Radio Territories
Derek Holzer (US/NL)
Jason Kahn (US/CH)
Brandon LaBelle (US/DK)
Friday, June 1st, 18:00 to 23:00 (works performed simultaneously
throughout the building)
Ballhaus Naunynstrasse
Naunynstrasse 27
Berlin
www.ballhausnaunyn.de
While changes in live streaming and digital networks have transformed
the use and understanding of radio, the notion and act of live
transmission through the air continues to inspire and haunt the auditory
imagination. From the potential of spreading information undercover of
legal borders to filling the airwaves with fugitive sound, radio may
remain at the core of what it means to communicate through circuits.
Inspired by the radiophonic excesses and marginal acts, an evening of
performative installations by sound artists working with and around
radio and its medial aesthetics will be staged. Using the building of
Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, the works will aim for the intimate, tactile,
and personal, bending radio toward the micro-narratives of place. The
event is also organized in celebration of the release of the new
publication, Radio Territories (Errant Bodies Press), containing essays,
articles, documents and audio works by authors and artists on the
subject of radio culture.
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Derek Holzer is a sound artist with a background in radio, webstreaming
and environmental recording. His work focuses on capturing and
transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban
locations, networked collaboration strategies, experiments in
improvisational sound and the use of free software such as Pure-Data. He
has released tracks under the Nexsound, Sirr, and/OAR and Gruenrekorder
labels, and has co-initiated several internet projects for field
recording and collaborative soundscapes including Soundtransit.nl.
Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer working with sounds, places,
bodies, and cultural frictions. He presented a solo exhibition at
Singuhr galerie in Berlin (2004), and an experimental composition for
pirate drummers as part of Virtual Territories, Nantes (2005). His
ongoing project to build a library of radio memories, "Phantom Radio",
was presented fall 2006 as part of Radio Revolten, Halle Germany. He is
the author of "Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art" and editor
of Errant Bodies Press.
Jason Kahn is a sound and visual artist based in Zurich. His work
includes drawing, sound installation, performance and composition. As a
composer, his work draws on electronic and acoustic sources to create
slowly developing compositions imbued with a sense of timelessness,
underlining the entity of sound as both physical and psychological. Kahn
has been exhibiting his works since the late 1990s, and has had solo and
group exhibitions internationally, including the USA, Canada, France,
Croatia, Germany, Argentina, Egypt, Poland, Switzerland, Denmark,
Austria and Spain.
http://www.errantbodies.org/radio_territories.html
--
derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ::: http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista
---Oblique Strategy # 36:
"Consult other sources
-promising
-unpromising"
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