Welcome to the page of Maria Papadomanolaki.
Maria Papadomanolaki is a Greek sound artist, curator and author, currently based in New York City. She works within the fields of experimental and electro-acoustic composition, including sound design for dance and video, field recording, telematic performance, installation and radio art. Papadomanolaki aims to establish a refined relationship with space, memory and identity through the many different manifestations of sound as a source material, a carrier of a dense network of information, an aesthetic intervention, a physical or ethereal trigger and a form of detritus or novelty and re-evaluation, just to name a few primary ones. Her work is also characterized by the notions of participatory understanding and exploration of shared experiences and surrounding environments, as well as the sonification of textural and material peculiarities such as the hidden life of surfaces and urban architectural structures. In the past, she has worked extensively on text-based soundpieces and on the idea of expanding a written text in space through the use of interactive music software; a field that she often revisits. Her collaboration with the NY State-based non-profit arts organization free103point9, has led her to a series of important realizations about the shape and nature of radio and transmission as platforms of artistic expression and experimentation; a line of thought rooted back in 2008 while pursuing her studies in sound art and working as a volunteer sound engineer for a community arts radio station (Resonance FM) in London.
Her work has been exhibited and featured internationally at a variety of galleries, institutions and events, such as the 7000IS International Experimental Short Film Festival (Iceland, 2007), the Sunrise Festival (Sommerset, UK, 2007), the Athens Video Art Festival (Athens, GR, 2008), the IMT Gallery (London, UK, 2008), the National Review of Live Art (Glasgow, UK, 2009), the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre at St. Mark’s Church (New York, USA, 2009), Cabinet Magazine’s Gallery Space (New York, USA, 2010), Flushnik Studios (New York, 2010), the DHRA Conference (London, UK, 2010), the Center of Mediterranean Architecture/K.A.M. (Chania, Greece, 2010), the Niu Arts Space (Barcelona, Spain, 2011), the SKUC Gallery (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2011) among others.
She has produced experimental radio pieces and exhibits, as well as standard-form radioshows which have been featured in a variety of radio stations such as Resonance FM (London, UK), WGXC (Acra, NY), Radio Campus Paris (France), Sound Art Radio (UK), Radio One 91FM (Dunedin, New Zealand), CFRO Vancouver Co-operative Radio (Canada) and Cooradio (Thessaloniki, GR). As a researcher and writer, she has produced work that has been published and presented at international conferences. Her paper “Radio as the voice of community, locality, interactivity and experimentation”, presented at the ECREA Radio Research Section 2009 conference, has been published in the volume ”Radio Content in the Digital Age: The Evolution of a Sound Medium” (Intellect Books, 2011). She is also the co-author of the book “Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves” (PAJ Publications, 2011). She has received awards and fellowships by the Nagoya University of the Arts (2007), the Schilizzi Foundation (2007) and the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (2008). She holds an MA in Sound Art from the London College of Communication at the University of the Arts London.
10/19/11
I have recently interviewed Kabir Carter about his views on sound, space, radio and technology. You can read the full interview here
My recording of East India Quay Bridge will be featured in SOUNDkitchen's HOME and METAL installations. The Installations will be presented on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 October with the sounds being diffused over SOUNDkitchen’s site-specific sound sculpture as part of ‘Cinema for the Ears’ at Supersonic Festival. More details here.
10/10/11
On Tuesday, October 18th, free103point9, PAJ Publications, Issue Project Room and Electronic Music Foundation will celebrate the publication of "Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves" by Galen Joseph-Hunter with Penny Duff, and Maria Papadomanolaki (PAJ Publications: 2011).
This event will feature performances from Todd Merrell, Kabir Carter, Terry Nauheim, Lázaro Valiente, Joel Chadabe/Milica Paranosic. Performances begin at 7 p.m. More info about the book and the event can be found here.
25/07/11
I have been invited to join the curatorial team of the exhibition Radio As An Arts Space. The exhibition will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia in December 2011. For the exhibition I will invite a selection of NY based artists to submit mainly original soundworks. More information about the exhibition can be found here.
The book Transmission Arts: Artists & Airwaves by Galen Joseph-Hunter with Penny Duff and Maria Papadomanolaki, is now officially published. We had our first book launch event on the 23rd of July at the Spotty Dog bookshop in Hudson, NY. Our next event is scheduled for the 18th of October at Issue Project Room. More info about the book and the planned event can be found here.
I have also completed my second full length album for my project dalot. The album is entitled minutestatic and will be released on the 6th of September by n5MD. Following up its release, n5MD will make available for free download on their bandcamp page a very special remix album, featuring exclusive reworks of a track off the album. For more info and updates you can visit: dalot.net and n5MD.com.
30/05/11
The limited edition CDr entitled "Sounds In Between" is now available for purchase on my bandcamp page. Only 30 copies, each one with a unique artwork, 100% handmade, are available for online order. The order includes an audio cd, an A4 insert with text/images, all wrapped up in an elegant cd pocket. You can listen to audio samples and order it online here.
09/05/11
I had a very interesting discussion with NY based music producer and audio thinker Ezekiel Honig for Artcards Review, in conjuction with his newest release on Type entitled Folding In On Itself. You can read the interview here.
19/04/11
I am currently working on a 27 minute mix for Radia featuring samples from the artworks submitted for Sib Radio Gowanus. The piece will be entitled Gowanus Over and Out and will be broadcast on Monday, 9th of May. More info here.
I recently met Erik Skodvin and Otto Totland from Deaf Center. You might also know them from their work in Svarte Greiner and Nest.I really like their releases and I have also thorougly enjoyed their performances at this year's Unsound Festival. I have asked them if I could interview them and they accepted. You can read the complete interview here.
23/03/11
Sib Radio Gowanus, four hour, special proram will be broadcast on the 2nd of April, 12pm - 4pm (EDT) on WGXC: Hands-on Radio (90.7FM). You can listen to the program online here. For more information about the tracklist visit: the project's blog.
