RESPUESTA ALTERNATIVA
is a radio show format hosted by Houschyar. The first recordings happened at Pixie Underground, a small club in Istanbul including guest selectors. Due to the conditions the fomat became a full way of expression of Houschyars own musical taste. Having no home haven the radio show is sailing around and is being broadcasted by different international radio stations.
In the focus stands the alternative understanding of music, borderlining and education always longing for new directions all in the frame work of very personal storytelling.
The idea is to show Psychedelic Weirdo Experiments and true feelings of the last four decades, open minded selections and free switching between all possible genres to delete preset constructs and encourage to opening eyes and ears.
Furthermore each episode is an approach to tell a personal story with feelings, soundtracks and sample collages.

Respuesta Alternativa

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"...It has been quite some time since the last episode of Respuesta Alternativa. Eight months to be exact. Much has happened since then, much confusion has been dissolved into clearance. Old structures caved in and new hands reached out, offering a whole new world. I just had to grab them, with trust in myself, in us, in our family and walk through the door. The stars are shining brighter now, they reveal a new picture, painted in many different colours. Red, orange and some green, happy colours that tell a story of faith, ideas and vision. 

Actually, I made this radio show already quite some time ago, but I found now to be the right moment to share it and add it to the list of memories. Many memories have been made, it’s surprising how much nostalgia can carry us away if we let in. The good thing is though, that everything is starting now. Nothing is lost, everything will happen, naturally in its own speed and rhythm. I dedicate this show to you, to all the inspiration and love, to all the ideas and tears, to all the plans and plants, to all the days and months and years, to all the breaths, the hugs and beers, to all the words, to all the birds, to all your care and to your hair. 

My friends listen to this on a hot summer day, with open windows and hear the wind bringing brightness after all the darkness and who knows, eventually we all will become animals again...."

Respuesta Alternativa #10 - Everyone was an animal

I recorded a mix for my friends Pedro Abrantes and Valdemar Pereira (aka Collectivo Vandalismo)from Porto for their show "Geograficamente Perto" on LYL Radio which was transmitted on the 7th of October 2021 at 13h PT.

Fettuccine on the sidewalk
"Don’t stay in New York the Network is deleted. Frozen Datas in a bar for several hours diving through Fettuccini. Rather dark shadows off forgotten experiments telling stories of robots and love. Uncanny streets, airplanes in pink mountains, echoes between walls, broken glass in the clouds and salmon pieces hugging cigarette butts."

LYL Radio - Geograficamente Perto w/ Houschyar

Taken from the incredible album 'The Rorschach Garden - Second Tape' from 1991 on Fich Art Munich, this song got transformed into a deconstructed piece without vocals that focuses only on the horrifying synth lines. Additionally a minimalistic drum pattern was added to enhance the groove for little dancefloors in the basements of the heated cities.

This edit was made in 2020 and recently found again in the depth of the harddrive.

BUY Here: https://houschyar.bandcamp.com/track/the-rorschach-garden-is-hope-an-energy-houschyar-drum-edit

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The Rorschach Garden - Is Hope An Energy (Houschyar Drum Edit)

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/houschyar
Track: One Day In May
Label: Bandcamp Exclusive
Format: Digital Single
Release date: 14/12/22
Youtube: https://youtu.be/StuEVYPfoow

I decided to release this little piece that has been laying around for quite some time. � - Marius Houschyar
"One day in May 2021 I had the idea to compose a few pieces using only a cheap plastic workstation my neighbour had given me because it was just standing around. Besides some subtle field recordings of a warm summer day on a green meadow, all sounds came from the samples of this little keyboard. �
'One Day In May' happened on the 23.05.21 and reflects of the lightness and beauty such a Sunday can have. Sometimes one can still feel melancholic on such a day, even if one sees the birds flying through the blue sky and the warm rays of the sun touch one's face. This little lullaby for lazy afternoons is quite important to me as it reflects on both sides, the open bright space of light and the dark room inside of us."

PREMIERE | Houschyar - One Day In May [Bandcamp Exclusive] 2022

"…again it has been ages since the last edition of Respuest Alternativa. I guess it has been more than a year. I have been working on this one for months, trying to catch one feeling, one state of mind, but as time passes so do feelings which is why it has been very hard to create a story that reflects on my current situation. The situation is though, when I really think about, a process of searching myself. It may sound like something that is anyways happening all the time, but the last year and especially the last couple of months in which I was diving through so many different cultures and places, gained a true meaning for me in terms of self development. 

