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Global Art's Birthday 2009 On-Line Program January 16, 2009, 8:00 PM - 12:00 AM CET ..::click to see detailed program notes::.. || Austria | Slovak Republic | Slovenia | Spain | | Belgium (Antwerp) | Serbia | The Netherlands | Portugal | | Russia | Sweden | Finland | Estonia | France | | Poland | Germany (Berlin) | Switzerland | | Germany (Baden-Baden) | Belgium (Brussels) || ..::click to watch'n'listen to audio&video streams from Art's Birthday Parties worldwide::.. :: ORF Kunstradio WEBSITE - WEBCAM :: Swedish Radio AB WEBSITE :: VPRO Café Sonore LIVE Audio from Hilversum :: Deutschlandradio Kultur AB WEBSITE - from Berlin :: SWR AB WEBSITE - from Baden-Baden :: Estonian Radio Klassika WEBSTIE - WEBCAM ]]>

..::.. ORF & Slovak Radio - Live from Hainburg



IMA Orchestra of Sound Machines

location: Kulturfabrik Hainburg

Participants:
Eva Ursprung / Polyvox
Katharina Klement / Neo Bechstein Flügel
Cordula Bösze / Theremin
Ushi Reiter / Edison Phonograph
Reni Hofmüller / Mockingboard

special guests:
Seppo Gründler / Hönig Synthesizer, Markus Decker / Grammophone

concept:
Elisabeth Schimana

"save and sound" variations on 7 themes

7 pieces of music recorded on wax cylinder or shellac disk are set to be interpreted and played in variations by the IMA Orchestra of Sound Machines.

Aerial soundscapes: From the subtle sound of an Edison Phonograph to Arctic whirls of a Polyvox, ethereous waves of a Theremin to digital fighter game sounds of a Mocking Board, from eternal envelopes of a Hönig-Synthesizer to the gyrations of gramophones and accompanied by neo-Bechstein Karaoke.

http://ima.or.at/klangmaschinen

BIOGRAPHIES OF THE ORECHSTRA:

Eva Ursprung
lives and works in graz/austria. performances, installations, objects, art in the public, electronic and social spaces. working with video, photography and sound. (music-)performances. bass and sax with "zlan", saxofon with "wavegroom" and "squant", laptop with "electric orquestra", "notorious noise brigade" and "hurennoise".
founder of "eva & co", a feministic journal for culture and a female artists-group (1982-92); from 1993 president of the arts association W.A.S. (Womyn's Art Support), http://was.mur.at; from 1998 "artistic net group 42", http://mur.at/42;
2008 founding of "schaumbad - freies atelierhaus graz";
traveller on the danube, africa-researcher, networkerin, musician.
http://ursprung.mur.at

Katharina Klement
Born in Graz, Austria
Studies: piano, composition, electroacoustic and experimental music at the Institute of Composition and Electroacoustic Music, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Works as composer-performer in the field of notated, improvised, instrumental and electronic music: instrumental and electronic compositions, crossover projects combining music and text, language and video. Numerous works for mechanical and electronically prepared piano. Sound installations. Founding member of several improvisation ensembles.
Received prizes, scholarships and commissioned works.
Concerts and performances in Austria and abroad. Numerous cd productions.
Since 2006 teaching Computer Music and Electronic Media at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Lives in Vienna
www.katharinaklement.com
Cordula Bösze
born in 1964, in Bad Ischl (Upper Austria); studied flute with Hans Reznicek and Wolfgang Schulz at the Vienna Hochschule for Music.

From 1993 teacher at the Music-School in Tulln, where she founded a composer's-workshop for children togehter with Christoph Wichert; from 2004 teacher at the Jeunesse Children's Orchestra Camp in Graz.

Member of the IMA-board ("Institute for Media-Archaeology"; exhibition "Magical Sound-Machines" Sept. 08 - Apr. 09, Kulturfabrik Hainburg, www.ima.or.at).

Ensembles:

Woodwind-Quintett QuinTonic (www.quintonic.com)
boesze:fuchs:noid (http://turntabling.firstfloor.org/bfn)
stumm.film.musik (Annette Giesriegl - voice, Manon-Liu Winter - extended piano)

Cooperation with composers and musicians like Klaus Hollinetz, Katharina Klement, Hannes Raffaseder, Fritz Keil, Karlheinz Essl, Elisabeth Schimana and others.

2007 Solo "Was macht der Wind, wenn er nicht weht?" (echoraum)
2008 Jeunesse-Production "Wind und weiter" with Karin Schaefer-Visual-Theatre (Konzerthaus)
Ushi Reiter
studied visual design and communication at the "KunstuniverstätLinz". As web developer, graphic designer and artist with a special interesst in net.activism and audio-visual communication she has been collaborating with different groups and artists since 1998. She continues to work on the analysis of design and non-commercial communication tools in the frame of cultural production and work on conceptual and performative setups using electronic and analog media. In 2002, she joined the FACES team. Since June 2005 Reiter runs the non-commercial cultural backbone organisation servus.at/ Kunst & Kultur im Netz.
Reni Hofmüller
Graz
artist, musician, composer, performer, organizer and activist in the fields of usage of (new) media, technology and politics in general, engaged in develpoment of contemporary art.

renitentia

Markus Decker
linz based artist m.decker started makeing music arround 1995 useing some
soundcards and synthesizers for techno tracks, noise, electro and first experiments
with audio visual surfaces together with d.offenhuber.
after participating in the media arts scene, he played in various
ensembles, mainly noise groups, collaborating with richard herbst,
ushi reiter, wolfgang fuchs, joachim schnaitter, ... .

he's a operator at firstfloor.electronix, an international artgroup.

m.d. has released tracks on some compilations as well as two releases
based on artworks, "from dust till dawn" 2006 12inch and "helix synthesis" 1999
cd-r. one release with ushi reiter - decker/quotenregelung-out of sync,
alltogether at asum records diy media documentary.
and a one side wax on dilemma record's noise series.

Seppo Gründler
is an austrian based artist dealing over 25 years with
music, sound, communication art and tinkering (media, software, electronic devices...). Born 1956 in Celovec , he lives in Graz, his main instruments are guitar and elecronics/computers. Ongiong live projects are the Klammer&Gruendler Duo and Nomadic Producers (with actor Rupert Lehofer) and his solo
performance "tun was geschieht". Besides he is head of the master degree studies "media and interaction design" at the University of applied Science FH-Joanneum.


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..::.. Slovak Radio & ORF - Live from Hainburg


Joy Enjoy! by JRMO (Joystick Radio Melody Orchestra)

Performers:
Robert Rudolf - IGL - (Meta-Leader)
Ján Ančic - IGK - (Key-stretcher)
Karol Horvath - IGK - (Key-stretcher)
Givan Bell - IGK - (Key-stretcher)
Bohdan Fedor - IGK - (Key-stretcher)
Juraj Ďuriš - IGT - (Time-stretcher)
Katarína Smiková - IGS - (Meta-Scanner)
Laco Kerata - IGS - (Meta-Singer)
Roman Laščiak - IGS - (Meta-Sound)
Vladimír Slaninka - IGC - (Color-stretcher)
ARTe - ACD - Artistic Concrete Director
Emil - TCD - Technical Concrete Director

IG - (Intergalactic)

Méta-Mallette (Meta-Instrument)
Méta-Mallette is Meta-Instrument controlled by the hands of the player or ensembles, which groups the players manipulating a joystick. This configuration is often used for pedagogical purposes, but not only. Based on sample manipulation this "game" is perfectly able to seduce a professional musician. Intuitive sound transformation could be also accompanied by its video representation, changing the Meta-Mallet into a charming multi media instrument that we play with great pleasure.

Puce Muse exists already about two decades. All this period was dedicated to musical research, electronic instrument development, concert organisation and musical pedagogy. Puce-Muse founder, Serge de Laubier, is a French composer, sound engineer and musician who studied at the Paris Conservatory and at the Louis Lumičre National School.


Robert RUDOLF, (1963) born in Bratislava, studied the composition and computer music at several music schools in Slovakia and France. After the composition studies at the Conservatory (with Juraj Pospisil) and University of Fine Arts in Bratislava (with Ivan Hrusovsky), he continued his studies in Paris. The classes with Yoshihisha Taira and François-Bernard Mâche inspired his musical and compositional development.
First contact with electro acoustic music made in Bratislava Experimental Studio of Slovak Radio revealed his interest in new technology and the stay in Stockholm Electro acoustic Studio confirmed this choice. Later he enters the class of electro acoustic music composition with Michel Zbar at Conservatory of Boulogne-Billancourt.
Interested by visual art, since the 80'he works with painters, sculptors and designers on multimedia projects. These installations were exposed in France, Slovakia, Canada, and Austria.
His recent work is inspired by electro acoustic live performance.
He has taken part in different concerts and workshops of contemporary music and electro acoustic music as composer and interpreter.
He works also as music programme producer at Radio France and he teaches the electro acoustic composition at the Noisy-le-Sec Conservatory.

