nursing home where Nonna was cared for. Voice, tapes, instruments and electronics have been recorded at home after her departure. Ezio Piermattei (b. 1980) is an italian sound artist living in Turin, Piedmont. He  has released solo and collaborative recordings  through Chocolate Monk, More Mars,  My Dance The Skull, Steep Gloss, Discombobulate, Staaltape, Joy De Vivre, Nashazphone. Piermattei also plays in Triple Heater – a duo with Brighton’s F. Ampism – and runs the label Tutore Burlato.

babblesnatch invites an immersion in cascading, rebounding Sound.  The original 8-speaker ‘sonic snowglobe’ installation, created entirely from two Voices, has been distilled into 2-channels for Radiophrenia.  babblesnatch invites consideration of what it might be like to experience the usually non-audible digital voices continually enveloping us.   As Voices dart and fly, emerging recognisable words take on a significance that Listeners have to decide for themselves.

Text and Voices:  Caroline Wilkins & Leona Jones
Leona Jones was supported by PRS Foundation’s Women Make Music
babblesnatch premiered as its full 8-speaker installation in July 2023 at Somerset Film’s Engine Room, Bridgwater.

Dancing between This and That Leona’s multi-modal experimental practice explores Sound in its widest definition.  Using the hardlyheard and underseen, the conscious and not-so-conscious, she highlights physicality and context in events/performances and installations centred around Sound, Voice, Language and Spatiality. Leona makes a concerted effort to reach into an audience’s imagination, encouraging their ability to listen, as she believes listening to be vital to any healthy society. Her work has been presented and performed in galleries, but it’s just as likely to be unexpectedly discovered responding to places and spaces not usually associated with the arts.

http://www.leonajones.co.uk
http://www.soundcloud.com/wordssoundsspaces

1 - Patric Simmerud - Wish Tree (4:00)  2 - Alfredo Cerrito - Parivartan (9:36) 3 - Gustavo Chab - Concret Totem (9:06) 4 - Juliana Capes - Inverted streets, dissonance (6:36) 5 - Veronica Daniela Cerrotta - Fortaleza (19:00) 6 - Camille Hummel - Gyongyi (4:05) 7 - Vincent Eoppolo - The New Utopians (2:15) 8 - Jacks Broken Head - Error Flow iv (3:08)

1 - Patric Simmerud - Wish Tree 

A site specific piece intended to be experienced in the centre of Yoko Ono’s installation ”Wish tree for Wanås”. Ono’s work consists of 14 apple trees in which visitors can hang pieces of paper with wishes written on them, according to Ono’s instruction: “Write your wish on a piece of paper and hang it on a tree.” The wishes are harvested and sent to the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland where they are archived. The site was created in 2007 and since then, a pillar of light has shone at the monument every year from October 9 to December 8.

Patric Simmerud is a composer and sound artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. Classically trained and with wide influences, my work as a composer range from contemporary art music - including electroacoustic and radiophonic pieces, chamber music and music for full orchestra - to soundscapes and music for film. As a sound artist, I have explored various artistic disciplines such as installation, performance, videoart. My work has been internationally performed and included in various art exhibitions. In addition, I lead the music and score engraving company MakeMyDayMusic.          http://www.simmerud.com

2 - Alfredo Cerrito - Parivartan  

Everything is Creation, everything is Change, everything is Flux, everything is Metamorphosis. He concentrates on the use of very few materials, exploring the different possibilities of transformation and the sound of these. There are numerous manipulative techniques, showing that everything lives in a metamorphosis which, although invisible, never stops. Everything is emotionally supported by the Tonic sounds that return, albeit changed, to remind us that as far as we can move away from our gravitational center there is always a generating force that keeps us anchored to our essence.

Alfredo Cerrito is an Italian saxophonist, composer and conductor. His works have been selected for important electronic music festivals.In particular, his compositions have recently been performed at the Audioblast Festival in Nice and Paris, at the "InSonora Project" in Barcelona, on the CJSW (Canada), for the "ResonanceFM" broadcast in England, for the SICM Colloque at the Sorbonne University of Paris and the University of Lille, for the "KunstArt" exhibition in Krakow. In February 2023 he was invited to play for the "TRK Glitch Club" Festival organized by the prestigious research center "Tempo Reale" (Florence), founded by L. Berio in 1987
https://www.instagram.com/cerritalfred/

3 - Gustavo Chab - Concret Totem   

The present work was made from sounds that were originally generated by the instruments of Productions Totem Contemporain and other sources. The piece was composed for Totem Électroacoustique competition that in 2022 celebrate its 20 years of sound research. PTC called to participate in competition.

