Diacoustics
Transmission : 10th September, 12:00 and repeated at 18:00

The experience of sound can at times be a form silence, not so much for the ears, but for the mind. If we close our eyes to focus purely on listening, the outside world as we are used to knowing it gradually fades from consciousness and ultimately disappears. We forget ourselves: the room is no longer there; we are no longer there – even the sound is no longer there. For a moment the mind is still, all that remains is an experiencing of sound.

All that remains is a “listening” suspended in nothing.

The piece features excerpts from archive interviews and recordings of Alan Watts, Delia Derbyshire, Antony Gormley, Denis Smalley, AL Kennedy, Francis Dhomont, Eliane Radigue, John N. Gray, and Daniel Cioccoloni. It references the forms, ideas, and sounds of some of the seminal works in the radiophonic/acousmatic tradition (Inventions for radio – Delia Derbyshire, Sous le regard d’un soleil noir – Francis Dhomont, Névé – Denis Smalley), as well as Francis Poulenc’s chorale O Magnum Mysterium.

Composed, recorded, and engineered by: Daniel Cioccoloni
Additional sounds: Giovani Tancredi, E-Cor Ensemble
Additional field recordings: Felix Blume

Diacoustics was conceived as a project to explore the possibilities offered by sound as a raw material, and our experiences of it as listeners. Over time it has become the main focus of my production in sound, bringing together my research in music, field recording, spoken word, and those abstract, hard-to-define sonic experiences that lie somewhere in between.

Work from the project has been featured in a number of exhibitions (Manifestations, 2nd Recursion), radio programs (Sound Introversion Radio, Radiophrenia), and was awarded 3rd place at the Oxford/Sennheiser Electronic Music Prize (OSEMP) 2014.

Diacoustics - The Emptiness Of Sound

Radiophrenia is a temporary art radio station – an exploration into current trends in sound and transmission arts. Broadcasting live from Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, the station aims to promote radio as an art form, encouraging challenging and radical new approaches to the medium. The broadcast schedule will include live shows, pre-recorded features and a series of ‘live-to-air’performances. The majority of the programme will be made up from selections submitted to an international open call for sound and radio works.

Broadcasting across Glasgow on 87.9fm, and online at www.radiophrenia.scot 

Supported by Creative Scotland.