“20 Years EBU Ars Acustica CD”
Ars
Acustica is a group of producers and editors of radio art programs in
national-public broadcasting corporations in Europe. Founded in 1989
within the European Broadcasting Union EBU, the Ars Acustica group aims
at initiating and realising projects, promoting radio art, exchanging
productions between European radios, and eventually open up a space for
debate on the future of radio, of art and of radio art as such. Recent
Ars Acustica projects include the annual Art’s Birthday
celebration on 17th January and a series of live concerts/radio
performances on varying locations, as well as the publication of a
double CD to mark the 20th anniversary of the group’s existence.
The CD “20 years Ars Acustica” includes pieces that were
submitted in an internal competition, chosen by the jury (Czech Radio),
Erik Mikael Karlsson (Swedish Radio) as well as Elisabeth Zimmermann
(ORF Kunstradio).
The chosen pieces are by the following
artists: Alessandro Bosetti, Escoitar.org (Juan-Gil López &
Chiu Longina), Arsenije Jovanovic, Els Viaene, Tomás
Pálka, Sofia Kamayianni, José Iges & Concha Jerez,
Hanna Hartman, Miguel Azguime, Dmitriy Nikolaev, Stefano Giannotti,
Anton Bruhin, Juraj Duris and ProTon Sonic Art (Agnieszka
Waligórska & Pekka Sirén).
Produced by Czech Radio Mastering: Tomás Zikmund Producer: Michal Rataj Project manager: Apolena Vynohradnyková Design: Belavenir, Praha 2009
Foreword to the CD by Erik Mikael Karlsson (Chairman EBU Ars Acustica 2005-9, Producer Swedish Radio)
“EBU Ars Acustica - 20 Years!
The
Ars Acustica Group of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) was founded
in 1989 at the EBU Radio Drama Conference in Florence, Italy in order
to focus and foster radio art in public broadcasting. Since then, the
EBU Ars Acustica Group has brought to European radio-listeners an art
form that moves to the heartbeat of our future and uses modern
technology, interactivity and advanced media to bring extraordinary
listening sensations to audiences.
All around the world, radio
art and sound art are rapidly becoming increasingly popular. Today,
DJs, artists, composers and musicians of different genres have made
this a natural and necessary art form in contemporary society -
creating a vibrant and exciting world of sound, music and interaction.
Radio art and sound art are no longer just narrow and experimental
forms of art - they are in a broader sense ever changing forms of
expression that attract new listeners in search of progressive and
creative inventiveness in public broadcasting – a place of
artistic spirit. The EBU Ars Acustica Group consists of editors,
producers and experts in radio art and sound art at public broadcasting
corporations within the European Broadcasting Union. The EBU Ars
Acustica Group is also a forum for discussion, promotion and production
devoted to radio art. The work of the EBU Ars Acustica Group has helped
to develop European and international meetings, festivals and events
for radio including "Radio Beyond" (London, 1992), "Ciudades
Invisibles" (Madrid, 1992), "Wings of Sound" (Helsinki, 1993),
"Horizontal Radio" (1995), "Rivers & Bridges" (1996) as well as the
"EBU Art's Birthday Party" a yearly broadcast in January which involves
simultaneous live broadcasts with sound artists, DJs, composers and
musicians from a number of cities worldwide via the EBU satellite,
telephone lines and the Internet, reaching an audience of more than 200
million listeners. This extraordinary radio-event was started in 2005,
and we are in the middle of planning the 6th EBU Art´s Birthday
Party for 2010. The event has grown over the years and has been a great
success among the different broadcasting organizations.
The
EBU Ars Acustica Group serves as a node for the exchange of radio art
productions, project proposals and the exchange of information about
activities and events in media art in different countries. It
stimulates and encourages discussion of current trends in the theory
and practice of radio art and connected fields, and the realization of
co-productions between broadcasting corporations. It is strongly
convinced of the necessity of an art form reflecting the development of
radio and broadcasting in our society. We have a heritage in radio art
and sound art to be proud of. Radio art and sound art form an important
chapter in our common cultural history. With two CDs containing 14
different works reflecting the international diversity, vitality and
power of radio art as an art form the EBU Ars Acustica Group is both
proud and happy to have been able to gather such an impressive body of
works by talented European composers, authors and performers! Bon
Appétit!”
