ARCADIANS ARE WE
As an avid listener of BBC radio’s Desert Island Discs, I have long rehearsed what eight records I might take as comfort on my own island isolation – an impossible task, given the stupidly large collection I have amassed in many music genres since the late 1960s. In comparison, charting some sort or musical path to Arcadia has been a joy, an expansive three-hours audio journey, spun over four...
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As an avid listener of BBC radio’s Desert Island Discs, I have long rehearsed what eight records I might take as comfort on my own island isolation – an impossible task, given the stupidly large collection I have amassed in many music genres since the late 1960s. In comparison, charting some sort or musical path to Arcadia has been a joy, an expansive three-hours audio journey, spun over four...
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BRYAN BIGGS
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WHO EATS ROCKS?
The metal-cased blue-and-silver vessel pod machine breaks down hitting slime rocks close to the uninhabited island. Like they’re locked in after hours, they wake to find themselves hunky punk style in some kind of queer travelling ecosystem. Ahoogah.
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The metal-cased blue-and-silver vessel pod machine breaks down hitting slime rocks close to the uninhabited island. Like they’re locked in after hours, they wake to find themselves hunky punk style in some kind of queer travelling ecosystem. Ahoogah.
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GILLIAN WYLDE
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WHERE ON THE MAP IS PULPAP?
Translating the one medium to the other to find how our perception operates and which new perspectives appear.
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Translating the one medium to the other to find how our perception operates and which new perspectives appear.
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FLORIS VANHOOF
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TS COVERS N’S CUTS
AMR: “Arcadia” is both the name of Vanda’s boat and the name of a short-lived band incorporating members of Duran Duran, formed in 1980s. In response to the request to compile a playlist for Vanda, I remembered the conversation we’d had during lockdown whilst walking in Brockwell Park.
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AMR: “Arcadia” is both the name of Vanda’s boat and the name of a short-lived band incorporating members of Duran Duran, formed in 1980s. In response to the request to compile a playlist for Vanda, I remembered the conversation we’d had during lockdown whilst walking in Brockwell Park.
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ALICE MAUDE-ROXBY & TAMSY SPINKS
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SPECT@ANON
We are all vessels floating on a journey into the unknown. I recall my first ever sea journey on a big ship from England to ‘Ameryki’ (Polish, America) when I was four years old.
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We are all vessels floating on a journey into the unknown. I recall my first ever sea journey on a big ship from England to ‘Ameryki’ (Polish, America) when I was four years old.
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RYAN SEHMAR & GEORGE SAXON
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STADSKLANK
STADSKLANK is an auditory blueprint of the city, a sample of what takes place musically in the inner spaces of the city. The composition of 24 minutes follows the changes in the atmosphere of the city in 24 hours.
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STADSKLANK is an auditory blueprint of the city, a sample of what takes place musically in the inner spaces of the city. The composition of 24 minutes follows the changes in the atmosphere of the city in 24 hours.
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WANNES DENEER & AARICH JESPERS
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MB40D & SILK
This piece is based on audio recordings of a turning discoball motor and a waving sheet from silk. With light digital processing and manipulation, the composition emphasizes the differences and similarities of the two sound sources, the electric drone, and the tactile rubbing.
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This piece is based on audio recordings of a turning discoball motor and a waving sheet from silk. With light digital processing and manipulation, the composition emphasizes the differences and similarities of the two sound sources, the electric drone, and the tactile rubbing.
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ANNE VAN DE STAR
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TIME
Ralf Homann's work deals with spatial concepts and with the broader media, while also reflecting upon their interdependency. He is interested in activating the public space by means of performative practices.
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Ralf Homann's work deals with spatial concepts and with the broader media, while also reflecting upon their interdependency. He is interested in activating the public space by means of performative practices.
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RALF HOMANN
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ORKA & WATERLILY
In 2015 I assembled a modular synthesizer which I named DIRC (which stands for Degenerate Interactive Random Composer). For my first work with DIRC, I worked around the theme ‘water’ with two imaginary travels/scenes.
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In 2015 I assembled a modular synthesizer which I named DIRC (which stands for Degenerate Interactive Random Composer). For my first work with DIRC, I worked around the theme ‘water’ with two imaginary travels/scenes.
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JAN D’HOOGHE
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DAVID MABB SELECTS THE INTERNATIONALE IN 95
LANGUAGES COMPILED BY MANDALORTESIIT
When asked to contribute a playlist ‘audio journey’ to the ‘So the Red Rose’ project as part of ‘Where Is the Way to Arcadia, please?’ I thought that the Internationale, the anthem of communist and anarchist movements since the late 19th Century, would be appropriate.
Starting with the idea of compiling a number of different versions, I immediately found that this had already been compiled by MandalorTeSiit and is available on YouTube as The Internationale in 95 languages.
The anthem's lyrics were written by Eugène Pottier in 1871 and the words were later set to music composed by Pierre De Geyter in 1889.
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When asked to contribute a playlist ‘audio journey’ to the ‘So the Red Rose’ project as part of ‘Where Is the Way to Arcadia, please?’ I thought that the Internationale, the anthem of communist and anarchist movements since the late 19th Century, would be appropriate.
Starting with the idea of compiling a number of different versions, I immediately found that this had already been compiled by MandalorTeSiit and is available on YouTube as The Internationale in 95 languages.
The anthem's lyrics were written by Eugène Pottier in 1871 and the words were later set to music composed by Pierre De Geyter in 1889.
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DAVID MABB
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RAIN
Rain is a bitter sweet playlist made in the city of London* during a global pandemic. It is full of personal pasts and imagined futures. Every track is touched by the undertow of climate catastrophe in which rainfall is either salvation or disaster.
