Datscha Radio is more than pleased to announce for its show “The Gardens of Gyumri” its participating artists from near and far, from the Open Call as well as Live Guests (as far as known already).
With regard to Datscha Radio’s general focus on ecology and environment, the show will also feature a selection from interviews led with representatives of the Botanic Institute and of the Botanical Garden in Yerevan, as well as with still other environmentally engaged stake holders active in Armenia.
Datscha Radio also wishes to announce with utmost pleasure Marold Langer-Philippsen as streaming radio artist on the 4th of October. Please find more info in the next posts.
Artists of the Open Call and their Works
including NIGHTLooP (9 pm-9 am, 29-30 Sept)
Anton Smirnov (RU) – Composer and Musician: “Frequencies and Amplitudes”; “Crystals”, “Air before a Thunderstorm” for 2 Flutes; “Bulgarian Dance” (Street Talk and Recording); “River Water” for 4 Flutes
DJ Shlucht (DE) – Artist, DJ, Radio Maker: “kabelbruch der Finsterniss – Geisterdaten” / Excerpt “kabelbruch der Finsterniss – Geisterdaten” / Full Version (Nightloop only)
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Diese aufnahmen sind software experimente, die alle im datscha garten gemacht wurden – sie sind über einen zeitraum von circa 2 wochen gewachsen – ausgangsmaterial waren files die du mir geschickt hast und produktionen, die ich dieses jahr gemacht habe, bzw aufnahmen die ich getätigt habe für jobs. Die software, die zum einsatz kommt ist ein AI basierter sampler namens audiostellar und ein granularsynthese anwendung namens emission control.”
“von der klangaestetik her interessiert mich eine fast eher forensische haltung bei der klang und kleinstgeräusche seziert und fast mikroskopisch entlang der zeitachse geschoben & gefalten werden – wie kleine erinnerungen tauchen fetzen immer wieder auf – es stellt sich die frage was von den daten bleibt wenn man alles gelöscht hat, falls man alles löschen kann”
Frontera Glaciar (Patagonia) – Composer, radio artist: Patio Nevada
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Ignacio Núñez Oyarzo (Patagonia, Punta Arenas) Bachelor of Education (UMAG, 2015, Punta Arenas),Pedagogue (UMAG, 2016, Punta Arenas) and Master of Arts (PUC, 2020, Santiago de Chile).
Artist who carries out sound experimentationIn this project Frontera Glaciar develops sound production and experimentation in which it builds journeys and sound spaces linked to Patagonian natural landscapes and voices.
The project was published in EP format at the end of April. And, in this piece three musical tracks are collected that address sounds and voices obtained in the territory in which the artist lives. The name “Patio nevado” is related to the exercise of collecting those noises in the space where the artist resides and that originate from the patio of the home itself, thus signaling the daily nature of the southern sound.
Identity Runners, INT (intercontinental): “Grace” grace amounts to gifts of time spent giving room to speak the storm surrounds us we open our mouths and sing into it.
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Transcontinental collective identity_runners* (1998—) uses free software, experimental poetics and
rituals to explore power, gender and ecology. We embrace slow art, composting, generative writing,
tenderness.
‘Grace’ is an Open Sorcery Poetry spell cast in 2022. Etherpad platform became our alembic to
distil imaginations. Our avatars: a band of eclectic nomads, philosophers, magicians and
biomacchinic hybrids born after the great disaster.
Diane Ludin―New York, Agnese Trocchi―Rome, Francesca da Rimini―Adelaide
https://idrunners.net
InHer Interior (Francesca da Rimini and V. Barratt) (AUS): “the coral of the land eats the air” We made the coral of the land eats the air during the 2024 Southern Hemisphere Spring Equinox at Ngaltingga.
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“On the unceded lands of the Kaurna Miyurna people, we recorded dusk walks in the remnant coastal vegetation that’s home to numerous threatened species.”
“On the unceded lands of the Kaurna Miyurna people, we recorded dusk walks in the remnant coastal vegetation that’s home to numerous threatened species.”
In Her Interior create texts, performances, videos, installations and mutating motherscrypts. Constraint-based experimentation and generous accomplices enliven our ideas, deepen our knowledge. We work in various assemblages and engage in queer/trans, feminist, peace, disability and environmental activism. Works include CryptoCunterie: Each Rock a Word; Tender Alembicians Suite; Xenoblood; Hexing the Alien; Songs for Skinwalking the Drone.
“Ghost Wolf” imagines the sovereignty of disappearing beings.
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Through the listening frame of
hollow spaces (the mouth and pelvis, a fist and the heart), there is a structure built of anger and
wildness, weeping and wailing. From the long-standing hunting of hidden wolves to the
contemporary battles of body sovereignty, questions arise: What is the country of ‘otherness’?
