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Pour Rappel, Avatar invite en 1994 des artistes à détourner le téléphone, objet quotidien par excellence, et à l’utiliser comme diffuseur, comme enregistreur ou encore comme lieu d’échange. À titre de balises, Avatar leur pose les questions suivantes : comment transmuter la banalité des échanges sonores qui caractérisent le téléphone? Comment peut-on intervenir sur les sons qui le déterminent et sur les codes d’échange qu’il impose? Cette publication est une appropriation de l’outil téléphonique et une réflexion sur ses caractéristiques propres.

Rappel est un projet qui s’étend sur une période de deux ans au cours de laquelle les artistes occupent une ligne téléphonique réservée au projet, entre le 15 septembre 1994 et le 26 mai 1995. Le 7 janvier 1995, les artistes de Rappel investissent l’émission Les chants magnétiques de Mario Gauthier à la Chaîne culturelle de la Société Radio-Canada. Toutes les expérimentations sont enregistrées et compilées par Christof Migone d’Avatar. Rappel paraît finalement en 1996.

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For Rappel, Avatar invited artists to orchestrate a détournement of the telephone—that epitome of ordinariness—using it to broadcast, record, or host exchanges. To guide the artists, Avatar asked the following questions: How might the telephone’s characteristically banal sound exchanges be transformed? What could be done to its identifying sounds and the codes of communication they impose? Rappel subverts the telephonic instrument and reflects on its fundamental nature.

Rappel was a two-year project. Artists worked with a dedicated phone line between September 15, 1994, and May 26, 1995. On January 7, 1995, they took over Mario Gauthier’s Les chants magnétiques on Radio-Canada’s Chaîne culturelle. Their experiments were recorded and compiled by Avatar’s Christof Migone. Rappel was at last released in 1996.

N'oubliez Pas De Débrancher

Where sky meets forest ain't so easy to tell. Sunlight jumps from wave to wave. The beat, a lazy pulse. Content to watch a while, take it all in. Clouds would catch the colours. A Mediterranean panorama. 

* we come in naked, and we go naked.


1. Catherine Ribeiro - Paix
2. Barnt - 0221 51025Xx
3. Gregory Whitehead - The Pleasure Of Ruins
4. Ssaliva - Trimensional
5. The Durian Brothers - Die Eisheiligen
6. Larry Heard - Faint Object Detection
7. Glitterburg - Apparition
8. Ariel Kalma - Les Mots de Tous Les Jours (Rêves Etranges)
9. Jaures - Reprise
10. Boris Blank - Oranges
11. Ariel Kalma - Barimpa 
12. Timoka - Pentekost
13. Acid Arab - Zhar
14. L/F/D/M/ - Book Of Five
15. Baby Ford - Poem For Wigan


STR (clicklounge)

MAD PROFESSOR --SET--

Side A from 'Opgenomen Verantwoordelijkheden' by Vom Grill (Ultra Eczema 186)

Vom Grill : Side A from 'Opgenomen Verantwoordelijkheden'

"But if someone, instead, is of a mind to force music’s secret directly and immediately, with the magic want of primal words, he is left only with empty hands, tautologies, and sentences that, at best, provide formal constituents – if music even has something like a formal a priori .  But the very essence of music will have vanished, usurped by the disposition of language and the concern about its supposed origins.", Theodor W. Adorno, “The Relationship Of Philosophy And Music”

This stereo mix of 4-channel spatial sound installation was created during residency at Q-O2 (http://www.q-o2.be/en/event/daniel-brozek-czarny-latawiec/), includes voice recordings from archives of Parlez-vous Saint-Gillois ? project (http://www.parlezvous1060.be/), Radio Panik (http://www.radiopanik.org/), Radio Campus (http://www.radiocampus.be/), Royal Museum for Central Africa (http://www.africamuseum.be/home/podcasts/index_html) and Brussels field recordings. The installation references are Iannis Xenakis "Concret PH"  with his Philips Pavillon  at EXPO'58 in Brussels and Joseph Conrad "Heart of Darkness".

Concrete BXL

form our next LP 'Trembling Air' 
(released on 26 February 2016 on Other People Records)

http://www.factmag.com/2016/01/21/12z-trembling-air-other-people/



12z - Names Or Labels

The improvised monologue of a radio announcer in a stadium is a sound event that involves spoken expression of the highest calibre. As they describe the game's plays, announcers are subject to emotional sensations that shape the way they speak. The tension of watching, marked by uncertainty about how the game will progress, generates powerful emotional states that are expressed in physical movements and spontaneous bursts of sound. Seldom does a comparable major event unleash behaviours that are more archaic. Whether one thinks of competitions in the amphitheatres of the ancient world, of Roman gladiators or of the bullfights of Spain - all are epic forms of identification and representative enactment. A form of pagan music arises from the collective rites, with their drumming, horn-blowing and choral chants, whose dynamic is controlled solely by the events. The radio commentaries function via the media network as disseminators, and also symbolise the simultaneous release of emotional energies by thousands of millions of people around the globe. In the installation that this sound piece is part of, the balls stand as metaphors. If we listen in, we hear the resonating space of this world.