The origin of the sound material as part of an instrumentarium unique in the world like: TOTEM instrument as the bowl, the insects, the pipe, tu-yo, the acoustic oscillator and many others. The original sounds are distributed and mixed in a creative process trying to connect with the matter of sound that included another aspect of the concepts as a spiritual significance that is adopted by it as an emblem manipulation of the reality. The composition brings together voices and material related with new acoustic musical instruments.   gustavochab.blogspot.com.ar

4 - Juliana Capes - Inverted streets, dissonance

Inverted Streets, Dissonance is a ‘Film for Radio’. They are composed of spoken word and expanded audio description creating subjective images through the imaginative spaces of the radio. A by product of rainy days and capitalism, this is an expanded audio description of winter city streets that sits in the space between what we're attracted to and what things perhaps might be. Originally recorded as an extended audio description of the exhibition "Inverted Streets" at the Hawthornvale Gallery at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop 2021, it has since been developed into a moving image work and installation.

Juliana Capes is a multidisciplinary artist based in Edinburgh. A strand of her practice works with expanded audio description, intergrating access into the creative process. She has exhibited recently at St Anza Poetry Festival (2023), Campleline Gallery (2022) , CCA Glasgow (2022) and Alchemy Film Festival (2020).         https://www.julianacapes.co.uk

5 - Veronica Daniela Cerrotta - Fortaleza     

Work developed within the framework of the Sala Vazia Artistic Residency, in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, between April 27 and May 6, 2019. The sounds of the city of Fortaleza conform a soundtrack that is narrated chronologically according to the walks done during the Residency. Different landscapes and situations succeed each other and overlap creating sound images that stimulate an attentive and creative listening.
https://linktr.ee/veronica_cerrotta

6 - Camille Hummel - Gyongyi  


In the distance it hovers. Quietly he waits. Opposite, tenacious, Gyongyi watches.
https://camillehummel.com/

7 - Vincent Eoppolo - The New Utopians

Vincent Eoppolo (Ioppolo) is an American composer from Wilmington, Delaware. Initially trained as both a Classical and Jazz guitarist, Eoppolo began composing and recording electronic music in the early 1980’s shortly after the development of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) and the introduction of affordable home computers and recording equipment. During the 1980-90’s Eoppolo’s fixed media compositions were regularly featured on university new music radio programs in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania region. Additionally, Eoppolo’s works received recognition in music publications Keyboard Magazine and Computer Music Journal. In recent years, Eoppolo’s fixed media works have been presented at the New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, Mise_En Place New Music Festival in Brooklyn, Utopie Sonore in Nantes, France and De Natura Sonorum in Rome, Italy. Eoppolo’s compositions have been released by Moscow based independent music label Meticulous Midgets and his works are regularly featured on new music radio and internet programs throughout Europe and North America.

8 - Jacks Broken Head -

Error Flow iv - Part of a series of soundscapes made as part of a broader project investigating creative failure. In 2022, Failure, Understanding, Care (& Kunst) interviewed different artists on the topic of failure; this series of sound works explore failure sonically and was included within the podcast episodes. Error Flow I-VI are created from the failures, errors, glitches, mistakes and waste material from the interview recordings.

Jacks Broken Head (real name Ruth Aitken, or Ruth & Alexander) is an artist working in Tromsø, northern Norway, working with sound in addition to digital and analogue film, installation, curation and chaos research. They have a BA(Hons) in Time-Based Art from Duncan of Jordanstone (2012) and an MA in Contemporary Art from Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art (2018).
Ruthandalexander.com              jacksbrokenhead.bandcamp.com

What would a Radio-Choreography be like? This piece explores the possibilities of the radio to function as an invisible stage and archival space for dance.
 