CD 1 - Track 1 Alessandro Bosetti: Zahre Noise of the Month, January 2006
The
Noise of the Month (Geräusch des Monats) is a sound art piece of
five minutes. It rtistically shapes the dead air placed between
programs whenever a radio drama, documentary or sound art production is
shorter than its time slot. This concept won the Prix Europa 1998
(Market Place of Ideas). The Noise of the Month has been composed by
Hanna Hartman, Martin Daske, Mario Verandi, Alessandro Bosetti, and
Thomas Köner. For his turn in 2006, Alessandro Bosetti chose the title Zwölfzungen (Twelve Tongues / Twelve Languages): “I
collected recordings of eleven languages I'm not, or partially,
able to speak and understand. Moreover, I invented a twelfth. With each
of them, I made a piece of music by escaping from the meaning of words
and concentrating on their specific sounds, letting my ears concentrate
and developing all ther sound details I'd been captivated by.” The inhabitants of Sauris (Zahre) in the Italian Eastern Alps speak a medieval German dialect.
produced by: Deutschlandradio Kultur http://www.dradio.de
CD 1 - Track 2 Escoitar.org: Sonic Weapons
This
audio-work presents an overview of the different uses, developments and
technologies that make use of SOUND in order to exert social control
and power. The piece provides a conceptual approach to the topic by
illustrating its applications through audio-quotes and other forms of
documentation that analyze the impact and effects of these
technologies, as well as their uses and abuses. By using a micro-tale
or docudrama format, this work may contribute to the analysis of the
effects of sound in human existence, enabling a critical analysis of
this phenomenon.
A first version of ‘Sonic Weapons’
was produced and premiered on occasion of Art’s Birthday Party
2009 (‘Safe & Sound’), organized by the Ars Acustica
group. For details concerning the origin of the audio-quotes, please
visit the URL below. Except where otherwise noted, this audio-work is
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
3.0 Unported License.
performers: Juan-Gil López and Chiu Longina produced by: Miguel Álvarez-Fernández, Radio Clásica/RNE http://www.artesonoro.org/sonicweapons
CD 1 - Track 3 Arsenije Jovanovic: Approaching: Variation 09
Approaching:
Variation 09, is a shorter version of Approaching, a continuous work in
progress, intentionally meant never to be finished. Variation 09 was
created exclusively for this CD. The original Approaching was a
reminiscence and mental journey through a compilation of various
compositions of same or similar genres, coincidentally reflecting the
trajectory of the AA anniversary. The original piece is comprised of
flashbacks covering decades of my sailing through ocean’s of
sounds, meandering in their physical realm in the outside world.
Once they find their place in the brain lab, their echoes
sometimes drift painfully through the quiescence of our diverse inner
ears; or they wind through the intricate yet limitless course of our
mysterious hearing instruments. When you listen to these "inaudibles"
and their transformations, hopefully, this work will find itself and
you.
CD 1 - Track 4 Els Viaene: Forever Young
‚Forever young‘ was the theme of Ars Acustica’s event „Arts Birthday Party 2008“. For
this performance Els Viaene takes us into an imaginary journey of
naturalistic and organic environments with a little nostalgic flavour.
