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Ernst Karel: Materials Recovery Facility
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Alltags-Alchemie. In der (post-)industriellen Gesellschaft gibt es so Einiges, was nicht auf den Kompost kommt. Und dennoch wertvolle Rostoffe liefern kann. Wie sich das anhört, erkunden wir mit dem Klang-Anthropologen Ernst Karel.

RadioRhizomE: Rohstoff Recycling | Materials Recovery ist eine Gastsendung, für die sich GUNSTradio nicht nur bei Ernst Karel, sondern auch bei Sarah Washington und Knut Aufermann von mobile radio bedankt, die Karels stereophone Erkundung einer Rohstoff-Recycling-Einheit in Charlestown, Massachusetts als Teil ihres Radioprojekts für die Kunstbiennale Sao Paulo 2012 ausgesrahlt haben.*

Hintergrundinformationen und Credits: siehe unten.

[English]

The alchemy of everyday. In our (post-)industrial society, there's quite a lot if stuff that won't go to the compost – yet can provide precious material resources. How does this sound? Let us follow Ernst Karel to a matreials recovery facility in Charlestown, Massachusetts…

RadioRhizomE: Rohstoff Recycling | Materials Recovery is a guest show from mobile radio, originally broadcasted as part of mobile radio BSP, mobile radio's programme for the Sao Paulo Art Biennial 2012.
mobile radio is a project by Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann.

Ernst Karel's "Materials Recovery Facility" is a stereophonic field recording of a materials recovery unit based in Charlestown, Massachusetts. The audio has been recorded in January 2011. A first edition of the piece has been created in 2012 for Sensate. A Journal for Experiments in Critical Media Practice, where it is to be experienced online as part of the special collection "Return to the unseen 2.0".

Ernst Karel is a cultural anthropologist, sound collector, musician and composer. He is currently based in Camebridge, Massachusetts, where he he's lecturer in anthropology at Harvard University and manages the Sensory Ehnography Lab.*

Credits:
miss.gunst would like to thank Ernst Karel for his wonderful piece; Knut Aufermann and Sarah Wahington for not only being great radio artist, but also relentless radio art networkers; acclitvity for donating a part of his garden to freesound.org, from where we lent a part of the meadow (including the birds in the trees) for the intro part of our show; and last but not least freesound.org for being such a great resource of hq field recordings.

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