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Curated by Mobile Radio (Knut Aufermann & Sarah Washington), Radio Art Zone is a 100-day radio art station for Esch2022, which broadcasts in the south of Luxembourg by Radio ARA on 87.8 FM. It is also live-streamed for a worldwide audience and transmitted by a network of international partners.
The Radio Art Zone schedule consists of two daily programs: newly-commissioned 22-hour radio productions created by more than 100 international and local artists, and 2-hour live shows from kitchens in the community.
Additionally Radio Art Zone offers artist residencies, workshops, youth productions plus interventions in public space, opening up participatory opportunities for residents and visitors to the Capital of Culture region.
Kunstradio has the pleasure to cooperate with Radio Art Zone: eight artists/groups have produced radio edits of their long productions, which are presented on Ö1 throughout August 2022.
Das Gelbe vom Pirol
by by Günter Reznicek
an ornithological journey through the head of Reznicek in 11 chapters.
Zri-zri-zrütt, hiit, track, bsrü.
Kikiki kü-kü-kü-kü kö, tjk tjk tjk.
Hup hup hup, tscherr, schäär.
Kuu-li, kuui-kui-kuh, oot oüt trru-i trrru-il trrrrru-il trrrru-ühl.
Ühlp, errrr, lu lu lü lü li li, ihp ihp.
Tjok tjok tjok tjok tjok tjok tjok tjok.
Krack-krack-krack, korrp, klong.
Errrrrrrörrrrrrrörrrrrrrerrrrrrrr, krruit, fiorrr.
Tsi writtsü writtsü writtsü tsu tsu tjü-wi tjü-wi tsi tsi tsi, didüdeloi.
Prriit, prrli, prrüt-üt, prriih-i.
Wjääehk, foh-flüo-fih-fiu, fo-flüh-füo, fiiooh, gigigigi.
Cultosols: Esch Soil Soundscapes 2022
by Marcus Maeder
A cultosol is described as a soil type that has been altered and shaped in its structure and biological composition by human activity. This includes in particular soils in the city: former industrial areas, gardens, and parks, brownfields, etc. form a large variety of anthropogenically (culturally) shaped soil types.
Marcus Maeder visited Esch in early summer 2022 and recorded the sounds in the ground at three locations using specially developed recording technology. Not only sounds of the soil fauna can be heard - but also the specifics of each location: sounds of the nearby steel industry, train, air and car traffic that can be heard in the ground, as well as the above-ground sounds that penetrate the soil matrix, such as conversations of passers-by, ambulance sirens, wind, etc. In the 22 hours, we change locations three times: the acoustic journey into the cultosols of Esch begins in a quiet evening in the ruins of the former Schifflange steelworks, then moves to a compost heap in an urban gardening project in Belval, and ends in the ground next to the tracks of the ArcelorMittal steelworks.
The music, which seeks to interweave with the soil sounds as a sonic coexistence, comes from an analog modular system controlled by measured microclimate data (temperature, humidity and air pressure) of each site. Every hour, the recording devices in the soils of Esch recorded for twenty minutes each, during 24 hours. In the Version for the ORF Kunstradio, every minute, a new time segment can be heard with a sonified microclimate measurement. This creates a radiophonic sound installation that can be listened to during the 26 minutes and that changes continuously.
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