Month: July 2009

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Brussels BE 07.30.2009 – framework

July.31.09

This sunday on Framework  resonance.fm : “these are few of my favorite things”
2nd installment by i8u/*framework* / – phonography / field recording;
contextual and decontextualized sound activity
presented by patrick mcginley

*framework*/ broadcasts:
-sunday, 10pm, london, uk on *resonance104.4fm*(http://www.resonancefm.com)
– tuesday, 12pm, thessaloniki,  on *cooradio (http://www.cooradio.com)
– thursdays, 7pm, lisbon, pt on *radio zero* (http://www.radiozero.pt)
– fridays, 1am, brussels, be on *radio campus 92.1fm*(http://www.radiocampusbruxelles.org)
– saturday, 5pm, south devon, uk on *soundartradio* 102.5fm(http://www.soundartradio.org.uk)

“these are few of my favorite things” (2nd installment)

As i mentioned in the first installment, my interpretation of field recording based works, is very broad however, there is a thread I like to follow, it is to find  artists who have mastered  their unique identity through the music of sound.

I chose to open and close this evening’s program with Mika Vainio’s Behind the Radiators released as part of Touch Sevens series, a 7″ vinyl releases only on Touch Music.

Enjoy!

i8u

Playlist

1.A Behind The Radiators
Mika Vainio | Touch

http://www.phinnweb.org/vainio/
http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/

2. Hornet
Angel/Hedonism |  eMego

http://www.myspace.com/angelnoise
http://www.editionsmego.com/

3. Grass
Richard Garet | unreleased

http://www.richardgaret.com

4. Don’t look back
Rinus Van Alebeek | unreleased

http://www.myspace.com/rinusvanalebeek
http://www.zeromoon.com/rinus
http://staalplaat.wordpress.com

5. Music for Plants in Rhodes Island
David last | unreleased

http://www.konque.com
http://www.davidlast.net

6. track 04
Keiichiro Shibuya/Maria | ATAK

http://atak.jp/en/about/shibuya.html

7. track 02
Roel Meelkop/ an ear for numbers | zang:records

http://www.r0m.nl/

8. B Behind The Radiators
Mika Vainio | Touch
http://www.phinnweb.org/vainio/
http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/

~ time zone converter:  http://thesaturnv.com/converter.html ~
*for general info, playlists, podcasts, or to stream the latest edition

at any time: http://www.frameworkradio.net
<http://www.resonancefm.com/framework>*

*framework is supported by /soundtransit/: http://www.soundtransit.nl *

RESONANCE FM’S PROGRAMMING IS PRODUCED ENTIRELY BY VOLUNTEERS; PLEASE HELP US TO CONTINUE BY MAKING A DONATION.  CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE TO FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN HELP KEEP RESONANCE ON THE AIR: HTTP://WWW.RESONANCEFM.COM.  THANK YOU!

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Sackville 07.28.2009 – Simulcast

July.28.09

Presented by the Montréal-based organization Silophone in association with CHMA 106.9 FM (Sackville), Ok.Quoi?! Arts Frestival (Sackville), & free103point9.org ( New York State).

SIMULCAST 2.0 : Sackville is a month-long radio art series about listening to  radio at night and exploring radio’s links with eternity. Four Canadian sound and radio artists are asked to provide a single, unchanging sound, which will broadcast continuously for four hours each night on Sackville’s campus/community radio station CHMA-FM  106.9. SIMULCAST 2.0 begins at 2 am on July 28, 2009. At 6 am on  August 24, 2009, after the twenty-eighth night, the series will have completed and CHMA’s regular programming will resume. Featuring sounds  by Hélène Prévost, Mario Gauthier, i8u and Stéphane Claude.”

still life by i8u

In composing “still life”, I  recalled a fascinating experience during a recent stay on the Frioul archipelago, near Marseilles.  While walking and recording sounds for various projects, I noticed a snail on the steps leading to my studio. Everyday I walked up and down those steps; I was constantly excited at the prospect of observing the progress this snail would manage.   It was very cold and it looked to me as if the snail wasn’t moving at all.  My enjoyment of the snail was the surreal concept that I could not observe its immediate progress but was aware of it by gauging how much progress it had made each day.

