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12:30 am - 01:00 am Darr Tah Lei - Sound As Volume - Lava Field 1 01:00 am - 02:00 am Tyler John Arnold - Color-Radio 02:00 am - 02:20 am Leo Magnien - Entre deux souffles 02:20 am - 02:30 am Tony Dimitrov - Marvrovo Sessions 3 02:30 am - 03:00 am A Look Through Hell's Back Door - Mark Vernon 03:00 am - 07:00 am Barry Burns - 23 Minutes To Go: Commence Exuding The Opaque Vapour
Darr Tah Lei - Sound As Volume - Lava Field 1
“Sound as Volume” is a piece of surrounding noise conceived as a sculptural shape. It is allusive to hypothetical sound emissions transmitted by telluric currents, as a geological phenomenon magnified. Treated conceptually as volume, the sound reproduces earth resonances with an etherwave Theremin and a distortion pedal.
Darr Tah Lei is a telluric artist who explores geological phenomena to be dismantled in exhibition spaces, turned into pieces which reveal processes of fabrication derived from nature. Lei cerebrates over the eventual post-dual potentialities of natural physics, expecting to glimpse non-dichotomic paradigms and questing for posthuman hypothesis of behaviour possible to integrate into society. She uses the monochromatic contrast of raw elements, the profound density of black and the strong assertiveness of white, such as petroleum and ice, lava rock and the ocean foams. As a political approach, she revitalizes ‘chaos-magick’ in order to retrieve post-anarchist aims, often grounded in pre-pagan Nordic traditions. Lei participated in the collective project Forever Now which managed to update the belief contents of the golden record sent in the Voyager, with contemporary moving image/sound works, launched into space in a live transmission at MONA FOMA, Australia in 2015.
https://soundcloud.com/darr-tah-lei
Tyler John Arnold - Color-Radio
The sound of Color-Radio is correlated in its inspiration and creation to things like radio astronomy, SETI, science fiction, and the eerie, spectral nature of radio transmission and the electromagnetic spectrum. Visual pieces were “composed” as accompaniment with the hopes that they might amplify or illuminate the auditory experience, but are not strictly necessary (the opposite may also be true). The sounds and images aren’t meant to tell stories, or even distinctly convey anything at all, but rather to facilitate the creation of a liminal world that is interpreted and felt subjectively. Tyler John Arnold creates experimental, sometimes noisy, audiovisual weirdness. He attempts to use common digital (and analog) tools to achieve uncommon outcomes. He is an earthling residing within the continental United States.
Leo Magnien - Entre deux souffles
“Entre deux souffles” (2018) is part of a research on radiophonic forms devoid of human voice. Most sounds used here are related with, or variations of, white noise. A suite of movements tries to enhance the specifics of each in a non-narrative way, to question the idea of transmutation. Between natural movements, mechanical hiss and electronic frictions, the listener is invited to carve its own place in the matter of sound.
leo magnien has been working with sounds for more than a decade. During night shifts in a radio station, he discovered the poetic nature of acousmatic sound and transmission. He has since developed a practice of listening that results in the use of phonography as a basis of all his works. His focus is on the subtle variations, the tenuous perceptions, and how to present these to the listener. He lives in a natural zone in northern france.
Tony Dimitrov - Marvrovo Sessions 3
Toni Dimitrov a multimedia artist, cultural explorer, radio activist working in the field of radio and media for 20 years, philosopher and communicologist, poet and mountain climber, but also sound designer, graphic designer, dj, organizer, label owner, based in Skopje, Macedonia. He is doing various projects related to sound/art, radio, field recordings, he is curating the label post global and various sound/art events.His radio programs broadcasts on music radio Kanal 103 and are dedicated to contemporary electronic music, soundscape, field recordings but also discussing various socio/cultural topics. At the moment working on projects related to political analysis of media.
A Look Through Hell's Back Door - Mark Vernon
A radiophonic nightmare that re-casts the soundscape of Derry in Northern Ireland as the backdrop to incidents in the fictional town of Derry, Maine, USA – the setting for many of Stephen King’s horror novels. Passages from several different stories describing the town were read aloud by Derry residents and recorded as narration. The obvious disjunction between these descriptions of a fictional US town and the reality of the actual city is further confused by the readings being in Northern Irish accents. Furthermore, the ominous tone and language, although extracted from popular horror stories could without too great a stretch of the imagination be read as references to very real events in Derry’s past.
The soundtrack is made entirely from processed field recordings made on location in Derry during October 2013.
Includes extracts from the following Stephen King novels and short stories: It, Insomnia, Bag of Bones, Dreamcatcher and 11/22/63
Barry Burns - 23 Minutes To Go: Commence Exuding The Opaque Vapour
For the last five years I have taken a sample from every video I watch on my laptop. As a tip of the hat to William Burroughs and Robert Anton Wilson I take the sample from the 23rd minute. Each sample is arranged and layered chronologically, constructing an aleatory narrative, a random DJ mix of dialogue, music and foley, a self portrait of viewing habits and memory. VHS rips merge with Blu Ray restorations, youtube binges mingle with abandoned box sets.
Barry Burns is not the bloke out of Mogwai, its a different, unsuccessful one. He is the co-manager of Radiophrenia and has used his immense power to give himself the highly coveted 5am slot.
https://akashicrecords1.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-cable-to-the-grave
Radiophrenia - a two-week exploration into current trends in sound and transmission arts. The station aims to promote radio as an art form, encouraging challenging and radical new approaches to the medium.