An ever evolving landscape based on field recordings and electronically
designed sounds.
produced by: André Defossez Musiq‘3 (a channel of the Belgian French-speaking public network RTBF) http://www.aurallandscape.net
CD 1 - Track 5 Tomáš Pálka: MOIJECROISQUE
MOIJECROISQUE We seek. We fumble. We grow old. MOIJECROISQUE And again: We seek. We fumble… Questions
appear which had been answered. We reevaluate. We break down barriers
and the wind sweeps away paradigms and the spray disperses like flakes
on the palm of our hand. MOIJECROISQUE is the answer of
“now” and “at this moment.” Many things were
different yesterday. And tomorrow? What will be? The search is
reflected in content. The search is reflected in the search for content
… The search for sound, the search for meaning. MOIJECROISQUE is
an image. A static image pulsating with inner unrest. The foundation is
a word. Four words joined in one. Said by two people who become one. In
a certain sense, we all say it. Everybody a little differently. We
speak, we whisper, we think … MOIJECROISQUE I stop sound with deformation. The sound of instruments and voices. Time is deformed, but MOIJECROISQUE.
produced by: Michal Rataj, Czech Radio 2009 http://www.wisiart.com
CD 1 - Track 6 Sofia Kamayianni: Words without words
The
piece explores the parallel world which exists while dreaming, the
hidden secrets of the subconscious. We encounter a whole landscape of
voices talking in a language full of emotions, feelings, messages -
messages which are not clear in the everyday language of the conscious
mind but are definitely perceived through other paths. The title was inspired by a short poem of Samuel Beckett “e’coute-les”. The
piece is based on vocal samples created primarily by the composer
herself, using extended vocal techniques. Source material is also
recorded from performances by the singers Tobias Schlierf and Dora
Petridi.
Performers: Tobias Sclierf, Dora Petridi, Sofia Kamayianni produced by: GRERT Radio, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation http://www.spiza.gr
CD 1 - Track 7 José Iges & Concha Jerez: RADIO NO-MAN'S LAND
As
a tribute to the 20th anniversary of the EBU Ars Acustica the artists
worked with a virtual dice over the board of a Parcheesi game. Some
squares had sound, others gave instructions to the performers to make
sound and visual actions. Iges and Jerez have revisited documents
of Sound Art and Radio Art which belong to everyone. They are
monuments, but in a sense have become ready-mades, as they have become
objects of functional use industrially reproduced by different media,
including radio. Among these documents one can find some well-known
voices, excerpts of radio art works, true and falsified news
broadcasts, concrete sound effects like laughter, sounds of live
webradio, sound actions, texts etc. Performed live in the ORF Funkhaus, Vienna during the EBU Ars Acustica meeting at the end of May 2009. With the help of Instituto Cervantes de Vienna, viena.cervantes.es produced by: ORF Ö1-Kunstradio http://kunstradio.at/2009A/31_05_09en.html
CD 2
CD 2 - Track 1 Hanna Hartman: Night Lock
Hanna Hartman is a Swedish sound-artist living in Berlin. Between 2007-09, she was composer-in-residence at Swedish Radio Ltd.
CD 2 - Track 2 Miguel Azguime: Le Dicible Enfin Fini
Le
Dicible Enfin Fini is a two channel sound text composition realized at
the Miso Studio in Lisbon during the spring and summer of 2003. It is
about words and the digital signal processing of phonemes, words and
phrases. The starting point is just a small sentence spoken in
Portuguese, from a text by the composer himself, that is part of his
piece “Salt Itinerary”, a new Op-Era and Electroacoustic
Theatre work for voice, live-electronics and live-video. The meaning of
this single sentence is hidden through cutting and splicing, arranged
in a fast counterpoint at the beginning of the piece. This short
sentence is the only material used for the whole piece. Can it be
spoken?
Le Dicible Enfin Fini was awarded the EMS Prize 2003.
http://www.misoensemble.com
CD 2 - Track 3 Dmitriy Nikolaev: Orpheus Descending &
friends who made donations of their records to the
production: Hanna Hartmann (Sweden), Gotz Naleppa (Germany), Matt
Thompson (UK), Michael Sid (France), Gregory Whitehead (USA).