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Rain is a bitter sweet playlist made in the city of London* during a global pandemic. It is full of personal pasts and imagined futures. Every track is touched by the undertow of climate catastrophe in which rainfall is either salvation or disaster.
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BRIGHID LOWE
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A GOLDEN HOUR OF MüLESKIND RADIO
These recordings are excerpts from a live FM broadcast performed by Neil Chapman and David Stent as part of Project Müleskind.
Müleskind is a figure of writing, an ongoing character-diagram...
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These recordings are excerpts from a live FM broadcast performed by Neil Chapman and David Stent as part of Project Müleskind.
Müleskind is a figure of writing, an ongoing character-diagram...
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NEIL CHAPMAN & DAVID STENT
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RADIO WAVES
As an artist, H.E. Peter Kees deals with longings, ideals and visions. Since the Havana Biennial in 2006, he has repeatedly annexed individual square metres in European countries and declared them Arcadian territory. As Arcadian ambassador, he grants visas and asylum.
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As an artist, H.E. Peter Kees deals with longings, ideals and visions. Since the Havana Biennial in 2006, he has repeatedly annexed individual square metres in European countries and declared them Arcadian territory. As Arcadian ambassador, he grants visas and asylum.
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PETER KEES
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HOW TO KISS A SHIVER
Klaus Erika Dietl and Stephanie Müller are based in the midst of a buzzing collective of artists and activists. Together with performers, musicians, visual artists and researchers they develop performative walks in public space, sound installations and film projects.
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Klaus Erika Dietl and Stephanie Müller are based in the midst of a buzzing collective of artists and activists. Together with performers, musicians, visual artists and researchers they develop performative walks in public space, sound installations and film projects.
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MEDIENDIENST LEISTUNGSHÖLLE feat. ALLIGATOR
GOZAIMASU
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CELESTIAL BARGAIN
Twenty plus years of experience in music production, composition, and multi-media art have led me to a particular place. A 360 degree approach, to decision making, ethics and process.
All roles blending into other tasks.. learning whilst teaching… doing and reflecting…re-defining notions of failure and success.
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Twenty plus years of experience in music production, composition, and multi-media art have led me to a particular place. A 360 degree approach, to decision making, ethics and process.
All roles blending into other tasks.. learning whilst teaching… doing and reflecting…re-defining notions of failure and success.
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STEPHEN COLE
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THE HAPPENING
The Happening is re-compiled from a scuffed golden cassette rescued from the grassy patch where the vehicle landed, or from where it left:
We crashed in our helicopter, we set off with our Repo Man style soundtrack, we don’t drive, we can’t drive, we read (…. undecipherable ….) and music, but it’s not Kylie in the passenger seat, it’s angry young people, moody, confused, anxious and disconnected young people, we set off with Teams and Zoom and copies of...
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The Happening is re-compiled from a scuffed golden cassette rescued from the grassy patch where the vehicle landed, or from where it left:
We crashed in our helicopter, we set off with our Repo Man style soundtrack, we don’t drive, we can’t drive, we read (…. undecipherable ….) and music, but it’s not Kylie in the passenger seat, it’s angry young people, moody, confused, anxious and disconnected young people, we set off with Teams and Zoom and copies of...
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ALAN DUNN
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IMAGINE IT’S A GARDEN SHED
I think the sound in ‘Imagine it’s a Garden Shed’is a soundtrack to the super slow-motion destruction of all structures in the universe. The clicking of the wheel, the cracking of the maquette, the panting of the artist…
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I think the sound in ‘Imagine it’s a Garden Shed’is a soundtrack to the super slow-motion destruction of all structures in the universe. The clicking of the wheel, the cracking of the maquette, the panting of the artist…
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WILLEM BOEL
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WEIGHTLESS
Weightless was created during Lydia Hannah's time as in-house-sound-artist at Fred&Ferry gallery. Drawing her inspiration from Zoro Feigl exhibition Sea Change, she composed a song that accompanied the works for one day only. We hear Lydia Hannah's voice surfing over the waves of an old out of tune harmonium.
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Weightless was created during Lydia Hannah's time as in-house-sound-artist at Fred&Ferry gallery. Drawing her inspiration from Zoro Feigl exhibition Sea Change, she composed a song that accompanied the works for one day only. We hear Lydia Hannah's voice surfing over the waves of an old out of tune harmonium.
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LYDIA HANNAH DEBEER
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WHO SAILS THE OCEAN?
This playlist presents in diary-like form the listening of a lone figure adrift, one who may or may not be our protagonist: Who Sails The Ocean? The voyage drifts towards an interspecies opera of sorts where genre is permeable as the cracks in the hold. Sleepless connections proliferate in chaotic visions bent on an insect pastoral where violence and desire consume all in a toxic fountain too much like something salvaged of a future present of. Tracks made after 1985 reflect dreams us becoming all at sea with what is and is not now.
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This playlist presents in diary-like form the listening of a lone figure adrift, one who may or may not be our protagonist: Who Sails The Ocean? The voyage drifts towards an interspecies opera of sorts where genre is permeable as the cracks in the hold. Sleepless connections proliferate in chaotic visions bent on an insect pastoral where violence and desire consume all in a toxic fountain too much like something salvaged of a future present of. Tracks made after 1985 reflect dreams us becoming all at sea with what is and is not now.
