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8 APR 2020 · Fourth contribution of 2020 for our partner Radioart106: "Look Up Lock Down" - is a special radio work recorder on March 28 during partial lockdown in Israel and Palestine. Five radio artists and musicians sharing their experiences of this moment in time: Anna Raimondo (Brussels), Danielle Ravitzki (New York), Assaf Talmudi (Tel Aviv), Karen Werner (Bergen) and Ilan Volkov (Tel Aviv). > Playlist: Anna Raimondo - Domestic recordings for urgent matters Danielle Ravitzki Placebo - Twenty Years Assaf Talmudi Ralph Stanley - O Death Karen Werner David Clark Ilan Volkov Jerry Hunt - Transform Photo: Jerry Hunt 1985

4 MAR 2020 · > Radioart106_#124 - Special broadcast for International Women’s day 2020 length: 58:31 This is a reading of “Prison Without Trial”, a conference from January 2nd 2020, about the struggle against Administrative Detention of Palestinians by the Israeli state. The conference was organised by The Ad-hoc Committee to Abolish the Israeli Use of Administrative Detention. It took place at the Khashabi theatre in the city of Haifa. The speakers and readers of this conference and broadcast are all female activists. Featuring: Dareen Tatour (poet, photographer) - Read by Elham (actress, singer). Abeer Baker (lawyer) - Read by Meira Asher (sound/radio artist). Dr. Anat Matar (philosopher) - Read by Smadar Yaaron (actress, interdisciplinary artist). Chaired by Dr. Yali Hashash (social historian) - Read by Orna Akad (author, playwright). Music by Kamilya Jubran and Werner Hasler playlist: Yaday, Aux enfants, Nafad Al-Ahwal 3, Asra (fragment). Produced by Meira Asher, radioart106 Lexical assistance: Liam Evans Image: Reut Gat More information: http://addameer.org http://mixcloud.com/radioart106

3 FEB 2020 · This entry shares a newly commissioned  sound art-work 'BioSignals Mixtape' by Antye Greie aka AGF, poemproducer, as the final event related to the BioSignals programme, produced by Pixelache Helsinki during 2018-2019. The mixtape is compiled and composed from audio materials recorded or curated during the BioSignals networked events and field-recordings. Commissioned by Pixelache producers Andrew Gryf Paterson and Mikko Lipiäinen, the ambition of the new work by AGF as a mixtape is to hightlight the potential of making audio archives of both recordings of humans and non-human biosignals available with commons-orientated licenses, so that they can be creatively used and remixed to make new audio works that offer creativity, poetics and discursive insight in non-scientific formats. BioSignals project is a series of site-specific events that has explored the overlaps of sound art, narrations and nature-based data streams by human and non-human cultural producers involving Pixelache members and other invited guests, that began in Spring 2018.    More info: https://www.pixelache.ac/projects/biosignals