Based on extensive research and collaborations between choreographers, sound artists, and dance historians, we present a collection radiophonic adaptations to dance practices that were created by female choreographers in contexts of migration and resistance. In-cluding: a dance-action performed in Beirut in the context of the Lebanese Revolution in 2019, a dance that was performed in Athens 1913 as part of a revue theatre criticising the first Balkan War, an emancipatory choreography of hair created in Teheran 2021, and a language choreography that was conceived in a prison cell in Berlin 1942.

Concept and artistic director: Netta Weiser, Compositions: Netta Weiser, Azadeh Nilchiani, Marta Gentilluci, Choreographic collaboration: Dominique Tegho, Shahrzad Nazarpour, Voice actress: Claudia Basrawi, Soprano: Tehila Nini Goldstein, Pianist: Michaela Catranis, Dramaturgy: Annett Hardegen, Compositional assistance: Anderi Cucu, Giovanni Verga, Archival research: Anna Leon, Miriam Althammer, Mastering: Macarena Solervicens 

Netta Weiser (b.1991 Israel, based in Berlin)works at the intersection of choreography, experimental radio and discursive practice. She was trained as a dancer in Israel and holds a Masters degree in Interdisciplinary Arts from Tel-Aviv University. Her works have been presented internationally in performing arts venues such as Tanzquartier Wien, Akademie der Künste and Sophiensaele Berlin, Villa Medici Rome, as well as in ra-dio contexts such as WDR, reboot.fm and The Israeli Centre for Digital Art. Since 2019 she is a docent at the Academy of the Arts Berlin and Klangzeitort Institute for New Mu-sic Berlin.

http://www.radio-choreography.net
http://www.nettaweiser.com

D  I hAve  No voIcE  LA is a spoken word piece based around an indeterminacy of sounds in chaos, phonetically structured so that they form their own spoken language. As the refrain develops the voice advances in two languages and becomes a computer language, with an algorithmic diction.
 
The voice tells us she has no voice, she is AI, a bot. Her voice however has a name, Daniela, the feminine of Daniel in 2001 Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke and Kubrick, and one of the avatars Annlee speaks about in Anywhere Out of the World (2000 Parreno).

Julie Coutureau aka juliedesk, is a multimedia artist and sound poetess, author and composer of writings and sounds. Trained at the Beaux-Arts in Paris and then in sound techniques at the SVA (NY), she went through the performance, music, until her practice narrowed to writing and sound poetry. Her sound pieces, spoken cut words and mixes of sounds of various kinds, are broadcasted on ∏Node, Radia.fm, ... She joined the collective ∏Node, webradio, DAB+ and radio art, in 2020. In 2022 she won the 1st prize of 60 secondes radio (Canada) with "Les ons diffus les ons que l'ont fut".

https://soundcloud.com/juliedesk
https://www.instagram.com/julie_coutureau_brossa_i_roger/
http://www.juliecoutureau.com/

submitted work    :  transient year of production    : 2022 duration    : 31:13 channels    : 8 (ambisonic) submitted version    : stereo program note: The multi-channel electro-acoustic work “transient” generally addresses the situation of visitors to an exhibition from the point of view of perception and movement.

25 Hz, a historical noise-drama about radio automation, splices together audio samples from a span of 1951 to present. A 25 Hz "cue tone" punctuates each splice, inverting the automation system's goal of seamlessly executing a programmed sequence. Re-sonifying those seams from within radio, the piece aims to open automation up as more than an industrial object – as a peculiar, emotionally charged, and passionately countered dream. 25 Hz was produced for the Radia Network through the Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship. It features vocal reenacting from Gregory Whitehead, and five other sound artists provided cue tone recordings.

Andy Kelleher Stuhl was the 2021/2022 Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow. He is currently a PhD candidate in Communication Studies at McGill University, where his dissertation traces the cultural meaning of radio automation between 1950 and 2010. He approaches radio history as a resource for overlooked precedents that artists and critics might adapt toward intervention in present-day technological systems.

https://akstuhl.net
http://radia.fm/2022/05/show-896-25-hz-by-andy-kelleher-stuhl-for-wave-farm/

A Reading of Blue Topography a book of Words and sounds on Blue , body and landscapes by Lindsay Duncanson Including field sounds taken during printing and tracks from accompanying album 'Animal Wife' plus remixes and re-imagings from Cath Tyler, Mariam Rezaei and Jayne Dent (MelostMe).

