KUNSTRADIO - RADIOKUNST
CURATED BY: Anna Friz
Reception Is Interception
#5
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I. "Attention Span #4"
II. "Talk: September 2002"
III. "Reception is deception: stable conditions"
IV. "3rd floor ground"
Statement by Anna Friz
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"Attention Span #4: Machine Skin"
von Annabelle Chvostek
Machine Skin concludes the attention span series with a return to the conceptual.
It is a technical exploration of one evocative recorded sequence - the sound of skin on
skin accompanied by the everpresent hum of the computer. The surpising results of diving
into the spectral make-up of this sound are collaged together with a few attention
grabbing moments of the raw sound source to create a seductive bite sized electroacoustic
experience.
Talk: September 2002 by Emmanuel Madan
von Emmanuel Madan
Between September 4 and 14 2002, I went on a road trip through the eastern United States. In 10 days I covered roughly 5000 kilometres, burning tankloads of cheap American gasoline, surveying the monoform landscape the U.S. interstate system has inscribed onto the American landmass. I sat alone in my car, sharing the road with truck drivers, commuters, vacationers and highway police troopers.
Without a particular destination in mind, my goal was to listen to and record programming in the radio format known as talk radio.
"Talk: September 2002" is a short, preliminary compilation of some of this material. Taking the form of a perpetual scanning of radio stations in a given listening area, the piece listens in on monologues and conversations, mostly religious and political in content, which do not seem to be directed at me. The resulting effect is a kind of "overheard self-portrait" of America through its talk radio shows, one year after 9/11.
"Reception is deception: stable conditions"
von Luca Palladino
The singlemost important factor in creation is the collision - whether it is a bomb, words, continents or gas and electrical particles - the collision is creation (as well as destruction). By collision, by interception and reception, there is a constant movement that brings about constant change, also known as life. Although lifeless, the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is a natural phenomenon that comes from the origin of all life: the Sun. A solar wind brings us electrons catapulted from the Sun that collide with the Earth's magnetic field and its gases creating shimmering lights of red, green, blue and violet. These are the lights you will hear in this documentary of change. This is also a documentary of stability. Or the inertia that comes from life. The need for stability that omes from humans and how humans constantly try to stop constant change. The need to make everything into one harmony rather than to listen to the dissident dissonance of things.
"3rd floor ground"
von Jan Desrosiers
My immediate environment is composed of unique and individual sounds that taken together become cacophonous. I single out specific notes by eaves-dropping or tuning-in, much like tuning a radio to select a channel. The net effect is similar in both the radiophonic and the acoustic realm, in that specific notes or sounds punctuate and animate a ground of subtle static we usually ignore. This composition highlights domestic noise as well as electro-static transmissions from appliances and tools, layered over local static ground, creating a site-specific soundscape. In this project I, as well as my neighboring performers, am a sender as well as a receiver.
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