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The Military Landscape Show
Producer/curator: Jay Needham -jayneedham@neondsl.com
The sonic resonance that surround current and former military landscapes have intrigued artists working with sound. Memories of power and technology settle as an uneasy layer in these environments, creating opportunities for artists. I intend for this to be an on-going series, hopefully weaving in writings, interviews and inviting collaborations.
1.Richard Lerman, Aleutian Internment (7:01)
Inside a hunting dwelling on the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea (amplified whale bone, grass, rain, wild celery and a wind harp) Funter Bay Internment camp (slats of the goldmine camp building where they were interned, windharp, rain) Windharp and weeds at a Cemetery across from the Internment camp at Funter BaySeals on St Paul Island, the Pribilofs Ugadaga Bay, looking towards Biorka Island and an Iris in the wind and snow, recorded on Unalaska Island.
2. Louise K. Wilson "Black Beacon Receiver mix" ( 5:46) Mixed-down version of the seven soundscapes produced for "Black Beacon Receiver". From A Record of Fear
3. Louise K. Wilson, "U amplified choir. Sine oscillator " Yannais Kyriakides, Composer (7:20)
A specially composed piece for Exmoor Singers, made for temporary installation in Lab 5 at Orford Ness. Recorded at Lansdowne Studios, London on August 7, 2005. Music Director: James Jarvis; Producer Clarissa Farran.
4. Richard Lerman, Trinity Site (5:12)
Trinity Site, near Alamagordo, NM, was recorded in April 1997. Two times a year, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested, is opened up to visitors and many hundreds of people attend. I began recording from the car as I entered the military check point. Later, I recorded sounds from piezo disks attached to glass pieces that I placed into the earth. Also heard are sounds recorded from the fence surrounding ground zero and amplified, grass, weeks and footsteps of persons at the site.
Visit Richard's site: http://sonicjourneys.com
Visit Louise's site: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/lsad/staff_pt/l_wilson.htm
We produce a weekly radio show that is broadcast by each of the member radio stations. Our shows represent the local artistic community of each station, whilst at the same time these new works point to an emergent collective notion of self-determined art for radio.
A Radio Tale of Two Walls
In “a Radiotale of 2 walls’, a Mexico city girl runs away with her boyfriend towards the North, but is stranded in faraway Tijuana whereshe explores the possibilties of crossing the border, making a strange friendship with a shady waiter at the trashy Avenida Revolución (the street of perpetual spring break), a woman of Juárez who reappears as a ‘ghost of internet past’. She’s trying to escape from her past life, her family and trying to start anew, but in the process discovers a new border world full of casualties, contradiction and stories. The character discovers slowly that the people whom she tought of as ‘criminals dealing in the border’ are humans, victims of nationalistic socio-economical agendas, not unlike the people surrounding the drama of the Berlin Wall and the Germany of the Cold War years.
This production was comissioned for Berlin Backyard Radio and it’s a serialized fiction paying hommage to Charles Dickens “A tale of two cities’, which was originally published one chapter at a time in english newspapers. Directed by fran ilich, with several actors including Adriana Segura.
A Radiotale of 2 Walls
Radio-novela is the immediate antecessor of the latin-american soap opera (telenovela), and even though is a genre based on audio, it hasn’t completely disappeared, even if it’s not as strong as it used to be decades ago. Sagas would last for years, something which to this day, not even telenovelas are able to achieve. But Latin Mmerican Telenovelas have crossed the borders and oceans not only into Eastern Europe, africa, and Middle East, but into the USA and Europe, and in the case of Ugly Betty: a half-breed sitcom/telenovela, (Verliebt in Berlin) just the fact that is not a traditional melodrama inadvertently comments the fact of Mexicans migrating into the USA become something else: a detail that major Latin American entertainment conglomerates haven’t been able to target with their nationalistic and traditional approaches.