Ján ANČIC

Profile: music composer, keyboards player, sound designer
Born: 7.9.1979 Trenčín , Slovakia
Education: Conservatoire in Bratislava - composition department - Peter Martinček as a teacher.
(1996-2002): Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Bratislava - Film and TV faculty - sound design(2002-2007)

Experience:
Free-lance jobs: music for television, movies, commercials, theatre and cartoons, Bratislava and Trencin (Slovakia), Prague and Zlin - Czech Republic (2000 - 2007)
Software synthesizer programming patches for Linplug company (Berlin, Germany), Bratislava (2006)
Sound engineering in Opona Studio, Bratislava (since 2005)
Music composing and sound engineering in Experimental Studio of Slovak Radio, Bratislava (since 2006)
Sound engineering in V-club, Bratislava (2003 - 2004)
Music teacher- basic school of arts - composition, Trencin (1999)
Music teacher - Yamaha school of keyboards playing, Bratislava (2001)
Sound designer - Nova Scena Theatre in Bratislava (2008)
Different jobs in United Kingdom (Scotland, 2004, London, 2008, Southampton 2008)

PROFILE:
Music composer/arranger able to compose many different genres of music, from classical through pop & electronic styles to scenic theatre music and scores for a movie.
Piano and keyboard player, programmer of synthesizer presets, sound designer and teacher of music.

Karol HORVÁTH

Karol Horváth was born on 15 February 1961 in Bratislava. He graduated from the Philosophical Faculty of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Prešov. He worked as a shepherd, clerk in the town´s administration, teacher, barkeeper, journalist, dramaturg, sound technician and theatre director. At present he works in Slovak Radio. He has written several theatre and radio plays and also a few television scripts. He is an author of short stories books. Now he is writing a cyberpunk novel.

Givan BELL

Born 1959 in Belgium. After studying literature and linguistics, a little philosophy and sculpting, he made a radical switch to computer music at the end of the 1980s. He has been involved in experimental media art in its many different forms since 1990. First, he restlessly lived and worked in Belfast, Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels, New York, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Den Haag, Berlin. His most important virtual organisations were Stellingname (1984-1989), Young Farmers Caim Future (1990-2000), dBONANZAh! (1998-2002), and finally mXHz.org (2002-?) and Society of Algorithm (2004-?). These setups were merely covers for collaboratively investigating the many different forms of creativity from real and non-physical people, including machines. His work was mainly synaesthetic, realtime generated, abstract, algorithmic, and gradually abandoning the familiar settings, parameters and skills for production, display and reception of the work of art as we know it today. He wrote critico-comical pamphlets about art and technology from an anti-post-modernist anti-neo-liberal background. Like everyone in that field and at that time, throughout his life, he had many money problems, many friends and even more enemies. Since fall 2005 he has been living in Bratislava under the name of Gívan Belá. The city does not plan a statue yet.

Bohdan FEDOR

Education:
Academy of performing Arts and Music, Bratislava -1997 - 2002, Theory of Music
Academy of Arts, Banská Bystrica - 2004 - 2005, Composition
Philosophic al Faculty of Comenius University - 2005 - present, PhD student at Music Management

Musical experience:
Author of more than 20 pieces Ex Tempore show on Slovak Radio
Music composer of web projects on www.huste.sk
Content manager of music channel www.huste.sk
Working on own CD "SoundShip"

Work:
Web marketing and content manager

Juraj Duris (1954) graduated at the Slovak Technical University in 1978 and since then he has been working at the Experimental Studio of Radio Bratislava. He achieved his music and composition education through private studies. He participated in creation of several electroacoustic compositions and produced a number of his own projects. He participates in several intermedia activities and computer art projects in Slovakia and abroad. He worked in the Radio Bratislava Experimental Studio as Programme Adviser and specialist for electro acoustic and computer music.

Member of jury 1991 - 2003 Concorso Internazionale Luigi Russolo in Varese, Italy, - member of jury Musica Nova - 1995 - 2007 Prague, - member of jury IREM (International Rostrum of Electroacoustic - UNESCO - Helsinki 94, Amsterdam 96, Rome 2004, - member of jury SPACE 96 - Stockholm, - member of the EBU Ars Acustica working group 2000 - 2005, (European Broadcasting Union), TauKay Udine and PRIX EUROPA 2006.

He is director of Creative Centre and Experimental Studio of Slovak Radio, chairman of CECM Bratislava (Centre for Electro acoustic and Computer Music Bratislava) and teacher on Academy of Arts in Bratislava.

Katarína SMIKOVÁ (1981) was born in Poprad. She studied journalism at the Commenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. As a journalist she worked in magazine Dotyky, Radio Twist and Slovak Radio. Presently she is studying photography at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She works with photography for over eight years and exhibited her works in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.


LACO KERATA (1961)

Laco Kerata was born in 1961 at Novaky, Slovakia. From 1984 to 1989 he studied acting and theatre directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. In 1991 he was one of the cofounders of the theatre Stoka that was in the first half of the 90ies of the 20th century one of the most popular experimental theatre in Slovakia. He was both an actor and co-author of many performances in this theatre. In 2001 he started to work in Theatre Med as a director and writer. He has written several books of poetry, short stories and one novel. He has been a member of several music projects as a singer and performer.


Roman LAŠČIAK (born 1959) studied at the Department of Electronics of the Slovak Technical University, focusing on acoustics and audio-technology. Since 1984 he has been working as sound engineer in Slovak Radio Bratislava at the Department of cross-sectional audio-technical activities, in the nineties he took part in festivals of electro acoustic music organized by Experimental studio. He co-operates also with contemporary Slovak composers (Daniel Matej, Marek Piaček), with ensembles of contemporary music don@u.com, OVER4TEA, VENI), chamber music (Bratislava Chamber Soloist), he is invited to cooperate with music festivals (NEXT, Multiplace, Melos Ethos, Pohoda) and on multi-medial events. Occasionally he works on projects of visual artist Ilona Németh.

Vladimír SLANINKA
Vladimir Slaninka (1957) - he studied art and pedagogy at the Commenius University in Trnava, Slovakia. He worked as teacher of art for fifteen years and then as a journalist in Slovak Radio. At present he works as Director of Internet Department of Slovak Radio.


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..::.. Slovinský rozhlas -
Živě z Ljubljany

High Ride the Streets
A Poetry Reading Live from Studio 14, Radio Slovenia

Do we dare to go real-time? Do we? Aren't we afraid of segmentation faults, power failures and dropouts? Aren't we afraid of falling mikes, mispronounced words and unpleasant coughing, eventual unconscious hells or damns?
What about the dropouts, segmentation faults and power failures of our civilization? (Too philosophical question, all-right).

A working meeting took place. An enormous quantity of Lung Ching ran down the throats. The topic was what to conclude the programme with. And the outcome of the discussion was not really in favour of the word end, so to say. Recover your breath, o Art! Even after a million and fourty six years you are still not in danger to retire. You are going to be praised by some circle squarers tonight, by a triangle of poets, the usual stereo line and an artistic concept which's outcome nobody can predict. Luckily, The Network is eternal and ever open to improvements. High Ride the Streets is a title of the poem by Gregor Podlogar. Together with Primož Čučnik and Tone Škerjanec, he will be there. On the stage of the Studio 14. Probably.

sun rays have ripped open the clouds' bellies
the rain has stopped tourists are exhausted
the machinery in my head takes on the beat
of the great empire there's something out there
where another life begins without the echo
of excavations the world around me has unfolded like Spring
in the central core of the old continent a postcard from Columbia
has reminded me once more that there's another world I have not
yet burnt that Tibetan money from the new one I am not
familiar with the Habsburg myth and why are you asking
I am the twentyfifth generation this side of the Carpathians
only a hundred years ago my ancestors shared their room
with pigs and other animals but today we proudly
strut the streets and take to the air in metal birds

(An excerpt from High Ride the Streets,
Translated by Ana Jelnikar & Stephen Watts,
Published in SIX SLOVENIAN POETS, page 154,
Arc Publications, 2006)

Under high pressure of audio processing tools, the voices of the poets will be blended with sound protuberances of western and eastern cultures. Two equations will colide: a) order = safe b) an ability of staying calm amidst the most chaotic whirligigs of events = sound.

