[spectre] Radio Territories this Friday in Berlin

[Derek Holzer]

Radio Territories

Derek Holzer (US/NL)
Jason Kahn (US/CH)
Brandon LaBelle (US/DK)

Friday, June 1st, 18:00 to 23:00 (works performed simultaneously 
throughout the building)
Ballhaus Naunynstrasse
Naunynstrasse 27
Berlin
www.ballhausnaunyn.de

While changes in live streaming and digital networks have transformed 
the use and understanding of radio, the notion and act of live 
transmission through the air continues to inspire and haunt the auditory 
imagination. From the potential of spreading information undercover of 
legal borders to filling the airwaves with fugitive sound, radio may 
remain at the core of what it means to communicate through circuits.

Inspired by the radiophonic excesses and marginal acts, an evening of 
performative installations by sound artists working with and around 
radio and its medial aesthetics will be staged. Using the building of 
Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, the works will aim for the intimate, tactile, 
and personal, bending radio toward the micro-narratives of place. The 
event is also organized in celebration of the release of the new 
publication, Radio Territories (Errant Bodies Press), containing essays, 
articles, documents and audio works by authors and artists on the 
subject of radio culture.

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Derek Holzer is a sound artist with a background in radio, webstreaming 
and environmental recording. His work focuses on capturing and 
transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban 
locations, networked collaboration strategies, experiments in 
improvisational sound and the use of free software such as Pure-Data. He 
has released tracks under the Nexsound, Sirr, and/OAR and Gruenrekorder 
labels, and has co-initiated several internet projects for field 
recording and collaborative soundscapes including Soundtransit.nl.

Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer working with sounds, places, 
bodies, and cultural frictions. He presented a solo exhibition at 
Singuhr galerie in Berlin (2004), and an experimental composition for 
pirate drummers as part of Virtual Territories, Nantes (2005). His 
ongoing project to build a library of radio memories, "Phantom Radio", 
was presented fall 2006 as part of Radio Revolten, Halle Germany. He is 
the author of "Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art" and editor 
of Errant Bodies Press.

Jason Kahn is a sound and visual artist based in Zurich. His work 
includes drawing, sound installation, performance and composition. As a 
composer, his work draws on electronic and acoustic sources to create 
slowly developing compositions imbued with a sense of timelessness, 
underlining the entity of sound as both physical and psychological. Kahn 
has been exhibiting his works since the late 1990s, and has had solo and 
group exhibitions internationally, including the USA, Canada, France, 
Croatia, Germany, Argentina, Egypt, Poland, Switzerland, Denmark, 
Austria and Spain.

http://www.errantbodies.org/radio_territories.html

-- 
derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ::: http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista
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