[ GUNST ]

car complex
radia #389: abandon reason + radia #343: cabaret of complexity
[pls. scroll down for english version]

autos als antrieb für klangkunst? doch, doch, das geht. und nicht nur, weil röhrende motoren und quietschende reifen in manchen ohren wie musik tönen mögen. vielmehr setzt das erste stück der heutigen radiator-stunde ganz auf die abwesenheit von automobilen, während es ihnen zugleich mittelbar etwas ganz wesentliches verdankt: eine tiefgarage wird als klangraum genutzt.

im anschluss dürfen dann aber auch autos selbst auf die bühne, wo sie zu veritablen instrumenten werden.

credits und hintergrundinformationen: siehe unten

[english]

cars as motors for sound art? not the worst idea indeed.

however, in our first piece it's their absence we're going to listen to – with improvisation sets arranged in an abandoned car park:

"Abandon Reason is an archive of recordings made in the highly reverberant (and unlit) space of a disused underground car park in Galway, Ireland. The recordings are mostly musical improvisations utilising a wide variety of instruments and voices, and very often objects (as well as the walls and fixtures) found in the car park itself." [C.B.]

afterwards, cars are entering the stage to become instruments:

"Last 21st October 2011, radio meet cars meet musicians in the garage bellow Maus Habitos, Future Places Festival HQ in Porto, Portugal. Two radio stations, Radio Futura 102.1 MHz and Radio Manobras 91.5MHz provided their frequencies to carry music and chaos into six audio tuned automobiles from the Portuguese xtremetuning.org community. Peter Principle composed a loose composition, grouping cars, musicians on frequency, garage sounds and more musicias. The complex setup worked into two floors of music, performance and radio, where out of sight musicians where channelled into these powerful, personalized, sound system on wheels.
A Performance for 2 radio stations, six cars, one composer, and an innumerable number of musicians." [R.R.]

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;
deacon kelly and curious broadcast, dublin, for finding a better use for a car park;
peter principle, cars and artists, radio futura and radio manobras, porto, and radio zero, lisbon, for giving cars another chance;
and of course, as always: radia.fm radio art network for being a crowd of incredibly creative partners.