Here is John Cage’s Imaginary Landscape No. 4, performed by the Maelström Percussion Ensemble: [audio:http://radioartnet.net/audio/2550.mp3] Written in 1951, Imaginary Landscape No. 4 is scored for twelve radios. Two performers “play” each radio, one dialing the frequency, the other changing the volume and tone. The work is notated conventionally, i.e. with…
Words and Music is a radio play written by Samuel Beckett in 1962. In this piece, two characters entitled Words and Music (or Joe and Bob as they are sometimes called) work together and against each other in order to produce songs, musical interludes, and lyric poetry. To some extent,…
Au départ, l’idée était quelque chose comme: un compositeur ayant eu une vie bizarre, remplie de compositions instrumentales et électroacoustiques, spécialiste du micro voyageur, a le projet de faire un parcours aléatoire dans le Sud-Ouest américain. Ce voyage a eu lieu en septembre 1998. Jour après jour, la route se…
Cascando is a radio play by Samuel Beckett. It was written in French in December 1961, subtitled Invention radiophonique pour musique et voix, with music by the Franco-Romanian composer Marcel Mihalovici. It was first broadcast on France Culture on 13 October 1963 with Roger Blin (L’Oeuverer) and Jean Martin (La…
Weekend is a pioneering work from the early days of radio, commissioned in 1928 by Berlin Radio Hour. In a collage of words, music fragments and sounds, the film-maker and media artist Walter Ruttmann presented on 13 June 1930 a radically innovative radio piece: an acoustic picture of a Berlin…
50 years ago this month, the most celebrated electronic music studio in the world was established. We trace the history of the Radiophonic Workshop, talking to the composers and technical staff who helped to create its unique body of work. Steve Marshall Published in SOS April 2008 I was 10…
Título: Ars Sonora es… Duración: 27’18” Año: 1985 Intérpretes:Amparo García Novo, locutora Francisco Felipe y José Iges, selección, montaje y dirección. Observaciones: Programa inaugural de Ars Sonora, emitido en RNE Radio 2 el 6-10-85 Contenido: Presentación de la serie, a partir de un breve texto que dice tanto como se…
Autor / Author: Luc Ferrari Título / Title: L’Escalier des Aveugles / La escalinata de los ciegos Duración/Duration: 34’20” Año / Year: 1991 Intérpretes / Players: Ana Malaver, Julia Gil, Susana Cantero, Izaskun Azurmendi, Laura Notario y Gloria de Pedro, actrices. Observaciones / Observations: Obra encargo del CDMC y Radio…
In ‘Radio Net’, the mixing was done with what could be seen as a special case of time-division multiplexing. Although heard as a conventional mix of input signals, the output was actually being switched very quickly from input to input. The perceived level of an input in the mix depended…