[ GUNST ]

africas
radia #230 flare + radia #96 long walk
[pls. scroll down for english version]

zwei unterschiedliche reisen nach afrika. beide male keine safari.

im ersten teil der sendung erkundet eva ursprung die 'real energy world' im niger-delta.

im zweiten teil bittet claudia wegener passantInnen auf den strassen von johanneburg darum, passagen aus nelson mandelas biografie 'long walk to freedom' zu lesen – in ihrer jeweiligen muttersprache.

credits und hintergrundinfirmationen: siehe unten

[english]

two travels to africa. no safari.

in the first part of the show eva ursprung researches the 'real enery world' of the niger delta.

"Since the 1960s, oil extraction by international corporations has been destroying the environment and ecological balance in the Niger Delta, and thus, the basis of life of the local population. The composition works with the sounds of gas flares, as well as interviews with activists and theoreticians from the region, contributed by Sokari Ekine (www.blacklooks.org)." [E.U.]

in the second part claudia Wegener asks passers-by in the city of johannesburg to read sentences from nelson mandela's biography 'long walk to freedom' (the abridged edition) but translated on the spot into their own mother tongue:

"[…] With eleven official languages in South Africa alone, the outcome is a poly-lingual collage.
This show for radia was prepared as an 'in vitro' experiment for a taxi-choreographic acoustic spectacle, a chorus dance of Joburg's 'black taxis' in Mandela Square (Sandton) and Freedom Square (Kliptown). " [C.W.]

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;
eva ursprung and klubradio berlin, for flare;
claudia wegener and resonance fm, london, for taking us to the long walk;
as well as radia.fm radio art network for being a crowd of incredibly creative partners.