This project being in line with the minimal aesthetic I am interested in of late, i have decided  to approach the sound of imperceptible change as audio “still life” .

SIMULCAST 2.0 : Sackville

Four artists are invited to create an unchanging radio broadcast

nightly from July 28th to August 24th 2009

Hélène Prévost “12:00”                   July 28 to August 3
Mario Gauthier “Transparences”       August 4 to 10
i8u “still life”                                  August 11 to 17
Stéphane Claude ” Waves Array”     August 18 to 24

All broadcasts 2am to 6am, local time (Atlantic Daylight Time, UTC – 0300)

Listen on the radio: 106.9 FM, CHMA
Listen on line: www.mta.ca/chma/listen.htm
Listen to the archive anytime: www.free103point9.org/archive

Presentation by Emmanuel Madan, Project curator, Tuesday July 28 at 2pm
Struts Gallery, 7 Lorne Street, Sackville, NB Canada, strutsgallery.ca

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Thessaloniki GR 07.28.2009 – framework

July.28.09

This sunday on Framework  resonance.fm : “these are few of my favorite things”
2nd installment by i8u/*framework* / – phonography / field recording;
contextual and decontextualized sound activity
presented by patrick mcginley

*framework*/ broadcasts:
-sunday, 10pm, london, uk on *resonance104.4fm*(http://www.resonancefm.com)
– tuesday, 12pm, thessaloniki,  on *cooradio (http://www.cooradio.com)
– thursdays, 7pm, lisbon, pt on *radio zero* (http://www.radiozero.pt)
– fridays, 1am, brussels, be on *radio campus 92.1fm*(http://www.radiocampusbruxelles.org)
– saturday, 5pm, south devon, uk on *soundartradio* 102.5fm(http://www.soundartradio.org.uk)

“these are few of my favorite things” (2nd installment)

As i mentioned in the first installment, my interpretation of field recording based works, is very broad however, there is a thread I like to follow, it is to find  artists who have mastered  their unique identity through the music of sound.

I chose to open and close this evening’s program with Mika Vainio’s Behind the Radiators released as part of Touch Sevens series, a 7″ vinyl releases only on Touch Music.

Enjoy!

i8u

Playlist

1.A Behind The Radiators
Mika Vainio | Touch

http://www.phinnweb.org/vainio/
http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/

2. Hornet
Angel/Hedonism |  eMego

http://www.myspace.com/angelnoise
http://www.editionsmego.com/

3. Grass
Richard Garet | unreleased

http://www.richardgaret.com

4. Don’t look back
Rinus Van Alebeek | unreleased

http://www.myspace.com/rinusvanalebeek
http://www.zeromoon.com/rinus
http://staalplaat.wordpress.com

5. Music for Plants in Rhodes Island
David last | unreleased

http://www.konque.com
http://www.davidlast.net

6. track 04
Keiichiro Shibuya/Maria | ATAK

http://atak.jp/en/about/shibuya.html

7. track 02
Roel Meelkop/ an ear for numbers | zang:records

http://www.r0m.nl/

8. B Behind The Radiators
Mika Vainio | Touch
http://www.phinnweb.org/vainio/
http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/

~ time zone converter:  http://thesaturnv.com/converter.html ~
*for general info, playlists, podcasts, or to stream the latest edition

at any time: http://www.frameworkradio.net
<http://www.resonancefm.com/framework>*

*framework is supported by /soundtransit/: http://www.soundtransit.nl *

RESONANCE FM’S PROGRAMMING IS PRODUCED ENTIRELY BY VOLUNTEERS; PLEASE HELP US TO CONTINUE BY MAKING A DONATION.  CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE TO FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN HELP KEEP RESONANCE ON THE AIR: HTTP://WWW.RESONANCEFM.COM.  THANK YOU!

