radio stilts
sonic sculpture / radio laboratory / improvisation ensemble
House of World Cultures (H.K.W.), Berlin 2018
Radio Stilts is a contribution to Radiophonic Spaces: Walk-In Radio Archive and Platform for Listening Knowledge at the House of World Cultures.
Over the course of five working sessions, visitors to the Radiophonic Spaces at the House of World Cultures were invited to join an improvised orchestra. Considering radio as a complex intersection of social relations and technology, the project became a dynamic exercise in improvisation along an ambiguous listening protocol in making political and micro-political musical choices.
Each session initiated a new sonic ensemble exploring listening as a choreographic method. By creating and interpreting a collaborative score, playing and performing together, Radio Stilts became a study of listening as a political and aesthetic project rooted in the practices of improvisation. Five compositions, orchestrated during five working sessions in the artists’ narrowcast studio at HKW, point to radio as a sonic strategy that creates organisms rather than images. Each composition is a sonic translation of the collective resolution of the challenges posed by our collaboration and a way of establishing new networks, rethinking and reappropriating a particular space and the rules that govern it.
Translated into its momentary sonic and rhythmic equivalent the compositions recorded during the project performances were released in Spring 2019 on a limited-edition vinyl record available HERE.
Enormous gratitude for the manifestation of the project: Daniel Neugebauer, Christina Harles, Eva Stein, Laura Mühlbauer, Andreas Durchgraf.
Photography: Maria Vittoria Trovato / A.K.
Videography: Timur Alexander El Rafie
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