Konzerte/Mitschnitte

Juni / Juli 2012

Radio Custica Selected 2011

01. Mario Verandi / Noise Networks / 16:41
02. Andrea Dancer - Michal Kindernay / Walking Sound / 19:31
03. Jan Trojan / Ultreia - El diario del peregrino / Pilgrim's Diary / 17:01

Radioateliér PremEdition is a premiere series for new experimental radio art. It is broadcast by Czech Radio 3 - Vltava at 0:05 AM every last Saturday of the month. These works are a selection of a programm in 2011.

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1. Mario Verandi: Noise Networks

This radio piece explores a sound territory that is beyond the "normal" functions and uses of hardware and software. The digital domain offers a unique new spectrum of digital distortions and noises to be explored.

Over the past two years I have collected a wide range of noises produced mainly by the unintentional misuse of computers, printers, scanners, CD-burners, sound cards, video cards and hard-disks. These noises belong to the universe of digital detritus, by-products and artefacts and are born through error and failure.

The sound materials used are glitches, crackles, bugs, application errors, system crashes, clipping, aliasing, distortion, quantization noise, misuse of software algorithms, soundfile corruption, and DSP errors. All these "noises" are used in their original state. Basic editing, equalisation, reverberation and pitch change was applied to give shape and color to these sounds as well as to extend the palette of timbres.

Noise Networks is inspired by Luigi Russolo's book The Art of Noises (1913): "The variety of noises is infinite. If today, when we have perhaps a thousand different machines, we can distinguish a thousand different noises, tomorrow, as new machines multiply, we will be able to distinguish ten, twenty, or thirty thousand different noises, not merely in a simply imitative way, but to combine them according to our imagination."
- Luigi Russolo (1913)

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2. Andrea Dancer - Michal Kindernay: Walking Sound

In this work, a proposition is put forward to listening across time, space and the body. One can experience soundwalking, the practice of walking and listening, as lived experience - but what happens when a live soundwalk event is re-conceptualized and recorded for radio after the fact? Is the sound itself not prefigured?

The basis of this composition, Walking Sound, is a soundwalk event organized in Prague in the beginning of spring (April 6th, 2011), as part of the EBU Ars Acoustica conference. While the soundwalk included site specific deep listening opportunities and sound interventions by artists and musicians, Walking Sound peripherally traces these and other serendipitous sound events with a focus on the contemplative character of the environment and listening-centered passage through a day.

Soundwalk Design, recordings and sound composition by Andrea Dancer and Michal Kindernay

Recordings of caterwauling, fan, Lukas FŸtterer, Frank Bierlein (ZKM Karlsruhe), Michal Kindernay Interventions: Kate_ina Zochov‡ and Michal Kindernay (radios) and Kl‡ra Dole_‡lkov‡ (marbles) Accordionist: Kate Romain (Katrzyna)

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3. Jan Trojan: Ultreia - El diario del peregrino / Pilgrim's Diary

The composition captures the author's pilgrimage from Ponferrada to the pilgrimage site of Santiago de Compostela in late summer and early fall 2010. It reflects a walking tour of the warm Spanish countryside to the grave of apostle James the Great and on to Cape Finisterre in western Galicia - a place whose name means End of the Earth (finis terrae).

The composition consists of the sounds of Spain, the rhythm of walking, people talking - people from many different nations - as well as the sound of the soundly sleeping pilgrims. The sounds are in a constant process of change and transformation, and remind us of the acoustic ecology and form of the soundscape.

Its subject is the space created by the movements of the body, by the irreproducible interaction among pilgrims from all over the world or by an inner discovery of oneself. The sense of time is created by the act of walking, a reflection of one's own inner tempo, which at times matches the tempo of the changing landscape while at other times showing the influence of years of ingrained habits and mental blocks that, in the monotonous rhythm of one step after another, come to the surface along with the sweat of the body.

The backpacks worn by the pilgrims would seem to symbolize some kind of inner burden. Blue skies alternate with day-long downpours, dry sandy paths with sticky mud. A whole day of walking is followed, naturally, by tiredness that can be slept off under the stars or in the Albergue, a large-scale hostel for pilgrims, usually with cold water and shared bathrooms. Almost all have the same destination É Santiago. Some continue on to FinisterreÉ

Experiences are apparently irreproducible, sometimes even unreal - holding up a mirror to the path of life.

www.jantrojan.cz

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