RADIOPHONIC MONDAYS with Anouck Genthon (CH), Jason Kahn (US/CH), Olga Kokcharova (RU/CH) and Antoine Läng (CH)
The Swiss sound artists, composers and vocalists Anouck Genthon, also featured on her violin, Jason Kahn also playing percussion, Olga Kokcharova and Antoine Läng are a collective exploring the sounding natural and urban environment, how we perceive sounds, learn from them and through attentive listening achieve a more profound connection with our ever-changing environment.
On Sunday, December 4, their collective project „RING“ closes this year’s SONIC MATTER festival drawing attention towards sounds in spaces and spaces in sounds, always starting with listening. «RING» explores the traditional vocal alpine blessing, and how it can blend into an urban environment and create new forms of songs.
This RADIOPHONIC MONDAY offers a first earful to their collective and individual work:
Song Walk With Me Zurich by Antoine Läng and Anouck Genthon is an extension of listening sessions that happened earlier in Parc Beaulieu, Geneva, a sonic palimpsest initiated by an invitation from Gamut Collective and shared now as a book and a composition in motion, from layers of listening traces, urban walks, inspired by sound poetry, bioacoustics and previous collaborations with the musicians involved in this project.
Bullingerhof 4.25. Jason Kahn started recording this composition at 4.25am in the morning. By interacting with the space with his voice and through listening a kind of unheard intervention with the roar of the city was unraveling, blending his vocalizations with the environment, blurring the boundaries of what was being „performed“ by him and what was being happening in the environment.
VENERA composed by Antoine Läng and Olga Kokcharova. The artists explain: „Our axis of composition/creation are mainly focused on our perception: - how Venus can be perceived from us either as a planet, as a star (seen from Earth) or as a deity; - how sound is affected by environment and how it can be perceived whether through the Earth’s atmosphere or through the thick air of Venus and how the distance between the perception of human voice and electronic instrumentation can be blurred through this atmospheric filtration.“
The two hour feature concludes with The Rayol Violinsea, Le Jardin des Méediterranées a collaborative project by violinist Anouck Genthon and sound artist Olga Kokcharova.
On every even hour
00:00:00 Song Walk With Me Zurich
01:09:22 Bullingerhof 4.25
01:39:38 VENERA
01:55:17 The Rayol Violinsea
Photo Credit: Dixence Landscape by Maria_Trofimova
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