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Art Radio WPS1.org is pleased to present selections from the ctrl_alt_del sound-art festival produced by
NOMAD and now taking place as part of the 10th International Istanbul Biennial in Turkey. The programs consist
of many short form adventurous audio pieces and appear in our archive under Istanbul Biennial.
ctrl_alt_del was the first sound-art festival realized in Turkey, in September 2003. It was a collaboration between NOMAD, Marres, Hedah, and
Istanbul Technical University Center for ?Advanced Musical Studies (MIAM). Events were realized in two cities, Istanbul and Maastricht, and more than
30 people from 16 different countries contributed to the project.
In 2005, ctrl_alt_del took place in the positionings section of the 9th International Istanbul Biennial. The 2005 programme for the
ctrl_alt_del project was developed by Basak Senova, Emre Erkal, Erhan Muratoglu, Pieter Snapper, and Paul Devens. Can Karadogan was responsible for
the logistics of ITU activities as the project coordinator and Nusin Odelli was in charge of editing of the printed material. 57 people from 12
countries participated in the project.
In 2007 and 2008, ctrl_alt_del will be realized by NOMAD. This year ctrl_alt_del will include Opening Concert, Performance Series (live), Workshops,
Panels, Presentations, Open Call, Field Studies/Workshops, Exhibition, Radio Programmes, Publication and CD release. The theme of ctrl_alt_del
2007-2008 will be remote orienteering. The theme is not only connected to the navigational systems but it is also about positioning
oneself within interconnected social and political realities. The theme will also be processed with the issues of control. It will take place parallel
to the 10th International Istanbul Biennial in September and all evnts will spend a period of 8 months. The development team consist of Basak Senova
(TR), Eran Sachs (DE/IL), Erhan Muratoglu (TR), Emre Erkal (TR), Paul Devens (NL), and Can Karadogan (TR).
Our fifth segment of selections from the ctrl_alt_del Sound Art Festival produced by NOMAD for the 2007 Istanbul Biennial.
Tracks and notes:
01 Kotra (Kiev) – Kvitnu: High blood pressure electronics
A brief showcase/mix of a new label Kvitnu from Ukraine, with tracks and live pieces from artists like Dunaewsky69, Zavoloka, Petrov, and Kotra.
02 Frontierlab & (Montreal) Ethedrone Muzak (Austin) - Anthems for Austin and Montreal
Curators Kyd Campbell and Frank Suchomel asked a number of artists to create national anthems for the newly created sovereign nation consisting of the linked cities of Austin, Texas and Montreal, Quebec and the lands included within the legal limits of each city. The first of its kind, this new country includes 2 remote capital cities connected by a high-speed monorail which will completed in its construction by 2012. The metropolises of Montreal and Austin take independence from the colonies that make up the remaining parts of the United States and Canada. The propositions included in this compilation are by artists (in order of presentation): anne-f (Montreal), In A Lonely Place (Austin), Deep Sleepover (Montreal), Doug Ferguson (Austin), Nicolas Dion (Montreal), Skylined (Pleven).
03 Nomad (Istanbul) - ctrl_alt_del compilation
Extract from the compilation of the presented works in the context of ctrl_alt_del project since 2003. It includes Untitled Conversation by Erdem Helvacioglu (İstanbul), Rocketship by Every Kid On Speed (Skopje), Dengesiz Selim by Munimonde (Ankara), SolarDuo Project by SolarDuo Project (Helsinki) and finally Sello and under current by Paul Devens (Maastricht).
04 Thomas Burkhalter (Bern) – Soundscapes from the Edges
Musicians, sound artists, and composers from Beijing, Mumbai, Beirut to Sao Paulo, from Istanbul, Belgrade, Lagos to Johannesburg create music and soundscapes that reflect the effects of localization and globalization processes on various levels. We hear new representations beyond exotic East-West-Formulas, we hear the noise of World Politics, Propaganda and War in challenging settings. A glimpse from a one hour sound lecture with a focus on artists from Beirut who work towards new definitions of what is local and global music. Voice: Eric Facon (Swiss National Radio DRS)
Our fourth segment of selections from the ctrl_alt_del Sound Art Festival produced by NOMAD for the 2007 Istanbul Biennial.
Tracks and notes:
01 Johanna Billing - The You Don't Love Me Yet Mix
Based on a film and live music project by Johanna Billing (Stockholm), You Don't Love Me Yet is a bittersweet convergence between the individual and the audience whose catalyst is the 80's pop song, You Don't Love Me Yet by Roky Erickson. The project commenced in October 2002 including more than twenty participating singers, soloists and bands. Roky Erickson's song was covered again and again, repeated in a wide variety of interpretations each reflecting the participants' own personal style. One performance was followed by another in what increasingly came to resemble a tragi-comic, manic litany about the social demands that weigh heavily on people.
