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Das Morgenfeld | The Morning Field

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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).

 

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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

 

 

 

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The Seventh Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Finnish national Epos Kalevala tells us that in the beginning of the world all things came  into existence with a duck’s egg. Let us now imagine this egg. It is just like the Seventh Datscha-Radio day: Full of surprises, events, music and never-heard-of-things. Among our famous guests were sound artist Klaas Hübner with his experimental Oscillator Fruit Salad, Morgenvogel Radio with Maria Leena Räihälä and Manuel Bonik, a group of talented youngsters who termed their instant-Datscha-band “Bermünch”, Carola Haupt and Julia from the Italian Radio Papesse, … to name just a few of them. And our edtior and great radio show maker Verena Kuni left us to return to Frankfurt. Sigh! Wonderful work and a great time we had with you, Verena!

Meanwhile, we found the time to upload our pictures, so let us take another look at the Datscha-world-egg of the 30th of August:

Evidently the self built oscillator fruits were tasty and did not electrify the ladies savouring them (at least not in any negative sense). Verena Kuni led through the experimental set-up and evolved even more energetic than before. Arrival of the Munich twins Lena and Lulu and Marie Schwab with her guitar. The girls played “This is what we would like to hear in the radio but they don’t play those songs”, Marie sang (a. o. ) a John Lee Hooker, and Lena turned out to be such a talented radio host that I could steal away from their show and join the conversations outside. The girls were joined by their friends Carl (ukulele) and Julian (guitar), both members of the Berlin band “infinity repeat”.

Morgenvogel Radio’s show  featured the artist Michael (surname will be added) as performing guest and presented a surrealist blend of live performance, interview, talk on bird houses, musical interventions and  readings from the Kalevala. Manuel Bonik’s laptop was wired to the boombox – analogue mixing without a mixer! –, the micro was wired to our spontaneous brain waves, a black egg served as another musical medium, a ladder was placed next to the cherry tree and Datscha-Radio got presented with an original Morgenvogel bird house – manufactured by the tender hands of Maria Räihälä herself. Thank you! More bird houses are still available from Morgenvogel Real Estate: The aim is to establish more homes for birds (and you don’t need to own a garden for that!): Be it your window sill, roof top or balkony, your favorite tree in the park, etc. Only traffic lights won’t work since they usually lack the leafy, green environment needed for a bird’s natural habitat.

In the meantime, the artist KH Jeron showed up, again in his seemingly favourite disguise as a cooking magician. This time he conjured a very delicious apple crumble pie for us of us. Thank you!

Around 10 pm Hannes Wienert arrived straight from Hamburg, wearing with a toupee and carrying  his suitcase full of his peculiar collection of Asian and not-so-Asian instruments into our datscha. Morgenvogel Radio had gone slightly huppelissa, tangos were played and the full moon was up in a misty sky.
This is how the “Moon Hour” started. Manuel Bonik moved his laptop to the studio, Hannes played improvisations on this Chinese mouth organ – the infamous sheng – and as far as I remember Maria and I sang a karaoke version of Blue Moon… or did we?

Yes, and after a mind-bending free gallop over the nightly fields of more loony moony tunes, the reading of Finnish poems and more tango, there came the sad and terrible moment to say Goodbye to Verena Kuni, our brilliant co-editor from radia.fm. A treasure of knowledge and practical thought she is! Again great thanks to you, without your help a great part of our program would have never been realized!

 

 

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Electronic Garden Tea-Time in the Morning | Elektronische Garten-Teestunde am Morgen

The night owls have shifted (in)to morning birds. A gentle wind is shaking  the trees, the dew of dreams drying from the leaves. The garden is awake. But what if the delicate spider’s web knitted from memories of the silence passed is still floating over the seedbeds?

