Yes, we have been very silent for the last time. There has been not too much action in here. There were not too many programmes. Part of it was a planned summer-break, another part … well things are changing. But we are getting somewhere. Finally. And radioINCORRECT.org is starting to prepare its relaunch. SoundsLikeSunday will be back again within a few days. There are quite a few things to come, just stay tuned!
This news demonstrates, how explosive and difficult work for may be for some people hoping for democracy and free speech in Aphghanistan. According to an email to the mailinglist asiapacific-general run by amarc.org (Associacion mondiale des radiodiffusuers commautaires, World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters - article about amarc at Wikipedia taliban burned down a free radiostation. Here is the mail in its orginal form:
hello everyone involved in das kleine field recordings festival - radio day @
radioINCORRECT.org!
a long broadcasting day is over and i want to say thank you to you all. the
works i got were quite diverse yet each of it was very interesting and the
combination of it rewarding.
another _very_ special thank you to ruben patiño who worked together with me
via telephone this morning to get up and running for streaming live from
berlin. i do appreciate your patience and dedication.
thanks a lot for making this such an interesting day of sonic excitement,
and last but very definetely not least thanks to rinus for his ideas,
enthusiasm and willingness to get all this going. hats off to rinus! it is a
pleasure working with you.
i don’t know how you all feel, but i would like to do something like this
again. and then maybe really with some more time on my side for a proper
preparation and some more really life performances.
das kleine field recordigns festival presents a special radio day at august 10, 2007.
This day consists of several parts, one taking place exclusively at radioINCORRECT.org. Several artists present prerecorded works, among those special performances for this event. Then there will be in-store performances at Staalplaat in Berlin.
I myself am very sorry I cannot be there on location but together with Ruben Patino we will do our best.
The radio broadcast will start at about 14:30 CEST. (Please compare local time with yours, there is a clock on the right top of the menu, for your convenience which should show you the time in CEST.)
My extended thanks go to Rinus van Alebeek who organizes this phantastic festival. His enthusiasm and dedication for doing this without money (donations are always welcome!) is marvellous. Hats off to Rinus!
Xabier Erkizia & Tüsüri
we will hear:
This will be a performance called „XABIER ERKIZIA & TÜSÜRI play soinumapa.net”.
binaurealmedia.org, Luis Costa from Bari, Italy and Rui Costa from Lisbon
Nodar Social Soundscapes
About the piece: “We will do is a live mix (through Skype) of recordings, old and new,
from the village of Nodar. In Nodar we run our media arts residency center,
that has a special focus on field recordings and we will mix old tape
recordings, audio from old video footage and new stuff recorded in DAT.
Stuff from a period between 1987 and 2007, that is 20 years. We will
concentrate on the voices of local people, creating an evocative social
soundscape through the mixing of voices of people who already died with
people now living, giving a sense of continuity between generations.”
We will hear:
ben owen for das kliene field recording festival, august 10, 2007. this piece is mixed from 4 field recordings.
the first part is a contact mic recording at Jacob Riis Park in Rockaway, NY, on the coast around rocks of a jetty.
the second recording was made on 060606 in Richmond VA in a drain pipe near the James river in the neighborhood of Orgen Hill. this recording was also made with a binaural mic.
part three and four were made on the same day in Richmond VA under and on a frieght train line within the vicinity of the drain pipe, also with binaural mics.
ben owen is based in brooklyn NY and works with sound, transmission, light, and print.
Matthijs Vincent Kouw:
„china_july2007_beijing_wudang_mountains” About the piece:
Unprocessed field recordings captured by Matthijs Vincent Kouw
(clinamen.nl) in the People’s Republic of China between July 3rd and
24th, 2007. The piece contains recordings made in Beijing, Wudangshan,
Wuhan, and the Wudang mountains. The piece contains a number of
different sonic scenes that were encountered: hectic marketplaces and
streets bustling with life, the serenity of the Wudang mountains,
ceremonies performed in daoist temples, martial arts practice,
sonorous assaults by masses of crickets, etc.
