Curated by Almut Huefler. The exhibition still runs until 21st of April: Schau Fenster. Lobeckstr. 35, Berlin.
Card Design: undisclosed. Image above: modified by Ms. Schaffner. Performance pics: Eva Schwab, Tina-Marie Friedrich, Gabriele Lier. Images of art works: GS
Performance pictures / Graphic works
For the first time in Berlin, the album “Duftgesänge” (Fragrant Songs) was presented. If you missed it: The album is still around! Below: Moth*board, ca. 16×34 cm. Screenprint on wood. Witches made much of them (Mandragora), screenprints on paper, Din A4 Vagrant Violets, screenprints on paper, Din A4
Opening the box…Aftermath.Is it poison or scent?Moth*Board (not on display)Witches made much of them (Mandragora)Vagrant Violets
“Tales of Molecules and Light” will be shown during the Rominale #3 film festival in Berlin on Feb. 23. All movies were filmed in November 2023 at the Botanic Garden in Vácrátót, Hungary. The series comprises 16 videos, this exhibition presents four of them.
Credits:
Camera, text, sound, and editing: Gabi Schaffner Additional samples/contributions: Centerfold: Granular sound – lucyp123, 2021 In the Mountains: Prepared piano – Elo Masing, 2023 Lotus Receiver: Earth nose whistler recorded in stereo by Cluster 3 and 4 – Space Audio cc Persuasion: Analogue Birds – Sarah Washington 2014; Piano – Anonymous, Finland 2008
Roaminale #3 screen is a screening weekend event dedicated to audiovisual artworks and moving images. The aim of Roaminale is to bring further visibility to works of various topics of concern and as well artistic creativity within distinguishable visions of each participant. Roaminale #3 screen is the third event in the series and is showing a selection of short films and video art in a variety of genres. The screening will take place parallel at roam project space and online.
Freshly printed: Datscha Radio’s documentation about Radio Gardening in Altenburg. 32 pages. 2023. With contributions by: Gabi Schaffner, Grit Martinez, Helen Thein, Luise Krischke (Fliegender Salon). Graphic design: tigerworx. Radio art concepts: Ernst Markus Stein, Gabi Schaffner, Helen Thein. Number of copies (Datscha Radio): 250; (Fliegender Salon) 250.
Our Altenburg adventures include the chapters:
Sommergartenradio (30. Juni 2023) – Summergarden Radio
Laubenlauschen (3.-6. August 2023) – Listening to Arbours
Streuobstradio (1. Oktober 2023) – OrchardFruitRadio
Der Fliegende Salon: “Experimentierfreude im Fokus”
Summary in English
Radiorezepturen – Radio Recipes
All participating artists and gardeners are invited or order or fetch their personal copies. An online PDF will be available soon! For Berlin/international artists: please write to info(at)datscharadio.de.
My essay on fly ribbons and their entanglement with the human world will form part of a new book titled “39 Small Things Between the Species. Keywords for a more-than-human world.”
In: Borgards, Roland, Frederike Felcht, Verena Kuni, Frederike Middelhoff, Robert Pütz und Antje Schlottmann (Hrsg.): 43 Kleinigkeiten zwischen den Arten. Von Katzenklappe bis Pilzdruck. Stichworte zu einer mehr-als-menschlichen Welt. Göttingen: Wallstein. 2024
Illustration: Gabi Schaffner. Critter #8. 2023. Gouache on paper.
“Von den vielfältigen Beziehungen zwischen den Arten erzählen in diesem interdisziplinären Buch unter anderem ein flauschiger Teddybär, ein kühler Weinkeller und klebrige Spinnenfäden. Ausgehend von oft unscheinbaren Akteur:innen wird gezeigt, wie das naturkulturelle Verhältnis von mehr-als-menschlichen Gesellschaften fortlaufend neu bestimmt und gestaltet wird. Die Autor:innen schlagen vor, menschliche Sichtweisen zu dezentrieren und sich für das Eigenleben anderer Arten zu öffnen. Dabei nutzen sie die Brillen ihrer jeweiligen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen, um über diese hinauszublicken und weiterführende Perspektiven aufzuzeigen.” Text: Book info, courtesy Wallstein Verlag 2023
As part of the Cense (Central European Network of Sonic Ecologies) symposium program “Beyond Listening” Datscha Radio’s approach to experimental ethnography was presented.
Next to decidedly experimental settings (“NightGardening”, Berlin 2019), Datscha Radio engages in cross-cultural garden research and broadcasted from Spain (2018), Taiwan (2019), and most recently, Finland (Art Biennial Ii, “Air on Air”, 2022). The project also sprouts radiophonic solo off-shoots exploring seasonal states of mind (KAAMOS Radio, Finland 2021) or topographies (Harakka Island Radio, Finland 2023). In my lecture, I introduced several of Datscha Radio’s abroad iterations and discussed the perspectives of nomadic radio stations as havens of situated knowledge.
Audio examples taken from interviews about plant care work with: – Subrabha Seshan (Gurukula, Botanic Sanctuary, India 2017) – Eva Kurly with Oscar Domínguez (Hospital de Plantas, Spain 2018)
Exhibition at Ordinary Music Archives Budapest, Dec. 1
Videowork: Micro Arboreta. 12 videos about plantscapes in the Botanic Garden of Vácrátót, Hungary
Performance: Turing a Leaf. 16:37 min. LowFi Loop #5
Mimeograph printings: 4 works on paper.
Many thanks to Nikolaus Gerszewski for hosting me and to the Hungarian Writers Association that facilitated the residency at the Botanic Garden Vácrátót.
Here are some images… and a poem.
Persuasion
Red is a language without words. It spells in colour.
Red in the language of berries and birds means food.
Red is persuasion.
Warning Permeation Permutation Invasion
Red is a loud sound Drumming screaming maybe if eyes were ears.