Time for a cup of tea. Let us enjoy it together, while the spider’s web is carried away by the wind, towards the fields strechting far out behind the garden…

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Secret Gardens | Geheime Gärten

Das Quecksilber steigt und der Asphalt schlägt Blasen – wohl denen, die sich in einen schattigen (Datscha-)Garten zurückziehen können. Aber vielleicht finden wir einen solchen Garten auch mitten in der Stadt? Nein, nicht in den Hinterhöfen und auch nicht in den Parks. Sondern genau hier: Zwischen den Türmen der Banken, den grauen Fassaden der Bürohäuser, den Bordsteinen, an denen der Verkehr entlangrauscht. Zen oder die Kunst, geheime Gärten auch dort aufzuspüren, wo sie niemand vermuten wird…

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Composer’s Nightloops #2: Into the Forest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Into the Forest 

“Into the Forest” assembles “forresty” recordings and compositions. Meadows, trees, roses, literary stuff and soundwalks… For this one, I included some snippets from the internet. The playlist is unadorned. Titles (some of these are still working titles) will be corrected.

with Daniel Blinkhorn, DinahBird, Dirk Hülstrunk, Els Viaene, Etienne Noiseau, Michael Gatonska, Alexander Baker, Heidrun Schramm, Jorge Luis Borges, Lasse-Marc Riek, Mark Matthes, Norinen,  Patrick Franke, RawAudio,  Sirpa Jokinen, Terry Riley, William Engelen, hark, rawaudio/Fx Schroder.

A sort-of-focus is put on field recording, but then again, there are no rules. Atmospheres maybe.

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There has been talks about the new german style in gardening, besides prairie gardening, recreating a desert hortensic culture in a middle european climate , the zen stone garden is very much “in style”. the concept of location and place in japanese culture has been philosophized by the Heidegger scholar Kitaro Nishida, i have been asked Tetsuo Kogawa to interprete his relevance for mini fm broadcasting projects such as Datscharadio, which happens in a east german garden turned into a artist run garden.

In an email conversation from 9/19/08 Tetsuo Kogawa wrote:

>>Rethinking about Nishida: Every text has possibilities to think it further, think it over the original, and even to misunderstand. As you know, Nishida’s “basho” is his notion on his metaphysics. He tried to connect his metaphysics with some ideas of Zen (especially of Taisetsu Suzuki—he is much more interesting than Nishida and also influenced John Cage) and Japanese Buddhism. But I have to say that as long as you read Nishida’s Japanese texts they are written very esoterically. This is very different from Heidegger. As Erasmus Schoefer (Die Sprache Heideggers) brilliantly argued, Heidegger’s language is ‘logical’ (in Husserl’s term it should be in “transcendental logic” not “formal logic” though). Nishida is not like this. His texts are pretentious. Also, there is a problem of Japanese language. It is totally different from German. Basically it is ambiguous. In this sense, the translation is only one interpretation of his text.

Also, you are talking about quite concrete topics of radio and the internet. Nishida certainly argues about techniques but he was totally deaf about what’s happening in the technology today. He was a man of old idealism. You could reinterpret him but for a reader who reads his texts in Japanese, every reinterpretation over the translation is misunderstanding. By the way, Haruki Murakami becomes an international novelist due to the “mistranslation”:)

Semiologically, you can use his texts freely. In fact, many new ideas derived from a kind of mistranslation from Greek texts of the philosophers.

On his political commitment to the Japanese right-wing, he had no sense of politics. Again, this is very different from Heidegger who was so cunning that he quickly gave up his commitment to the Nazi party when he realized what it was. Adorno doubts his “Kehre” but it would be true that he had a sense of politics.<<

Mistranslation might be indeed the source of many hortensic adaptions in ongoing gardening trends.

Tetsuo Kogawa is a pioneer in D.I.Y. micro fm movement, using micro fm transmitters as artistic musical instruments with his live performances and  building of radio transmitters in workshops, his open hardware circuits have been built all over the world to make analogue micro radio a form of art.

he has suggested:

>> I am now thinking that in order to keep the minimal interactivity I will pick up some of the pictures of the garden (flowers and trees) and convert  them to the sounds. These sounds will be automatically broadcast to the net  that you will use for your program.<<

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Fresh Music for Rotten Vegetables Fruit by and with Karl Heinz Jeron

Fallen fruit on Datscha-Radio garden’s grounds. Should we dump them in the composter? Good idea – but today we’ve got a better one. For each rotting apple, each worm-bitten plum has hidden talents. Musical talents indeed! And Karl Heinz Jeron will show us how to bring these talents on stage.

