Since approx. 4 years, a gaze of my sound-art researches is directed upon the device that now days left behind and moved to the realm of media-archeology - an electromagnetic switch aka RELAY. (c) Aude François and Patrick K.-H. Pragmatically considered by its function only - to execute a choice between streams of electricity - its sounds has always been ignored as a redundant though inevitable side-effect, except rare examples from car industry. In fact the variety of relays presents a broaden palette of percussive as well as tonal sounds of a special quality, it can also be arranged and classified just like words in dictionary. No surprise that the framework of the radio piece immediately refers to specific radio-relays as an instrumentation. Links: http://drawnsound.org/sonicrelayframeworks.html http://drawnsound.org/sonicrelay_live.html Austrian Cultural Forum Moscow IMA – Institut für Medienarchäologie Floating Soundgallery The New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theater, St. Petersburg Dark Sounds in White Nights Festival Deutsch / English |