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materials (concrete)
radia #469: concrète + radia #263: miniatures
[pls. scroll down for english version]

klang als material, klingendes material: musique concrète – durchaus wortwörtlich, aber womöglich doch noch einmal ganz anders, als wir sie kennen oder zu kennen meinen. als einladung zur forschung und zum experiment. abstrakt und konkret zugleich…

zunächst von und mit dem australischen klangkünstler und mikrobiologen jacques soddell, der uns sein "kino für die ohren" vorstellt.

im anschluss präsentieren noch einmal pierre macé und étienne noiseau ihre miniaturen einer 'radio art concrète'.

credits und hintergrundinformationen: siehe unten

[english]

sound as material, sounding material(s). musique concrète, but perhaps not necessarily as we used to know it. but rather as an invitation to research and experiment, abstract yet, at the same time, very concrete…

like in the case of jacques soddell, presenting his findings in the first part of the show:

"A suite illustrating my abstract narrative 'cinema for the ears' style of musique concrète using processed field recordings to create new sounds & textures, with an improvised interlude separating my compositions.
Comprising:
1. Les grenouilles – based on a piece I composed for a live gig in the Conservatory in Bendigo’s Rosalind Park in 2013, using manipulations/processing of frog sounds, some voice manipulations and the unprocessed sound of rustling leaves. You won’t hear the original unprocessed frogs. (10:27).
2. Improv with Viv Corringham, New York based British vocalist/sound artist. An excerpt from our performance at the undue noise gig at the Old Fire Station, Bendigo, in February 2014, using Ableton Push to control my electroacoustic samples (8:27).
3. Paralysed – composed in 2013 was inspired by the artistic paralysis I felt while waiting for a collaborator to deliver material I needed for our joint project. Performed in Melbourne in January 2014, it contains 'randomly' selected processed & unprocessed samples from many sources (8:07)." [J.S.]

Jacques Soddell is an Australian sound artist, based in regional city Bendigo. He produces computer-based electroacoustic music, with a particular interest in deconstructing natural sounds (field recordings) to create new sounds & textures, which he then assembles into abstract narrative soundscapes (usually composed, but sometimes improvised). He produces sound & video for theatre, dance, live performance and installation and is also passionate about promoting experimental art, hence his past involvement with the film society movement (bendigo film group (1976-1988), promotion of experimental music in the local community through the undue noise concert series (2002 – present), presenting possible musics, an experimental music radio program on local community radio (1983-2013)), and involvement in live arts group Punctum, With his wife, Fran, he investigated music based on Lindenmayer Systems modelling of fungal growth and he also runs a sound art label cajid media (with the help of his daughter, sound artist Thembi Soddell). He was a microbiologist in a former life, specialising in the microbiology of wastewater treatment, but left this field about 10 years ago to concentrate on sound art.

Find out more about Jacques Soddell and his work at cajid.com/jacques-soddell.html

afterwards, pierre macé and étienne noiseau are presenting with their miniatures a new approach to sound materials for creating radio art concrète:

"… to rub concrete materials to the spirit of the times, dipping into the fluctuating fonds of web, movies and songs. 28 minutes about a meeting between the instant and the unstable, unstructured and restructured songs, exiled voices and transitional piano …" [P.M./E.N.]

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;
jacques soddell and radio one 91 fm, dunedin/new zealand, as well as pierre macé, étienne noiseau and radio grenouille, marseille/france, for their concrete sound and radio art;
and, as always radia.fm radio art network for being a crowd of incredibly creative partners.

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