On Friday 7 July students of the Sound Studies and Sonic Arts program at UdK Berlin are broadcasting new works for live radio. From 16:00 until 23:45, on cashmereradio.com and FM 88.4 MHz in Berlin and FM 90.7 Mhz in Potsdam.
The program was developed in a Seminar led by Lukas Grundmann and Matteo Spanò.
16:00-17:00
Farhad Farzali
“Pah, Poh, Pooh, Peeh”: The Speech Therapy
Farhad Farzali presents ‘Pah, Poh, Pooh, Peeh: The Speech Therapy,’ an experimental radio show taking listeners on a profound personal journey. As a child, Farzali battled a severe stutter that required an extensive period of speech therapy, utilizing a unique 1985 Soviet speech therapy notebook filled with numerous exercises and rules.This notebook, a gift from a woman who had herself received stuttering treatment in Moscow circa 1985, became a beacon for Farzali. Spending two hours daily for eight long years, he diligently worked through these exercises alone in a private room. Over time, the therapeutic nature of the exercises began to take on an aesthetic quality, evolving into rhythmic poetry and mantra-like incantations.This radio show presents Farzali revisiting these exercises in a condensed form, translated into English for a wider audience. It’s a unique sonic blend of his childhood therapy and artistic expression, intersecting at the crossroads of personal struggle and triumph. Farzali also seeks to shed light on the stories of singers who have endured the same speech impediment, offering them a platform to share their experiences. ‘Pah, Poh, Pooh, Peeh: The Speech Therapy’ is an exploration of stuttering beyond stigma, a broadcast of the hidden rooms of speech therapy to a global audience.
17:00-17:30
Maggie Bitten
Shh your Tone Hz, 2023
experimental radio documentary
This documentary examines how we perceive different tones of voice on the radio. Asking what role does radio tone of voice play in how knowledge or stories are perceived? What constitutes a soothing radio voice? Which frequencies do we find more attractive? If you experience an ASMR reaction to radio voices, is this physiological reaction something you are born with?
The project delves into a case study on frequencies of voices that are heard more attractively and dominantly, situating gender biases and perception. As well mentions sonic ontological theories from theorists such as Annie Goh and Christoph Cox.
Shh your Tone Hz uses the format of an experimental radio show to explore metaphysical
questions of how we hear and process information.
The work deconstructs and compares if and how our body perceives the tones in relation to our mind perceiving information being heard, and overall how this influences the distribution of orated sonic knowledge.
17:30-18:00
Laboratorio_Mestizo
Der Traum von Don Xuan (2023)
A story of a future time, within a cyberpunk aesthetic, electronic sounds together with samples of recordings from different popular and street markets.
Miso hasn’t been out of his capsule for days, she/he needs a new modification, she/he goes out to Don Xuan, but does he really go out? Is it her/his body that moves? Or does she/he do it in his mind? a dream among other dreams, several dimensions that dissolve in time. Walking among sounds and voices, moving or floating inside warehouses full of goods and prostheses. To feel on the skin the vibration of words, eyelids closed, ears travel. Miso waits, on the spring meadow of Hanoi, parts that migrate; she/he loses her/himself in her/his memories and with them transits between shouts and spices. Her/him illusion is constantly pierced by other entities that come and go; conversations and noises flash and fade through the corridors. What is the inside and the outside? Is there really an edge in this vast marketplace? Is there an exit? Or does the inside unfold in an endless loop of pleats?
18:00-18:30
Sel
Guerilla Radio
Radio has been extensively used as a primary propaganda tool throughout historical events, ranging from Nazi Germany to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. While advancements in technology in the 21st century have diminished its prominence in many countries, it continues to play a pivotal role in upholding the regimes of certain nations, or at least that’s what their leaders prefer to believe.
With the dissemination of information becoming more unrestricted and discussions on propaganda more prevalent, it has become increasingly challenging for totalitarian regimes to maintain their traditional methods as effectively. In the presence of abundant information, attempts to rely on outdated propaganda tactics have become irrelevant and, to a certain extent, comical.
This show is half an hour of propaganda, prepared with extra care, for you, the people.
18:30-18:35
Júlia Koffler
I’m baby, call 911 ( ◕ω◕✿ )
Duration: 25 minutes, in 5×5 minute segments
Cute may seem like a relatively intuitive category. We know it when we see it. Do we
know it when we hear it?
*＊✿❀❀✿＊* ( ・∀・)っ旦 *＊✿❀❀✿＊*
✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ Babbling, gurgling, cooing, booing ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧✧･ﾟ:
Soft sounds, Round sounds, Small sounds, Blobbish sounds, Pliant sounds, Sounds
with big eyes, Grotesque sounds, Malformed sounds, Ruddy sounds, Pitiable sounds,
Helpless sounds, Loveable sounds ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ Squishing, popping,
squeezing, pulping ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧✧･ﾟInferior sounds? Sounds to patronise?
