Datscha Radio Logo
Archive
Author Archive

Das Morgenfeld | The Morning Field

translation follows!

Das Morgenfeld wird von 9-10 h gesendet und speist sich wie die Nachschleife – mit wenigen Ausnahmen – aus den Einsendungen des OpenCalls. Ausgewählt sind längere Stücke, Feldaufnahmen oder auch zusammenhängende Features, sowie Stücke, die uns erst nach dem 18. August erreicht haben.

Morgenfeld I

L’occio di Moiré von Gea Brown. 29:17 min

“This audio work is the soundtrack realized for “L’occhio di moiré”, a videoart work by Jacopo Racklik, where the video camera’s eye becomes such a third eye of our mind which goes deep into a tangled brushwood and records an endless proliferation of images.”

Zepelim Plant Conciousness and Communication von Carlo Patrao. 30:45 min

“We’ve all heard about the experiments documenting how plant growth is affected by different genres of music. What we know less about are the experiments conducted all over the world that suggest that plants have a form of communication and almost pyschic perception of human intention and the events that occur in their immediate environment. This sound collage is composed of music made by codification of plant DNA, talking to plants, bioelectronic sensorial music, field recordings with contact mics, solar powered music, plant comunication and music inspired by plants.”

Morgenfeld II

Die Gärten der Riesen | The Giant’s Gardens
Ein morgendlicher Klangspaziergang durch (un)sichtbare Gärten | A morning soundwalk through (in)visible gardens.

Ausgegraben von Alba, dem inversen Kanin aus miss.gunsts Time Bending Clock Gartenradio-Archiv | Digged by Alba Inversa the inverse rabbit from miss.gunst’s Time Bending Clock Garden Radio Archive

Morgenfeld II Special: Der Gesang der Endivien

Foto: Alice Calm

One Hour with Compositions by Alice Calm. Nature, electronica, poems.

Alice Calm fait ses études musicales au Conservatoire de Toulouse et suit parallèlement des cours à la faculté de Toulouse le Mirail où elle obtient une Maîtrise de Musicologie en 1990. Depuis 2000, elle est professeur de piano au Conservatoire de la ville de Meyzieu. 

Elle a repris des études dans le domaine de la composition à l’Université Lyon 2 où elle obtient un Master Pro de Musiques appliquée aux arts visuels en 2008 et obtient un Diplôme d’Etudes Musicales dans la classe de musique électroacoustique de Bernard Fort à L’Ecole Nationale de Musique de Villeurbanne en décembre 2010.

Elle  affectionne particulièrement les interactions entre les différentes pratiques artistiques : musique, théâtre, danse, peinture, vidéo… et réalise des pièces aux destinations diverses. (http://www.alicecalm.com)

Playlist: Playlist_Alice Calm

 

Morgenfeld III

Dakar Morning Birds. Dinah Bird and Jean Philippe Renoult. 32:43 min

“In March 2010 we were invited on an artistic residency in the Senegalese capital Dakar. In the closed garden of the villa where we were staying each morning at around 5am one particular bird call woke us up, with its distinctive repetitive cry, and so we began to wait for it. We lay awake listening as the city  woke up around us. In this recording you can hear the layers of natural and manmade noise gradually building up,  punctuating  the roar and hum of the commuter traffic and the planes overhead, with other birdsong, and the sound of  the muezzin calling to prayer somewhere in the distance.
This is not supposed to be a sonic tagging of the local flora and fauna, more a progressive discovery of a corner of the polluted capital heard behind the closed walls of a city garden.”

Canopy Beat. Els Vienae. 27:53 min

Field recordings recorded in primary forest in Amazonia.
Els Viaene (°1979, Belgium) started her work as a sound artist / field recordist in 2001. With a set-up of two small microphones she listens, zooms into and enlarges the aural landscapes surrounding us. The natural rhythms and textures of the sounds hidden in those landscapes form the basis of her work.

