Music & Machines VIII: Broadcast
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29 February & 1 March |
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10:00 - 18:00 |
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Free |
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This international two day conference will present different ways that artists and musicians engage with radio and broadcast technologies. It is part of Newcastle University's Music and Machines seminar and performance series, which critically examines relationships between music, sound art and technology. This edition will explore avant- garde composers' appropriation of broadcast, the development of radio art as a genre of practice, and the ways inwhich sound artists have utilized these concepts, through radio, or more recently network streaming, in their practice. It will feature lectures and interventions by several of the key thinkers, artists and musicians in the field, including: Douglas Kahn (USA), academic and editor of the book, Wireless Imagination; Atau Tanaka (UK/FR/ JP), musician and Chair of Digital Media, Newcastle University; Heidi Grundmann (Austria), founder of ORF-Kunstradio; Brandon LaBelle, (Denmark/ USA), artist and editor of the book, Radio Territories; Tetsuo Kogawa (Japan), writer and activist, founder of MiniFM movement in Japan; Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec (Slovenia), artist; Andreas Broeckmann (Germany), art historian and curator; & Honor Harger ( New Zealand/ UK) director of AV Festival 08 & co-founder of r a d i o q u a l i a. The conference will be moderated by Sally Jane Norman and Bennett Hogg. Atau Tanaka - a keynote speaker at Music & Machines & performer in Variations VII A collaboration between AV Festival 08, Culture Lab and the International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University, and the CETL for Music and Inclusivity. For full details, please visit the Culture Lab Website |
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Programme
Day 1 – Friday 29 February
10:00 - 10:45: Registration - Tea & Coffee
10:45: Welcome & Introduction by Bennett Hogg, founder of Music & Machines
11:00 – 11:15: AV Festival introduction, Honor Harger: Spectrum Cartographers: How the Hertzian Landscape was Discovered, Mapped & Colonized
11:15 – 13:00: Session 1
Douglas Kahn, keynote: In Series, In Circuit: The Transmissions of Nature and Communications in the Music of Alvin Lucier (45”)
Brandon LaBelle, presentation: Instances of Radiophonic Panic, or Towards a Theory of Transmission (20”)
Discussion
13:00 – 14:00: Lunch, open tour of “Hauntology” installations in Culture Lab
14:30 – 16:00: Session 2
Tetsuo Kogawa, lecture-performance: Deconstructing “Broadcasting” (40”)
Marko Peljhan, presentation: Reading Between the Frequencies (20”)
Discussion
16:00 – 16:30: Coffee/ tea break
16:30 – 17:30: Session 3
Sneha Solanki, presentation: Field Recordings: Myth, Materiality and the Military (20”)
Joyce Hinterding, presentation: Force Fields: Working between Induction and Resonance (20”)
Discussion
17:30 – 18:30: Session 4
Variations Now: on and around Cage and Variations VII
Laura Kuhn and Julie Martin in dialogue with Paul Attinello
EVENING: Variations VII concert at BALTIC
Atau Tanaka, :zoviet* France
Day 2 – Saturday 1 March
10:00 - 11:00: Open tour of “Hauntology” installations in Culture Lab
11:00 – 13:00: Session 5
Atau Tanaka, keynote, Prométhée Numérique (45”)
Heidi Grundmann and Andreas Broeckmann: In Dialogue (45”)
Discussion
13:00 – 14:00: Extra Muros
Tao Sambolec, Reality Soundtrack: for this public intervention in city streets, people (“sound carriers”) equipped with small radio receivers transmit the same electronic composition, following a defined Intervention Map to create a moving cloud of sound which travels through the city
[Open tour of “Hauntology” installations in Culture Lab]
14:00 – 16:00: Session 6
Thinking through Performance: Haunted Spaces
Works and words by Haunted House artists
14:45 – 15:30: Tao Sambolec: Reality Soundtrack: Transforming the
Perception of Reality by Means of Sound Intervention
15:30 – 16:00: Synthesis moderated by Paul Attinello, Bennett Hogg and Sally Jane Norman
EVENING: Radiophonia concerts & lectures at The Sage Gateshead from early evening onward
Haunted House: Installation & Performance Works
The disembodied voice of the telephone, radio, or sound recording, has often been associated with the voices of the dead, or of what Jeffrey Sconce has called “haunted media”. Sixty years ago the voice of Antonin Artaud was captured in the studios of Radio France for a broadcast that never happened, his Pour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu. That voice continues to haunt us in the present. “Haunted House” is a series of installations and performance pieces taking Artaud’s original recordings, or the more general idea that audio media are “haunted” as their starting point.
Artists: Paul Bell, Richard Bowers, Ludovic Bunel, Will Edmondes, John Ferguson, Bennett Hogg, Chris Leary, Adam Parkinson, Mark Self, Merrie Snell.
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