radio cegeste celebrates the first NZ transmission to the Radia network with haulout seal orchestra, discomedusae and .,
Sunday 6th September 2009 from 7:30pm free --- "Radia is a network of independent radio stations who have a common interest in promoting and producing artworks for the radio, and in forming related projects based on broadcasting and cultural exchange. We produce a weekly radio show that is broadcast by each of the member radio stations. Our shows represent the local artistic community of each station, whilst at the same time these new works point to an emergent collective notion of self-determined art for radio..." --- New Zealand's first contribution to the Radia project, a peer-to-peer network of globally distributed art radio stations, is a documentary on long running Dunedin based experimental music festival Lines of Flight. It was produced by Gilbert May with research and development assistance from Sally Ann McIntyre, and goes live to air around the network this week, being broadcast as Radia show #231 to a group of stations which includes Radio Orange (Vienna), Resonance FM (London), free103point9 (New York State) and Radio Grenouille (Marseille). The documentary will be broadcast this Sunday on the NZ Radia member station Radio One in Dunedin, from 9 - 9:30pm. to celebrate this event in a localised, yet distributed manner (appropriate when considering the Lines of Flight festival, with its catalysing of community via its status as an important localised gathering point for sound makers from all over New Zealand), art project space Enjoy Gallery will also host a mini FM simulcast of the transmission in Wellington, narrowcast to the gallery by the mobile experimental radio station / transmission art project RADIO CEGESTE, as it goes to air on Dunedin's radio waves. Radia shows may be distributed by online file sharing but it is not internet radio – underlining the potential for radio to be reconceived as a live, localised and performative artform, as well as examining its distributive potential, and looking forward to future invited contributions to the Radia project by New Zealand sound makers, the opportunity to place Radia’s transmission art within the context of an artist run initiative is also an opportunity to extend a localized discussion about radio as an art medium, and look toward a New Zealand manifestation of Radia’s treatment of the airwaves as a form of artist-run space. there will be performances by convivial aural alchemists before and after the Radia transmission, including Aro Valley's HAULOUT SEAL ORCHESTA Central Wellington's DISCOMEDUSAE and Chc-Auckland mystery 'supergroup' duo ., (dot comma) there will be a limited amount of radio receivers available, but audiences are encouraged to bring an FM radio or a FM-enabled cellphone to the event to tune in. the signal will be transmitted to an area of approx 150 meters from the epicentre of Enjoy Gallery to the wider environs of Cuba Street. Audience-roaming within the signal's radius is welcomed. if you're somewhere other than Wellington and would like to listen in, the Radia transmission of the documentary, hosted by Gilbert May, will be streamed live on Radio One's website in the station's Radia slot between 9 - 9:30 (see links below). --- www.r1.co.nz www.myspace.com/radiocegeste www.radia.fm --- RADIO CEGESTE is a transmission art project by sally ann mcintyre. a sporadic, nomadic radio show without an umbrella station or regular programming, radio cegeste manifests as an ongoing series of experiments in site-specific radiophonic locality, within whose open framework micro-radio stations are created as bounded events for particular spaces via the broadcast source of a very simple handmade, low powered Mini-FM transmitter, in conjunction with an array of radio receivers. --- ., proximity dunes. --- DISCOMEDUSAE is a wellington based duo whose prior manifestations of live sound have included near-inaudible bass sonifications, and a live score for scrolling code-concrete (the Library of Babel) for the Aotearoa Digital Arts Festival 2009. they describe their process as ‘chance fragments of culture manipulated into the orderings of the obsessive compulsive’… for Sunday’s performance they’ll be channeling the ether via various instrumental ‘aerials’, manipulations they perceive as ‘not so much 'radioart', as ‘radio as material’. --- HAULOUT SEAL ORCHESTRA is the solitary sound project of Wellington filmmaker Campbell Walker. "Seals may appear to be injured or depressed but in fact are usually just tired or lazy" is a new work combining sound collage with performance. he says “In it the depressed and isolated artist obsessively reworks his past glories, stripping them of any original meaning or context in the search for memories of satisfying human contact, and recasting them into fragments of narcissistic self-mythologising.” -- sally ann mcintyre : mbl : +64 21 2106243 : email : [email protected] : skype : rosehobart : web : http://myspace.com/radiocegeste http://radiocegeste.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