You can view photos from locations where the sounds have been recorded.
Seattle Phonographer’s Union:
„Sept. 23, 2005 Sand Point - Magnusun Park. Bldg. 27″, an excerpt from the 3 hours performance
About the performer: The Seattle Phonographers Union convene to explore the ways in which we recognize, differentiate, map and navigate our sonic environment. Our intent is to move beyond habitual experience of sound and uncover what is foreign in the familiar and familiar about the foreign; to explore what we hear and relearn what we know. Some sounds will be familiar; others less so. Both novel and familiar sounds will be juxtaposed in ways unique to each event. Our intent is to investigate and enrich both our intuitive and analytical relationship with sound. The goal is not to excite, confuse or entertain per se, but to attend to the world, which is much more detailed and diverse than any one person’s perception of it.
Thelmo Cristovam:
We are going to hear: Das Kleine Field Recordings Radio Play
In-store performances:
rauschpartikel: rinus van alebeek said @ daskleinefieldrecordingsfestival.org :
rauschpartikel made his debut with tropical typewriter sounds, that made me think of Graham Greene working in a far away colonial world. On his (rauschpartikel’s it is) next debute he changed the domestic sounds of a refrigerator into a mesmerising drone that impressed everyone. Little did Martin know, but I saw it, that Wendy, his collegue at Wendel’s, was doing her barwork in a swift and gentle way. Her movements were like a summer’s breeze (though it was midwinterly February), and the sounds she produced interacted as by magic with Martin’s work. This Friday he will use the sounds that Staalplaat record store will produce, and recompose them in real time.
Stephane Leonard: rinus van alebeek said @ daskleinefieldrecordingsfestival.org :
Stephane Leonard surprised me on both of the former editions with his raw punky approach, offering in this way an audio impression of a molochial metropole hard to dominate, but ever so inviting to explore for whatever adventure. In Staalplaat Stephane will bring his unedited recordings from Berlin, that will lead up to an acoustic story about wandering and wondering.
Marta Zapp (xpenelopex): rinus van alebeek said @ daskleinefieldrecordingsfestival.org :
Marta Zapp (aka xpenelopex) comes from a town in Italy where people drink grappa for breakfast, and where tourists look for the remains of a Shakespearian play. Marta came to Berlin to live and play, because she neither wants to drink grappa in the morning or poison in the night. And what else is there to do in Italy?
So far she has succeeded to present herself in various locations all around town. Gifted with a very impressive stage presence, she succeeds in leading .. let’s talk for myself.. she succeeded to transmit those first moments of audible bliss when trance sets in. Field recordings and urban witchcraft? In Staalplaat she will present broken melodies.
yes, i know. the english part of the radio has been very silent. but it is not dead, no, no! we are working quite a lot in the background at the moment to get another cms up and running, then a bi-lingual site will be much easier to handle.
ok, but that is not what i wanted to tell you. yes, das kleine field recordings festival is back! unfortunately i am not able to participate in most of the events. but rinus van alebeek and others are again doing amazing things by setting all this up and i read that he even took care that everything is being recorded and sent to us. amazing!
radioINCORRECT.org will be live on spot on august 2007. we will be doing several things:
there will be live broadcasts from people all around the world, playing live or sending us pieces for broadcasting
there will be a live event taking place in second life
there will be a live event in berlin
this day will be worth it, definetely. we will start relatively early (maybe even about 11 am berlin time) with the radio broadcasting live from the staalplaat record store in berlin, mitte. part of that event are:
Rauschpartikel
Stephane Leonard
Marta Zapp (xpenelopex)
and others via streaming connection (i will release names as soon as i can make sure they will be there. this is going to be great!
