Oscillation—Mayday Radio Marathon
April 30 – May 2, 2020

This hour is dedicated to the cult of connection; allowing listeners, through an initiation rite, to connect to the invisible forces of radio waves. The dance of the spirit will give rise to disembodiment in order to reach the land of voices and travel in a space parallel to our perceptions.
Jonathan Frigeri is a sound artist, radio producer, sound collagist, and electronic musician. As a sound artist he is mainly interested in revealing hidden sonic layers of reality, to open spaces of imagination. In his work for radio he incorporates the creative process, the radio device and the space between the transmitter and the receiver, emphasising the space in between; between here and there.
http://jfz.zonoff.net/jfz/

Ecological Fiction is a sound-navigated story told through different times and environments. It is the tale of an animated, vibrating object that exploded because of stress-ridden capitalism. Some of its pieces are shattered to ancient time, in a mythical landscape where the Chinese Monk Shen Fu, and blessed animals have lived for over a century. The story focuses on the intersection between nature, power and humanity.
Liew Niyomkarn is a sound artist and musician based in Antwerp. Liew's work primarily focuses on sound synthesis, field recording, and storytelling through sound and text. Liew's work engages in collective knowledge and expresses the natural behaviour of sound through synthetic elements alongside found objects. Liew seeks to discover another way of being/living in association with the environment.
https://liewniyomkarn.com/

THE KITCHEN explores the kitchen as a space for cleaning, cooking and a playground for performance by adding objects and instructions to play each particular object. This piece was performed in the morning by Liew Niyomkarn and myself.
GOOD FOOD IS GOOD MOOD / WHAT’S GOOD / GOOD explores marketing slogans or taglines on cooking through dictation software and speech recognition. The generated text is voiced and altered in pitch and speed by various text-to-speech software. Related to the newly proposed subjects, the text are layered with field recordings and music. 
Antwerp-based sound artist and musician Inne Eysermans creates musical performances and spatial compositions, often in combination with text and/or (moving) image. Her works encompass synthesis, resampling techniques, field recordings, found sounds, objects and generative approaches to text.
https://soundcloud.com/inneeysermans/

Wave Debris takes place during sunset, a collaborative performance at-a-distance which modulates the frequencies emitted by the sun at this time. Taking as a starting point Elisabeth Alexander’s research in the field of radio astronomy, Diana Duta and Julia E Dyck attempt to illuminate other phenomena which are always present yet not always perceived; phenomena that mediate, disclose and dissolve; that dust. The modulated frequencies are blended with field recordings, feedback and several readings of Ron Siliman’s Sunset Debris (2014).
Diana Duta works with visual, aural, and nearly-verbal language through performance, sound composition, and writing. Her work relies gently on the translation and re-interpretation of existing materials for generating new meaning. Duta’s most recent project 'Jambes' is a recording studio commissioning new work by artists interested in experimenting with sound and voice.
Julia E Dyck is a Canadian sound artist and radio producer working in performance, composition, installation, and transmission. She’s interested in the possible relations between the body, consciousness, and technology.
http://dianaduta.com/
http://jaaambes.be/
http://juliaedyck.com/

Latitudes is a project in which Stijn Demeulenaere collects field recordings from all over the world, subsequently shaping them into soundscape compositions and live sets. For this occasion, he will mix his own recordings with recordings and compositions by other field recording artists, and interlace them with samples of testimonies about the act of listening, collected from sound artists who inspire him.
Stijn Demeulenaere is a sound artist and field recordist. He creates installations, soundscapes, performances, and collaborates with dance and theatre makers. He researches the relation between place, identity, sound, and the phenomenology of listening.
http://www.stijndemeulenaere.be/

