[spectre] r a d i o q u a l i a + TeZ at sincronie, italy
Honor Harger
honor at va.com.au
Sat Nov 15 11:55:47 CET 2008
spectres,
if you happen to be in milan this weekend, come
along to the performance that I'm doing tonight
at the sincronie festival.
sincere apologies for cross-posting.
best,
honor
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S K R
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A performance by r a d i o q u a l i a
Milan, Italy
2100, 15 November, 2008
Date: Saturday 15 September
Time: 2100
Address: Casa dell'Energia, Piazza Po 3, 20144 - Milan
As part of the Sincronie Festival
<http://www.sincronie.org/italiano/2008_01.htm>,
r a d i o q u a l i a will be perform a new live
work, SKR, as well as a collaborative work with
with Italian musician, TeZ.
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SINCRONIE
Sincronie is a festival which takes place in
Milan each year. In 2008 the festival focuses on
astronomy. On Saturday 15 November, a concert
dedicated to the science of radio astronomy will
take place
<http://www.sincronie.org/italiano/2008_03P.htm>.
It includes a performance by Honor Harger of r a
d i o q u a l i a, who will premiere the new work
"SKR", and Italian musician, TeZ, who will
perform a newly adapted version of his piece,
"reSUNance", which premiered at Ars Electronica
2008.
The two artists will also present a collaborative
performance using sonified signals from
astronomical sources..
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SKR
SKR is a new work by r a d i o q u a l i a, in
the Radio Astronomy series, which uses radio
signals from Saturn, recorded by the Cassini
space probe, and converted into sound by Donald
Gurnetts' team at the University of Iowa.
Cassini's Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS)
receiver studies Saturn's kilometric radiation
(SKR) and its magnetosphere, recording waves and
turbulence generated by the charged dust stream
particles of its rings, and phenomena such as
atmospheric lightening, solar wind and
magnetospheric plasma waves.
The RPWS began recording Saturn's radio waves as
early and 2002, and since Cassini entered
Saturn's magnetosphere in July 2004, the auroral
Saturnian kilometric radiation (SKR), which
dominates the kronian radio spectrum, is observed
quasi-continuously. In 2006 discovered that
Saturn has lightning, deep in its atmosphere,
which generates strong radio emissions, similar
to the cracks and pops one hears on an AM radio
during a thunderstorm. This emerging Saturnian
radio meteorology will form the auditory basis of
SKR. It also weaves in a recording made of
Saturn's ice rings during Cassini's double ring
pass in 2004. When the Cassini spacecraft reached
Saturn on June 30th 2004, it twice passed through
a gap in Saturn's rings. Innumerable particles of
ring-dust hit the spacecraft at a relative speed
of 20 km/s. Most of the hits were to the
Cassini's high-gain antenna. Each time an
ice-dust particle hit Cassini's antenna, the
impact produced a burst of plasma (a cloud of
ionized gas) which was recorded by the RPWS,
producing an "hailstorm" effect.
SKR also includes other field recordings made
during the Radio Astronomy project, particularly
very low frequency radio recordings made by r a d
i o q u a l i a in the icy region of Antarctica
in 2007.
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RADIO ASTRONOMY
Radio Astronomy <http://www.radio-astronomy.net>.
is an art/science project, which broadcasts
audified radio waves from space live on the
internet and on the airwaves. The project is a
collaboration between r a d i o q u a l i a and
radio telescopes located throughout the world.
Together we are creating 'radio astronomy' in the
literal sense - a radio station devoted to
broadcasting audio from our cosmos. Our
collaborators include: NASA's Radio Jove network,
the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy
Centre in Latvia, the Windward Community College
Radio Observatory in Hawaii, USA, the University
of Iowa, and the cultural centre RIXC from Riga,
Latvia.