The part of me which has always been doubting, doubting myself and the world around me, doubting that anything means anything and that there is a true meaning to the things has slowly started to transform into something more positive, something more believing, believing in my self, in the clouds, the rain, the animals, the trees. Spirituality has played quite a big role in this process which is still going on and which probably will never end. Especially about this radioshow I was often not sure, stopped again, pushed it by side and now that I am sitting in a garden somewhere in central Mexico, being enriched by great people, weird plants and shamanic peyote ceremonies, I decided it is time, time to finish this one. 

May you feel what ever you want while listening to it. It is melancholic, but it is not sad, it is blue but not dark. May all the spirits come together and bless us all, never stop praising the things around you, even if everything goes a la Verga. Ometeo…"

Tracklist:
1.Fabio, our mother and me sing on the Autobahn from Hamburg to Berlin(2021)
2.Eylül plays the Hammond organ at“ Teppich und Tee”,Klasse Carsten Nicolai, Dresden(2022)
3.Sholto Dobie - Nevery(Thanet Tape Centre ,2020)
4.Fall of Saigon - The Swimmer(Atem ,1982)
5.Split & Limo - Fotoliebe(excerpt, Irre Tapes, 1984)
6.Die Unschuldigen Kadetten - Ich Glaube Ich War Noch Nie Verliebt(Transmitter Kassetten ,1982)
7.Facit - Smell of the Elderly(Förfall ,2021)
8.Alper, Ilkyaz, Doga, Eylül and me experimenting a t-1, Istanbul(2022) 
9.Wyatt / Atzmon / Stephen - Lullaby For Irena(Domino,2010)
10.Don Campau - Do You Dare Me?(Lonely Whistle Music, 1993)
11.My mother and me playing together at her house at Brunnenstraße in Dießen ,2022)
12.The Habitat Ensemble - Two Voices In The Field(unreleased, 2022)
13. Tasavallan Presidentti - Lambertland (Loverecords ,1974)
14.Dead Can Dance - Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book(4AD, 1991) 15.Księżyc - Zakopana (OHBU Records, 1996)
16.Roger Bunn - Life is A Circus (Major Minor, 1970)
17.Fall Of Saigon - So long (Atem, 1983)
18.E&M - Machina Melancholica (unreleased, 2021)

Respuesta Alternativa #11 - El hombre del desierto

Tozdan ilk alıntı

There is so much I could tell about our time in Kahramanmaras, but it always has been actually difficult to explain to others what we experienced there.  Still, I would like to share one tiny piece of it: A recording I made during the second week after the earthquake on the schoolyard of Sümer Ortaokulu, that has been selected as part of the French Pavilion for the XVIII Venice International Architecture Biennale 2023, for the project “Radio Utopia - News from the World” .

"The piece ‘Tozdan ilk alıntı is a tiny excerpt from the life on a small schoolyard in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, where an entire community is living in tents as a result of the devastating earthquakes of February. As part of the spontaneously formed ‘to-it together’ aid collective KAF, which has been supporting the local community since the first days after the disaster, the artist had the opportunity to collect footage and extract pieces of a shattered reality that is being transformed into something new. The recording contains conversations with children, beginning with 6-year-old Mohammed singing a Syrian song, before descending into a dreamy organ loop telling of rain, mud and the smell of burning wood. A little note from Sümer Mahallesi, Kahramanmaras through Istanbul into the world.”

Tozdan Ilk Alıntı

A mix for my childhood friend Nico aka @Schaumstoff!
Thanks to 25 years of friendship and madness.

Investigación_En_Perpetuum -  Radio Relativa

“I was 2190 km away from where the smoke came up, but fortunately
everything went well and she put out the fire in time. Last night I brought
my stuff to the laundry for the first time again.