In the line of sight, as in nodes redistributing, transceiving in the eye of the satellite. Service Identities located. CQ , c'est qui? seek you.
Planète Concrète is an open pink noise universe staged by strange/loving creatures. Making new prostheses. Writing lyrics, playing a beat, trying a movement with GIY (gather it your self) self-built instruments. Participants: Kippenberger, Iris, Ground Ivy3.0, Poubelle, Av-net, Vinkenhart, Polly Petrol, A.Z, gender funky fuck, Moon Virgo, and all previous starred.
http://ooooo.be/planeteconcrete/
https://soundcloud.com/planeteconcrete/

en dépit de fortes similitudes was produced by the four participants by exchanging sound files over the internet, inaugurating a new working method for the collective, with results that may or may not sound different to the listeners' ears.
martiensgohome is a collective working since 1996 in the domain of sound art. While the crew has changed through the years, they have maintained an uninterrupted presence on the air at Radio Campus Bruxelles, where they produce a new one-hour show each week, improvising with electronic textures, digital abstractions, field-recordings, music instruments and domestic appliances. Currently martiensgohome are Jonathan Poliart, Grégory Duby, Roland Wauters, and Benoit Deuxant
http://mgh.constantvzw.org/
https://soundcloud.com/martiensgohome/

A musical ode to all heroic duty, blended with a repetitive whip to resolve you in the rhythm of your homely nightshift.
Kim Laugs is an artist fascinated by the relation of space, light and acoustics, and also has affinity with technology, design and functional art. For the last 3 years he is Brussel-based where he does freelance work for e.g. Laugs bouwmeesters and Rotor (DC). In 2018, Laugs started the cassette label IKI GAGA with Johnny Haway.
https://www.mixcloud.com/kimkong-il/
https://ikigaga.bandcamp.com/

< strikes > is protest trance music. Inspired by the sonic use of pots and pans in the Chilean social movement, Strikes was first a collection of recordings, made one encounter after another in Valparaíso: each person was invited, according to his or her own rhythm and energy, to bang on an object chosen for its sonic or symbolic qualities. The piece explores the polyphony that results from the superposition of these pulsations, and the serendipitous multiplicity of rhythms that emerge.
pali meursault is a sound artist, composer and sound designer. Environmental sound recording is central in his work. His electroacoustic research takes different shapes: compositions for records, radio works, installations or performances.
http://palimeursault.net/

For 60 minutes, we will focus on public space sounds during Covid-19-confinement time. If the sound environment of the common spaces has changed, so too has our listening. We hear other things, we discover other forms of life. Here we propose a circular travel around a padded capital.
Soundmap contributors : Rik De Bruycker, Philippe Delchambre, Flavien Gillié, Omar Hobo, Séverine Janssen, Federica Palmieri, Nicolas Pommier, Simon Terre Solaire
BNA/BBOT is a Brussels-based organisation dedicated to the past, present and future sound memory of Brussels. Since 2000, BNA-BBOT generates a history and memory of the city through the stories and memories of its inhabitants. They have compiled closed to 20,000 items of sound data that form the history of the city. A kind of documentative experience over a very long course, which is not only intended to capture the voices and sounds that pass, but to also create multiple forms that can be heard and returned to the city. BNA-BBOT is today composed of Séverine Janssen, Flavien Gillié and Omar Hobo.
http://www.bna-bbot.be/Public/

An oral/aural exploration of the creative work, materiality, practice, and history of the four individuals who compose the collective Sacred Realism. Although their work as individuals is rather varied and unique, there is something similar (or not?) at the core as to why they each chose to become musicians. Through a threaded conversation and collective listening they (we) will try to understand further what the core of the collective is by each asking the other some questions about it and the work we do.
Sacred Realism is an independent music collective producing scores, recordings, and concerts. It formed through the friendship and mutual respect of Andrew Lafkas, Bryan Eubanks, and Catherine Lamb in 2011 in New York City following the desire to support each others work and initiate something self sustaining. Rebecca Lane joined later in 2017 in Berlin after the three others had eventually migrated there.
http://www.sacredrealism.org/
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As part of her ongoing exploration of “gendered listening” as a feminist tool, Anna Raimondo interviews Brazilian sound artist, performer and composer Mariana Carvalho. In her practice, Carvalho uses her own body as a filter, as a musical tool that acts as a membrane between her internal perceptions and what she shares with a public. By referring particularly to he work Me alimento de voces in which she asks people to sing into her mouth, she deals with the possibility of feeding herself on voices and otherness (voces in Spanish means “voices”, você in Portuguese means “You”).
Anna Raimondo seeks for encounters, reflecting and questioning multiple and gender perspectives within and on life. It is a journey into social diversity creating possible areas of interaction. Her method is flexible and variable, accepting the accidental and the unforeseeable. Her process enables her to be part of the exchange and aims at making her art a meeting place. She is running a practice based PhD between ARBA and ULB in Bruxelles: New genders of listening: voices, bodies and territories.
http://annaraimondo.com/

