Leggiamo e pubblichiamo (grazie SM):
Hello everyone!
We are proud to announce the launch of ‘Soundscape Forever’, an
ambitious collaboration with Kunstradio. ‘Soundscape Forever’
commences now with the on-line publication of ten original pieces and
tonight’s broadcast of Chris Watson’s ‘Luskentyre’ on the celebrated
weekly program of the Austrian National Radio cultural channel. The
collaboration will continue until December 13th with the broadcast of
5 subsequent works by Els Viaene, Xavier Fassion, Jean-Philippe
Renoult, Murmer and eRikm, who were given carte blanche to create new
works for ‘Soundscape Forever’.
‘Soundscape Forever’ is a reference to Raymond Murray Schafer,
credited with being the “inventor” of the soundscape in the 1960s.
First and foremost it’s a contemporary questioning of this notion
which is both ambiguous and often quoted, and still plays a central
role in contemporary sound-art and music.
When at SilenceRadio we question the notion of soundscape, we come up
against the problem of speaking about sound with sound: we do not
know what to listen to! A little disorientated, we find our way out
by choosing a mobile framework, which arrives at uncovering certain
chosen pieces in the whole. From the remainder left in the dark,
there emanates nevertheless some ghosts…
As “any landscape is a state of mind”, these creations remain
naturally only projections of spaces in space, of air within air, of
human beings towards other human beings. Landscapes exist only as far
as human or animal beings create them by their activities, their
relations and their perceptions.
We live in sound.
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LUSKENTYRE ___ Chris Watson
It’s as if we were there, as if we were it, this beach slowly eaten
away by the rising tide.
http://www.silenceradio.org/silence.php?id=140
RUISSELLE ___ Philippe Vandendriessche
Under a fine layer of ice, cavities are communicating.
http://www.silenceradio.org/silence.php?id=147
SILENT ETIQUETTE ___ Zoë Irvine & Mark Vernon
From an end to the other, Zoë and Mark played the sonic ball,
without dropping it.
http://www.silenceradio.org/silence.php?id=148
LA RÉSERVE ___ Michaël Batalla
An unexpected turn of events has unsettled the poet’s routine, his
carefully mapped landscape is put into question.
http://www.silenceradio.org/silence.php?id=145
DIPTYQUE DE LA VILLE ___ José Iges
Tectonic shift: Madrid and Paris became coupled.
http://www.silenceradio.org/silence.php?id=143
A TENT IN THE PARK ___ Kassian & Ulrich Troyer
Two brothers in a tent endeavor to measure the spirit of the times.
http://www.silenceradio.org/silence.php?id=141
AU BEAU MILIEU DU BRUIT ___ Etienne Noiseau
In the middle of noise there are always people. There people speak
about the noises which surround them.
http://www.silenceradio.org/silence.php?id=142
GREETINGS FROM ITALY ___ Damien Magnette
A postcard from Italy transformed into Origami.
http://www.silenceradio.org/silence.php?id=144
SUMMER RAIN ___ Els Viaene
Close your eyes and let the other side of your eyelids be painted.
http://www.silenceradio.org/silence.php?id=150
NOUS, LES DÉFUNTS ___ Yannick Dauby
Every year in Taiwan, a multitude of prayers calls ghosts to return.
http://www.silenceradio.org/silence.php?id=146