8 JAN 2020 · Playlist: The Juicy Part (2019) - Jess Shane Krabat (2019, InTerjeCtions EP) - Akkamiau Goa Live set (2018) - Leonie Roessler One Blanket Lost (2010 short version) - Meira Asher Jess Shane is a Canadian audio producer based in New York. Her work has aired on programs including the BBC's Short Cuts, WBEZ’s Re:Sound, and CBC’s The Doc Project, Love Me, and Ideas.  She is also the co-founder of Constellations, a collective and podcast for sound art and experimental audio. Jess was a producer on CBC's Personal Best and Mic Drop. Her love of audio was born from her community arts practice, where she collaborated with communities in spaces across Toronto to design collaborative audio-visual celebrations and installations. She is currently pursuing an MFA candidate in Hunter College's Integrated Media Arts program, with a focus on collaborative documentary practices.  About ‘The Juicy Part’: I’ve noticed a mounting and disturbing trend in ‘content’ and documentary, whereby makers contextualize their traumatic experiences in terms of traditional narrative arcs, creating suspense, climax, and resolution. In so doing, they position ‘story’ as trauma as opposed to the systems and power structures that enable such trauma to occur. This is not to say I don’t believe that retelling details of trama are not important -- but I feel that retelling them in the context of an uncontrolled broadcast environment, or in terms of entertainment platforms, is very different from recounting them to a loved one or a therapist. On YouTube, I see this trend in abundance. It’s difficult to generalize because different users us the platform to share stories in different contexts: their words are directed towards various audiences even though they’re available to all. For this piece, I sourced segments of confessional Youtube videos in which this occurs; I often noted a disconnect between people relaying their trauma with sincerity, while also using devices of narrative structure to entice listeners to listen in closer. I am skeptical of the benefit of people commodifying their own stories in this way. Akkamiau has performed experimental audiovisual shows since 2006. In 2012 she co-founded audiovisual interactive collective StratoFyzika, and has launched and performs live with the latest experimental techno project hiT͟Hərˈto͞o. Akkamiau hosted radio shows at Colaboradio and Cashmere radio and regularly DJs on local techno events in Berlin.  About ‘Krabat’: It deals with human sounds, spoken language and its emotional charge, and with a subjective sound environment, in a way of internal sound ecology. It is part of her InTerjeCtions EP from 2019. Leonie Roessler - Composer and Performer raised in Germany and the US, now based in The Hague, Netherlands. Leonie captures her environment through field recordings, which she uses for radio pieces, sound installations, and compositions for soloists and ensembles. She had recent residencies at New Media Society and Limited Access Festival (Iran), Forum Wallis (Switzerland), and The Story of Space Festival (India), and Berlin Circus Biennale (Germany), and Studio LOOS (Netherlands). About ‘Goa Live Set’: This piece was performed live at Helicopter, Den Haag in November of 2018. It is entirely made of field recordings that Leonie recorded in Goa in 2017 during her residency for The Story of Space Festival. Meira Asher -The research areas of composer, performer and HR activist Meira Asher include Social Documentary and the Amplification of the Human Body. When living in The Netherlands she was co-founder of the bodylab art foundation in The Hague (2001-2011). Currently she is a lecturer at Haifa University’s Art School, and curator-presenter of the independent Radio Art program radioart106 since 2014, affiliated with the Radia.fm network. Her recent works include “from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea - a Soundscape of an Occupation” for KUNSTRADIO (Vienna) and a 2LP album and performance of Antonin Artaud’s radio creation “To Have Done with the Judgement of God” (1947). About ‘One Blanket Lost’: The trafficking of Nigerian girls for prostitution in Spain started in the early 90s, frequently involving long transits in the Algerian and Moroccan deserts. 'One blanket lost', a common expression used by the traffickers, 'mourns' the loss of blankets in which they buried girls who died on the way. Erica was the sole surviver from the boat which carried her to Spanish waters. She lost her baby girl and boyfriend at sea, after which she started paying a 42,000 Euro debt to her madam. Mixed and mastered by Paul Kendall, Commissioned by ORF Kunstradio, Austria. With: Erica Osemwigie protagonist (trafficked Nigeria-Spain) RitaErica's friend (trafficked Nigeria-Spain) HappyErica's friend (trafficked Nigeria-Spain) Norbertolawyer, Acción en red-Canaries