Authors: Gregor Pirš and Bor Turel
With: Mihael Paš, Igor Likar, The Bretones
Poets: Gregor Podlogar, Primož Čučnik, Tone Škerjanec
Sound Engineer: Miran Kazafura
Production: Studio 14 of Radio Slovenija
Sound Materials and Planning: Yellow Room & Bor Turel's Private Studio

Gregor Podlogar, born in Ljubljana in 1974, graduated in philosophy from the University of Ljubljana. He has published his poems in various literary magazines in Slovenia and abroad. Aleph Press published his first two collections of poetry, Naselitve (States, 1997) and Vrtoglavica zanosa (Joy in Vertigo, 2002). In co-authorship with the poet Primož Čučnik and Žiga Kariž, a painter, an experimental book on New York City entitled Oda na manhatenski aveniji (Ode on Manhattan Avenue, 2003) came out with Sherpa Press. His latest book, Milijon sekund bliže (A Million Seconds Closer, 2006) was published by Literatura Press. A selection of his work was published in Six Slovenian Poets (Arc Publication, 2006). He translates contemporary American poetry (Hawkey, Solomon, Killebrew, A. Berrigan among others), edits the Slovenian side of poetry web-site lyrikline (www.lyrikline.org) and drinks green tea in Ljubljana.

Primož Čučnik was born in Ljubljana in 1971. He studied philosophy and sociology of culture at the University of Ljubljana. His first collection of poetry, Dve Zimi (Two Winters), was published in 1999 and received the Best First Collection Award. His latest books are Ritem v rôkah (Rhythm in Hands, 2002), Akordi (Chords, 2004), collaboration book Oda na manhatnski aveniji (Ode on Manhattan Avenue, 2003), Nova okna (New Windows, 2005), Sekira v medu (Selected Poems, 2006), and Delo in dom (Work and Home, 2007). His poems were published in A Fine Line: New Poetry from Eastern & Central Europe. He translates contemporary Polish and American poetry. He has published (co)translations of works by Adam Wiedemann, Marcin Świetlicki, Piotr Sommer, Eugenyusz Tkaczyszyn Dycki and Miron Białoszewski as well as Frank O'Hara, Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery. He also writes literary criticism, essays, works as an editor of the magazine Literatura, and runs a small press Sherpa. He lives and tries in Ljubljana.

Tone Škrjanec was born in Ljubljana in 1953. He has published six books of poetry. His book of haikus, The Sun on a Knee was translated into English by Joshua Beckman and published in New York by Ugly Duckling Press in 2005. His work appears on the poetry & music compilation CD, Košček hrupa in ščepec soli (A Bit of Noise and a Pinch of Salt, 2003). He published a solo CD, Lovljenje ritma (Catching the Rhythm, 2006) with the musician and composer Jani Mujič. Apart from writing poetry he also works as a translator. He has translated works by Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, Jack Spicer, Charles Bukowski, Gary Snyder, Frank O'Hara and others. He lives and works in Ljubljana.

Bretones is Slovenian grunge folk music group based in the surroundings of Cerkno, western Slovenia. Bacause it is unable to play a single original note, the band plays traditional american rock music from Forest Hills, Queens (district of ex-New Amsterdam), and Breizh (Britanny), an ancient hilly landscape in the northwestern part of European continent, which happens to be in France at the present. Incidentally, the two musical traditions happen to be quite similar, so the difference is even.

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..::.. Spanish Radio - Live from Madrid

SONIC WEAPONS
by Escoitar.org

The physical dimension of sound, its potential to become a source of corporal pleasure, its invisibility, its immateriality, its power to generate emotions or affect our bodies without passing through the barriers of reason and without leaving traces... All these aspects have turned particularly important in the context of a society of control, where the different discourses of power need technologies to perform their dominance, or simply to attack and defend themselves. This is the role of sonic weapons.

The sound work proposed by Escoitar.org, a radiophonic short tale placed somewhere between a documentary and a radio-art piece, is based in the remix of audiovisual documents found across a long and deep research about certain uses, developments and technological implementations of sound. The work proposes both a conceptual approximation to this subject matter and a revealing sonic experience, carried out through an analysis of the impact and the effects of these technologies, their uses and their abuses.

Digitally processed sounds from interviews, recordings of sonic weapons, fragments of works by different artists and recordings of acoustic signals and control devices (such as bells, sirens...) made by Escoitar.org are mixed and intertwined in "Sonic Weapons". A radiophonic work that pursues a double goal: on one side, to make the listener aware of a problem that affects sound and listening, conceived as control devices, and, on the other, to create a passionate sonic gesture in order to maintain sound safe and to keep working for its freedom.


Escoitar.org

During the last two years Escoitar.org has organized workshops in Córdoba (Festival Eutopía06), Zaragoza (Centro Gohan), Pontevedra (Casa das Campás), Sevilla (Festival Zemos98), Cuenca (Facultad de Bellas Artes), Sevilla (Festival ZEMOS98), Madrid (La Casa Encendida, Matadero Centro de Arte, Espacio Menos1 y Medialab-Prado), Gijón (LABoral Centro de Arte), Santiago de Compostela (CGAC), Lucena (Festival Sensxperiment) and Vigo (MARCO).

The collective has participated in different international events: "Encuentro Iberoamericano de Paisaje Sonoro" (Madrid, 2007 y 2008), "Jornadas Vibra de arte sonoro y experimental" (Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Valencia), "Festival de Arte Sonoro Artesons" (Lugo), "Festival Sónar" (Barcelona), "AVLAB" (Medialab-Prado, Madrid), "Proyecto Arte y Pensamiento" (UNIA, Sevilla), "Congreso de Arte y Tecnología Artech06" (Pontevedra), "Festival Eutopía07" (Córdoba), "Paseantes, viaxeiros e paisaxes" conferences (CGAC, Santiago de Compostela), "Artes de mediación. Roles da crítica de arte na era dixital" conferences (CGAC, Santiago de Compostela), "GIS Libre" conferences (Girona), or "Paisajes Sonoros" conferences (Museo de arte Precolombino e Indígena, Montevideo, Uruguay).

Escoitar.org has also participated in the following exhibitions: "Reinicia" (Casa das Campás de Pontevedra), "Google Art, or How to Hack Google" (New Museum of Contemporary Art de Nueva York), "Redes Aurales" (Festival Sónar de Barcelona) (curators) or "Banquete, Nodos y Redes" (LABoral, Gijón and ZKM. Germany). The collective promoted audioactions in: "CGAC" (Santiago de Compostela), "Círculo de Bellas Artes" (Madrid), "Festival Sensxperiment" (Lucena, Córdoba), "Festival Mediafest" (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), "TV de Galicia" or "Festival Zemos98" (Sevilla).

Escoitar.org has coordinated the following international events: "Hearing Cartographies. Sound and Place", and the Cinema Season about the social history of the sound "Audiovisións", both of them at the CGAC. It has edited two publications: "Escoitar.org. Audio-HackLAB" and "Hearing Cartographies. Sound and Place", as part of the Proxecto-Edición (CGAC, MARCO and Fundación Luis Seoane).

Members of Escoitar.org:

Chiu Longina
Anthropologist. Musicology studies. Sound artist and creator of acoustic spaces. Member of the production team of the IFI Sound Art Festival (Universidad de Vigo, School of Fine Arts/Pazo da Cultura, Pontevedra), member of the group SINSALaudio (Vigo,), of the artist collective Alg-a, and of the "Centro de Creación Experimental de Cuenca" (School of Fine Arts, Universidad de Castilla La-Mancha). Co-editor of the net projects Mediateletipos.net and Artesonoro.org. PhD student in arts and member of the Research Group DX7 Tracker, in the School of Fine Arts (Pontevedra, Universidad de Vigo). Freelance curator.

Horacio González
Fine Arts Graduate. Programmer and coordinator of the IFI Sound Art Festival (Universidad de Vigo, School of Fine Arts/Pazo da Cultura, Pontevedra). PhD student in engineering and member of the Research Group DX7 Tracker, in the School of Fine Arts (Pontevedra, Universidad de Vigo).

Juan-Gil López
Musicologist. Member of the net projects Mediateletipos.net and Artesonoro.org. In the last years he has developped some interdisciplinary research projects in the fields of ethnomusicology (music and ethnicity), contemporary music, and about the relationship between music and Fine Arts. PhD student in music and arts, he is writting his doctoral thesis about "aurality", soundscape and the use of evironmental sounds in the contemporary sound creation, as a member of the Research Group DX7 Tracker, in the School of Fine Arts (Pontevedra, Universidad de Vigo).

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..::.. Free Networks - Live from Antwerp, Museum of Modern Arts

? SAVE NOT SAVE ?

MUHKA ( Museum for contemporary art of Antwerp ) hosts the ART'S BIRTHDAY PARTY this year.