Birds are good with reds. They know the hues and the rules.
Humans fall prey
to red, easily. Blood and tears.
Red fruit and seeds are carried far
traveling in the bowels across borders and continents
On the invitation of the Hungarian Writers Association I will spend November in the Botanic Garden of Vácrátót with a poetic writing and filming project on the micro-climates of the local arboretum.
Microclimates traditionally have been defined as “the climates in a small space” or “the physical state of the atmosphere close to a very small area of the earth’s surface, often in relation to living matter such as crops or insects” Thus, microclimates may span the spatial scale from leaves to hillslopes. Temporal scales for microclimates may be comparably diverse, from less than 24 hours (Barry, 1970) to a range from seconds…
August 25, 8:00 am – 9:00 am (9:00 CET) 1 – Anne Marie Deacy & Rachel Doolin – Oscillithic: Hidden In Quartz. Sounding Stones. (9:58) 2 – Diana Duta – Ballade XI b (2:05) 3 – Pageboi – =]= noise gate (4:28) 4 – Wendy Kirkup – rough cut botanical (8:01) 5 – Guillaume Loizillon – temps-ordinaires (3:19) 6 – Gabi Schaffner – Critter’s Home Study – (12:15) 7 – Juliette Chartier – Space Cemetery (5:56) 8 – Emma Vickers – An Uprooted Voice (1:17) 9 – Tam Lin – Bench Loop 1 (7:39) 10 -Trần Uy Đức – Asking for Gyrations (1:54)
A seed concerto, piano keys, a radio. Imagine yourself small. A gathering of sample recordings, mostly from instruments… performers. The difference between the analogue and the digital, is it like a fuel driven rocket to a time jump? I am sometimes afraid to listen (for the most manifold time) to a piece just created, just compiled from the file berths. Anyhow, this is about small places I think, “hiding corners’ (‘Versteckecken’) and broadcasting different materials (wood, plastic, wool, meta¬¬¬l). And families of critters lounging in lichen deckchairs, all grouped around a buzzing radio. A bucket of salt water fits the scenery. Particles of mice, and straws. All (prepared) piano and kalimba: Elo Masing and birds. Seeds, more sounds and oilcan guitar: Gabi Schaffner.
27 August 2023 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm LoFiLoop #3::Handmade Generative Music (Glaswegian Mix)
“R for Radio” and “Schweben” were both created for and exhibited at the Floating Transmissions festival in Hamburg.
R for Radio. Lower deck, MS Stubnitz
19:20 min. Narrow-cast installation for transmitter and pocket radios. 88,4 MHz. FM
R as in radiation, rocks, reminiscence, rockets A as in Argonauts, ass, audio D as in darling, dot, dispersal I as in island, idol, India O as in „oh, it’s you again!“, ocean, oblivion
R for radio Full of electric ghosts and recordings of the waters huddling close to the body of the Stubnitz at her berth, R for Radio takes the listeners on a journey into a lo-fi acoustic maze. Angels meet devils, and float together with dispersed shortwaves from different countries, with horror movie sounds and traffic songs, phonophernalia, and a woman reading some of the best ‘liked’ from Virginia Woolfe’s The Waves.
Credits Bonnie song (Trad.): Sanne Drouhin-Kok, Readings from “The Waves” by Virginia Woolfe: Kate Donovan. Devil Story: Michael Fisher, Hobart, Tasmania. Beat: Ghostly Beat by Apple. Shortwave radio recorded in Hualien (with unknown song by unknown interpret), Taiwan; Bogong Village (“I only have eyes for you”, Harry Warren – unknown interpret), Australia. Other field recordings, sampling, micro compositions: Gabi Schaffner
‘Schweben’ is an invitation to immerse yourself in a series of short narratives about out-of-body musings.
Schweben can be listened to only at Baakenhafen, which is a meeting point and chill place maybe 50 meters distant from the berth of the Stubnitz. The piecetakes the “float” (=schweben) in the title of the exhibition literally. Guests, passerbys and members of the Stubnitz staff were asked about their experiences in floating or hovering in the air… Other bodies of water and air whirl alongside, from vitamin tablets to ship ventilators. The piano belongs to the Stubnitz, and is played in an improvisation by the crew’s cook, Ronan.
Anfang September verwandelt sich die MS Stubnitz in eine schwimmende Radiostation. In experimentellen künstlerischen Formaten wird der «Fluss-Raum» über UKW und weitere Protokolle übertragen. Die teilnehmenden Künstler*innen, wie Sophie Allerding, Jack Bardwell, Benjamin van Bebber, Ludwig Berger, Kathrin Dröppelmann, Antje Feger, Ulf Freyhoff, Leo Hofmann, Hye-Eun Kim, Tilo Kremer, Niko de Paula Lefort, Felicity Mangan, Felix Raeithel, Gabi Schaffner, Paula Schopf, Benjamin Stumpf, Dong Zhou uvm. stellen ihre Arbeiten vor. Es entsteht ein Live-Radio-Programm, das aus künstlerischen Beiträgen – von multimedialen Klangskulpturen bis immersiven Performances an Elbe und Bille mit städteübergreifender Übertragung besteht. Neben Klanginstallationen, die sich auf vielfältige Weise mit den Soundscapes der Stadt auseinandersetzen, soll es außerdem Workshops und partizipative Projekte geben, die sich prozesshaft entwickeln.
FLOATING TRANSMISSIONS zeigt ästhetische Zugänge als «schwimmende Radiostation», um in immersiven Settings sinnliche Erfahrungen mit auditiven Medien zu ermöglichen. Das Programm, das temporär auf schwimmenden Expeditionen über Elbe und Bille treibt, wird ergänzt durch Konzertabende und kuratierte Sound-Listening-Sessions von Hamburger DJs und Labels. Die Formate werden über das Freie Sender Kombinat FSK, HALLO: Radio und TIDE.radio sowie Freie Radios in Deutschland u.a. übertragen.