Aligning with the topic of this radio-festival, nine artist-organisers from various places in the world speak about their work, their motivation behind it, and how it parallels with their artistic practices: Ryoko Akama (AME, Huddersfield/GB), Danae Stefanou & Yannis Kotsonis (Syros Sound Meetings/GR), Bonnie Jones (High Zero Festival, Baltimore and Techné/US), Mark Vernon (Radiophrenia, Glasgow/GB), Maria Komarova (Performensk, Minsk/BY), Michael Idehall (Ljudkonstgalleriet, Gothenburg/SE), Claudia Wegener (Radio Continental Drift), Vera Cavallin (SMOG, Brussels/BE), Laurent Güdel (Kopfhörer, Biel/Bienne/CH).
Julia Eckhardt is a musician and curator in the field of the sonic arts. She is a founding member of the artistic team of Q-O2 workspace in Brussels. As a performer of composed and improvised music she has collaborated with numerous artists, and extensively with Éliane Radigue. She has been lecturing and publishing about topics such as sound, gender and public space.

Since 2019, Laurent Güdel has visited and worked in several electronic music studios across Europe: EMS Studio in Stockholm; Radio Belgrad, KSYME in Athens; and Willem Twee in Den Bosch near Eindhoven. Each have different histories with roots going back to the 1950s and earlier. Through a series of interviews, exploration of archives and musical creation, he seeks to understand the political, economic, technological and institutional issues related to the emergence of a post-war modern sound. Is early electronic music a “state music"?
Laurent Güdel is an artist and musician living and working in Switzerland. Listening to complexity is the focus of his work. The auditory exploration in Güdel’s works is achieved through collaborative and transdisciplinary practice. His medium and approaches vary depending on the collaborations. It includes installations, videos, live performances, audio or print publications and multi-channel compositions and diffusions.
https://laurentgudel.tumblr.com/

A sample of archives from the early years of Montreal based, techno-feminist, community radio show the XX Files. Initiated by bilingual feminist artist-run centre, Studio XX, the show first aired in 1996 and continues to broadcast every Wednesday on CKUT 90.3FM. Topics discussed in this selection include ICT activism, Napster, the millennium bug, JenniCam, and accessing high speed cable internet.
Julia E Dyck is a Canadian sound artist and radio producer working in performance, composition, installation, and transmission. She’s interested in the possible relations between the body, consciousness, and technology.
https://studioxx.org/en/productions/xx-files-radio/
http://juliaedyck.com

Two interviews with people working in and thinking about informational access, autonomous publishing, contagious education. Sean Dockray is an artist and initiator of knowledge-sharing platforms, The Public School and Aaaaarg, both of which use sharing technologies to propose models of learning and accessing information parallel or alternative to institutional education. Brooke Palmieri is a historian, publisher, and rare book antiquarian. In their 2013-2017 PhD, Compelling Reading: The Circulation of Quaker Texts, Palmieri details a relation between Quaker methods of text distribution (crucially tied to the early printing presses) and metaphors of the plague, used to describe a spread of information seen by the Church as uncontrolled, contagious and potentially deadly. At stake in both interviews is the possibility of a (potentially insurgent) public defined by the ways that it transmits texts.
Henry Andersen is an artist and organiser living and working in Brussels. He produces performances, objects, sound-files and printed matter. Henry is part of the artistic team at Q-O2. Since 2016, he is one half of the semi-fictional reading group Slow Reading Club, with Bryana Fritz.
http://aaaaarg.fail/
https://monoskop.org/The_Public_School
https://www.campbooks.biz/