Morgenfeld IV

Apiculteur. Samuel Mittelman. 1:06:04 std.

« Ce sujet rend compte de la relation à mon père, apiculteur dans les Corbières et son milieu profes- sionnel, ceci durant le temps d’une saison apicole. Aux ruches, mon père me parle d’une manière parti- culière, celle d’un père à un fils, avec de la douceur et un désir de communiquer sa passion et ses pro- blèmes, auquel je réponds par cette création radiophonique. »

Morgenfeld V (Classical)

Dieses Morgenfeld ist – sehr frei – in Richtung “klassischer Musik” interpretiert worden. Neben Stücken von Bach, Wolfgang Rihm, Terry Riley, Steve Reich und Iiro Rantala, sind folgende OpenCall-Tracks enthalten:

Bruchstücke 4, Suleika page 1 und Sukeika page 2 von William Engelen

“Alle Kompositionen sind enstanden in 2003, anlässlich meiner Ausstellung im Aachener Kunstverein. Ich habe für den Aachener Stadtgarten 5 Kompositionen geschrieben, die dort an einem Abend live zu hören waren. Die Zuhörer konnten durch dem Park spazieren gehen und an 5 Orte anhalten um die Kompositionen zu hören. Anschliessend wurden sie im Kunstverein ausgestellt.”

My Parent’s Garten. Attila Fias & John Kameel Farah. 7:52 min.

“I started off composing “My Parents’ Garden” by trying to capture memories of a dreamlike garden from childhood – I remember that my father’s tomato plants in the backyard were taller than me, and the zucchini plants looked like big octopuses. So in this piece, lush and graceful motifs reflect onto each other between the two pianos.

But while writing, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill occurred, and Attila was composing a piece called “Warning” that dwelt on this tragedy, so it progresses from a backyard garden to the grandeur of the sea and mountains, some of that dark undertone seeped over into the sounds of this piece as well.”

In the Forest von Mark Matthes. 4:49 min.

Geb. 1976 in Hamburg; lebt und arbeitet in Leipzig. 1982 – 2002 Schüler bei Arthur Cardell, Mike Rutledge & div. Jugendorchester seit 1995 Bands & Projekte seit 2004 Kammerorchester Mark Matthes.

Live Oak Sable Palm und Northern Red Oak Leaves. Michael Gatonska. 5:17 min.

Gatonska on the Red Oak: “This is the first in a series of soundscapes that I captured of a Northern Red Oak tree. Recorded in very early spring, the dry dead leaves of the red oak still remain affixed to their branches. In winds of varying speeds, the leaves create a rhythmic and musical rustling that increases and decreases in sound-activity-intensity and dynamic levels as the leaves react to wind/meteorological conditions. I hear this soundcape as a single and distinguishable sound, even though the partials are nonharmonic; a percussive effect with no clear pitch, but clearly identifiable and characteristic of the red oak during this time of year in New England.”

Vollständige Playlist: Morgenfeld5

Morgenfeld VI

(wird ergänzt)

Morgenfeld VII

Das siebente Morgenfeld bezieht vor allem die späteren Einsendungen von Anna Bromley, Sally Mc Intyre und Gregor Kielawski mit ein, sowie einen Ausschnitt aus Michael Peters “Crickets” (Archiv gruenrekorder).

Dandenongs3 10:28 RadioCegeste/Sally Ann Mcintyre
gesang 1:58 Grzegorz Kielawski
now_fragment 15:35 Sandra Cuesta
1_7_(datum) 2:32 Grzegorz Kielawski
alte hasen 7:00 Bromley / Fesca
27_7_(datum) 6:46 Grzegorz Kielawski
sonic neighbours 7:00 Bromley  / Fesca
Crickets_excerpt 9:27 Michael Peters
8_16_(datum) 3:01 Grzegorz Kielawski

Infos:

Now (Fragment). Sandra Cuesta. 15:35

“Looking the garden from another side and leaving us in time, we can lose ourselves in the current. If the world is in a garden, we are already out there. The song said : “the color you said is black, the color that supposedly lacked. Sitting in the line of the sun, sitting in the sun, watching the garden from the other side, now it’s working in your blood.”

