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Radio 6 - Cafe Sonore: Soundscape Forever
Onder de titel Soundscape Forever organiseerde Kunstradio (een programma van de de Oostenrijkse publieke omroep) in het najaar van 2008 een project rond het thema Soundscape, waarbij 6 uitgesproken geluidskunstenaars uitgenodigd werden een nieuw stuk te maken. Hiervoor werd het Brusselse geluidskunstenaars collectief Silence Radio uitgenodigd als curator van dit project. Chris Watson ‘s ‘Luskentyre’ verhaalt over de getijden aan de Schotse kust; Els Viaene creëerde in ‘Summer Rain’ de sfeer in Venetië tijdens het najaar; Xavier Fassion maakte met ‘Sarajevo 2001’ een beladen stadsportret; Patrick McGinley aka murmer creëerde ‘Swarm’, een stuk over insecten en mensen; Jean-Phillippe Renoult liet zich voor zijn ‘I Took You There’ inspireren door geluiden van treinen; en ‘Lux’ van eRikm is een klassiek Cinema Pour l’Oreille stuk dit keer letterlijk gemaakt met bestaande filmsounds. De Oostenrijkse Omroep zond alles uit in een serie die liep van september t/m december 2008. In de Cafe Sonore uitzending van 6 maart 2011 hoor je alles voorbij komen in de vorm van een lange collage. Maar alle stukken staan ook hieronder op de site, net zoals uitgebreide informatie over de werken en de makers.
| 0:00:00 | Fragment Luskentyre | Chris Watson | 2011/03/05 |
| 0:11:35 | Fragment Summer Rain | Els Viaene |
| 0:??:?? | Fragment frg Sarajevo 2001 | Xavier Fassion |
| 0:??:?? | Fragment Swarm | Patrick McGinley aka Murmer |
| 0:??:?? | Fragment I took you there | Jean Philippe Renoult |
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Chris Watson – Luskentyre (32.47) “Luskentyre” was recorded on location on the Scottish Outer Hebrides on the far west coast of the Island of Harris. The piece runs for 32′ 45″ in stereo and represents one cycle of the tide as the waters of the North Atlantic ocean advance across this beautiful, strange and fragile environment. The weather systems here on the very western edge of Europe have travelled thousands of kilometres across the open ocean before they arrive and batter the coastline of these remote islands. Luskentyre is a sonic landscape that has been evolving for tens of thousands of years, a habitat washed twice a day by the tides that is neither land or sea, a place where we may at one moment walk and relax, yet would find impossible to survive in just a few hours later. It is the sounds, rhythms and music of another place.
Chris Watson – Luskentyre
Chris Watson Chris Watson is a sound recordist with a particular and passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of animals, habitats, and atmospheres from around the world. As a freelance recordist for film, TV & radio, Chris Watson specialises in natural history and documentary location sound together with track assembly and sound design in post production.
1. Productions He has released 3 solo CDs for Touch: Outside The Circle of Fire [1998, TO:37] Stepping into The Dark [1996, TO:27] Weather Report [2003, TO:47] and he has collaborated with Swedish sound artist BJNilsen on two CDs: Storm [2007, Tone 27] Wind [2001, Ash 6.5] and one album, Star Switch On [2002, Tone 18], features recordings based on his work by AER, Biosphere, Fennesz, Hazard, Philip Jeck, Mika Vainio as well as two original recordings by Chris. Stepping into The Dark won an Award of Distinction at the 2000 Prix ARS Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria Reviews of these CDs