My new soundscape composition entitled Gowanus Sonotopia will be featured in this years edition of International Radiophonic Creation Day, a biennal event honoring radio creation on its widest sense: soundscape, Hörspiel, radio drama, experimental music, various sounds.On Saturday June 4, 2011, a 24-hour program will be broadcast simultaneously on radio stations around the world. Following the broadcast, a CD boxset containing the 24 hours of programming will be edited and will be distributed to all the participants and to arts centers, libraries, specialised bookshops.
24/02/11
I am currently working on a 4 hour special program for upstate community radiostation WGXC. The program will include the materials commissioned for the Sib Radio Gowanus narrowcast audio exhibit that I curated last year for the Postcards from Gowanus exhibition that took place at Cabinet's gallery in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
par-A-phrase installation/performance, for which I provided the soundscapes, will be exhibited on the 25th and 26th of February at the Nightngale Theatre, Brighton, UK as part of the exhibition Pieces to fit. You can read about the piece here.
ARTCARDS has published this month my interview with NY based avant-turntablist Maria Chavez. You can read it here.
26/06/10
Dalot's new album entitled Loop over latitudes will be officially released on 09/09/10! The album consists of 3 "old" tunes from flight sessions ep and 6 new tracks.The beautiful images used for the album's artwork belong to the very talented Matthias Heiderich. The whole album is hugely inspired by my constant traveling and moving from literally one place of the planet to the other during the last 6 years :) You can listen to samples of the different tracks here. n5MD has also added the full album to the n5radio rotation.
21/06/10
ChatRooms
Telematic Performative Installation25 – 27 June,18.30 – 21.30 (GMT)
Detour Collective and Caterini Dinopoulou present ChatRooms, a telematic performative installation that links, via the internet, three parallel events in three countries through the device of digital double as a form of communication. The duration of the installation is three hours each day, from 18.30 to 21.30. Spectators can enter and leave at any time.
Program
18.30 – 19.30 (GMT): The body images of two performers are captured in real-time in England and Greece simultaneously. Then, the performers interact with each other by observing and manipulating their superimposed images on a single projection screen, creating a virtual dance duet.
19.30 – 20.30 (GMT): After the performance, spectators can book slots in order to actively participate, replacing the performer at the University of Chichester. They can experience the installation on a one-to-one basis, interacting with the performer at the Centre of Mediterranean Architecture / K.A.M. (Chania, Greece). You are welcome to just watch if you prefer.
20.30 – 21.30 (GMT): Greek spectators replace the performer at the K.A.M. (Chania, Greece) and interact with the performer at the University of Chichester. You are welcome to watch.
You can also watch the event online at:
www.chiuni.ac.uk/chatrooms
www.chania.gr
A telematic sound performance by Maria Papadomanolaki, entitled
Meditation on an Invisible City, is
ChatRooms’ soundscape for the whole event. This comprises live
transmitted environmental sound from the New York cityscape,
drones, voices and abstract rhythmical patterns.
These events take place in association with: University of Chichester,
Centre of Mediterranean Architecture, Municipality of Chania, K.E.DI.H.
and free103point9.org.
Sponsored by: ANEK lines
Venues:
University of Chichester, Studio 5
Bishop Otter Campus, College Lane
Chichester, PO19 6PE
Tel: 01243 816485 (Mon-Fri), 07811134066 (Sat-Sun)
Email: a.nichols@chi.ac.uk
Centre of Mediterranean Architecture
Akti Topazi 31, Katehaki Square
Chania, 73132
Τel: 0030 28210 40201
Email: culture@kam-arsenali.gr
15/03/10
Postcards From Gowanus
Postcards from Gowanus is a creative
research program exploring a multitude
of approaches to mapping Brooklyn’s Gowanus
neighborhood. An exhibit and radio narrowcast
(Sib Radio Gowanus) will occur
at Cabinet’s gallery space March 17-19,
with a closing reception and performances on Friday,
March 19 from 6-9pm.
Postcards from Gowanus features work by:
• Bianca Ahmadi – Eyes on Gowanus
• Patrick Carey – Bricks and Paint and Water and Metal
• Penny Duff – Sounding the Infra-ordinary: Gowanus
• Kasia Gladki – The Many Scapes of the Gowanus
• Juan David Gonzalez-Monroy –
The Dead Whale: Message from the afterlife.
• Gabrielle Herbst and Allie Tsypin –
Architecture as Baggage on the Body
• Amir Husak – Gowanus Unheard
• Maria Papadomanolaki – Sounds in-between
• Heidi Prenevost and David Smith – Double Helix
• Sterling Basement – Songs of the Gowanus
• Bryan Zimmerman – “The Slate Was Her Parlor”
Friday night performances by:
• Juan David Gonzalez-Monroy
• Sterling Basement
• Gabrielle Herbst with Maria Papadomanolaki
and Jeremie Slater
Participant Artists: A.G, another electronic musician, Knut Aufermann, bitcrush, Giancarlo Bracchi, Myroslaw Bytz & Nick Heling, Hethre Contant, Peter Cusack, denial of service, dergar, Exportion, Patrick Farmer, Jonny Farrow, Gabrielle Herbst, Amir Husak, inverz, Lina Lapelyte, Last Days, Leaf Loft, manekinekod, Sally Ann McIntyre, Todd Merrell, murmer, Naono, near the parenthesis, Oneohtrix Point Never, Dimitris Papadatos, Maria Papadomanolaki, Heidi Prenevost & David Smith, Radio Ruido, Sawako, Janek Schaefer, Jeremy D. Slater, Sogar, Solo Andata, Sterling Basement, Sublamp, Mark Templeton, verdi_spirali, Myke Dodge Weiskopf, Mark Peter Wright, Bryan Zimmerman.
The program is collaboratively organized by
Penny Duff (exhibit), Gabrielle Herbst (performances),
and Maria Papadomanolaki (radio) as part
of Cabinet's Intern Initiative Program and is
sponsored in part by free103point9.
Cabinet is located at 300 Nevins Street
between Union and Sackett Streets in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday, 12–6pm, and by appointment.
