Feb 27-28, 2019 | Presence at a Distance

PRESENCE AT A DISTANCE /  Reflections on the medium of Radio

Whether or not one is listening, the waves are there; to listen is to be present in radiophonic space. Through performances, screenings, loudspeaker pieces and archival research, we respond to the situation of simultaneity present in the medium of radio and investigate temporal, physical, electromechanical and historical degrees of radiophonic effect. How have accessibility, availability, and connectivity in digital media altered radiophonic experience? How does radio’s simultaneity affect the way we listen?

Participating artists: Asil Alptekin, Nicolas D’Aleman & Eunice Fong, Sebastián de la Luz, Hugo Esquinca & Vicky Clarke, Kassiani Goulakou & Marios Pavlou, Nina Guo, Francisco Petrucci, Farshad Xajehnassiri

The event is organized by students from the Department of Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at the Universität der Künste Berlin, under the supervision of Jacob Eriksen and Lukas Grundmann.

Location:
SoundsAbout, Potsdamer Straße 161, 10783 Berlin

Dates:
Wednesday, 27 February 2019, 19:00
Thursday, 28 February 2019, 19:00

PROGRAMME

////Wednesday, February 27

Francisco Petrucci / performance
Invisible lines available
Call the radio,
No one there.

Vicky Clarke & Hugo Esquinca / performance
FM Radio, ADCDAC, Graphene and Electronics.

Asil Alptekin / live performance
Phrase and Gesture
Asil Alptekin demonstrates the potential of discovering unfound sounds, phrases and gestures in composition. By using live radio static as the only source of sound, the search for sonic matter in various forms and colours will be the starting point of his performance.

Kassiani Goulakou & Marios Pavlou / film screening
Narration Zero
Narration Zero is a short film juxtaposing, reconstructing, and mixing the naturalistic acting and conventional sound effects of Greek radio drama with post internet aesthetics.

Sebastián de la Luz / Speaker Piece
30ffL1v3 [yxtpscn]
By tuning into radio programs, the sound from different spaces are projected into a new space. This juxtaposition of spaces resolves into a new definition of that container space. These configurations change corresponding to the spaces inherent in the sound that is being projected.

////Thursday, February 28

Nicolas Daleman and Eunice Fong / artists talk
The artists discuss their work DRIVE-THRU (2018), a site-specific performance of two RC cars exploring the radio archives presented in the exhibition Radiophonic Spaces at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

Farshad Xajehnassiri / performance
Stirring Times
Stirring Times is a performance that deals with the characteristics of radio — ephemerality, spontaneity, and temporality — by blending and processing materials from live broadcasts and radio archives. Signals out of two radios drift through wavelengths, and affect the playback of radio archive materials from past times and places. Unpredictable layers of radiophonic soundscapes are incorporated with improvised guitars to (de)differentiate the flux of persona and societal otherness.

Nina Guo / performance
Beckett’s Rough for Radio I Re-Spoken
This performance uses Samuel Beckett’s Rough for Radio I to consider translation in the medium of radio. In addition to the play’s four characters, several extra performers will be live translating the spoken dialogue into their native languages.

Kassiani Goulakou & Marios Pavlou / film screening & artists talk
Narration Zero
Narration Zero is a short film juxtaposing, reconstructing, and mixing the naturalistic acting and conventional sound effects of Greek radio drama with post internet aesthetics.

Sebastián de la Luz / Speaker Piece
30ffL1v3 [yxtpscn]
By tuning into radio programs, the sound from different spaces are projected into a new space. This juxtaposition of spaces resolves into a new definition of that container space. These configurations change corresponding to the spaces inherent in the sound that is being projected.