RADIOART is a digital stage for Swedish and international radio drama, sound theater and Sound art. It provides a platform for newly written and composed works as well as interpretations of classic drama, creates a forum for voices of poetry and politics and allows for genuine experimentation in the world of sound.
New Production
John Cage
Indeterminacy
It’s not that I intend to express one particular thing, but to make something that can be used by the person who finds it expressive. But that expression grows up, so to speak, in the observer.
John Cage in conversation with Richard Kostelanetz 1988
John Cage is sitting in a hotel room in Stockholm late September 1958. He is about to prepare for a lecture he will give in Brussels the following week. Whether he is doubtful how to go about the task the story doesn't tell but pondering what to write he recalls a remark made years earlier by David Tudor that he should give a talk that was nothing but stories. Cage liked the idea, but had never acted on it, until now. He decides to write a series of stories and present them as a lecture. The title he gave his Brussels talk was Indeterminacy: New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music. That was the beginning of the compositional and collaborative process that led to the composition that we know today as Indeterminacy.
The rendition of Cage's composition that Radioart presents here is also made in Stockholm but fifty-seven years later. It is a rendition with a unique form and setup, while honouring the original intention of the composition the ensemble expands the performative possibilities. The stories are interwoven with a multilayered soundscape created by double bass and electronics, into which the listener is invited to co-compose her own experience.
Robin McGinley - voice
Niklas Billström - double bass
Ricardo Atienza - electronics
Recorded and mixed by Ricardo Atienza, Niklas Billström and Robin McGinley
Produced by Niklas Billström and Radioart
Recorded at The Studio, University of Arts and Crafts, Stockholm 2015.
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Upcoming premiere
September
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text Lily Toback music Brian Ferneyhough
with Eli Frankel Magnus Andersson
The Radioart Repertoire
Photograph of opera soprano Nellie Melba making a broadcast over the Marconi Chelmsford Works radio station in England on 15 June 1920.
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RADIOARTis a digital stage for Swedish and international radio drama, sound theater and audio art. It provides a platform for newly written and composed works as well as interpretations of classic drama, creates a forum for voices of poetry and politics and allows for genuine experimentation in the world of sound.
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RADIOART is run by a group of artists with diverse professional experience in theater, music, art and literature. Some of us work with large established theatres, others with independent groups, in music and art, both in Sweden and internationally. The reason why we are involved in this project is that radio is still a completely open, democratic, free, dynamic, intense and endlessly experimental means of expression. Its effects are direct, and it emerges out of the very lack of the physical. Without images, actors’ movements, space and colour, it is the listener's own body that comes into focus – this is where it takes form!
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