Chain Reaction - Extended Live Radio for "mobile radio"
RADIA at the Biennal 2012 in Sao Paolo
December 1st 2012

Live Radio in collaboration of people in
Cali, Graz, Ljubljana, Madrid, Montreal, Sao Paolo, Vienna and other places


Max Höfler and Reni Hofmüller at the beginning, Graz
Foto: Jogi Hofmüller



Luka Princic and Maja Delak, Ljubljana, screenshot



Max Höfler and Reni Hofmüller, Graz
Foto: Jogi Hofmüller



audience/participants in Graz, December 1st 2012
Foto: Jogi Hofmüller



RESONOSER, radioartnet.net



Johannes Schrettle, participant/audience Graz
Foto: Jogi Hofmüller



RADIA in Sao Paolo, August 2012
Live Dec 1st from Sao Paolo with Sarah Washington, Marold Langer-Philippsen, Leandro Nerefuh, Andre Damiao and Knut Aufermann



Live setting from Vienna for Chain Reaction, December 1st 2012
Lale Rodgarkia-Dara



Live setting from Ljubljana for Chain Reaction, December 1st 2012, at Radio Student in the Ministery of Experiment
Bostjan Leksovsek, Borut Savski, Ziga Pucelj and Bojan Andjelkovic
live also on Radiostudent in RADAR



Live setting from Ljubljana for Chain Reaction, December 1st 2012, at Radio Student in the Ministery of Experiment
Bostjan Leksovsek, Borut Savski, Ziga Pucelj and Bojan Andjelkovic
live also on Radiostudent in RADAR


Chain Reaction

Greetings from Graz - two people: the writer and radioartist Max Höfler and the media artist and radioartist Reni Hofmüller - we prepared a live radio show in the series of XLR - extended live radio, on Dec 1st in Graz, from 6pm to midnight our local eastern european time. It was broadcast to the local noncommercial community radio, Radio Helsinki. It was streamed to all our companions in this collective piece:
Knut Aufermann and Sarah Washington, mobile radio
Luka Princic and Maja Delak
Mariangela Aponte Nunez and Andres Lopez-Giraldo
Lale Rodgarkia-Dara
Jose Iges and the team from RESONOSER
Bostjan Leksovsek, Borut Savski, Ziga Pucelj and Bojan Andjelkovic at Radio Student in the Ministery of Experiment
Robert Lepenik and Slobodan Kajkut
Forum Stadtpark authors (Crauss, elffriede i.a., Theresa Falk, Heike Fiedler, Carola Göllner, Markus Köhle, Alexander Micheuz, Florian Neuner, Valeri Scherstjanoi, Helmut Schranz, Stefan Schweiger und Jordis Brook, Hansjörg Zauner)
Ward Weis
Max Höfler
Reni Hofmüller

and the organisations
Radia.FM
forum stadtpark
Radio Helsinki
mur.at



We want to and we ask: what do we really need, and invite a bunch of people to answer this question in sound/radio, plus share it with others, so that we can have some sort of chain reaction. > thus the title :) it can be "good" what we share with each other, but also not - and it can also get out of control.

You can read our complete invitation at the bottom of this page, as we had sent it out beginning of november.

December 1st 2012
hour1 listen/download here
6pm - 7pm


Max Höfler and Reni Hofmüller have prepared the radio studio with support of Garfield from forum stadtpark in the main space, installing it in the center of "Tagung der Komune", a performance-film-installation situation built to question: what can a comune be at the end of 2012?
Intro in English by Reni with the announcement of the Mobile-Radio-Band Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann, with support by Hako.
Mixing in:
VLF (Very Low Frequency) recordings of the earth
Reni Hofmüller: Antenna
at about 6.25: RESONOSER - Andres Mondaca: Tribulaciones
at about 6.50: PRERECORDED TELEFONE CALL (VOIP): Crauss: gute nacht, lieber
at about 6.58: Max quotes one frase that was read during the performance. "Was leuchtet, ist Licht." (What shines, is light.)

