[ GUNST ]

radia #209 even the dead wear headphones + radia #104 gérard clamart's strange adventure
[pls. scroll down for english version]

gleich zweimal hörspielzeit im zeichen der radiokunst:
zunächst mit einem stück aus london, das beweist, dass auch tote kopfhörer tragen (und nicht nur zur zierde, versteht sich).
anschliessend werden wir nach brüssel eingeladen, wo wir herrn gérard clamart auf ein wahrlich seltsames abenteuer begleiten.

credits und hintergrundinformationen: siehe unten

[english]

radio art as radio play – a double feature.

first with a piece from london proving that even the dead wear headphones (and know how to make use of this neat device):

"This is a large-scale ensemble work which relies on bricolage. It follows the traditional (quite English) detective procedural format, chosen for ease of generating material. The script was developed in a couple of sessions with John Wynne's undergraduate students at the LCC. About ten of them contributed to the text in one way or another, ranging from small ideas to large portions of the finished dialogue. Others worked on gathering sound effects, providing incidental and live music and sound beds. Others still worked on the technicalities. Some people did a lot, and a few didn't turn up.
[…]
The final take was interrupted by a fifteen minute forced break (computer malfunction, inevitably) which threatened to destroy the momentum of the performance. No one of the performers (about 25 of them) could hear the whole thing as it unfolded, so there was a lot of trial and error and guesswork involved. The idea was that by sticking precisely to the script it would somehow work. In this edit you can hear the joins, flaws and false starts. I think it has enough charm to get by – and apologise in advance to the majority of Radia listeners for the very English and very text based nature of the work. Thanks to John Wynne for the gig, Ciaran Harte for his Wellesian vision, Chris Weaver for support and Nick Hamilton for the edit." [E.B.]

afterwards we're invited to brussels where m. gérard clamart experiences a really strange adventure:

"It is the dawn of the 22nd century, somewhere in the Brussels city district. The central administration sends Gérard Clamart on an investigation.
What seems at first to be a simple formality will reveal itself to be a trip down the past…" [I.d'O.]

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;
ed baxter, his students and resonance fm, london, for letting us share headphones with the dead;
irvic d'olivier, fabienne laumonier, sebastian dicenaire and radio campus, brussels, for introducing us to gérard clamart's strange adventure;
as well as radia.fm radio art network for being a crowd of incredibly creative partners.