The
recordings of musicians playing in metro, U-Bahn, underground, tube,
subway stations … in Moscow, Berlin, Stockholm, London,
Paris, New York and Nantucket (where this kind of transportion
doesn’t exist).
produced by: Radio Russia
CD 2 - Track 4 Stefano Giannotti: DIALOGHI Radio-piece for voices, instruments, natural and electronic sounds
DIALOGHI
is a kind of modular monument of sound and metaphor constructed like a
clock, a perfect mechanism consisting of a great variety of one-minute
pieces (dialogues). An abstract and surreal dialogue is created between
sounds and musical instruments, between concepts and meanings. Some of
these dialogue images merge into a kind of evolutionary process,
revealing a moral to the story; by contrast, other constructs develop
in closed-off directions, appearing to be pure actions. In terms of
sound, they combine and change between bass tuba and percussion,
between natural and electronic noises, rustling and voices. The end
result is a kind of great mixed orchestra which in utopian fashion
seeks to combine all the sounds in the world within itself.
performers:
Voices: Sarah Palmer and Anthony Gibbs; Bass tuba, trumpet, water
tubes: Marco Fagioli; Vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiel, tympani,
tubular bells, drums, djembè, fog-horn: Frank Thomé;
Electric guitar, bass guitar, banjo, keyboards, harmonica, recorders,
sound-objects, recordings and treatments: Stefano Giannotti Sound engineer: Manfred Seiler
produced by: Südwestrundfunk (SWR) 2008 http://www.stefanogiannotti.com
CD 2 - Track 5 Anton Bruhin: Reittier
Anton
Bruhin’s piece "Reittier" (eng.: "Mount" ) is made up of sounds
that are generated by a jaw's harp combined with a recited series of
palindromes (words like “racecar” or “civic”
that can be read the same way in either direction). As a basis for this
composition, Bruhin creates a continuous drone through the
electromagnetically triggered jaw's harp and a continuous alteration of
its harmonics. Grounded in this soundscape, miscellaneous solos on the
jaw's harp alternate with sequences of the palindrome series. Sound Recording at WDR Studio: Daniel Velasco - Schwarzenberger Jeanette Wirtz - Fabian
produced by: Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, WDR 3 open: Studio Akustische Kunst
CD 2 - Track 6 Juraj Ďuriš: Homage to John Cage - Composition In Retrospect
... some things changeD others not ... ... My mEmory of whaT Happenned is nOt what happeneD ... ... iMitations invErsions reTrograde forms motives tHat are varied Or not varieD ...
"Homage
to John Cage - Composition In Retrospect" – is not a dance- is
not music – is resonance – is a walk round the memory
– is invisible sculpture – is a unique form of abbreviation
– is an art of concentration of story- is a walk round the
garden’s of sonic images – is message- is a form of magic.
Take a bit and create a new piece?!
After
exactly 17 years, I returned to sound material that I had recorded in
1992 (DAT recording) during the visit of John Cage to Bratislava
(several weeks before his demise & celebration of his 80th
birthday). The duration of the whole voice recording was over one hour.
I have created "Bonsai" – a short piece of radioart with limited
duration. We have started to broadcast this format regularly and
successfully on Radio Devín from 2007.
The
experience of Cage’s "symphony of spoken word" was very strong
for me and therefore I have endeavored to create a kind of sonic
sculpture in this symbolic form. It is an attempt at a unique
abbreviation, an art of the concentration of a story, a walk around the
garden’s of sonic images. This fascinating experience has become
an acoustic imprint of a moment with this outstanding composer.
CD 2 - Track 7 ProTon Sonic Art (Agnieszka Waligórska & Pekka Sirén): RADIO - What It Is? Premiered live January 17, 2007 at the Fine Arts Academy Helsinki
Text-sound,
radioscape, collage and performing. A live sound performance. "Think of
radio as an expanding, undulating space, where voices are freely
flowing and continuously creating new meanings, new kinds of
constructions, new auditory actions, new connections..."
produced by: ProTon Sonic Art Group
LINK: http://www.ebu.ch/en/radio/euroradio_classics/arsacustica/index.php
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