Expanded Radio Research Unit is an independent radio art platform for innovative works at the intersection of music, spoken word, performance and sound to challenge the limits of broadcasting; a laboratory which considers radio as an art form and a practice of experimentation and creation of multiple sonic possibilities and imaginary spaces. The aim is also to interconnect different cultural and spatial spheres and to explore the techno-sociological nature of radio, alongside its heterogeneous practices of artistic production.
Conceived and curated by sound artist Katatonic Silentio, Expanded Radio Research Unit takes place as a monthly residency on Radio Raheem, the web radio located in the iconic Museum of Design Triennale Milano.

Expanded Radio Research Unit - Radio Raheem

Cosa può un corpo? Un progetto di Phase
Registrato live
02.07.20 Confine
23.07.20 Relazione
NAM – Manifattura Tabacchi – Firenze
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Cosa può un corpo? è un progetto di ricerca e un tentativo di riflessione attorno all’idea di corpo in quanto essere pensante e capace di agire.
Si sviluppa in una forma ibrida di audio-conferenza: restituisce all’ascolto interventi di numerosi artisti, filosofi e musicisti, letture, interventi audio, musica, field recordings in un continuum spazio temporale pensato per gli spazi esterni della Manifattura Tabacchi, trasformando il tutto in un installazione sonora.
Nessuna dicotomia artista/pubblico, lo spazio di fruizione e di azione coincidono. Tutti i corpi che attraversano lo spazio della Manifattura nelle due ore di durata della performance si equivalgono: ognuno potrà dare la propria risposta.
Cosa può un corpo? è composto da due sottoinsiemi intersecati in un unico punto, il corpo: CONFINE e RELAZIONE.
Cosa può un corpo? Parte 2: Confine
interventi di:
Marco Valerio Amico, Luca Camilletti, Tiziano Cancelli, Vittoria Ciolini, Massimo Cittadini, Massimo Conti, Dj Balli, Marco Donnarumma, Stefano De Ponti, Stefano Di Trapani, Guildor Gallo, Lorenzo Giorgi, Matteo Grilli, Francesca Matteoni, Tessa Moroder, Bertram Niessen, Federico Nejrotti, Riccardo Papacci, Ludovico Riviera, Luka Sposato, Giulia Tomasello, Laura Tripaldi, Gabriele Tosi, Chiara Vacirca, Emmanuele Jonathan Pilia, Katatonic Silentio, Alessandra Tempesti.
PHASE
Il collettivo PHASE è progetto artistico e curatoriale indipendente con base a Prato (IT).
Si identifica in una proposta di arte-totale effimera, privilegiando la cifra espressiva dei suoi componenti, legati all’unisono da un’istintiva comunione d’intenti: la coscienza di vivere un continuo presente.
L’ obiettivo predominante di PHASE è allargarsi e diffondersi organicamente, scoperchiando nuovi vasi di Pandora per svelare una realtà già preesistente. La necessità si delinea sul diritto-dovere di prendere coscienza, in campo artistico e sociale, del momento storico attuale, riconquistando un futuro negato, riappropriandosi del presente.

Expanded Radio Research Unit w/ PHASE Collective: Cosa Puo' Un Corpo? Part 1: CONFINE

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The Polish Radio Experimental Studio (PRES) was founded in 1957 in Warsaw by the official state broadcaster of Poland. It was launched as a space for the creation of independent compositions, sound illustrations for radio dramas, soundtracks for theatre, film and dance. 
The establishment of the Polish Radio Experimental Studio was brainchild of Włodzimierz Sokorski, head of the Radio and Television Committee. Between 1952 and 1956 he was Minister of Culture, as well as a strong advocate of socialist realism, fighting against any manifestation of modernity in music. 
Created only a few years after similar experimental-oriented radio units in Paris (1948), Cologne (1951) and Milan (1955), under the direction of the Studio's founder, Józef Patkowski, PRES became a laboratory for experimentation. 
Despite this, PRES' output has been underrepresented in the history of 20th century music.  
Photo: Eugeniusz Rudnik and Krzysztof Penderecki at the Experimental Studio of the Polish Radio, April 1972.

Wlodzimierz Kotonski - Etiuda na jedno uderzenie w talerz 
Wlodzimierz Kotonski - Mikrostruktury 
Krzysztof Penderecki - Psalmus 
Andrzej Dobrowolski - Passacalia 
Andrzej Dobrowolski - Muzyka na tasme no. 1 
Boguslaw Schaefer - Assemblage 1 
Zbigniew Wiszniewski - Trzy Postruda Elektroniczne 
Zbigniew Wiszniewski - Burleska na Tasme 
Tomasz Sikorski - Antyfony 
Andrzej Dobrowolski - Muzyka na tasme i oboj solo 
Eugeniusz Rudnik - Collage 
Boguslaw Schaefer - Synfonia na tasme 
Bogdan Mazurek - Bocetti 
Bogdan Mazurek - Esperienca 1 
Bogdan Mazurek - Esperienca 2 
F.B. Mash - Biala Noc
? - ?
Wlodzimierz Kotonski - Aela
Wlodzimierz Kotonski - Tierra Caliente
Eugeniusz Rudnik - Mobile
Eugeniusz Rudnik - Ptacy I Ludzie
Krzysztof Knittel - Robak Zdorbywca
Krzysztof Knittel - Granice Niczego

Expanded Radio Research Unit: 40 Years Of Polish Experimental Radio From Studio Warsaw

Radio Raheem

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On the occasion of the reissue of her 1984 album The Divine Punishment, today Expanded Radio Research Unit dedicates the entire episode to Diamanda Galás through a selection of her outstanding works. 
Diamanda Galás is an American musician, singer-songwriter, visual artist, and soprano and activist. Her commitment to addressing social issues and her involvement in collective action has made her concentrate on themes such as AIDS, mental illness, despair, loss of dignity, political injustice, historical revisionism, and war crimes. 
Belonging to a very particular field of contemporary vocal research and performance art, she uses the voice as an instrument and enriches it by interweaving the technical with the expressive.
Galás has presented mainly her own work, but her live performances have also included works by other musicians, such as the avant-garde composers Iannis Xenakis and Vinko Globokar, jazz musician Bobby Bradford, saxophonist John Zorn, and Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, among others.

Expanded Radio Research Unit - Diamanda Diamanda Galás' Finest

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