hour2 listen/download here
7pm - 8pm


Mobile-Radio-Band Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann, supported by Hako.
Mixing in:
VLF (Very Low Frequency) recordings of the earth
Antenna
at about 7.09: PRERECORDED TELEFONE CALL (VOIP): Carola Göllner: "Was wir brauchen"
at about 7.13: Moderation Max and Reni
at about 7.13: Mobile-radio-Band is over
at about 7.15: Reference to a frase that was sent on a journey in our last experimental radio encounter "Die Grenze des Mediums ist die Grenze der Freiheit seiend." (The broder of the media is the border of freedom being.)
at about 7.16: Live from Ljubljana: Maja Delak and Luka Princic
at about 7.22: Max quotes another frase that was read during the performance. "Ich bin immer die andere Strecke gefahren." (I alwyas took the other route.")
at about 7.24: PRERECORDED TELEFONE CALL (VOIP): Markus Köhle: "aber eben anders." (but well different):
playing: Live from Ljubljana: Maja Delak and Luka Princic
at about 7.30: PRERECORDED TELEFONE CALL (VOIP): Helmut Schranz: "Summerton." (Telefone Ring Tone).
playing: Live from Ljubljana: Maja Delak and Luka Princic
at about 7.42: Ward Weiss - NKvdK (nieuwe klanken van de keizer - the emperors new sounds). "NKvdK is a listening environment for daring ears. A survey to the source of sounds. Noises get reduced to the rustling of leaves by a night breeze, a storm over sand particles, a gentle blow in the palm of a hand, ... the peaceful breathing of a sleeping beloved. It is my search to the essence of sound ... the movement of air. NKvdK was installed in the unique circular space at the MUHKA."
at about 7.41: Text-To-Speech live by Max
playing: Live from Ljubljana: Maja Delak and Luka Princic

hour3 listen/download here
8pm - 9.23pm


playing: Live from Ljubljana: Maja Delak and Luka Princic
at about 8.10: Livestream from Sao Paolo with Sarah Washington, Marold Langer-Philippsen, Leandro Nerefuh, Andre Damiao and Knut Aufermann
at about 8.22: Moderation Reni, introduction to chain reaction, explanation of the system
at about 8.22: Introduction to RESONOSER
at about 8.26: Ward Weiss - NKvdK (nieuwe klanken van de keizer - the emperors new sounds). "NKvdK is a listening environment for daring ears. A survey to the source of sounds. Noises get reduced to the rustling of leaves by a night breeze, a storm over sand particles, a gentle blow in the palm of a hand, ... the peaceful breathing of a sleeping beloved. It is my search to the essence of sound ... the movement of air. NKvdK was installed in the unique circular space at the MUHKA."
field recordings
at about 8.36: Moderation Max
at about 8.39: Lyrikkritik von Text Total (critique on poems, by Text Total)
at about 9.04: RESONOSER Omar Tercero - Paisaje Resonoser
and back to field recordings
at about 9.09: RESONOSER - Jorge Maredo: Voz tambor y ensayo
combined with field recordings and the sound in the space forum stadtpark

hour4 listen/download here
9.23pm - 10.24pm


at about 9.23: Moderation Reni, Introduction to RESONOSER
at about 9.28: RESONOSER - Interferencia
with Text-To-Speech from Max
at about 9.32: RESONOSER - Mauricio Prieto Muriel: Tambor Palenque
at about 9.38: Moderation Reni - translation of the description of RESONOSER
at about 9.43: field recordings and RESONOSER
at about 9.55: PRERECORDED TELEFONE CALL (VOIP): Alexander Micheuz: "Alexander der Grössere."
at about 9.56: PRERECORDED TELEFONE CALL (VOIP): Florian Neuner: "Langeweile".
at about 9.57: at about 9.58: saying good bye to Knut and the Gang in Sao Paolo at the mobile-studio.
playing: Reni Hofmüller: Antenna and Text-To-Speech live by Max
at about 10.04: PRERECORDED TELEFONE CALL (VOIP): Jörg Zauner: "Ich fang an." (I start).
combined with field recordings and the sound in the space forum stadtpark
at about: 10.07: Andres Lopez-Giraldo and Mariangela Aponte Nunez - Palimpsesto
at about 10.11: PRERECORDED TELEFONE CALL (VOIP): Scherstjanoi Valeri: SYLLABA
at about 10.14: RESONOSER Garbellini
at about 10.22: Moderation Reni