The Cultural Diversity Dialogue Project is conceived by the African international institute for peace (AFIIP). It is an artistic structure dealing with poetry, story-telling, theatre and music in multiple languages. Its creators come from Sudan, Cameroon, Vietnam, Turkey, Tunisia and all now live in Belgium. AFIIP is a project for cultural diversity, coexistence and dialogue aiming to spread the culture of peace, creativity, and solidarity, and to strengthen the artistic spirit.
African International Institute for Peace (AFIIP) is an artistic structure dealing with poetry, story-telling, theatre and music in multiple languages. Its creators come from Sudan, Cameroon, Vietnam, Turkey, Tunisia and all now live in Belgium. AFIIP is a project for cultural diversity, coexistence and dialogue aiming to spread the culture of peace, creativity, and solidarity, and to strengthen artistic spirit and creativity.
https://www.afiipd.org/

Various radio makers speak about their connection to this historical and continuously changing medium, their ways of making radio: what to send, and what to receive, their motivations, the circumstances, their relation to the network and the audience. With: Lale Rodgarkia-Dara (Radio Helsinki/Radia), Fausto Cáceres (Shirley & Spinoza Radio), Anna Steiden & Rosa Danner (female:pressure/Radio Orange), Tommy De Nys (Dublab/Radio Panik), Jon Panther (Radio Diffusion), Patrick Bodarwé (Radio Benelux), Jean-François Henrion (Radio Campus), and more…
Caroline Profanter is a composer and performer with a background in electroacoustic and acousmatic music. She combines sounding objects and field recordings with digital and analogue electronics, and explores the grey zones in between. Collaborates frequently with other artists, at the crossroad to installation, film and radio art. Lives and works in Brussels and is part of the artistic team of Q-O2.
http://cprofanter.klingt.org

An hour journey of recorded sounds, media extracts and music.
Roberta Miss aka +Nurse+ is an artist and DJ who lives and works in Brussels. Her work crosses printed media, textiles and sound. In her mixes, she layers multiple sound sources (vinyls, mp3, field recordings, samples from News media) creating a narrative sound journey, often related to current topics, and intended for digital/radio platforms or for the dance floor. Roberta Miss is also a member of the Poxcat collective (with sisters Juliette Romero, Eve Decampo, and Marouchka Payen) which aims to promote women in music by organising parties and hosting a monthly radio program on The Word Radio.
https://www.mixcloud.com/DjNurse/
http://www.mixnes.com
http://www.poxcat.com
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DJ [Marx&Engels] are all over the map and travel forwards and backwards in time to free your ears and your ass with a vertical, horizontal, and diagonal mix of vinyl, cassette, CD, mini-disc & mp3s from the 1920s to the 2050s.
DJ [Marx&Engels] is a construct of artificial intelligence & decaying flesh who escaped Frank Oz’s laboratory during the summer of love. Their podcast on the Dark Web was mistakenly voted “#1 mindfulness podcast" in “Influenza Aficionado Magazine” in March 2020. William Gibson calls them “a great Dub from cyberspace”.

In 'sub text labour' contingent editing protocols are devised and applied to existing texts. It is a technique for producing new writing from something latent in the original representation. Here are two instances, one textual, one vocal.
Eleanor Ivory Weber lives in Brussels and works as an art teacher, editor and writer.
http://jacket2.org/poems/it-subject
http://divided.online

A radio-phonic rant by Marcus Bergner arising out a long held obsession with the literary phenomena known as the chapbook. Including the rendition of phonetic chapbooks with sound poems, errant readings, and other soundings including a ten minute piece from Alex Mendizabal in Berlin and new chapbook from Myrian Van Imschoot in Brussels
Marcus Bergner is an artist and filmmaker living in Brussels. As part of the Post Collective he is currently in residency at the Kunsthal Gent.
http://oralsite.be/pages/Clanguage
http://www.innersense.com.au/mif/bergner.html

* The future of communication—alienation—downstage.
* Parametrical sound and movement manipulation of the projected images using custom-developed interfaces.
* Inputs do not necessarily lead to expected outputs.
* Causes do not have predetermined consequences.
* No limits. No borders.
Lázara Rosell Albear is a Cuban-Belgian artist with a cross-medial practice, ranging from the research of sound and performance to the production of events and films. She explores movement, migration, transformation, interactivity and its effects on the human condition. The advance in technologies has brought us “new” means to work with, broadening also the traditional means of dance, music, and theatre. Rather than choosing between these different media, she strives for a contrapuntal togetherness and total immersion–both on the inside and outside.
https://congrisdetachedlab.bandcamp.com/