Students SOUNDDESIGN of the Royal Academy for fine arts of Antwerp create a sonic environment with sounds they have catalogued as SAVE and NOT SAVE. They are randomised through a multi-speaker installation in which a monotone voice reads their description as a slow soft litany.
A multi-monitor version of The virtual listening project" by Floris Van Manen will be projected on the white walls of the museum.
Live sounds from in and around the musuem are processed by PURE DATA structures.
Additional acoustic snapshots of other performances ( State of the arts - by Jef Lambrecht ), live music ( noise-group Spasm ), DJ-ing, . in the museum are mixed as fragments in the live stream.

The Verdi & Ravel streams will be audible at different spots in the museum.

ART'S BIRTHDAY 2009 from Antwerp, the city of " VLAAMS BELANG "; the ultra-rightwing party telling their citizens danger exists on each street corner with: Ramses Zeulevoet, Kristof Hendrickx, Kevin Nicasi, Kevin de Laet, Kenneth Emerson, Jozef Devos, Hans de Ley, Griet Pauwels, Glenn Vervliet, Emiel Redant, David Jongen, Sandra Van der Jeught, Piotr Talmachou, Muriel Claeys, Koen Rogge, Iris Roevens, Dominique 't Jolle , Jonathan Karsilo, Ronny Pringels, ... and is supported by MUHKA, KASKA, KLANKSCHAP, KLARA & MARABOU vzw.

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..::.. Serbian Radio - Live from Belgrade


Lullabies for the Birds and the Little Creatures
Author and director: Arsenije Jovanović
Co-author, producer and editor: MA, Predrag D. Stamenković
Production: Sound Workshop, Drama Department, Radio Belgrade
Sound Engineer : Ilinka Čolić
Sound Engineers in preparation: Slobodan Stanković and Dejan Ivanović
Sound Engineer of the final mix: Zoran Marić
Sound Engineer of the transmission: Dragan Šćepanović
Transmission Supervisor, Euroradio Coordinator: Živan Mitrović

Participated in the realisation:
In the composition Lullaby for female choir and percussion by Predrag D. Stamenković - Female Academic Choir Collegium musicum as well as the following percussionists: Boris Bunjac and Aman Tonmas, under the leading of Darinka Matić Marović;
In the composition The Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chryostom by Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac - Children's Choir Kolibri of the RTS Music Production, under the leading of Milica Manojlović;
In the compositions Lullaby, folk tradition - Children's Choir Rastko of the St.Sava Temple in Belgrade, under the leading of Jasmina Bouali Stanojković;
In the composition Lullaby , folk tradition - Svetlana Stević - vocal;
In the composition Terirem - the lullaby of the Mother of God, Ortodox sacred music tradition - Male Vocal Quintet- Darko Manić, Minta Aleksinački, Branimir Jovanović, Predrag D. Stamenković, father Vladimir Rumenić and Goran Grbić -trumpet.

About work
"Lullabies for the birds and Little Creatures" is a collage of works of two authors, Arsenije Jovanovic and Predrag Stamenkovic. The title of the program was taken from the name of the piece by Arsenije Jovanovic inspired to some extend on Orthodox Byzantine Chant Terirem, the Bogorodica Lullaby for the Little Christ (Mother of God Lullaby) and choir oratorio "Liturgy" by Serbian composer Mokranjac. Predrag Stamenkovic composed his piece upon an old Serbian folk lullaby so the whole Radio Belgrade program could be regarded as ars acoustica Lullaby for AB2009.
Sleep well.

Arsenije Jovanovic (Born 1932.)
Author, director and producer of works for theater, radio and television, writer, photographer, occasionally theatre set and TV designer, retired university professor (FDU). Last theatre productions: "Kolubarska bitka" (JDP) and "Korešpodencija" (Atelier 212).
Directed about eighty theatre spectacles in ex/Yugoslavia, England, Bulgaria and USA. Director of over 100 television productions, dramas, short films, TV series, experimental works etc.
Directed a hundred of radio plays, author of many original radiophonique works and electro-acoustic compositions commissioned by Radio Belgrade, Austrian national radio, Radio France, RAI, WDR, SFB, Spanish national radio, New American radio, Deutschland radio, SWF, Finish radio, ABC (Australia).
Initiator of sound-art workshops at ORF (Vienna), Faeroe Island, Technical Universality in Sydney, Helsinki, Copenhagen.
Married with Ilinka Ćolić, they have 8 years old daugther Ana, they live in Belgrade, Serbia and in Rovinj, Croatia arsenije.jovanovic@inet.hr & gliola@sezampro.yu - tel. +381 11 303 4120, +385 52 830 274

Prizes for radiophonique compositions:
Prix Italia (category of radio-music) for "Resava Cave".
Prix Italia for "Tombstones along the Roadside".
Premio Ondas, Barcelona, Spain. (twice)
Acustica International Prize, WDR, Cologne for "Faunophonia Balkanica".
Finalist award at New York Radio Art Festival for "Homo Politikus Vulgaris".
First prize for "Concerto grosso Balkanico" in Rust, Austria.
First prize Radio France International for "La parata" with Ilinka Čolić.
Third, second and third prize at International radio festival in Mexico City for "Trans Dada Belgrade express", "Toast to Radio" and "Gypsy party in a Turkish bathhouse"(with Ilinka Čolić).
Many national prizes at home for different radio works.

Predrag D. Stamenkovic, MA, (born 1956.) a composer and a conducter, since 2005 is a chief editor of the Drama Program of Radio Belgrade. Since 2000 he is an editor of the radio serial "Workshop of sound". He used to be a musical editor of the Program 202 of the Radio Belgrade. His solo, chamber, choral and orchestral compositions have been performed in Serbia and abroad. Predrag is also a vocal and instrumental solo performer of the music group "Musica antiqua", which is specialized for Middle Age and Renaissance music. Together with the group he performed on more then a hundred concerts all over Serbia and Europe. Many of these concerts have been recorded either for radio or TV. He has also taken part in realization more then 500 radio dramas, some of them have won on prestigious world festivals. The artistic programs he had created represented Radio Belgrade on famous international contests of radio and TV programs. He has won many prizes in Serbia and abroad. Predrag is a director of the annual Festival of speritual music "Chorus among frescos" in Belgrade. As a conductor of women's chorus from Sid, he won prizes in 2005 and 2006 on the conterst of chorus in Bosnia and Herzegovina.


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..::.. VPRO (The Netherlands) - Live from Hilversum

VPRO Café Sonore - Art's Birthday WEBSITE
Listen LIVE Audio Stream @ Radio 6

22:20 - 22:40
Gert Jan Prince will perform his specially made Sound and Save composition in time slot
23:00 - 23:20
Paul Devens will perform his specially made soundperformance in timeslot
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Gert-Jan Prins ( IJmuiden, the Netherlands, 1961): Electronics, Percussion
Gert-Jan Prins has been known for twenty years as one of the most challenging sound artists in the Netherlands.He is an autodidact who focuses on the sonic and musical qualities of electronic 'noise', In his work, Prins makes connections with modern electronic club culture, occupying a radical position with his investigation of electronic sound
and its relationship to the visual. He also creates links with the performance art and machine art of the 1980s, which reshaped the legacy of industrial society to produce threatening, yet sometimes also sublime, encounters with technology.

Prins has built various analogue- and digital electronic systems that create signals within the listenable audio domain such as custom-built FM radio transmitters and receivers, similar to the instruments of American composer David Tudor.

Besides his solo-project, current projects include MIMEO, Synchronator (with Dutch video artist Bas van Koolwijk), The Flirts (with Cor Fuhler),
he has collaborated with Pita, Thomas Lehn, Lee Ranaldo, Anne la Berge, Fennesz, the Vacuum Boys, Peter van Bergen, Marcus Schmickler, Raed Yassin, Koen Nutters, Norbert Moslang, Tomas Korber, Thomas Ankersmit, Giuseppe Ielasi, Carlos Giffoni, Luc Houtkamp
and Misha Mengelberg and many others.
with visual artists: Bas van Koolwijk, Rob Flint, Xavier Quérel, Andre Avelas, Manel Esparbé i Gasca, Petra Dolleman, Martha Colburn, Cyrus Frisch.
composers and ensembles: LOOS, Maarten Altena Ensemble, Gilius van Bergeijk, David Dramm, Domenico Sciajno.
Performances, on international festivals & clubs throughout Europe, North America, South-Africa, Russia, Australia.

http://www.gjp.info/

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Paul Devens, www.pauldevens.com

Paul Devens (Maastricht, 1965) studied at the ABK and the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. His work has been installed, performed and screened at: le Magasin, Grenoble (France, 1994), LU, Nantes (France, 2000), Confort Moderne, Poitiers (France, 2001), Museum Z33, Hasselt (Belgium, 2002), Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (Germany, 2003) Marres, Maastricht (2000 & 2003), Ctrl_Alt_Del 1, 2 & 3 Istanbul (2003, 2005, 2007), Pause / Oboro Gallery, Montreal (2004) and OCA/ISP Oslo (2004), Love City, Tallinn, Salzburg, Maastricht (2006), Experimental Intermedia, New York (2006), Ctrl_alt_del, Istanbul (2007), Laptopia #4, Tel Aviv (2007), Digital Media, Valencia (2008), stichting Intro / In Situ Maastricht (2007, 2008), etc

The work of Paul Devens deals with various concepts of reality by adapting codes, formalities and identities and embeds them in a different 're-invented' condition.
These adaptations often derive from aspects of an institutionalized society. This process of adaptation and embedding sublimes in different manifestations, like time- and space related installation and minimal act, regularly with a performative quality.
The output consists of installations with sonic and architectural elements, electro-acoustic performances and videoscreenings.