Listeners can encounter Radio Astronomy in the following ways:
- on-air via temporary FM and SW radio broadcasts
- online via the website
- as a sound installation in galleries ands museums
As a sound installation, it has been exhibited at
ISEA in Helsinki, Finland; Ars Electronica in
Linz, Austria; the NTT Intercommunications Centre
in Tokyo, Japan; the Santa Monica Art Institute
in Barcelona, Spain as part of Sonar; at Oboro in
Montreal, and in many other contexts. In November
2008, it will be exhibited at ACC Galerie Weimar,
Germany <http://www.acc-weimar.de/>
Listeners visiting the installation or tuning
into the online broadcast hear radio waves
received by radio telescopes. Common radio
receivers are used to make the waves audible.
The resulting sound is then broadcast online, and
occasionally on-air. The content of the
transmission depends on the objects being
observed by our partner telescopes. On any given
occasion listeners may hear the planet Jupiter
and its interaction with its moons, radiation
from the Sun, activity from far-off pulsars or
other astronomical phenomena.
Radio Astronomy correlates the processes
associated with broadcast radio - the
transmission of audible information, and the
processes of radio astronomy - the observation
and analysis of radiated signals from planets,
stars and other astrophysical objects. The work
synthesizes these two areas. The signals from
planets and stars are converted into audio and
then broadcast on-line and on-air. The project
is a literal interpretation of the term, "radio
astronomy". It is a radio station broadcasting
audio from space.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
TeZ <http://tez.it>, aka Maurizio Martinucci, is
an Italian artist, living in Amsterdam since
January 2002. He is artistic director of
Optofonica <http://optofonica.com>. In 1995 he
established the multimedia research laboratory
SUb in Rome involved in audio-visual experiments
with digital media for interactive applications
and artworks. He has always been interested in
using technology as a means for exploring
languages, in particular the relationships
between sound and images. In 1990 he attended a
school for Computer Music Programmers with many
of Italy's most reknown specialists in electronic
music. He participated in workshops at the
"Centro di Sonologia Computazionale" of the
University of Padova, and at the "Tempo Reale"
institute in Florence directed by Luciano Berio.
Since the late 1980s TeZ has been composing
electronic music. He released several records
with various projects (M.S.B., DoseZero, Nukleus,
TeZ). His live-electronics performances have
always included visual support realized with
different digital techniques, including the
TRIVID software, which he created. His work is
now focusing on generative compositions and
various experimental audiovisual projects,
including Generative Live Cinema, the PriMiTif
sessions, FilmWare, video-scenographies and sound
installations. Tez's most recent works include
collaborations with sound artists Scanner, Kim
Cascone and Taylor Deupree.
r a d i o q u a l i a is an artist collective
formed by Adam Hyde and Honor Harger, which
creates radio and sound art. Their work has been
exhibited at the ICC in Tokyo, New Museum of
Contemporary Art in New York; Gallery 9, Walker
Art Center in USA; Sonar in Barcelona; Ars
Electronica in Austria; Artspace in New Zealand,
among other places. r a d i o q u a l i a
projects include Radio Astronomy
<http://www.radio-astronomy.net> (2004 - now),
The Frequency Clock (1998 - 2003) and Free Radio
Linux (2002 - 2004).
At Sincronie, Honor Harger represents r a d i o q
u a l i a. She is a PhD researcher at Z-Node a
facility ran by the Faculty of Technology,
University of Plymouth, and the Zürich University
of the Arts, (ZHDK) in Switzerland. Her research
aims to create a sonic understanding of
astronomical space, placing emphasis on the way
that radio can be used to make space audible. She
also works as a curator and organiser, and from
2004-2008 was director of the AV Festival
<http://www.avfestival.co.uk> in the UK, which
focused on the topic of broadcasting in 2008.
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FURTHER INFORMATION
Getting there: Casa dell'Energia
Piazza Po 3
20144 - Milan
http://www.casadellenergia.it/home/cms/cae/
Map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=Piazza+Po+3,+MILANO&daddr=&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&dirflg=w&sll=45.462128,9.159016&sspn=0.007615,0.019312&ie=UTF8&z=16
Contact: r a d i o q u a l i a
Email: adam at flossmanuals.net or honor at va.com.au
Phone: +44 7765834272
http://www.radioqualia.net
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