We went to the forest, despite entry being forbidden because of the current pandemic, to record communities of species while the noise of humans was reduced. These conditions also encouraged us to make sound interventions, playing with objects such as giant piles of resonant wood. During an improvised live session, we will mix these recorded sounds to stream them for the festival.
Edyta Jarząb is an improviser, working with voice and electronics, field recordings and deep listening practice as forms of sonic activism. Her works embrace compositions for experimental theatre, dance and films, and for the radio. She is one of the founding members of community Radio Kapita? in Warsaw.
Paweł Kreis is an electroacoustic engineer working in the fields of electronics, acoustics and sound perception. His interest also includes physics, systems, contacts and psychoacoustics. He works on self-designed tools and experiments with music, based on abstract rhythms.

Voices heard together in anger or laughter are like weather systems in collision, swirling together through echoing space they are loath to share, bouncing around in a cloudy zone.
Mika Oki is a visual artist, DJ and producer. With a background in sculpture and electro-acoustic music, she explores the notion of intangible spaces and emotional landscapes through AV installations, music and mixes.
https://soundcloud.com/mikaoki1

An amalgam of more or less divergent sound & word which asks as much to be backgrounded as to be otherwise. Meanwhile, take a moment to read this https://blog.usejournal.com/manufacturing-normalcy-7633259f63b5
Lendl Barcelos is a ,kataphysician and artist who is often heard laughing. Hen has published with Urbanomic, re:press, The Wire, MIT Press, amongst others. Lendl DJs, works with the choreographers Linda Blomqvist & Sandra Lolax, conjures demons with Ameen Mettawa & Amy Ireland, and dilates sense(-making) with Marc Couroux, Valentina Desideri & Myriam Lefkowitz.
http://lendl.ca
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Guided by owls and flutes, the listener is ushered through a night of rivers and parades, new wave symphonies and micro-house soccer games. Many of the materials already have a mix-like quality. By reworking them, we get a remix in the form of a mix, if not an invisible composition hiding in the trees.
Juniper Foam is a project by Gary Schultz, director of the concept label, Care Of Editions. It seeks out new forms of authorship informed by the world of mixes and microstreams.
https://www.careof.co/

Live, crowd sourced broadcast of the sounds of daybreak from around the globe. Reveil brings together microphones from open windows, rooftops, gardens, forests, underwater and electromagnetic sites in an annual survey of planetary soundscapes. Beginning in London and travelling west, it follows the a wave of sound that continuously circles the earth, completing a full circuit over 24 hours.
Soundcamp is part of Acoustic Commons, a Small Cooperation project funded in part by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Partners are FON (Cumbria), Locus Sonus (Aix-Marseille), CONA (Ljubljana), TEI/HMU (Crete) and Cyberforest (Tokyo)
http://soundtent.org/reveil/

A 30 minute mix of music from/for/about the great outdoors, outside(s), and outsiders.
Henry Andersen is an artist and organiser living and working in Brussels. He produces performances, objects, sound-files and printed matter. Henry is part of the artistic team at Q-O2. Since 2016, he is one half of the semi-fictional reading group Slow Reading Club, with Bryana Fritz.

Thirty international feminist contributors, individuals or collectives, were asked to send a short recording on fascism and the importance of feminist struggle against it. The multi-lingual collection of recordings is scored by sound sculptor AGF. Intro by Angela Dimitrakaki. First broadcasted on Documenta14 / savvyfunk radio on 28 June 2017. With: AGF, Cecilia Vicuña, Angela Dimitrakaki, Shubigi Rao, The Organisation of United African Women and more.
Antye Greie aka AGF or poemproducer is a vocalist, musician, composer, producer and new media artist. She has been exploring speech and spoken word combined with electronic music as well as working on sound installations, pop songs, calligraphy and her website poemproducer.com.
http://antyegreie.com/

