Making for Radio is part-hoerspiel, part-performance, part-documentary about DIY electronic music culture. The making of an impossible and ‘real’ electronic instrument circuit become the starting points for the work. Processes, tools and their relationship to makers/musicians are crossed examined through short, humorous sketches and radio curios. Fact and fiction co-exist. There are musical interludes. The work brings together researchers and musicians from De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, and the Academy of Performing Arts (HAMU), Prague in a collaboration for Czech Radio.

Making for Radio was recorded at the Czech Radio, Prague 24 November 2017, and broadcast Czech Radio 3 - Vltava, 6 December 2017. Performers: Anna Björn, Bruno Cunha, Matouš Hejl, Katie-Jane Howard, Monika Jagerova, Steve Jones, Nick Luscombe (voice recording), Luigi Marino, Johana Ožvold, Martin Ožvold, Amit Patel, Michal Rataj, John Richards, Samantha Topley, Maya Verlaak, Max Wainwright, et al.

Making for Radio

Disruption, intervention, transference, halfway-ness, violation — the conversion of data/sound from one medium to another results in a new material phenomena, transmedia, found in the hidden corners of esoteric technological processes. Violations is an extended event that includes the construction of a specially commissioned Dirty Electronics printed circuit board artwork/sound object, rehearsal and a large-group performance. A feedback system is designed where audio of a sequenced pattern is used to re-program itself. The event further explores how sound and/or code can collectively coalesce and gravitate or not towards a mean. The artwork for the printed circuit board takes inspiration from Arjun Appadurai's book The Social Life of Things, and the exploded-view illustrations of fifteenth century artist-engineer Mariano Taccolafound in his De ingeneis (Concerning Engines) and De machinis (Concerning Machines).

Violations III

A voltage controlled digital noise Eurorack module ... with unique characters and chaotic behaviours 

We’ve created 32 new programs for the Radical22 second edition (64 in total). 

Each program is made from core wavetables and algorithms and can produce many, many sounds! 

All sounds from the Radical22 (second edition) un-processed. This is a small sample only from the 32 new programs.

Radical22 (second edition)
Cores
1. stanbard dog [0:00 - 1:17]
2. swine [1:20 - 3:01]
3. 1 wing [3:04 - 4:14]
4. an-yooouuuu [4:16 - 5:42]

More info at: https://www.dirtyelectronics.org and https://noise.technology

Radical 22 (second edition)

Radical22 (second edition)

Dirty Electronics will be joined by long-term collaborator Nicholas Bullen (Napalm Death/Scorn) for a set at Supersonic 2015 featuring works from Dirty Electronics’ synth/album released on Mute Records, and pieces for the Supersonic commissioned Horn & Bells sound object. Over the last decade, John Richards (Dirty Electronics) and Bullen have worked together on numerous projects from releasing music as Black Galaxy to co-organising Fluxus events. Bullen has also written several performance pieces for the Dirty Electronics Ensemble.

Dirty Electronics feat. Nicholas Bullen

Stones and Noises (2016) John Richards
for stones, scrubbing brushes and noise synths

Stones and Noises explores sounds produced by repetitive actions of rubbing stones together and scrubbing with brushes opposed by a noise generator. The piece also presents questions about our relationship with tools and technology.

Live recording 
Katzin Concert Hall, Arizona, US 19/11/16
Direction John Richards
Performed by: Marissa Rohr, Justin Kennedy, Courtney Brown, Jack McConnell, Gabriella Isaac, Byron Lahey, Jacqueline Fazekas, Destiny Flores, Josh Bennett

Stones & Noises

Since 2003, John Richards has been exploring the idea of ‘Dirty Electronics’ that focuses on face-to-face shared experiences, ritual, gesture, touch and social interaction. In Dirty Electronics process and performance are inseparably bound. The ‘performance’ begins on the workbench devising instruments and is extended onto the stage through playing and exploring these instruments.

www.dirtyelectronics.org

Stones & Noises

Dirty Electronics

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