[ GUNST ]

reading
radia #359 radio readings + radia #66 transliteratur
[pls. scroll down for english version]

radio lesen.

wie das geht, hören wir zunächst von max goldfarb und brian dewan, alison knowles und hugh dancy. die passender weise längst legendäre radio-texte – von velimir chlebnikow, den futuristen marinetti und masnata – sowie aus bohnen lesen.

im anschluss und ganz anders: trans(it)literatur mit ernst reitermaier, barbara kaiser und lale rodgarkia-dara.

credits und hintergrundinformationen: siehe unten

[english]

radio reading.

first with radio readings from new york:

"Artists Max Goldfarb and Brian Dewan produced a 'reading' of Velimir Khlebnikov’s The Radio of the Future (1921) in 2011. A canoncial text, 'Radio of the Future', may be the first real conceptualization of transmission art. Alison Knowles is a visual artist known for her soundworks, installations, performances, and books. She was a founding member of Fluxus, and recently Knowles offered her iconic performance 'The Identical Lunch' to museum visitors as part of the Museum of Modern Art’s Performance Exhibition Series. On the occasion of a summer garden party benefit for free103point9?s FM radio station (WGXC). Alison Knowles performed one of her 'Bean Turners', constructed from beans and paper, Bean Turners and are both book pages and sonic instruments. At the same summer garden party, acclaimed film and stage actor Hugh Dancy, performed F.T. Marinetti and Pino Masnata’s 'La Radia' (1933) a visionary text, if one that reveals the authors proclivity for Fascism. La Radia asserts what The Radio Must Not Be, what The Radio Abolishes, and what The Radio Will Be." [T.R.]

afterwards, reading literature in eight languages we take the truck route between vienna and bratislava with ernst reitermaier, barbara kaiser, and lale rodgarkia-dara:

"the whole piece was recorded in the car on the truck-route from vienna to bratislava. transitliteratur is a project where small pieces of literature are placed on transit-trucks. the idea is to use trucks as mobile-media-platform. this radia programme is the auditive attempt of this idea. during the recording our recording-team followed transit trucks on the way from vienna to bratislava. we were in contact with around 15 people via our cell-phone. by the time the car passed a truck, one of them supplied us with a small reading. the texts had been read in 8 languages (russian, serbian, italian, spanish, english, german, czech, hungarian). the whole project is in realtime and has not been edited. enjoy the sound of the truck-route between the closest capitals in europe. not the vatikan and rome, but vienna and bratislava." [LRD]

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;
max goldfarb, brian dewan, alison knowles, hugh dancy und radio free103point9, new york, for radio readings;
ernst reitermaier, barbara kaiser, and lale rodgarkia-dara from radio orange vienna, for transliteratur;
as well as radia.fm radio art network for being a crowd of incredibly creative partners.