Elisa Ferrari’s contribution combines aural research about popular medicine, healing devotions and superstitions from Valtrompia, the valley where she grew up in northern Italy. It also includes excerpts from a sound diary she has kept since returning to Italy on March 13th, 2020, the first week of social isolation enforced by the Italian government to control the covid19 pandemic.
Synthesized sounds and mixing by John Brennan.
Elisa Ferrari works with text, image, and sound. To consider acts and implications of retrieval, she produces projects that manifest as installations, sound walks, artist books, and performance, often addressing or incorporating archival fragments. She is one of the hosts of Soundscape on Co-op Radio in Vancouver.
https://elisaferrari.net/
http://www.coopradio.org

FAXEN—Firedrake (radio edit): Firedrake (radio edit) examines attempts by the Chinese government to censor foreign short wave radio stations (also called jamming) and methods to avoid these interferences by manipulating radios. By constantly playing an hour long piece of Chinese folk music entitled “Firedrake”, radio stations such as Voice of America, Radio Free Asia and BBC World Service are effectively muted by Chinese authorities. Here, the materials required for anti-jamming antennas are the starting point for an acoustic improvisation mixed with excerpts from an interview on jamming activities of the Chinese government, recordings from shortwave radio stations and the original Chinese Firedrake broadcast.
Alice Pamuk—Ylas Alas: A simple piece based on the homonymy between the English word “Alas” and the Finnish “Ylas Alas”, meaning “up and down”. The interpretation was performed by Meri Niemi in Turku, Finland.
Since 2004, Clemens Mairhofer, Lucas Norer and Sebastian Six work together in the artist group FAXEN. Acoustic experiments in connection with items of everyday life, sculptural assemblages and the physical element of sound are the main aspects of the group’s musical and visual compositions. The works of the artist group FAXEN deal with moments where noise becomes music and the difference between hearing and active listening. Alongside their artistic work, FAXEN run the artist-run gallery bb15 in Linz, Austria.
Alice Pamuk is a visual artist based in Brussels. She has a double degree in Japanese and visual art. She typically works with sound, video, and text. Her works often unfold from research into sound and music. Recently she has worked with and on the voice, both as a tool and as an object of observation.
http://faxen-collective.net
http://bb15.at
https://soundcloud.com/q-o2/alice-pamuk

Etäisyyksiä is a sound-based bilingual radio essay about distances. Texts in Finnish and English are merged with fragments of sound, offering a subjective glimpse at what is nearby and what is looming in the distance. How far is still within reach?
Olli Aarni is an experimental musician and sound artist from Finland. He has released over 20 records in four continents, performed in various European countries and Japan, and worked in the fields of sound poetry and radio. His approach to sound is constantly in flux, ranging from electronic feedback to traditional instruments, and from language-based sounds to field-recording.
https://olliaarni.com/
https://olliaarni.bandcamp.com/

As part of her ongoing exploration of “gendered listening” as a feminist tool, Anna Raimondo interviews Canadian sound artist, performer and composer Erin Gee. By articulating materialist feminist strategies around digital tools through the use of her voice and body, Erin Gee re-apropriates and combines supposedly “masculine” tools with a hyper-feminine aesthetic. As part of an ongoing research into ASMR, Gee explores different languages for encouraging intimacy with the audience.
Anna Raimondo seeks for encounters, reflecting and questioning multiple and gender perspectives within and on life. It is a journey into social diversity creating possible areas of interaction. Her method is flexible and variable, accepting the accidental and the unforeseeable. Her process enables her to be part of the exchange and aims at making her art a meeting place. She is running a practice based PhD between ARBA and ULB in Bruxelles: New genders of listening: voices, bodies and territories.
http://annaraimondo.com/

Dental is a sound piece that is part of a series where I try to develop my current interests regarding presence and absence as forces that manifest through listening. This broadcast at Oscillation features processed recordings of sea stones, where I explore the concept of duration in terms of time perception, memory, and the polymorph materialities of mental images concerning sound.
Joaquín Gutiérrez Hadid is a sound artist working with installation, video and found composition. His work explores intensities through the broad realm of listening, with an interest on developing this practice across disciplines. His aesthetic research, mainly site-specific, often involves memory and absence as key figures to articulate potential relationships between experience and parallel realities. He lives and works in Buenos Aires.
https://jgutierrezhadid.art/
https://vimeo.com/350260882

