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063: “Bits, Pieces And So Far Beyond” by Audio_z
“Bits, Pieces And So Far Beyond” in a contradictory way is said to be one of those unspoken stories at their purest. Could, let's say — a lost photographic sentiment for a memory of the space; fading tones of a chime and human voices; alienated intersections of whistle, transparent high-frequency sprays and streams of white noises; almost cubist evolvent of domestic affair with an acoustic guitar; a chant concealed in dissemination and revealed as a concealment; sketch of a childish organ turning into a seed for a swarm of metallic crows, which disappears indulging it's own disillusionment – could it be actually considered as a story? If yes, it's more about fragments. Have you ever relinquished your desire for a book itself just because you’d been haunted by its table of content?
“Bits, Pieces And So Far Beyond” was created by Audio_z, or Tautvydas Bajarkevičius, a sound artist, writer and curator based in Vilnius, Lithuania.
→ Download file: 35'29", 68.1MB
062: “Chords” by Loïs Laplace
“This is a seven part piano recording made in 2005, a short time after I saw a free jazz concert during which Tony Oxley was playing drums. I was intrigued by Tony Oxley’s relaxed attitude, the fluid and easy way of movements of his hands and arms in the mean time of a high energy music creation — at these moments notes were accelerated and the time seemed suspended.”
→ Download file: 13'59", 33.6MB
061: “Duel second” by BOLD: Bellavance / Bernier / d'Orion
BOLD is the trio of Alexis Bellavance, Nicolas Bernier and Érick d'Orion. This performance was recorded live during a residency at "Le lobe" in the context of "Festival Art Nomade" in October 3rd, 2009.
→ Download file: 17'34", 42.2MB
060: “Hysteresis 1+2” by Cem Güney
“Hysteresis 1+2”, is an improvised recording of pre-recorded shortwave radio transmissions, online radio broadcasts and TV transmissions, with the company of a minidisc player, a stereo walkman headphone, objects and computer.
The compositions main purpose is to research the psychological effects of hysteresis (a lag between an effect or response and the force that caused it), compositional elements such as silence, amplitude modulation, and the effects it may have on the listener.
The two tracks constructed to be played sequentially are consolidated for this release. “Hysteresis 1”, 5:11; “Hysteresis 2”, 5:11.
Composed & edited in August 2008 by Cem Güney, mastered by Miguel Carvalhais.
→ Download file: 10'22", 24.9MB
059: “Lohberg” by Michael Rüsenberg & Peter Hölscher
This piece covers an abandoned industrial area in the “Ruhrgebiet”, Germany, called “Lohberg”. The photographs (~250) were taken there in summer 2009 on a cloudy day. The soundtrack is derived from field recordings of the Gdansk dockyard in Poland in November 2009. This somehow is a demo version of the initial piece, which is about 65 minutes long and much slower in transitions.
Michael Rüsenberg, born 1948, works as radio journalist and has been a sound artist for the last 17 years.
Peter Hölscher, born 1958, works as graphic designer and has been sculptor and photographer for 20 years.
→ Download file: 11'56", 123.01MB
058: “Throw~” by Ephraim Wegner
Throw~ is an instrument originated from the synthesis of different Pd Abstractions created on different occasions during 2009. It combines several synthesis forms and can be played in different manners. The composition of the piece arose from the tonal configuration of the single functions. Throw~ is completely hand played with Pd. Recorded live at the “Music for: CPU's, Instruments and Objects” event, November 2009, in Freiburg.
→ Download file: 16'26", 37.6MB
058: “Futurónica 4” by Miguel Carvalhais
“Futurónica 4” is the fourth and final in a series of hour-long programs that Crónica broadcasted in Rádio Futura in Porto, during the Future Places festival of 2009. This mix included pieces by Marc Behrens, Durán Vázquez, Gilles Aubry, Enrico Coniglio, Heitor Alvelos, Lawrence English, Paulo Raposo, Ákos Garai and @c.
→ Download file: 60'00", 144.1MB
056: “Futurónica 3 — Cool-age” by Pedro Tudela
“Futurónica 3 — Cool-age” is the third in a series of four hour-long programs that Crónica broadcasted in Rádio Futura in Porto, during the Future Places festival of 2009.
→ Download file: 60'00", 144.1MB
055: “Call Center” by Mathias Delplanque
This sound piece is the stereo version of a multichannel sound installation I realised for the exhibition “Bombay Maximum City” in the shape of the “Lille 3000” festival which happened in Lille (France) between October 2006 and January 2007. The work is based on sounds recorded during the summer of 2006 in a call center in Gurgaon (suburbs of New Delhi), during a 3 weeks residency commissioned by the french embassy in India. It was originally broadcast on 6 speakers + 1 subwoofer.
→ Download file: 30'18", 72.8MB
054: Mosaique
Recorded live at Club Jesus, Berlin, November 8, 2009.
→ Download file: 32'00", 73.4MB
053: “Futurónica 2 — Radios and Guitars” by Pedro Almeida
“Futurónica 2 — Radios and Guitars” is the second in a series of four hour-long programs that Crónica broadcasted in Rádio Futura in Porto, during the Future Places festival of 2009.
