In Autumn 2020, following half a year of the Coronavirus Pandemic, it started to become clear that it was necessary to develop a forked path in Pixelache Festival planning for June 2021: Radio!
One of the oldest media forms at physical distance from each other it seemed an ideal way of making a festival event with local and international contributors regardless of mobility and gathering restrictions. The excess of screen-based media in recent years, particularly during our #StayAtHome period, has encouraged a blossoming of attention and listening podcasts, as well as new group-discussion apps which use voice only. All of which added to the popularity of audio-streaming services, audiobooks, and online radio while on the move.
In Pixelache Festival we return to radio, after recent activity with Parasite Radio & BioSignals projects (2017-19), and fugitive radio (2020), but also recalls memories of 2004-2005 when hybridradio was an emerging practice. Pairing up again with Sophea Lerner, who was responsible for those early radiophonic adventures, we announce a partnership with {openradio} to bring you:
* A live radio stream of festival events especially made for or adapted for radio
* A programme of audio works from the Festival’s 2nd Open Call for audio (over 30 contributors, see below!)
* Educational partner contributions & Pixelache member podcast highlights
* Other festival coverage, interviews with artists etc.
* A local FM radio broadcast around Oodi. Bring Your Own Radio (BYOR) to listen.
A wonderful thing about the sound is that it can take us anywhere. With Pixelache audio programme we have a chance to visit places both known and unknown, we travel from Val de Fiemme to Random City. Past, present and future are in a flux, and what first seems like a dystopia is actually how the present was imagined a century ago. We catch a glimpse of how it might feel for someone else to walk the ground that is familiar to us. We visit the faraway dumping grounds where an artist forages the material for their instruments. Finally we pause to listen to a sauna stove or artificial flames. We close our eyes to smell the nuances of pollution in the air we breathe. The audio programme does not attempt to discuss the hot topics of today, instead it accepts the constant change as its premise.
You will be able to listen to the stream on the Pixelache website, and on {openradio}, an emerging platform that supports independently produced open-content audio streams. https://openradio.in. The FM broadcast will be available in outdoor spaces near Oodi. Bring your own radio, and enjoy the festival safely.
Stay tuned for details of the programme and where and how to listen!
Pixelache Radio production:
Pixelache Festival Radio will be broadcast on {openradio} in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. Broadcast planning & production is by Phonebox Productions.
Radio Project Lead - Sophea Lerner
Radio Producer - Miia Laine
FM broadcast system - Kalle Kuisma, Tuukka Haapakorpi
Online broadcast system - Kaustubh Srikanth
+ Other supporting production volunteers including interns from Aalto University & Uniarts (MuTe/SibA)
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Pixelache Festival 2021: Audio & radio contributors
2nd Open Call for Audio contributions:
Jairo ACOSTA LARA (CU/FI)
Mi mundo suena ... / My world sounds like… Sound collage, interview, 00:10:12,
With the support of TAIKE and Ninho ry.
AUTOTURK (Lena KILINA, Adam SINYKIN and Sofya CHIBISGULEVA) (CN) Versatile substance
Radio play, sound art, spoken word,
00:15:00.
Paul BEAUDOIN (US/EE)
Monologue for a Crisis
Spoken word,
00:02:45.
Benoit BORIES (FR)
La foresta dei violini Musical and performative documentary creation, 01:06:53,
Co-production Faïdos Sonore Radio Suisse Italienne.
Orkida BRACULLA (CZ)
Nostalg[j]ia / audio composition + field recordings
Experimental,
00:04:50.
Yuri BRUSCKY (BR)
Juntando os Cacos (Picking Up The Pieces)
Sound Poetry,
00:05:00.
CENTER FOR GENOMIC GASTRONOMY, including Cathrine KRAMER (NO), Zack DENFELD (US), Emma CONLEY (US), Laura ALLCORN (US), Akash MURALIDHARAN (IN), Eileen RAINER (UK), Eirin BREIVIK (NO),
Guided Smog Smelling — a 3 way meditation series
Guided meditation,
00:24:00.
Caitlin Davis FISHER (US/DE)
Resisting Market Enclosure & Imagining Another (Football) Future – Dear Market...
Spoken word,
00:04:47.
Clio FLEGO (IT) for IQEA group (Tactical Tech) / with Oliver KELLER and David BENQUÉ
Reverse-engineering: aesthetic and speculative representation
Performative podcast,
00:41:00.
Boris GÉTAZ (SW/UK)
May vegetables grow with electricity
Sound essay,
00:31:29.
Ileana GHERGHINA (UK)
Burnt way
Spoken word poetry,
00:01:23.
Half-burning the poem out of me,
Spoken word poetry,
00:01:03.
Alëna KOROLËVA (RU/CA)
Random City
Radio show, speculative audio documentary,
00:57:00.
Tina Mariane KROGH MADSEN (DK/FI)
water-fire-stone-metal
Conceptual, electroacoustic,
00:13:08.
Maximilian LATVA (FI)
Makasiini palaa
Sound art,
00:06:47.
Veera LAUNONEN(FI)
Sinä olet helmi - You are a Pearl
Spoken word,
00:03:06.
Yoojin LEE (KR/UK) & NIGHT(S) OF PHILOSOPHY (NL), Giuseppe TERMINE
Nighthoek
Sound collage,
00:14:00.
Yoojin LEE (KR/UK) & Giuseppe TERMINE
Dormant buds on twigs
Lullaby,
00:07:27.
Amelia MARZEC (US)
Future Syndrome Experimental,
00:04:17.
Wojtek MEJOR (PL)
Flourish in the ruins
Sound collage,
00:10:00.
Fahmi MURSYID (ID)
Unidentified Sonic
Electronic, noise, experimental,
00:06:25.