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REDELL OLSEN
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INTERIOREM-ARKADIA
While working on the recording, I travelled from a metropolis to a smaller city, closer to "nature". The bliss is to find calm amidst a variety of outer circumstances by correctly aligning to those from within. Whether I imitate animals or I sing to counterbalance outer noise - it is these tiny moments of awareness that bring happiness to life...
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While working on the recording, I travelled from a metropolis to a smaller city, closer to "nature". The bliss is to find calm amidst a variety of outer circumstances by correctly aligning to those from within. Whether I imitate animals or I sing to counterbalance outer noise - it is these tiny moments of awareness that bring happiness to life...
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ELISABETH AJTAY
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WHERE IS THE WAY TO ARCADIA?
Keiken are a collaborative practice, co-founded by artists Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori and Isabel Ramos in 2015, who frequently work with multiple collaborators. Based between London and Berlin, they come from mixed diasporic backgrounds (Mexican/Japanese/European/Jewish). They are building a collective shared space of virtual worlds, a Metaverse.
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Keiken are a collaborative practice, co-founded by artists Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori and Isabel Ramos in 2015, who frequently work with multiple collaborators. Based between London and Berlin, they come from mixed diasporic backgrounds (Mexican/Japanese/European/Jewish). They are building a collective shared space of virtual worlds, a Metaverse.
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KEIKEN
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MUSICAL JOURNEYS
The members of the Voyager Quartet can look back on a successful musical life in famous string quartets such as the Cherubini Quartet and Modern String Quartet, and in world-class orchestras such as the Symphony Orchestra of Bavarian Radio. The members of the Voyager Quartet thus combine a wealth of experience in numerous concerts worldwide at renowned music festivals and in famous concert venues, which they have successfully fed into all manner of high-quality concert programmes over recent years.
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The members of the Voyager Quartet can look back on a successful musical life in famous string quartets such as the Cherubini Quartet and Modern String Quartet, and in world-class orchestras such as the Symphony Orchestra of Bavarian Radio. The members of the Voyager Quartet thus combine a wealth of experience in numerous concerts worldwide at renowned music festivals and in famous concert venues, which they have successfully fed into all manner of high-quality concert programmes over recent years.
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VOYAGER QUARTET
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DISINTEGRATION IN THE WHITE STONE HOME
Death is also in Arcadia, as Nicolas Poussin spotted. Composer William Basinski famously created the piece ‘Disintegration Loops’ by playing old tape loops that deteriorated each time they looped past the tape head, eventually decaying into near silence, hauntingly suggesting the process of dying. On the day he finished the piece, he watched the Twin Towers collapse from his apartment roof. Years before this, Basinski had opened a performance venue in Williamsburg called Arcadia.
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Death is also in Arcadia, as Nicolas Poussin spotted. Composer William Basinski famously created the piece ‘Disintegration Loops’ by playing old tape loops that deteriorated each time they looped past the tape head, eventually decaying into near silence, hauntingly suggesting the process of dying. On the day he finished the piece, he watched the Twin Towers collapse from his apartment roof. Years before this, Basinski had opened a performance venue in Williamsburg called Arcadia.
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ALAIN CHANOIS / PAUL ROONEY
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ANONYMOUS VISITOR
ANONYMOUS VISITOR is a mixtape glued together with left-overs of rough recorded KRAMP cassettes that were most of the time left behind on trains or donated in letterboxes as an anonymous invitation. The cassettes are a collection of weird field recordings and distorted sound experiments brought together on 2 tape decks. One is doing his job and the other one is broken after it drank too much water from the sea during a recording in Athens. From then on, the sound of the sea is caught into the machine, the speed is totally uncontrollable and the play button doesn't hold itself.
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ANONYMOUS VISITOR is a mixtape glued together with left-overs of rough recorded KRAMP cassettes that were most of the time left behind on trains or donated in letterboxes as an anonymous invitation. The cassettes are a collection of weird field recordings and distorted sound experiments brought together on 2 tape decks. One is doing his job and the other one is broken after it drank too much water from the sea during a recording in Athens. From then on, the sound of the sea is caught into the machine, the speed is totally uncontrollable and the play button doesn't hold itself.
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KRAMP
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SPLIT L/R
TAPESWITCHBOARD CASSETTE
Though it is not ‘arcadian’ in any real sense it could perhaps be construed as an “audio journey”, plus it vaguely relates to the cassettes hinted at in the Arcadian story. What is it? Well it’s a slightly more contemporary episode in something I have been doing since 1988, i.e. split channel cassette recordings compiled (originally) onto cassettes with completely separate tracks on the left and right channel , no start times synchronised etc.
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Though it is not ‘arcadian’ in any real sense it could perhaps be construed as an “audio journey”, plus it vaguely relates to the cassettes hinted at in the Arcadian story. What is it? Well it’s a slightly more contemporary episode in something I have been doing since 1988, i.e. split channel cassette recordings compiled (originally) onto cassettes with completely separate tracks on the left and right channel , no start times synchronised etc.
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MATT WAND
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MY ARCADIA
Jean-Marc Zelwer is a composer and musician I have known since I was at school. We were raised in the Vallée de Chevreuse, just South of Paris. Despite having moved to Germany over 40 years ago, I still have a tiny Cottage there, with an enchanted garden closed in by brick walls overgrown in dark green ivy. The scented red rose that climbs up the house to the right of the front door is called danse de feu or dance of fire. Just like where Jean-Marc lives, my small house was constructed around 1920 by local builders using nostalgic and charming features that have never been updated.