Esthetical features often embody technological phenomena by sound processing through computers, modular- and interactive software and home made- and circuit bend instruments in combination with elaborated transformations of (sometimes existing) spaces.

The installations often research the correlation in between architecture and time-based media such as sound. How spatial and sonic qualities oscillate with cultural pre-constructed conceptions resulted in a selection of works like "Testing Ground" (2006), "Pavilion" (2007) and "Pole" (2008).

Sound-works and sound-performances researches the relation of 'spectacular aesthetics' with actual content by using a DIY (do-it-yourselve) strategy to gain independency and authenticity and thus, to create an alternative form. All sources of sound could be at the basis; usually digital transformations accompany the process of composition and reduce the sources to rough matter only. The compositions vary in expression from 'Industrial music' and 'soundscape' to 'contemporary classical music' and 'noise'.

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..::.. Portugal Radio - Live from Lisbon

Instituto Franco-Portugus, Lisbon

Salt Itinerary
MISO ENSEMBLE
new Op-ErA
electroacoustic & multimedia opera
Miguel Azguime: writer, composer, performer
Paula Azguime: staging, video, live-electronics
Andre Bartetzki: video programming
Perseu Mandillo: video directing
Technique: Miso Studio
www.misoensemble.com


Salt Itinerary multimedia opera transcends theatrical and music conventions,
reflecting on Art and Madness, it revolves around languages, words as
meaning and words as sound. Live audio and video electronic processing and
diffusion of the voice, poetry, gestures, music and drawings, creates
polyphony of senses and a counterpoint of meanings. Moulding sounds, lights,
pictures and movements as if being drawn, painted or carved, Salt Itinerary
is a powerful, engaging and challenging combination of music and drama by
one performer that shapes new grounds in electronic music and breaks
boundaries between music, theatre, opera. Salt Itinerary was recently
awarded by the Music Theatre NOW Berlin in the category "Other Forms beyond
Opera".

FUNDS
DAAD Kunstlerprogramm
Ministério da Cultura / Direcço Geral das Artes

SUPPORT
Centro Cultural de Belém
Technische Universität Berlin

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..::.. Russian Radio - Live from Moscow

Oleg Makarov, Dmitriy NIKOLAEV: "Long Winter Night Safe Burglary Sound Story"

In dark times of global financial & economic crisis Art must do its best to feel "Safe and Sound". Rising up funding in a new unexpected ways sometimes is very essential for Art (and artists) as well as finding new unusual impressive musical and sound instruments. So Dmitriy Nikolaev will try to rise up funding (real time on air) by force opening safe using following sound instruments - skeleton key, hammer, chisel, drill, disc saw and some others (not to mention here secret ones). Oleg Makarov (who is not so experienced in force opening safes but very good in sound possessing) will pick up noise into his laptop and will create beautiful harmonic sound picture of this interesting and useful process . This will happen very late (01.40 AM Moscow time) at dark, gloomy, cold, snowy, windy winter night of Arts Birthday. No public will be invited to keep the intimacy of the concert.

Oleg Makarov
Born in 1979. Graduate of the Moscow State Conservatory College and State Music Pedagogic Institute. Composes music of different styles from academic to modern, including chamber instrumental, vocal and electroacoustic music. Editor-in-chief of the Russian "Electronic music" magazine. Live experimental electronic music performer.
Participant of the Moscow Laptop Cyber Orchestra. His electroacoustic compositions were performed at the international festivals: Moscow Autumn-2003 2006, International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music 2004 (Roma, Italy), Synthese 2004 2006 (Bourges, France), Archipel Festival 2005 (Geneva, Switzerland), Musica Viva 2005 (Lisbon, Portugal) and others.
2007 Special Radio Drama Jury Commendation Prix Europa, Berlin.

Dmitriy NIKOLAEV
Born in 1960. 1985 graduated from GITIS - (Russian Academy for Theatre Art).
Theatre Stage director in State Repertoire Theatres in Moscow, St Petersburg, Samara, Perm, Kishinev, Tula, Ekaterinburg.
Radio Drama Director, Radio Russia, Radio Kultura.
Guest radio director:Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Germany.
Co productions with WDR Akustische Kunst, ORF Drama, BBC, ABC.
Ars Acustica producer
Ars Acustica piece "The Tune" was on air in 17 countries.
1994 Eloquence du son Award at Phonurgia Nova Contest of International Maison de Radio in France.
1994 International prize of Polish Radio.
1996 Ostankino International Radio Festival Prize for Experimental Production.
2007 Special Radio Drama Jury Commendation Prix Europa, Berlin.
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..::.. Swedish Radio - Live from Stockholm

Swedish Radio AB 2009 WEBSITE

George Kentros: Violin
Mattias Peterson: Electronics

Performance of one movement "Spring 3" from their work "There are no more four seasons" (1725/2004) for violin and electronics

"There are no more four seasons" is a re-composition of a series of older pieces by Vivaldi in an attempt to create a work with an organic place in the music of our times.
There is perhaps no other piece that has become such a lingua franca, at least within the Western art music world, as Vivaldi's Four Seasons. In fact, we suspect that the work is so overexposed that it is almost impossible for a modern audience to separate their experience of the work from a tradition of what the work is supposed to mean and their constant association with the piece from films, elevators, and light radio. This unique place in the general consciousness allows for great freedom in adapting the work, to the point where our piece no longer can be called an arrangement, but could rather be termed a re-composition, using the Vivaldi work as a "found object." This process of re-composition took place in two major steps: first, the original score was sampled in its entirety, with one violin recording all the parts; the composer then used this as his basic sound material for the creation of a tape part. After the tape part was completed, the violinist adapted his playing and the solo violin part to mesh with the new electronic pieces. The violinist creates his part from his memory of what the work sounds like.
We took one more major psychological step by changing the original order of the movements so as to strengthen the idea that in our modern times, the four seasons are dependent on travel, memory, the environment, and media to a far greater extent than they were in, for example, 1725. The movements are now performed in the following order:

Season 1:
Spring 1 - Summer 2 - Autumn 3
Season 2:
Winter 1 - Spring 2 - Summer 3
Season 3:
Autumn 1 - Winter 2 - Spring 3
Season 4:
Summer 1 - Autumn 2 - Winter 3

Performed live, the piece has two performers and uses an amplified violin, sampler, laptop computer, Max patches, and a Kaoss Pad. "There are no more four seasons" was premiered at the Modern Museum of Art in Stockholm on December 11, 2004, as part of the EMS 40th anniversary festival.

The composer Mattias Petersson was born in 1972 on an island off the southeast coast of Sweden. His musical career began with piano studies but nowadays he works as a composer and plays electronic instruments. He graduated with diploma from the composition class of the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm in 2006, and is now a teacher of composition there. He works mostly within the realm of experimental electronic music and sound art, but he has also been involved in more pop-like projects as an arranger, composer, producer and musician. Website: www.wickerwork.net

The violinist George Kentros was born in 1964 and now lives in Sweden. His violin studies took place at Yale University and the Mannes School in the US as well as the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. He has performed as a chamber musician, soloist, and sometime actor across Europe as well as in the US, Latin America, and Japan, primarily as a member of the new music ensemble "the peärls before swne experience," who performed at the ISCM festival in Luxembourg in 2000 and with whom he has commissioned more than 90 works from 18 countries. The Swedish newspaper Expressen named him one of their 24 "Cultural Idols" for 2004.


11:30 PM ..::.. Christian Fennesz

: guitars and live-electronics
Live-performance of songs from his latest album "Black Sea".