“My work here is related to time, a continuous time, which is drawn on a line ,as in the path of a tie in a knot on another node, which returns on itself to return to the path traveled and from there take a new impulse, in another direction, making visible that over time the permanent is change.”

Alte Hasen und Sonic Neighbours von Anna Bromley und Michael Fesca. Je 7:00 min.

Zu: “Alte Hasen” (Parzellengenosse): “Eine auditive Komödie mit Gartennachbarn des Kleingartenvereins “Am Turnplatz” in Wildau. 7 min”

Über  Grzegorz Kielawski (“Musikproben”):

Grzegorz Kielawski, geb. 1981 in Wałbrzych, seit 2005 in Wien; freier Mitarbeiter der Kunst- und Literaturzeitschrift Zeitzoo, GAV-Mitglied, Übersetzer, Autor und Fotograf. Zuletzt erschienen: So wie du kann jeder aussehen. Erzählungen und Fotografien (edition exil), Glücksausmaß in Ton. In: Glück und Schwein (Das fröhliche Wohnzimmer), Küss mich, ich bin ein Pole. In: Mein Leben mit 20 (Das fröhliche Wohnzimmer).

 

Read More

Composer’s Garden III

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 3rd round of Composer’s Garden related explicitely to the 3rd nightloop with its subject of “Noise,Clicks&Classics”. I had a very agreeable interview with Carver Audain from NY via skype, and we talked about his work and the atmospheres connected to it. We touched on the intriguing thought that one can actually have a sound in mind – or maybe even only the notion of a sound – and the composition proceeds from there… from the imagination of a sound.

Audain ” is a self taught pianist, his earliest works are explorations in harmonics utilizing the piano, electronic organ, guitar and cymbals. Materially, he produces audio using digital signal processing and editing techniques on a variety of environmental and instrumental recordings. His recent works explore harmonic structures utilizing the “slow change music” method. In a live setting, he arranges and manipulates this material into situation-specific compositions. Sonically, he produces an array of slowly shifting sound fields that merge and transform within their physical surroundings.” (from http://www.carveraudain.com).

The CG III got completed by the works of Jaydea Lopez (Australia), Udo Noll (radio aporée), the Austrian composer Gerald Resch and by Wojciech Morawski from Poland.

Playlist:  ShellshoreGardens

 

Read More

Composer’s Garden II

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Much to the delight of both ladies, the interview with  Susi Mahacke Produktion (Hamburg) touched the most interesting subjects: precision gardening, dependent flora, James Bond movies, satellite-monitored agriculture, folklore and garden fashion. SMP presented a specical mix version of her forthcoming album “Jardin oublié”. 

Susi Mahacke Produktion ist Susi Mahacke: Fiktive multiple Erscheinung – wandelt so durch Wiesen, Wüsten und Mauern.
Seit Mitte der 90er Jahre hat sich eine Arbeitsweise herauskristallisiert, bei der sich Medium und Kontext immer neu erst aus bestimmten Themen entwickeln. Nach Ausstellungs-Ensembles aus großformatigen Bildserien, Fotoinszenierung und Schnaps-Kreationen arbeitet Susi Mahacke heute mit komplexer Rauminstallation, Gärten, Performance, Video und ganz aktuell mit eigener Musik.

 

A piece by  Nikolaus Gerszewski, “Kodam Gobar” from his work series K187 completed Composer’s Garden II:

Kodam Gobar: The piece won the first price in the international composition-contest Fereydoon Moshiri, announced by the ensemble work in progress and Hamburger Klangwerktage 2011. I work here with a flexible interval notation. The musicians each have to fall self-responsibe decisions regarding the melodic progression of their part, thus generating aleatoric counterpoints and harmonies. Yet the piece’s materiality and structure are not affected by these decisions. Keeping the music in a permanent state of uncertainty about it’s own progression, I wish to prevent the emergence of routine, and establish a certain level of awareness.