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London UK 07.26.2009 – framework

July.26.09

This sunday on Framework  resonance.fm : “these are few of my favorite things”
2nd installment by i8u/*framework* / – phonography / field recording;
contextual and decontextualized sound activity
presented by patrick mcginley

*framework*/ broadcasts:
-sunday, 10pm, london, uk on *resonance104.4fm*(http://www.resonancefm.com)
– tuesday, 12pm, thessaloniki,  on *cooradio (http://www.cooradio.com)
– thursdays, 7pm, lisbon, pt on *radio zero* (http://www.radiozero.pt)
– fridays, 1am, brussels, be on *radio campus 92.1fm*(http://www.radiocampusbruxelles.org)
– saturday, 5pm, south devon, uk on *soundartradio* 102.5fm(http://www.soundartradio.org.uk)

“these are few of my favorite things” (2nd installment)

As i mentioned in the first installment, my interpretation of field recording based works, is very broad however, there is a thread I like to follow, it is to find  artists who have mastered  their unique identity through the music of sound.

I chose to open and close this evening’s program with Mika Vainio’s Behind the Radiators released as part of Touch Sevens series, a 7″ vinyl releases only on Touch Music.

Enjoy!

i8u

Playlist

1.A Behind The Radiators
Mika Vainio | Touch

http://www.phinnweb.org/vainio/
http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/

2. Hornet
Angel/Hedonism |  eMego

http://www.myspace.com/angelnoise
http://www.editionsmego.com/

3. Grass
Richard Garet | unreleased

http://www.richardgaret.com

4. Don’t look back
Rinus Van Alebeek | unreleased

http://www.myspace.com/rinusvanalebeek
http://www.zeromoon.com/rinus
http://staalplaat.wordpress.com

5. Music for Plants in Rhodes Island
David Last | unreleased

http://www.konque.com
http://www.davidlast.net

6. track 04
Keiichiro Shibuya/Maria | ATAK

http://atak.jp/en/about/shibuya.html

7. track 02
Roel Meelkop/ an ear for numbers | zang:records

http://www.r0m.nl/

8. B Behind The Radiators
Mika Vainio | Touch
http://www.phinnweb.org/vainio/
http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/

~ time zone converter:  http://thesaturnv.com/converter.html ~
*for general info, playlists, podcasts, or to stream the latest edition

at any time: http://www.frameworkradio.net
<http://www.resonancefm.com/framework>*

*framework is supported by /soundtransit/: http://www.soundtransit.nl *

RESONANCE FM’S PROGRAMMING IS PRODUCED ENTIRELY BY VOLUNTEERS; PLEASE HELP US TO CONTINUE BY MAKING A DONATION.  CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE TO FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN HELP KEEP RESONANCE ON THE AIR: HTTP://WWW.RESONANCEFM.COM.  THANK YOU!

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Lisbon Pt 07.26.2009 – framework

July.30.09

This sunday on Framework  resonance.fm : “these are few of my favorite things”  by i8u/*framework* / – phonography / field recording;contextual and decontextualized sound activity
presented by patrick mcginley

*framework*/ broadcasts:
-sunday, 10pm, london, uk on *resonance104.4fm*(http://www.resonancefm.com)
– tuesday, 12pm, thessaloniki,  on *cooradio (http://www.cooradio.com)
– thursdays, 7pm, lisbon, pt on *radio zero* (http://www.radiozero.pt)
– fridays, 1am, brussels, be on *radio campus 92.1fm*(http://www.radiocampusbruxelles.org)
– saturday, 5pm, south devon, uk on *soundartradio* 102.5fm(http://www.soundartradio.org.uk)

“these are few of my favorite things” (2nd installment)

As i mentioned in the first installment, my interpretation of field recording based works, is very broad however, there is a thread I like to follow, it is to find  artists who have mastered  their unique identity through the music of sound.

I chose to open and close this evening’s program with Mika Vainio’s Behind the Radiators released as part of Touch Sevens series, a 7″ vinyl releases only on Touch Music.

