🌿À 19h sur radiobeguin.com le 19ème épisode de Saint-Gilles Reggae Club par notre ami @gregoirebruno !

Un tour du monde et des époques pour une heure de reggae, dub & autres expérimentations sonores. 

Aymeric de Tapol - Schaerbeek in Dub (Belgium, 2022)
Horseface - Simpukka (Sweden, 2022)
Rouge Gorge - You Look So High (France, 2019)
The Members - The Model (UK, 1982)
Noda & Wolfers - Broken Dream Tape Saturation (Japan/Netherlands, 2022)
The Fun Three Boys - Faith, Hope and Charity (UK, 1981)
Fairbrother - But Beautiful (South Korea, 2016)
Michael Palmer - Fancy Girl (Jamaica, 1984)
Tapes - Ticker Tape (Estonia, 2015)
Noah House of Dread - Children of Misery (UK, 1982)
Lady Ann - Man Move (Jamaica, 198?)
Lo Kindre - Mardi, Ennui (Scotland, 2017)
Dadawah - Run Come Rally (Jamaica, 1974)

Saint-Gilles Reggae Cub #19 - Grégoire Bruno (05.02.23)

où nous avions envie de rester

The finest London selection of Japanese grooves, from the 30s to 80s, and more. Anything from folk, jazz, psychedelia, new wave, soul, disco and electronic, all Made In Japan.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/japanblues/episodes/japanblues-25th-november-2023

Japan Blues 251123

"Škvar" is a sound installation composed by Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon, as a part of the site-specific installation "Invoking shipbuilding in Korčula" created and realized by the visual artist Matea Šabić Sabljić aka @_argo_nauta_

The installation will be presented on the 6th and 7th of December, next to the Antifascist memorial by architect Bernardo Bernardi which was built at the exact place of an old shipyard.

Sound work is an extension of an art action: "Taking the tool in your hands is an act of honesty", which took place in September and engaged wider community. The participatory action involved people bringing hammers and nailing the names of old Korčula's shipbuilders into the planks of abandoned boats. Doing so produced the noise — sound of an old shipyard that was gone decades ago.

This public action became a silver lining of the sound work "Škvar".

Matea continued to collect hammers in Korčula, Dubrovnik, Split, Betina and Zagreb. Collected hammers will be installed as a site-specific installation accompanied by the sound work. Collecting hammers is continuing as a work in progress for the sake of "Invoking shipbuilding in Korčula" hoping to initiate a Museum which will protect both history and the future of local shipbuilding.

Exhibition is curated by Sonja Leboš ( @uiii.aiir ) and co-organised by @kap_korcula

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Zaziv muzeju i korčulanskoj brodogradnji

Korčulanski škveri i majstorske radionice svjedoče slavnu korčulansku brodograditeljsku prošlost. Glas o kvaliteti njihovog rada je bio nadaleko poznat. Korčulanske obitelji brodograditelja sagradile su na tisuće brodova. 
Međutim, rad, znanje i vještina koji su bili dio svakodnevice otoka kroz stoljeća, pa sve do kraja prošlog tisućljeća, izgubili su se. Nestale su radionice, pa škverovi. Pa i majstori.
Zazivamo sve te davne meštre i meštrice,
Zazivamo sve buduće meštre i meštrice,
Da uzmu alat u ruke i krenu graditi!
Želimo “uškvariti” značaj korčulanskih škvarova. Kolektivna memorija izgradnje tisuća brodova je zapisana u rukama. Treba se prisjetiti. Zakucati brokvu po brokvu. Dasku po dasku. Brod po brod.
Značaj korčulanske brodogradnje uokviriti, “uškvariti” muzejom, oko kojeg će se stvarati novi brodovi i novi meštri.
Meštar po meštar.
Meštrica po meštrica.

Škvar by Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon

Drifting into a new day with Maria Somerville, live from Ireland's wild west coast.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-maria-somerville/episodes/early-bird-show-maria-somerville-4th-december-2023

The Early Bird Show w/ Maria Somerville 041223

ant spa •)(( 05.12.23

Alex Kelman pays tribute to living legends once a month live from Los Angeles. Too often are masters of their craft celebrated when they pass on to the next realm. This show focuses on hard working individuals that are Architects of culture, creativity, and sound.

