<nettime-ann> INSTALLATION | 04-08/01/2010 | NK - Berlin Radio Fragments

[Andre Castro <andrecastro@c-e-m.org>]

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INSTALLATION | 04-08/01/2010 | NK - Berlin

RADIO FRAGMENTS


A sound installation by Andre Castro.

Transforming radiophonic silences into sound stories.





04 - 08Jan 2010 from 14:00 to 17:00h.

At NK:
Elsenstr. 52/
2.Hinterhaus Etage 2
12059 Berlin Neukölln
http://www.nkprojekt.de



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Radio Fragments is a radiophonic project that aims to explore an 
auditory attention, different from the one usually
associated with the experience of listening to the radio, making use of 
the spaces-in-between-words-and-songs that occur throughout the 
radiophonic discourse as its main reagent.

Its basic formula consists of an analysis-control mechanism (built in 
Super Collider) residing inside a computer to which a real-time 
mainstream radio broadcast is fed. This mechanism acts as a 
reversed-noise-gate, singling out what is usually ignored or avoided in 
a radiophonic
context (whispers, stumbles, pauses, dead spaces and errors) and muting 
all the other sounds such as words or songs.
These punctuating fragments become the raw materials from which Radio 
Fragments' sonic concoction is brewed.

Recordings of Radio Fragments in action can be heard in 
http://www.c-e-m.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/RadioFragments/




André Castro (b.1983) is a sound artist from Lisbon, graduated in Sonic 
Arts at
Middlesex University(U.K).
Andrés practice has been shifting between two different universes. On 
the one hand, the computer music world, with its meditative textures, 
harsh noisy sounds, blips, and experiments with costume-built software 
in SuperCollider. On the other hand, a phonographic activity, in which 
he goes
out with a microphone trying to capture the incredible aural diversity 
of our world and the voices and stories that hide in each person.
Most of Andréââ?¬â?¢s work has in common the evasion of visual elements, 
an acousmatic sound that aims to subvert the dominance of the vision 
over the other senses. In recent years he has nourished a growing 
interest for the radiophonic medium, which has become a fruitful source 
of inspiration and for which he has been creating pieces since the last 
3 years.

A significant part of his practice has been developed through 
collaborations with other artists, such as the ongoing improvised music 
duo with Martin Aaserud.





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