SONNTAG, 4. February 2007, 23:05. - 23:45, Ö1
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KUNSTRADIO - RADIOKUNST




 

100 Years of Radio - The Return of Wireless Imagination
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» I: Birthday Loop - Santa Barbara
» II: Art's Birthday Party – Live from Madrid (RNE)

In mid-January, Kunstradio organized and hosted a radio special comprising a three-hour live broadcast on the occasion of Art’s Birthday, and a two-day symposium, both focusing on “100 Years of Radio – The Return of Wireless Imagination”. In order to give an impression on the great variety of contributions and materials collected and submitted on the topic, that alone due to the vastness of contents couldn’t go on air in total, as well as to present the rhizome of the existing network, Kunstradio has made a selection of works to be presented here, again.


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Birthday Loop


by August Black and John Hopkins
/ Santa Barbara


“While you can probably declare history on something that doesn't make a sound, it is a little more difficult to declare radio on inaudible objects. Assuming we've all heard silence before; assuming there is a beginning of radio; assuming a history of radio is both audible and understandable – then there must be a birthday party! But how do you package a present for radio? How do you open them, what's inside? To solve this dilemma, John Hopkins and August Black built a loop in the network to measure, explore and examine the parts of a birthday that make up a whole. But, since you can't have a cake and eat it too, it is most unlikely that the two artists will answer any of the dire questions.”

August Black und John Hopkins

Beside a live feed coming in from the network, the artists prepared and used some of their own material for “Birthday Loop”. John Hopkins played a lot of his own recordings, including "Happy Birthday" in Icelandic, while August Black mixed the loop and played raw image files as audio.


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Art's Birthday Party – Live from Madrid (RNE)

by Carlos Hurtado and Ignacio Álvarez Bordoy

The cellular telephone is no more only a telephone: it is sound, fixed and moving images, text and interactivity, and is even used artistically generating objects of art. Carlos Hurtado and Ignacio Álvarez Bordoy describe their work as sound art: the technological soundscape, that is the basis for their composition, is like a puzzle of sonic moments that were selected and sent to them by their friends. “It is a choral piece that allows several listeners to become emitters thanks to the transformations of the radio waves: A small game in which the telephone becomes a radio and radio becomes part of the telephone; where the listener becomes an emitter and the emitter is also a listener.” Thus, on a small scale, the artists sketch an acoustic map of Europe.


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