During November, art@radio is hosting a series of radio broadcasts. Taking in consideration the specifics of an Internet radio station, Disturbance is a sound art project that uses the medium of broadcasting to transmit its unique program.

The project considers disturbances as temporary changes in environmental, societal or personal conditions that cause pronounced changes in systems. It looks at sound as a disturbance that propagates through matter as a wave and activates us to listen to things that we were formerly not aware of and deeply affects our understanding.

Four artists have worked around particular events that have caused pronounced changes in their lifes and transmitted these disturbances through sound. Their especially for the occasion produced contributions will be broadcasted online subsequently on each Wednesday of the month and will afterwards be available to download.

Belgian artist Guy Van Belle [aka gívan belá] looks at disturbance as a reconstruction that can only be perceived after it has occured while at the same time considering its continuous returning nature. Sound artist Violet’s contribution is based upon 100 year old wax cylinder recordings and is designed to be listened to on internal laptop speakers or computer monitors of the lowest possible quality. For Dutch composer Esther Venrooy, disturbance comes in the form of recordings of “number” or “spy stations” which have broadcasted encrypted series of numbers, phonems and words during the cold war era. Closer of the series, American artist Alberto Gaitán, will serve a 1.5-hr to 3-hr call-and-response suite which goes into the social, energetic, trophic, and aural ecology of his life.

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Here for the live feed.

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