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Sleepertown Mobile Art

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.

Opening: September 18, 2020
Curator: Richard Carr

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Album Out: June 1

  • Title: “Mauricio Pucci (1899-1926) Fazzoletto per un eternità. Pandemic New Music”
  • By: Gabi Schaffner. Raw Audio Productions 2020
  • Compositions and sound recordings: Gabi Schaffner
  • Participating musicians: Claudio Commandini, Hannes Wienert, Mimosa Pale, Rosanna Lovell
  • Edition with printed cover, insert, 180 grams vinyl: 200 copies
  • Artist’s edition with hand-printed silkscreen cover, 180 grams vinyl: 100 numbered copies
  • Price: 22 Euro regular/60 Euro collector’s item. Advance orders from: 1 June 20
PR_DE-Pucci-by-Gabi-Schaffner-2020Download

Press info in English language will follow in a short while. Stay tuned 🙂

Cover of Fazzoletto per un eternità
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May 17: “Radio Garten” at Kunstradio Vienna

How does making radio in the garden sound like? Between bugs and beetle bread, under the spell of the moon, in the small hours of the morning. How can the garden and its ecologies resound in radio?

These questions lay at the core of my archival and radiophonic investigations of what “makes” Datscha Radio special. On commission of Kunstradio Vienna a 51 minute sound collage was put together, to be broadcast on
– Mai 17
– 23 pm CET
– https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20200517/598436/Datscha-Radio-ein-Radiogarten
– Produced by: Elisabeth Zimmermann

Includes excerpts of Datscha Radio 2017 and the Nightgardening series 2019 plus additional material. Datscha Radio Berlin is realized with Kate Donovan, Helen Thein and Niki Matita.

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In A Nutshell

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.

Listen Here: datscharadio.de

Komposition und Bearbeitung: Gabi Schaffner 2020. Länge: 10 min
Mit #NikiMatita#KateDonovan#Ryan McFadyen #Frieder Butzmann #MichaelaSchimun#gabischaffner#UlrikeStoehring#SarahWashington#CatherineLee#Yi-ChunLiu #MabelWang#Ming-ChunCheng #RomiCasile#AlbertoGarcia#EvaKurly#BerlinerChorSinglust#HannesWienert#MimosaPale, #FXSchroeder#kateraugustin

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The Lion Dreams Of Hunting

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.

Thank you for including my work, Joan Schuman.

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Radio works at Borealis Festival

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).

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DIe kleinere Verpuffung

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.

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Sneeze Music Performance / Editon

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

  • Cover and handkerchief
  • Inner sleeve
  • Obscure object of desire
  • The record player (really?) at Ausland, Berlin

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NIghtShadeWalk

Pleased to announce that there will be a new audio walk especially designed for the Walking Tour Library that is curated by Yael Sherill and Lianne Mol.

NightShadeWalk deals with unforeseen adventures on a (traffic) island and its vegetal inhabitants. Starting from the 6th of September.

  • Log book
  • Each artist had a box
  • Questionnaire after the walk
  • Compass and owl
  • Collected comments
  • The restorative drink
  • Box NightShadeWalk

In September 2019, The Walking Tour Library will be the hub for a series of urban walking tours, newly conceptualized by contemporary international artists who will guide visitors through the city in an unusual and creative way. The project space* will be the organizational center of the project: here, the participating artists and their newly conceptualized paths through Berlin will be introduced in a group exhibition, and an archive of past tours and materials on the history of the urban walking tour as an artistic medium will be installed.

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The Garden Calls

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.

Deadline: July 15, 2019
More Info: Datscharadio.de

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Datscha Radio receives Award for Artistic Project Spaces and Initiatives

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.