Luis Costa from Bari, Italy and Rui Costa, in Lisbon, Portugal:
“We will do is a live mix (through Skype) of recordings, old and new,
from the village of Nodar. In Nodar we run our media arts residency center,
that has a special focus on field recordings and we will mix old tape
recordings, audio from old video footage and new stuff recorded in DAT.
Stuff from a period between 1987 and 2007, that is 20 years. We will
concentrate on the voices of local people, creating an evocative social
soundscape through the mixing of voices of people who already died with
people now living, giving a sense of continuity between generations.”
the live event in berlin will take place at “raum” in berlin wedding and feature from ca. 21 berlin time on:
Yehlin Lee
Soichiro Mitsuya
Andreas Bick
i will pass on all information as soon as they become available.
Let’s be honest: There are not enough Sundays a week. In fact there is only one, and this one Sunday happens … only on Sundays. That really is far too little.
Exactly this drawback is met by SoundsLikeSunday at radioINCORRECT.org. From now on you will feel like Sunday whenever you listen to this show. No matter when, be it on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays. And on Sundays. Especially on Sundays.
You can expect: Pop, World, Folk, Chanson, Lounge and a lot more. All handpicked and presented by your friendly host Tobias aka das.t.
Additionally each show will be accompanied by an extensive playlist containing all download- and licensing information. Almost all music played at SoundsLikeSunday is available freely and legally on the net. No marketing machinery in between. You get very close to where music’s really at, to where the music’s still young, fresh, alive and kicking. This is a win-win situation for the artists and four you: The artists get their names spread and their music heard and you … get the music. You will make loads new musical friends, that’s for sure. And there’s still is a “donate button” on many netlabel sites. ;-)
Have a nice Sunday, no matter when,
Tobias, aka das.t
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Just a quick notice: as the radio is currently working on german almost exclusively this version of the site is currently sleeping. We are planning an English speaking part of the programme, once that becomes active this site will wake up again. ;-)
Time: Sunday, February 25, 08:00 pm CET and Monday, February 26, 08:00 am CET
This might be a cliché title for a field recording event, but you can also call it an evergreen. Recordings of city soundscapes is something very personal, influenced by the way you hear a city and it is something historical, as the city soundscape is always changing. A lot of sounds you might take for granted today might be gone tomorrow or different. As only one simple example shows: the tram has changed its sound during the recent years as they are more and more modernizing their vehicles. So the nervewrecking noise and squeeking might be gone today but if you hear a recording of it you might feel the cosy feeling of nostalgia entering your mind.
Time: Saturday, February 24, 08:pm CET and Sunday, February 25, 08:00 am CET
This was … an _extremely_ surprising day. We heard four performances offering a huge variety of what field recordigns might be, with one being _extremely_ adventurous.
This was the “day of archived sounds”. Everyone who records does archive those recordings in one way or another, but these sounds are usually kept away from the public. This day was to present them to the public, at least for the short time of hearing. This day was very much linked to the day before, the “day of travelogues”, as those are also sounds from very personal archives, but today had much more to offer:
Udo P. Leis opened his archive of films he has done since 1978 and extracted the sounds from these films. We are going to hear sounds from underwater, a truck being stuck underneath a bridge and being pulled out, a sleeper and much more.
Lasse-Marc Riek has been recording churches from the inside and from the outside for the last few years. This makes a very quiet and intense listening, and yes, even these recordings can be funny. ;-)
Nicolas Weiser presents us the sound archive of a monk: Christian Schmidt, member of the Society of Jesus and now 75, has been an active sound artist since at least the 70s. He used reel-to-reel tapes for recording and for tape manipulitian, the results sit somewhere between field recordings and tape music. This is one of the very seldom times this archive has been presented to the public yet.
Rob Curgenven from Australia is going to tell us about traveling that country and about the sounds he recorded. We are going to hear sounds as massive as a dust storm and cicades and as fragile as mosquitos and hear a lot of stories connected to those sounds.
Prepare yourself for almost 3 hours intense listening. And stay until the end, you will not regret it. ;-)
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