3 DEC 2019 · program #115 59:30 Artist: Jean Claude Jones The free improviser and double bass player Jean-Claude Jones was born in Tunisia and lives in Jerusalem. A Music teacher, former head of the jazz department at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in the late 1990s. In 2005 Jones founded "Kadima" - a collective of free improvising musicians and visual artists, and the artistic label KCR. In the open project Myelination, Jean-Claude Jones creates a meeting space for his fellow musicians along with the disease of multiple sclerosis from which he has been suffering since the mid 80s. The encounter takes place via sound and it has been documented in three separate performances and albums so far. They are based on the artists' communication with the sounds of myelin - a fatty substance that isolates the nerve fibres and assists in the transfer of electrical currents between the nerve cells. Multiple sclerosis, a chronic disease of the nervous system, impacts the normal function of nerve cells by damaging and reducing myelin. Myelin protein is based on a long chain of molecules called amino acids. Jean-Claude Jones's friend, chemist Andy Shipway, programmed and slowed the vibration of each molecule in the chain to an audible frequency band. And so the sound of the myelin was born, the core of the project. Featuring: Harold Rubin-clarinet and voice, Stephen Hornstein-baritone saxophone, Yoni Silver-bass clarinet, Ariel Shibolet-soprano saxophone, Yael Thai-Voice, Hagai Fershtman-percussion, And jazz poet Jake Marmer, in the first part of the project, 2011. myelination 2, 2013 with Meira Asher-voice and electronics, recorded live at the Uganda Bar, Jerusalem. myelination 3, 2014 featuring vocal artists Anat Pick, Ayelet Lerman and Joseph Sprinzak, recorded live at the Mazkeka, Jerusalem. Mix and Mastering by Jean Claude Jones. Playlist: > myelination (2011): 18Aas, Inducing One, Arihag > myelination 2 (2013): One Out, Two In, Four In > myelination (2011): JC's remix, Voices > myelination 2 (2013): Seven Out, Three Out > myelination 3 (2014)

4 NOV 2019 · > Radioart106_#50 artists: female:pressure_ROJAVA playlist: hiT͟Hərˈto͞o - THOREAU / KOMATIK HAI Sky Deep feat. Hevî - Woman & The Gun Miranda De La Frontera - Dear Viyan (feat. Viyan Payman & Dilar Dirik Julie Rousse - JIR - Fire Fighter Olivia Louvel - 'Afraid Of Women' Inge van den Kroonenberg - ROJAVA Tryptich chra - Rojava Belong Here LaPelleMuta's Sounds - Tingis: Bombs Anne Lepère - Traverser sa Manche The Turkish invasion of Rojava, the autonomous region in northeastern Syria, has started in October 2019. F16s are leaving to strike Rojava from the same airbase they left to strike ISIS. An attack on Rojava is an attack on the people’s right to live, their democracy, solidarity, and women’s liberation. In March 2016, female:pressure launched the Rojava campaign aimed at raising awareness of the #Rojava resistance movement in northern Syria. There, women partner at all levels of decision-making and were building a new society with social justice, religious freedom, ecological principles and gender equality. This program contains a mix from the compilation prepared by female:pressure, broadcasted first on Women’s day 2016. female pressure is an international network of female, transgender and non-binary artists in the fields of electronic music and digital arts, with more than 2.500 members from 79 countries. All the proceeds from the Rojava campaign were/are dedicated to Rojava’s women for the construction of a women's village, called Jinwar - village of free women. The compilation is available at Bandcamp under the name Music, Awareness & Solidarity w/ Rojava Revolution.


2 OCT 2019 · > Radioart106_#117_Fearless Speech Part of the series fearless radio curated by Anna Raimondo and Younes Baba Ali who initiated the sound and radio art platform Saout Radio in Morocco. Initial broadcast by Kunstradio ORF on 2 March 2014. This program deals with the reality of minors in some militarised societies. From the minds of teenagers who refuse to serve in the Israeli army (in 'refuse: military.01’), to the experience of female ex-child combatants in Sierra Leone. Challenged by Foucaoult's concept of Parrhesia, this show transmits the voices of children and youth who were appropriated/abused/killed by adults and armed forces. '… it is a verbal activity in which the subject express his personal relation to truth taking the risk of life because he recognises that telling the truth is his own duty in order to improve or help other people. In Parrhesia the speaker uses his freedom and chooses truth instead of lie, death instead of life and security, criticism instead of flattery, duty instead of interest and selfishness…" (Michel Foucault Audio Archive. Discourse and Truth: Parrhesia, 1983). Segments from three separate projects are complied here: refuse: military.01 (2014, HearSay Radio Art Prize 2015), Infantry (2002), and Face_WSLOT (2004-06). featuring: Issa Amro, Guy Harries, Floy Krouchi, Paul Kendall, Noam Gur, Anita Jackson, Mahade Pako, Chris Conteh, Yan Keller. Playlist: refuse: military.01 (Anita Jackson)_Suzanna (from Face_WSLOT) (Collective)_GoodToGo (Face_WSLOT) (Chris Conteh)_OperationStampin'Stomach (Face_WSLOT) (Chris Conteh)_Options (Face_WSLOT) (Collective)_Mummy (Face_WSLOT) (Collective)_Touch (Face_WSLOT) The School (from Infantry) Box (Infantry) The Car (Infantry) Bad Toys (Infantry) The Hospital (Infantry)

