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March 5, 2015 by Mobile Radio
Our tour with Haco had a brief stop in Cologne where we performed at the Opekta Ateliers, an artist run studio space and residency in the up and coming district Nippes.
March 5, 2015 by Mobile Radio
Our tour with Haco had a brief stop in Cologne where we performed at the Opekta Ateliers, an artist run studio space and residency in the up and coming district Nippes.
April 25, 2013 by Mobile Radio
We were invited to the annual meeting of the EBU Ars Acustica expert group hosted at the WDR to present our work Mobile Radio BSP from the 30th São Paulo Bienal and to give a talk on the Radia Network which included a sneak preview of the Radia Relay web channel.
Photos: Marek Zwyrzykowski
May 29, 2012 by Mobile Radio
The Academy of Media Arts in Cologne – KHM – invited us to present a seminar on Mobile Radio and international radio art.
Their lecture programme is varied and very interesting, as they manage to attract pioneers of early electronic and experimental music. Historically Cologne has played a hugely important role in the development of these fields.
Snapshot by Echo Ho
May 29, 2010 by Mobile Radio
Vinosonic 2
The Academy of Media Arts and Academy of Music festival Ohrenschmaus was hosted in some unusual venues. We offered to perform a Vinosonic event with biodynamic vintner Rudolf Trossen for the students, to run alongside their explorations of sound and nature in a wild garden in Cologne. Shelter was provided for concerts under the barn roof
Preparing to play alongside the vegetable plot. The atmosphere was informal and conducive to sonic experimentation
Tonic Train set-up in the barn
Rudolf Trossen seducing the students with his magical tales of wine and mythology. In contrast to our last Vinosonic event where we introduced wine lovers to experimental music, here we introduced exquisite wine to sonic explorers. They were bowled over, and many took wine home for their parents and friends to try
April 25, 2010 by Mobile Radio
Art Special: Klingelpütz Parkuhr
Based in and around the Hansa Gymnasium, Art Special is an event held every few years in cooperation with Art Cologne. In 2010 the project was designed to establish new connections between the schools and colleges surrounding the small urban Klingelpütz park near the centre of Cologne. A group of 20 artists were commissioned by directors Uta M. Reindl and Georg Dietzler to work on individual projects within one of the schools. We choose to work with a group of 14 to 16 year old pupils at the Gymnasium on a radio installation for Klingelpütz park which we called Klingelpütz Parkuhr
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One radio hanging high above a corner of the park apparently frequented by junkies was destroyed. Someone had thrown rocks at it, perhaps spooked in the middle of the night by strange noises…
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And who can blame them?
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Visitors to Art Special heard about the installation in the park and went along to experience it. They did not know however where the radios were placed. This was deliberate, we explained to the parents of our group who were exasperated at not hearing their offspring’s work:
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…the installation was designed to take the public by surprise, not to function as an exhibition space. It was fascinating as these visitors then described all the sounds they had actually heard when not sure what to listen out for. So for them the installation had been activated in a different way – by ‘standing in a park listening’
November 22, 2008 by Mobile Radio
We were invited to take part in the Visual Sounds festival at Gebäude 9 as a trio with video feedback artist Billy Roisz
Feedback people – Billy, Knut, Sarah
May 29, 2008 by Mobile Radio
We were invited to give a two-day Mobile Radio workshop at The Academy of Media Art Cologne (KHM). There was also a chance to perform a Tonic Train concert in the university theatre
Our workshop group, with their tutor Echo Ho (centre), exploring the possibilities of the radio transmitters they had built with Martin Nawrath (right)
We organized a live talk for the students from Tetsuo Kogawa in Japan. It’s impossible to tell if he is really there, as he only shows his empty chair… We hear him ‘showing’ us examples to illustrate his fascinating lecture
More hands-on action, in preparation for the live radio show we have arranged as part of the workshop
Our host at the excellent radio station Köln Campus is Johanna Bächer
We talk about our music and radio work, then play a short live concert…
…along with the workshop participants and their radio transmitters
Knut sound-checking for our concert in the KHM theatre. It was a nice concert – helped by a really useful PA, and a warm audience comprising members of the local Cologne experimental music scene
We tagged along with the KHM trip to the Waves exhibition in Dortmund, where we visited a workshop on optical sound by Derek Holzer
Outside Waves at Phoenix Halle Dortumnd
January 1, 2008 by Mobile Radio
Instead of celebrating New Year in the traditional manner, we instead make a piece for Arts Birthday on behalf of Radio Kinesonus in Japan. We play alongside the celebrations – for electronics and fireworks
Our recording set-up. The piece can be heard at Radio Kinesonus
View from the microphone on the balcony
December 15, 2007 by Mobile Radio
Sarah is invited to the radio studio of Köln Campus to offer her favourite 5 tracks of 2007
The host, Tinka Koch checks out Sarah’s scary choices from The Art of the Gremlin, a CD she curated for Leonardo Music Journal