Art's Birthday 2018 – 1,000,055 Years of Art

In 1963 the French Fluxus artist, Robert Filliou, declared January 17 to be the 1,000,000th birthday of art which for some decades now has been celebrated worldwide. As in the previous years, in 2018 artists all over the world organized a networked birthday party for art and exchanged presents for art. Some of them are presented on air.

1) Radio RainFall
Written and performed by Robin Rimbaud (Scanner)

This piece was composed entirely live using a Eurorack modular synth system, utilising live radio signals from the Befaker ARRadio and processing them through the system, in particular an Intellijel Rainmaker, so the simplest sources were then looped, altered and changed in a very organic fashion. When making this I had in mind the work of David Tudor and John Cage, and their use of radio signals always makes me think of Kunstradio! There was a sense of magic as this piece simply appeared in real time, with little preparation or structure.

Robin Rimbaud performed this piece for the 30th anniversary of Ö1 Kunstradio.

2) Tapeloping : 30th Anniversary radio stream by absolute value of noise

A generative radio stream for Art's Birthday 2018 in a short version for Ö1 Kunstradio by Absolute Value of Noise and everyone who sent in sounds (credits below). Imagine a collection of 30 tapeloops, each stretched down the hallway for 30 feet. They wrap around microphone stands, door knobs, and coat racks. There are moments of silence on each loop, and moments of extreme noise. Each sound has been sent from afar by a different artist. Some sounds are abstract, some are carefully composed, some are made hastily with a cheap microphone and recorder. The loops spin and combine in different ways, creating an endless stream of lo-fi + hi-fi + highly-considered + lighty-considered noises.

Absolute Value of Noise is both my artist-alias and the name of the first radio-art show I did on CITR FM in Vancouver, starting in January 1988. When I first started the radio show, people would drop by with cassette tapes and noise-makers of various types. Everything would make it into the mix in some way.

This 30th Anniversary stream "tapeloping" works with the idea of people dropping by with their sounds. Everything is distressed/mutated/remixed and recombined but in a way that keeps some sense of its original form. The sounds in the stream are from people that I've collaborated with or who've inspired me over the years. I've been lucky enough to meet and work with a lot of amazing people, and here are a few of them - spanning the years from 1988 to the end of 2017

Links:
Art’s Birthday Geschenke Pool
Tapeloping

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