Photo credit: Maria-Mochnacz 
https://www.nts.live/shows/architects/episodes/architects-19th-december-2023

Architects w/ Brontë Jane: PJ Harvey Special 191223

Anna Greenspan, a former member of CCRU and a media scholar, has written a thought-provoking book titled "China and the Wireless Undertow: Media as Wave Philosophy." In this book, Greenspan explores the intricate relationship between China and wirelessness, combining contemporary media theory with modern Chinese thought. By doing so, she sheds light on the philosophical, techno-social, and temporal implications of wireless communication within an evolving geopolitical landscape.

Anna Greenspan is Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Media at NYU Shanghai. She is the author of Shanghai Future: Modernity Remade (Oxford University Press, 2014), India and the IT Revolution: Networks of Globalization (Palgrave, 2005). She also writes for a non-academic audience including these three books: Ccru: Writings 1997-2003 (Urbanomic, 2015), Future Mutations: Technology and the Evolution of the Species (Time Spiral Press, 2014) and Urbanatomy: Shanghai 2008 (China Intercontinental Press, 2008).

The Wireless Undertow w/Anna Greenspan

ep.1 [BLEACH] 

Na, Ša. [Matas Sergijus Šatūnas] and Viktoria Weber meet in Matas studio apartment in Vilnius after both recently having left Vienna to sip on semi-sweet cherry wine. Between half smoked cigarettes, the clicking of the lighter separates our conversation as we discuss a comeback of vaporwave, nostalgia for the unfamiliar and bleach as not merely an aesthetical choice but the longing for an absence of color. Our talks are contextualised by two mixes by Na, Ša. that showcase the music we listened to as well as Na, Ša.‘s own tracks. 

PLAY TIME will stream Sat., 16.03. 18h EET / 17h CET on tīrkultūra.

Na, Ša. 
https://on.soundcloud.com/3kDQcwrgAnxjNEjw8 https://on.soundcloud.com/ktwKw5WvmQcK5E4c6 
still from the music video Having It - Na, Ša. by Andrejs Poikāns https://youtu.be/JPJlJx0qoQY?feature=shared

PLAY TIME ep.1  [Bleach]  Na, Ša

Twin heavyweights Kevin Richard Martin (The Bug) and Joseph Kamaru (KMRU) unite for Disconnect, a powerful study of dread, hope, and profound sonics that marries depth-trawling dub with Kamaru’s voice, ambient sensibilities, and negative space.

Kevin Martin first became aware of Kenyan ambient musician KMRU “watching the short 2020 documentary Under The Bridge,” he tells us. “Which, aside from immediately finding Joseph's approach to sound and music so instantly impressive, I also found his spoken voice possessed a captivating, lilting, tonal quality, with his soft-spoken accent.” Following this, Martin dug into Kamaru’s records, and found not only a kindred spirit in skillful exploration of sonic space, but also a fan of The Bug. So began a mutually respectful relationship, initially held in Instagram DMs and reciprocal admiration for each other’s work and eventually blossoming into an invitation sent by Kevin to Joseph to collaborate on a new album.

The results - debut collaboration album Disconnect - collect a back-and-forth creative dialogue that started life in Martin’s studio. “I think I surprised Joseph by suggesting he contributes vocals,” Martin tells us. This ability to identify, isolate and exploit the nonstandard is a trait shared by both musicians and employed to devastating effect on Disconnect. Its vocals, sitting somewhere between intonation and spoken word, capture the ear and fizz with simmering power. They are indeed a surprise, coming from a musician specialising in instrumental, field recording-laced ambient musics, but tell intensely evocative stories, weaving poetry into the pair’s grandiose greyscale musical architecture.

The record is just as deep, dark, and arresting as we can expect from Kevin Richard Martin, following his acclaimed rescore of Solaris (released in 2021 on Phantom Limb) and a handful of self-released solo albums that explore a sound just as heavy as The Bug but at a menacingly slower pace. And it is just as evocative and unique as Kamaru’s KMRU canon, each object delicately and purposefully placed so the timbral mosaic builds with shimmering and hypnotic beauty.

KRM & KMRU - Ark

Austral showcases the wildness and beauty of Latin America’s sounds, and from other places south of somewhere. Aylu probes the depths of music from old times and music from the future. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/aylu/episodes/aylu-29th-april-2024

Austral w/ AYLU 290424

Thanks to everyone who listened to // DIFFRACTIONS // Podcast over the years. There will be no further podcasts, nonetheless, please follow us here:
https://diffractionscollective.com

Several tracks have been re-uploaded with enhanced sound quality. Thank you to those who listened and will continue to do so from the future into the past.

The Wireless Undertow w/Anna Greenspan

DIFFRACTIONS

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