21:40 – 22:00 GMT RAVEL – Radio-No-Radio (Belgium)

Live from Antwerp

EBU ARS ACUSTICA / ART’S BIRTHDAY PARTY 2007 – Antwerp.

“Ancient life was all silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. ”

words by Luigi Rusollo.

Can we make a same statement for radio ?

What if radio wasn’t invented 100 years ago ?

RADIO-NO-RADIO try’s to find answers, listen therefore to the silences between today’s radio stations.

We hear randomized long-, middle-, shortwave and fm silence samples on a interactive 16 channel speaker installation.

From 13.00 these radio silences sound in the public library DE DRIEHOEK Antwerp / Ekeren until it closes at 20.00 . Continuing we organize an ART’S BIRTHDAY party from 20.00 to 24.00

4 musicians and 1 actor improvise in the RADIO-NO-RADIO soundscape. The public is free to walk around. This performance becomes part of the EBU ARS ACUSTICA event ART’S BIRTHDAY 2007.

sample (you need to be logged in to listen the entire piece”

Participating:

André Goudbeek – bandoneon
Tom Hannes – voice
Peter Jaqcuemijn – double bass
Jan Pillaert – tuba
Dirk Wauters – percussion
Floris van Manen – programming
Ronny Pringels – Website
Klaas Janssens, engineer
Luc Gubbels – production for MARABOU vzw.
Ward Weis – concept and direction.

With the support of the Antwerp City council / Ekeren

A special RADIO-NO-RADIO website can be found 17/01/2007 atwww.marabou.be