The piece was born by collecting vocal materials from several interviews with acquaintances and strangers met by chance in the city of Brussels, in July 2019. From this, an archive of voices was born, like a pool to draw on to shape the fragile incompleteness of human beings, the impossibility of having a full view of ourselves, the sudden inadequacy of language to decipher the perception of self. With tracks from Dysnomia, by Dawn of Midi.
Gea Brown (Alessandra Tempesti) is an Italian curator and sound artist, with a background in art history. Her research, coming from a DJing experience, revolves around the attempt to find a balance between the meaningful and narrative element of the spoken language and a sound dimension, without one dominating the other.
https://soundcloud.com/gea-brown/

Live at Petersburg Art Space, Berlin 29/07/2019
Schoeps CMC[Heijnis]-MK2 + KA40 (Stereo AB)
Sonosax SX-PR (modified)
Sonosax SX-R4+
AA-REC is dedicated to recording performances of Electroacoustic, Improvised and New musics of particular merit. It is motivated by the belief that a recording is not simply the documentation of an event, but is an artefact of craft, of context, and has it's own autonomous value. AA-REC presents these recordings in the form of a collection, that will be updated periodically with new entries and special collaborations.
http://www.aa-rec.net/

Digging in his radio souvenirs, Michael Kreitz of Meakusma came across an early 90s radio show from the now-defunct radio station Rewi, based in a small town in Eastern Belgium. He fondly remembers having to stand in one of the corners of his older brother's room, with the antenna in his hands, to be able to get a clear signal. The radio show was hosted and created by Bernd Kaulmann & Marc Schumacher with the musical input of Sascha Todd. What you will hear here is a digitised tape of one of the radio shows, a historical document of disorderly youth looking for their own identity in the rural areas of the German speaking community in Belgium. Recorded then and available again now, 28 years later.
Meakusma is an annual music festival, celebrating the unclassifiable through music, installations and more. The organisation has also been releasing records, organising events and workshops for many years, it is active in and around Eupen (BE).
http://www.meakusma.org

Jordon Topiel-Paul Masking Study #2. Live at Petersberg Art Space, Berlin. 20/01/2019
4>2 mix: Line feed, Neumann KM 84i (snare), Schoeps CMC[Hiejnis]-MK2H + KA40 (Stereo AB)
Sonosax SX-R4+
AA-REC is dedicated to recording performances of Electroacoustic, Improvised and New musics of particular merit. It is motivated by the belief that a recording is not simply the documentation of an event, but is an artefact of craft, of context, and has it's own autonomous value. AA-REC presents these recordings in the form of a collection, that will be updated periodically with new entries and special collaborations.
http://www.aa-rec.net

A soundtrack of the sonic manifestations of surveillance culture, data collection, and privacy laws as heard in hip hop, sound art, and online. Compiled by, and accompanied by a conversation between, sound artist Jasmine Guffond and data and law researcher DJ Soeur Veillance aka Gloria González Fuster. A version of this playlist was originally presented by The Wire, in February 2020.
Jasmine Guffond is an artist and composer working at the interface of social, political and technical infrastructures. Her practice spans live performance, recording, sound installation and a custom made browser add-on. Through the sonification of data she addresses the potential for sound to engage with contemporary political questions.
Gloria González Fuster aka DJ Soeur Veillance is a Research Professor and Co-Director of the Law, Science, Technology and Society Research Group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, investigating data laws and policies, and most notably data protection.
Jasmine Guffond in conversation with DJ Soeur Veillance aka Gloria González Fuster
http://www.jasmineguffond.com/
https://glgonzalezfuster.blog/

