[ GUNST ]

impressions d'afrique
radia #498: ethiopian son + radia #230: flare
[pls. scroll down for english version]

zwei ganz unterschiedliche geschichten: jenseits und diesseits von afrika. klangkunst. poesie. und politik.

im ersten teil der sendung erzählen der argentinische dichter martin gambarotta und dr. klangendum ihre version einer geschichte von mario vargas llosa, in der es um dessen zum rasta konvertierten sohn geht.

im anschluss reisen wir noch einmal mit eva ursprung ins niger-delta, um die 'real energy world' zu erforschen.

credits und hintergrundinformationen: siehe unten.

[english]

two considerably different stories from two considerably different africas. sound art. poetry. and politics.

in the first part of the show the argentinian poet martin gambarotta and dr. klangendum are telling their version of a story by mario vargas llosa, dedicated to his son who had become a rastafarian:

"It’s said that at some point in the twentieth century, the great Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa published an essay with the title 'My Son the Ethiopian'. It was dedicated with mocking irony to one of his teenage sons who, while studying at an expensive London private school, had converted to Rastafarianism. This is dedicated to all those who once were Ethiopian children.

A collaboration that was staged during the Poetry International festival between the Argentine poet Martin Gambarotta and X Static Tics (also known under names like Worm Sound Crew and Dr. Klangendum). Originally played live it is an audio drama in which the text of Gambarotta almost forms a kind of score." [M.G./R.W.]

for the second one, eva ursprung travels the niger delta, researching the 'real energy world':

"Since the 1960s, oil extraction by international corporations has been destroying the environment and ecological balance in the Niger Delta, and thus, the basis of life of the local population. The composition works with the sounds of gas flares, as well as interviews with activists and theoreticians from the region, contributed by Sokari Ekine (www.blacklooks.org)." [E.U.]

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;
martin gambarotta, dr. klangendum and radio worm, rotterdam, for their hommage to the ethiopian son(s);
eva ursprung and clubradio, berlin, for flare;
and, as always radia.fm radio art network for being a crowd of incredibly creative partners.

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