'language des oiseaux' double Radia feature on Datscha-Radio, Berlin

the Berlin radio project Datscha-Radio (wonderfully taglined "a garden in the air") was a temporary micro-broadcasting station set up on the grounds of the garden community “Einigkeit”(“Unity”) in Berlin-Pankow, which broadcast for 7 days, 24 hours from the 24th - 31st August 2012. In a programme on the 25th August called Language des Oiseaux, a show I had made for the radia network while artist in residence on bird sanctuary Kapiti Island, Radio d'Oiseaux (Kokako Variations) was re-broadcast as a double feature alongside what was one of my personal favourite radia shows of the previous (or indeed any) year, Wolfgang Müller's exquisite Starlings from Hjertøya sing Kurt Schwitters, originally played around the network in February 2011. 

David Clegg's 'the miserable idea of measurement (refrain)', St Kevin's Arcade, Auckland

a site-specific mini FM transmission of a radio work by David Clegg, re-siting the Artspace project The Miserable Idea of Measurement for the airwaves.

originally commissioned as a program for the Radia network and broadcast internationally by 19 independent radio stations.

narrowcast by Radio Cegeste on Saturday 14/5/11 to St. Kevin's Arcade, 177 Karangahape Road, Auckland. Transmission starting at 1:00pm.

followed by a discussion with David Clegg and Sally Ann McIntyre at Artspace, 300 Karangahape Road, at 3:00pm.

'sound, light, locality : the frederick street sound and light exploration society', radia show #294

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my radio documentary about the festival Fredstock, which was submitted as show #294 for season 24 of broadcasts from the radia network, celebrated the Frederick Street Sound and Light Exploration Society's annual gathering of audio experimenters in appropriately non-linear manner.

The show, complete with audio, is archived on the radia site here.

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sound, light, locality : the frederick street sound and light exploration society

"using audio from the experimental music festival ‘Fredstock’, which gathered together together 62 performers over 4 days (Wednesday 27th - Saturday 30th October 2010) in Wellington, New Zealand, this documentary amplifies some of the voices from the diverse and cross-pollinating experimental music culture associated with the central Wellington artist-run performance space ‘the Frederick Street Sound and Light Exploration Society’ (affectionately known to its community as ‘Freds’), while asking wider questions around the history and practice of experimental music in Wellington, the particularity of localised micro-scenes, the role of key figures driving the culture, and, implicitly, how underground artistic communities can build strategies for their ongoing survival.

deliberately emphasising the tentative, exploratory nature of the current discourse surrounding NZ audio culture, the documentary formally structures itself as a listening experience with loose links to Glenn Gould’s documentary methods, although it is also akin to a critically minded yet casual conversation that might be had at a night out watching a gig. It can be listened to as a companion-piece of sorts to the earlier R1 documentary contribution to the network ‘Lines of Flight : a Sonic Community’ (s20 n231), and forms part of an ongoing research interest in charting the sonic territories of New Zealand experimental audio culture.

interviews with : Jeremy Coubrough, Daniel Beban, Torben Tilly, Bek Coogan, Chris Prosser, Mark Williams, Noel Meek, Campbell Walker, Erika Grant, Sean Kelly, Thomas Lambert.

music / audio by : Full Fucking Moon, Peter Wright, Ming, The Doubles, Claypipe, Seth Frightening, Chris Prosser/Erika Grant/Art Sushi, andDouglas Lilburn covers band the Urinal Bulldogs.

'Lines of Flight : a Sonic Community', inaugural NZ transmission to the Radia network, broadcast live at Enjoy gallery, Wellington

To celebrate the transmission of the initial NZ contribution to the international Radia radio art network, Enjoy Gallery kindly agreed to host a live Radio Cegeste MiniFM simulcast of the programme, to its gallery space in central Wellington.

This transmission, a documentary on the Lines of Flight festival, was narrowcast as it went to air at 9:30pm on Radio One 91FM in Dunedin, on the Radia programme on the station, which has already been playing the shows of other stations in the network, and is regularly hosted by my co-producer of this documentary, Gilbert May. This was followed by live performances by artists in and around the Enjoy Gallery space : Sam Hamilton and L A Lakers working together as ".,", Campbell Walker's Haulout Seal Orchestra, and Wellington based duo Discomedusae.

Radia Season 20 :: Episode #231 :: from Radio One Dunedin, New Zealand

Lines of Flight - A Sonic Community

This, the inaugural contribution to the Radia Network from Radio One (Dunedin, New Zealand), offers an impressionistic account of the biannual, and somewhat secretive, experimental music and film festival "Lines of Flight". Running in Dunedin since 2000, "Lines of Flight" has provided New Zealand improvisational and experimental musicians with an intensive platform for performance and interaction and has organically evolved a space for a much stronger formation of a sound practioners' community. Although the improv./experimental scene from which the festival grew - recall the musicians associated with the labels Metonymic and Corpus Hermeticum in the 1990s - has changed considerably since the festival's beginnings, Lines of Flight has become a kind of default constant, a fluid forum, a relatively regular 'symposium' for many in that evolving scene.

Radio producers Sally-Ann McIntyre (a.k.a. 'Radio Cegeste') and Gilbert May took the opportunity which the 2009 Lines of Flight festival offered to interview a number of the organisers and performers (particularly those who have had a long standing relation to the festival) to obtain their reflections on the history and significance of the biannual event. Combined with an equally partial selection of music, a limited and impressionistic editing process provides a far from comprehensive, yet nevertheless enlightening, introduction not just to the "Lines of Flight" festival, but to a part of a wider New Zealand scene.

[Featuring: Peter Stapleton, Kim Pieters, Peter Porteus, , Bruce Russell, Matt Middleton, Dean Roberts, Rachel Shearer as well as samples from Sleep, Flies Inside the Sun, Birchville Cat Motel, Handful of Dust, Crude, Eye, Rotor Plus, Tillakaratne and Adrian Hall's Red Carpet. Many thanks to all involved....]

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the event is archived on Enjoy's weblog here, and on the radia.fm site here.