2. Television & Radio TV: The Life of Birds for BBC TV – BAFTA Award for Best Factual Sound 1998 [David Attenborough] The Life of Mammals for BBC TV 2001/2 [David Attenborough] Talking with Animals for BBC TV 2001 [Charlotte Uhlenbroek] Big Cat Diary for BBC TV 1998-2002 [Simon King/Saba Douglas-Hamilton/Jonathan Scott] Life in the Undergrowth for BBC TV – BAFTA nominee for Best Factual Sound 2005 [David Attenborough] Life in Cold Blood for BBC TV 2008 [David Attenborough] Spring watch, Autumnwatch, Bill Oddie’s Wild Side [all BBC TV] Radio: A Swallow’s Journey for BBC Radio 4 – Sony Radio Award Nominee 2002 A Small Slice of Tranquillity for BBC Radio 4 2003 Soundscape for BBC Radio 4 2004 The Oak Tree for BBC Radio 4 2006 – featured in BBC Radio’s Pick of the Year Sounds of the Galapagos for BBC Radio 4 2006 Soundscape: The Sea Swallow for BBC Radio 4 2006 Water Song for BBC Radio 4 2006 The Oak Tree for BBC Radio 4 2006 Nature: Starling Roost for BBC Radio 4 2007 The Reed Bed for BBC Radio 4 2007 TouchRadio The Galapagos Islands – an audio diary 2006 and 2007
3. Installations & Artwork Sound design workshop at CCA, Kitakyushu 2004 Tortuga Bay Installation, Ultima, Oslo 2005 Weather Report performance Hibiki, Osaka 2005 Installations and talk at the BA Festival, York 2007 Installation for a radio art festival at Academy der Künste, Berlin 2007 Sleppet: Grieg Centenary, Norway 2007 The British Library, London 2007 Whispering in the Leaves Installation, AV Festival, Sunderland 2008
Brief history profile 1972 to 1981: Cabaret Voltaire 1981 to 1984: Tyne Tees Television; sound recordist and founder member of The Hafler Trio 1985 to 1987: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; sound recordist and other projects 1987 to 1993: freelance sound recordist 1994 to present: partner with Hoi Polloi Film & Video
Els Viaene – Summer Rain (18.46) “In my archive of sound recordings there was one part left untouched until now, my autumn recordings of Venice. The deep rumbling sounds of the vaporetto’s at the end of a ride inspired me to create an endless stream of shifting sounds. They may remind you of the colour/light that shifts and contrasts during a summer rain, but I’m happy to invite you to drown into the sounds yourself and create your own images and thoughts. Mine are woven through the piece.”
Els Viaene – Summer Rain
Els Viaene Els Viaene began her career in documentary-making for national radio. The realistic treatment of sound has evolved into more abstract environments, using musicality and the natural rhythm of ambient and electronic sound that she animates according to the principle of collage. Working on these sound materials for performances but also for internet games, video art or architectural installations, she makes the listeners travel in imaginary naturalistic and organic environments.
Xavier Fassion – Sarajevo 2001 (13.20) “Sarajevo evoked for me as for a lot of people, the war. Arrived on the spot, I discover something quiet different : the ancient city of the austro-Hungarian empire, a city in the mountains, surrounded with orchards, with a melodious language, children playing in streets, men smoking a lot, a Turkish district, the call of muezzins, the smell of the coffee, and the crowded avenues.”
Xavier Fassion – Sarajevo 2001
Xavier Fassion Born in 1971 in Lyon (France), Xavier Fassion studied improvised music, history of music, percussion and composition at the Conservatoire of Strasbourg. Meets Steve Reich to perform « Sextet » and « six marimbas » then the choregrapher Mark Tompkins with whom he discovers contact-dance. Then considering dance as an extension of music he collaborates in various projects with dance companies as musicien (Drums, installations) and dancer. In the same time, he dedicates himself to electroacoustic music and realize different pieces with the Groupe de Musique Electroacoustique d’Albi (F), the DeutschlandRadiokultur in Berlin, the RTBF among others. „(Un)trained at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, I swiftly left the high way, taking side tracks that lead me to contemporary and improvised music, herbalism, contact dance (a rebirth), Rock music, temperate forests and a couple of stereo microphones (a revelation). Since then, I’ve been beating skins and metals, dancing in heaps, sounding the air, nourishing paper.
