With this release, the duo known for a more grittier, dirty sound tries to find a dream-like soundscape, while still catching a good groove to it. Influence from a broad spectrum of styles can be heard through out each track, whilst still being executed with finesse.

The chunky basslines provide tonnes of driving momentum, trance-like melodies creep in as the songs progress, lending it all to an ethereal quality, suspending the listener between the physicality of the dancefloor and something perhaps less intangible.

Miro-Benji & Stuster - Engel

22 hour radio broadcast on Radio Art Zone, 12 Aug 2022 from 2pm CEST - 13 Aug 2022 at midday

​Our recent work constructing ‘Open Wave-Receivers’ (self-powered radio receivers made from readily available and found materials)brings into focus the site-and-time specificity of radio reception. We experiment with designs that incorporate the physicalities of an immediate space into the circuit - such as coils wrapped around roof tiles, ground wires connected to garden taps, and antennas attached to fences - all of which set the circuit within a specific location. By listening over time, we notice the atmospheric and environmental influences on radio reception. We think of these and other radio devices in-situ as part of a larger constellation of bodies, materiality, and connection experienced through listening.

Over the course of 22 hours during Radio Art Zone, listeners were able to tune into Shortwave Collective engaged in collective and solitary listening experiences as we searched for radio reception through Open Wave-Receivers and other devices such as VHF and VLF receivers, software-defined radio, walkie-talkies, and electromagnetic detectors. Our collective material was sourced over many months and seasons, and across different time zones, from listening sites that connect environments, technologies and voices. Each recording was broadcast at (or close to) the hour it was originally heard. In two live sessions taking place during the Perseids meteor shower, Shortwave Collective members filtered recordings made by the group through their home environments: between 18:00-18:30 CEST on Friday 12th August from a garden in Crete, and 11:00-11:30 CEST on Saturday 13th August from a mountain in the south of France. Our 22 hours concluded from the garden in Crete for the final half hour.

https://www.shortwavecollective.net/constellations-of-listening.html

Constellations of Listening 2-3pm

välillä musta tuntuu ulkopuoliselta. luulen, että meistä kaikista tuntuu joskus siltä. siltä, ettei täysin kuulu. haluaisin kirjoittaa aiheesta lisää, mutta tunteita on hankala kuvailla. ainakin mulle. sen vuoksi tein tän teoksen. se kuvaa mun mielenmaisemaa näissä hetkissä. häilyvää, melankolista, mutta myös nostalgista. on vaikea tarttua kiinni mistään, on helpompaa jäädä omaan kuoreensa.

kollaasimaisessa maybe one day i will no longer feel that way teoksessa on kuultavissa ihmisten tuottamia sekä rakentamia ääniä, mutta niihin voi olla hankalaa tarttua. ne voivat myös ärsyttää. mutta mukana on myös kauneutta, joka on löydettävissä. lopulta

sometimes i feel like an outsider. i think we all feel that way sometimes. like we don't quite belong. i'd like to write more about this topic but feelings are difficult to describe. at least for me. that's why i made this piece. it describes my state of mind in these moments. flickering and melancholic, but also nostalgic. it's hard to grasp anything, it's easier to stay in your own shell.

in the collage-like work, maybe one day i will no longer feel that way, you can hear sounds produced and built by people but it can be difficult to quite grasp them. they can also be irritating. but also beauty can be found there. eventually.

maybe one day i will no longer feel that way

first part of a new, intermittent series of unknown duration. covers of song fragments from pieces about or containing references to oral sex

maybe one day i will no longer feel that way

miska lamberg

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