For more information about the program please visit:
Postcards From Gowanus
Sib Radio Gowanus
free103point9
Cabinet Magazine
20/02/10
Currently working on my field recordings CD-R for the exhibition Postcards From Gowanus and the Sib Radio Gowanus exhibit. More info soon!
17/05/09
My ambient electronic music project dalot has its first release Flight Sessions EP out by the Greek independent record label Coorecords. Listen and Order it online at my bandcamp page.
Woodplay will be aired on the 23rd of May 2009 during the 24 hour broadcast schedule of Radiophonic Creation Day.
While Digital Radio (DAB) is spreading
all over Europe, it’s time to remember that,
since its birth, the radio has always been a
medium for creativity and not just a powerful
means of communication, capable of the best as
much as the worst. This idea is still true for
many radio and Web radio stations around the
world which celebrate radiophononic creation
everyday, through the production of inventive
and surprising sound pieces.
On May 23rd 2009,
from midnight to midnight, will thus be set up the first
international Radiophonic Creation Day, a 24h programming
devoted to radio creation. More than 40 radios
and artists, coming from 12 different countries,
produced sound pieces that will be broadcast
in streaming on the festival website and on FM via
9 radios in Europe. This festival is not only a
way of showcasing the lively contemporary
radiophonic creation scene, but also
to introduce this art to a wider audience.
The Radiophonic Creation Day attempts
to include every aspect of radiophonic
creation by proposing radio plays, creative
documentaries, field recording, experimental and
concrete music, sound poetry, Hörspiels and
unidentified sound objects. We hope this
event will inspire the production of creative
programming in European radio stations
and accelerate the setting up of a found
to help radiophonic creation.
Nowadays, this neglected art still
suffers from a lack of financial help that
continually threatens its
position among the radio production line.
For more info click here
Noise! 2009 line-up is finalized.
For more info click Here
Noise! 2009 is co-curated by Tom Roe
(free103point9) and myself
06/05/09
Hi All,
Just wanted to let you know that I am
currently working for free103point9 on a composition
entitled rugradio.
The piece will be featured in
Radia
I am also happy to announce that my paper entitled Radio as the voice of community, locality, interactivity and experimentation has been accepted for the forthcoming conference "Radio Content in the Digital Age" organized by the Radio Research Section of ECREA and the Cyprus University of Technology.
13/03/09
I am really pleased to announce that I started a part time collaboration with upstate NY based non-profit arts organization free103point9.
20/01/09
Trajectory (Projects section) is updated with videos, photographs, text and many more interesting stuff. Click here to see.
20/11/08
Trajectory in Audio Forensics
PRIVATE VIEW 27 NOVEMBER 18:00-21:00
Libero Colimberti, Jan Hendrickse, Simone Izzi, Nitin Lachhani, Luc Messinezis, Maria Papadomanolaki, Vytis Puronas, Mark Shorey and Mark Wright.
Comprising of ambitious works by nine artists who employ sound as the principle media of their practice, Audio Forensics demonstrates the breadth of engagement with sound in the arts, and how it can be re-evaluated in the context of an increasingly noisy world.
Sound art encompasses a wide range of forms and concerns and has its precedence across many creative fields, yet, as these artists demonstrate, the acknowledgment of sound's significance in the arts is becoming of greater importance as technologies develop, and as the public become ever more aware of the interactions between sound, space and artistic practice.
Audio Forensics provides an extraordinarily comprehensive inquiry into how sound, and its manipulation, influences our experience and understanding of our environment.
Symposium
30 November 15:00-18:00 RSVP
Symposium in which Ben Borthwick, Assistant Curator at Tate Modern, and Steven Connor, professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck, address issues of sonic practice raised by Audio Forensics. The symposium is free however places are limited. To reserve a place please call 020 8980 5475 or email mail@imagemusictext.com
Audio Forensics is an exhibition and symposium presenting the final work of the first MA Sound Arts graduates of London College of Communication. The groundbreaking work in the exhibition demonstrates the high level of critical debate in sonic disciplines fostered by the university's Department of Sound Art and Design since 1998. The exhibition is co-curated by Electra and IMT
I M T
UNIT 2/210 CAMBRIDGE HEATH ROAD
LONDON E2 9NQ UK
+44 (0) 20 8980 5475
http://www.imagemusictext.com/
RADIO
This section features different samples of work I did for the radio including exclusive dj sets and live performances,tributes to artists and genres or radio art compositions. Select from the list on your left to listen.
A selection of shows I did for Resonance FM. Choose a show from the list on your left to listen.
AngloGreco Session
An experimental set between dalot (my solo project) and Reteric broadcast on the 24th of March 2008. It consists of a live mash up of their favourite tunes, records, sounds and live audio manipulation. Some of the featured artists are Xenakis, Christou, AGF, Tortoise, Luciano Berio, T. S Eliot, Tim Hecker, Boards of Canada, daedelus, Marsen Jules, Astrobotnia, William Basinski, Delia Derbyshire, Squarepusher, Amon Tobin and exclusive tracks by Reteric. You can listen to the set here
More information about the the artists:
Kat Vipers
Kat Vipers is the female equivalent of Jerry Lee Lewis projected in the Future with a few other tricks hidden in her pocket ranging from strange oriental melodies to more prog rock structures. The Clearspot was broadcast on the 4nd of February 2008. I interview Kat about her influences, her released material, pianos, guitars and car boot sales! We also recorded some of her tracks live in the studio. Listen to the show here. More info about Kat Vipers on:
Tracklist
- Pearls of Wisdom (Summer Bloody time, 2006)
- Hot Air Balloon
- Freak (Summer Bloody Time EP (PY, 2006)
- This is Now (Hot Air Balloon (PY, 2007)
Live:
- I'm so lonesome I could cry (harp + vocal) - Hank Williams cover
- Time has told me (harp + vocal) - Nick Drake cover
- Wasting Time (Harp, vocals, tambourine) Hot Air Balloon 2006
- Just Like Jerry Lee (harp, piano, drums, bass, vocals) Hot air Balloon 2006
Lena Platonos
As a follow up to Manos Hadjidakis's, the second Clearspot, broadcast on the 22nd of January 2008, focused on the work of visionary pioneer of experimental Greek Electronica Lena Platonos who collaborated and had a very close friendship with Manos Hadjidakis until his death.
