Oscillation ::: Mayday Radio Marathon - festival 2020

An hour journey of recorded sounds, media extracts and music.

Roberta Miss aka +Nurse+ is an artist and DJ who lives and works in Brussels. Her work crosses printed media, textiles and sound. In her mixes, she layers multiple sound sources (vinyls, mp3, field recordings, samples from News media) creating a narrative sound journey, often related to current topics, and intended for digital/radio platforms or for the dance floor. Roberta Miss is also a member of the Poxcat collective (with sisters Juliette Romero, Eve Decampo, and Marouchka Payen) which aims to promote women in music by organising parties and hosting a monthly radio program on The Word Radio.
https://www.mixcloud.com/DjNurse/
http://www.mixnes.com
http://www.poxcat.com

Roberta Miss aka +Nurse+ ::: < Take Shelter > (excerpt)

Various radio makers speak about their connection to this historical and continuously changing medium, their ways of making radio: what to send, and what to receive, their motivations, the circumstances, their relation to the network and the audience. With: Lale Rodgarkia-Dara (Radio Helsinki/Radia), Fausto Cáceres (Shirley & Spinoza Radio), Anna Steiden & Rosa Danner (female:pressure/Radio Orange), Tommy De Nys (Dublab/Radio Panik), Jon Panther (Radio Diffusion), Patrick Bodarwé (Radio Benelux), Jean-François Henrion (Radio Campus), and more…

Caroline Profanter is a composer and performer with a background in electroacoustic and acousmatic music. She combines sounding objects and field recordings with digital and analogue electronics, and explores the grey zones in between. Collaborates frequently with other artists, at the crossroad to installation, film and radio art. Lives and works in Brussels and is part of the artistic team of Q-O2.
http://cprofanter.klingt.org

Caroline Profanter ::: Weltempfänger - the multiple facets of radio-making

The Cultural Diversity Dialogue Project is conceived by the African international institute for peace (AFIIP). It is an artistic structure dealing with poetry, story-telling, theatre and music in multiple languages. Its creators come from Sudan, Cameroon, Vietnam, Turkey, Tunisia and all now live in Belgium. AFIIP is a project for cultural diversity, coexistence and dialogue aiming to spread the culture of peace, creativity, and solidarity, and to strengthen the artistic spirit.

African International Institute for Peace (AFIIP) is an artistic structure dealing with poetry, story-telling, theatre and music in multiple languages. Its creators come from Sudan, Cameroon, Vietnam, Turkey, Tunisia and all now live in Belgium. AFIIP is a project for cultural diversity, coexistence and dialogue aiming to spread the culture of peace, creativity, and solidarity, and to strengthen artistic spirit and creativity.
https://www.afiipd.org/

AFIIP : African International Institute for Peace ::: Cultural Diversity Dialogue Project

Two interviews with people working in and thinking about informational access, autonomous publishing, contagious education. Sean Dockray is an artist and initiator of knowledge-sharing platforms, The Public School and Aaaaarg, both of which use sharing technologies to propose models of learning and accessing information parallel or alternative to institutional education. Brooke Palmieri is a historian, publisher, and rare book antiquarian. In their 2013-2017 PhD, Compelling Reading: The Circulation of Quaker Texts, Palmieri details a relation between Quaker methods of text distribution (crucially tied to the early printing presses) and metaphors of the plague, used to describe a spread of information seen by the Church as uncontrolled, contagious and potentially deadly. At stake in both interviews is the possibility of a (potentially insurgent) public defined by the ways that it transmits texts.

Henry Andersen is an artist and organiser living and working in Brussels. He produces performances, objects, sound-files and printed matter. Henry is part of the artistic team at Q-O2. Since 2016, he is one half of the semi-fictional reading group Slow Reading Club, with Bryana Fritz.
http://aaaaarg.fail/
https://monoskop.org/The_Public_School
https://www.campbooks.biz/

Henry Andersen ::: Contagious Publics—Interviews with Sean Dockray & Brooke Palmieri

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

Since 2019, Laurent Güdel has visited and worked in several electronic music studios across Europe: EMS Studio in Stockholm; Radio Belgrad, KSYME in Athens; and Willem Twee in Den Bosch near Eindhoven. Each have different histories with roots going back to the 1950s and earlier. Through a series of interviews, exploration of archives and musical creation, he seeks to understand the political, economic, technological and institutional issues related to the emergence of a post-war modern sound. Is early electronic music a “state music"?