Enjoy!

i8u

Playlist

1.A Behind The Radiators
Mika Vainio | Touch

http://www.phinnweb.org/vainio/
http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/

2. Hornet
Angel/Hedonism |  eMego

http://www.myspace.com/angelnoise
http://www.editionsmego.com/

3. Grass
Richard Garet | unreleased

http://www.richardgaret.com

4. Don’t look back
Rinus Van Alebeek | unreleased

http://www.myspace.com/rinusvanalebeek
http://www.zeromoon.com/rinus
http://staalplaat.wordpress.com

5. Music for Plants in Rhodes Island
David last | unreleased

http://www.konque.com
http://www.davidlast.net

6. track 04
Keiichiro Shibuya/Maria | ATAK

http://atak.jp/en/about/shibuya.html

7. track 02
Roel Meelkop/ an ear for numbers | zang:records

http://www.r0m.nl/

8. B Behind The Radiators
Mika Vainio | Touch
http://www.phinnweb.org/vainio/
http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/

~ time zone converter:  http://thesaturnv.com/converter.html ~
*for general info, playlists, podcasts, or to stream the latest edition

at any time: http://www.frameworkradio.net
<http://www.resonancefm.com/framework>*

*framework is supported by /soundtransit/: http://www.soundtransit.nl *

RESONANCE FM’S PROGRAMMING IS PRODUCED ENTIRELY BY VOLUNTEERS; PLEASE HELP US TO CONTINUE BY MAKING A DONATION.  CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE TO FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN HELP KEEP RESONANCE ON THE AIR: HTTP://WWW.RESONANCEFM.COM.  THANK YOU!

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Review Ligne i8u | Tomas Phillips (ATAK) 2009 – by Giuseppe Angelucci, Spiritual Archives

i8u – Tomas Phillips ligne (CD by ATAK) 2009

Atak is a Japanese label born in 2002, founded by Keiichiro Shibuya and maria, a duo also known as “Slipped Disk”. Its catalogue comprises fifteen releases so far, including Shibuya’s newest work (“For Maria”). All published albums have electronics as predominant factor, although managed from different viewpoints, primarily dealing with experimentation fields and sound art aspects.

”Ligne”, out two months ago, marks a collaboration (a new synergy after “Anther” in 2006) between France Jobin, Canadian sound-sculpture artist (i8u) and Tomas Phillips, American composer as well as literature teacher.i8u creates, since more than a decade, acclaimed works, live performances and installations, Phillips’ sound is usually associated to reference labels like Trente Oiseaux, and/OAR, Non Visual Objects, Line, and, recently, Koyuki.

”Ligne” could be read as a report of visions, feelings and aesthetic attitudes, reflecting the intellectual background of its authors, whose abilities, combined together, produce an astounding result beyond expectation.

Four tracks here: two “lines” (which open and close the work) as boundary for a point and a data (names given to the other pieces), about a hour of encoded information, a persistent stream from the start-up to the last pulse, unpredictable sound sceneries proposed.
Environmental recordings are present, of course, but it is also possible to notice compositional moments, forceful changes of state, harmonic structures which tangle up.
Dilated, extended soundscapes burst on the scene, fade away and revitalize themselves after a while.

The first drawing is built on cracklings, glitches, interferences which intersect resounding patterns, melodic (in rare moments) or (more often) soaked with a hypnotic vein.
This scheme is kept for the first half of the track, then new, different perturbations on a more minimal ground and a new mutation around the thirteenth minute: electronic pulses meet repeated, manipulated piano tones.
In the second piece there’s a prevalence of subtle frequencies and defective insertions, what causes a granular effect in pure microsound style.
“Donnée”, the third track, is also the longest and the most fascinating: it starts with rustles, scattered noises, rumblings placed in continuum, then evolves in suave patches put on abrasive surfaces.
Lastly, “Ligne”, once more an immersion into profound sounds, exploded with more violence, sharp-pointed projections which afterwards dissolve into more peaceful states, almost meditative.
Excellent interaction between the two protagonists, intelligent use of (re)sources, spent for a very complex work, really expressive…or, to be precise, visual.

Label: Atak
Cat. #: ATAK013
Format: CD
Release date: 2009

Tracklisting:

01 – Ligne (18:23)
02 – Point (08:38)
03 – Donnée (19:15)
04 – Ligne (10:10)

-Spiritual Archives.

Giuseppe Angelucci

Address: http://atak.jp