Obviously, his project “Fresh Music For Rotten Vegetables” has been conceived for the urban buy’n’throwaway society rather than for a garden: Those who participate in one of his Fresh Music workshops will first of all be sent to the supermarket to get some veggies. However, not to buy them. Instead, they have to ask for those greens that have been sorted out already because they seem not attractrive enough anymore to be sold – while, as we should add, usually still consumable and ready-to-become part of a delicious meal. Yet in this case, they will come up with an even better talent…

Thus, hush hush to the next deli, to the market or the nice little restaurant round the corner. Or ask your neighbour. Or would it make sense to take a look in your own kitchen? Well: To re-think your own practice is nice – talk to others about the sad fate of despised nutrition carriers is even better. Who knows, perhaps they’ll join us for what’s next.

For the Datscha-Radio garden, however – with all its wonderfull trees full of plums and apples and all the beds overloaded with fresh veggies providing rich vitamin meals for all of us every day, so bringing whatever kind of foreign fruit to the garden would seem ridiculous – we’ll have to adapt the concept. We’ll ask the neightbours for fallen fruit. And we’ll also collect some in the Datscha garden. Fruit, for at least today rotting veggies are not available – look at the grand zucchini Ms. Schaffnerin found instead! Yes, this will go to the kitchen later and become part of a delicious dinner. What a pity: No rotten parts, no music (ok, it would work with fresh fruit as well – but that’d be not fresh music for rotten veggies, right?).

Ready to start? We are. For apart from the fruit, Karl Heinz Jeron has brought everything to garden we’ll need. And now he’ll show everybody who always wanted to measure up with the First Vienna Vegetable Orchestra launch a juicy fruit band how it works…

While Karl Heinz is cutting apples, placing plums and other pieces people have brought to the garden table, putting a zinc and a copper rod into each of the fruit, then wiring them and connecting everything with speakers and other stuff, we’re posing curious questions: What is this good for? Why that? What if… ah, and what will be the results? But hey, we can already listen to the latter. Indeed, these fruit are extraordinary talented! They are generating sounds!

However, for sure not because the maggots have started to sing. But because the fruit are feeding the circuit with energy (that’s what fruit are supposed to do, also when consumed by humanimals, right?): Each fruit has become a battery – a principly we should remember from school lessons, yes: the good old lemon battery (yet Karl Heinz can confirm that potatoes work even better).

Put in parallel and connected in series, step by step our fruit battery is growing to a symphony orchestra. Indeed, meanwhile the sounds have become louder, and the composition has become quite articulate and rich. Thus we finish our talk about the idea of punk (see the title of the piece, an hommage to the Dead Kennedys and their legendary first album, “Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables” – to which the Datscha-Radio version fits even better), about post-industrial (for we’ve not played Dead Kennedys, but a piece by Throbbing Gristle as the intro for the show), about aleatorics, chance music and John Cage (a curious cook himself and thus perfectly fitting into our table talk), about DIY, recycling, batteries and rotting data, hardware, software – and clear the stage for the orchestra.

Well, also fruit batteries have to die. In our case, it’s the perfect moment – right when we have to close the show. And while the next programme is starting, Karl Heinz is switching to the kitchen – creating from Ms Schaffnerin’s giant zucchini an absolutely declicious dinner for us. (Yes, he is a talented cook – we should have known that anyway from some of his earlier projects. But now our stomach knows as well…)

Great many thanks to Karl Heinz Jeron for his radiophonic live workshop on “Fresh Music for Rotten Vegetables Fruit”, the table talk – and the delicious zucchini dinner in the Datscha-Radio garden.

Karl Heinz Jeron is an artist living and working in Berlin. Find out more about “Fresh Music For Rotten Vegetables” and his other projects by visiting his hompage.

[Pictures: Only five from presumably more than hundred (yes, we’re serious) – that will need another time to be sorted, formatted and uploaded to a forthcoming gallery (thx for your patience) – VK cc-by-nc-sa] Read More