This feature was created around conversations with diverse artists, musicians, and organisers based in Colombia and active in different experimental fields including electroacoustic music, noise music, circuit bending, sound art, hip hop, queer club culture, and electronic music. "Como crear de la nada?" - How to create from nothing?
With testimonies and contributions of: Ana María Romano (Festival En Tiempo Real), Juan Betancurth (El Parche), Carlos Bonil (Posfordismo), José Marulanda (Pildoras Tapes), Jacqueline Nova (Musica Nueva), Diego Cuellar Sarmiento (Las Hermanas), Laura Katic and Ximena Delat (Caperooza/Circuito Sonoro Laboratorio), Lady Hunter and Cobra Tamara (House of Tupamaras).
Stephanie Quirola is an Ecuadorian-American multidisciplinary artist based in Brussels. Since 2019 she has been researching shamans, rituals and symbiotic relationships. Her work explores her own relationship to colonisation, questions of identity, power structures, everyday culture, exhaustion and multi-sensorial perception.
Caroline Profanter is a composer and performer with a background in electroacoustic and acousmatic music. She combines sounding objects and field recordings with digital and analog electronics, and explores the grey zones in between. Collaborates frequently with other artists, at the crossroad to installation, film and radio art. Lives and works in Brussels and is part of the artistic team of Q-O2.
http://stephaniequirola.com
http://cprofanter.klingt.org

Un soffio da casa is a sonic exploration of domestic spaces where, instead of being used to establish a soundscape, field recordings are disrupted and abstracted in collage. The specificity of the captured sounds is blurred through the juxtapositon of inner and outer worlds and views. A breath from home.
JD Zazie is a sound artist, field recordist and avant-turntablist. She performs regularly solo and in collaboration with Reanimation Orchestra, Heidrun Schramm and Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø. She broadcasts monthly on ColaboRadio and on Reboot.fm and is the artistic director of “MuseRuole - women in experimental music” festival.
Mat Pogo, born in Rome in 1970 and based in Berlin, is an experimental vocalist, improviser, producer and comic artist. He is a founding member of the Burp Enterprise collective and runs the related label Burp Publications. He’s a founder of experimental unit Jealousy Party active since 1995 and he’s involved in several projects in the fields of free improvisation, noise and avant rock.
http://www.burpenterprise.com/burp/units/penates
https://jdzazie.tumblr.com

The Archive of Loops is an expanding archive of sound improvisations and the source material for compositions that play along with the artist’s films and installations. Sound is generated through a multitude of sources layered by looper and effect pedals, playing with notions of order, disorder and collective memory formation. This open recording session will include live sampling and manipulation of the live digital broadcast of selected international radio stations.
Teresa Cos explores repetition as the basic mode of contemporary life; chance and improvisation as agents to disrupt it. Her work encompasses audiovisual installations, experimental music performances and visual scores.
http://www.teresacos.com

A live-to-tape assemblage of sounding objects, pre-recorded sound material and electronics. Someone, once, tried to live as a hermit on an island in a stone-crowded archipelago.
Ahti & Ahti are Marja Ahti and Niko-Matti Ahti. The duo combines recordings of spaces and events, creatures and objects, carefully aligned in an associative way. Both of them have made music for a long time in different constellations and are currently part of the Himera work group organising concerts in Turku, Finland. Their debut album Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear? was released in March 2020.
https://ahtiahti.com/
Libretto translation into English

This is a time-specific set. I started to record what happens during days stuck in my house, started making a sort of sound diary of this forced lockdown, working on something minimal, to exorcise it somehow too. Recording gestures, dialogues from films and series, the sound outside in the night and so on, slightly processing it on my devices. These are windows, opened and then closed on fragments of my daily life during these dark times.
Giovanni Lami is a sound artist and musician working within soundscape and sound-ecology boundaries since 2009/10. His qualifications range from photography and visual arts to a degree in food technology, through to a wide range of professional experience. All this has sharpened his analytical view, which for some time he has focussed on the potential of sound. His research is related with the study of resonant surfaces, degradation processes, the limit/interferences of magnetic tape and each device used to record or reproduce a sound.
http://www.giovannilami.com

a place, natural light, where the performer, the performers like to be
a time
(sounds)
performed by Masahiko Okura, Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshiya Tsunoda at Tamagawa Ryokuchi, Tokyo, May 14, 2006. Special thanks to Taku Sugimoto and Taku Unami.
Released on Skiti
Manfred Werder, composer and performer, is wandering through the abundance. His scores feature words and sentences found in poetry, philosophy and the world. Earlier works include stück (1998), a 4000 page score whose nonrecurring and intermittent performative realisation has been ongoing since December 1997.
http://manfred-werder.blogspot.com/