"At last, the wait is over. Christian Fennesz's follow up to 2004's Venice is upon us, and it's not likely to leave anyone disappointed. The ten-minute title track gets the album underway, opening tentatively with flickers of noise and digital debris crackling like fireworks in the distance. Soon a flood of symphonic guitar and electronics overwhelms the mix and we're reintroduced to the signature sound world that's unique to this man's music - he's one of the most imitated electronic artists out there, and yet you can always pick out the real thing from a line-up of clones. Not resting on his laurels, before 'Black Sea' is even three minutes in, the magnitude shrinks down to a simple duet between oscillating tones and brittle acoustic guitar plucks. It's from here that the piece begins to swell up with majestic, incredibly warm sustains and scratchy textural details - the whole composition feels like a reintroduction to the various facets of the Fennesz sound. Next comes the first of two collaborative pieces (although it should be pointed out that this one isn't available on the vinyl edition - and while we're on the subject, nor is the ambient miniature 'Vacuum' encountered towards the end of the CD and digital tracklists): 'The Colour Of Three' features Anthony Pateras (a veteran of Editions Mego and Sirr), who supplies some nicely clanking prepared piano tones, placing emphasis on the instrument as a percussive device rather than a string instrument. Despite this augmented instrumental range we're still in familiar territory thanks to Fennesz's transcendent digital eruptions and gloriously rich sound designs. 'Perfume For Winter' is a more restrained affair, filled with contemplative acoustic figures and abrupt organ-driven chord changes. We get our first real taste of explicit melody here, reminiscent of Endless Summer's most approachable tracks. Importantly though, there are no overt attempts to retrace footsteps back to that classic album, and Black Sea sounds vehemently like a step forwards for Fennesz. This sense of progression is underlined by the spine-tinglingly wonderful 'Glide', a duet with Rosy Parlane which takes Fennesz's wall of sound into the stratosphere, sounding like an unearthly orchestra. The music itself matches the increased magnitude: if Endless Summer was a digitisation and abstraction of The Beach Boys, 'Glide' could be said to apply the same transformative techniques to more classically-geared sounds - there's an undercurrent of elegiac romanticism that might reasonably be compared to fellow notable Austrian, Gustav Mahler, specifically the well-known fourth movement of his 5th Symphony (once famously plundered by Robert Lippok for his Open/Close/Open release on Raster Noton). After the quietly glistening, chime-like tones of 'Glass Ceiling' comes previous single and album finale 'Saffron Revolution', which is a suitably grand closing gesture, stretching out a single, euphoric multi-layered chord across much of its duration before dissipating away into a pattern of delayed string plucks. Black Sea is far and away one of the year's most beautiful records, both in terms of the music itself and the sheer iridescence of the electronic sound harnessed within. Very highly recommended indeed."

..::.. Finish Radio - Live from Helsinki


Co-operation partners are
- YLE Documentary Goup with Kiero Kollektiivi (The Twisted Collective)
- YLE Radio Drama with Yrjänä Sauros
- YLE Culture and Music with Oulu Conservatoire electronic music
studio Men´s Choir Huutajat
- ProTon Sonic Art Group Agnieszka Waligórska and Pekka Sirén
with students of University of Applied Sciencies, Department of Film and
Television
and students of University of Art and Design, Department of Motion
Picture, TV and Production Design


PROGRAMME OF YLE SLOT on satelite VERDI 20.10 - 20.50 (CET)

1) Work in progress (dur. 8-9 min.)
Composer: Jukka Ruohomäki
Performers: Mieskuoro Huutajat (Men´s Choir The Shouters)
Producer: Heikki Valsta, Music Programmes YLE

History:
MIESKUORO HUUTAJAT (Men's Choir The Shouters) was formed in 1987 in Oulu,
Finland, by a group of young men who clearly had nothing better to do. The
idea was to dress ca. 20 men in black suits, white shirts and black rubber
ties, and train them to shout some of the most beloved songs in the Finnish
song heritage. On the 6th of December (the Finnish Independence Day), the
choir were ready for their first performance. The choir shouted several
patriotic songs and marches, the national anthem included. The audience was
left gaping when the choir departed after a short, but maximally intensive
performance. This is how the press reacted: "HUUTAJAT are quite obviously
just starting on their way to magnificent artistic achievements." One
result of this performance was that the choir quickly expanded to more than
thirty members.



Produced in Oulu Conservatoire Electronic Music Studio


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2. Safe Island (dur. 10 min.)
Composers: Agnieszka Waligórska - Pekka Sirén


Performers:
- composers - students of University of Applied Sciencies, Department of
Film and Television
- students of University of Art and Design, Department of Motion Picture,
TV and Production Design

Produced by Virtual Visions Factory - Studio Sirius, Kerava Finland
Programme note:
Safe Island is a performance version of fears, dreams and memories of a
shipwrecked sailor drifting in ocean. It mirrors the ancient stories and
phantasies of the Odysseu´s meeting with Seirens and ends in a way like
Robinson Crusoe.

Artistic curriculum vitae of composers:

Agnieszka Waligórska and Pekka Sirén have created a number of sound art
productions for Finnish Radio and TV, YLE for music, theater and
documentary group departments (Helsinki). Outside Finland f.g. for
Westdeutscher Rundfunk WDR Studio Akustische Kunst (Cologne), Spanish Radio
RNE-2 Ars Sonora (Madrid), ORF Kunstradio (Vienna), RAI Audiobox (Rome),
DeutschlandRadio (Berlin) and SüdwestRundfunk SWR (Baden-Baden).
They have created their own acoustic story telling style, which often
utilizes sound choreographies and large scale inside / outside sound
projections and installations as a part of their radioscapes.Their works
have been performed in radios and in sound art festivals f.g. in Matera,
Rome, Rimini, Szczecin, Lublin, Cracow, Wroclaw Vienna, Innsbruck, Salzburg
and Linz, London, Madrid, Paris, Bourges,
Ljubljana, Bled, Budapest, Prague, Bratislava, Berlin, Copenhagen,
Dublin,Cork, Jerusalem, Paris, Amsterdam, Mexico City.

Works in collections:

- Museum of Radio and Television New York1990 - The Museum of 21st Century
Collections Linz 1991
- Acustica International Lydrejse collection at the Museet for Samtidskunst
Roskilde Denmark by WDR 1996 - Sound Journey collection of WDR 1997
- Ear as Eye LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions 1997
- The National Library of France: 34 acousmatic compositions Paris 2007 -
Museum für Moderne Kunst: 12 radio works Weserburg Bremen 2008

Recognisitions

* 2 nd Prize in International Forum of Radio Art in Wroclaw Poland in 1991
* Cultural Reward of the Foundation for Radio and Television Education for
their special sound spectacle and for the best radio programme of the year
1992
* Finnish Cultural Foundation performing tour by ProTon1995

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3. Work in progress (dur. 10 min.)

Composer / performer: Yrjänä Sauros
Producer: Mikko Ahonen Radio Theatre YLE
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4. Moving Safe (dur. 10 min)

Kiero Kollektiivi performance group (The Twisted Collective)
Sound designer: Kai Rantala

Producer: Hannu Karisto Documentary Programmes YLE

Programme note:
"Moving safe" is a journey through violent nightmares and feelings of
detachment towards a new sense of community and love between people. The
performance plays with the images stemming from sound, movement and human
behaviour. Moving safe is based on live performance and pre-constructed
sound ambience.
Curriculum vitae and background

Kai Rantala is a sound designer for radio programmes at YLE´s documentary
programmes. He has produced music and sound for multimedia, web services
and short films.

Kiero Kollektiivi (The Twisted Collective) is an open arts community and
performance group based in Helsinki. It was founded in the spring of 2008
by dance artists Johanna Laamanen, Pauliina Motturi and Veera Westerholm.
Kiero Kollektiivi's performance art projects combine contemporary dance,
theatre and media art. The collective's first project was a short video
entitled Otteita elämänhautaamien päiväkirjasta ("Excerpts from the Diary
of Those Buried By Life"), filmed in spring 2008. Kiero kollektiivi's
newest member is dance artist Said Dakash, who joined the group in autumn
2008.
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..::.. Estonian Radio - Live from Tallinn

Andres Noormets, Taavi Kerikmäe and Mart Soo will improvise on four themes
(a 5 minutes) -

1. The radio will wake up Europe.

2. While people are sleeping, the economy is falling apart.

3. The Moon is speaking in all languages/The Moon is speaking in every
language

4. The art belongs to the people.

Taavi Kerikmäe is one of the brightest keyboard players and one of the most
inventive initiators of multifarious musical projects in Estonia. Kerikmäe
has studied at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, and furthered his
training at the Lyon Conservatoire. A versatile improviser, a devout
practitioner and researcher of Electro-Acoustic Music himself, Kerikmäe has
collaborated with many of the best experimental musicians in Europe - and
has introduced several of them to the Estonian public over the past years.
As of late, Taavi Kerikmäe teaches modern music and improvisation at the
Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.

Mart Soo, a much sought-after guitarist and estimated music teacher, has
performed free improvisation and jazz for nearly two decades - in diverse
bands and one-off line-ups, on different continents, on stages big and
small. It is hard to even imagine a musical context that could catch this
man completely off-guard.

