Schaffner's "Handkerchief for an Eternity" shows an approach to New Music that includes the body and its fleeting expressions. Its subversive humour may be understood as a criticism of the still meagre representation of female and diverse musicians in music history. "Fazzoletto" forms a multimodal project by the artist, in which poetics, composition and performance merge seamlessly. It is a homage to the immediate living world and the vulnerability and impermanence of our existence.

Fazzoletto per un eternità

A03 Tres Scherzi

schwarzwald

A02 Colazione con i fastasmi

This album explores the intriguing melodies of running water within the human habitat. The CD presents a compilation of bathroom recordings and mixed audio material. Some pieces have been cut with samples from other fieldrecordings (mainly from Iceland and Finland) and free mp3-tracks from the internet. The intention is to create a relaxing atmosphere – not entirely without humour – for the pleasures enjoyed in a private restroom.

Music for Bathrooms and Toilets

Der Strahl

Jazzy Tank

Uima Uima

"In many parts of the country, elves live in the rocks and in the stones, up on the surface, but in this cave, in this particular cave, which is the largest underground space that we know of, so maybe that is the reason, that there is a special type of elves, that aren’t found anywhere else on the island. And they are called ice elves."
Haldor tells us about a cave in West Iceland. THis piece forms part of "Hidden Places" by Gabi Schaffner.

Hidden Places

The Palace of the Ice Elves

PART ONE: By the tennis courts
ELECTRIC FAIRY GROUNDS is a sound and voice collage that narrates the story of the region in three different locations around Lake Guy. Past and present, myth and documentary are mixed into a three-fold radio play that follows the adventures of Melinda and Simon who went to find some lyrebirds near the tennis courts but encountered something much much more exiting…
ELECTRIC FAIRY GROUNDS addresses an industrially shaped landscape; the „song lines“ have changed into radio frequencies. You can only listen to the story being told by walking around Lake Guy.

Speakers
Simon and Melinda 			Talin and Aarya Bennett. Berlin

Radio Announcer 
Randy Gordon 	                 Nick Brown. Mt. Beauty, Alpine Radio

Other Voices			Kaye McDonald. Mt. Beauty
					Anita Martin. Mt. Beauty
 					Madelynne Cornish. Bogong Village 
Bill Sutton. Mt. Beauty
Glenn Ramage.  Visitor to the Library, Mt. Beauty
Michael Fisher. Visitor to the Library, Mt. Beauty

Story & Sound Design			Gabi Schaffner
Additional Music/Material		“Blue Hills” Theme 
                                                          “Radio Memories Australia 50s and 60s”,  Poem “Our ‘Ruddy’ Hydro Scheme” by W. Baldwin

Electric Fairy Grounds

Electric Fairy Grounds: PART ONE

You are listening to PART TWO: The Eerie Tree

ELECTRIC FAIRY GROUNDS is a sound and voice collage that narrates the story of the region in three different locations around Lake Guy. Past and present, myth and documentary are mixed into a three-fold radio play that follows the adventures of Melinda and Simon who went to find some lyrebirds near the tennis courts but encountered something much much more exiting…

Electric Fairy Grounds: PART TWO

You are listening to PART Three: The Dam

ELECTRIC FAIRY GROUNDS is a sound and voice collage that narrates the story of the Bogong region, Australia, in three different locations around Lake Guy. Past and present, myth and documentary are mixed into a three-fold radio play that follows the adventures of Melinda and Simon who went to find some lyrebirds near the tennis courts but encountered something much much more exiting…

Electric Fairy Grounds: PART THREE

Active as interdisciplinary artist and curator within the fields of sound art, composition and visionary documentation. Central to my work are communication, non-hierarchic perspectives and sharing. Different media are combined: Sound, text, bookmaking, radio, intervention and performance. Since 2015, my artistic practice has expanded to include amalgamations of micro-radio installation, storytelling and improvised shows. Almost all works are geographically anchored and make use of the local sounds and voices.

Gabi Schaffner. Radio Art, Performance, Writing

Popular tracks