A live event organised by the WORM STUDIO@WORM, april 5th…
The event was broadcasted as live streaming audio, and will, in an edited form be broadcasted again on Radio 6, VPRO’s cafe Sonore. The two tape compositions that were played were by KAMAMA and The Future Sounds Of Folk.
text about the event; (in dutch, sorry)
WormRadio/radioWORM is afkomstig van het live-gebeuren en de eeuwigdurende zoektocht naar een podium voor onalledaagsheid. Zowel op radiofonisch/geluids gebied als op documentair/menselijk gebied. In het kort gezegd; eind jaren 90 inspireerde de electronische revolutie in de rock & experimentele muziek ons tot de gedachte dat het live optreden eigenlijk net zo goed als radio gebracht kon worden (omdat het ‘performance’element ten enemale ontbrak), tegenwoordig inspireert de ‘content is overal’-revolutie ons tot de gedachte dat we juist moeten inzetten op een ‘schaarste’ revival. Als de podcasten en streaming content voor het oprapen ligt is het misschien zaak van de radio weer een ‘hot medium’ te maken bijvoorbeeld door middel van onherhaalbaarheid zoals ons RADIO RADIO evenement van vanavond. Hoewel het geheel ook live gestreamed wordt en dus eigenlijk als ‘radio’ uitzending (met beeld`) over de gehele wereld te volgen is.
Ons programma bestaat uit interviews met alle betrokken, twee Tape Composities die in opdracht van WORM zijn gemaakt, een live-hoorspel, een Radio Performance en tot besluit een muziekoptreden. OR CHECK HERE
We invited Rudolf Eb.er aka Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck (& imported him from japan, where he lives) to do a performance workshop @ WORM. Why? Because we like his audio & visible works and we think he can add a flavour (to…?) that is not available HERE at the moment.
He’s currently working in the studio on a radioplay, later to be released on the WORM Horspil Series.
You got a minute? Listen here to the soundpiece wich was recorded live at his workshop end performance. Made by Rudolf Eb.er, Robert Kroos and LG Simonis
Listen to Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock Performance 121210 Live at WORM
Rotterdam RecordLabel z6 released 3 issues this year: By Huib emmer, LG Simonis/Anne Laberge and the Static Tics.
Here are some picts off the release party at roodkapje
The WORM radio/studiocrew were busy traveling, doing live horspil in linz, brno and vienna (at the MQ and ORF radio). we were especially happy to find out that alan ginsberg is still alive. (in more then 1 entity). Here’s the place we played in BRNO, Skena Louka…
And the next morning, David Subik (who organised the concert) and Josef Cseres (who attained) looked like this…
And this was in Vienna, our performance at Museumsquartier…
The final version of the radioplay was done at ORF Kunstradio and broadcasted the same evening. It was very well (live-)mixed by the ORF technicians. And of course, we stupid peasants were flabbergasted by the luxuries of the ORF Radioplay Studio. Except the usual stuff (great mics, 5.1 surround, very expensive looking HD recording gear) the pebbles path was out favorite…
And this is us, looking very relaxed….
A week later, the whole WORM crew to strp fest in eindhoven, where we build a song poem studio…
We made a Radia Network Program about it. Here’s the explanation….
THE WORM RADIO SONG POEM RADIA SHOW DECEMBER 2010
This show consists of a number of songs that were made by the Radio WORM Song Poem Crew at the STRP Festival in Eindhoven (november 2010). The theme was ’80ties cassette culture’ and the idea was that the audience could choose a genre from a menu, write a text, pay 3 euro’s, and then the Radio WORM Song Poem Crew would make the song with ‘original’ 80ties gear (the most advanced device being a 4track cassette machine), hence the ‘vintage’ sound qualities of the pieces. The song was delivered within a short time (5 – 30 minutes) to the client on cassette tape. The available genres on the menu were; Depressing Lo Fi Noise, Boring Art Shit, Early Happy Commodore, Gay Budget Beats, Industrial SM Love Songs, Echoïstic Melancholia Dub, Fucked Up Cassette Hardcore and Incredible Cheap Casio-Pop. There were 19 songs made in a few hours, the best of them you’ll find here. Text subjects vary from ode’s to leaving colleague’s, the impossibilities of having a love affair where one lives in Eindhoven and the other in Amsterdam, Statements about Radio Art, a Monty Cantsin Neoist Song and lots of boring and horrible poetry. Enjoy!
People involved; Lukas Simonis, Henk Bakker, Robert Kroos, Merijn van Ham, Joost Bult, Alexander van Straten, Annemarie Nijhof, Rik Den Dood
Also performed was a testrun of HISS the tapemusical, with live music by: Wouter van Veldhoven – Aki Onda – Tapetronic – Zombies Under Stress
HISSSSS….. – a Cassette Docu Musical Revue
with a.o.: Frans De Waard and many guests. Soundclips of the preformances later to come.
BUT: LISTEN HERE TO THE SONG POEMS!!!!!!
analogue digitalism
radio art
say what’s up
servies
sm filosoof
tysmanus beuk
vibrations
vier tellen geleden
witte bloemen
xoxom
Here’s a movieclip of the songpoem studio in action:
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DO IT YOURSELF CLIP
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Also in progress is a big STUDIOworkshop held in cooperation with SKVR involving live music and studio recording for kids.
Stu came to work a couple off days again, and made several highly likable and instructive movies, and left us with 2 very nice tracks, still in developping stage, but nonetheless, check out the ems putney track, awesome sounds!
He’s working together with a collegue, Eliad.
Soundartist and composer from Australia, Colin Black, worked in the studio for a week, creating a long piece, multitonal, mikrotonal and extremely layered, mainly working with the ARP 2600. Its a piece resembling the musical effects of short wave radio interference.
Listen to a different piece he made for the studio archives:
This weeks (06-04/09-04) pioneer in our audioshed is Ernst vd Loo, previous participant in the Electronic Field Recording Workshop; now working on a patch instigated, moderated Max MSP to modular synthesis composition. to sum it up shortly.
He’s taking the studio gear full on on his first night in, arp 2500, serge, putney. He’s recording it on a four track casette recorder. (TDKSA90)
LISTEN HERE! 2 EXAMPLES OF RALPH’S LABOUR. ONE IS PRIMARILY A SERGEPATCH WITH 2500 AND THE SECOND ARE SERGE, ARP 2500. ARP 2600 AND PUTNEY AND CONCUSSOR.
Artefakt are Nick & Robin who worked in the WORM studio for nearly half a year, making a midi to cv routing, connecting the vintage synthesizers (thru 2 kentons). You can download their midi to cv manual on this blog.
They also worked a week with th midi to cv chain and produced the following song: Listen to their tune soul of the machine
