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Ernst Karel: Materials Recovery Facility

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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summer night dreams (III) radia #387: late summer night's dream + radia #357: who am i to be with you

a last summer night's dream before autumn comes.

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summer night dreams (II) radia #386: radio dreaming + radia #325: the audible after-effects of drinking ether

and further we dream. of the passing summer. sending another broadcast with radiophonic day and night reveries into the ether. that is probably already in us? one way or the other. who knows.

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summer night dreams (I) radia #383: dreams for delia + radia #256: the nocturnal state of the city

summer night dreams. sent into the ether.

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disappearing voices radia #382: iT: mouth sounds a.o. + radia #122: it all disappeared

disappearing.
voices. breath. bodies. sounds. memories.

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Die Gärten der Riesen | Giants' Gardens

In the giants' gardens is growing another time. A time of which we do not know. As probably men never will. For sure not those who claim them for their own…

A sound walk through (in)visble gardens, along the fences and walls hiding the giants' gardens.

The starting point for the walk is a text originally written during my research within the TIME INVENTORS' KABINET (TIK)* ("Die Gärten der Riesen"), published in the TIK book about "Gstettn" (Graz 2011). A first version has been broadcasted as part of GUNSTradio's TIME BENDING CLOCK RADIO series in June 2012.

For Datscha-Radio's* Morning Field a new version has been created, shifting the garden walk towards an imaginary morning hour.

Credits:
miss.gunst and her inverse rabbit would like to thank the following artists and sound collectors:
alchemical for listening to countryside early morning hours; dobroide and acclivity for roosters and their kikeriki;
inchadney for a garden with birds and bees; dr doom and kyster for even more birds; soundbytes for a garden warbler; sonsdebarcelona for filling the pond and benboncan for listening to the frogs; offthesky for his windchimes; digifish for walking the paths. Very special thanks to tk for joining the production;t he TIK collective, especially Reni Hofmüller and the Graz Gstettn team for inspiring dicussions; and Oscar Wilde for his wonderful fairy tale that was the first seed for the musings about giant's gardens.

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[Bildchen | Picture: Die Mauer | The Wall. VK cc-by-nc-sa]

empire of radia #381: psychedelic feedback noise + radia #352: empire(s)

empire of. loops leading into it.
first psychedelic feedback noise with jeremy kelly.
afterwards, to glide into even deeper trance, a brass bell. two minutes transformed into sheer eternity:

"[…] 'the sound of a brass bell tuned to the pitch D, but with an overtone of D-sharp, struck nine times at a brisk tempo, with the final tone allowed to ring until the sound decays naturally. The rhythmic pattern is eight 16th notes and a quarter note; the total duration, from the striking of the first tone to the end of the decay on the final one, is just over 3 seconds.' Owners of Record: NYSE GROUP, INC.
Taking it’s cues from the long-duration film of the same name, this work takes a 2 second audiomark registered by the New York Stock Exchange and slows it drastically to 28 minutes. The opening bell and energetic trader shouts are brought to a standstill and become instead a dirge of white noise and ringing drones which replace motivation with malaise." [L.M.]

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;
jeremy kelly and radio free103point9, new york, for leading us in the empire of;
luke munn and resonance.fm, london, for guiding us even deeper;
and of course, as always: radia.fm radio art network for being a crowd of incredibly creative partners.

RadioRhizomE

RadioRhizomE is listenting to garden(')s underground and from beyond, collecting gems of hidden germinations and clandestine growth: propagule diasporas, grass root revolutions, and other movements in the greens, mosses, lichen and fungi, weeds and wild herbs, plant pharmacy and toxicology, strange symbioses, productive parasites and the fruits of decay, crypto- and pata-botanics, biolelectronics and techno-organic transformations, secret nests, garden ghosts and the whispers of the wind…

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abstract landscapes radia #375 DNT GVP + radia #193: the military landscape show

abstract landscapes. made concrete. with sound.

first we'll follow neven lochhead from the arctic to italy:

"'DNT GVP' is a composition by experimental musician and filmmaker Neven Lochhead, who is based out of Kingston, Ontario. Like much of Neven’s recent work, DNT GVP concerns itself with abstraction and experience of space. Clean guitar tones are played while sounds of Pond Inlet, Nunavut, a small hamlet in the arctic, surface to the ears between rests. A slight echo is applied to the sounds of the town, immediately informing that the sound is an abstraction. A complete and pure representation is always abstracted by the appearance of added audio. The landscape fades in and out of conscious listening. Later in the piece, a recording from an Italian language tape fades in, first appearing as part of the landscape itself – a distant radio playing through someone’s kitchen window. The sound of the tape increases, thickens and engulfs the impossible soundscape." [C.FR.]

afterwards, we'll listen another time to radio zero's 'military landscape show' researching the resonant space of former and current camps and training areas. curated and produced by Jay Needham (wavespace.org), with pieces by…

… Richard Lerman (sonicjourneys.com):

Aleutian Internment – Inside a hunting dwelling on the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea (amplified whale bone, grass, rain, wild celery and a wind harp) Funter Bay Internment camp (slats of the goldmine camp building where they were interned, windharp, rain) Windharp and weeds at a Cemetery across from the Internment camp at Funter BaySeals on St Paul Island, the Pribilofs Ugadaga Bay, looking towards Biorka Island and an Iris in the wind and snow, recorded on Unalaska Islan. (01) Trinity Site – Trinity Site, near Alamagordo, NM, was recorded in April 1997. Two times a year, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested, is opened up to visitors and many hundreds of people attend. I began recording from the car as I entered the military check point. Later, I recorded sounds from piezo disks attached to glass pieces that I placed into the earth. Also heard are sounds recorded from the fence surrounding ground zero and amplified, grass, weeks and footsteps of persons at the site. (03)

… and Louise K. Wilson (www.lincoln.ac.uk/lsad/staff_pt/l_wilson.htm):

Black Beacon Receiver mix – Mixed-down version of the seven soundscapes produced for "Black Beacon Receiver". From A Record of Fear. (02) Unamplified choir. Sine oscillator (composer: Yannais Kyriakides) – a specially composed piece for Exmoor Singers, made for temporary installation in Lab 5 at Orford Ness. (04) Recorded at Lansdowne Studios, London on August 7, 2005. Music Director: James Jarvis; Producer Clarissa Farran.

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;
neven lochhead and radio cfrm, ontario, for abstractions of concrete landscapes and concretions of abstract landscapes;
jay needham and radio zero, lissabon, for making us familiar with louise k. wilson's and richard lerman's sonic visions of military landscapes;
as well as radia.fm radio art network for being a crowd of incredibly creative partners.

die gärten der riesen | giant's gardens

In the giants' gardens is growing another time. A time of which we do not know. As probably men never will. For sure not those who claim them for their own…

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