[spectre] r a d i o q u a l i a + TeZ at sincronie, italy

Honor Harger honor at va.com.au
Sat Nov 15 11:55:47 CET 2008


spectres,

if you happen to be in milan this weekend, come 
along to the performance that I'm doing tonight 
at the sincronie festival.

sincere apologies for cross-posting.

best,

honor


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S K R
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A performance by r a d i o q u a l i a
Milan, Italy
2100, 15 November, 2008

Date:		Saturday 15 September
Time:		2100
Address:		Casa dell'Energia, Piazza Po 3, 20144 - Milan

As part of the Sincronie Festival 
<http://www.sincronie.org/italiano/2008_01.htm>, 
r a d i o q u a l i a will be perform a new live 
work, SKR, as well as a collaborative work with 
with Italian musician, TeZ.

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SINCRONIE

Sincronie is a festival which takes place in 
Milan each year.  In 2008 the festival focuses on 
astronomy. On Saturday 15 November, a concert 
dedicated to the science of radio astronomy will 
take place 
<http://www.sincronie.org/italiano/2008_03P.htm>. 
It includes a performance by Honor Harger of  r a 
d i o q u a l i a, who will premiere the new work 
"SKR", and Italian musician, TeZ, who will 
perform a newly adapted version of his piece, 
"reSUNance", which premiered at Ars Electronica 
2008.
The two artists will also present a collaborative 
performance using sonified signals from 
astronomical sources..

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SKR

SKR is a new work by r a d i o q u a l i a, in 
the Radio Astronomy series, which uses radio 
signals from Saturn, recorded by the Cassini 
space probe, and converted into sound by Donald 
Gurnetts' team at the University of Iowa. 
Cassini's Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) 
receiver studies Saturn's kilometric radiation 
(SKR) and its magnetosphere, recording waves and 
turbulence generated by the charged dust stream 
particles of its rings, and phenomena such as 
atmospheric lightening, solar wind and 
magnetospheric plasma waves.

The RPWS began recording Saturn's radio waves as 
early and 2002, and since Cassini entered 
Saturn's magnetosphere in July 2004, the auroral 
Saturnian kilometric radiation (SKR), which 
dominates the kronian radio spectrum, is observed 
quasi-continuously. In 2006 discovered that 
Saturn has lightning, deep in its atmosphere, 
which generates strong radio emissions, similar 
to the cracks and pops one hears on an AM radio 
during a thunderstorm.  This emerging Saturnian 
radio meteorology will form the auditory basis of 
SKR.  It also weaves in a recording made of 
Saturn's ice rings during Cassini's double ring 
pass in 2004. When the Cassini spacecraft reached 
Saturn on June 30th 2004, it twice passed through 
a gap in Saturn's rings. Innumerable particles of 
ring-dust hit the spacecraft at a relative speed 
of  20 km/s.  Most of the hits were to the 
Cassini's high-gain antenna. Each time an 
ice-dust particle hit Cassini's antenna, the 
impact produced a burst of plasma (a cloud of 
ionized gas) which was recorded by the RPWS, 
producing an "hailstorm" effect.

SKR also includes other field recordings made 
during the Radio Astronomy project, particularly 
very low frequency radio recordings made by r a d 
i o q u a l i a in the icy region of Antarctica 
in 2007.

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RADIO ASTRONOMY

Radio Astronomy <http://www.radio-astronomy.net>. 
is an art/science project, which broadcasts 
audified radio waves from space live on the 
internet and on the airwaves. The project is a 
collaboration between  r a d i o q u a l i a and 
radio telescopes located throughout the world. 
Together we are creating 'radio astronomy' in the 
literal sense - a radio station devoted to 
broadcasting audio from our cosmos.  Our 
collaborators include: NASA's Radio Jove network, 
the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy 
Centre in Latvia, the Windward Community College 
Radio Observatory in Hawaii, USA, the University 
of Iowa, and the cultural centre RIXC from Riga, 
Latvia.