9 SEP 2019 · A Radio creation by Antonin Artaud (1947) Translated to Hebrew by Aviva Barak / Meira Asher - Voice, Electronics, Objects / Haggai Fershtman - Drums, Voice, Objects / Amir Bolzman - Electronics, Turntables, Bass / Eran Sachs - No input mixer, Voice / Boris Martzinovsky - Accordion. 'Pour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu ' is the last work by Artaud, recorded in several sessions in the broadcasting studios of the Radiodiffusion Française (RDF) in Paris in November 22-29,1947. The general manager of the radio immediately banned it from the air on the planned evening of the broadcast February 2,1948. Artaud passed away about a month later. In his letter of protest to Wladimir Porché, director of the Radiodiffusion, Artaud wrote: "I wanted a new work that catches certain organic points in life, a work in which we feel the whole nervous system burning like an incandescent lamp with vibrations, consonance which invite man TO GO OUT WITH his body in pursuit of this new, strange and radiant Epiphany in the sky. (...) Anybody, down to the coal merchant, must understand being fed up with the filth- physical, as well as physiological -, and DESIRES an in-depth CORPORAL change." (Paule Thévenin, Artaud, op. cit., pp. 130-132, Gallimard) Adapted by Meira Asher and Haggai Fershtman / Produced by Meira Asher Recorded by Ronald Boersen at Hateva, Yaffa / “La question se pose de” recorded by Ronen Hajaj / Mixed by Daniel Meir / Mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin / Artwork by David Opp Produced with the support of the Israel Lottery Council For Culture & Art Playlist : kré kré pek kré J’ai appris hier Tutuguri - Le rite du soleil noir La recherche de la fécalité La question se pose de Conclusion > Bandcamp: http://meiraasher.bandcamp.com/album/pour-en-finir-avec-le-jugement-de-dieu > Read text: http://meiraasher.net/artaud Published on January 1, 2019 #radioart106 #soundart

2 AUG 2019 · > Radioart106_#91_Guy Harries Composer and performer Guy Harris was born in Israel and is living in London. As a performer, he combines work with voice, electronics and wind instruments. His projects include political operas, sound art, rock shows, and multimedia. He has recorded several solo albums as well as collaborations with the Dutch Pow ensemble, with Meira Asher and Yumi Hara on the labels X-OR, Sub Rosa, Sombre Soniks and Migro. The mix he edited for this set include excerpts from works that combine field recordings, voices, objects, and analog synthesisers to suggest imaginary landscapes and narratives open to the listener’s interpretation. Playlist: Out of the Window excerpt (1999) - voices: Israel Golani, Anna Levenstein Lumens excerpt (2016) - from the album Fault Line (released on Sombre Soniks) Little Songs excerpt (2002) Shadowgraphs excerpt (2009) - voices: Airlie Scott, Guy Harries Memory Dune (2016) - from the Audio-DH project (http://audiodh.nl) Crunch (2011) from the Muse Hack EP (Halas - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Guy_Harries/Muse_Hack_Ep/) Shadowgraphs excerpt (2009) - voices: Airlie Scott, Guy Harries #radioart106