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Xylotheque & Our Act to Time has Come

Show 0598: Xylotheque by Eli Gras (RadioWORM)

I was kindly invited to do a residency at the Worm, for to develope a work related to the idea of a hypothetical psychology of furniture and a possible communication, sort of a language amongst them in relation with “the human world”, that evolves and spreads to other household materials, resulting in a group of tracks trying to somehow express it with a certain narrative; like an electroacoustic sounds theatre fantasy, close to music, but not totally music, it’s in some way an “animistic” sound work.

I mounted it in between talking parts, forming sort of a little parody, almost a homage to the para-scientific radioplays, to prepare the listening mind and orientation of the concept, also explaining a little tale in order to add a ‘language’ touch to the bunch of absurdity that contains the edited work.

The sounds were taken from the Rotterdam city environment (hostel stuff, supermarkets, streets…), the Worm building (the rooms, furniture, synthesizers…), in Barcelona (houses of friends, parties, supermarkets…) Really every dot has a little history.

Credits:

Locutions: Jesús Brotons, Eli Gras.

Mastering: Albert Guitart (alb-estudi.com)

Thanks to:

Lukas Simonis and the Worm/Klangendum crew for the opportunity and patience, Ramon Faura for the rhythm pattern and to allow me to record his grandma’s home objects, to Antoine Manent and Florenci Salesas for the extra ears.

Show 0596: our act to time has come by [q_a] (Radio Corax)

political protest is always about delivering a message. about sending a signal to the public.
in this piece i tried to catch the signals to the public of a day in frankfurt, 150318, when the new ecb-tower was opened to the public and when massive protests took place. i made some soundwalks this day and this piece is a version to listen to the music of the streets wrapped up for radio.
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[q_a] is a sound artist from halle/saale. he experiments with special soundscapes, random noises and acoustical devices, mostly cello. he is a member of the improvisation group “sohne” with whom he performs since 2013. Also he played at improhazard-festival 2014 and 2016 and at blurred edges festival 2015 and 2016. Starting from october 2016 he will study time-based-arts at the burg giebichenstein kunsthochschule halle.
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