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Artificial Intelligence turns emotive on a Swiss underground radio dataset and gives up in peace – collective curatorial practices winning over. This radio feature is a collaboration between Norient and Radio Bollwerk. Based in Bern, we share the same city of origin with this Swiss internet radio.

The feature is to be seen as a local add-on to the Norient book Politics of Curatorship: Collective and Affective Interventions, released in Spring 2023, and a creative by-product of the curation of a Swiss underground spotlight in the program of the 13^th edition of our Festival in January 2024 by the radio crew. Radio Bollwerk maintains a network of primarily DJs, but appears to house a concert collective in its studio and to have collaborated with numerous contemporary artists and festivals all over Switzerland.

In this very feature, various artists, curators, and scientists are involved, prominently and in order of appearance: Duex Fontana, art director and programmer of the club and festival Bad Bonn in Düdingen, Sara Palin aka Palinstar, singer and musician from Zurich, Dany Digler, art director and programmer of the club Le Singe in Biel-Bienne, Dr. Marzia Varutti from the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences in Geneva, Laurence Wagner, art director of the Belluard Bollwerk festival in Fribourg, and last but not least Miro Caltagirone, singer of the bands Puts Marie and Mister Milano, musician, and actor.

tracklist

Palinstar: «Smooth Operator» (unpublished)
Trash Mantra (Dany Digler): «Don’t do Business with the Devils» (unpublished)
Swarm Composing (PLOUK & splatz.space): «Free Swarm». (PLOUK 14.05.2023)

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This feature was produced by Urs Rihs, any rights to the material used in the broadcast stay with Radio Bollwerk or the authors.

Biography

Urs Rihs (1987, he/him) is co-founder of the internet Radio Bollwerk in Bern, Switzerland, hosting a morning show on the resident FM station Radio RaBe, programming concerts in the underground and beyond since 2010. Hosting club nights, and rushing on sound 24/7 anyways, he views the profane in music as paramount, like pasta e fagioli on a table with friends. Urs is deeply dedicated to the local scene, yet, it doesn’t matter to him where you are from, as long as you come from somewhere with attitude and a frank spirit. He is also a freelance journalist and writer for the collectively attended KSB Kulturmagazin, which works on forms in the twilight of reportage, critical theory, and art. «To experiment is to be hunting chance. It takes time and faith», he is reported to say – «but it’s most rewarding when you catch that spark». He has realized various radio features for festivals such as Face-Z in Geneva and the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival (LUFF). Follow him on Instagram.

Biography

Radio Bollwerkist ein Gemeinschaftsradio mit Avantgarde-Clubmusik in der DNA. Mit Satelliten, auf verschiedensten Bühnen und in möglichst allen Sparten. Qualität hörbar machen, das Spektrum des Untergrunds auffächern, Musik im Netz – 24/7.

Radio Bollwerk is a community radio with avant-garde club music in its DNA. With its satellites, on various stages and in as many sections as possible. Making quality audible, overflowing on different scenes to capture the depth of underground music, music online – 24/7. Follow them on Facebook, Instagram, SoundCloud, and on their Website.

Published on March 19, 2024

Last updated on March 19, 2024

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TIMEZONES - The Life in Music of Three Experimental Musicians (in Serbia and Switzerland) by Svetlana Maraš

The Life in Music of Three Experimental Musicians (in Serbia and Switzerland)

Podcast

by Svetlana Maraš

Episode 2 of the TIMEZONES podcast series, co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe-Institut. An electro-acoustic composition based on the interviews with the three artists Mara Miccichè, Branko Džinović, and Vukašin Đelić, the close friends and collaborators of the podcast producer, who have never met each other.

They live in three different cities – Šabac, Belgrade, Zurich. Their stories as well as their sounds, intertwine throughout the piece modified and accompanied by the sounds of the podcast producer, all of them creating an ensemble of voices, sounds, and musical fragments deriving from diverse set of musical practices by each of them.

A podcast by Belgrade-based composer and sound artist Svetlana Maraš

Co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe-Institut

Featuring: Mara Miccichè, Branko Džinović, and Vukašin Đelić

Composition, Montage: Svetlana Maraš
Sounds and Words by: Mara Miccichè, Branko Džinović, and Vukašin Đelić
Jingle Voiceover: Nana Akosua Hanson
Mastering: Adi Flück, Centraldubs
Artwork: Šejma Fere

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Branko Džinović is an accordion and bandoneon player born in Šabac, Serbia. He is performer, improviser, and composer. Concert reviewers have called him «a dangerously active volcano» (Austrian Kronen Zeutung) and described his playing as «ingenious» (Neues Volksblatt). He was «Grand Prize» winner at the 2001 Accordion World Cup in London, U.K.; he won the 2004 «Das Podium» in Linz and the 2013 «DMA Recital Competition» at the University of Toronto – both of which are open to all instrumentalists. Džinović holds a Master’s degree from the Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance in Linz (MA, 2008) and a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA, 2017) in performance from the University of Toronto. He currently lives in Šabac.

Vukašin Đelić (Woo) is a guitarist from Belgrade. Member of Dol band and man behind Belgrade Noise Recordings. He has made many significant performances solo and with other people, both in Serbia and internationally. His latest album U zavisnosti od dana, was released in May 2020 and was recorded in his house in Grocka, on the city outskirts. Vukašin lives in Belgrade.

Mara Miccichè is a vocalist and composer from Zurich. She holds Master Of Arts in Music POP from ZhdK (Zurich). She performed internationally at places such as Les Digitales Festival, Zürich (CH), EXPO Milan – Swiss Pavillon, H3K, Basel, Teatro di Locarno and many other places. She is preparing a new release for the OUS, Swiss-based label.

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The TIMEZONES podcast series plunges into the world of artists and their practices, asking: what does living and working in culture and the arts involve in different countries, cities, and contexts today? The artists’ thoughts on their moods, their social, political, and intellectual realities and their philosophies (of life) have been worked up into experimental audio collages.

The podcasts run the gamut of formats and content, from straight journalism to experimental and documentary approaches, ethnography and fiction, sound art, and improvisation. The TIMEZONES series endeavours to create new artistic forms of storytelling, listening and exchange across the boundaries of geography, time zones, genres, and practices.

The TIMEZONES podcast series is co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe-Institut.

Biography

Svetlana Maraš (1985) is composer and sound artist from Serbia. She works at the intersection of experimental music, sound art and new media. Maraš has presented her work internationally, at venues, festivals and events such as CTM (Berlin), Ars Electronica (Linz), House of Electronic Arts (Basel), Espace Multimedia Gantner (Bourogne), Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens), Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade), Ausland (Berlin), Izlog Suvremenog Zvuka (Zagreb), ICMC (New York), International Rostrum of Composers (Wroclaw), ISEA (Dubai) and many other places. She is the head of Radio Belgrade’s Electronic Studio. Follow her on SoundCloud and on her Website.

Links

Theresa Beyer: «Glitchy Sounds Under the Microscope» (Norient)

Aline Helmcke, Guido Naschert: «‹Matter of Fact› by Svetlana Maraš» (Norient)

Published on November 05, 2020

Last updated on October 12, 2023

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