For this Clearspot I chose to leave the sound to speak for itself about the greatness and the content of Platonos's work. Tracks taken from most of her albums are surrounded by field recordings of London Underground signifying a point of departure to a fantasy world where the soundscapes and the words of the songs assume a leading role in the scenery. Songs about the future, the speed, the emotional distress, the expectancy and the loss, the sensuality and the triviality become the scenery of the underground trajectories. Listen.
I would like to thank Fil Ieropoulos for providing most of the material and for introducing me to the magical word of Lena Platonos.
You can learn more about the artist by visiting her myspace page:
Songs (in greeklish) featured in this programme:
- Tora pou pas kai si sti lilipoupoli (Edw Lilipoupoli, 1980)
- Mple-Mirabilia-Stop (Maskes Hliou,1984)
- To tounel (H hxw kai ta la8h ths, 1985)
- Ti nea psipsina (to gkalop, 1985)
- Hesperia Iris Greca (Lepidoptera, 1986)
- Hoping by Shoping (Maskes Hliou, 1984)
- Taxigonio (Mh mou tous kuklous tarate, 1990)
- Stin Erimo (Anapnoes, 1998)
- Pthsh 201 (Sampotaz, 1981)
- Oi trisxaritomenoi khpoi (To spasimo twn pagwn, 1989)
- Emigredes tis roumanias (Coti K. cover, To mixer ths Lenas Platonos, 2001)
- Ston asterismo tou pigkouinou (Sambotaz, 1981)
- Anoi3h (Karyotakis, 1982)
- Roza- Rozalia (Edw Lilipoupoli, 1980)
- Epilogos (To 62' tou Manos Hadjidakis, 1983)
Manos Hadjidakis
The show was braodcast on the 20th of December 2007. My guest was filmmaker/musician Fil Ieropoulos and together we discussed about the life and music of influential Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis, his love for greek folk music and rebetika and how he merged successfully the eastern with the western, the pop with the experimental, classical with the folk, how his stay in the US informed his music and finally how instrumental his music and orchestrations were for the creation of a new wave of Greek music.Listen.
You can learn more about him by visiting his web page:
- Intro theme : Dance of the poets - These Absurdities (1976)
- Moonless Night - Six Folklore paintings (1954)
- Conversation with Prokofiev - From a small seashell (1954) 3-4
- Love a double-edged knife - Stella (1955)
- Excitement in the village - America,America (1963)
- Turkish Secuirity - Top Kapi (1964)
- The Clouds - Giocconda's Smile (1965) 7-8
- Introduction/ Dance - Captain Michalis (1966)
- 7/8 Hasapikos to Taurus - Rhythmology (1971)
- Kemal - Reflections (1970)
- White Dove- The Earth's Gold (1971) 11-12
- I love You- Magnus Eroticus (1972)
- Striptease for three boys - Sweet movie (1974) 13-14
- Where is Melissanthi? - The Era of Melissanthi (1980)
- Barrel - organ tune - Never on Sunday (1960)
Field Recordings
Contacts is an ongoing digital release with contact mic based recordings.
Buskers focuses on recordings of street musicians.
Sounds In Between is a collection of recordings from Gowanus, Brooklyn.
Electronic Music
I make ambient electronic music under the moniker Dalot.
Releases
Minutestatic (n5MD, 2011)
Loop Over Latitudes (n5MD, 2010)
Flight Sessions (Coorecords, 2009)
You can find out more about Dalot by visiting:
Sound Curation
Radio Mirror @ "Radio As An Art Space" Exhibition by radioCona, SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
December 6-16 2011 | Curator's Note
Radio Mirror invites six NY-based sound artists of different backgrounds to share their visions and ideas about radio by contributing a work to the exhibition. That said, I selected these specific artists on the basis of their work and the tools they use and I didn't try to intersect at all with it. How can radio resound or relive through the cuts and clicks of a turntable? Maria Chavez’s work essentially brings that question to the foreground in an effort to recreate the sound effects of the golden age of radio. Radio embraces our private memory and sensory space whilst being present in the public realm. Aki Onda shifts through spaces, ambiences and chance interactions in an effort to capture with his cassette recorder radio’s dual ethereal presence. Kabir Carter’s work challenges the listener by experimenting with the durational aspects of the sound on radio. How can a singular shortwave tone survive the radio interferences as its signal propagates through space. Ed Bear and Lea Bertucci use radio transmission as a tool to record and collage the voices of a group of young participants in a workshop on experimental broadcasting. The transmitted sound in its entirety can project a very dense pool of frequencies depending on the source and the targeted receiver. Zach Layton offers radio astronomy transmissions from Haruni Mirror Radio Telescope in Armenia, showcasing its minute yet at times rather physical aural spectrum. Another characteristic of the sound on radio can be its haunting, distant yet familiar, connection to its listener/receiver. Along these lines, the artist duo “The Propagations” sends us recordings of shortwave transmissions from Bangalore, India. To conclude Radio Mirror aims to establish an open ended definition of what radio is or can be through the different mirrorings presented in the audio exhibit.
free103point9 @ Megapolis 2010
May 14-16 2010, Baltimore: I curated a series of conversations with artists as well as small presentations of specific works featured in the festival. These recordings can be found by visiting either free103point9's website or Megapolis.
Sib Radio Gowanus @ Cabinet Magazine Gallery
"Sib (Sounds-in-between) Radio Gowanus" was a narrowcast audio exhibition that ran in conjunction with the exhibition "Postcards from Gowanus" which was on display at Cabinet Magazine's gallery in Gowanus between 17th-19th of March. The program hosted a series of sonic artworks ranging from field recordings, drones, micro-sound to ambient and electro-acoustic compositions by US and International artists.