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Jean-Marc Zelwer is a composer and musician I have known since I was at school. We were raised in the Vallée de Chevreuse, just South of Paris. Despite having moved to Germany over 40 years ago, I still have a tiny Cottage there, with an enchanted garden closed in by brick walls overgrown in dark green ivy. The scented red rose that climbs up the house to the right of the front door is called danse de feu or dance of fire. Just like where Jean-Marc lives, my small house was constructed around 1920 by local builders using nostalgic and charming features that have never been updated.
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HELEN ADKINS
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WHERE IS THE WAY TO ARCADIA?
I have attempted to provide a sort of lateral response to the question in my choices - trying not to be too literal. There are certain 'signposts’ that relate to travel and journeying, but I like the idea of capturing that almost lost sense of uncertainty one gets from tuning into the radio at random, or finding an unmarked C90, and perhaps never knowing who or what is the author of its contents.
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I have attempted to provide a sort of lateral response to the question in my choices - trying not to be too literal. There are certain 'signposts’ that relate to travel and journeying, but I like the idea of capturing that almost lost sense of uncertainty one gets from tuning into the radio at random, or finding an unmarked C90, and perhaps never knowing who or what is the author of its contents.
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MATTHEW BOURNE
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A LONG MOMENT
Lockdown brought unexpected peace to my life. I realise that I live in the countryside: I'd only looked at the boringness of living in a suburb on the edge of London, not really in the city that I faced every day. I turned my head the other way, and there was a huge green space as far as the eye could see. This is one of the walks I took in which I revisit the one-off appearance of a rare bird, very shortly after the death of a close musical associate.
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Lockdown brought unexpected peace to my life. I realise that I live in the countryside: I'd only looked at the boringness of living in a suburb on the edge of London, not really in the city that I faced every day. I turned my head the other way, and there was a huge green space as far as the eye could see. This is one of the walks I took in which I revisit the one-off appearance of a rare bird, very shortly after the death of a close musical associate.
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HELEN MCCOOKERYBOOK
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ZIKADE VS AUTOSTRADA, SIRENE, ZIKADE VS AUTOSTRADA 2
I am very interested in sound, noise, experimental sound and music, radio, language, field recordings. The piece is a combination of three short sound works ‘Zikade vs autostrada’, ‘Sirene’, ‘Zikade vs autostrada 2’
‘Zikade vs Autosrada’ is the sound of the Zikade competing with the sound of the motorway The piece ‘Sirene’ is a recording of my little daughter extensively crying, which I simply stretched until it almost looses its human character.
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I am very interested in sound, noise, experimental sound and music, radio, language, field recordings. The piece is a combination of three short sound works ‘Zikade vs autostrada’, ‘Sirene’, ‘Zikade vs autostrada 2’
‘Zikade vs Autosrada’ is the sound of the Zikade competing with the sound of the motorway The piece ‘Sirene’ is a recording of my little daughter extensively crying, which I simply stretched until it almost looses its human character.
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ANDREAS MITTERER
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MADONNA, SEAN & ME
Agathe de Bailliencourt is an artist, born in Paris and currently based in Berlin. She works on canvas and paper, as well as in public space, architecture and nature. Since 2005, her drawings, paintings and installations have been exhibited internationally.
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Agathe de Bailliencourt is an artist, born in Paris and currently based in Berlin. She works on canvas and paper, as well as in public space, architecture and nature. Since 2005, her drawings, paintings and installations have been exhibited internationally.
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AGATHE DE BAILLIENCOURT
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AT THE BETSY TROTWOOD
AMM All-Stars were the musical wing of Association of Musical Marxists, a political groupuscule which flourished in London 2010-2015, and became the house band for two radio shows: Late Lunch with Out To Lunch (Resonance 104.4FM, 2pm Wednesdays) and The OTL Show (Soho Radio, 8am Fridays). They’ve done a lot of playing (currently 216 hours available online) using free improvisation and avoiding repetition.
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AMM All-Stars were the musical wing of Association of Musical Marxists, a political groupuscule which flourished in London 2010-2015, and became the house band for two radio shows: Late Lunch with Out To Lunch (Resonance 104.4FM, 2pm Wednesdays) and The OTL Show (Soho Radio, 8am Fridays). They’ve done a lot of playing (currently 216 hours available online) using free improvisation and avoiding repetition.
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AMM ALL-STARS
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ADRA - EREWYREHVE (MIXTAPE)
Erewyrehve by ADRA (the experimental music moniker for artist and musician Andy Abbott) is a companion album to the Andrew DR Abbott album of the same name released in 2020. The ADRA version is a parallel journey through the postcapitalist utopia ‘Erewyrehve’, touching on similar motifs, tunes and instrumentation but with the dreaminess dialled up. The album comprises nine solo tracks, some composed and others improvised using a range of instruments including Mbira, Tongue Drum, melodica, percussion, electric and acoustic guitars - all heavily effected, tape-delayed and performed and recorded live without overdubs.
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Erewyrehve by ADRA (the experimental music moniker for artist and musician Andy Abbott) is a companion album to the Andrew DR Abbott album of the same name released in 2020. The ADRA version is a parallel journey through the postcapitalist utopia ‘Erewyrehve’, touching on similar motifs, tunes and instrumentation but with the dreaminess dialled up. The album comprises nine solo tracks, some composed and others improvised using a range of instruments including Mbira, Tongue Drum, melodica, percussion, electric and acoustic guitars - all heavily effected, tape-delayed and performed and recorded live without overdubs.
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ANDY ABBOTT
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KOUD PIJN (47.50)
I made a mixtape in 2016 where the music sounds as if it’s coming from another room. I don’t have the band names in the right order, but it consists of Catharsis, Cult of Youth, Dragged into Sunlight,Joy Division, Kickback, King Dude, MGLA, Today is the Day and Warsaw.
