Whenever I am invited to write ”a few words” about a new piece, ready to be premiered on radio, I feel a sense of unease. It reminds of the time when, as a theatre director, I was inevitably forced to expose my concept to the cast and, even worse, to…
I’m asking mercy to Russian writers if my work smells of post-modernism. I ‘ve never had a clear idea of what post-modernism is, but I have always felt that tripping into it might be considered a sort of holy sin. The fact is that… I’ve been very impressed by Don…
Stefano Perna and Ventriloque Media Collective: 1799. How to become-bats? Kunstradio-Radiokunst, 30-10-2011 “1799. How to become-bats?” is a radio piece focused on the exploration (by aural means) of concepts and ideas exposed by the American zoologist Donald Redfield Griffin – known as the scientist who discovered animal echolocation – in…
The Empire of the Butterflies -info & audio in Kunstradio-ORF Laetitia Sonami and Jocelyn Robert have matched up for the finalisation of their trilogy of sound pieces dealing with silhouettes, borders and the outside. Started in 1999 with the piece Le Crachecophage, the series continued with Les Scaphandres (both released…
Radio-piece for voices, saxes, natural and electronic sounds [audio:http://mp3-download.swr.de/swr2/karl-sczuka-preis/2007/geologica-preiswerk2007.19244s.mp3] The world existed before man and will exist after, and man is only an occasion which the world has got, to organize some information about itself. (Italo Calvino) About 1,6 millions years ago Neandarthal Men started moving from Africa towards Europe…
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…