[ GUNST ]

radia #207 sparkles + radia #208 in the name of science

[pls. scroll down for english version]

radiokunst als alternative wissenschaft.
zunächst mit sechs funkelnden stücken, die für das "first spark" radio art festival in dartington produziert worden sind.
im anschluss reisen andrej ancevski und martin anastasovski im namen der wissenschaft durch europäische radiowellen.

credits und hintergrundinformationen: siehe unten

[english]

radio art as alternative science.

today's special lesson starts with six sparkling pieces from the "first spark" radio art festival in dartington.

"[…] We thought we'd celebrate switching on our new transmitter (1000 times more powerful than the old one) by remembering the forgotten festival of Imbolc, and the first stirrings of light and warm weather. You'll hear me going on about this in the introduction to the show and making some excuse about being a rural station.
So this show starts with Chris Mockridge's recording of building and lighting a fire in their (old, cold) home… then an Imbolc piece by Jackie Juno, like me she's interested in new ways of engaging with these ancient festivals. Then there's quite a big chunk of our new neighbour Ergo Phizmiz's 'The invention of Birds' which was an installation in the Dartington Gallery. Actually this bit is from the opening night so it's Ergo and DJ Salinger together sort of DJing along to the installed piece. I didn't intend to use quite so much of it but it was hard to choose a short bit. There's a bit more of it later on.
Then there's 'For Emma' a spoken word thing by Isobel Anderson, who used to be a student here.
There's a thing by Joe Prosser, a writing student here at Dartington… does it have a title? I don't know.
Lastly 'For Bridget' by Graham Burchell: Bridget is St. Bridget and a goddess too, the 'Bridie' that Jackie mentioned earlier in the show and Imbolc is her time." [L.G.]

Pls. find further info about the artists online: Jackie Juno (brianabbott.info/jackie_juno.htm) – Ergo Phizmiz (www.ergophizmiz.com) – Isobel Anderson (www.myspace.com/isobelanderson) – Graham Burchell (www.gburchell.com)

afterwards andrej ancevski and martin anastasovski travel with us in the name of science through european radiovwaves:

"In a dark and dusty basement in suburban Skopje, we have found an analogue AM radio receiver dating from 1954. Tinkering with the knobs we scanned Europe's AM airwaves and recorded the process. The first half of the show is some of the raw recording, while the second are two tracks made by experimental artists Andrej Ancevski (AHz) and Martin Anastasovski using the only the recorded samples as generated sounds, layered and run through various effects." [T.D.]

Andrej Ancevski/Andreas Hz is an electronics engineer, music producer and everything in between. Likes to listen to radio and the world around him, tinker with machines and gadgets, play some music to nice people in clubs and sip martini when no one is looking.

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;
sounDart radiio, dartington/uk, for sharing sparkles from the "first spark" festival with us;
andrej ancevski and martin anastasovski from kanal 103, skopje, for their radio art research;
as well as radia.fm radio art network for being a crowd of incredibly creative partners.