[ GUNST ]

street performance
radia #344 october 26th, 2011 + radia #328 radio on wheels
[pls. scroll down for english version]

hinaus auf die strasse!
wo wir nicht nur alle theater spielen. sondern auch immer performance ist.

zunächst mit der journalistin béatrice andré, die in der fussgängerzone von skopje passantInnen, taenzerInnen und performerInnen belauscht.
im anschluss folgen wir alessio ballerini, bei dem sich eine fahrraddemo als radiokonzert entpuppt.

credits und hintergrundinformationen: siehe unten

[english]

out on the streets!
where the presentation of self in everyday life is always a performance anway.

first with the french journalist béatrice andré who's listening into the streets of skopje:

"Welcome to my October 26th, 2011. A baby, pedestrian streets, danse and art performances. All sounds are extracted from recordings of this very day, in a circle of one kilometre in the very centre of Macedonian capital city. Partly collective, as people from the old town got involved in the direction the microphone took, as well as Swedish performers, arrived for a festival in Macedonia." [B.A.]

afterwards, we follow alessio ballerini to a a bike march transformed into a public radio concert performance:

"Along the run with many other bikers I held a 4 channel portable audio recorder in one hand, forward facing the two onboard mics and fastening the two other external mics on my backpack. That allowed me to record sounds both in front of me and in the rear. This was meant to allow me to postproduce the field recordings in two different forms. On one hand I decided to use and mix the frontal stereophonic recordings with other field recordings, original scores and extracts from Beethoven and Liszt; the output are both a 25 minutes long radio piece and a 6 tracks release. On the other hand, thanks to the 4 channel recordings I recreated the acoustic environment of the bike parade just adding more sounds to enhance the imaginary/imaginative experience of those visitors who will listen to it in a dark room absorbed by a quadraphonic reproduction." [A.B.]

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;
béatrice andré and kanal 103, skopje, for listening to the streets;
alessio ballerini, radio rai and radio papesse, firenze, for making the streets listen;
as well as radia.fm radio art network for being a crowd of incredibly creative partners.