[ GUNST ]

fish
radia #428: everything is eel + radia #303: paivascapes
[pls. scroll down for english version]

fische gelten gemeinhin als stumme zeitgenossen. insofern scheint es erst einmal nicht eben naheliegend, ihnen im radio zu begegnen. indes: radia hört wie so oft etwas genauer hin…

für den den ersten teil der sendung haben sich sam sebren und liz logiudice auf die spuren des amerikanischen aals gemacht und diese vom hudson river bis zum pazifik verfolgt.
im anschluss schlängeln wir uns mit dem flüsschen paiva durch portugal – um unter anderem auch auf ehemalige und noch immer bestehende fischgründe zu stossen.

credits und hintergrundinformationen: siehe unten

[english]

fish are usually considered as rather silent contemporaries. thus they do not seem to be the best candidates for an appearance in radio shows. radia, however, nevertheless listens closely – yes, to fish!

first guided by sam sebren and liz logiudice, who followed the traces of american eel:

"Sam Sebren and Liz LoGiudice to bring you a glimpse into the transmission of Anguilla rostrata, aka the American eel. Sebren and LoGiudice trace the eel’s story from the Hudson River to the Caribbean, sometimes by way of Europe and the Pacific. Sebren and LoGiudice look at the American Eel Project’s Hudson River Estuary Program. Teams of scientists, students, and over 200 community volunteers monitor and count glass eels at 12 HREP sample stream locations along the Hudson River in New York State in the United States.

Each year, glass eels – the tiny, transparent young fish – navigate the Atlantic Ocean all the way from the Sargasso Sea to the rivers along the East Coast. Every March and April, these young fish migrate into the rivers and freshwater streams, where they mature for 20 years or more before returning to the Sargasso Sea to mate and die. This episode of 'radia' tracks their progress in the Hudson River, and around the world. The entire show serves as a metaphor for the 'radia' stations and weekly transmission." [T.R.]

Liz LoGiudice is an environmental educator and eel devotee who helps to coordinate the Hudson River Eel Project in Greene County. Sam Sebren is a volunteer citizen scientist for the HREP American Eel Research project, and a multidisciplinary artist who began his career in the East Village New York arts scene in the 1980s.
LoGiudice and Sebren collected and edited audio from various eel experts and volunteers of all ages at various locations during the 2012 eel counting season.

for more information about the Hudson River Estuary Program go to www.dec.ny.gov/lands/49580.html

afterwards, we join the binaural/nodar collective follow the river paiva – and its fish:

"[…] The Paiva is a mountain river with a rocky bed (granite and slate stone) that can either show its rebellious side (strong currents associated with the seasonal variations of its torrent and with the narrowness and unevenness of its bed in several areas), or gently slide through terraces of agricultural fields, crossing small rural riverside villages that live in close connection with it.

The narrative revolves around the uncertainties that exist about the exact spot where the river starts. You can listen a villager pinpointing the exact locations where different small streams gather to form the river, others discuss different theories and don't reach any positive conclusion and one lady asserts that the river begins in two different locations: one of them being an hermitage on top of a mountain, the Senhora da Lapa, where people gather in pilgrimage once a year. Other themes are also present: the agricultural use of riverside lands, the names of particular 'poços' or depressions where people claim 'the river is bottomless', the locations of the watermills where people used to grind corn and the places where fish was or still is abundant." [B./N.]

find out more about the Binaural/Nodar collective and the Paivascapes project at binauralmedia.org and at paivascapes.org

credits:
miss.gunst would like to thank the following artists and sound collectors:
jovica for the space machine, corsica s for some beautiful radiator sounds;
sam sebren, liz logiudice and radio free109point9, new york, for making us swim with the american eels;
the binaural/nodar collective, ricardo reis and radio zero, lisbon, for creating a narrative along the river paiva;
as well as radia.fm radio art network for being a crowd of incredibly creative partners.

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