Inventions For Radio

SoundFjord:
SoundFjord is a creative venture specialising in the production, curation, exhibition and promotion of sound-, trans-media art and related research and practice. In 2013, SoundFjord unshackled itself from its North London studio and became a fully-fledged nomadic concern. Unfettered by the specificity of a single space, location or architecture, SoundFjord’s work is now to be found online, on air and in situ at a variety of places. www.soundfjord.org
John Kannenberg: 
John Kannenberg’s art practice crosses multiple media including sound, drawing, video, performance, writing, and curation. His work has been presented at conferences, festivals, exhibitions, and live performances worldwide, and focuses on themes relating to the sonics of space and place, the urge to collect, the human experience of time, and the meta-processes of making and observing art itself.Since 2002, John has curated the netlabel www.stasisfield.com, a digital art space presenting works by international artists. His blog Phonomnesis contains a selection of his writings on sound, art, time, museums, philosophy and culture.
On the web:
www.johnkannenberg.com
www.phonomnesis.com
www.stasisfield.com
About the Work: 
Equinox [for Basho] | a poetry and sound piece by John Kannenberg.
such stillness
piercing the rock
a cicada’s voice
(Basho)
***
A shifting, a turning
angular and concentric
the light bends itself around new old corners
throwing shadows earlier and longer
than we noticed the day before,
sweat becomes shivers:
ribbons into raincoats
the pulsing heat that drones on and then modulates
into a plucked crisp.
***
Squinting in the sun turns to listening 
in the trees
to new birds, old leaves.
What was the last thing I did in the rain?
Next time I’ll be clutching my coat
the one I first wore in an air conditioned shop
refusing to believe this street would soon go
from green to brown to grey to white
from thick with life to 
bare as a beach on an October night.
***
no one travels
along this way but I
this autumn evening
(Basho)
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00.00 – 02.10 | Tree trimmer at Mahmoud Mukhtar Sculpture Park, Cairo (Field recording, May 2010)
02.10 – 11.55 | Aestivus [chiasmos] (Radio edit; originally released on “Entropy and Incandescence”, Cohort Records 2005
11.55 – 15.50 | Lament (Summertide Solitude) (previously unreleased, 2012)
15.50 – 58.06 | Autumn Enso (Radio edit; originally released by Herbal International 2005)
58.06 – End | Crickets at Graben Neudorf-Nord, Germany (Field recording, September 2012)
Special thanks: 
Matsuo Basho, 17th Century Japanese poet
John Gore at Cohort Records
Goh Lee Kwang at Herbal International
Helen Frosi of SoundFjord
About the Image:
(c) Photo: Mike Hallenbeck (2011). Used with permission.