hour5 listen/download here
10.24pm - 11.14pm


at about 10.24: field recordings from Mariangela Aponte Nunez
at about 10:27: RESONOSER Garbellini
at about 10.29: Max Text-To-Speech
at about 10.30: live from Vienna Lale Rodgarkia-Dara
at about 10.33: RESONOSER
at about 10.36: PRERECORDED TELEFONE CALL (VOIP): Stefan Schweiger and Jordis Brook: "Trennungsmuster". (patterns of separation)
further field recordings, RESONOSER, Text-To-Speech
playing: Live from Vienna Lale Rodgarkia-Dara
Ward Weiss - NKvdK
at about 10.45: Robert Lepenik and Slobodan Kajkut - 2-Guitars-Intervention
playing: Live from Vienna Lale Rodgarkia-Dara
RESONOSER
at about 10.58: The Guitars End. We say good bye to Vienna. We say hello to Ljubljana.
at about 11.01: Moderation Reni and Max
with field recordings


hour6 listen/download here
11.14pm - 00.34am


Live setting from Ljubljana for Chain Reaction, December 1st 2012, at Radio Student in the Ministery of Experiment
Bostjan Leksovsek, Borut Savski, Ziga Pucelj and Bojan Andjelkovic
http://www.cirkulacija2.org/wp-webcam.php






Our invitation as sent out in November 2012.

Join us at December 1st: Chain Reaction - XLR-Radio

Greetings from Graz - togehter with the writer and radioartist Max Höfler, we are preparing a live radio show in the series of XLR - extended live radio, on Dec 1st in Graz, from 6pm to midnight our local time.

We want to ask: what do we really need, and invite a bunch of people to answer this question in sound/radio, plus share it with others, so that we can have some sort of chain reaction. > thus the title :) it can be "good" what we share with each other, but also not - and it can also get out of control.

this sharing can happen in different ways:
live-streaming; preproduced and put online somewhere, or by VOIP (already installed, so people can leave their messages, here we are mostly thinking of writers)

date: 1.12.2012
time: 6pm - midnight Graz time (central european)
http://zeitzonen.net/
place: forum stadtpark
it will be broadcast at the local community radio, Radio Helsinki

and is part of the RADIA - network programe for the Sao Paolo Biennale

that is currently going on until 9th of december.
http://mobile-radio.net/
at radio helsinki we will do 2 types of programe:
- in the week from 26th novembre to 2nd of december, we fill the nightprogramme with works from the radia-network, a radio art network run by community/free radios in europe and some other places since several years.
- the live radio on the 1st of december on this weekend forum stadtpark has a 4day action going on, under the title "Die Tagung der Komune", inspired by Bertold Brecht's "Die Tage der Comune". this is - as i understand it - a floating and fluid gettogether of various artists, that will work out as a performative installation that will also be filmed.

on this weekend in sao paolo, there will also be a guest artist in sao paolo, Marold Langer-Philippsen http://paradiselost.us/

here in graz, we suggest to have some sort of timeline, that means: we agree on certain time slots, who is going to be "on" when.

now, what we want to know from you:

1) do you want to participate?
2) how do you want to do that? (live remote, live in graz, preproduced, VOIP, something else?)
3) do you want to work on somebody else's material?
4) for how much time do you plan your part? (in minutes :) )
as you can imagine, it would be good to know that in advance, but i am also open to spontaneous interventions :) or also: if you are not interested, please just drop us (reni[at]mur.at, hoefler[at]mur.at) a line. it can be of course also already existing material, and as there is no budget, i ask you to be gentle with your resources.
technically speaking, we will have a small radio studio in forum stadtpark in graz, and stream the programe from there, which then gets picked up by the radio and is directly broadcast.
all best wishes
reni