From 2 to 6 pm on Thanksgiving Day, October 1, 2023, we will be broadcasting directly from a Thuringian orchard. What is this sound of apples dropping into the wet grass? Of the spores floating amongst pollen and dirt? What recipe did your grandma use for her plum jam? What are sounds of the pleasures of harvesting the goods of the garden? Datscha Radio wants to find out – and needs your radiophonic autumn treasures!
Pleased to contribute to HALFFLOOR‘s #103 episode of sound art and start their SEASON SIX with the summerly Piece of Turf No.10:
“It’s that time of the every other week again, and this one is just a bit more special than usual (as if that were even possible, we know). Today is namely the start of SEASON SIX of Halffloor!
Today’s contribution comes from Germany, where our friend Gabi Schaffner has sent us 60 seconds titled ”Rasenstücke aka Rasenmähersymphonien”, inspired to an almost frightening extent by Albrecht Dürer’s drawing with almost the same title.”
crew: Marie Gavois+George Kentros+Susanne Skog+Michel Klöfkornhttps://www.halffloor.com/
A podcast by sound artist Adrian Newton assembles 12 excerpts from radioart.zone into a one-hour piece titled “Sound mosaics for a broken world.” Listen here: https://lnns.co/ek9y4OalKXY
“Our world is breaking. Ecosystems are collapsing, our house is burning. But we can fix it like a mosaic, sticking it back together piece by piece. Here’s a soundtrack for the recovery process, incorporating sound art, experimental music, audio essays and field recording.”
Altenburg in Thuringia is the place where the card game of Skat was invented. The city looks back on a great past as a baroque center of trade and gardening.
Datscha Radio will accompany the activities of the Fliegender Salon Altenburg this summer. Starting on the 30th of June within the frame of the Altenburger Nacht der Museen. We will broadcast live from the “Historischer Laubengarten” together with guests and visitors, and with a talk about the history of allotment gardening in the 1920s.
Together with the human and more-than-human islanders and artist guests, and under the umbrella of the Nomad Academy of Experimental Arts and its founder Kari Yli-Annala, we created a daily 3-hour program from May 25-28 on Harakka Island, Helsinki.
Click on the images to read the resumes on datscharadio.de
saturday 1. july5 p.m. at brennerei zernikowexhibition opening + concert3½ – sound installations by lena czerniawska / emilio gordoa / maximilian glass[prepared engines, swaying snippets and resonating objects]concert: alex mendizabal “brandenburger konzert” [under the open sky]
saturday 8. july8 p.m. at brennerei zernikowopen-air performance of the commissioned compositions by michael barthel, gabi schaffner and mowe as a live installation at gutshof zernikow
friday 14. julyfrom 7 p.m. at zernikower mühleprivate primate nnoi camp // for more information : camp[at]nnoi.de
saturday 15. julyfrom 10 a.m. at zernikower mühleprivate primate nnoi camp // for more information : camp[at]nnoi.de4 p.m. at church zernikowconcert: andré vidaconcert: za siódmą górą
sunday 16. julyfrom 10 a.m. at zernikower mühleprivate primate nnoi camp // for more information : camp[at]nnoi.de2 p.m. at gutshof zernikowexperimental music theatre with the residents of the reha-consult facilities3 p.m. at gutshof and tierpark zernikowconcert : hinhören / weghören – dialogues with extended playing techniques. a soundwalk in the forest of zernikow. meeting place: gutshofwith: carina khorkhordina, marina cyrino, mia dyberg, eric bauer, emilio gordoa, antonio borghini, antti virtaranta, burkhard beins, sofia borges, axel dörner, maximilian glass
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1. – 16. julyexhibition brennerei zernikow3 ½sound installations by emilio gordoa, lena czerniawska, maximilian glassprepared engines, swaying snippets and resonating objectsopening hours: 1 – 16 july 2023 / saturdays and sundays / 12 noon to 6 p.m.
Ms Schaffner is most pleased to announce a 4 day radio event on the island of Harakka Finland. We will broadcast on 92 MHz from 2-5pm on the 25-28th of May.
Just in case you did not know: the 22nd of May is The Day of the Impossible, as proclaimed by the infamous musician Sun Ra. For a whole week from the 22nd on, the Finnish media artist and performer Kari Yli-Annala invites the world to join the artistic activities at Nomad Academy on Harakka Island, Helsinki. This year’s theme is The Magic and the Analogue. – And what can be more magic and analogue than a W-Lan-free radio station on an island?
Together with the human and more-than-human islanders and artist guests, and under the umbrella of the Nomad Academy of Experimental Arts and is founder Kari Yli-Annala we will create a 3-hour program for 4 days.
The Island
‘Magpie’ island is situated a 6 min ferry ride from the center of Helsinki, a mostly flat and rocky slab of basalt and mica gneiss, streaked with magnetit and other shimmering minerals. Harakka Island is not resting still: with a speed of 3-4 mm (30-40 cm pro century) it continues to rise above sea level. It is nowadays uninhabited, but hosts a nature preservation and education center, and very diverse buildings and barracks that date back to the time of the Russian occupation. The festival’s main location, Nomad Academy, was formerly a telecommunication center.
The Open Call
With your contribution you can help to create the ‘impossible’ radio on Harakka Island.