Sib Radio Gowanus essentially aimed to bridge the space between the inaudible, invisible (and yet real) ethereal and the physically present exhibits inside the gallery. The audience was be able to experience Sib Radio Gowanus by wearing the radio headsets provided by the gallery supervisors.
For the exhibition I have received artworks by 43 musicians and sound artists from the US, Canada, Greece, UK, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia and a total of 17 hours of ambient soundscapes, field recordings, drones and experimental compositions inspired by or attuned to the undertones of the Gowanus landscape.
Participant Artists: A.G, another electronic musician, Knut Aufermann, bitcrush, Giancarlo Bracchi, Myroslaw Bytz & Nick Heling, Hethre Contant, Peter Cusack, denial of service, dergar, Exportion, Patrick Farmer, Jonny Farrow, Gabrielle Herbst, Amir Husak, inverz, Lina Lapelyte, Last Days, Leaf Loft, manekinekod, Sally Ann McIntyre, Todd Merrell, murmer, Naono, near the parenthesis, Oneohtrix Point Never, Dimitris Papadatos, Maria Papadomanolaki, Heidi Prenevost & David Smith, Radio Ruido, Sawako, Janek Schaefer, Jeremy D. Slater, Sogar, Solo Andata, Sterling Basement, Sublamp, Mark Templeton, verdi_spirali, Myke Dodge Weiskopf, Mark Peter Wright, Bryan Zimmerman
The exhibition was sponsored by free103point9
More Information: Sib Radio Gowanus Blog.
noise! 2009 @ the Ontological Hysteric Theater
Between March-June 2009, I co-curated 2009's Noise! festival, a four day festival of experimental music that took place at Richard Foreman's Ontological Hysteric Theatre in the historic district of Saint Mark's Place in Manhattan. The line up included artists representing different genres of the experimental spectrum as well as selected telematic performances from artists in remote locations. You can see the full line up as well as images and videos of the performances on free103point9's website.
par-A-phrase
Par-A-phrase is a collaboration with multimedia artist Marina Tsartsara.
More about the piece:
Par-A-phrase is a site specific piece
that explores the experience of a relationship through
fragmentation. The joining of the parts / fragments
create a sensorial experience based on the visual
of dance and on the tactile of the video.
Compressing time, space and movement
through the senses, this piece explores
translations between text, the moving body
and digital video. Par-A-phrase focuses
on the transformation of text into choreographic
material, of choreographic qualities
into filmic strategy, and of filmic qualities
into another piece of choreography that explores
what is excluded off the frame, in
order to produce this interdisciplinary piece.
The première performance of par-a-phrase took
place 25 and 26 February 2011 as part of Pieces to
fit - a live-installation exhibition curated by
Marina Tsartsara at the Nightingale Theatre.
This instance of the piece consisted of
two parts complementing each other: a screendance live
installation and a dance live installation
featuring dancer Soline Pillet.
par-A-phrase (2011, UK) from Marina Tsartsara on Vimeo.
The soundtrack for the piece was designed by sound artist Maria Papadomanolaki. More info about performance/exhibition dates can be found here.
Dalot Guest Mix @ Rodon FM
Breathing Room was a 2 hour mixtape for Rodon FM. Compiled in November 2009, it features some of my "old" favs (and some new). It was aired in February the 10th 2010, 7-9pm (Eastern European Time, Athens) at Rodon FM (Serres/Greece)
Breathing Room Pt. 1
Listen here!
Tracklist
Amiina – skakka
Colleen – Sweet Rolling
Hildegard Westerkamp – Breathing Room
Ikue Mori & Zeena Parkins – Jezebel
Janek Schaeffer & Stephan Mathieu – Hidden Name
Lee Ranaldo – Dance of the coats
Grouper – When we fall
Pan American – Begin
Familiar Trees – Tears (Sawako remix)
Last Days – The Fields remember my father
Six Organs of Admittance – Processing of the Cherry Blossom Spirits
Fennesz – circassian
Βελιώτης & Αγγελάκας – Σ’ένα ανοιξιάτικο λιβάδι
Jullianna Barwick – Bode
Moondog - Sandalwood
Breathing Room Pt. 2
Listen here!
Tracklist
AGF – AmbientTRUST
dntel – Fear of corners
Spyweirdos – Bubbles of dreams
Fedaden – Tant apprendre
Caural – Moonboots
Boards of Canada – Telephasic Workshop
Pridon – She bit me first
Plaid – Lilith
Lali Puna – Middle Curse
Apparat – Over and Over
Qua – Secret Space
Flica – M
Chromata – Mikro (Sonic Brat Kaleidoscopic Mix)
Outro – Mix of Tetsu Inoue, Taylor Deupree, Stephan Mathieu
Sib Radio Gowanus (Version For radio)
As a follow up to my audio exhibit/installation at Cabinet Magazine's gallery in March 2010, I produced four, one hour, mixes for radio broadcasting featuring samples of the works submitted for the exhibition, including original and unreleased artworks by 43 musicians and sound artists from the US, Canada, Greece, UK, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia. The radioshow presended a narrowed down version of a total of 17 hours of ambient soundscapes, field recordings, drones and experimental compositions inspired by or attuned to the undertones of the Gowanus landscape. The shows were broadcast in radiostations in the US, Europe, New Zealand and Canada. You can read more information about the scheduling and artist info/links here
Detrital Propagations in Harmony explores the musicality behind short-wave radio transmissions combined with layers of sonic detritus taken from my personal sound library.
Detrital Propagations in Harmony was performed on July 23rd 2011 at the "Spotty Dog" in Hudson, NY during the first event to celebrate the official publication of the book "Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves" by Galen Joseph-Hunter with Penny Duff and Maria Papadomanolaki. Listen
Woodplay
Woodplay is a collaboration with Tom Roe from free103point9. It is an improvised composition consisting of field recordings and radio transmissions around the woods of Wave Farm in Acra New York. It was featured in the International Festival of Experimental Radio, Radiophonic Creation Day on the 23rd of May 2009. More information about the programme and the artists you can find here. Listen.