Playlist:

Interview with Susi Mahacke: 22:22
Datscha-Mix:                               23:32
Kodam Gobar/Gerszewski        14:02

Read More

Composers Garden I

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Composer’s Garden” is an one-hour feature, from 10-11 pm. Part of each show is an interview with one of our OpenCall artists, and his/her works are introduced to the audience. This presentation is followed by a supplementary introduction of 1 – 3 other composers, usually with reference to the subsequent nightloop.

Composer’s Garden I:
OuthouseNightOperaGardenWalk

“How to built an Outhouse”. Interview with Dirk Hülstrunk. Frankfurt. Via Skype.

Playlist: PlaylistOuthouse

Read More

Nightloops #1 – #4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

General information:

The composer’s nightloops are a collage of your contributions to Datscha-Radio. They have been sent in response to the OpenCall or (a minor number of them) researched on open and opaque online resources such as Freesound, free music archive, or filestube.

I roughly grouped them into 3 fields: Into The Forest ; NoiseClicks&Classics ; FarAway Gardens.
Each loop is about 3 hours and is designed (or functions as objet trouve) as a random playlist.

The issue is listening – with and without listening.

Datscha Radio is delighted with all of you. Thank you very much!

Composer Nightloop #1: The night loop from the 24.-25th August is a compilation of my own works (raw audio). Three of them, though, are not by myself, but belong into my archive of “Strange Folk & Weird Country -songs.

 

 

Read More

Nightloop #3: NoiseClicks&Classics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whoever thinks of noise as a concept unfit for “the garden”, gardening or nature, is mistaken. Wind and waves are noise. The rustling of leaves is noise. Lawnmovers, saws and hedgecutters are noise. The neigbour’s radio sounds are “noise”. Noise could be defined as sound in absence of harmonic structures. Then again. Listen closely.

But what whim took over her to combine “noisy, electronic” tracks with contemporary classical music?
This was done to create a fitting pendant, or a counterpoint possibly. “Classical music” is usually connoted with “harmonic structures” and “harmonic structures” are deemed a lot more suitable for garden music… But just as with different gardening concepts there are different concepts of contemporary classical music. Be it the use of mathematical or aleatoric principles, of sung poetry, of experimental scores (for example the drawing of a leaf serving as a musical “instruction”), even the mix with “real” field recordings, not speaking of the actual situatedness of the concert/playback… almost every new school of music (from ages on) working in a different mode, seeking different harmonies has been attacked of creating “noise” .

Now, whether it is “noise”, drones, sinus waves, just “ugly” fieldrecordings, classical compositions bordering on atonality, orchestrated chaos or a meandering along a contrapuntal walk… with NoiseClicks&Classics you may continue to rely on your curiosity.

And for the beauty of it, I put some nightingale songs in it, too.

Featured composers are: Suspicion Breeds Confidence, Gerald Resch, Nikolaus Gerszewski, Miquel Parera, José Manuel Garcia, Udo Noll (radio aporée), Emanuele Constantini, William Engelen, Peter Cusack (Radio aporée), Wojciech Morawski, Daniel Blinkhorn, Carver Audain, Pit Schultz, Jaques Foschia, Toni Dimitrov, Attila Fias & John Kameel Farah, Stijn Demeulenaere, RawAudio.

Playlist: Playlist_Clicks

 

 

 

Read More

Composer’s Nightloops #4: FarAwayGardens

 

 

 

 

 

 Photo: soundwalk collective

 

 

 

This nightloop is dedicated to environments located in less moderate climates than our Mid European garden habitat: Rainforests, deserts and prairies. But no rules without exceptions: Although France and England don’t seem to be so far away, we included, for poetic and comprehensive reasons, a rooftop bee-hive, the French radio portrait of an apiculturist as well as a walk through “Derek Jarman’s Garden”. Plus: Radio artist  Carlo Patrao presenting a show on plant conciousness and communication.