Andres Noormets, an accomplished actor and theatre director, is perfectly at
home with different forms of wordsmithery. Never averse to vocal
improvisation, Noormets has oftentimes performed in the company of guitarist
Mart Soo and keyboardist Taavi Kerikmäe. Theirs is an intriguing and
masterly trio: working with a rich instrumental palette as well as the
timbres and rhythms of speech, playing on words and playing with sounds,
they mix the abstract with the concrete - creating new meanings, remaking
and remodelling old ones.

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..::.. Radio France - Live from Paris

A duo for violin/electronics and electric guitar by Benjamin de la Fuente
Benjamin de la Fuente's biography.

Born on the 6th October 1969 in Bordeaux (France)
Benjamin de la Fuente graduated from Paris Conservatoire Supérieur where he studied with Gérard Grisey (composition) and Alain Savouret (improvisation). In parallel, he graduated from the university Paris VIII. He wrote a master of musicology L'entendre aujourd'hui ou la réapprehension du son musical (trad : Listen to the musical sound today ). He studied at the IRCAM (1998) and he's composer-in residence at the VILLA MEDICIS in Roma (2001). He's co-created (2000) the musical invention compagny Sphota . He's also co-created (2003) the band Caravaggio .
He's a regular guest at various festivals : Musica, Agora, Résonance, Présences, Mancas (Nice), Radio France, Octobre en Normadie, son/mu 98, Ina-GRM, Multiphonie, Musique et quotidien sonore (Albi France), IMEB festival (bourges), Musiques en scnes (Lyon), Octopus (centre Pompidou)...He's been commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture, Radio France, IRCAM, Ina/GRM, Les Percussion de Strasbourg, GRAME, Imeb, and others institutions. He has worked wiht severals solists as Garth Knox (Quor Arditti), Bruno Chevillon (Cb), Alexis Descharmes (vc) , Tedi Papavrami (vl) , Philippe Bianconi,(pno) Gérard Caussé (vla), Jean Geoffroy (perc), Vincent David (sx)... and with severals ensembles as Ictus, Ars Nova, Ensemble EIC, L'opéra Garnier, L'itinéraire, TM+, Les Temps Modernes, Court-Circuit, l'ensemble Pythagore, National Orchestra of Lyon, National Orchestra of Cannes... In 2002, was awarded the Hervé Dugardin Prize. In 2005 he was awarded l' Academie des Beaux-Arts Prize from the Institut of France. He has a national graduate to teach Electroacoustic Music. He's given many courses of improvisation in many Universities.
For many years he's written from chamber Music to larger instrumental ensembles, with or without Electronic. He also Worked for Theater and Short Movies. He usualy try to propose an other way to create, to think, to present on stage, the music. All is done - inside the writing and on Stage - to make a strong and special spirit. His writing technical is inspired of the post-Spectral music, the energy and sound of rock music, and the indian music form and rythmic style. He also use pygmies metric.
But now you'd better listen to what it is...
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..::.. Polish Radio - Live from Warsaw


Bogusław Schaeffer Proietto for prepared tape and tuba (1975) and Michał Talma Sutt Cellotronicum for cello and computer (2002) - two pieces from the middle period and this decade of Polish Radio Experimental Studio will be reinterpreted by DJ Lenar.

Piece by Bogusław Schaeffer had been played in the past by different musicians on different instruments, among others on: oboe, English horn, bass clarinet, bassoon, double bass, alto saxophone.
Piece by Michał Talma-Sutt belongs to the broad project of polish cellist Andrzej Bauer
(started in 2002 during Warsaw Autumn Festival), named (from the title of that piece) Cellotronicum. Other pieces for that project (until now) were composed by Jacek Grudzień, Marcin Wierzbicki, Sławomir Kupczak, Paweł Mykietyn, Stanisław Krupowicz, Magdalena Długosz and Cezary Duchnowski.

Concert is organized in the small club "Chłodna 25" (close to the very centre of Warsaw), where (from time to time) people can listen to improvised music. The name of the club is the same as the address of that place in Warsaw.

Safe'N'Sound from Polish Radio Experimental Studio and Club Chłodna 25

Kept safely for ages in the archives of Polish Radio, classical recordings of polish musique concrete composers will be reinterpreted by the leading figure of polish turntablism, DJ Lenar. Polish Experimental Studio - established in 1957 - was among the first institutions in the world to promote musical activities on the edges of modern composition, technological heyday and experimental attitude. Activities of composers such as Włodzimierz Kotoński, Andrzej Dobrowolski, Bogusław Schaeffer, Eugeniusz Rudnik, Bohdan Mazurek, Krzysztof Penderecki Tomasz Sikorski were parallel to the ones by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Schaeffer, Bruno Maderno or Mauricio Kagel. Pieces by polish composers from the Polish Experimental Studio will be a starting point of DJ Lenar's tribute to this tradition as well as tradition of turntablism, plunderphonics and hip-hop extended techniques; not as a historical document but rather a source of fascination for younger generation of musicians, they will be set free after 50 years!

DJ Lenar
The most inventive of Polish turntablists, DJ Lenar has been working in variety of genres and aestheticareas - from klezmer bands like Meritum to Witold Lutosławski tribute with classical cellist Andrzej Bauer, from Irish folk songs arranged for duo with Garth Knox, theatre music to improvising on stage with John Tilbury, Eddie Prevost, Erik M., Frederic Blondy, Thomas Lehn, Noel Akchote and many others. DJ Lenar is an active figure in promoting turntablism in Poland, curating series of events such as Deckonstrukcja, Galimadjazz and Sofa. He has been performing in festivals such as Blurring the Edges in Hamburg, Musica Genera in Szczecin, Musica Polonica Nova in Wrocław, Turning Sounds, plain. music in Warsaw.
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..::.. Deutschland Radio - Live from Berlin

Deutschlandradio Kultur AB 2009 WEBSITE

Deutschlandradio Klangkunst live from Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin

Electronics, wireless headphones and choreography: Brandon LaBelle & BJ Nilsen


The music will not be broadcast
Brandon LaBelle + Benny Nilsen

Working under the theme of Art's Birthday, the concept of "safe and sound" is explored through the form of a silent disco. Staged at the Maria am Ostbahnhof club in Berlin, The music will not be broadcast usurps the collective pleasures found on the dance floor as the beginning for an enlarged acoustical event where the comforting euphoria of collective mingling is contrasted with the embedded dangers dancing might come to represent. Presented through wireless headphones, an original electronic composition mixing experimental beats, musical samples and found sounds will be played, activating the rhythmical flow of movement as an occupation and contouring of the space. Complementing and intersecting with the headphone work, live amplifications of the event are incorporated back into the composition: locating microphones along the floor and throughout the space, the movements and interactions of the crowd are captured and amplified through a sound system located in the space to generate an additional sonic layer, allowing visitors to hear the sounds of their own dancing and interactions. In this way, a number of elements are put into play weaving together electronic music and the generative experience of dancing with material traces and architectural accents. The dance floor is underscored as a space of fragmentation and immersion while also representing the potential for disruption and excess. Extending this as a live radio broadcast, the work places the body on-air so as to occupy the private space of the listener.


Biographies:

Brandon LaBelle, www.errantbodies.org, is an artist and writer working with sound and related cultural narratives. His installation work has been featured internationally, including the exhibitions and festivals Sampling Rage (1999) at Podewil Berlin, Sound as Media (2000) at ICC Tokyo, Bitstreams (2001) at the Whitney Museum New York, Pleasure of Language (2002) at the Netherlands Media Art Institute Amsterdam, Undercover (2003) at the Museum of Contempoary Art Roskilde, and as part of Tuned City (2008), a festival on sound and architecture, Berlin. In addition he presented a solo exhibition at Singuhr galerie in Berlin (2004), an experimental composition for pirate drummers at Virtual Territories, Nantes (2005), and his Prototypes for the Mobilization and Broadcast of Fugitive Sound was exhibited at the Enrico Fornello gallery, Prato, in 2007. His ongoing project to build a library of radio memories was presented at Radio Revolten, Halle, Germany in 2006 and at Casa Vecina, Mexico City, in 2008. He is the author of Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Continuum, 2006) and co-editor of Radio Territories (Errant Bodies Press, 2007).

Benny Nilsen, www.bjnilsen.com, is a sound and recording artist focused primarily on the sound of nature and its effect on humans, and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound. In addition, he has worked for documentary film, television and as a sound engineer. Nilsen regularly performs live around the world and in collaboration with Chris Watson, Stilluppsteypa, Fennesz, Hildur Gudnadottir, Johann Johannsson, Z'ev, Finnbogi Petursson, Darri Lorenzen, Ingolfur Arnarson, amongst others. Recent releases of his work include The Short Night, and Storm with Chris Watson (both on Touch Music), as well as Man From Deep River with Stilluppsteypa (on Editions Mego).
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..::.. RSR Switzerland - Live from Lausanne


Musique concrte by Kiko C. Esseiva
With the voice and technical assistance of Scilla Lorage.
Commissioned by Radio Suisse Romande Espace 2.

