[ GUNST ]

radia #189 + radia #140
bloody manaus + variations of scale

[pls. scroll down for english version & credits]

feldarbeit.
im ersten teil der sendung gräbt pali mersault in manaus in den klängen der stadt.
im zweiten teil bestellt maksims shentelevs das feld in nodar, portugal.

credits und hintergrundinformationen: siehe unten

[english]

fieldwork.
for the first piece pali mersault digs manaus' sounds of the city.

"At the beginning of winter 2007-2008, Pali Meursault spent 15 days in Mamori Lake with other sound artists from all around the world in the frame of Mamori Art Lab. Then he spent a week in Manaus and made field-recordings for a radio project. The final shape of the piece was not predetermined: a material started to exist from his drifts through the city, through the people he met. When Radio Grenouille invited him to make a Radia show, this gave him a frame.
So Bloody Manaus is at the same time a travel diary, the recomposition of a soundscape and an immersion into this singular city. It's also a subjective and inevitably superficial point of view, something between sociological amazement and musical fascination for a deafening city." [E.N.]

Pali Meursault is a sound artist who lives and works in Grenoble, France. His works are published on Universinternational in France, Entr'acte in Great Britain and And/oar in the USA. He regularly collaborates with the artists collective Ici-Même.

for the second piece maksims shentelev walks the fields of nodar, portugal:

"[…] Recording of resonating tanks is left untreated, while it skins over with multi textural layers […] fluent narrative soundscape, whose vibrant shiftiness of scales uncovers conditionality of perception […]" [M.S.]

"'Variations of Scale' is a contextual continuation of ”soundscape mapping” project developed in Nodar, Portugal, during FRONTE[I]RAS 07, international meeting of transdisciplinary arts. The backbone of “Variations” is formed by fieldmix of water tanks, recorded during Fronteiras in the village of Nodar. Recording of resonating tanks is left untreated, while it skins over with multi textural layers of sound material gathered in different places during recent years. This blend is forming fluent narrative soundscape, whose vibrant shiftiness of scales uncovers conditionality of perception." [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;
pali mersault and radio grenouille, marseille, for invitung us to the field of manaus;
maksims shentelevs and radio zero, lisbon, for fieldwalking with us in portugal;
as well as radia.fm radio art network for being a crowd of incredibly creative partners.