Skin Rubbed Smooth
Pleased to say that my piece „Coconut Milk Massage“ was accepted for Joan Schuman’s „Skin Rubbed Smooth“ sound art compilation. There are 14 more artists and it’s well worth exploring the site – least but not last for the excellently written texts there! http://www.earlid.org/posts/skin-rubbed-smooth/
Earlid’s fourth annual Liminal Sounds listens to short works with a focus on what lies beneath, skin next to other skins, the outer interior of objects, excised stories.
Listen for the palimpsest of bodies and cities and snow; the skin of audio tape; objects rubbed relentlessly. The very texture can be held in the hands, turned like pages. Parchment is respected for its once belonging to part of a living creature; roe deer running, caught by traffic or a hunter’s gun. The surface has the imprint of veins, grain of the skin, layers of translucent collagen. Its opacity sits below the surface, like a shallow pool.
19.-25. March: Show on Radia.fm
Almost to late… but then there are the radia.fm archives! Verena Kuni of radio x/Frankfurt invited me to present the Resounding Bangalore show (radia edit).
http://radia.fm/2018/03/show-677-resounding-bangalore-re-by-gabi-schaffner-for-radio-x/
13.2.@Titanik/Turku: Resounding Bangalore
“Resounding Bangalore” is a 25 minute sound collage that assembles selected field recordings of the city (and some rural locations) into a four-dimensional sound field.
Date: 13. February 2018
Place: Titanik Gallery. Itäinen Rantakatu 8. 20700 Turku, Finland
Time: 6pm
About:
While the acoustical backdrop consists of two ordinary speakers, a low-range radio transmitter broadcasts a parallel track simultaneously. For the performance at Titanik, the radio part gets adapted to a set-up with speakers only.
Disguised as a local radio program (containing samples of Bangalorian radio, static, selected poetry and snippets of local interviews), the parallel track makes the soundscape spatially extend into the audience.
“Resounding Bangalore” is an invitation to cherish an indigenous sound world played back through the ears of a “stranger”. In my work this cultural information becomes often framed as musical concepts. The interplay of distance and difference resounds as a multileveled choir of codes that may be read differently.
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30 days of radio art in Halle are just now being transformed into a book! This is so great I need to share it.
Open Call Radio Gardening Madrid
Dear Friends of Radio and (Spanish!)Gardening,
Here comes an invitation and Open Call on behalf of my upcoming „Radio Gardening“ residency at the Media Lab in Madrid in late February. Feel invited to contribute, discuss, comment and/or share.
You’ll find more info here: Convocatoria colaboración Datscha-Radio
For those (including myself) who want/need/dream of learning Spanish the In-Sonora team made a fine translation of our Datscha Radio 17 festival documentation… enjoy :)
On the Radio: Documentarist_extended version
Today, 5 pm on Colaboradio: Der Wahnsinn des Dokumentaristen… in erweiterter Fassung mit einigen mehr oder weniger seltsamen Feldaufnahmen (oder nicht) zu Winter und Wahn.
Language: de :)
HNY 2018
Looking forward to a refreshing New Year… here with a much cherished pic of a Queen of the Night.
Soon more news: either about snow/spring time in South Finland, or, thereafter, with sounds and seeds and radio from Medialab Prado :)
10.12. Stranger than Paradise/Moonshiner
STRANGER THAN PARADISE: 5 hours of sound, radio play snippets, good old turntable DJing ranging from Yakutian symphonies to minimal Finnish electronica: Geranium blonde aks Ms Schaffner will travel to Franfurt/Main with some of her favorite vinyls and random hard drive playlists to celebrate the last day of Mathias Deutsch and Eva Schwab’s fabulous exhibition MOONSHINER.
13-19 Uhr, 10 Dezember 2017
Kunstverein Familie Montez, Honsellstr. 7, Frankfurt/Main
28.11. On air: Phantasmagoria Special #1
Let us take a walk among the blue gum trees and immerse ourselves into the atmospheres of the sound art festival PHANTASMAGORIA in (for most of us) far away Australia. We’ll listen to Jaqui Shelton’s „Letters to the landscape“ and the stunning music of frequncies by the Overtone Ensemble. We’ll sneak up to a mysterious shed in the dark by the Kiewa river and follow the path around Lake Guy accompanied by the ringing of innumerable of brass bells.
Featuring interviews with: Madelynne Cornish, Ben Byrne, Jaqui Shelton, Jeff Robinson and the Overtone Ensemble.
28. November, 9:30 pm
88.4 Berlin, 90,7 Potsdam and on stream on colaboradio
This the Phantasmagoria Special part 1. In part 2 (in December) I will present my own work for the festival, a children’s radio play and immersive sound collage for 3 radio transmitters called „Electric Fairy Grounds“…. and still more Bogong sounds :)
PHANTASMAGORIA (7-30 April 2017), curated by Madelynne Cornish and Phillip Sarmartzis, was a site responsive sound art festival located in Bogong Village, Australia. PHANTASMAGORIA re-imagines and transforms Bogong Village into a world of shadows, murmurs and dreams. The festival used contemporary art practices to create illusion and spectacle in order to trace the vanishing individuals and communities that have marked the Alpine region. It drew on local knowledge, historical documentation, artefacts, and folklore to help construct a social context and landscape ecology for artworks.
1st. Dec: Fazoletto per un eternità
The tragic life and work of Italy-born Maurizio Pucci, creator of the world’s first and only sneeze symphonies, remained unknown to most of his compemporaries let alone our modern world. Yet behold: „He“ was a „she“… and quite took a different walk on the wild side in far-away New York! Not all of this but some of it will be disclosed within the frame of deutschlandfunk kultur’s tribute to Pjotr Zak on 1st of December 2017.
More info about the upcoming broadcast and this remarkable transgender composer soon…