Sounds to dominate? Dehumanising Sounds??!
??? ο（ ́ ･ω･｀o）???
………..
……… ( ͒ ඉ . ̫ ඉ ͒ )
*＊✿❀❀✿＊* ( ・∀・)っ旦 *＊✿❀❀✿＊*
Sugar and spice and everything nice
THRU
ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ Sonic Meme-ry ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ ( ́,,•ω•,,) Vocal expression ( ́,,•ω•,,) ( • ө • )♡
Experimental Storytelling ( • ө • )♡
*＊✿❀❀✿＊* ( ・∀・)っ旦 *＊✿❀❀✿＊*
18:35-19:00
Niels Poensgen & Ahmed Elsharif
Live Radio Performance for Drums And Electronics
Computer musician Niels Poensgen and drummer Ahmed Elsharif meet at Cashmere Radio for a distinct musical dialogue. In this first-time collaboration, the ambient hum of the studio – the background murmur of conversations, the gentle shuffle of movement – forms the backdrop against which they explore the pathways of improvisational sounds, flowing from ambient to drone to jazz.
Over the course of 25 minutes, Elsharif, feeds his drum beats into the digital realm where they are reshaped and recontextualised by Poensgen, an artist rooted in the worlds of Max/MSP, algorithmic and generative music. His use of the programming language transforms Elsharif’s percussive sounds, subtly incorporating elements of data science and resorting recorded samples in real-time.
Broadcasting from the intimate confines of the Cashmere Radio studio, this one-time performance positions itself at the intersection of traditional musicianship and algorithmic experimentation as the contours of sound and rhythm are sketched, erased, and redrawn in an improvisational manner.
19:00-19:20
Ruben Bass
Performance Publica Radio Iteration
Performance Publicas are a form of performance which are about the collective process. The conviction is that the collective subjective processes of beholders added together become more relevant than the artwork itself. This means that the audience have to become the performers. Radio has always been a medium of hierarchies. This version of PP gives you as listeners the chance to tune in and contribute through making any sound you deem relevant to share.
Technically speaking you are co-creating with a dynamic interactive feedback system which uses visual information of what is moving in the radio studio to cue sounds that you as the performers create. When nobody from outside the studio calls, the sounds of the studio are recorded and played by the system, if you call though, you get immediate priority. In this way the infrastructure of the radio station still mediates but at the same time co-creation of the receivers with the senders can be utilized.
Don’t be shy call now (for the chance of prizes and fun)…
+49 151 19475093
When your call is answered you are performing immediately, when making any sound.
More about Performance Publica can be experienced on performancepublica.com
19:20-20:00
Mariano Rosales with Comunidad Sikuris Berlin
Sikuris and Technodiversity
Comunidad Sikuris Berlin is a group of panflute players from different countries that share the Andes mountains: Perú, Bolivia, Argentina and Ecuador, gathered in the Berlin urban context, pursuing a sense of community and continuation of shared cultural roots, while at the same time developing an own perspective of urban panflute music. During this program, through discussion and live music, we will offer a singular approach to texts and interviews of and about philosopher Yuk Hui. We will talk about some concepts of Hui’s work: Technodiversity, Cosmotechnics, and relationships between ideas of art and technology. We will also describe some basic techniques of sikuri music, as well as it’s historic context and concepts related to the texts. Citing Hui’s introduction to “Art and Cosmotechnics” (2021): “If we locate the specifity of tragedy in the Occident, then what happened in other cultures? How can non-Occidental aesthetic experience and thought reflect upon (our) current technological condition?”.
20:00-20:05
Júlia Koffler
I’m baby, call 911 ( ◕ω◕✿ )
*see above for description*
20:05-20:35
Diego Behncke-Bunster
Speculations on a sound lexicon for Immaterials: Preparations for Much Ado About Kasper, A Radio Play for Children by Walter Benjamin
In 1932 Walter Benjamin wrote and produced one of his two major radio plays for children, “Much Ado About Kasper” (“Radau um Kasperl”). Accompanying the original typescript for the radio play, Benjamin wrote a text entitled “Kasper and the Radio: A story with Noise” (“Kasper und der Rundfunk: Eine Geschichte mit Lärm”), which can be found in his collected writings (Gesammelte Schriften). This text works as a sort of summarized version of the radio play, while also being a preparation for it. It concentrates particularly on the noises we would hear on the play, and in its introduction it is asked of the listeners to imagine the situations through recognizing the different sounds present in it. This show starts from the framework of said “pre-play”, and focuses on building a speculative lexicon of technical sounds which will be marked by “words and hints”, just as in the original, where the audience will be invited to guess these sounds and share their thoughts. On this occasion, the sounds presented envision an expanded language of technical sound, not only recorded and played back, but synthesized. As a sort of essay on imagination and “expertise” (in Walter Benjamin’s terminology) of the listener, we are pressed to acknowledge an “immaterial” technical listening as well, as in an expanded field of the sensible that includes the contemporary shifts of meaning in sounds, and speculate into what role does listening play in the ‘immaterial’ relation to matter, according to Lyotard: no longer traditional matter, we are to develop a new lexicon that deals with machine languages, networks, and information.
