this programme was dedicated to the first of two 2-hour broadcasts of SiB Radio Gowanus, a four hour edit of a multi-artist narrowcast radio installation project curated by U.S. based colleague Maria Papadomanolaki, initially sited in Cabinet Magazine's Gallery Space in Brooklyn, 17th-19th of March 2010. I (as Radio Cegeste) was one of the contributing artists to the original show, with a piece called The Book of Margins, recorded in None Gallery in 2009. it was a pleasure to host its return to the Dunedin airwaves alongside a veritable cornucopia of expanded-radiophonic sounds and musics.
curator Maria Papadomanolaki writes :
"Around the mid-1950s, Guy Debord coined a new genre of city mapping and exploration under the alias of Psychogeography. The serious “academic” model of creative expression was refined into a playful, intuitive and inventive quest of unseen and undiscovered urban cues and layers. “Postcards from Gowanus” and its radio exhibit “Sib Radio Gowanus” find a significant point of reference to the Debordian state of mind and suggest a new eye, ear and psyche to the landscape of Gowanus. The actual exhibits in the gallery claim a physical presence while the ethereal soundscapes create a new intimate locale inside the listener’s mind and psyche. “Sib Radio Gowanus” echoes the idea of radio as a wunderkammer. However, it surrogates this notion to an organic sonotopia that inhabits the audiovisual exhibits in a process of associative interaction. On a final note, the exhibition, as its title reveals, offers fragments of the artists’ audiovisual expeditions in the form of postcard-artifacts that encapsulate, in the best possible and “timeless” manner, the essence of the experienced urban environments. “Postcards from Gowanus” is a short but dense time travel to the heterogeneous manifestations of the surrounding area as encountered in snapshot mode by the different participants."
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Playlist
1st Hour
1. Amir Husak – Gowanus United Static of America
http://www.nocommercialvalue.org/
2. A.G – Polygon:08|3
http://agpolygon08.blogspot.com/
3. Jeremy D. Slater – Floating Point
http://www.jeremyslater.com/
http://www.parenthesismedia.com/
4. Myke Dodge Weiskopf – Dark Radio
http://www.myke.me/wordpress/
5. Radio Ruido – abowl
http://radioruidotriangulation.blogspot.com/
6. Bitcrush – Raltech
http://www.bitcrush.net/
7. David Smith and Heidi Prenevost – Double Helix
http://www.thedavidsmith.com/
http://heidiprenevost.com/
8. Todd Merrell – As March Times On
http://www.toddmerrell.com/
9. murmer – freon
http://www.murmerings.com/frameset.html
10. Knut Aufermann – avi5
http://knut.klingt.org/
11. leaf loft – night still stills
http://www.myspace.com/leafloft
12. A.G – Polygon:08|2
http://agpolygon08.blogspot.com/
13. Radio Ruido – all artifacts
http://radioruidotriangulation.blogspot.com/
14. Sublamp – LetterlensToKidEyes
http://sublamp.com/
http://soundcloud.com/sublamp
2nd Hour
1. Last Days – Walls
http://www.lastdaysmusic.co.uk/
2. Myke Dodge Weiskopf – Helicopter
http://www.myke.me/wordpress/
3. Jonny Farrow – Gowanus Walk
4. Dimitris Papadatos – Wagonsun Spectral Fragment
http://dimitrispapadatos.blogspot.com/
http://kulttofthesilent.blogspot.com/
5. Myroslaw Bytz and Nick Heiling – Third Sight Gowanus
http://www.nickheling.com/
http://www.mbytz.com/
6. Maria Papadomanolaki – Union Street Bridge Pt. 1 & 2
7. verdi_spirali – on_earth@in_space
http://www.myspace.com/verdispirali
http://soundcloud.com/mark-peter-wright
9. near the parenthesis – Gowanus
http://www.neartheparenthesis.com
