[ GUNST ]

psycho-acoustic waves
radia #378 truus makes waves + radia #346 field background radiation noise
[pls. scroll down for english version]

mentales radio. in zwei verschiedenen formaten:
zunächst führt truus de groot (aka geertruda de groot hrnjak) eine autobiographische oper auf, in der sie auf mehr als dreissig jahre der eigenen lebensgeschichte zurückblickt.
im anschluss werden im zuge einer sonosphärischen feldforschung erinnerungspuren als abstrakte wellenformen hörbar gemacht.

credits und hintergrundinformationen: siehe unten

[english]

mental radio. in two considerably different formats:

the first part radio worm invites us to an autobiographical opera by truus de groot (aka geertruda de groot hrnjak) about her earliest years in the US. dealing with the isolation and loneliness through her ongoing often humorous audio observations that she has collected over the years:

"The piece starts out with Truus reading form her Diary in 1980, shortly before her departure to the US. Just minor observations of a 20 year old, nothing special yet a moment in time. Not really a clue she would be going to the US mere months later, never to call the Netherlands her home again. It was an adventure looking back for her, but at that time these were just impulsive decisions. Never thinking twice, why am I doing this? Is there future here?? What will I do?
Her first stop was a connection she made on a whim in Eindhoven, David Linton, who lived in Tribeca, NY. His roommate was Lee Renaldo, who was at that time painting. From there her US journey began. In her isolation she could see the absurd humor of a culture that was so new to her. The many hours spent just looking at people, their silly habits, crazy public fights, moody encounters, make this opera a time capsule of sorts. It also conveys her frustrations of being harassed endlessly by the prying eyes of males that feasted their eyes on a beautiful yet naive young immigrant.
However bothersome that might have been, Truus always translated it into humorous musical reflections. It is not dark yet perhaps a bit cynical, but full of irony. It travels from 1979 to up to around 1990?s." [R.W.]

afterwards, we'e'll visit another time the field fest in brussels with XLAIR's radia adaption of the festival, trying to

"(re)create an imaginary map of 'Field Fest's background radiation noise': a radio score of the most contagious psychoacoustic traces still echoing in the collective memory of the participants. A poetic patchwork of static leftovers etching the event's most persistent influences on the auditory immune systems of the constitutive artists. The aim of the program is to evoke the festivals' sonospheric depths through the suggestive power of intimate (re)collection and sonic autohypnosis." [D.V.D.]

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;
truus de groot (aka geertruda de groot hrnjak) and radio worm, rotterdam, for airing autobiographical waves;
dieter van dam, the Q-02-crew, all field fest artists and radio XLair, brussels, for fishing in the psycho-acoustic waves of the field festival;
as well as radia.fm radio art network for being a crowd of incredibly creative partners.