A definite highlight is the “Ayahuasqueros” soundwalk, kindly provided by Josie Holtzman, NY,  from the soundwalk collective:

Ayahuasqueros. Recordings from the Amazon, Peru, 2012
A RADIO ESSAY BY JEREMY NARBY
In collaboration with Francisco Lopez
Featuring Victor Nieto and Ushamano Walter Martinez

For a video snippet, please click here: http://vimeo.com/44449271

Composers of the FarAwayGardens nightloop are: Jaydea Lopez, Carlo Patrao, David Assoline, Samuel Mittelman, Jonathan Prior, Jeremy Narby, Stateimpact Texas (Report on How To Grow Tomatoes in the Desert), Sherre Delys and an anonymous Puertorican screechowl.

Playlist: playlist_faraway

 

 

 

Read More

The Last Day

The last and 8th day of Datscha Radio stood under the star of the “Quattroflex”: Hannes Wienert, multi-instrumentalist from Hamburg, unpacked his suitcase and introduced this item to a wide-eyed audience – next to a Tibetan conch, two Korean and Japanese oboes and the Chinese sheng. The “Quattroflex” is a variant of the customary garden water hose, in the inside equipped with a quadruple lining of rills. Therefore, the sound obtains a particular frequency which reminds the listener of electronically processed vibrations. Wienert equips his tubes and shell conches with fitting mouthpieces from various saxophones, such creating a new breed of “hybrid instruments”.

Our guests of honour this day were the chairman of the “Gardening and Housing Society “Einigkeit”, Werner Bär and his wife. Another guest was Gerd Haertl, the event manager of the Rosenthal Autumn Festival. He talked about the history of the village which, having been founded in 1230, is even older than the city of Berlin. And he  also played “The Hymn of Rosenthal”. Much to our delight, Mr Bär agreed to do a radio interview on the current and historical situation of the “Einigkeit”, and to emphazise the importance of this greatest of all garden parks in Berlin for the city – and of course, as the home stead of Datscha Radio. Naturally, the Datscha team seized this opportunity to thank Mr. Bär personally for his enduring support by word and deed: Since both, the tent that protected us, our guests and the tables and benches were provided by the “Einigkeit” club house for free. Together with the Liebram couple who maintains the heritage of Rosenthal at the “Altes Landhaus”, our editor Diana McCarty and our Datscha Radio artist Frau Puschel, we formed an agreeable round with coffee and beer and the apple cake vanishing by and by.

At this point, it is fit to refer to the peculiar phenomen of the tomato, being picked, resting on the table, disappearing and reappearing in a constant flow and go these days (as can be observed by looking attentively at our photos). Tomatos were in everybody’s mouth, went through everybody’s hands, they flew through the air, rolled in the grass, fell from the trees, and they ended either in a dish or immediately in somebody’s stomach. They dematerialized and rematerialized, either in a little basket presented by Peter oder in the hands of Diana, were they transformed into little red birds nesting in her hair.

And behold! Late at night, the guests gone, Mr. Wienert on his way back to Hamburg, the moon in the sky and the night owls busy in the trees while Ihlenfeld, Schultz and McCarty were  talking around one table (Ms Schaffner already brushing her teeth): Three REAL night owls landed on the datscha trees and took position in a triangle around the tent. So, there were the owls talking to each other and below, the people were talking to each other. And the people laughed at their table and the owls laughed perched up high on their posts. And they hooted “hooho” and “yiipee” and “croocro”. And: “Datscha Radio- ohh-ohh”. We took this as a most positive omen, and afterwards…

 

 

we carried on celebrating.

 

 

… ganz besonders mit unserem Nachbarn Peter Ihlenfeld, dem König der Königinnen der Nacht. Ohne ihn wäre Datscha-Radio nicht möglich gewesen! Großer Dank vor allem hier also an ihn!!!

 

 

Read More