Oscillation ::: Mayday Radio Marathon - festival 2020

A sample of archives from the early years of Montreal based, techno-feminist, community radio show the XX Files. Initiated by bilingual feminist artist-run centre, Studio XX, the show first aired in 1996 and continues to broadcast every Wednesday on CKUT 90.3FM. Topics discussed in this selection include ICT activism, Napster, the millennium bug, JenniCam, and accessing high speed cable internet.

Julia E Dyck is a Canadian sound artist and radio producer working in performance, composition, installation, and transmission. She’s interested in the possible relations between the body, consciousness, and technology.
https://studioxx.org/en/productions/xx-files-radio/
http://juliaedyck.com

Julia E Dyck ::: XX Files Radio Archive

Wave Debris takes place during sunset, a collaborative performance at-a-distance which modulates the frequencies emitted by the sun at this time. Taking as a starting point Elisabeth Alexander’s research in the field of radio astronomy, Diana Duta and Julia E Dyck attempt to illuminate other phenomena which are always present yet not always perceived; phenomena that mediate, disclose and dissolve; that dust. The modulated frequencies are blended with field recordings, feedback and several readings of Ron Siliman’s Sunset Debris (2014).

Diana Duta works with visual, aural, and nearly-verbal language through performance, sound composition, and writing. Her work relies gently on the translation and re-interpretation of existing materials for generating new meaning. Duta’s most recent project 'Jambes' is a recording studio commissioning new work by artists interested in experimenting with sound and voice.
Julia E Dyck is a Canadian sound artist and radio producer working in performance, composition, installation, and transmission. She’s interested in the possible relations between the body, consciousness, and technology.	
http://dianaduta.com/
http://jaaambes.be/
http://juliaedyck.com/

Diana Duta & Julia E Dyck ::: Wave Debris (excerpt)

THE KITCHEN explores the kitchen as a space for cleaning, cooking and a playground for performance by adding objects and instructions to play each particular object. This piece was performed in the morning by Liew Niyomkarn and myself.
GOOD FOOD IS GOOD MOOD / WHAT’S GOOD / GOOD explores marketing slogans or taglines on cooking through dictation software and speech recognition. The generated text is voiced and altered in pitch and speed by various text-to-speech software. Related to the newly proposed subjects, the text are layered with field recordings and music. 

Antwerp-based sound artist and musician Inne Eysermans creates musical performances and spatial compositions, often in combination with text and/or (moving) image. Her works encompass synthesis, resampling techniques, field recordings, found sounds, objects and generative approaches to text.
https://soundcloud.com/inneeysermans/

Inne Eysermans ::: AND SALT TO TASTE (excerpt)

Ecological Fiction is a sound-navigated story told through different times and environments. It is the tale of an animated, vibrating object that exploded because of stress-ridden capitalism. Some of its pieces are shattered to ancient time, in a mythical landscape where the Chinese Monk Shen Fu, and blessed animals have lived for over a century. The story focuses on the intersection between nature, power and humanity.

Liew Niyomkarn is a sound artist and musician based in Antwerp. Liew's work primarily focuses on sound synthesis, field recording, and storytelling through sound and text. Liew's work engages in collective knowledge and expresses the natural behaviour of sound through synthetic elements alongside found objects. Liew seeks to discover another way of being/living in association with the environment.
https://liewniyomkarn.com/

Liew Niyomkarn ::: Ecological Fiction (excerpt)

This hour is dedicated to the cult of connection; allowing listeners, through an initiation rite, to connect to the invisible forces of radio waves. The dance of the spirit will give rise to disembodiment in order to reach the land of voices and travel in a space parallel to our perceptions.

Jonathan Frigeri is a sound artist, radio producer, sound collagist, and electronic musician. As a sound artist he is mainly interested in revealing hidden sonic layers of reality, to open spaces of imagination. In his work for radio he incorporates the creative process, the radio device and the space between the transmitter and the receiver, emphasising the space in between; between here and there.
http://jfz.zonoff.net/jfz/

Jonathan Frigeri ::: The Cult of Connection (excerpt)

The second edition of Oscillation festival will take place as a 3-day radio marathon over the first weekend in May, in resonance with the International Day of Workers. In the absence of project funding, the format of radio offered us a possibility to nonetheless continue the festival and to use it as a framework to reflect on the notion of value in art and cultural organisation beyond the monetary. Radio has always been a favourite tool of autonomous, DIY and experimental practice; offering low-cost means of reaching people, diverse forms of expression, and new tools for thinking community, audience, and access. We want this year’s festival to be a practical experiment in balancing responsible collaboration with an urgency to make space for things to happen.

Oscillation Mayday Radio Marathon ::: Jingle

Q-O2 is a Brussels based workspace for experimental contemporary music and sound art. Q-O2 develops projects in collaboration with national and international artists and arts organizations, hosts artists in-residence, and holds performances and concerts. 
http://www.q-o2.be