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I made a mixtape in 2016 where the music sounds as if it’s coming from another room. I don’t have the band names in the right order, but it consists of Catharsis, Cult of Youth, Dragged into Sunlight,Joy Division, Kickback, King Dude, MGLA, Today is the Day and Warsaw.
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DAN GIELIS
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THE ART OF NOISE:
A PERFORMANCE BY THE INTOARUMORISTS
The 7-week workshop consisted of three distinct parts:
1. Introduction to the concept of sound art and a brief exploration of the history of this art form and related areas up until today.
2. Introduction to the Intonarumori (noise machines) and examination of the functioning of the various forms. Brief introduction to the physical properties of sound. Critical sketch of the meaning and political situation in which the Futurists operated.
3. Making one's own instrument with as apotheosis a performance by the Intonarumorists.
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The 7-week workshop consisted of three distinct parts:
1. Introduction to the concept of sound art and a brief exploration of the history of this art form and related areas up until today.
2. Introduction to the Intonarumori (noise machines) and examination of the functioning of the various forms. Brief introduction to the physical properties of sound. Critical sketch of the meaning and political situation in which the Futurists operated.
3. Making one's own instrument with as apotheosis a performance by the Intonarumorists.
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FREDERICK VERGAERT
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DELETED SCENES
A set of ambience sound recordings from all over the world, including Japan, Tajikistan, Belgium, Laos, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Bolivia, Uganda, Norway, ... As the wind blows into the microphone of the recording device, low-end frequency leaking ruins the takes. Often discarded, here these recordings are placed on top of each other in a windy, rumble-like composition. These seriously flawed sounds are highlighted as an inferior movie location. A space full of cracks where the wind gets in. An A-side and the same composition with added soundtrack for a B-side of an audio cassette.
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A set of ambience sound recordings from all over the world, including Japan, Tajikistan, Belgium, Laos, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Bolivia, Uganda, Norway, ... As the wind blows into the microphone of the recording device, low-end frequency leaking ruins the takes. Often discarded, here these recordings are placed on top of each other in a windy, rumble-like composition. These seriously flawed sounds are highlighted as an inferior movie location. A space full of cracks where the wind gets in. An A-side and the same composition with added soundtrack for a B-side of an audio cassette.
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PETER LEMMENS
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BLACK MAN IN AMERICA
When I moved to the United States in 2019 to begin a postdoc in Pittsburgh, I brought with me a small collection of books and records to help with my research and teaching. This included James Baldwin/Black Man in America (Credo 1, 1963), a vinyl LP of an interview between the inimitable writer and historian Studs Terkel. Little did I know how relevant this recording would be. Originally broadcast sixty years ago, this is a remarkable audio document. Brutal honesty, on the one hand, illuminating eloquence on the other, through literature and Hollywood, Jim Crow and the state of education, Baldwin and Terkel offer a discussion about history, racial inequity and the future of America which has an unenviable relevance today.
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When I moved to the United States in 2019 to begin a postdoc in Pittsburgh, I brought with me a small collection of books and records to help with my research and teaching. This included James Baldwin/Black Man in America (Credo 1, 1963), a vinyl LP of an interview between the inimitable writer and historian Studs Terkel. Little did I know how relevant this recording would be. Originally broadcast sixty years ago, this is a remarkable audio document. Brutal honesty, on the one hand, illuminating eloquence on the other, through literature and Hollywood, Jim Crow and the state of education, Baldwin and Terkel offer a discussion about history, racial inequity and the future of America which has an unenviable relevance today.
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RICHARD HYLTON
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WORDS2WATER
“Fragile Egos” is an ongoing sound research project with words and composition about the most vulnerable part of the human animal: the fragility of its ego. The moment the ego gets hurt and how it deals with this pain, feels fear and is in need to self protect and becomes vicious because of all that.
The moment the ego feels unheard or disrespected and with what absurd velocity these emotional reactions can shoot and explode is fascinating to me. ‘Fragile Ego’s’ stories and situations are talking about facing intimidation, irritation and about the need for validation, about being heard or seen, or in the case of ‘words2water’ about disappearing...
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“Fragile Egos” is an ongoing sound research project with words and composition about the most vulnerable part of the human animal: the fragility of its ego. The moment the ego gets hurt and how it deals with this pain, feels fear and is in need to self protect and becomes vicious because of all that.
The moment the ego feels unheard or disrespected and with what absurd velocity these emotional reactions can shoot and explode is fascinating to me. ‘Fragile Ego’s’ stories and situations are talking about facing intimidation, irritation and about the need for validation, about being heard or seen, or in the case of ‘words2water’ about disappearing...
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ARZU SAGLAM
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LONGBOARDHARP
SESSION 18-05
The Longboardharp (LBH) is a new member of the chordophone family, invented, built and played by german artist Florian Tuercke. For the recording "Longboardharp Session 18-05" the instruments LBH3 and LBH4 were used along with a Looper and a Delay-pedal. No additional effects were added to the recording. Enjoy
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The Longboardharp (LBH) is a new member of the chordophone family, invented, built and played by german artist Florian Tuercke. For the recording "Longboardharp Session 18-05" the instruments LBH3 and LBH4 were used along with a Looper and a Delay-pedal. No additional effects were added to the recording. Enjoy
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FLORIAN TUERCKE
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SONGS FROM AN OUTER ROOM 1 & 2
Arcadian sounds
Here and after
Songs that save your life Every
Now and then
Arkadische Klänge
Dies- und Jenseits
Lieder, die dein Leben retten Jedes
Ab und zu
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Arcadian sounds
Here and after
Songs that save your life Every
Now and then
Arkadische Klänge
Dies- und Jenseits
Lieder, die dein Leben retten Jedes
Ab und zu
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TINE NEUMANN
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KOMMT
ZEIT KOMMT RAT
Words of wisdom, proverbs, sayings, farmers' rules, quotations from literary classics and from politics as well as aphorisms from world history are read out, endlessly strung together, calmly and monotonously by a female voice. The sound piece negotiates the values and rules of human history and the social norms on which they are based, such as good and evil, joy and sorrow, and right and wrong, on the basis of philosophical, biblical, literary and popular texts from a time span from 480 BC to the year 1907.
