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.
Hooray, it’s decided: Datscha Radio will broadcast from the garden of the State Academy of Fine Arts in Gyumi! If the weather is bad, there is also the option of broadcasting from the neighbouring metal workshop, but sunshine is more likely. As graceful and tidy as this future broadcasting location presents itself: It wasn’t always like this. Until two years ago, there were several containers here that provided a temporary home for the victims of the 1988 earthquake.
Date:Sunday, September 29 Time: 12-15 h (CET); 14-17 h Armenia Location: Garden of the State Academy of Fine Arts in Armenia FM frequency (narrow-cast): 90.6 MHz Co-Transmissions: Radio Antenna (Yerevan + Tbilisi); NN
Datscha Radio’s heartfelt thanks go to the director of the Academy, Vahagn Ghukasyan and Momik Vardanyan from Art Basis for this generously offered location!
About the Academy: Quoted from Art Space 22/01. Art and Education
In 1997, in the first academic year of the opening of the academy, there were only 3 specialties of fine arts, one chair and 9 students. There are currently 7 professions in the branch. Students can earn a bachelor's or master's degree in painting, graphics, sculpture, clothing modeling, decorative applied arts, design, art history, and theory. During its 25 years of operation, the Gyumri branch has had more than 2,000 graduates, many of whom are world-renowned artists, teaching, both in Armenia and abroad, working, holding senior positions, managing cultural institutions, foundations, museums, etc. Many of our graduates have started their own businesses - clothing studios, boutiques, decorative metal companies, design houses, Armenian eyewear brands, etc. One of the most important achievements of the Gyumri branch of the SAFA in recent years is its truly professional teaching staff. During these years, thanks to the efforts of the staff of the branch, the academy has been gradually replenished with modern laboratories of clothing modeling, decorative applied arts, non-ferrous metals, graphic printing and design. It is noteworthy that the Gyumri branch is the only university in the whole Transcaucasia where there is a forge, where students also learn the art of blacksmithing, preserving and developing the traditions of blacksmithing in Gyumri. Academy is also the only higher education institution in the Caucasus, where, in addition to classical graphic printing, alternative printing methods are cyanotype, resinotype, silk printing, etc.
Vahagn Ghukasyan
Datscha Radio will broadcast live from Gyumri, Armenia on Sunday, 29 September. An approximately 3-hour programme is planned, which will be organised in cooperation with the artists’ platform ART BASIS and the Gyumri-based branch of the Armenian State Academy of Arts. Location and time will be announced in due course. This project is supported by the Goethe Institute Brussels and the international programme Culture Moves Europe.
Open Call for download
A translation into Armenian will be available soon // Շուտով կլինի հայերեն և ռուսերեն թարգմանություն.
Now it’s official! Datscha Radio will travel to Gyumri, Armenia in September 2024 for a three-week radio residency. Ms Schaffner feels overwhelmed and already exited. A great thanks to #Art Basis who invited me for this project and to #Culture Moves Europe and Goethe Institute Brussels for funding this journey.
Datscha Radio is pleased to announce a new radio production for the Austrian Broadcast Station Ö1
Kunst zum Hören :
The Traveling Garden Radio Thursday 25th 2024, 11:03 pm
Lan: DE; EN Supervisor: Elisabeth Zimmermann
Gabi Schaffner has created two 20-minute collages for Kunst zum Hören. The first takes us to Altenburg in Thuringia in the summer of 2023, where Datscha Radio sent its field research into the ether several times. The second block dives into geographically more distant horticultural worlds of sound. A conversation between Elisabeth Zimmermann and the artist will provide further insights into the traveling garden radio and the practice of world gardening.
Team: Gabi Schaffner, Ernst Markus Stein, Helen Thein
Beiträge: Spaziergang zur Elisabethquelle – Wolfgang Paritzsch; Der Historische Laubengarten – Grit Martinez und Chris Junk; Gärten in der Ukraine – Gartengemeinschaft Einheit.
Gartengeschichte in Altenburg – Christine Nienhold; Unser Gemeinschaftsgarten – Anonym; Licht und Sterne – Frank Vohla; Laubengang – Gabi Schaffner, Ernst Markus Stein.
Open Call Tracks: Apfel Birne Quitte – Tiger Stangl; Samensinfonie. Aus dem Leben eines Kerns – Ian Joyce, Tiger Stangl
Musiken/Sampling/Mixe: Ernst Markus Stein. Jingle Streuobst unter Verwendung von „Frau Holle“ – Goldmarie
Field Recordings: Gabi Schaffner
Datscha Radio International
Datscha Radio Ii, 2022
Team: Tina- Marie Friedrich, Gabi Schaffner
Beiträge: Towards Atmospheric Care – Hanna Husberg und Agata Marzecovas; Kilimandscharo – Inari Virmakoski; The River Ii Bridge – Tina-Marie Friedrich; Weather Changes – Heli Paaso-Rantala; Cloud Engineering – Filips Stanislavskis
Open Call Tracks: Love is in the Air – Jaakko Autio; On The Inhale – Elisabeth Shores
Datscha Radio Taipei, 2019
Team: Gabi Schaffner, Gabriel de Seta
Beiträge: Waste Culture – Margareth Shiu/Bamboo Curtain Studio, Mark van Tongeren, Hauyu Yang; Listening Culture – Laila Fan; Praying Machine Hacks – Lu Yi mit Gabriel de Seta; Listening Culture Reprise – Laila Fan
Musiken: Sea Waste 7.0 – Ken Yu; Praying Machine – Lu Yi
Field Recordings: Gabi Schaffner
Datscha Radio Madrid, 2018
Team: Gabi Schaffner, Maite Camacho/InSonora Artist Collective, Victor Jara/MediaLab Prado
Beiträge: Esta es Una Plaza – Alberto Peralta; Plant Sensor Music – Joaquin Diaz, KTA Martin; El Hospital de las Plantas – Óscar Domínguez mit Eva Kurly; Retiro Garden – Daniel Horcajo; The Batan Community Garden – Irene Prins
Musiken: 9 Olas – Carolina Carubba; Plant Music – Joaquin Diaz, KTA Martin; Atomic Garden – Alberto Garcia.
What does the Black Forest sound like? In the morning, in the evening, at night? The Vogelklang Soundcamp is getting ready for Dawn Chorus Day this Sunday, 5 May 2024at 5:00 am, with cooking, the installation of sound artworks, and conversations buzzing through the air and across the meadows, crossing the Kauzhorst (stage area), the Wasseramselhaus (workshops and showers) and: The microphones for the Dawn Chorus’ global stream have already been set up.
Anyone who wants to listen to the Black Forest from now on can do so. Just click on the audio player on the right. If you can’t see it now: It was active only 4-6th of May.
The Vogelklang Soundcamp organised by the Global Forest Art Association is an open-air festival and has been linked to the International Dawn Chorus Day since 2018, which was founded in the 1980s by the environmentalist and broadcaster Chris Baines in Birmingham.
In addition to the numerous recording and listening stations spread across more than 80 participating countries, a Sound Camp was also set up in a remote forest clearing in the Black Forest. It starts tomorrow!