The Walls
The Walls is a 20 minute composition consisting of field recordings taken solely from my apartment. During the period of November/December 2009, I experienced a severe and unexpected attack of dust and noise by a group of cheerful and loud construction workers who were in charge of demolishing the appartment below. Everyday from 6.00am to 6.00pm sharp, I was exposed to a series of loud, mind-disturbing and ear-piercing sounds followed by tones ascending dust. I decided to create a short soundpiece, kind of a sci-fi mistery soundscape of a girl hidding from a dangerous gang. Although the final sound story differs significanlty from my initial idea, I think the result sounds really haunting at times. The Walls was aired on episode #278(4/4/10) of framework radio show. Below You can listen to the show:
Rugradio (Radia Episode #226)
Rugradio is produced by Maria Papadomanolaki and free103point9 (US) for Radia (EU). Rugradio is an improvised, modern, yet outdated sci-fi exploration of Maria's collection of music, sounds and sonic memoirs, compiled exclusively for radio. The program contains: field recordings from Athens and Crete (Greece), Wave Farm (Acra, New York), mixed with voice, radio and radio static, digital noise and audio glitch, samples from a song by the Carpenters, poems by T.S Eliot and Yiannis Ritsos, and finally original and borrowed (Thurston Moore), guitarscapes. Listen.
Gowanus Over and Out (Radia Episode #319)
Gowanus Over and Out follows the aural traces of the narrowcast audio exhibit Sib Radio Gowanus curated last year for the exhibition “Postcards from Gowanus” (Cabinet Magazine Gallery, March 17-20 2010, Gowanus, Brooklyn, New York). The conceptual backbone of the project was to create a sonic wallpaper that would reflect the aural undertones, both real and imagined, of the area surrounding the gallery. It also served as an organic sonotopia that inhabited the audiovisual exhibits in a process of associative interaction. Responding to a call for works, a total of 44 U.S. and international artists from diverse creative backgrounds contributed works ranging from drones and field recordings to spoken word pieces and experimental sonic artworks. Gowanus Over and Out attempts to offer a glimpse into some of the different facets of the exhibit while at the same time being its own self-expanding universe of sounds.
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Gowanus Over and Out is produced by Maria Papadomanolaki for Radia network member
free103point9 and their newly launched full-power FM station WGXC-90.7-FM in upstate
New York.
The piece features samples of the following works:
Myke Dodge Weiskopf – Helicopter
Sogar – Tapete
Knut Aufermann – avi5
Sterling Basement – Drowned in the Canal
Solo Andata – Ablationl
verdi_spirali – on_earth@in_space
Jonny Farrow – Gowanus Wal
Radio Ruido – all artifacts
Maria Papadomanolaki – Cabinet and Playground (Radia edit)
Lina Lapelyte – MATB1
Todd Merrell – As March Times On
Mark Templeton – Safely into March
Bryan Zimmerman – Blobs Of Yellow-Green Sun
Last Days – Walls
A.G – Polygon:08|1
Myke Dodge Weiskopf – VNG
Enigmai
Enigmai is an audio documentary about Southwark; its history as it is represented in its local history archive, the different aspects of its soundscape, the discovery of its hidden spaces, people and their actions through the personal trajectory of the recordist. It is also a summary of the artist's reflections on the paradox of trying to concretise a specific time and place by recording it and the importance of listening and learning from the soundscape.
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Flight Sessions
Flight Sessions was a four part mini guide to contemporary, underground Greek music. The show was broadcast every Wednesday at 7.30 pm (UK) on Resonance FM, 104.4, London from September the 17th until October the 8th 2008. The show focused mainly on : IDM, Electronica, ambient, ambient post-rock/shoegaze, experimental and noise. It was also broadcast by two other radio stations: Sound Art Radio (UK) and Rodon FM (GR).
The first edition of Flight Sessions broadcast on Wednesday the 17th of September 2008 was entitled Stories from the sea.
The three editions that followed were:
- Episode 2: Night Visions (24th September 2008)
- Episode 3: Sounds From the Stratosphere(1st October 2008)
- Episode 4: 5 flights revisited (8th October 2008)
For more info about the show visit:
Flight Sessions Ep. 1 "Stories From the Sea"
Listen here!
- Magnitophono - Robot can't swim (Unreleased)
- Naono - Still Moments (ep: Tumbleweed Tracks, CCT records, 2008)
- Absent without leave - Following a trembling star (LP: Postcards from nowhere, Distant Noise, 2008)
- AZA - Echo (Unreleased)
- Vello Leaf - Stellar wind (ep: Morning Star, Insight Room, 2006)
- Dalot - Rewind (ep: Flight Sessions, 2008)
For more info about the featured artists, mini interviews, useful links and many more click here.
Flight Sessions Ep. 2 "Night Visions"
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- Tokyo Mask - Critical Mass (LP: Hinterlands, Low Impedance Recordings, 2007)
- ANIKA - I see the unseen (A:0507, To be released, 2008)
- Leaf - Polis (LP: Clouds, To be Released, 2008 - 2009)
- Pridon - Fumble (LP: Apnea Eina, Low Impedance Recordings, 2008)
- Ettin - Noiztrader (Released, 2006)
- drog_A_tek - Zerrox (EP: Who Hurt you?,quetempo, 2005)
For more info about the featured artists, mini interviews, useful links and many more click here.
Flight Sessions Ep. 3 "Sounds from the Stratosphere"
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- Reverse Mouth - Black Moth (Ballades pour un patriote CDR, tanzprocesz, 2007)
- Sonologik - Fonienda (Unreleased, 2008)
- Nokalypse - Neverrest (Axiac Infinity, Echomusic, 2005)
- Spyweirdos - Third (Ten Numbers, Creative Space, 2008)
- Stavros Gasparatos - Fall (Rehearsals, To be released on Creative Space, 2008)
For more info about the featured artists, mini interviews, useful links and many more click here.