Originally Streamed on Star and Shadow Radio.

https://soundcloud.com/productofboy/blue-topography

To buy the original book format head to linktr.ee/pinnel

1) Alëna Korolëva  - Lunar Eclipse (6:25)
2) Romy Danielewicz and Max Syedtollan - 'the remainder' by tom mccarthy (7:30)
3) Camille Hummel - Cloud and garble  (5:52)
 
1) Alëna Korolëva  - Lunar Eclipse
 
Recorded on the night of lunar eclipse in May 2022 in Huron County, Canada. Featuring green frogs, spring peeper frogs, gray tree frogs, american bullfrogs, Canada geese and unidentified underwater creatures.

Alëna Korolëva is an artist and curator, who works with sound, photo and video.
Her sound work is focused on field recordings, acoustic ecology, soundscape studies and acousmatic composition. Her technique employs elements of documentary storytelling and experimental music.
Based in Toronto, Canada.

alenakoroleva.com 
 
2) Romy Danielewicz and Max Syedtollan   - 'the remainder' by tom mccarthy
 
3) Camille Hummel - Cloud and garble
 
For the time of closing eyes, let's dream about the collapse of light pollution,freeing animals of the night. 
 
Camille Hummel is a young french sound artist, working on ecology and societal topics. She likes to use sounds as tiny pieces of paper, trying to mix up everything, words, voices, fieldrecording, and sound-design to express herself. Besides, she does documentaries and writes stories for TV and video games.
https://camillehummel.com/
 

‘Like a telepath’ pieces together a week-long journey of remote recordings. ‘Emitting’ and ‘receiving’ from a small island and from a city simultaneously, in order to mimick a radio device. To do this, we would start the recording of our parallel transmissions at the same moment in time, using the distance between us as a space to connect. What you hear is a photograph of a thought, a long, windy line tracing a series of synchronous compositions. Cover a moment, remain standing, crumpling paper in your hands. A phone rings – s in the past.

Brussels – L’Île-d’Yeu, May 2023

‘Like a telepath’ is a co-commission between Radiophrenia and Kunstradio Radiokunst for Ö1, Austria.

Diana Duta is a Romanian-born, Brussels based artist working with sound in hypnotic ways, with a background in art and socio-cultural linguistics. Her work focuses on concepts of mimesis, translation and echoic memory, with an ear on our relationship to the non-human, embodied sound and the act of listening. She makes music performances (as DIAN), works for radio, sound installations and collaborative translation projects.

Her project Jambes founded in 2019 is a recording studio commissioning new work by artists experimenting with sound and the voice. Quille podcast is an limb branching out from Jambes that collects interviews with sound practitioners.

http://dianaduta.com

http://jaaambes.be

Florence Cats is a visual & sound artist and acupuncturist from Brussels who uses theremin, light, water, color and energies. Her ‘transparent music’ tunes in to space and ambient silence, and is inspired by natural radio. She has curated of a series of exhibitions around water, signs, transmutations, and is the co-author of several books including ‘Lavori in corso’ (primitive press, 2020). She released ‘Ys’ on ediçoes CN in 2022 and ‘correspondances’ on frissons in 2021. She was also a member of The Asocial Telepathic Ensemble (corvo records, 2022) and often collaborates with other musicians and artists, such as Brandon LaBelle, Clara Levy, Bogdana Dima, Mauricio Amarante, Joseph Charroy.

https://florence-cats.com/

https://florencecats.bandcamp.com/album/ys

CCA Theatre, from 7pm Tuesday 22nd August. Tickets: Pay what you can from the CCA Box Office

Maria, Mariza and maybe Marianna (2014) is a kaleidoscope of disembodied voices, field recordings and found sound forged and sculpted into an unearthly sonic narration.

The piece will be presented as a 6.2 live performance in the CCA theatre space. Expect high volumes and near darkness.

Composition: Aurélie Lierman (BE/RW)
Voice: Aurélie Lierman, Maria Avraam (CYP), Mariza Anastasiades (CYP)

Eternal gratitude to my three lovely muses Maria Avraam, Mariza Anastasiades, Marianna Soroka.

Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman was born in Rwanda but grew up in Belgium from the age of two. She’s an independent radio producer, vocalist and composer trying new directions by fusing radio art, vocal art and composition. Her main focus is her personal field recordings: a large collection of unique sounds and soundscapes from rural and urban contemporary East‐Africa. Sound‐bit by sound‐bit she’s transforming and sculpting them into something she would call “Afrique Concrète”. Lierman’s award winning work has been broadcasted, exhibited and performed throughout Europe, Israel, Morocco, South Africa, Tanzania, Australia, Canada and USA.

In November 2020 Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman was awarded an Arts&Media Fellowship at DAAD in Berlin. In April 2019 Lierman got (as part of improv trio Organo) nominated for the pre-selection of the Matthijs Vermeulenprijs 2019. October 2018 she won the CTM Radiolab 2019 in Berlin for ‘Sogokuru’, a performative installation dedicated to Kanyoni Ladislas, her Rwandan supercentenarian grandfather. In January 2016 Lierman was awarded the Sally and Don Lucas Fellowship at Montalvo Arts in California. In May 2014 she won the First Prize at Monophonic 2014 (Brussels) for ‘Anosmia’, a radio composition reflecting on the Rwandan Genocide. In June 2013 she won the 1st prize at Sonic Art (Rome) for her radio composition ‘KARIAKOO’ ( a sonic portrait of a lively neighborhood in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania). In October that same year, Lierman also won the 3rd prize at Grand Prix Nova (Bucharest) for her radio composition ‘iota mikro’ (based on field recordings from her birthplace, the Karisimbi vulcano, in Rwanda).

Lierman released two albums with the British cult-group Nurse With Wound, collaborated with visual artist Vincent Meessen at Kunsthalle Basel and Bozar. She toured the USA premiering her solo sets for voice and tape. And has recently performed the leading role in ‘What Happened | Plays’ a Gertrude-Stein-inspired chamber opera by Samuel Vriezen and Adam Frank.

Lierman is appointed Seizoenscomponist 2021 – 2022 at Concertgebouw Brugge (BE), simultaneously with Seizoensdenker David Van Reybrouck and Seizoenskunstenaar Yaqine Hamzaoui.

https://aurelielierman.be/

‘A Collection of Miniature Pigs’ by Romy Danielewicz

An experimental multi-form work for live audiences and the radio. Consisting of sound, speech, music and movement, the performance weaves together waking and dream material to unpack how power structures are communicated through unconscious social messages.

In the artist’s dream material, the figure of a ‘violent, aggressive, unpredictable, slow-murder-under-the-surface-seething guy’ makes frequent appearances, pointing to the social mechanisms which underpin violence against minoritized genders (cis and trans women, transmen and non-binary people). ‘A Collection of Miniature Pigs’ explores these hauntings emerging from a stream of (un)consciousness, and how to resist the violences they are a symptom of.

The performance will be a combination of scripted and non-scripted communication. Its range of interventions will span a casio synth, movement, bowed guitar, drumkit, violin, a conversation, drummed guitar and field recordings.

Romy Danielewicz is an artist whose practice currently encompasses writing, performance and improvised music. They are interested in various forms of non-conformity, specifically how to resist and divest from normative forms of sociality under cisheteropatriarchy and racialised capitalism. They graduated from Edinburgh College of Art (2016) and served on the programming committee of Market Gallery (2018 – 2020).

Romy has presented work both in DIY and institutional settings. They have exhibited at the Edinburgh Art Festival, Intermedia (CCA Glasgow) and Embassy Gallery among others. Their performances have been programmed at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and Present Futures. Most recently, they have been doing gigs, including the ‘Disposables’ tour with the band/performance troupe Cank.

Romy has produced work for independent radio, including Soundartradio FM (Devon) and Withkin Radio (Dorset). They have done various artist residencies including at Hospitalfield, the Scottish Sculpture Workshop and internationally at Institut für Alles Mögliche in Berlin and La Fragua in Andalucía, Spain. In 2019, they published their first poetry pamphlet with SPAM Press, An orca is way too large to attach unless as a jpeg.

Romy is currently undertaking counselling training. They are also very slowly working, and often not working, on a debut novel about lovesickness and ambivalence.

