21 January 2016 | 19:30

radio aporee + Budhaditya Chattopadhyay + Gilles Aubry #94

Doors: 19:00
Start time: 19:30

Field recording night with:

 

Part of the transmediale/CTM Vorspiel 2016 festival

radio aporee is an ongoing experiment exploring sonic topographies and new practices related to sound/art and radio. It operates with an extended notion of the field, wherein radio is both a technology in transition and a narrative. The most recent developments aim to establish a common radio praxis out of daily environments, in between live and archive, sites and situations, in order to explore new forms of shared and participative radio. At SPEKTRUM, Udo Noll gives an introduction into the platform, and plays selected pieces from various sites and projects.

Udo Noll, *1966, DE, is a media artist and qualified engineer for media technology. He lives and works in Berlin and Cologne and is the founder of radio aporee, a platform for projects and practices in the areas of field recording/phonography, sound art and experimental radio. For examples of his works, exhibitions and projects please see http://aporee.org/aporee.html 

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay - Eye Contact With The City
This composition stems out of extensive fieldworks done at Bangalore city, India, between 2010- 2011. The work accommodates passage of time that affects detachment, decay and departures in the perception of transfiguring acoustic geography of the city. Stemming out of intense phenomenological experience in an emerging Indian city and its complex sound world, the work represents a sonic construct that investigates multi-layered listening processes at the city that is undergoing dynamic metamorphosis. Working on the assumption that passing of time over an once-inhabited but rapidly-emergent locale can be captured by employing a contemplative- poetic mood of elegiac pace in listening-methodology, this work explores indolence to facilitate meditative and in-depth observation involving a keen sense of temporality and spatial historicity that reshapes memory associations disconnected and erased during the course of time. 

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is a media artist and researcher born in India, currently living and working in Europe. Chattopadhyay’s work questions the materiality, site-specificity and object- hood of sound, and addresses aspects of contingency, contemplation and mindfulness inherent in listening. His works have been published by Touch (UK) and Gruenrekorder (Germany). Chattopadhyay has received several residencies and international awards, notably an Honorary Mention at PRIX Ars Electronica 2011, Linz, and First Prize in Computer and Electronic Music category of Computer Space festival 2014, Sofia. Appearing in numerous exhibitions, concerts, conferences and festivals, Chattopadhyay’s works have been exhibited, performed or presented in venues including Transmediale, Berlin; TodaysArt Festival, The Hague; Donau Festival, Krems; Sonorities Festival, Belfast; Akusmata, Helsinki; Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; CTM, Berlin; Errant Bodies, Berlin; CPH PIX, Copenhagen; Hochschule Darmstadt, Dieburg; SoundFjord, London; Deutschlandradio, Berlin; Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt; and Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen. Chattopadhyay has extensive publication in the area of sound art, post-digital media, cinema and sound studies in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Organised Sound, SoundEffects, Journal of Sonic Studies, The New Soundtrack, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, and Leonardo Music Journal. Chattopadhyay has graduated from the prestigious national film school SRFTI in India specializing in sound, and received a Master of Arts in new media from Aarhus University, Denmark, writing on sound art. He is currently working on his PhD in sound studies at University of Copenhagen.
 

Gilles Aubry (field recording, feedback microphone) "Tribute to the Ear"
The piece is made of recordings documenting sound check situations of Moroccan Amazigh (Berbere) musicians. One can hear instruments such as the bendir, the lutar, the rebab, the zamar, the qsbah, as well as voices and a synthesizer being tuned, warmed up and rehearsed in various spaces. The piece is also a tribute to the ear and to the listeners, via the voice of the Amazigh poet Farid Zalhoud: Tribute to the ear ! Hello to those gathered here ! I am happy having found beings who have harvested many songs. Tribute to the ear ! 

Gilles Aubry is a Swiss sound artist based in Berlin. Informed by researches on cultural, material and historical aspects of sound production, he uses location recordings, audio archives and interviews to create live performances and sound installations. His works typically explore the relational and reflexive qualities of sound and listening while questioning problematic aspects of cultural representations.