Radio Art Festival “On Air On Site” starts tomorrow, April 14! Live Radio at Institute of Sonology. Curated by Margherita Brillada and Leonie Roessler
On Air -On Site #1 is a sound investigation of a temporary radio event consisting of a broadcast schedule of 48 hours of non-stop streaming, including live performances/shows, fixed media, and prerecorded work specifically composed for the festival.By re-thinking radio as an exhibition space for experimental sound art andexperimental electronic music, the event aims to explore the possibilities of a broader project with the ultimate goal of developing a community experimental radio station in Den Haag, seeking collaborators and looking for a common interest in radio practice. The event will explore the boundaries of being simultaneously on air in a physical and virtual space, challenging different radio formats.
Loop #3 has evolved from my recent experiments in micro-looping and its influence on time perception dating back to 2020. “Time Is A Sliding Door” (Radiophrenia 2020) could be considered a forerunner, and clearly speaks with the voices of many clocks and cuckoos entangled in frequencies and field recording, yet… Later in 2021, sifting through tons of field recordings for the 22-hour {A Wave Novel} for radioart.zone, I dreamt of giant ‘musical waves’ generated for this mission by some really smart and lucid machine/program/spaceship. It did not happen; instead, I assembled everything by hand.
Finally, at the IMPROVISORIUM Seanaps Radio Lab in 2022 I took up that thoroughly composted idea of using micro snippets of ‘audio trash’, long-lived-with sonic crumbs, and further semi-redundant sound material of short duration as a pattern-weaving material. And lo behold: It worked out. At least I think so.
There is a mind-blowing new micro edition at the start, which was presented just last weekend in Arnhem, Netherlands.
Mimeograph printing + inkjet + laser
Thread binding
20 individual copies
18 Euro (one copy)
The pair of scissors used to cut the pages one belonged to my late mother. Originally designed to cut lining fabric, it cut nothing for the past 30 years. It was just heavy. I kept it nonetheless. Now it makes papers look pretty.
Many thanks to DJ Shlucht once again to help with the mimeograph printing.
Latest news: The Fazzoletto album ‘Handkerchief for an Eternity’ will soon be traveling to Arnhem as I have been invited to perform at the collective’s come-together This Is Not A Fair on the 8th of April, 5 pm. This is what it is about… and I am chilled to arrive there 🙂
As for the selected works, we see them as a starting point for echoes and conversations that will bridge connections for people who are working on publishing practices. Publishing and printing are not solitary endeavors; they require collaboration and collectivity.
This is Not A Fair 7-9th April Location: @platform_post Platform for comtemporary art, Arnhem Driekoningenstraat 16, Arnhem Graphic design: @baboonboom The event is hosted by Not Just a Collective
Not Just a Collective consists of a group of multidisciplinary artists, researchers and designers who share a common desire to discuss artistic progress and create a space for emerging international artists. To work on a supporting framework together, Not Just a Collective set out to host a series of art and cultural activities contributing to multi-disciplinary practices in art ecology. Moreover, it is not only a collective, in conventional perception, but also a community aiming to breed new initiatives and foster cultural participation by facilitating accessibility.
I am delighted to let you know that the project SLEEPERTOWNwill take place in the Lazio region with a planned opening in June 2023. For my work Rapid(s)Train the curators have confirmed the amazing ancient archeological site of Norba which was once a flourishing city approximately 50km south of Rome.
SLEEPERTOWNis a mobile public art programme curated by Richard Carr and features six diverse sonic artworks from the following artists: Michael Petry (Director; MOCA London) & John Powell (Oscar Nominated Film Composer), Gabi Schaffner (Artist, Berlin), Younes Baba-Ali (Artist Morocco/Belgium), Carmen Torrano Mellado (Double Bass | Georgian National Philharmonic Orchestra), Joseph Young (Artist UK), Aoise O’Dwyer (Violist Ireland), Camilo Gaete Puga (Double Bass Chilie/Ireland) and Richard Carr (Artist Ireland).
Playing on the sonic similarity of fast flowing/falling waters and the sound of trains rushing by, RAPID(S)TRAIN combines selected recordings of German and other international train stations with recordings of rivers, waterfalls and oceanscapes. Central to the compositions are concepts of flowing, passing by, announcements, the din of voices, steps and trolley bags, the interplay of distance and locality. Both water and rail are part of the global system of transporting goods; they are as much linked to economy as they are to personal and sensual experience. Train stations form a re-sounding universe with past and presence rushing into an off-site future. Each piece creates a fictional journey with Norba as its departure point. The combination of real-time field recording and samples, layering, acceleration and deceleration corresponds to the juxtaposition of microsound and melody, noise, language and signal. All four works have been specifically composed for SLEEPERTOWN.
Locations and Credits Underpass Falls (Melbourne, London Kensington, Bremen, Skogarfoss Falls) Concert Recording, Berlin: Ansgar Wilken (Cello), Ruth-Maria Adam (Violin) Gutang Passing Time (Taipei Metro Station Gutang, Shortwave recording, Hualien Beach, Gudurfoss Falls) Condofuri Brass (Vinyl record “Eisenbahnclub Köln” 1964, Condofuri Station, Condofuri Beach, Acireale: “Banda Historica” Brass Orchestra, Skogarfoss Falls) Waving to Elevators (Berlin, Hamburg, Cacilhas/Lisbon, Oldenburg, Vienna, Frankfurt/Main, Azhimuhkam Beach
The project utilises mobile technologies (Geo-Fencing) to create a parallel listening world, accessed digitally within the public realm. This world coexists with our ‘real-world’ geographical landscape and encourages people to move through the town to specific spaces/places. As they move, they trigger and immerse themselves, in new public artworks via their personal mobile devices.
Thinking of waves, thinking maybe of radio, I imagined a wave… sloshing/rolling on for 22 hours. As in an ocean, a wave does not exist by itself. It moves with others in intricate patterns and feeds on the energies of the wind. Small ones at first, all miracles of physics, they become a 4-dimensional being, rolling over, licking, and spitting.