Flight Sessions Ep. 4 "5 Flights Revisited"
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- subheim- voces perdidas feat. Katja (LP: Approach, Tympanik Audio, 2008)
- dergar - the passion (unreleased, 2008)
- melorman- apricot fields (Unreleased, 2008)
- Elica- Terminal 1 (Unreleased)
- chronik - Save me (V.A: MAEA, 9.12 records, 2008)
For more info about the featured artists, mini interviews, useful links and many more click here.
Stoma is an interactive installation inspired by Beckett's theatrical monologue entitled Not I. A short excerpt of the text is used as the canvas on which a series of pre-recorded interpretations of it builds up. The visitor is invited to perform in this voicescape by firstly recording his or her voice reading the same text for 40 seconds and then by listening to it for the next 6 minutes as it overlaps way with the disembodied voices inside Stoma. He/She is expected to provide a focused listening to the composition in order to fully participate in the performance.
The concept behind this project is supported by two parameters that interconnect. First, it is the treatment of a theatrical text as a musical one in order to give to it a new angle of interpretation and a new edge. Secondly, that decontextualisation is achieved by the use of the human voice. The performer provides his/her personal version of the text and witnesses a process of voice recognition and exploration within a predefined soundscape.
The listener will become aware of his/her voice subtly changing through a series of automated manipulations and hopefully recognise the musicality of its resonant frequencies. Its fusion with the unknown voices will create a supportive environment where it will become more apparent how musical, present and yet absent it can be. It is indeed an interesting process to listen to these voices correlating and overlapping as it can lead to a diversity of realisations depending on the listener.
Stoma is therefore a process of decontextualisation for both the text and the voice itself. It simply suggests how one should listen to a voice by paying attention to details other than its content and context. It is an intimate moment of accepting or even re-evaluating one's own voice. Voice is the personal sound image of oneself and Stoma is an open channel to everyone who wants to explore this idea.
Trajectory
Photography: Kirsten
Trajectory is a project especially prepared for a sound art exhibition entitled Audio Forensics. The exhibition took place in IMT, a gallery located in Bethal Green, London, UK from the 27th till the 30th of November 2009. The idea around the project was to set up a networked performance where a roamer outside the exhibition space sent an audiostream inside the gallery space and jammed with the audience by sending text messages. The final piece would be an audio depiction of the space surrounding the gallery.
In more detail:
Trajectory is a 30 minute performance piece which explores the territories surrounding an interior. It focuses on the idea of using sound as a canvas on which the performer inscribes an itinerary of the visited areas. Phonographic sound, body – environment interaction and narrative, among other sources, construct the palette of a live transmission streamed back to the gallery space for example. The performer's exploration is also filtered and enhanced by the audience's participation using text messages instigating her/him for example to look for sounds, talk to people or take pictures. This dialogue between the transmitter and the receiver bridges the gap between the real, physical space of the performer and the imagined space streamed back in the gallery. The performance is completed when the wanderer enters the defined space and submits the gathered material.
Trajectory experiments with the notion of subjective encoding/decoding in the process of transmitting/receiving an experienced space and time. Alternatively to its wide use in broadcast and radio, in trajectory the same idea is placed in a more artistic context and it is used as a tool for a modern psychogeographic investigation and live phonographic documentation of an area.
Trajectory in Audio Forensics
There are three performances planned, one on each exhibition day at 3pm. On the 27th of November artist Manu Luksch will render her own version of the trajectory for the private view of the exhibition. The second guest performer is curator, radio producer and artist Richard Thomas who will be performing on the 28th of November. Peter Cusack will give a performance on the 29th of November, the final exhibition day.
About the Guest Artists
Manu Luksch: Through her films, telematic performances and interdisciplinary works, Manu Luksch explores her preoccupation with the effects of emerging technologies on: daily life, social relations, and urban and political structures. Particular zones of focus are the borders of public space, the weave of the urban fabric, surveillance and the gaze, security and identity systems.
Her recent film project, Faceless, is a science fiction fairy tale compiled from surveillance video footage recovered under the UK's Data Protection Act. The film treats CCTV images as 'legal readymades', and its scenario derives from the legal properties of the image.
Luksch has exhibited her work at venues and festivals internationally, including "Hors Pistes" (Centre Pompidou, Paris 2008), "Goodbye Privacy" (Ars Electronica, Linz 2007), "Connecting Worlds" (NTT ICC, Tokyo 2006), "Satellite of Love" (Witte de With, Rotterdam 2006). She served as production assistant to Peter Greenaway (1992/95), as artistic director of the Munich Media Lab from 1995 to 1997, curated Art Servers Unlimited, the first conference on internet art, in 1998, and, in 1999, founded interdisciplinary arts production company Ambient Information Systems. Luksch was born in Austria in 1970. She now lives and works in London with her partner and artistic collaborator Mukul Patel and her son Indigo.
Richard Thomas: Richard Thomas is an artist/curator/producer primarily working within broadcast media, most specifically radio. He is Content Manager and News Editor at Resonance 104.4FM and produces and presents an eclectic range of programmes for the station. Thomas writes film criticism and curates sound, music, film and performance events, and chaotic social situations. Recent teaching includes Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Thomas' personal practice combines these strands with visual and written material in his self styled explorations into 'The Psychedelic Dimensions Of Boredom
Peter Cusack: Based in London, he works as a sound artist, musician and environmental recordist with a special interest in acoustic ecology. Projects range from community arts to research into the role that sound plays in our sense of place. His project 'Sounds From Dangerous Places' examines the soundscapes of sites of major environmental damage. He produced 'Vermilion Sounds' - the environmental sound program - for ResonanceFM Radio, London. He lectures on 'Sound Arts & Design' at the London College of Communication and is a research fellow on the multidisciplinary EPSRC funded 'Positive Soundscapes Project'. CDs include 'Your Favourite London Sounds' (Resonance), 'Baikal Ice' (ReR), 'Favourite Sounds of Beijing' (Subjam).
