Every Time A Ear di Soun
documenta 14 Radio Program, on air from April 8 to September 17, 2017.

Every Time A Ear di Soun is a documenta 14 Radio Program in collaboration with Deutschlandfunk Kultur. (Curator: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Co-curator: Marcus Gammel, Team: Tina Klatte, Maximilian Netter, Elena Agudio)

Marcus Gammel about the project (german ony):

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The project explores sonority and auditory phenomena such as voice, sound, music, and speech as mediums for writing counterhegemonic histories. Every Time A Ear di Soun reflects on how the sonic impacts subjectivities and spaces, especially through the medium of radio.

For the duration of documenta 14, eight radio stations in Greece, Cameroon, Colombia, Lebanon, Brazil, Indonesia, the United States, and Germany constitute a worldwide art exhibition on air. The radio program live streams on FM in Kassel, online from the documenta 14 website, and on shortwave around the world. The program punctuates each station’s usual programming in their local language with art pieces for radio commissioned by documenta 14, archival material, and broadcast selections from documenta 14’s Public Programs for four hours daily. Every Time A Ear di Soun is also accompanied by live acts addressing issues related to the phenomenology of the sonorous, the sonic as medium for historical narration, Frantz Fanon’s concept of radio as medium of resistance, Rudolf Arnheim’s concept of the imagery of the ear, and more.…

And 32 radioworks by international artits have been commissioned. One commission was given to the turntablist and DJ Maria Chavez, who developed the piece “Between a Gunshot and a Whisper” based on her record archive, which include sound effect records for radio play.

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Photo: Luisa Santacesaria

Between a Gunshot and a Whisper by Maria Chavez

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The auditory space between a gunshot and whisper is brought into play through dissected records of sound effects from around the world, which were originally intended for radio playback in the 1960s. Between a Gunshot and a Whisper makes use of forgotten samples, compounding them into vignettes of abstract histories of sonority.

Special Contributor: Jordi Wheeler (Intro organ)

Short interview with Maria Chavez:

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Links:
Every Time A Ear di Soun
Kunstradio@Hybrid Workspace, documenta X
Audiothek@documenta 8

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