This is how it started…. thinking about waves and pondering on the enormous task to compose a 22-hour piece for the radioart.zone festival in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg! I am happy to announce that the archive of the festival is now online! More than 100 radio artists participated and you can listen to ALL their works! This is a link to “A Wave Novel”:
Waves offer no paths. Our mind, in a nutshell, floats on them. I got lost, often – while recording and while listening. Just like it happens with most radio waves.
The seas are open.
Credits
I owe many of these recordings to the kindness of friends, colleagues, hosts… and unknown strangers. Thank you all! Thanks also to Ernst Markus Stein, who introduced me to the world of mimeographs.
Credits (numbers = chapter of appearance): Anita Hannunen (17; 22), Carla Genchi (19), Charlotte Law (11), Chrisse Candolin (16), Claudio Comandini (19), Dirk Heiden (20), Erkki Pirtola (10), Felix Schroeder (19; 20), Hannes Wienert (20), Hans Kellett (20), Hauyu Yang (18), Jukka Ylisuvanto (11; 12), Kate Donovan (7), Kirsi Poutanen (16), Lilli Moors (17), Lori Huang (19), Chen-Chi Huang (20) Madelynne Cornish (11; 17), Margaret Shiu (20), Mathias Deutsch (2, 20), Mi Duncker (Sea Jump; 1), Mimosa Pale (Musical Saw), Nathalie Grenzhaueser (1; 14), Niina Lehtonen-Braun (2), Olsen Wolf (Accordion), Papu Pirtola (16), Richard Schaffner (22), Simone of Melbourne (11), Singlust e. V. (21), Stella Braun (19), Susan Beattie (11), Teemu Tuonela (11; 16), Teuri Haarla (9; 11), Tina of Helsinki (16), Tina-Marie Friedrich (6; 7), Tixa Juha (17; 19), Ulrike Stöhring (16; 20), unknown musician (Ukulele!), Mr. Vijay Thiruvady (20), Yrjänä Sauros (19)
Many thanks for submitting your work to Sonic Darts. I’m pleased to say we’ve included your track, LoFi Loop, in the next show, to be broadcast at 10pm GMT on Monday 7th November 2022 and repeated at 6am on the following Sunday. The show will be broadcast on Resonance FM via 104.4FM in London and online at https://resonancefm.com, and simulcast on DAB+ via Resonance Extra. It will also be available to stream after the broadcast on the Resonance FM mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/.
We will also be posting about the show on our facebook and twitter accounts: @gwaithswn.”
Broadcast now (August 4 to August 13) on https://radia.fm: The ‘radia mix edit’ of Errant Waves in Arcadia. Originally commissioned by Cashmere Radio, some tweaks were added and/or left out
ERRANT WAVES IN ARCADIA by GABI SCHAFFNER
Frequencies permeate our life world on all levels.
They can be abstract, unfathomable, they can lurk at the threshold of our hearing, they can be extremely figurative or even plainly obtrusive. They can be soothing, piercing, alarming, beautiful, awe-inspiring, familiar. Once in a blue moon they come along single, as one clear tone, more often they huddle in clusters or patterns. Frequencies sail like clouds along the horizons of our perception. They rain on us. And they sneak into the deepest layers of our brain, where they conjure up memories or feelings or both.
As a series of life-world-frequency vignettes, “Errant Waves in Arcardia” assembles varied notions of mimicry, dirt, duration, and osmosis.
Recordings and composition: Gabi Schaffner, 2022 Accordion: Olsen Wolf, 2020 Musical Saw: Mimosa Pale, 2012/2020 Cat: Augustin, 2021 Drums: Toni Brokoli, Patrick Guderitz, 2020 String instrument: Anonymous Lady in Folk Music Shop, Taiwan 2019 Xylophone: Stella Braun, 2011 Husky dogs: recorded by Nathalie Grenzhaeuser, 2021
GPS-based audio walk on the wild and cultivated plants of the Künstlerhaus Güterbahnhof [freight train station] Bremen. EN/DE. Permanent exhibition, 3 years minimum.
Via a free ‘app’ (echoes.xyz) installed on your mobile phone, < 6 compositions can be listened to while walking among the plantings on the grounds of the Güterbahnhof art and culture area.
The focus is on a selection of wild plants that, although ubiquitous and indispensable to the insect world, are ‘blank slates’ in their (medicinal, ecological, historical) peculiarities for most city dwellers: Evening Primrose, Mugwort, Yarrow, Mullein, Wild Carrot, etc.
The compositions approach the respective plant in different ways: in dialogues, as sonification, via onomatopoeia, song, narration, and field recording.
The aim is a series of musical pieces that convey a sensory-poetic experience of the wild plant world – including its communications and secrets invisible to the human eye. The installation will be open to the public and accessible around the clock from the 18th of September 2022 on
Datscha Radio will travel to Finland! Very happy to announce that our proposal “Air ‘on Air'” has been accepted by the curator’s team of the Art Biennal Ii. For information about the festival, see https://artii.fi/ Datscha Radio Ii will be realised by Gabi Schaffner and Tina-Marie Friedrich, allgirls Berlin international. More news soon !
Today and tomorrow: My commissioned piece “False Forks – Errant Waves in Arcadia” will be broadcast within the frame of Cashmere Radio’s collaboration with Maerzmusik festival Berlin 2022. There will be a listening session starting on Sunday, 10 pm, at Cashmere Radio. For more info please look into https://cashmereradio.com/
False Forks (Errant waves in Arcadia) 32:35 min
Frequencies permeate our life world on all levels. They can be abstract, unfathomable, lurk at the threshold of our hearing, be extremely figurative or even plainly obtrusive. They can be soothing, piercing, alarming, beautiful, awe inspiring, familiar. Seldomly, they come along single, as one clear tone, more often they huddle in clusters or patterns. Frequencies sail like clouds along the horizons of our perception. They rain on us. And they sneak into the deepest layers of our brain, where they tickle memories or feelings or both.