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Words of wisdom, proverbs, sayings, farmers' rules, quotations from literary classics and from politics as well as aphorisms from world history are read out, endlessly strung together, calmly and monotonously by a female voice. The sound piece negotiates the values and rules of human history and the social norms on which they are based, such as good and evil, joy and sorrow, and right and wrong, on the basis of philosophical, biblical, literary and popular texts from a time span from 480 BC to the year 1907.
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FRENZY
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GABI’S
SALOON TRILOGIE
Saloon No 1 – 8 x recorded by Joe Masi.
In 2014 I did a happening with a Saloon façade in a gallery. I did it three times and invited many other artists and performers to act in this scenario (http://gabiblum.de/SALOON.html). Saloon No 1 was a kind of Double Feature, because I built two similar Saloons vis-à-vis in the gallery. The first part of the evening happened in the first Saloon and the second part of the evening in the second Saloon.
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Saloon No 1 – 8 x recorded by Joe Masi.
In 2014 I did a happening with a Saloon façade in a gallery. I did it three times and invited many other artists and performers to act in this scenario (http://gabiblum.de/SALOON.html). Saloon No 1 was a kind of Double Feature, because I built two similar Saloons vis-à-vis in the gallery. The first part of the evening happened in the first Saloon and the second part of the evening in the second Saloon.
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GABI BLUM
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ARTEMIS (FOR VANDA CHAN)
In 1992 I bought an old wooden house boat called Artemis. My father had died unexpectedly and left me a small amount of money. With this money I did two things, I enrolled on an MA in feminist art history, and I bought a boat.
1990s Britain was, in retrospect, an optimistic decade, it seemed to us all I think, that things were finally moving forward. The horror of AIDS and the legacy of the Thatcher years were starting to fade, and in their place we had shell suits, mobile phones, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas, and the Spice Girls.
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In 1992 I bought an old wooden house boat called Artemis. My father had died unexpectedly and left me a small amount of money. With this money I did two things, I enrolled on an MA in feminist art history, and I bought a boat.
1990s Britain was, in retrospect, an optimistic decade, it seemed to us all I think, that things were finally moving forward. The horror of AIDS and the legacy of the Thatcher years were starting to fade, and in their place we had shell suits, mobile phones, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas, and the Spice Girls.
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PAULA CHAMBERS
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PART 1:
Language of Navajos - code during W2. By 1945 more than four hundred Navajo soldiers were serving in the US Marine Corps as code talkers. The letter "A" might be "wol-la-chee" (which means ant) (00.18)
PART 2:
From whips (00.20)
From trains (02.20)
PART 3 (in German):
The "Golden Bomb", a fictional text about a bomb attack on Paris in 1894 (with a golden bomb) by Franz Held (Herzfeld).
He was socialist and a famous writer and playwriter of his time and father of John Heartfield and Wieland Herzfelde (co- founder of DADA Berlin).
In 1895 his work was censored and some books forbidden in Munich and he had to leave Germany with his family. (14.03)
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Language of Navajos - code during W2. By 1945 more than four hundred Navajo soldiers were serving in the US Marine Corps as code talkers. The letter "A" might be "wol-la-chee" (which means ant) (00.18)
PART 2:
From whips (00.20)
From trains (02.20)
PART 3 (in German):
The "Golden Bomb", a fictional text about a bomb attack on Paris in 1894 (with a golden bomb) by Franz Held (Herzfeld).
He was socialist and a famous writer and playwriter of his time and father of John Heartfield and Wieland Herzfelde (co- founder of DADA Berlin).
In 1895 his work was censored and some books forbidden in Munich and he had to leave Germany with his family. (14.03)
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HANS WINKLER
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GENERAL MIDI
Travel really has been on my mind recently. As a touring musician it is rare one stays so still so long…Not even local shows, never mind international, so no need to travel to rehearse, never mind see the rest of the world.
For the a.P.A.t.T. ‘Peregrination’ 2016 Tour Film’ - the actual sound of travel - I used specific footage to climb aboard a non-linear format.
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Travel really has been on my mind recently. As a touring musician it is rare one stays so still so long…Not even local shows, never mind international, so no need to travel to rehearse, never mind see the rest of the world.
For the a.P.A.t.T. ‘Peregrination’ 2016 Tour Film’ - the actual sound of travel - I used specific footage to climb aboard a non-linear format.
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a.P.A.t.T.
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TIME OF NOT YET
There is a melancholy of late; wistful, beckoning, immersive, calling. A remembering and recalling and a wanting. The small sounds of other times and places. The textures of bigger ideas and of a slipping away.
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There is a melancholy of late; wistful, beckoning, immersive, calling. A remembering and recalling and a wanting. The small sounds of other times and places. The textures of bigger ideas and of a slipping away.
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NIGEL PRINCE
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WHERE IS THE WAY TO ARCADIA?
If you don't know where you are to start with, how do you know where you're going to go? As long as you keep looking, somewhere you'll find a sweet spot.