When I think about it, it became a rather dark story of temporary
soundtracks about being lost alone on an infinitely long street hoping for
the repairman to come and fix everything. It took me a while to bring all
this together and make a sense out of it, especially because of the chicken
sounds. Sometimes it is not that easy to catch the feeling of a certain
time while living in it. It seems like the waves of moments have increased
their frequency lately and somehow things that were just recently fixed
burned down again. The guy from my street told me that he would sell me a
washing machine that does not burn down my apartment. So that at least is
some kind of progress.“

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Pingipung Podcast 157: Houschyar - My washing machine caught fire that day

Taken from 'Habitat Ensemble' (MFM065)
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Maringotka

A2. Maringotka

Guestmix w/ Houschyar (16.05.24)

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This music is the result of a friendship established in Mexico between Marius Houschyar, Fabio Levi, Mazatl Alvarez and Mich Rubio who came together in the gardens of Central Mexico for spiritual and sonic exploration. All songs were recorded outside at the ranch of Mazatls father in Michoacán and the magical garden of the wise Abuelos in Mexico State between cactus plants and gigantic trees. The music contains mostly indigenous instruments such as flutes and ceremonial percussion instruments, as well as classical guitar, electric bass, a persian Santoor and one small keyboard. The song texts are improvised prayers in English, Spanish and Nahuatl. Every recording session started with a guided meditation and ultimately turned into a spiritual journey. A psychedelic trip telling of holy lands, the great spirits that inhabit it and a newborn, yet ancient brotherhood.

Written, performed and produced by 
* José Juan Valdez Alvarez
* Miguel Ángel Albarran Rubio
* Fabio Levi Friedrich
* Marius Houschyar

'Para Vivir' is written by Yaotonal Saucedo

Special thanks to 
* Amara Rodriguez Friedrich
* The wise Abuelos
* Mazatl's father
* the Museo de la Cuidad Querétaro
* Grandfather Hikuri
* Our dear mothers

Mastered by Josh Stevenson (Otic Sound, Canada)
Front photo by Marius Houschyar
Back photo by Yaotonal Saucedo

Un Lugar Para Todos

El Cuervo

Again, I know, it has been years since the last episode of Respuesta Alternativa. But things need time, I guess, and after two years of travelling, devastating earthquakes, beautiful friendships, magical basements, lonely nights behind bars and lazy afternoons at the beach, I thought now is the right moment to reflect on the current state of mind in this format. Although the radioshow itself seems to not be sufficient to explain everything i have felt during that time, it still allows me to display a certain result, a specific feeling I am left with at the moment. Now just take my hand, close your eyes and let me take you elsewhere..

Starting from a darker point, I try to tell a story about loneliness, vagabondage and love, always accompanied by my dirty pair of leather shoes.

This is for my dearest Brothers (they know..) and Sisters (they definitely know..) and everyone I could win over ;)

Respuesta Alternativa #12 - Love me, On A Windy Night

005 // Houschyar

A few weeks back I had the pleasure to perform a DJ Set at Noisy Words, a festival where noise is explored as rupture and disruption—not only as an acoustic phenomenon, but as an expression of resistance, memory, and multiplicity curated by Evi Nakou at Goethe Institute Athens.

As discussed before the focus laid more on non-western music, so my take was an extensive sound collage of archive music I have collected over the years. With a strong focus on memory the set evolves around crackles, bits and pieces extracted from a wide selection of forgotten recordings and contemporary pieces from Central Asia, Middle East and Greece.

Houschyar at Noisy Words - Goethe Institute Athens 15.10.25

Merz & Luxus

Reflection No. 1: October in Růžová, cigarette butts & černý čaj
Vocals: Nico Prokop
Jednoho Dne.
Mráz to je nejlepší maliř. Nejlepší ovoce je čas.
Utrhni jej! Je zralý!

Nejlepší ovoce je čas

The frist and only try to avoid shattering the last truth.

Programmed, played, produced, recorded and mixed by Houschyar
on wednsday the 6th of december in Nové Město, Praha 1.
Text written by Fabio Friedrich (my little brother)

Die Letzte Wahrheit

with Tugay Yilmaz on the guitar (Osmanbey, Istanbul, 2018)

Yanan Göl

A 1 Die Liebe Im Licht Der Vergänglichkeit 90bpm 04.06.19

A 1 Die Liebe Im Licht Der Vergänglichkeit

RESPUESTA  ALTERNATIVA
is a radio show format hosted by Houschyar.
In the focus stands alternative understanding of music, borderlining and education always longing for new directions.
The idea is to show Psychedelic Weirdo Experiments, Tape Music of the Kassettentäter Scene of the last three decades, open minded selections and free switching between all possible genres to delete preset constructs and encourage opening eyes and ears to new styles which might have been not recognized so far.
Pixie is the one and only place that provides the right base of community and spirit to open up and educate as demanded.
Frequently happening, this event will always invite a guest selector, accompined by the host Houschyar.

