Sonntag, 27. Juni 2021, 23:03 - 0:00, Ö1

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RADIOKUNST - KUNSTRADIO






Reality Triangle / Wirklichkeitsdreieck - LIVE

by August Black and Rupert Huber
with live contributions by: Anna Friz, Jen Kutler, Betsey Biggs and Tom Sherman

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In a live radio performance, the US artist August Black and the Austrian composer Rupert Huber embark on a cross-border search for sounds in "Reality Triangle / Wirklichkeitsdreieck". Via custom software by August Black that allows high-quality and low-latency streaming, three realities form a triangle live on air on Kunstradio.

With August Black contributing from Boulder, Colorado and Rupert Huber playing live from the Hörspielstudio of the Funkhaus in Vienna, Black transmits "Sons Concrètes" of his "real" environment in defined situations while Huber creates an acoustic environment that conceptually, sonically and musically correlate with Black's transmissions. Connecting into this triangle as the third element are Anna Friz, Jen Kutler, Betsey Biggs and Tom Sherman who will join every 10 minutes with spoken word, environmental sounds, or other sonic deliverables.

This reality triangle can be considered a global tele-acoustic check-in of our distanced lives during the coronavirus period. While we have always lived together at a distance, with my reality here and theirs there, the current form of distancing that has emerged in the wake of the pandemic is new. It is a distance that is no longer framed by proximity, but perhaps by familiarity, simultaneity, and resonance. It is a distance that is flat as a screen, turned on in an instant, sometimes tiring, sometimes life-giving, but undeniably part of our daily routine.

The resulting Wirklichkeitsdreieck / Reality Triangle will be broadcast live and exclusively on Ö1 Kunstradio. Through the transmission, an independent radiophonic reality space is created in the moment of listening.
(August Black, Rupert Huber 2021)

Software developed with the support and collaboration of:

Wave Farm
Colorado University, Dept. Critical Media Practices / ATLAS Institute