For this piece, I was looking for frequencies offside the tech sphere (if such a thing is possible). There is, of course, the language of animals and the mumblings of human voices, the resounding of instruments, elemental drones, doorbells, sewing machines. I became especially interested in those clusters of wavelengths one finds grouped in little scenes of everyday life. While having fun with my work I kept thinking about ‘forking paths’ and forks and branches, about ‘taking a wrong turn’, and about mazes and ‘amazement’. It seems though, that frequencies are much too ephemeral to follow any track, be it right or wrong. Under their cloaks of math or (astro)physical formulas I imagine they foster secret urges to roll about in the mud and dirt, to permeate and mingle, to travel as sirens across the seas of the city, or to be breathed out of the pleats of an accordion.
As a series of life-world-frequency vignettes, “False Forks (Errant Waves in Arcardia)” assembles varied notions of mimicry, dirt, duration and osmosis.
Recordings and composition /Aufnahmen und Komposition Gabi Schaffner 2022
Credits Accordion/Akkordeon: Olsen auf Aldebaran, 2020 Musical Saw/SIngende Säge: Mimosa Pale, 2012/2020 Cat/Kater: Augustin, 2021 Drums: Toni Brokoli, Patrick Guderitz, 2020 String instrument/Saiteninstrument: Anonymous lady in Folk Music Shop, Taiwan 2019 Xylophone/ Xylophon: Stella Braun, 2011 Recording Husky dogs / Aufnahme von Huskys: Nathalie Grenzhaeuser, 2021
22 hours of radio art per day, all by a world-wide community of renowned radio artists. I am honored to have been invited to contribute: You can listen to the 22-chapters of {A Wave Novel} here. The piece was broadcast on the 28th of June 2022.
RadioArtZone was a 100 day festival https://radioart.zone/ A radio art project by Radio ARA and Mobile Radio for the European Capital of Culture Esch 2022
Imagine a radio that sounds different every day…
Radio Art Zone is a 100-day radio art station for Esch2022, which will be broadcast in the south of Luxembourg by Radio ARA on 87.8 FM. It will also be live-streamed for a worldwide audience and transmitted by a network of international partners.
The Radio Art Zone schedule consists of two daily programmes: newly-commissioned 22-hour radio productions created by more than 100 international and local artists, and 2-hour live shows from kitchens in the community.
Additionally Radio Art Zone offers artist residencies, workshops, youth productions plus interventions in public space, opening up participatory opportunities for residents and visitors to the Capital of Culture region.
…welcome to the zone where radio and art mix freely!
Painting, drawing, silkscreen prints, geo-located audio walk
Invitation to the exhibition at Tor 40, Bremen Opening: 24. September, 8 pm Performance “Duftgesänge” with Gabi Schaffner and Hans Kellett that same evening
September 24 – October 3, 2021 Open daily from 3 pm to 6pm or contact Tor26@gb-bremen.de
Wir freuen uns, daß wir in diesem Sommer 3 Künstler*innen ins Gastatelier im Tor 26 einladen konnten. Sie haben dort jeweils zwischen 4 bis 6 Wochen gearbeitet. APL315 ist aus der Ukraine, lebt jetzt seit mehreren Jahren in Montenegro. Gabi Schaffner lebt und arbeitet in Berlin. Anya Triestram ist tätig in Wien und Leipzig. In dieser Ausstellung präsentieren sie ihre Arbeiten, die zum Teil in Bremen entstanden sind.
Address: Güterbahnhof Bremen – Areal für Kunst und Kultur Beim Handelsmuseum 9, 28195 Bremen www.gb-bremen.de
Sneak preview of 10″ record cover. Number of copies: 20. Release date: 24. September 2021Exploring plants and poems: interactive “Echoes” map of Güterbahnhof Bremen.
Location Podcasts Zusammengestellt von EBU Ars Acustica Group Mit Beiträgen von verschiedenen Autor*innen Moderation: Golo Föllmer Produktion: EBU Ars Acustica Group 2021 Länge: 54’30A
Pleased to become part of the Location Podcasts, broadcast on Deutschlandradio Kultur, June 25, 0:05 h.
Admittedly this is a hare and not a hen, and there is also no busy nighttime street pictured… So, the binaural Kukkashop Overdrive is very different from whatever you might expect. That is probably good.
Photo: Bernd Förster, 2020. Ms Schaffner at KV Familie Montez
The performance will be bilingual: EN and DE. The zoom link will be published not before the 13th on the channel of @bookymcbooky or on request by writing to: freiraum@mkg-hamburg.de
It was fun and now it’s over: 28th November saw DIY Church DJ Markus Stein and me improvising for 2 hours at Kunstraum D21 in Leipzig on the theme of “Automatenkorridor”.
A re-broadcast of “Automatenkorridor” is planned by Bauhaus.fm, Weimar, at some date in the near future, I will let you know asap.
Pleased to announce that since November 1 Datscha Radio will be broadcast within the frame of the COMMON WAVES festival.
Super pleased also to find ourselves among long-standing friends, colleagues and collaborators. Please have a look at the schedule. My personal thanks to Ute Seitz!
Common Waves is an International Radio Collective launched during Tbilisi Architecture Biennial 2020. Along the theme of the Biennial “What do we have in common” we will explore the different layers of common spaces – public, collectively organised or imagined spaces of community.
How do we share spaces? What defines the public areas around us? How are they built and what do they sound and look like? Do they serve the needs of communities or individuals, companies or states? Who decides how we move and act in our cities? How can we design open spaces that allow creativity and diversity?
Our answers to these questions may be artistic, activist, professional, transdisciplinary, historical, local, global, subversive or emotional. We believe in the power of independent radio to voice diverse perspectives and promote experimental approaches – even more so in international cooperations. This is why our collective is formed by various community and artist radios, podcasters and individuals.