Which story do we choose to stand in?Artist bio:
My audiophilia whispers into the radio’s ear via artist-curated programming. In 2015, I launched
Earlid, a virtual space where I organize adventurous sound artistry and gather curious listeners. I
listen and live along the rocky northern California coast.
Links:
Artist Portfolio: http://www.joanschuman.com
Further detail on this piece:
Love Hospital (Tiger Stangl & Ian Joyce), GER: Armenian Folk Song
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“Ian und ich haben kleines Stück gemacht, Armenian Folk Impro, ich Akkordeon hin, er mit Flöte drauf zurück.
Die Melodie hab ich aus einem Armenian Folk Song Book online ..
Das heisst wohl: Hachcha, Hachcha! Hoffen es gefällt dir .. 1 Minute 3 Sek.
werde Sonntag auf jeden Fall reinhören !
lg Tiger”
María Cristina Kasem/Calathea experimenta (AR) – Violinist and Composer: “Vuelo Iniciático” (Nightloop only)
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Kasem founded the International Week of Electroacoustic Music at the Universidad de 3 de Febrero in 2013. In 2018, she received significant commissions to create works that merge traditional and electronic music. In 2023, the experimental digital label CALATHEA experimenta released her album of works “Vuelo Iniciático.”
María Cristina Kasem is an Argentine composer and violinist with a PhD in Music and Musicology from the Sorbonne University. She is the founder of the Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies and has received multiple awards, including first prize at the International Electroacoustic Music Competition in Bourges.
Inspired by the indigenous cultures of Latin America and Middle Eastern traditions.
Tchamich, ARM: Four pieces from their album: “Bari Aragil”; “Sari Sirun”; “Huso Aragast … Հուսո Առագաստ”; “Garun a (Live Performance)”.
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Tchamich is an Armenian acoustic music trio founded in 2018 in Yerevan by clarinetist Konstantin Abgaryants. Tchamich in Armenian means raisins. They play sweet Armenian folk music in own interpretation. Playing a lot festivals concert in Armenia and neighbouring Georgia.
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/share/6cwHs3zJTYwhdEi7/?mibextid=LQQJ4d
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/tchamich?igsh=MTZ4M2hrdnowaDd3Zg==
YouTube:
https://youtube.com/@tchamicharmenianacoustictrio?si=HzgKiEsqLrDcoT0l
Additional Field Recordings/Sound snippets/Texts and Poetry choices: Gabi Schaffner “That damn rake…!” A Visit to a Garden in Gyumri, also by Gabi Schaffner (Nightloop/Fallback only)
Live Guests
Ani (ARM)– Female Composers Choir: Talk, Reading, Song Ani is the founder and conductor of the Fem_com Choir, a choir dedicated to perform vocal music by female composers and arrangeurs only.
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Ani Petrs-Bartsumian, was born in 1992 in Armenia, studied music and literature in Russia, received a PhD in Yerevan in 2024.
Researches literary mystifications, literature about Armenia, and the work of women writers.
The blog about women in Russian literature: https://www.instagram.com/fem_ru_lit?igsh=MWtqMWpyMGFldmhhMA==
Also the creator and director of the chamber choir Female Composers
https://www.instagram.com/femcom_choir?igsh=eG9ydzhndm42Zzkyvand a writer
https://t.me/bartsumian_txt
Vahagn Ghukaysan– Director of the Gyumrian State Academy of Fine Arts: Talk.
Momik Vardanyan – Co-Founder of Art Basis (with Mary Mikaelyan): Talk
Armenian Botanics and Ecology
Anush Nersesyan (ARM)– Head of the Department of the Conservation of Genetic Resources of the Flora of Armenia: A Walk through the Seed Bank of the Institute of Botanics. Yerevan
Alla Aleksanyan– Head of the Chair of Plant Diversity and Ecosystem Studies: Talk in the English Park, Yerevan
Aleksandra – Gardener and Begonia Lover: A Walk through the Greenhouses of the Botanical Garden (in snippets) Yerevan
Ani Bayburdyan – Deputy Director of the Botanic Garden: Educational Programs for Children With Mary Michaelyan/Translation. Yerevan
André Gumuchdjian – Founder of My Forest Armenia. A Talk about Reforesting in Armenia with the Belgian-Armenian philanthropist and entrepreneur. Yerevan.
Datscha Radio wishes to express their thanks for your creative involvement. Let us listen, across the globe, with our senses exposed to the touch of the radio waves. We will hear us in the “Gardens of Gyumri“
This project by Gabi Schaffnerhappens in cooperation with Art Basis Yerevan, and you will also be able to listen then on www.radioantenna.net.
