The first episode of bip bop addresses the relationships among language, orality and identity: nuances of pronunciation, variations of accents, individual appropriations of language, and drifts of translation. In other words, processes of internalization and externalization of linguistic forms that might generate semantic or phonetic alterations, misunderstandings or innovations, sense of belonging or estrangement.

INDEX
Works #1: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, The Freedom Of Speech Itself (2012)*
Interludi #1: Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer, Einaudi, Torino 1995
Archivio #1: Chris Burden, The Atomic Alphabet (1982)
Works #2: Steve Roden, Angels, angels small and marvelous, da fallen/spoken (2000-2013)
Interludi #2: Hannah Arendt, Antologia. Pensiero, azione e critica nell’epoca dei totalitarismi, Feltrinelli, Milano 2006 
Archivio #2: Adrian Paci, A Real Game (1999)
Radio Links: Radio Papesse introduce:
Works #2: Laura Malacart, Voicings (Italy) (2012)
Interludi #3: Cesare Marchi, Accenti, da In punta di lingua, Rizzoli, Milano 1992
Archivio #3: Francisco Meirino, My Voice is Unique (Antifrost, 2011), estratto
Playlist: a cura di Walter Prati

*NB: bip bop Episode I broadcasted The Freedom of Speech Itself in its entirety. As requested by the author, the work has been cut from the documentation of the episode here published and substituted with a brief extract. A minute of silence before and after the extract marks this replacement.

more: https://bipbopweb.wordpress.com/episode-i/

Courtesy The artists, Galleria Kaufmann Repetto, Radio Papesse

episode 1 28.01.2013

A project by Elena Biserna, Rita Correddu, and Alice Militello for Radio Città Fujiko 103.1 Mhz in FM|Bologna (January-June 2013)

bip bop was a monthly radio program conceived as an immaterial, mobile, and temporary exhibition space. A research hypothesis on the aesthetic, social and cultural potentials of radio investigated through contemporary art and music practice. An attempt to read and perform the radiophonic dimension and its expressive possibilities by layering different perspectives and visions around a thematic focus addressed each time in every episode. By commissioning new projects, presenting historic or recent audio and radio artworks, opening interferences with other radio stations and instigating dialogues and conversations, bip bop became a crossroad of paths, readings, listenings, voices, visions and words of/on radio.

On this page, we will periodically upload one of the recordings of the six episodes of bip bop.
You can find the recordings of other episodes here:
episode 1 > https://soundcloud.com/bip-bop-episode-1
episode 2 > https://soundcloud.com/bip-bop-episode-2
episode 3 > https://soundcloud.com/bip-bop-episode-3
episode 4 > https://soundcloud.com/bip-bop-episode-4
episode 5 > https://soundcloud.com/bip-bop-episode-5
episode 6 > https://soundcloud.com/bip-bop-episode-6