In this special edition of KUNSTRADIO, Ursula Strubinsky takes you on a
final tour into the network of ACOUSTIC.SPACE.LAB. This highly unusual and
innovative event closes down with a streaming project at the LMS Gallery in
Riga, Latvia, while this broadcast is live on air and on line from Vienna.
Organised by e-lab at the site of a giant radiotelescope - formerly a
Soviet military antenna - in the forests near Irbene and in Riga,
ACOUSTIC.SPACE.LAB brought together international radio-art-practicioners
and theorists to "receive sounds from outer space or more terrestrial
sources and incorporate those into soundart pieces, whether they are music
....or even some sort of architecture which is built up from these
different frequencies, ...to hold a symposium about the idea of radio
frequencies as a specific form of new media, to.........share ideas,
technologies and different visions for how you can use radio
transmissions.... as a form of new media. "
(Derek Holzer).
The final streaming event of ACOUSTIC.SPACE.LAB consists of on line
contributions by remote participants who could not make it to Latvia, while
the participants in Riga stream from their closing party at the LMS Gallery.
Kunstradio transfers excerpts from these contributions to short and
medium-wave, including some of the contributions which were put on line
during the earlier parts of ACOUSTIC.SPACE.LAB.
Ursula Strubinsky also talks to artist-theoretician
Robert Adrian, who is already back in Vienna
after having participated in the Irbene part of ACOUSTIC.SPACE.LAB.