Documentation:
The preparation for the project began in July 2008 with the research on different options and technologies to be used. In September/October and November I have done some test transmissions and experimented with different configurations on the Trajectory Kit hardware and software in order to achieve the best signal and sound quality. I have also done some test transmissions with my guest artists and I will upload some short clips here as soon as I edit them.
Documentation clips of the performances:
Peter Cusack (29th of November 2008)
- Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3
Inside the Gallery (29th November 2008)
*Video: Vytis PuronasPhotogallery:
Photography by: Kirsten, Apostolos Voulgarakis and Mark Peter Wright.Letgone
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Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves
Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves is the culmination of a two year research on the art made using the electromagnetic spectrum. Beyond its encyclopedic value, the book offers a definition of a new genre by establishing a non-linear thematic timeline of events, projects, inventions and discoveries. The book was co-authored by Galen Joseph-Hunter, Penny Duff and myself.
About the book
In this ground-breaking look at a new art genre, Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves brings together a genealogy of 150 artists and artworks—and more than 250 images—from 1921 to the present that encompasses performance, video, radio theatre, sound art, media installation, networked art, and acoustic ecology. Here is a fascinating account of the ingenuity and creativity of artists who have made new discoveries in broadcast, public works, performance composition, sound, and text, stretching the boundaries of both transmitter and receiver. At a time when public access struggles with corporate control of the airwaves, artists have combined activism and communications technologies to represent alternative worlds on the electromagnetic spectrum.
Amalgam
Amalgam is a dance theatre performance by Caterini Dinopoulou*. Our collaboration started in 2006 while studying Brighton. The visual labyrinths echoing the Jungian philosophy and the Ancient Greek elegance are perfectly combined with the sound atmospheres consisting of disembodied voices, drone pads and noises. The sounds assume a conceptual role apart from complementing the images on screen and the movements of the dancers. The final version of amalgam was presented in Greek festivals and events during Spring- Summer 2008.
Download for free the original soundtrack for Amalgam.
Here you can watch one of the videos featured in the performance
*Caterini Dinopoulou is a dancer, choreographer and video artist. She has presented works such as the multimedia dance performance Amalgam and the audiovisual live installation 2^2 in both England and Greece. She has collaborated with Bicycle Ballet for an outdoor performance at the National Theatre's summer festival in London. The videos of the Amalgam performance have been awarded by The Video Art Gallery of London. She studied journalism. After an introduction to expressive dance and improvisation at Studio KER - Crete on 2000, continued training on ballet and contemporary dance in Athens, where she also attended a foundation course on visual arts. She studied Dance and Visual Arts at the University of Brighton. She is currently teaching workshops on choreography, performance and dance video in dance institutes in both England and Greece. She also collaborates with the Creative Bridges Events Company as choreographer and video artist. By getting scholarship from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, she started her master in Performance: Dance Maker at the University of Chichester, at September 2008.
Returning
Returning is collaboration with filmmaker and dance performer Marina Tsartsara. Returning is the journey of the moving body into the chambers of a woman's soul. Poetic imagery through the combination of plastic arts and movement. Returning was presented at 700IS International Experimental Short Film Festival (Egilsstadir,Iceland), ‘Café Voltaire’ Exhibition (Clapham Picture House Gallery, London, UK), National Review of Live Art 2009 (Glasgow, UK).
Radio Content in the Digital Age
My paper entitled "Radio as the voice of community, locality, interactivity and experimentation" is included in the book Radio Content in the Digital Age The Evolution of a Sound Medium by Angeliki Gazi, Guy Starkey, and Stanislaw Jedrzejewski.
The paper was originally presented at The Cyprus University of Technology and the ECREA Radio Research Section 2009 conference. It explores the themes of radio-art in the contexts of cultural activism, public space intallation, performance and experimental composition
About the book
The traditional radio medium has seen significant changes in recent years as part of the current global shift toward multimedia content, with both digital and FM making significant use of new technologies, including mobile communications and the Internet. This book focuses on the important role these new technologies play—and will play as radio continues to evolve. This series of essays by top academics in the field examines new options for radio technology as well as a summary of the opportunities and challenges that characterize academic and professional debates around radio today.
ChatRooms
ChatRooms is a collaboration with Detour Collective and Caterini Dinopoulou. The piece is a three-way videodance installation between three performers (two dancers and a musician) in remote locations who interact via the internet. The piece involves three stages of participation. The first part consists of the two dancers performing with each other using the technique of digital double. The second part invites the audience of the first venue/space to perform with the dancer of the second venue and finally the final part invites the audience of the second to do the same with the dancer of the first.
Throughout the four hours of duration of the event, I provide a unique improvised composition entitled "Meditation on an invisible city". You can listen to an excerpt of the performance here.
The piece was exhibited in the University of Chichester (UK), the DRHA Conference 2010 (London, UK) and the Center of Mediterranean Architecture / K.A.M. (Chania, Greece). A brief documentation video of the event in Chania can be viewed here.
Artcards Review: Artist Conversations
Kabir Carter
Kabir Carter is a NY-based sound artist using media technology to diffuse sound and to physicaly explore and define the affinities and interactions between sound, space and body. Read the full interview here.
Ezekiel Honig
Ezekiel Honig is mainly known for his abstract-minimal techno infused- electronic music and as being the mastermind behind the two independent labels Microcosm and Anticipate. Having said that, I feel that it is important to note that a major part of what he does as a music producer is driven by his memory of lived spaces. One can notice the existence, if not importance, of field recorings in his music. Read the interview here.
Deaf Center
Deaf Center are the experimental, modern classical project of Erik Skodvin and Otto Totland.Their sound can be compared to the darkest scenes off a David Lynch movie. Compelling enough, the world of Deaf Center consists of sparse piano melodies, drones made from the unorthodox playing of stringed instruments, field recordings and muted rythms. Read the conversation I had with them in full.
Maria Chavez
Maria Chavez is an avant-turntablist based in NYC. Her practice involves an unsual and imaginative treatment of vinyl records via the use of old or prepared record needles and instantaneous play of multiple records layered on top of each other.
You can read the interview i did with her for the arts blog "Artcards Review" here.
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