Seventh Day
Awarding Program
Awarding Program
13 September 2024
Awarding the 8th Year Winners of RKC 2024
An Interdisciplinary Approach Towards Radio Art, Electronics, and Improvisation
Treating political content in music
Curated by René Uijlenhoet
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, In person Concert
Live Events
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Awarding Ceremony
Awarding the 8th Year Winners of RKC 2024
Screening the Video by Anna Boso
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Summary
This lecture will delve into the Rundfunkorchestra’s creative journey, including the design and use of their custom-built instrument, the “Funkstern,” and their collaborative methods that transform media and technology into powerful tools for artistic expression. The discussion will also highlight the rich traditions in electronic music that inform their work, examining how these references shape the group’s innovative soundscapes.
A key focus will be the concept of radio as a social space, which has been central to the Rundfunkorchestra’s evolution. The group’s early improvisations served as experimental, location-specific endeavors that laid the groundwork for their later work. During the pandemic, they adapted to remote collaboration, fully utilizing the possibilities of radio and available technologies. In the post-COVID era, the group has returned to venue-based performances, integrating their past experiences with new opportunities.
The lecture will extend to a broader discussion on the role of radio as an artistic medium, reflecting on how the Rundfunkorchestra contributes to its ongoing evolution. By sharing examples and insights from their extensive body of work, this presentation aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of how the Rundfunkorchestra continues to innovate within the fields of radio art and electronic music.
Biography
Wieland Hoban
Wieland Hoban (1978) is a British composer. He studied composition at the Frankfurt Academy of Music and Performing Arts with Isabel Mundry, Hans Zender and Gerhard Müller-Hornbach. He is also a freelance translator, primarily of writings in the fields of music and philosophy, including several books by Theodor W. Adorno and Peter Sloterdijk, as well as numerous essays for collections and journals. He has been a regular interpreter at the Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music since 2000 and the Donaueschingen Festival from 2011-2017, and was also a composition tutor at the Darmtadt course in 2018.
Asal Karimi
Asal Karimi, born and raised in Tehran, came to Germany in 2011 to study music. She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Violin at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (HMTM) under Prof. Jutta Rübenacker and Elfriede Stahmer. She received scholarships from the HMTMH Foundation and the Deutschlandstipendium, and was a scholarship holder of the Musikfonds and the Künstlerstadt Kalbe.
She is a member of various orchestras, including the Klassik Philharmonie Hamburg, Ensemble Geräuschkulisse, and Norddeutsche Camerata. Additionally, she is involved in various chamber music ensembles that cover a wide range from Classical and Baroque to Contemporary, Klezmer, and traditional Iranian music, and has performed on numerous stages in Germany, Austria, Italy, France, and Iran. She also collaborates with the internationally renowned, Tehran-based collective Yarava Music Group as a violinist, Kamancheh player, and member of the board, through which she has premiered several works by contemporary Iranian composers both as a soloist and in ensembles.
Since 2023, Asal Karimi has been teaching violin and viola at the state music school in Hamburg. From 2016 to 2023, she taught at the municipal music school in Hanover and was a jury member for the Lower Saxony regional competition “Jugend Musiziert” from 2018 to 2022 in the categories of string instruments and chamber music.
Talk
Treating political content in music
Wieland Hoban & Asal Karimi
Live on Instagram
Wednesday September 13, 2024 | 10:30 PM Tehran Time
Concert
Curated by René Uijlenhoet
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Inside a Lemon’s Eye
Inside a Lemon’s Eye is a turbulent mix of Lissajous figures and out-of-phase sounds, Inside a Lemon’s Eye is crafted in Supercollider. The piece transports the viewer into the abstract, vibrant imagery within a lemon.
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Too Many Drips – Too Much Electricity
Too Many Drips, Too Much Electricity is an electroacoustic piece inspired by the idea of sonifcation of the electricity, inside and outside the body. Translating it into the work and sound flow of the modular synthesizer. Narrating a fever dream like experience.
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Enerzijds – Anderzijds
In Enerzijds – Anderzijds (On the One Hand – On the Other Hand) the loudspeakers are used as the sole performers producing the sounds. Most of the electronic sounds are recorded three times in an almost identical form: one recording is played solely by the left speaker, one recording is played only by the right speaker, the third recording is played by them both ‘in the middle’… When those three variations sound together, a miraculous spacious sound-world seems to emerge. Some sounds appear to jump directly from the loudspeakers.
The piece starts with the recording of the tearing off of a sheet of plastic, in a flower-shop.
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Images / Improvisation
The composition ‘Images / Improvisation’ started out conceptually as a study of layering and cross-mixing different types of audio sources. The composer improvised, with two eurorack modules, a curated list of audio samples – and these were then further embellished on the computer. The ideas of morphing and sound transformation (as described by Trevor Wishart) were a guiding principle during the entire process. Furthermore, all sounds should be able to live next to each other, move to one another, in a single composition – no matter its source. Thus, fragments of Mahler and Vierne live next to field recordings and synthesizers.
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Images / Improvisation
The composition ‘Images / Improvisation’ started out
Strings on a Railway Track
Title: Strings on a Railway Track Duration: 9 minutes
Line up: Fixed Media for 4 channel output Performance Date: May 24, 2024
Liner Notes:
The idea behind this piece was to link sounds that give a similar perceptual experience of other sounds but are different in their nature or sonic structure. A sound may partially resemble another sound, or morph into the state of another sound by transforming its perceptual qualities. In language, this is similar to speaking metaphorically. For example, ‘Time is Money’. Time is as valuable as money; its value being the common quality that allows the metaphor to be formed. conceptually as a study of layering and cross-mixing different types of audio sources. The composer improvised, with two eurorack modules, a curated list of audio samples – and these were then further embellished on the computer. The ideas of morphing and sound transformation (as described by Trevor Wishart) were a guiding principle during the entire process. Furthermore, all sounds should be able to live next to each other, move to one another, in a single composition – no matter its source. Thus, fragments of Mahler and Vierne live next to field recordings and synthesizers.
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Computer War
Computah war is an acoustmatic piece composed in 2022. Its a fully electronic piece made with modular synths, aiming to transfer a natural sound habitat like nature sounds to an electronic counterpart that manifest itself in a similar way. The sonic exploration is to create an electronic sound world that has a strong acoustic character that manifest a sound environment that reassembles “electronic communication” as a new nature like surrounding. As if nature has completely been taken over by electrical devices and its communication and sound.
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Doelen Ensemble Rotterdam
“Inner Voice is an existential expression of a voice that resonates inside me, a voice that only I can listen to, and I can only articulate that voice in sound, not language. I cannot explain what the voice says but can show you a glimpse of it in sound. My two non-living friends, the speakers, will play some sounds of my voice. Every sound that we hear from these friends (speakers) is made from my voice, and my living friends will play a metaphorical representation of those vocal sounds.
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Concert
Location: Persian Sound City
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Ideas
Joachim Heintz will present some of his fixed media works. He will also speak about the ideas and background behind these different compositions.
Ambi-Schlagfluss (2005) 3′
Grief of the Fishes (2018) 12′
Third Party Property (2020) 14′
For Reza (2022) 8′