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If you don't know where you are to start with, how do you know where you're going to go? As long as you keep looking, somewhere you'll find a sweet spot.
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LIAM JOLLY
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PLAYLIST FOR SO THE RED ROSE
My playlist starts with some jazz tunes that let me slide straight into my personal Arcadia. Sometimes just a few notes from the Sardinian trumpeter Paolo Fresu are enough to immerse me in this fantastic world. The journey continues with guitars and pianos. In the middle, my granddaughter meets me with her first joyful whoops. Then it's off to Italy, where the songs tell such passionate stories. After two gentle hymns to silence and slowness comes the blues.
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My playlist starts with some jazz tunes that let me slide straight into my personal Arcadia. Sometimes just a few notes from the Sardinian trumpeter Paolo Fresu are enough to immerse me in this fantastic world. The journey continues with guitars and pianos. In the middle, my granddaughter meets me with her first joyful whoops. Then it's off to Italy, where the songs tell such passionate stories. After two gentle hymns to silence and slowness comes the blues.
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MARTIN LIEBMANN
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OFF PEAK
Broadly, the city and its collective memory, the everyday and the overlooked serve as subjects in her deliberately awkward, anti-heroic, works. Looking at the dysfunctional, the sorrowful, the futile and the funny, the sculptures stand as inconvenient witnesses to time and place. Critically exploring locale through material, form and a fluid historical narrative, within a backdrop of economic globalisation, state and military power, Mulji has an abiding interest in examining the specificity of place, amplifying a perpetual discomfort and scepticism from the perspective of both observer and participant, in the face of colonialism and capitalism.
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Broadly, the city and its collective memory, the everyday and the overlooked serve as subjects in her deliberately awkward, anti-heroic, works. Looking at the dysfunctional, the sorrowful, the futile and the funny, the sculptures stand as inconvenient witnesses to time and place. Critically exploring locale through material, form and a fluid historical narrative, within a backdrop of economic globalisation, state and military power, Mulji has an abiding interest in examining the specificity of place, amplifying a perpetual discomfort and scepticism from the perspective of both observer and participant, in the face of colonialism and capitalism.
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HUMA MULJI
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DONATUS
SUBAQUA CRESCENDO
'Donatus subaqua crescendo' is a field sound recording of mine from 1998. It was recorded underwater in Lake Donatus close to Cologne. It was made like an underwater trip at sunrise, with all the plants starting to produce oxygen getting louder and louder with the up-rising light of the sun. Is that our future?
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'Donatus subaqua crescendo' is a field sound recording of mine from 1998. It was recorded underwater in Lake Donatus close to Cologne. It was made like an underwater trip at sunrise, with all the plants starting to produce oxygen getting louder and louder with the up-rising light of the sun. Is that our future?
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KLAUS OSTERWELD
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POSSESSED
This journey follows a wobbly line of linked histories. Setting out in 1930s Hollywood, the train quickly moves to the mid-20th century North London and the voices of Irish immigrant labourers. Catching the Overground from Camden Road to Dalston Kingsland, time moves backwards and the city disappears, retreating to the Great Forest of Middlesex in the 16th century, and Henry VIII’s own private area of the forest. The forest takes us to A Midsummer Night’s Dream (again via 1930s Hollywood), which brings us to changelings and back to Ireland.
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This journey follows a wobbly line of linked histories. Setting out in 1930s Hollywood, the train quickly moves to the mid-20th century North London and the voices of Irish immigrant labourers. Catching the Overground from Camden Road to Dalston Kingsland, time moves backwards and the city disappears, retreating to the Great Forest of Middlesex in the 16th century, and Henry VIII’s own private area of the forest. The forest takes us to A Midsummer Night’s Dream (again via 1930s Hollywood), which brings us to changelings and back to Ireland.
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LÍADÁIN ÉIRE
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ADRA EREWRYREHVE ARCADIA
A collection of instrumental tracks performed on 8-String Baritone Acoustic guitar, with interludes on less familiar instruments, that convey a dream-journey through a postcapitalist utopia called Erewyrehve.
Acting as the closing chapter to a trilogy that includes 2018's 'Live on Daisy Hill' (Bloxham Tapes) and the aforementioned 'Dead in Chellow Dean' (Cardinal Fuzz / Feeding Tube Records), 'Erewyrehve' is the most optimistic and forward-looking set of songs; a musical line of flight from the bleak landscape and conditions under which it was composed in Bradford 2020.
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A collection of instrumental tracks performed on 8-String Baritone Acoustic guitar, with interludes on less familiar instruments, that convey a dream-journey through a postcapitalist utopia called Erewyrehve.
Acting as the closing chapter to a trilogy that includes 2018's 'Live on Daisy Hill' (Bloxham Tapes) and the aforementioned 'Dead in Chellow Dean' (Cardinal Fuzz / Feeding Tube Records), 'Erewyrehve' is the most optimistic and forward-looking set of songs; a musical line of flight from the bleak landscape and conditions under which it was composed in Bradford 2020.
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ANDY ABBOTT
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SO THE RED ROSE
When I was a boy I had a wind-up skull that chattered it's teeth. To my seven year old mind it was the most beautiful and surprising thing in the whole world. One day, for no particular reason I set it down in the long grass near the rope swing I played on and I never saw it again. The ghost of that toy appeared to be twice as beautiful as the real thing and the ritual of looking for it became a fantastic moment of suspense that I repeated over and over. I suppose that is why I am telling you about it now.
All of these pieces assembled here remind me that utopia might not need to have a whole horizon. It might just have a small invisible space where it chatters in the long grass.
