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RadioMentale | Editions – Issue #2

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Artist:        RadioMentale
Title:          ACR RMX  | ©
Date:         2008
Duration:   3’38

ACRmix1 RadioMentale | Editions – Issue #2
photo by: Eric Pajot

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THE SOUND

“ACR RMX” is an excerpt from a 80mn sound piece based on a huge collage and cut-up of archives taken from the ACR (the creative radio workshop from the Ferench national cultural radio, France Culture), gathering experimental music, concrete music works, radio art works, created between 1969 and 2009.  This piece gathers excerpts from works by : Bernhard Leitner, Vincent Epplay, Pierre Schaeffer, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Christophe Van Huffel, Thomas Koner, Biosphere, Hervé Birolini, Loris Gréaud and many more.

THE ARTIST

RadioMentale  is a DJ and sound artists duo founded by Jean-Yves Leloup & Eric Pajot. The band can be seen as a sound-system influencing on the airwaves, clubs, urban spaces, web & art venues. They started their career in 92, with their own radio show, playing experimental music, concrete music, ambient & electronic. During ten years, they produced this weekly and cult radio show in Paris for Radio FG (first french and independant electronic music station), national Swiss station Couleur 3 and Tokyo Shibuya FM. During this period, they also played in the first techno and rave parties organized in Paris.  From the mid-90’s, they started to work in the field of contemporary art, composing sountracks and soundpieces for exhibitions, and collaborating with video artists, writers, designers or film directors.

Links: radiomentale.wordpress.com |  www.disc-over.org |  myspace


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Francisco Lopez | Editions – Issue #1

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Artist:         Francisco López
Title:           untitled #233 | ©
Date:          2008
Duration:   10’00

LOPEZ COMBO1 Francisco Lopez | Editions – Issue #1

photo by: Francisco López

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THE SOUND

Original environmental sound matter recorded at Mamori Lake in the Brazilian Amazon in 2008.

My first visit to the Brazilian Amazon took place twenty years ago. Like the other rain-forests in the world I have had the opportunity to explore, the Amazon has been a constant source of fascination and inspiration. My approach to the work with field recordings is essentially phenomenological and spiritual, and thus I have very little interest in representation, against most current perspectives on phonographic art. Since 2005 I direct an annual residency / workshop for sound artists and composers at Mamori Lake in the Amazon. You can find complete information about this creative and vital experience through the link below. (edited and mastered at mobile messor, Amsterdam 2009)

THE ARTIST

Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene. Over the past 30 years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. Destroying boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifting with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, proposing a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion. He has realized hundreds of concerts, projects with field recordings, workshops and sound installations in 60 countries of the five continents. His extensive catalog of sound pieces (with live and studio collaborations with over 100 international artists) has been released by more than 200 record labels worldwide, and he has been awarded three times with honorary mentions at the competition of Ars Electronica Festival. - Pedro Higueras, Sonom Studios

Links: http://www.franciscolopez.net | http://www.franciscolopez.net/amazon.html


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BJ Nilsen | Editions – Issue #1

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Artist:        BJ Nilsen
Title:         Are the birds gonna eat us, Mommy? | ©
Date:        2006-06-28
Duration:  7’18

BJ TEST BLOG BJ Nilsen | Editions – Issue #1
photo by: BJ Nilsen

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THE SOUND

This field recording was made at Vatnsleysuströnd, Landakot on the southwest coast of Iceland.

In this remote location I was drawn to the amazing birds nesting there, especially the Arctic Tern (Kría) who are fiercely protective of their nests and known for dive bombing towards any intruders, usually striking humans on the top or back of the head. The crow in the beginning of the recording lives in the house seen in the photograph, obviously he got upset by my furry microphone. Besides the birds we hear the rain, wind and ocean waves coming in from the North Atlantic.

THE ARTIST

Benny Jonas Nilsen was born in 1975. He has been active with experimental music for nearly 20 years. For the past 10 years he has been releasing albums on Touch, making music and sound design for documentary film and television.  He focuses on the sound of nature and its effect on humans, field recordings and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound, often electronically treated.

Links: www.bjnilsen.com | www.touchmusic.org.uk


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