The Common Waves Collective will produce and curate interviews, documentaries, sound art and DIY radio formats during Tbilisi Architecture Biennial 2020 and beyond.
It is
unusual enough to broadcast from a garden, creating a studio situation exposed
to the immediate surroundings like weather, temperatures and background sounds.
With “Nightgardening” In 2019, Datscha Radio took its experimental approach to
the garden as a matrix for self-organization, autopoiesis and ecological radio
art, even one step further. How can we approach the audible ecospheres of the
night, what stories can be told, what fragrances turned into frequencies?
The compilation presents a mix of excerpts taken from “Plots & Prophecies” (2017) and “Nightgardening” (2019), followed by palimpsests and passages from Datscha Radio’s 2020 iteration “Listening to the Universe”. This latter event, happening from the 11th to the 13th of August, was dedicated to the Perseides’ meteor showers. Talks and readings, concerts and performances revolved around themes like sonification, storytelling, and cosmic relations in the so-called Anthropocene.
Credits
Datscha Radio:
Nachtgartenkosmos
A radio(art) collage by Gabi Schaffner. Length: 51:48 min A commission for Cashmere Radio
List of participating artists and
titles of their contributions in order of their
appearance
I What happened before
Intros Datscha Radio from the 2017 festival “Plots and Prophecies”
Body Garden Experiment by Kerry Morrison, read by Kate Donovan + Rosanna Lovell in conversation with Gregor Kaspar (Cut up)
Carolina Carubba: Kalimba Rain. Datscha Radio Madrid, 2018
II Nightgardening
Lukatoyboy: 7“ Bird Vinyls
Marold Langer-Philippsen: Maschkera (Excerpts)
Cutup: Niina Lehtonen-Braun: Iltakahvit + Kat Austen: The Beetles’ Harvest Supper
Niki Matita, Walter Schulze: Secret-en-plein-aire (Excerpt)
Kate Donovan: Gratitude Ritual
Peggy Sylopp with Gabi Schaffner: Dämmerungsspaziergang
III Listening to the Universe
Jingle Universe (Helen Thein)
Ally Bishop: Possible Vehicles for Time Travel
Kate Donovan with Sasha Engelmann: Satellite Séance
Tiger Stangl: Milchstraße links unten
Vladimir Kryuchev: Nye Sbylos (Some Dreams Never Come True)
Jasmina Al-Qaisi and Helena Otto „To the Belly and Back: Star Taste“ (Excerpts)
Elo Masing: Day Sky Improvisation +| Gabi Schaffner: Cosmogonic Storytelling I (Mix!)
Tim Schleinitz and Helen Thein: GDR Science Fiction Movies + Niki Matita/Elo Masing: Nativitas (Cutup) + Tiger Stangl: Ein Stern geht auf (Backdrop, modified)
Ela Spalding: Moonrise Reflection / Gabi Schaffner: A Walk between Bamboo and Ghosts (Backdrop)
Marta Zapparoli (and Kate Donovan): Echoes from Outer Space
Sarah Washington: Datscha Owl, Datscha Radio Jingle 2012
Selection,
editing and additional sounds: Gabi Schaffner, 2020
How can we conceive of an expedition in non-territorial terms? Can we read the signals of our ecosphere? What if a reed turns out to be an antenna? Kate Donovan and Gabi Schaffner venture into the water retention basin of the Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin: at times an idyllic lake, sometimes a swampland the size of a football field, this body of water fluctuates between effective area and dreamscape, biomass and place of retreat. Editing and sound design: Gabi Schaffner.
Radia.fm presentation by Verena Kuni, radio x, Frankfurt/Main.
The piece was conceived of during Datscha Radio’s iteration at the Firefly festival on the 30th of August 2020.
Also featured in this #814 show:
RADIO ECOLOGIES … is a Radio Art piece by Kate Donovan, 2020, with narration by Molly Donovan Higham. In this piece, radio is acknowledged as a natural as well as a human-made phenomenon, that is interconnected and active across species and scales. The work asks: How does an expanded perspective impact our imagination of radio in the future?
A radio art festival by Datscha Radio. Realised by Gabi Schaffner, Helen Thein, Kate Donovan and Niki Matita
Every year in August, the Northern Hemisphere’s night sky is graced by meteor showers – the Perseids. Datscha Radio used this astronomical spectacle as the departure point for a 48-hour festival of radio art, from moonset at 2:04 pm on August 11, until 2 pm on August 13, 2020.
Datscha Radio –
a non-commercial, independent, nomadic and interdisciplinary Berlin radio art
initiative – has been engaged in expanding the culture of radio creation since
2012. It aims to create new listening experiences beyond the dichotomies of
culture/nature and sender/receiver. It is transmitted from an allotment garden
in the north of Berlin.
“Listening to the Universe – Radiophonien des Alls“ was dedicated to themes and music inspired by the phenomenon of the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle.
With a broad spectrum of topics – from cosmogonical myths to the signals of meteor detectors, from starlight-inspired violin improvisations to experimental horoscopes – Datscha Radio traced the path of these ‘falling stars’ to their manifestations in space and matter as the fictions and artistic responses that are bound up with them.
A documentation of our shows will be uploaded on mixcloud in due time.
Pleased to announce my participation in the exhibition “Seance Fiction”, curated by Eva Schwab. The performance “Fazzoletto per un Eternità” will take place on Sunday, Oct 4, 4 pm.
With: Niina Lehtonen-Braun, Mathias Deutsch, Liat Grayver, Zohar Fraiman, Michael Kalmbach, Justine Otto, Heike Kelter, Catherine Lorent, Eva Schwab, Caro Suehrkemper.
