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mon 26 jan 2009 22:00 hrs
Radio Art #5
Tonight you can listen to the fifth part of the 12-part series of ‘Audio Art’. The series displays works by artists who, often from a visual perspective, have made use of the audible. The series will deal with sound performances, sound installations, self-built instruments, vocal art, and radiophonics. This broadcast pays attention to the works by sound artists who have seen to the idea of ‘performance’: performance of ideas and ideas by means of performance.
You can listen to Gerhard Rühm’s ‘Pencil Music’ which is weaved through this broadcast using short intermezzos. Furthermore, you will hear work by Steve Reich, who presented a revolutionary work for the feedback of sound signals with his ‘Pendulum Music’, and work by Alvin Lucier who dedicated most of his artistry to the narrative relation between artificial sound sources and ‘natural’ resonances of objects and materials. From him you will hear ‘Music for piano with magnetic strings’. Continuing with this broadcast, the somewhat provocative ‘Ping Pong’ by Dick Raaijmakers will be played; a work for and by two table tennis players. ‘Guitar Drag’ by Christian Marclay follows the work by Raaijmakers. ‘Guitar Drag’ is the resounding result of a performance in the public space, where Marclay attached an electric guitar to a towing hook and subsequently went to the dormitory suburbs of his hometown. The work ‘As is: Guitar Mural 14’ by Remco Scha & the Machines links up perfectly with this; an installation of several guitars attached to a wall, collectively played by a network of resonating strings that set multiple guitars vibrating simultaneously.