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When I was a boy I had a wind-up skull that chattered it's teeth. To my seven year old mind it was the most beautiful and surprising thing in the whole world. One day, for no particular reason I set it down in the long grass near the rope swing I played on and I never saw it again. The ghost of that toy appeared to be twice as beautiful as the real thing and the ritual of looking for it became a fantastic moment of suspense that I repeated over and over. I suppose that is why I am telling you about it now.
All of these pieces assembled here remind me that utopia might not need to have a whole horizon. It might just have a small invisible space where it chatters in the long grass.
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MATT LORD
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DOUBLE HARMONIC
For Two Voices and Sound.
MUSIC
An evolving patch designed to thematically complement thoughts shared by Even Harmonic and Odd Harmonic.
LIBRETTO
The speakers in this piece are named Even Harmonic and Odd Harmonic. Why harmonic? They are harmonics because they are perspectives on shared narrative themes and motifs and so in a way share the same root note or tonic. I suppose one could think about variation on a narrative theme in terms of major and minor keys, for example.
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For Two Voices and Sound.
MUSIC
An evolving patch designed to thematically complement thoughts shared by Even Harmonic and Odd Harmonic.
LIBRETTO
The speakers in this piece are named Even Harmonic and Odd Harmonic. Why harmonic? They are harmonics because they are perspectives on shared narrative themes and motifs and so in a way share the same root note or tonic. I suppose one could think about variation on a narrative theme in terms of major and minor keys, for example.
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SAM GENOVESE
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ON THE WAY
I went by car to Ebersberg to set up my contribution to Akrkadien. On the way I listened to the radio. Whenever a song came on that I liked, I made a note. Later I sorted the selection. I thought of the time when I copied the best hits from Rias2 onto my cassettes.
On the A side are the best songs of the outward journey and on the B side the best songs of the return journey. When I finished the installation and started the return journey, "Ice in the Sunshine" by Beagle Music LTD sounded shortly afterwards. A funny coincidence, as my installation in Ebersberg "A Winter's Tale" has icicles hanging from the gutter of the Old Distillery.
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I went by car to Ebersberg to set up my contribution to Akrkadien. On the way I listened to the radio. Whenever a song came on that I liked, I made a note. Later I sorted the selection. I thought of the time when I copied the best hits from Rias2 onto my cassettes.
On the A side are the best songs of the outward journey and on the B side the best songs of the return journey. When I finished the installation and started the return journey, "Ice in the Sunshine" by Beagle Music LTD sounded shortly afterwards. A funny coincidence, as my installation in Ebersberg "A Winter's Tale" has icicles hanging from the gutter of the Old Distillery.
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THOMAS JUDISCH
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WE RAKEN VERZEILD
By diving into their archives of written exchanges and translations they created and activated an imaginary journey towards each other. This tape is a residue of their travels. As Vanda Chan was stranded between the two islands Poluwat and Pulap Atoll, gij zen rien try to hit shore in the distance that lies between the two of them. As time goes by they are blown off course and get adrift in an undiscovered spatial experience.
You’re listening to sounds from the Trans-Oceanic Library (Zeewire Surround).
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By diving into their archives of written exchanges and translations they created and activated an imaginary journey towards each other. This tape is a residue of their travels. As Vanda Chan was stranded between the two islands Poluwat and Pulap Atoll, gij zen rien try to hit shore in the distance that lies between the two of them. As time goes by they are blown off course and get adrift in an undiscovered spatial experience.
You’re listening to sounds from the Trans-Oceanic Library (Zeewire Surround).
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GIJS WATERSCHOOT WITH RIEN SCHELLEMANS
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RADIO DICE
Each day we played a game devised by Agathe which resulted in a live broadcast from a radio station somewhere across the globe. We rolled the dice to select the continent, country, radio station to visit, and also the time and duration of the visit. This journey was broadcast simultaneously in Ebersberg.
MATERIALS
Two dice, 6 possible time slots per day, and an internet connection to visit radio.garden*
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Each day we played a game devised by Agathe which resulted in a live broadcast from a radio station somewhere across the globe. We rolled the dice to select the continent, country, radio station to visit, and also the time and duration of the visit. This journey was broadcast simultaneously in Ebersberg.
MATERIALS
Two dice, 6 possible time slots per day, and an internet connection to visit radio.garden*
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AGATHE DE BAILLIENCOURT
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FROM PSS-30 (1982)
TO PSS-7 (1997): A CHRONOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF THE DEMOS
“The obsolete might be brought back as a nostalgic moment but also reanimated coldly and synthetically”
Enrico Monacelli
The three pieces here each begin by repurposing existing materials with the desire to provide temporary escape routes that might lead towards different imaginaries; more enjoyable, inauthentic, dissonant and synthetic in form.
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“The obsolete might be brought back as a nostalgic moment but also reanimated coldly and synthetically”
Enrico Monacelli
The three pieces here each begin by repurposing existing materials with the desire to provide temporary escape routes that might lead towards different imaginaries; more enjoyable, inauthentic, dissonant and synthetic in form.
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ANDY WEBSTER
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WHERE IS VANDA CHAN?
Gillian Wylde [she, her, hers] is an artist, who makes video installations and text works. She collaborates with other artists, writers and makers. Recent work engages with screens and feels, poetics, queerness, frequencies and performativity.
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Gillian Wylde [she, her, hers] is an artist, who makes video installations and text works. She collaborates with other artists, writers and makers. Recent work engages with screens and feels, poetics, queerness, frequencies and performativity.
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GILLIAN WYLDE
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