Artist's Biography:

Born in 1959 in Hessen (southern Germany), lives in Berlin. 1982-1990 studied Fine Arts in Hamburg with Claus Böhmler and Henning Christiansen. 1992 – 98 gives lectures at the college of Lüneburg in the department of aesthetic & communication. 2002 winner of the first German Sound Art Award, Sculpture Museum Glaskasten, Marl. 2003 Initiator and Curator of the Symposium with exhibitions and concerts “STARLINGS ABOVE BERLIN – Sound Art meets Bioacoustics - on the Aesthetics of Birdsongs”. 2006 Initiator of the project “WORLD CUP’06 - RADIO COMMENTARIES IN NATIVE TONGUE SYNCHRONOUS RECORDINGS”. 2007 Guest lecturer at the University of Fine Arts Berlin, faculty Fine Arts for Sound Art.

Football Sound Narratives

Tilman Küntzel: World Cup 2006

Sampling:
-Van Eijck / Pavane Lachrimea
-The University of Iowa Musical Instrument Samples
-民謡　いつわ

Sumaura

SILENCE RADIO is back on SoundCloud FM.

With a very special guest this time.

Give an attentive listen and a warm welcome to up and coming Lithuanian selector Clicklounge. 

Disenos Conbusier - Le Chat [Dark Entries]
Inga Mauer - Cologne - Clone [HVNX]
Baaz - Kraut House [Office Recordings]
Pierre LX - Index 1 [Initial Cuts]
Oliver Deutschmann - Gasolinum (Oskar Offermann Remix) [Aim]
Henrik Bergqvist - Our City [Trouble In Paradise]
Inga Mauer  - I’ve Nothing To Say [HVNX]
HM - Don’t Go Lose It Baby (Benedikt Frey Reinterpretation)
Beesmunt Soundsystem - Blissed Out [HNYTRX]
Paul Du Lac - Backstreet Boy [Bio Rhythm]
Cute Heels - Lipstick Information [Dark Entries]
Aphex Twin - Xtal
Black Zone Myth Chant - Sleeping With Tv On [Laitdbac]

SILENCERADIO007 - Clicklounge

Senoide Oh! Senoide 1

A repetitive piece inspired by gamelan music. The piece is composed with SuperCollider, a tenori-on and gamelan samples.

Released on the tape / digital album 'Minnowahaw' avaiable on OGGY RECORDS:
https://viezecocktails.bandcamp.com/album/minnowahaw

gamellaxarksky - MINNOWAHAW NOW OUT ON OGGY RECORDS

Performances in hard-to-reach corners of the planet )) 

CRAZY COMPASS planet band in the Center of Interpretations: 
Asturias (Spain), special place of the Atlantic ocean coast [24.07.2017]
Concert in abandoned house ~ live wild impro ~ field recording 
Full: https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/album/special-place

Participants: 

Pedro Acevedo / Eco Rem (Avilés, Spain) > soundcloud.com/eco-rem 
Patrick Frey / Pro Tone (Bern, Switzerland) > soundcloud.com/protone68 
Alexander Bozhday / Somebody Bo (Penza, Russia) > soundcloud.com/somebody-bo 
Sergey Kobzev / Ясный-Svetly (Moscow, Russia) > soundcloud.com/jasny-svetly 
Nata Boundariver / Crazy Compass (Moscow, Russia) > soundcloud.com/crazycompass
Fernando Oyágüez Reyes (Gijón, Spain) https://soundcloud.com/fernandooyaguezreyes

Photo: Alexander Bozhday

Special Place / express listening [field live 24.07.2017]

taken from the album: 
Sonae - I Started Wearing Black
LP/DG
Monika91

I Started Wearing Black

Sonae - I Started Wearing Black

Live recording of a sound system based on feedback between a speakers and a microphone in a room

Swan Songs

A jam with Chris Lane on banjo and Joakim Lartey on cajon, percussion & studio

Reunion [Joakim & Chris]

Sounds from a collab with @tiny_wytch aka lone arrivals

Shifter (lone arrivals / Assula)

Selected soundtrack to the launch of MOTHER Volume One : Genesis at the Townhall Hotel, London. November 1st 2012. In no particular order.

Vantaa - Vladislav Delay

get it here:

005 GRIPGEVEST & KLING C38 / Gripgevest & Kling

Sjoerd Leijten is a transdisciplinary artist, composer and radio maker with a keen interest in dissident sounds and politics. His practice involves electromagnetism, field recordings, experimental journalism and hacking. Recent works have been shown at Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, NL), Budapest Spring Festival (Budapest, HU), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, NL), FiraTarrega (Tarrega, ES) and Oerol (Terschelling, NL).

A Rational World available via:
https://numina-tapes.bandcamp.com/album/a-rational-world

MINNOWAHAW available via OGGY RECORDS:
https://oggyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/oggy021-sjoerd-leijten-minnowahaw

NIGHTINGALE available via:
https://numina-tapes.bandcamp.com/album/nightingale-original-motion-picture-soundtrack