02 Matjaz Mancek - CrossRadio: Transgressing Remoteness
Transgressing geographical, lingual and mental remoteness via radio broadcast and webcast. CrossRadio is a production network of independent radio stations mainly based in former Yugoslavian cities (Ljubljana, Maribor /Slovenia, Belgrade, Sombor, Novi Sad, Zrenjanin/Serbia, Skopje/Macedonia, Sarajevo, Mostar/ Bosnia & Herzegovina, Pristina/Kosovo, Zagreb/Croatia), recently joined by two Swiss stations form Basel and Zurich. It was the first cultural and media initiative in the war-wrecked region, that actively started to renew and promote communication, information exchange and artistic exchange among the independent art and culture scenes of Slovenia, Serbia & Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia and Kosovo. CrossRadio's mission is trangressing the remoteness of the cultural scenes which used to form one homogenous scene, but the fragmentation caused by war, made the fragments of the ex-Yugoslav scene remote to each other as remote they could get. Transgressing Remoteness is a collage of CrossRadio highlights featuring regional and international artists, organizers, activists and music.
03 Kuoppala, Lerner, Andean, Durall - SHIFT
Visa Kuoppala, Sophea Lerner, James Andean, Eva Durall (Helsinki, Montreal, Sydney) in SHIFT, a collaboratively composed soundscape of Helsinki-Montreal-Sydney in 2007 based on short recordings of movements between spaces and through sonic transitions in these cities. SHIFT is part of an ongoing composition at shift.hybridradio.org, an online platform for collaborative soundscape of movements through sonic shifts in urban space. Developed by Kaustubh Srikanth and Sophea Lerner.
04 Charbel Haber – Beirut Sounds
A compilation gathered by Charbel Haber with Beirut based artists/groups: Scrambled Eggs, Mazen Kerbaj, Discipline, Raed Yassin, Gene Coleman, Charbel Haber and Michael Zerang.
Our third compilation of selections from the ctrl_alt_del Sound Art Festival produced by NOMAD for the Istanbul Biennial.
Tracks and notes:
01 Ultra-red (Los Angles) - Fifteen Sounds of the War on the Poor
Ultra-red asked 15 artists, What is the sound of the war on the poor? Executive Produced by Ultra-red. Sleeve assembled by Ultra-red with photos by Eddie Peel. Public Record is the fair-use archive of the Ultra-red organization. "The record only exists in its excavation. The record demands to be used. And the record exceeds the demand." This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- Share Alike License.
02 Artwaveradio (Athens) - Sound Viewing
Artwaveradio.net presents a project entitled Sound Viewing recorded in various locations in Kassel Germany, during 12th Documenta exhibition. Sounds from the city, people and artworks weave the carpet of this audio tour. Sound Viewing investigates the possibility of experiencing an international exhibition through audio means alone by listening to the various sounds produced. Through this process, the listener experiences elements that wouldn’t be apparent before the isolation of the audio sense from the other senses. These hidden details will form new audio/visual relationships and either complete or change your viewing.
03 hc gilje (Oslo) - Maxwell City, the electromagnetic soundtrack of Oslo
A compilation by Lindsay Brown, Vygandas Simbelis, Amanda Steggell, Martin Howse, Erich Berger, Atle Barcley, hc gilje, Sofia, Sneha, edited by hc gilje.
04 Sebastian Meissner (Random Inc) - Untitled
Meissner works as a media artist using sound, video and photography.
Employing multiple artistic personas (Autokontrast, Autopoieses, Bizz Circuits, Klimek, Open Source, Random Industries, Random Inc), his works deal with and negotiates urban/cultural/social scenarios, randomness, historical music archives and strategies of networking. He works with computer music sources, sampling and moving photography assembling their interrelation within geographic/historical/political discourses.
More selections from the ctrl_alt_del Sound Art Festival produced by NOMAD for the Istanbul Biennial. (1 hour 25 minutes)
Tracks and notes:
01 Miguel Carvalhais & Pedro Tudela (Porto) - "48.2"
"48.2" was composed in Porto, Portugal for the ctrl_alt_del project from "48", with recordings from 11.2003 to 07.2007. "48" was released as a 3" CD-R in Grain of Sound in 2005, rist04. as everything else, this is a permanent work in progress.
02 radio free robots (Samon Takahashi) - US English Lesson for Beginners
- Sabreen Studio, East Jerusalem, Palestine
- Song on Check Point by Shu AmBeseer
- Abu Tanfikha by Shu AmBeseer
- Eash Ya Kdeesh by Sabreen
- What's going On by Shu AmBeseer
03 Tobias c. van Veen (Montréal) - FOIL
FOIL blends urban sound recordings with media from wartorn places of the world. With what ears do we hear the war? An urbanscape is mined with explosive interventions from EA's BattleField 2 online wargame. From MTL to Beirut via Electronic Arts[TM]. Detonating itself into the debris of alterity. Explicit references lead to implosive depth charges as FOIL enters into the deafening silence of shell shock. Silence that is not actually silent but rather echoes the low-end subsonic swells of technological nihilism. [Thanks to Mazen Kerbaj /soundtransit.nl]. This work may be pirated at will as long as it is attributed and cited.
ctrl_alt_del is a collection of sound art works presented in conjunction with the Istanbul Biennial. The project was curated and realized by NOMAD. NOMAD was founded in 2002 to produce and experiment with new patterns in the digital art sphere by designers, engineers, architects, curators and writers. Art Radio WPS1.org and other Web and terrestrial station worldwide will be broadcasting these programs over the next year. (85 minutes)
Playlist
01 I Hate Music - compiled by Mike Shiflet (Internet Forum)
02 Remote Simulator - compiled by Jacek Skolimowski (Poland)
03 Lewis in Heaven / Etolles Polaires - compiled by Ruben Nachtergaele
04 Zenial - compiled by DJ Dee
