A CASSETTE OF THIS PROGRAM CAN BE ORDERED FROM THE "ORF TONBANDDIENST"
In May 1990, ORF KUNSTRADIO, the radio-art program on the National Austrian
Radio, and the WIENER FESTWOCHEN (the annual international festival of Vienna),
collaborated to assist in the realisation of "LANDSCAPE SOUNDINGS /
KLANGLANDSCHAFTEN", a live
sound and radio sculpture by Bill Fontana. For two weeks, 16 microphones that
had been most carefully positioned by the artist captured the sound events
taking place in the Stopfenreuther Au, a part of the Danube marshes near
Hainburg on the Slovakian border.
These sound-events were delivered live to an improvised studio at the Museum of
Art History and distributed to 70 speakers, along the facades and in the
cupolas of both the Museum of Art History and the Museum of Natural History and
in the formal garden between them with its monument to the empress Maria
Theresia. A stereo mix of the live signals was transmitted simultaneously and
continuously to the ORF Funkhaus in Vienna where the producers were free to use Tip: The huge archive of audio recordings from Landscape Soundings functions as main material for Bill Fontanas "Acoustic Memories of Landscape Soundings". The radio version can be heard on air on September 9th, 2007. On Saturday, 8th of September 2007, Fonana will give a lecture on his previous and present works at 7 p.m. in the mobile Ö1 studio on the main square in Linz. On site in the "Donaupark"; (Danube Park) Bill Fonana's Acoustic Memories of Landscape Soundings can be heard from Sunday 9th September until Tuesday 11th of September (9 a.m.-10 p.m.). On Sunday 9th of September 2007 at 11 a.m. portrait #3 Heidi Grundmann by Roberto Paci Dalò Afterwards both projects from over 20 years of Kunstradio, the exhibition Art on Air and the new archive for radio art at the Studienzentrum für Künstlerpublikationen / ASPC_am Neuen Museum Werburg Bremen (Research Centre for Artists' Publications / ASPC New Museum Werburg Bremen) will be introduced. In this context the difficulty of archiving radio art will be discussed as well. Furthermore there will be discussions, installations and performances with/by Sam Auinger, Seppo Gruendler, Reni Hofmüller, Josef Klammer, Roberto Paci Dalò, Liu Pei Wen , Elisabeth Schimana, Andrea Sodomka, Peter Szely, Eva Ursprung, Eva Wohlgemuth, etc in the IMA Salon within Links: |