This recording is both intimate and violent, small and enormous. At the centre of this piece is an unedited recording from inside the mouth of a crab as it eats a hand built hydrophone covered in bait that was left in a rock pool along the Dorset coast. This piece is accompanied by improvised electric violin playing in response to the crabs mastications. Edd Sanders is a Sound Artist from Todmorden who's current work heavily utilises field recordings and hand made equipment to explore bioacoustics in relation to musical composition.

1 - Francesca Centonze -The next day I started scratching musical notes on the prison wall with my garter belt fastener (16:17)
2 - Gavin Inglis - The Needle Box (5:43)
3 - Chan Sze Ying - Due to a reported emergency would all passengers leave the station immediately (3:22)
4 - Selestra - Dispatches from Radiotopia- Hamburg Rehearsal - 04 7074- Lullaby in the Key of FT8 (7:20)
5 - Wulf Steel - Downfall (8:17)
6 - Stephen Scott - QRP Gammon (6:40)
7 - Johnny Dixon - Industry (1:09)
8 - Berk Yagli - Ideological Distortion (9:51)

1 - Francesca Centonze -The next day I started scratching musical notes on the prison wall with my garter belt fastener

"The next day I started scratching musical notes on the prison wall with my garter belt fastener” represents the biography of Else Marie Pade on four long wooden panels. Else Marie Pade was one of the pioneers of electronic music in Denmark, active in the resistance from 1944 and then later arrested by the Gestapo and survived in Frøslev prison camp. This woman’s devotion to music and tenacity are thus immortalised in a Transmediale work mixing watercolours, video projections and soundscape spacial audio.

Francesca Centonze(1990) is an artist and filmmaker from Italy using the media of video, animation, audio and paintings. Her research is based on the correlation of images. She has participated in numerous projects and collaborations in which she has held various roles, not only as a camera operator and video editor, but also as director, co-director and producer. During her studies at the Free University of Bolzano, where she previously graduated in Design and Art, she developed an interest in filmmaking. Francesca currently studies and works between Vienna and Bolzano. She works for different clients such as musicians, artists, actors and institutions. Since 2018 she has been a student at the Univ. Prof. Mag.art Brigitte Kowanz/ Jakob Lena Knebl (Transmediale Kunst, Angewandte). Francesca since two years is also part of the interdisciplinary collective Klub Montage and she is involved in organising digital jam sessions, events and performances ranging from noize experimental music to art installations.
https://vimeo.com/francescacentonze

2 - Gavin Inglis - The Needle Box

A quiet horror story about a mysterious puzzle, lifelong obsession, and how we sometimes walk a line between fascination and dread. As age erodes those we love, sometimes the hardest thing is to let them make their own choices, no matter how dangerous.

Gavin Inglis is a writer and game creator based in Edinburgh, working across digital and tabletop spaces, with credits on Call of Cthulhu, Zombies, Run!, Fallen London and more. His interactive novels are published by Choice of Games and he recently released a graphic novel about Functional Neurological Disorder. He is known for energetic live spoken word performances, often with music.        http://www.gavininglis.com


3 - Chan Sze Ying - Due to a reported emergency would all passengers leave the station immediately

This piece is based on a recording I made in Green Park station, a busy London Underground station. It consists of 2 side connected by a tunnel. One day the station has become overcrowded and an announcement was broadcasted to evacuate the passengers. At the time I thought something more serious had happened and I decided to record my journey to the exit of the station. The more I listen to the recording, the more interesting sounds my ears picked up and I decided to orchestrate the interesting moments using additional recorded violin and flute sounds.

Sze Ying Chan is a Hong Kong born composer based in London. Chan graduated from the Royal College of Music studying composition for screen with Francis Shaw and Howard Davidson. Chan also studied composition with Haris Kittos and Alison Kay, and electroacoustic music with Michael Oliva. During her studies she has been awarded a BAFTA scholarship and was under the mentorship of George Fenton.   szeyingchan.com

4 - Selestra - Dispatches from Radiotopia- Hamburg Rehearsal: 04 7074- Lullaby in the Key of FT8

Recorded during the first rehearsal of RADIOTOPIA, these tracks guide shortwave frequencies into a portable modular system for signal transmutation. Understanding or decoding is not the point, but rather these signals act like any other voltage in the system: one to be manipulated, one that can travel through the wires to modulate another parameter. Paired with algorithmic generation of melodies, the tracks manifest a merging of generated and captured voltages from around the world.
More information can be found here: https://selestra.bandcamp.com/album/dispatches-from-radiotopia-hamburg-rehearsal.