20:35-20:40
Júlia Koffler
I’m baby, call 911 ( ◕ω◕✿ )
*see above for description*
20:40-21:05
Eldar Tagi
For Whom The Cowbell Tolls
Tag: electro-acoustic composition / interactive event
Inst: cowbells, electronics, body
“FWTCT” is a semi-interactive live radio event that critically reevaluates the commonplace sound of a cowbell, exposing it as a potent symbol of animal commodification. With animal-tracking bells traced back to almost five millennia ago, this rudimentary item is arguably one of the first surveillance tools. The tranquil resonance of a bell tolling across the fields transforms into a disconcerting reminder of confiscated freedoms when situated close to one’s ear. This event seeks to foster a communal space that magnifies our solidarity with non-human beings, shunning dogmatism in favor of a nuanced, non-verbal discourse on the entwined fates of animal and human rights
The piece unfolds across two interlinked planes. The first is a live performance that sets the overall tone and timeline of the work. The second introduces a participatory element, inviting attendees willing to participate in a symbolic ritual. Attendees are encouraged to wear a cowbell around their necks and engage in a series of animal-inspired asanas, following an outlined score. The multiplicity of clangs, activated by the participants’ movements, is amplified and woven together with the first layer to form a single, continuous stream. This ceremony of self-care, underscored by the resonant bells, aims to stimulate mindfulness and deepen introspection. And for those seeking a mantra to accompany this journey, consider embracing the sentiment, “no being is an island, entire of itself.”
21:05-21:10
Júlia Koffler
I’m baby, call 911 ( ◕ω◕✿ )
21:10-22:10
Santiago Burelli
“I’m a Killer, He’s a Killer, She’s a Killer, (They are Killers)”
Extractivism is a perputual human practice.
Iron
Gold, Copper, Silver, Tantalum,
Silicone, Platinum, Nickel, Palladium,
Cobalt, Aluminum, Tin, Zinc, Neodymium,
Lithium, Americium, Antimony, Arsenic,
Barium, Bismuth, Boron, Cobalt, Europium, Gallium,
Germanium, Indium, Lithium, Manganese,
Niobium, Rhodium, Ruthenium,
Selenium, Terbium, Thorium,
Titanium, Vanadium, Yttrium
Mercury
Beauty.
Disgust.
Perseverance.
Necessity.
Growth.
Creation.
Subsistance.
The human race is subservient to extractivism in its many forms.
“This is just how we do things.
This is just how the science works.” – they said
The majority pawns its violent, extractivist, and killer instinct off on a far away villain.
A lowly rogue, an untouchable scoundrel deep in a jungle.
But who are the actual culprits and who is at fault?
Through an improvised exploration of The Serge Modular System and field recordings, Santiago Burelli explores society’s interaction with nature, extractivism, industrial production, and consumption.
22:10-22:15
Júlia Koffler
I’m baby, call 911 ( ◕ω◕✿ )
22:15-22:45
Donatas Norušis and Oda Egjar Starheim
Rip It Water
For in and out of water, leaking radio.
Cracked water on floating archive. Deep down moist, falling out of sync. We’re revisiting Cashmere’s own radio archives. Adding, twisting. Brutally falling, out of sync. Too much, too soon? Are we listening or just swimming? Cracked leaks on metal walls. Content dripping, pouring, diffuses, displaces. Something lingers, a hand or word. Was it all planned after all? Up to the surface, catch a sigh of breath. Like whales sleeping, shutting down half brain. A radio show for under water, who is listening down here? An archive of dormant voices, retuned and soaked. Compositions from juxtaposing, overlapping, making unforeseen bait. Highlighting, murking; under water skulls vibrate. Low frequency cue enters; an upset phrase. Something doesn’t belong, but were we here at all. Pull water slow and hardboiled fear. Robbed water lingers, but don’t disturb the fish.
22:45-23:45
Juan Pablo de Lucca & Hilde Wollenstein
no headphones
Radio discourses are considered to have sound as their principal objective. By sound one can think of the vibratory events of the electromagnetic field, and also of the perceptual and symbolic traces of it (and, an audition that performs them). “no headphones” is an experimental set that stems from yuxtaposing music, spoken word and archive recordings, and uses cdjs, de-essers, and samplers to inquire on the technical aspects of the radio’s medium. We think of radio sound not just in its physical dimension, but as web of cultural, social, and political relations, where improvisation can be understood as a departure point for a co-listening practice.