Laurent Güdel is an artist and musician living and working in Switzerland. Listening to complexity is the focus of his work. The auditory exploration in Güdel’s works is achieved through collaborative and transdisciplinary practice. His medium and approaches vary depending on the collaborations. It includes installations, videos, live performances, audio or print publications and multi-channel compositions and diffusions.
https://laurentgudel.tumblr.com/

Laurent Güdel ::: State Music (excerpt)

Aligning with the topic of this radio-festival, nine artist-organisers from various places in the world speak about their work, their motivation behind it, and how it parallels with their artistic practices: Ryoko Akama (AME, Huddersfield/GB), Danae Stefanou & Yannis Kotsonis (Syros Sound Meetings/GR), Bonnie Jones (High Zero Festival, Baltimore and Techné/US), Mark Vernon (Radiophrenia, Glasgow/GB), Maria Komarova (Performensk, Minsk/BY), Michael Idehall (Ljudkonstgalleriet, Gothenburg/SE), Claudia Wegener (Radio Continental Drift), Vera Cavallin (SMOG, Brussels/BE), Laurent Güdel (Kopfhörer, Biel/Bienne/CH).

Julia Eckhardt is a musician and organiser in the field of the sonic arts. She is a founding member of the artistic team of Q-O2 workspace in Brussels. As a performer of composed and improvised music she has collaborated with numerous artists, and extensively with Éliane Radigue. She has been lecturing and publishing about topics such as sound, gender and public space.

Julia Eckhardt ::: Why they do it—artist-organisers about their motives

As part of her ongoing exploration of “gendered listening” as a feminist tool, Anna Raimondo interviews Brazilian sound artist, performer and composer Mariana Carvalho. In her practice, Carvalho uses her own body as a filter, as a musical tool that acts as a membrane between her internal perceptions and what she shares with a public. By referring particularly to he work Me alimento de voces in which she asks people to sing into her mouth, she deals with the possibility of feeding herself on voices and otherness (voces in Spanish means “voices”, você in Portuguese means “You”).

Anna Raimondo seeks for encounters, reflecting and questioning multiple and gender perspectives within and on life. It is a journey into social diversity creating possible areas of interaction. Her method is flexible and variable, accepting the accidental and the unforeseeable. Her process enables her to be part of the exchange and aims at making her art a meeting place. She is running a practice based PhD between ARBA and ULB in Bruxelles: New genders of listening: voices, bodies and territories.
http://annaraimondo.com/

Anna Raimondo ::: Listening to the promiscuity. In conversation with Mariana Carvalho

An oral/aural exploration of the creative work, materiality, practice, and history of the four individuals who compose the collective Sacred Realism. Although their work as individuals is rather varied and unique, there is something similar (or not?) at the core as to why they each chose to become musicians. Through a threaded conversation and collective listening they (we) will try to understand further what the core of the collective is by each asking the other some questions about it and the work we do.

Sacred Realism is an independent music collective producing scores, recordings, and concerts. It formed through the friendship and mutual respect of Andrew Lafkas, Bryan Eubanks, and Catherine Lamb in 2011 in New York City following the desire to support each others work and initiate something self sustaining. Rebecca Lane joined later in 2017 in Berlin after the three others had eventually migrated there.
http://www.sacredrealism.org/

Sacred Realism ::: Conversations In Duo

For 60 minutes, we will focus on public space sounds during Covid-19-confinement time. If the sound environment of the common spaces has changed, so too has our listening. We hear other things, we discover other forms of life. Here we propose a circular travel around a padded capital.
Soundmap contributors : Rik De Bruycker, Philippe Delchambre, Flavien Gillié, Omar Hobo, Séverine Janssen, Federica Palmieri, Nicolas Pommier, Simon Terre Solaire