01 30.10.19 live recorded at Pixie Underground, Istanbul
The first editions special guest will be Luysali Lea Gloria Tyson aka Lulu from Berlin, Alm. Throwing events like Salz in places like Sameheads, the tapeloop experimenting young music lover is presenting a wise selection of forgotten psychedelic cherries.

Luysali Tyson (Alm)
https://soundcloud.com/luysalityson

Respuesta Alternativa 01 - Luysali Tyson

Dream Dub Trance Lockdown Music about melting stones and the letter A.

Recorded in Ömer Hayyam, Istanbul in Spring 2020.
All songs written & produced by Marius Houschyar.
Synths: Bassstation II, Roland SH01a, Roland RS-09, Casiotone MT-68
Samples from the BBC Soundarchive.
Artwork: Marius Friedrich

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Aerosol

The recording of  seventh episode of Respuesta Alternativa which was transmitted on @yearzeroradio on the 05.08.2020 21:00-22:00 h.
 A bit of a darker journey this time, but still blue enough for sea and wind. A Collage of pieces by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma, Peter Baumann, Haruomi Hosono, some new recorded material of mine, a The Rorschach Garden Houschyar Drum Remix and many more.

Artwork by myself.

Respuesta Alternativa w/ Houschyar [05.08.20]

This is the recording of a small, quite improvised live performance of the 29.08.20.
The performance took place as part of an weekend exhibition at the rooftop of  -1 (Eksibir), Tophane, Istanbul, at warm and clear summer night. 
The volume was quite low because of the neighbours, which as i think, added to the sensitivity and concentration of the situation and enabled me and the audience to listen as relaxed as in our own living room.

The setup included a Bassstaion II, a SH01a, a Casiotone MT-68, Korg AX3000G, a Kaospad Sampler and a CDJ.

Houschyar Live at -1 Istanbul 29.08.20

A star shines a dream shatters, love is all that really matters, love me now before you have to go away!
We are LAUT, silently listening to the noise of our souls.

This episode of Respuesta Alternativa is more than just a radio show, at least to me.
It is a deepfried guitar melancholica soup of laughing tears between cigarette butts and beer cans somewhere in the autumn rain, it is the midday nap at the beach, it is a dream in the clouds of silence. The feeling i put into this selection is dedicated to my dearest friends, to all of them who i had the chance to spend so good and sad times with. It is dedicated to the heavy weight of memories that will never return and stay forever trapped in my mind. It is dedicated to everyone I lost and every heart i won, you are all still here somehow. 

Picture is a collage of Mutter, an artwork of mine from 1998 and a photo of a moment that stays for ever though it is long gone.

Istanbul, November 2020

Respuesta Alternativa: Everything that has happend...

Contact: marius.houschyar.friedrich@gmail.com

Musical Dreamer and Selector based in Istanbul
Host of the event series "It Never Rains In Outter Space" 
More or less regular radioshow Respuesta Alternativa

Macadam Mambo /  Music From Memory / R.I.O. / Random Numbers / Späti Records / Emotional Response / Phormix / Müstesna Records / Space Ritual / Kame House/  Hardware

Dates:

28.01.23 - Los Gigantes Dormidos live at Queretaro, MX

21.10.22 - live at Porto, PRT
19.10.22 -  live at Fanfulla, Roma, IT
15.10.22 - live in Mola Di Bari, IT
06.10.22 - live in Reggio Emilia, IT
30.09.22 - live at Spettro, Brescia, IT
27.08.22 - Kopec, CZ

20.08.22 - live with Habitat Ensemble, CZ
28.07.22 - live at Braille Satellite, Lithuania
21.07.22 - live at Musik für Pflanzen, GER
15.07.22 - live at Cosmic Gathering, GER
02.07.22 - live at IST-BLN, Berlin

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