Significant experiences: - 10 days with Thad Wheeler of the Steve Reich Ensemble. - 1 month in Mongolia. - 2 years with the choreographer Mark Tompkins. - 3 years in a village of the French Jura Mountains
Patrick McGinley aka murmer – Swarm (35.02) “the thematics of silenceradio’s ’soundscape forever’ project were particulalry inspiring for me, as they allowed me to examine an archive of found sounds that had never found a home or a voice within my work. the relationship of these sounds to one another became apparent in the consideration of social and inhabited spaces, in both human and animal contexts. organised and chaotic activities mingled to form a textural whole, all sharing the concept of shared space, sonically described through intentional communication, ambient ‘noise’, functional artifact, and private and abstract interaction. the title, ’swarm’, is not simply a reference to this physical formation in the animal world, but to the movement and layering of these sounds, to the agglomeration of so many different spaces, and their interrelations as a whole.” the sounds and spaces used within this agglomeration are: white hart lane football ground, london, uk; frogs in a tartu pond, tartu, Estonia; humans imitating those frogs with solid steel balls; exercises from a workshop also in tartu, entitled ’sound as space’; an accordion fair at viljandi folk festival, Estonia; the foyer of the british museum, under construction, london, uk’; bees in summer, forcalquier, france; singing to oneself on a cafe terrace, folrqualquier, france; the animal market at buchy, france; an anthill, põlvamaa, Estonia; underwater activities, perruel-sur-andelle, france; children playing with blades of grass, mooste, estonia
Patrick McGinley (murmer) Patrick McGinley (aka murmer) is an american born sound, performance, and radio artist who has lived and worked in europe since 1996. from 1996 until 1998 he lived inaris, where he studied theatre, beginning his sound experiments in the context of those studies. moving to london in 1998, he began a collection of found sounds and found objects that would become the basis of all his work. he has composed works for several theatre performances, including the works of his own company, along with performing live soundworks for others. in 2002 he co-founded framework, an organisation that produces a weekly radio show on london’s resonance104.4fm. His work concentrates on the framing of sounds from our environment which normally pass through our ears unnoticed and unremarked, but which out of context become unrecognisable, alien and extraordinary: crackling charcoal, a squeaking escalator, a buzzing insect, or one’s own breath. more recently McGinley has been giving presentations, workshops, and performances based on the exploration of site-specific sound and sound as definition of space. in live performance his initial interest in field recording has developed into an attempt to integrate and resonate found sounds, found objects, specific spaces, and moments in time, in order to create a direct and visceral link with an audience and location.
Jean-Philippe Renoilt – I Took You There (29.39) “ ‘I Took You There’ is inspired by trains… the trains and the stations of Europe that I have been through and recorded over the past few years… the trains of my youth that thundered past my bedroom window, and the imaginary trains or ‘ghost trains’ that Blaise Cendrars evokes in the ‘Prose of the Trans-Siberian’. ‘I Took You There’ could be interpreted as a journey, where reality intertwines with fiction. It begins with a story. Blaise Cendrars is caught out by a journalist who claims he has never set foot upon the infamous train, let alone undertaken the journey. He answers calmly, « But Madame, I took you there» Just like Cendrars’ prose the soundscape is fiction, not a document of real life. In « I Took You There » you will hear extracts from the Prose of the Trans-Siberian read by DinahBird, quotes from films by Brian De Palma, Stanley Kubrick, Andreï Tarkovski, Akira Kurosawa, and Artavazd Pelechian, a harmonica played in a tunnel 80 m under the earth, and lots of ghosts. Everybody knows : you never see ghosts, you hear them.”
Jean Philippe Renoult – I took you there
Produced and mixed by Jean-Philippe Renoult Text read by DinahBird Mastering : Janob @ Parisson
Jean-Philippe Renoult Jean-Philippe Renoult (b.1963) is a sound artist, radio producer, writer and music journalist based in Paris. His work focuses on field recordings and electroacoustical transformation of environmental sounds. Recent commissions and collaborations include “I could never make that Music Again”, for the Radiodays Festival, De Appel Gallery, Amsterdam. The album won “Best Artist” prize at the Qwartz Electronic Music awards 2008. He also curated and presented the “Voir et Entendre (See and Hear)” cycle of conferences at the Pompidou Centre Paris. His audio works have been played on Resonance FM, Kunstradio, France Culture, ABC Classic, the Radia network and have been edited on Deep Wireless 2008 edition, Vibrö 2 (the Broken Tale issue), and Aphasia, Subrosa labels.