BNA/BBOT is a Brussels-based organisation dedicated to the past, present and future sound memory of Brussels. Since 2000, BNA-BBOT generates a history and memory of the city through the stories and memories of its inhabitants. They have compiled closed to 20,000 items of sound data that form the history of the city. A kind of documentative experience over a very long course, which is not only intended to capture the voices and sounds that pass, but to also create multiple forms that can be heard and returned to the city. BNA-BBOT is today composed of Séverine Janssen, Flavien Gillié and Omar Hobo.
http://www.bna-bbot.be/Public/

Oscillation Festival

BNA/BBOT ::: Our Common Isolation

< strikes > is protest trance music. Inspired by the sonic use of pots and pans in the Chilean social movement, Strikes was first a collection of recordings, made one encounter after another in Valparaíso: each person was invited, according to his or her own rhythm and energy, to bang on an object chosen for its sonic or symbolic qualities. The piece explores the polyphony that results from the superposition of these pulsations, and the serendipitous multiplicity of rhythms that emerge.

pali meursault is a sound artist, composer and sound designer. Environmental sound recording is central in his work. His electroacoustic research takes different shapes: compositions for records, radio works, installations or performances.
http://palimeursault.net/

pali meursault ::: < strikes >

A musical ode to all heroic duty, blended with a repetitive whip to resolve you in the rhythm of your homely nightshift.

Kim Laugs is an artist fascinated by the relation of space, light and acoustics, and also has affinity with technology, design and functional art. For the last 3 years he is Brussel-based where he does freelance work for e.g. Laugs bouwmeesters and Rotor (DC). In 2018, Laugs started the cassette label IKI GAGA with Johnny Haway.
https://www.mixcloud.com/kimkong-il/
https://ikigaga.bandcamp.com/

Oscillation - Mayday Radio Marathon

HTT, Pé (aka Kim Laugs) ::: Carantiki_tiki^^ (excerpt)

en dépit de fortes similitudes was produced by the four participants by exchanging sound files over the internet, inaugurating a new working method for the collective, with results that may or may not sound different to the listeners' ears.

martiensgohome is a collective working since 1996 in the domain of sound art. While the crew has changed through the years, they have maintained an uninterrupted presence on the air at Radio Campus Bruxelles, where they produce a new one-hour show each week, improvising with electronic textures, digital abstractions, field-recordings, music instruments and domestic appliances. Currently martiensgohome are Jonathan Poliart, Grégory Duby, Roland Wauters, and Benoit Deuxant
http://mgh.constantvzw.org/
https://soundcloud.com/martiensgohome/

martiensgohome ::: en dépit de fortes similitudes (excerpt)

In the line of sight, as in nodes redistributing, transceiving in the eye of the satellite. Service Identities located. CQ , c'est qui? seek you.

Planète Concrète is an open pink noise universe staged by strange/loving creatures. Making new prostheses. Writing lyrics, playing a beat, trying a movement with GIY (gather it your self) self-built instruments. Participants: Kippenberger, Iris, Ground Ivy3.0, Poubelle, Av-net, Vinkenhart, Polly Petrol, A.Z, gender funky fuck, Moon Virgo, and all previous starred.
http://ooooo.be/planeteconcrete/
https://soundcloud.com/planeteconcrete/

Planète Concrete ::: Search and Rescue - Relay (excerpt)

Latitudes is a project in which Stijn Demeulenaere collects field recordings from all over the world, subsequently shaping them into soundscape compositions and live sets. For this occasion, he will mix his own recordings with recordings and compositions by other field recording artists, and interlace them with samples of testimonies about the act of listening, collected from sound artists who inspire him.

Stijn Demeulenaere is a sound artist and field recordist. He creates installations, soundscapes, performances, and collaborates with dance and theatre makers. He researches the relation between place, identity, sound, and the phenomenology of listening.
http://www.stijndemeulenaere.be/

Stijn Demeulenaere ::: Latitudes Hybrid Set - radio edit (excerpt)

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