as or another
Although sonically it contains almost opposite sound textures, from fast, loud free improvisations to (very) silent chamber music, it is still based on same compositional/improvisational strategies. The work is centered to main piece, as or another for piano and electronics, but starts with a collage of free improvisations by author. After both is two spectral compositions, based on previous piece: string quartet movement using free improvisation collage as harmonic/rhythmic material, and piece for sine tones based on spectra of as or another. A kind of four movement piece, where the last section contains also music from third part of the piece.
Jukka-Pekka Kervinen is a Finnish composer, musician and visual artist. He is a member of Wandelweiser composer-collective, active musician, and runs a few record labels dedicated to experimental music.
as or another is a composition/collage for radia.fm.
Commissioned by Paulo Raposo/Rádio Zero for radia.fm
It’s not going to stop at a wall
This 27 minute radio version of When We Bow Down Our Heads was created by John Roach specifically for radia.fm. The work celebrates the resonance of wind and its promiscuous and borderless nature by combining 10 years of spatialized field recordings, live intervention of performers Wolf Robert Stratmann (double bass) and Inbal Hever (voice), and fragments of interviews that provide contextual turbulence. Two voices are heard in this edit, the interdisciplinary artist and composer Raven Chacon and the Geophysical Scientist Joonsuk Kang.
John Roach is an interdisciplinary artist with a particular interest in sound and multisensory experience who builds environments that blur the line between what we see and what we hear. His work moves fluidly between intermedia installation, radio transmission, performance, object-making, and image-making. It is guided by a playful embrace of uncertainty – something that is often fully activated through collaboration. Many projects focus on themes related to ecological systems, biodiversity, and climate, such as the installation Scorched Honey Archive about the complex interconnections between humans and pollinators that was exhibited at NARS and BioBAT galleries in Brooklyn, NY.
Certain secret methods
Certain Secret Methods Two is a new 27 minute composition created specifically for radia. It uses tape loops, harmonium, singing bowls, sequential circuits pro one and field recordings to create a space for you to visit whenever you like. I am intrigued by the concept of dead drops, codes and ciphers and Steganography. In this recording is embedded, messages, codes and location details. Perhaps you will listen closely and figure out what it is all about?
Mykel Boyd (°1970, Kankakee,IL) makes sound recordings, conceptual artworks, photos, installations and films. By experimenting with aleatoric processes, Boyd creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art can be found.
It-it-it violin
Darius Čiuta, Lithuanian architect, sound artist, born 1966, is an artist that definitely can not be pigeonholed for the marketing purposes of narrative and aesthetic unidirectional coherence, although if you stand between and shuffle through his work you will find a labyrinth of communicating vessels. His works explore continuously new alphabets spectrums, building an intricate vocabulary of frequencies and densities as translations and transformations (exchange between sound and spaces). Structured architectural approaches with a clear perspective not only invites to what is beyond stritctly personal music but rather emtwines a evershifting method of researching a singular plunge into sound itself.
He self-released many cassettes in Lithuania during the 1990s under the Naj moniker, and was included in the ‘500 Lock Grooves by Artists’ LP on RRR in 1998. While Čiuta is known for his noise music during the 1990s, he turned to a very particular electro-acoustic music later on, exploring approaches to musique concrète made from found objects, radio, turntable, tapes and found sounds.
Radio work recorded, composed and mastered by Darius Čiuta in Kaunas Lithuania. Further demixed redux by Paulo Raposo in Lisbon