Name: Missed Connections by Zoë
Duration: 5 min 24 s
Description: A meditation on missed connection... Made for the Make Stuff Talent Show Pageant, November 2020... A collaboration with my friends Adrian and Mariah.

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Anosmia - 43'37" Aurélie Lierman (BE/RW)

“Anosmia” is a reflection on the absurd fact that a tiny part of the body, the nose, played a key role in the Rwandan Genocide (1994). In the early 90’s Hutu extremists started broadcasting hate messages via public radio, against Tutsi people. Millions of Hutu moderates got manipulated and in April ‘94 the whole propaganda machinery escalated in a bloody civil war. Four months long a whole nation was haunting ‘the enemy’, while often the enemy had to be found within oneself or one’s relatives. Distinguishing a ‘real Tutsi’ from a ‘real Hutu’ is anyhow difficult due to intermarriage. So during this period of war and terror tough decisions had to be made, often in no time: e.g. What if you were married to a Tutsi and had children with ‘enemy blood’? Back in ‘94 brutal killings within one family or household were countless! The length of a nose was decisive to classify the enemy. Even if your passport said that you were ‘Hutu’, if you had a long and thin nose you were considered a Tutsi, so you’d had to hide or run for your life. Nowadays it is by law forbidden to use the word Tutsi or Hutu.

Original Language(s): Kinyarwanda, English, French

Producer name: Aurélie Lierman (independent)

Additional Credits:

text: ‘Politics of the nose’ by David Mwambari

prepared piano: Momoko Noguchi, Aurélie Lierman

(speaking) trombone: Francisco Jose Couto

speaking and singing voice: Aurélie Lierman

mixing: www.mphomestudio.com

fieldrecording, analogue electronics, editing, composition: Aurélie Lierman


Anosmia is part of the ‘Fearless Radio’ project and was commissioned by Saout Radio (Morocco) for the “Curated By” -series of Kunstradio (ÖRF, Radio 1, Austria)

Curatoral statement -->

www.saout-radio.com/pdf/Fearless_Radio.pdf

Country of Production: Rwanda/Belgium

Length in minutes: 43,37 minutes


- February 24th 2014 worldpremiere of Anosmia in a live listening session organised by Kunstradio (Wien) at

Im Klangtheater (ÖRF)
Argentinierstr 30A 
1040 Wien
Austria

- March 2nd 2014

On air presentation of Anosmia

at ÖRF, Radio 1, Kunstradio, Austria

Anosmia (First Prize Monophonic 2014)

A meditation on two archival recordings, 'Zulu's Ball' by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band in 1923, and a 1948 interview with Helen Keller and her assistant Polly Thompson by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Peter McGregor on the occasion of Keller's 1948 tour of Australia.  Also features a recording from around 1976 of Clara Rockmore playing Tchaikovsky's 'Valse Sentimentale' on the theremin, an instrument played without touch. Tony Baldwin as narrator.

From Scratch (Fidelity)

ALL IN TIME by Sarah Boothroyd
2011
Stereo and Spatialized (Octophonic)
25 minutes
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The clock ticks; the moon waxes; the autumn leaves turn crimson. Time is as ubiquitous as it is elusive. Guided by science and science fiction, All In Time traverses the timeless mystery of time itself. 

This 25-minute work won the 2011 Luc Ferrari International Broadcast Arts Competition, won a 2011 Gold World Medal for Best Sound at the New York Festivals Radio Programming Awards, and was shortlisted for the 2011 Phonurgia Nova Prize.

All In Time was commissioned by La Muse En Circuit in Paris (Centre National de Création Musicale), with the support of Radio Suisse Romande, Deutschlandradio Kultur, RTBF Musiq 3, Groupe de Recherches Musicales, and Radio-France.  

In 2011 All In Time was broadcast on Radio Suisse Romande in Switzerland; on Deutschlandradio Kultur in Germany; on Swedish Radio Channel 2; on TIK ArtRadio Days in Slovakia; on The Radius (New York), WKXR (New York), WMUA (Massachusetts), KUT (Texas), and KFAI (Minnesota) in the U.S.A.; and on over 40 radio stations around the world, thanks to the Radiophonic Creation Day Festival and the Future Places Festival.  

This independent production was also published on two CDs – Deep Wireless VIII and Concours d'art radiophonique Luc Ferrari: Composer Le Réel – and was featured in several online publications; including Transom.org, Public Radio Remix Blog, Third Coast International Audio Festival, Syntone, InStereoPress, Girrlsound, and Infinity's Kitchen.

In 2011, All In Time was also presented in spatialized, octophonic format at the Archipel Contemporary Music Festival in Switzerland; at Festival Extension XI and the Prix Phonurgia Nova Concert in France; at Netaudio London in the U.K.; at the Ohrenhoch Sound Art Gallery in Germany; at the Deep Wireless Festival (Toronto) and Canadian Electroacoustic Community Anniversary Concert (Vancouver) in Canada; and at the PNEM Festival in The Netherlands.

Written, recorded, edited and mixed by Sarah Boothroyd, special thanks are extended to physics maven Peter Watson; to antique clock collector Georges Royer; to Travis Morgan and Dokashiteru for providing Creative Commons samples; and to Himan and Melina Brown for permitting the use of CBS Radio Mystery Theatre clips.

To read more about this production please visit 
http://publicradioremix.org/2011/09/pressing-play-may-stop-time

Thumbnail image credit: Paulo Martel.

www.sarahboothroyd.com

Copyright: All Rights Reserved

All In Time

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