The theme of this event inspired different things to me...

The following is an idea of my departure point, from which I escape towards this music...

Certain parts of the world are seriously affected by war, by hunger...
Insecurity there is real and constant...desperate.
At the same time, here, insecurity is basic, taken advantage of by the mighty to increase their control over human beings and nature, to establish more and more order...
It seems that to them....a mob of young people in the streets or tags on concrete wall mean insecurity....
...that wild grass around city trees poison their lives...
Apparent happy-go-lucky untidiness, which to me seems inherent to life itself, is probably unbearable to them...
...what type of life do such ideas have in store for us?

Does insecurity not often come from fear of things we do not understand?
Fear of the Other, fear of anything different...
Do we not light up our cities to such an extent that we can no longer enjoy the stars, enjoy infinity...
With fear at our back, there is no horizon.

For this composition, I juggled, among others, with ambiguous sounds, possibly disquieting, sounds of warning that, by the way I treated them, could also carry us away, charm us and take us on an imaginary journey...
Sounds of everyday life too, of the city for instance, which may seem obvious to us and do not, or no longer, frighten us... and yet....

I tried to write a score torn between malicious tension and exhilarating trance.
Then I tried to let go and give rein to evasion.


Kiko C. Esseiva
To listen to extracts of some of my pieces : www.myspace.com/hinterzimmerrecords

kiko c. esseiva is a young composer with swiss and spanish roots who lives in lausanne, switzerland. he creates electroacoustic sound pieces that are, not unlike those of the french master of the genre, luc ferrari, warm, non-academic and colourful, spreading a humanity and richness that is far away from the sterility of a lot of todays electronic compositions. he creates very diversified atmospheres which combine acoustic instruments, noise, human voices, field recordings and static sheets of sound with a stunning freshness and musicality that also brings to mind the very narrative nature of some older nurse with wound works.

according to the title of his first album `musiques pour haut-parleurs' (music for loudspeakers) his live shows are adventurous installations of speakers in different sizes and qualities, that are all separately controlled by esseiva at the mixing desk, making his compositions even more transparent, vital and expanded.

hinterzimmer records releases - four years after his debut longplayer on canadian imprint `manufracture' - his second album `sous les étoiles', which goes a step further than `musiques pour haut-parleurs', the tracks being audibly held together by leitmotifs, making it one big opus instead of being just a collection of tracks.
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..::.. Südwest Rundfunk: Live from Baden-Baden

SWR2 ars acustica, ZKM Karlsruhe (Centre for arts and media) and HfG Karlsruhe (University of Arts and Design) are celebrating ART'S BIRTHDAY 2009 live from ZKM.

Stefano Giannotti concept, composition, sampling, electric guitar, banjo, etc.
Agata Zubel voice
Frank Thomé percussion
Rie Watanabe percussion
NN live-electronics

Presented by Andreas Hagelüken
Executive Producer: Frank Halbig
frank.halbig@swr.de


SHELTERS AND TRAPS (by Stefano Giannotti)

I always wonder what does "being safe" mean. I'm thinking of the beautiful sequence in Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece Det Sjunde Inseglet (1956) where one of the protagonists has climbed up a tree and is happy because he has been able to escape pestilences, soldiers, any kind of evil, and just in that moment he realizes that the Death is cutting the tree... or very often I'm thinking of those people who assume drugs and feel safe just dwelling in the heart of the danger. Even, I notice very often how mankind gets used to dangers and to threatening situations (people living in continuous state of war, in never-ending fears of illness, etc.).
This makes me wonder how "being safe" is a relative concept very much connected with the knowledge and the understanding of rules, environment, cultural situation and especially choices.
SHELTERS AND TRAPS is a sort of sound-action for female voice, banjo, 2 percussion players and live electronics, a see-saw oscillating between danger and safety, noisy monsters and quiet stillness; things which might appear horrible as soon as they become well known loose their negative power, as well as reassuring events might hide traps.

Biographies:

Stefano Giannotti
Composer, author, director, guitarist and performer. He studied composition with Pietro Rigacci and he was the assistant of Alvin Curran in "Crystal Psalms" and "Tufo Muto". Between 1983 and 1990 he performed in several European countries with the chamber music group "Trio Chitarristico Lucchese". In 1997 he started a collaboration with the Italian choreographer Roberto Castello. Between 1998 and 1999, he lived in Berlin as guest of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Program). In the year 2000 he has been guest of the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf with a Stipend of the Ministerium of Brandenburg. In the year 2002 he has been invited in Worpswede with a stipend of the Ministerium of the Niedersachsen and he has won the Karl-Sczuka-Preis (SWR, Baden-Baden) with his work IL TEMPO CAMBIA. In the year 2007 he was awarded for the second time by the Karl-Sczuka-Preis for his radio-piece GEOLOGICA
His repertoire ranges from performance, radio-art, dance theatre to chamber music, orchestral scores and songs. Landscape, memory, life cycles, voices of people, languages; these are some of the main themes developed in Giannotti's work.

Agata Zubel
She was born in Wroclaw. Graduated from The Karol Lipinski University of Music in Wroclaw with the Primus Inter Pares distinction, where she had studied composition in the class of Jan Wichrowski and vocal in the class of Danuta Paziuk-Zipser. Now she is a doctor of this University. She extended her studies in the Netherlands during numerous courses. She has been a holder of the scholarships granted by Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung in Munches, the Minister of Culture, the Management of Wroclaw City as well as the International Foundation of Education. She has been a member of the Polish Composers' Union.
Her works were performed at numerous festivals in Poland and abroad. In 2005 her II Symphony commissioned by Deutsche Welle was premiered during Beethoven Festival in Bonn. As a singer she has participated in many prestigious musical events in Poland and abroad: in Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Ireland, Russia, Ukraine, Lituania, the Netherlands, Greece, Denmark, Korean and United States. Modern music takes a special place in her repertoire. She has premiered and recorded many works of contemporary composers. In summer 2004 she took part in the experimental project of improvisation during the International Courses of Composition in Darmstadt.

Frank Thomé
Percussionist Frank Thomé was born in 1974. After an apprenticeship as instrument maker he studied percussion with Markus Hauke in Mainz and graduated a solist exam at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe with Isao Nakamura.
Currently he is working on a chamber opera after a short story by Franz Kafka which will be premiered in April 2009 in Zürich within post graduating in composition with Isabel Mundry in Zürich. He received several stipends and awards.
His field of activity covers various solo- and chamber music concerts, his own compositional work and the building of instruments and sound objects. Beside this he is working intensely with live-electronics and Cajon. Composers like Matthias Ockert, Peter Gahn und Hannes-Galette Seidl wrote solo pieces for him.

Rie Watanabe
Percussionist Rie Watanabe was born in 1979 in Hokkaido, Japan. From 1999-2003, she studied percussion at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music with Makoro Aruga,Michiko Takahashi und Takafumi Fujimoto. Since 2005 she has studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe with Isao Nakamura, Hans-Joerg Bayer und Jürgen Heinrich.
In 2004 Rie Watanabe won the Saji Keizo Prize of the Suntry Music Foundation. In 2006 she received a Stupendienpreis from the International Summercourse for New Music in Darmstadt. In the very same year, she received a fellowship by the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists.
Since 2003 Rie Watanabe has been a member of Ensemble Bois in Tokyo. She works often with composers in Germany and Japan.


Live audio- and video stream: www.swr2.de

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..::.. RTBF (Belgium) - Live from Brussels

Dimitri Coppe will be performing a specially Unsafe Sounds composition
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Dimitri Coppe (Brussel, Belgium, 1969)

Dimitri Coppe is a solo musician for ten years, mainly in acousmatic composition but also in electronic improvisation, sound installations and collaborations for radio, cinema and dance.

It is not sound or noise or digital concepts that lie at the heart of his music, but the imperfect and human gesture in particular that is achieved.

It is not technologies or technique or even sound fantasy on which he focuses his work, but rather the listening, individual and sensitive.
There are no records, only public and collective listenings, only performances using his own concert system (a home-made instrument of around fifty loudspeakers) for producing real acoustic substance throughout the entire listening space.

His latest performances were given at Maison de RadioFrance (Paris), NTMoFA (Taiwan), Archipel (Geneva), Camac (France) and Brigittines (Brussels).

Find out (a lot) more by visiting www.dimitricoppe.be

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