broadcasts at ORF KUNSTRADIO: 16. 04. 2006: Songs of the Brewery together with Dinahbird 09. 03. 2008: “Resonance FM on AV Festival 08” 14. 12. 2008: “Soundscape Forever – Teil 4″ curated by SilenceRadio: “I Took You There” 15. 03. 2009: “Locked In”
eRikm – Lux (32.22) eRikm worked from occidental cinema sound-tracks from a large range of media – K7, VHS, DVD and optical sound – as well as sound that he recorded in a movie theater. He is interested in the clichés, the tensions, the release, the noises and the whole scope of emotions resulting from his recordings. “LUX” is a reflection on the identification of the spectator with actors or groups of population, including the potential of schizophrenic states that occur during cinema screenings (e.g. hallucination). His desire is to stimulate the listener to create his own new images from the sound: psychic decors, landscapes, lights. He selected the musical, spoken and noise sounds intuitively, while having in mind colored images from the sound, creating at the same time a social critique through the prism of popular cinema.”
Erikm – Lux
eRikm Since 1992, eRikm has extended the field of artistic experimentation on the international scene. Maintaining a constant fusion between thought, instinct and sensitivity, he pursues a simultaneity of practices and addresses the interplay between various compositional modes, relating to and using all languages. From his early experience as a guitarist through to his later visual work, he is a maverick genre-bender who breaks down anyone’s attempts to conveniently classify him. Quickly recognised as a virtuoso turntablist and sound artist (1996), eRikm has made a longlife habit of crossing all territories and « world-systems » deemed “independent”, “institutional”. At the same time (1997), he has developed an open and aspirational approach toward the technological media, both as a means of development for a new economic model and as an instrument for creation, production and diffusion. He deals with sounds like living organisms, constantly in flux, always open to the risk of accident or delight/unisson. As he plays with all these contradictions in his improvisations, his performance reaches new heights of intensity, trading off both understanding and sensation, seriousness and farce, anticipation and instinct. His work references both the intimate and political, both popular and high culture, but without demonstration. Rather he creates a short-circuit connection between points with his live generated (and degenerated) material – from noise to reference – presenting multiple ways to capture each moment of the present in clear focus. Throughout his career, collaborations have naturally occurred with his audiences and contemporaries, most notably: Luc Ferrari, Christian Marclay, Akosh S., Mathilde Monnier, Bernard Stiegler, FM Einheit… The kind of coincidences which have confirmed his instinctive search for transmutation, and to play on several levels. Since 1997, on his own or with collaborators, eRikm has toured (with 5-7 on-tour projects to date), or created by request specific pieces, both transversal or for fixed spaces (record labels, radio, festivals, art centres…). In the meanwhile, each time building on what has emerged before, the most personal fragments from his work (notably from his early artworks in photography, drawings, visual installations and video) continue to substantiate a singular kaleidoscopic vision. Ultimately, eRikm’s research resonates through all of his work, bordering scientific discovery and a poetic curiosity of the world. eRikm is a Marseille based artist (Friche Belle de Mai)
Playlist CS 06-03-2011 1 Titel : frg Luskentyre Componist : Chris Watson Uitvoerenden : Chris Watson Tijdsduur : 11′47″ Titel CD : nvt (eigen opn componist, ORF, Silence Radio) Label / Nr. : nvt / nvt
2 Titel : frg Summer Rain Componist : Els Viaene Uitvoerenden : Els Viaene Tijdsduur : 6′15″ Titel CD : nvt (eigen opn componist, ORF, Silence Radio) Label / Nr. : nvt / nvt
3 Titel : frg Sarajevo 2001 Componist : Xavier Fassion Uitvoerenden : Xavier Fassion Tijdsduur : 7′38″ Titel CD : nvt (eigen opn componist, ORF, Silence Radio) Label / Nr. : nvt / nvt
4 Titel : frg Swarm Componist : Patrick McGinley Uitvoerenden : Patrick McGinley aka Murmer Tijdsduur : 15′48″ Titel CD : nvt (eigen opn componist, ORF, Silence Radio) Label / Nr. : nvt / nvt
5 Titel : frg I took you there Componist : Jean Philippe Renoult Uitvoerenden : Jean Philippe Renoult Tijdsduur :5′50″ Titel CD : nvt (eigen opn componist, ORF, Silence Radio) Label / Nr. : nvt / nvt
6 Titel : frgLux Componist : eRikm Uitvoerenden : eRikm Tijdsduur : 8′15″ Titel CD : nvt (eigen opn componist, ORF, Silence Radio) Label / Nr. : nvt / nvt