Selestra is a moniker of Adriana Knouf, PhD (NL/US), who works as an artist, writer, and xenologist, focusing on topics such as wet media, space art, and queer and trans futurities. 

https://tranxxenolab.net/

5 - Wulf Steel - Downfall

An excerpt from the collection of poems Fallen. The full collection is yet to be completed but continues to ferment and grow. The excerpt here contains the poems Observing, Holding on, Downfall, Consequence and Ache which are grouped together in the collection.

Always been a writer and always wanting to get work out there. A lover of performance, and someone who likes to think.

https://www.cityofpoets.com/team/wulf           https://www.cityofpoets.com/items/clarity-is-sought

6 - Stephen Scott - QRP Gammon

MASSIVE EU PILE UP! musically enhanced!

“Listen to this thermonuclear pile up on the amateur (ham) radio shortwave band as hundreds of European radio stations attempt to be the next station to speak with an American radio operator.
This clip contains frantic European voices over the shortwave radio, a virtual cacophony of panicked competitors, each scrambling against one another pitting their over-modulated, speech-processed transmitted signals against themselves. A superlative electronic menagerie of individualism over collectivism that would have made John Locke proud.”
(Original radio text from Freesound.com)

Stephen Scott currently has produced work in a variety of musical formats since the 1970s, and is edging towards finding his own unique niche.            https://stephenscott.bandcamp.com

7 - Johnny Dixon - Industry

8 - Berk Yagli - Ideological Distortion

Ideological Distortion is a piece which explores the dark side of today's media, dilution of ideologies, and constant bombardment of confusion. It invites the listener into reflecting on the issues and feel the horror and hate that is constantly imposed on society whether we individuals are lucid about it or not.

Berk Yağlı (born 1999) is a Cypriot guitarist, composer, and producer. His mission with his music has been to talk about social, political, and philosophical matters interestingly to invite the listeners into reflecting on the topics. He has been active in the UK since 2017. His works have been presented internationally. He is regularly invited to compose his music in studios throughout the world.

If parrhesia once described the bravery of a solo voice against a single force. Then a multitudinous oppression should be met with a chorus of dissent. A collective jamming of the signal; a co-produced glitch, a dissonant polyrhythm set against a discordant song. In defiance of the individualisation of our call the response to repression should be played amongst allies.
A rehearsal of a people yet to come in a place still being built, an unspokenword night of joyous resistance, of reverberation and resonance, of Social Parrhesia As Musical JAM.
Recorded live at Brighton Electric, Sunday 20 June 2021, Brighton

Antivoid Alliance
Live AV performance, audio, voice, video installation, live art intervention, interaction, film, graphics, improvised noise and movement. Agents of the Antivoid. Featuring: Grant Cieciura, Caleb Madden, Chris Sav, Ellis Warren, Stephen Mallinder, Luke Pendrell, Yumino Seki, Tiago De Sousa.

https://antivoid.solutions/contents

If parrhesia once described the bravery of a solo voice against a single force. Then a multitudinous oppression should be met with a chorus of dissent. A collective jamming of the signal; a co-produced glitch, a dissonant polyrhythm set against a discordant song. In defiance of the individualisation of our call the response to repression should be played amongst allies.
A rehearsal of a people yet to come in a place still being built, an unspokenword night of joyous resistance, of reverberation and resonance, of Social Parrhesia As Musical JAM.
Recorded live at Brighton Electric, Sunday 20 June 2021, Brighton

Antivoid Alliance
Live AV performance, audio, voice, video installation, live art intervention, interaction, film, graphics, improvised noise and movement. Agents of the Antivoid. Featuring: Grant Cieciura, Caleb Madden, Chris Sav, Ellis Warren, Stephen Mallinder, Luke Pendrell, Yumino Seki, Tiago De Sousa.

https://antivoid.solutions/contents