[ GUNST ]

walking babel
radia #227 in babel + radia framework special remix
[pls. scroll down for english version]

stimmengewirr, klanggewirr.

spazierengehen in einer imaginären stadt. nennen wir sie babel.

credits und hintergrundinformationen: siehe unten

[english]

a maze. of voices. of sounds.

walking an imaginary city. let us call it babel.

bernd bohn and his fellow artists chose the cities of chicago and halle as starting points.

"The intention was to switch into the subject of CITY – refering to the small east German City Halle and the metropolis Chicago – we decided to choose Babylon as the tertium communis. 'In Babel' can also be used according to the Great Oxford – 'babel' means a: a babel of voices, a noisy medley, mostly in today's lingua franca which is English, b: confusion, a scene of confusion, c: as 'Tower of Babel' a gigantic project, and finally d: the biblical confusion of languages.
So this musical-linguistic Babel-project is also a prophet and medium of ancient voices from the lowest levels of the tower of Babel." [B.B.]

The material: soundscapes in Halle and in the streets and in the elevator of Sear's Tower in Chicago. music recorded and played by Bernd Born (bariton sax, Halle), Wolfram Dix (glasses and percussion, Leipzig), Peter Koch (Cello, Dresden), Christoph Winckel (kontrabass, Leipzig) and Pinguin Moschner (tuba, Halle) in an underground water tank in Halle. Lyrics and voices by Wilhelm Bartsch.
Bernd Born is a composer and musician, living in Halle/Saale. Wilhelm Bartsch is a writer, working and living in Halle.

afterwards, patrick mcginley enters london to guide us far out to the imaginary city's innerest, with

"a collage of my own raw field recordings, taken during travels in the past few years in the u.s., portugal, here in the u.k., france, hungary, germany and estonia. it finished with the premiere of one of my own compositions, again created entirely from raw field recordings, hard edited with no alteration on a portable minidisc recorder." [P. M.]

find more info on patrick mcginley and on framework at murmer.soundtransit.nl and at www.murmerings.com

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;
bernd born from radio corax, halle, for building babel from fragments of chicago, halle, music and poetry;
patrick mcginley from resonance fm, london, for taking us even further into town;
as well as radia.fm radio art network for being a crowd of incredibly creative partners.