→ Download file: 60'00", 144.1MB
052: “Ruminagem remix” by Miguel Cabral, Carlos Santos & João Silva
Industrial archaeology is a rich field of exploration for transdisciplinary arts. The machines and the “junk” that witnessed the past of the “Casa da Moagem” in Fundão, Portugal, are used by Miguel Cabral, Carlos Santos and João Silva to create an installation that is also a complex musical "instrument" that is performed alongside the audio and video recordings made on site. ruminagem.wordpress.com
→ Download file: 28'49", 69.2MB
051: “Futurónica 1 — Heard and overheard” by Cruz
“Futurónica 1 — Heard and overheard” is the first in a series of four hour-long programs that Crónica broadcasted in Rádio Futura in Porto, during the Future Places festival of 2009.
This program was compiled and mixed by Cruz in one set, one take. Artists and tracks are not in order of appearance:
- Aleksey Petin; Vostok, Rmx in the Future
- Bernard Parmegiani; Transition
- Boredoms; Boredom with God on Noise (excerpt), Hawaiian Disco Without Bollocks
- Butthole Surfers; Concubine (excerpt)
- Cécile, Arnold and Rudolph Dolmetsch; Awake, Sweet Love
- Durán Vázquez; Seagulls
- Farmers Manual; Nomad 137 (excerpt), 371 Adv3
- General Magic; Nur Commerce Duflirten
- Gigantiq; A Few Steps From Your Shoulder
- Inna & Vadim; Illusions
- Jason Kahn, Pablo Reche, Anla Courtis;
- Lasse Maraugh; Rain on Window Trondheim 2002
- Marc Behrens; Sleppet
- Michael Snow; Sinoms
- Pure; Fire, Iron Sky (excerpt)
- Stephan Mathieu; Frequenzen
- Vitiello+Machinefabriek; Crackle Box, Thumb Piano
→ Download file: 60'00", 144.1MB
050: “Safe (Long Stereo Version)” by Pedro Tudela
“Safe (Long Stereo Version)” is a reedited and remixed stereo version of the soundtrack for Pedro Tudela's installation “Safe”, exhibited in the vault of the rectory of the University of Porto from May to July 2009.
→ Download file: 15'33", 34.3MB
049: “Variations (1, 2, 3)” by Skug
Skug was founded in Freiburg/Germany by Ephraim Wegner and Florian Huth in 2003. Though meanwhile both musicians live in different towns of Germany, they still meet regularly to compose new pieces of music, to program music software or just in order to make music. The field recordings heard on Variations (1, 2, 3) were recorded between 2007 and 2008 in the Black Forest and reinterpreted with bass, guitar, electronics and brass instruments. On variations 2 and 3 Wolfgang Zumpe plays trumpet and flugelhorn. Skug's music creates a very visual aspect which gives enough space to the listener to realise his own imagination and to unfold his own fantasy. Like in fine arts, a picture emerges successively by applying one layer of colour after another, Skug create their work bit by bit. Spaces are interchangeable – topoi that exist and can be experienced anytime and everywhere.
→ Download file: 20'20", 40.7MB
048: “The Lone Drone” by The Beautiful Schizophonic
The Beautiful Schizophonic live at Casa da Música, Porto, on the 4th April 2009. Post-tropical ambiences at dusk, imaginary scenic drives through inner vistas and a special version of Aysha, a soundscape from the forthcoming album “Erotikon”. All beautifully captured live by Marc Behrens.
→ Download file: 32'03", 61.8MB
047: “Terror Film for Radio” by Durán Vázquez
A piece by Durán Vázquez for the RadiaLX radio festival in 2008.
With this piece, conceived for radio, I wanted to work on three of my main influences: cinema, electroacoustic music and politics.
Playing with the several meanings of terror I set up a sound travel that imitates the movie pictures montage with one aim in mind: to introduce the audience into a shocking experience that puts together all those possible meanings of terror. Indeed it seems the times of changes we live in are like a terror movie... well, these are my feelings.
I took original sounds from movies and also from original music by me, including my previous piece “Asturias, patria querida” in which I worked on March 11th 2004 sounds taken from different Spanish radio stations, the day of the trains megablast in Madrid.
I selected the movies Zeitgeist by Peter Joseph (2007), Imprint by Takashi Miike (2006), Le Monde Selon Bush by William Karel (2004), Hellraiser by Clive Barker (1987) and Rosemary’s Baby by Roman Polanski (1968). With these sources and my own stuff I set up a montage full of stereotyped but disturbing sounds, all organized into the sequencer software. The cut & paste process is the main tool in this work.
→ Download file: 27'59", 64.1MB
046: “So On” by Gintas K
A piece by Gintas K for the RadiaLX radio festival in 2008. Innuendos, errors, noise, microwaves, banalities, crackles, soft pulses of synthesized tones.
→ Download file: 28'38", 39.4MB
045: Essays on Radio mix by paL
A mix by paL for the RadiaLX radio festival in 2008, from the tracks released in the Essays on Radio: Can I have 2 minutes of your time? compilation and several other sources.
→ Download file: 57'00", 78.4MB
