Ars Acustica Group
(http://www.ebu.ch/en/radio/euroradio_classics/arsacustica/index.php)In 2007 the Ars Acustica group is joining the international Art's Birthday Parties for the third time. Most of their contributions take 100 years of radio as a point of reference and will be broadcast within the framework of this year's EBU Ars Acustica Special Evening. Radio's 100th anniversary goes back to the first wireless transmission of sound and voice by Reginald Aubrey Fessenden on Christmas Eve 1906. This transmission was the starting point from which
"Fessenden went on to develop the theory and practice of continuous wave transmission that we use today for AM and FM radio broadcasts." (Peter Courtemanche).
For this international event, the Ars Acustica Group has designed a way to organize the contents which are contributed as sound "presents". Via ISDN-lines or the Internet the contributions are collected at two main points, in Vienna (ORF) and Stockholm (SR), where they are sent to the two EBU satellite channels Ravel (R) and Verdi (V). Both satellite channels (R and V) offer “ready-to-broadcast” materials along with signature-tunes and broadcast-identifications.
Satellite Schedules
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Schedule Channel VERDI
Live Stream 
 19:05 – 19:15 Live from Stockholm (SR) | www.sr.se/p2/artsbirthday |
19:15 – 19:45 Live from Madrid (RNE) | |
Art's Birthday Party – Live from Madrid (RNE)The cellular telephone is no more only a telephone: it is sound, fixed and moving images, text and interactivity and even artistic and generating object of art. Our proposal belongs to sound art, as the composition of a constructed technological soundscape like a puzzle whose fragments are sonic moments that have been selected and sent by our friends. It is therefore a choral piece that allows several listeners to become emitters thanks to the transformations of the radio waves. An small game in which telephone takes part of radio and radio of telephone, on which the listener transforms himself in an emitter and the emitter in listener. An acoustic map on small scale of this area of Europe.  Carlos HurtadoAt the present, he is professor at the University CES Felipe II of Aranjuez and at CEV Audio-visual Training center of Madrid in which he coordinates departments of Radio and webcasts. At the present time he attends the doctorate in the University Complutense of Madrid. He has worked in RNE Radio 3 and Cadena Ser in several series of programs in which the sonorous fiction was one of the most important points. He has been awarded with the first prize of radio art in the 6ªBienal of Mexico, with his work “Azul”. Ignacio Álvarez BordoyHe lives in Madrid were he was born. Self-taught. The backgroud of his artistic works is sound art. He made regularily exhibitions of his sounds instalations in the annual meeting "Situaciones" organized by the School of Fine Arts of Cuenca. He has worked as a collaborator with Ricardo Bellés on "Las mil y una melodias" (RNE Radio Clásica) He has worked as a sound designer in many films, showing his writing works and performances in different underground publications and galleries in Madrid. | |
| 19:45 – 20:15 Live from Florence (RAI) | |
| 20:15 – 20:45 Live from Dortmund (WDR) | |
| 20:45 – 21:15 Live from Helsinki (YLE) | |
| 21:15 – 21:45 Live from Brussels (RTBF) | |
| 21:45 – 22.15 Live from Paris (Radio France) | |
| 22:15 – 22:30 Live from Moscow (Radio Russia) | www.radiorus.ru |
| 22:30 – 22:55 Live from Stockholm (SR) | |