Listeners can encounter Radio Astronomy in the following ways:
-	on-air via temporary FM and SW radio broadcasts
-	online via the website
-	as a sound installation in galleries ands museums

As a sound installation, it has been exhibited at 
ISEA in Helsinki, Finland; Ars Electronica in 
Linz, Austria; the NTT Intercommunications Centre 
in Tokyo, Japan; the Santa Monica Art Institute 
in Barcelona, Spain as part of Sonar; at Oboro in 
Montreal, and in many other contexts. In November 
2008, it will be exhibited at ACC Galerie Weimar, 
Germany <http://www.acc-weimar.de/>

Listeners visiting the installation or tuning 
into the online broadcast hear radio waves 
received by radio telescopes. Common radio 
receivers are used to make the waves audible. 
The resulting sound is then broadcast online, and 
occasionally on-air.   The content of the 
transmission depends on the objects being 
observed by our partner telescopes. On any given 
occasion listeners may hear the planet Jupiter 
and its interaction with its moons, radiation 
from the Sun, activity from far-off pulsars or 
other astronomical phenomena.

Radio Astronomy correlates the processes 
associated with broadcast radio - the 
transmission of audible information, and the 
processes of radio astronomy - the observation 
and analysis of radiated signals from planets, 
stars and other astrophysical objects.  The work 
synthesizes these two areas. The signals from 
planets and stars are converted into audio and 
then broadcast on-line and on-air.  The project 
is a literal interpretation of the term, "radio 
astronomy".  It is a radio station broadcasting 
audio from space.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

TeZ <http://tez.it>, aka Maurizio Martinucci, is 
an Italian artist, living in Amsterdam since 
January 2002. He is artistic director of 
Optofonica <http://optofonica.com>. In 1995 he 
established the multimedia research laboratory 
SUb in Rome involved in audio-visual experiments 
with digital media for interactive applications 
and artworks. He has always been interested in 
using technology as a means for exploring 
languages, in particular the relationships 
between sound and images. In 1990 he attended a 
school for Computer Music Programmers with many 
of Italy's most reknown specialists in electronic 
music. He participated in workshops at the 
"Centro di Sonologia Computazionale" of the 
University of Padova, and at the "Tempo Reale" 
institute in Florence directed by Luciano Berio. 
Since the late 1980s TeZ has been composing 
electronic music. He released several records 
with various projects (M.S.B., DoseZero, Nukleus, 
TeZ). His live-electronics performances have 
always included visual support realized with 
different digital techniques, including the 
TRIVID software, which he created. His work is 
now focusing on generative compositions and 
various experimental audiovisual projects, 
including Generative Live Cinema, the PriMiTif 
sessions, FilmWare, video-scenographies and sound 
installations. Tez's most recent works include 
collaborations with sound artists Scanner, Kim 
Cascone and Taylor Deupree.

r a d i o q u a l i a is an artist collective 
formed by Adam Hyde and Honor Harger, which 
creates radio and sound art.  Their work has been 
exhibited at the ICC in Tokyo, New Museum of 
Contemporary Art in New York; Gallery 9, Walker 
Art Center in USA; Sonar in Barcelona; Ars 
Electronica in Austria; Artspace in New Zealand, 
among other places. r a d i o q u a l i a 
projects include Radio Astronomy 
<http://www.radio-astronomy.net> (2004 - now), 
The Frequency Clock (1998 - 2003) and Free Radio 
Linux (2002 - 2004).
At Sincronie, Honor Harger represents r a d i o q 
u a l i a.  She is a PhD researcher at Z-Node a 
facility ran by the Faculty of Technology, 
University of Plymouth, and the Zürich University 
of the Arts, (ZHDK) in Switzerland.  Her research 
aims to create a sonic understanding of 
astronomical space, placing emphasis on the way 
that radio can be used to make space audible. She 
also works as a curator and organiser, and from 
2004-2008 was  director of the AV Festival 
<http://www.avfestival.co.uk> in the UK, which 
focused on the topic of broadcasting in 2008.

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FURTHER INFORMATION

Getting there: Casa dell'Energia
Piazza Po 3
20144 - Milan
http://www.casadellenergia.it/home/cms/cae/


Map: 
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=Piazza+Po+3,+MILANO&daddr=&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&dirflg=w&sll=45.462128,9.159016&sspn=0.007615,0.019312&ie=UTF8&z=16


Contact: r a d i o q u a l i a
Email: adam at flossmanuals.net   or   honor at va.com.au
Phone: +44 7765834272
http://www.radioqualia.net



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