The production of the Fazzoletto album was made possible with the kind support of the Kunstverein Global Forest e. V., St. Georgen Schwarzwald.
Pleased to announce that the German version of my 2019 “10 (S)Cent Poems” has been accepted for production by deutschlandfunk Kultur (German National Radio). Such, a new “Wurfsendung” is coming up. Curated by Julia Tieke.
Duftgesänge Poems, recording & composition: Gabi Schaffner Voice: Hans Kellett Will we manage before the blooming season ends? Ms Schaffner hopes so!
Lavendel Lavendel Lavendel
Ein Duft steigt auf und rundet sich schwebt in der Luft und weitet sich wie ein Ballon… So breit und weit Wie der nächtliche Garten Von einem Winkel Zum anderen.
Oh würziges Amor-Aroma! Du weckst die Damen aus der Ohnmacht Du schöpfst den Trost ins müde Herz Du bringst den Schlaf Vertreibst die Pest. Du wirst geliebt Vom Hummelvolk Und den Bienen.
Lavendel Lavendel
Du wehst davon in Wellen Lavendel-Ballon Du wehst davon in Welten Verschwenderisch veränderlich
Ich atme aromatisches Szenario, veränderlich verschwenderisch…
Rapid(s)Trains, a set of four new compositions, has been selected as one of the sonic artworks to be featured at OPEN GOREY, “Sleepertown”, a mobile art event in Gorey, Ireland.
Sleepertown will utilise mobile technologies (Geo-Fencing) to create a parallel listening world, accessed digitally within the public realm. This world will coexist with our ‘real-world’ geographical landscape and will encourage people to move through the town of Gorey to specific spaces/places. As they move, they will trigger and immerse themselves, in new public installations/sculptures/interventions/artworks via their personal mobile devices.
Für die Eröffnung des neuen Sendestudios des frbb am 31. März 2020 im Haus der Statistik am Berliner Alexanderplatz hat Datscha Radio die 10-minütige Radioklangkollage „Datscha Radio in a Nutshell“ beigesteuert, die auf datscharadio.de nachgehört werden kann.
Ms Schaffner is pleased to announce that her composition “The Lion Dreams Of Hunting” forms part of EARLID’s latest online exhibition of 12 pieces about dreamscapes, THE DREAM HAD ME: http://www.earlid.org/posts/the-dream-had-me/. Get lured into your favourite lucid state!
Quick update: THE DREAM HAD ME will be broadcast by Wave Farm in May 2020. More info in short notice.
A quick announcement: “The Dog That Licked Up A Star” has been selected by the Radiophrenia team in Glasgow to travel the airwaves of the Borealis Festival’s “Radio Space”. Also featured: “The Journey of the Earthworm” (a widely traveling specimen indeed) and “The Night of the NIghtingales” by Datscha Radio (featuring very wonderful story readings by Kate Donovan, many Berlin nightingales on a rainy predawn morning and the gruesome story of Philomena).
Ms Schaffner goes “Schwarzwald” in 2020! I am very happy to say that I have been accepted into the residency program of Global Forest e. V. at St. Georgen/Black Forest: Composition, research, and vinyl production.
Warum Frankfurts Stadtteil Fechenheim früher 56 Vereine hatte,
weshalb die dortige Hühnerfarm keine ist und was es sonst mit kleineren
Verpuffungen so auf sich hat, das weiß alles Harry Hoppe.
hr 2019 | 35 Min. | Erstsendung [“A Smaller Deflagration”: Translation not available]
1950 zugezogen als “Eingeplackter”, betätigt er sich in Fechenheim seitdem als Berater, Seniorensicherheitsbeauftragter, Blumengießer, Vereinsgründer und vieles mehr. Die in Berlin lebende Performerin und Radiomacherin Gabi Schaffner, 1965 in Frankfurt geboren und in Fechenheim aufgewachsen, lässt in ihrem Hessen-Hören-Stück den Klang ihrer ersten Heimat vor allem durch Harry Hoppe erzählen, ummantelt, über- und untermalt durch Vor-Ort-Geräusche. Der Dank der Autorin gilt: Harald Hoppe, Richard Schaffner, dem Verein Vereinigte Geflügelzüchter 1897 und dem Tierschutzverein Frankfurt und Umgebung von 1841.
Sendung: hr2-kultur, The Artist’s Corner, 11.01.2020, 23:00 Uhr.
A record player dressed up as a ghost? NEW PANDEMIC MUSIC and the Sneeze Symphonies of Mauricio Pucci finally stepped into the open. The 30 min of lecture performance included the introduction of his (her) life and work as well as the playing of “Fazoletto per un Eternità” and “Moccio Oscuro”. For the first time ever, the mysterious copy of his original shellac disc surfaced.
The performance happened within the frame of “Biegungen im Ausland”, Berlin. 4th of October 2019
In celebration of (more!) women in New Music and composition arts, a silk screen-printed edition of “Pandemic Music” has been published. While the “original copy” is not for sale, this was (sold out):
7″ single 14 compositions Playing time: 8 min Hand-printed cover, inner sleeve and label and handkerchief No. of copies: 4 Art work, printing, manufacturing and everything else: Gabi Schaffner
From sunset to sunrise, 8:46 pm on the 8th of August, until 5:39 am on the 9th of August, 2019, Datscha Radio will be broadcasting directly from a Berlin allotment garden in Treptow. What is this sound, soft as perfume, permeating the frequencies of our presence? Datscha Radio wants to find out – and calls for your radiophonic input.
Datscha Radio has been honoured with a prize for artistic project spaces and initiatives. The State Secretary for Culture, Dr. Torsten Wöhlert, has awarded a total of 20 initiatives, which were nominated by an independent jury. An endowment of 37,000 euros will be awarded to each project. The award ceremony will be held on the 13th of September, 2019, as part of the Berlin Art Week.
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