Ida NERBØ (NO)
Creep
Experimental sound art,
00:06:00.
Leo PAHTA (FI)
Itäinen Mynämäki & Sylva Sylvarum
Electronica, ambient,
00:16:57.
Ben PARK (UK) & Brodie CAMPBELL-PARK (UK)
There is a House- A father - A son- A composer - a poet
Acoustic-vocal,
00:07:46.
Julian SCORDATO (IT)
Study for a landscape #2
Soundscape composition,
00:10:00.
Juliana Irene SMITH (US/FI)
I Like Black Girls
Song,
00:02:48.
Daniela SOLIS (MX)
sounds of the uncomfortable women, 2020
Sound collage,
00:05:06.
SWAN MEAT (US/DE)
String Figures & Grotesques
Digital audio, spoken word,
00:20:35.
Tuomo TAMMENPÄÄ (FI)
Nuotio
Soundscape, experimental,
00:15:00.
Bengisu UYKUSU (TR)
My Own Greenhouse
Sound field, electronics,
00:05:59.
Aistė Laisvė VIRŠULYTĖ (LT)
Medmachine for Biomass. Cost. Teardrops
Artwork for radio,
00:06:42.
Christa WALL (AT) and Andreea VLADUT (RO)
Pneuma Lamentare
Experimental, electronic music,
00:16:58.
Anne YONCHA (US) with Daniel TOWNSEND (US), Anne TOLVANEN (FI), Oili TARVAINEN (FI) & Anna-Liisa VALIMAA (FI)
Re:Peat - Post-extraction land use in Northern Ostrobothnia
Sounds field,
00:05:08.
Ola ZIELIŃSKA(PL)
Witnessing in resonance. Sonic report on disobedience.
Sonic report,
00:29:32.
Louise ÖLUND (SE)
The cistern contains
Art music, soundscape, experimental electroacoustic music,
00:05:20.
The.Nest.
Soundscape, sonic art, electroacoustic,
00:03:13.
Educational & Other Partners’ Contributions:
Eesti Kunstiakadeemia (Estonian Art Academy) New Media
Sarah Elizabeth JOHNSTON (AU/EE)
Encounters
MA Thesis work 2021,
00:20:07.
Katrin ENNI (EE), Helen VÄSTRIK (EE), Jaanika ARUM (EE)
Live performance at NU Performance Festival 2020,
00:30:17.
Inga SALURAND (EE)
Sõnad
Studio Project 2020,
00:03:00.
Sensory Recordings Mix
Studio Project 2020,
00:03:21.
Áron TIHANYI (HU/EE)
Acouasm
Studio Project 2021,
00:17:27.
ASTE Gallery & Liepāja University Art Research Lab
Audio exploration of Mental Ecologies by Bachelor, Masters and Doctoral students and recent graduates of Liepaja University New Media Art programme, Elza ZĪVERTE, Spāre VĪTOLA, Reinis ŽODŽIKS, Milda ZIEMANE, Diana LELIS, Andrejs POIKĀNS, Maija DEMITERE (all LV), and others. The '#BURN_SLOW' programme contribution also includes Krista DINTERE (LV), Jacom REMIN (DK), John GRZINICH (US/EE) & Mantautas KRUKAUSKAS (LT).
Contribution supported by Nordisk Kulturkontakt Art and Culture programme 1/21 (BURN_SLOW: Nordic-Baltic Sound and Radio Art for Mental Well-being).
ÄÄNIAALTO festival & DADA Aalto Media Lab Student Organisation
Rasų radijas (Rasos radio), presents interdisciplinary festival Ūmėdė: x⬳disciplinary symposium for emerging art & related matters.
3 Continents Creativity & Well-being working group, featuring partners from Karachi Biennale Trust (Pakistan), GEM Sydney (Australia), and Pixelache.
Contribution supported by ASEF (Asia-Europe Foundation) Mobility Fund.
Antònia FOLGUERA from Xarxa de Ràdios Comunitàries de Barcelona (Barcelona Community Radio Network, CAT):
Brooklyn Pirate Airwaves with David Goren.
01:00:33
Željko BLÁCE & working group in collaboration with AvoinGLAM Finland.
Pixelache Programme 2020 contributions:
Vera KAVALEUSKAYA (BY/FI)
All That Has Melted Into Air, Inhale
Audio performance,
00:20:40.
Sumugan SIVANESAN (AU/DE)
fugitive radio
Radio experiments,
Every day of festival from 15:00-16:00 EET Live on {open radio} stream.
Contribution funded by Koneen Säätio (Kone Foundation).
Pixelache Members’ Podcasts:
Juan DUARTE (MX/FI)
Aether Milieu (3 episodes only: I, II, III) Podcast, en español & in english.
Owen KELLY (UK/FI) & Sophie HOPE (UK)
Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse
Podcast, in english.
Aga POKRYWKA (PL/FI)
Ferment Radio
Podcast, in english.
Mariana SALGADO (AR/FI)
Diseño y Diáspora
Podcast, en español.
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Festival Partnerships & Funding support:
Partners
This year’s Pixelache Festival is centred around the venue of Helsinki City’s Oodi Central Library, and naturally are our main partner in production. We have been in discussion as noted above since February 2020, in particular with Oodi special librarians Tuukka Haapakorpi and Sanna Huttunen.
Finnish partner associations involved in contributing to the programme include: Bioart Society (Helsinki), M-Cult (Helsinki), and Valmed (North Savo).
Confirmed international associations contributing to our programme anticipated as: Dimora OZ (Palermo, IT), Karachi Biennale Trust (PK), Xarxa de Ràdios Comunitàries de Barcelona (Barcelona Community Radio Network, CAT). NB: Others may be added in following weeks as remote contributors.
We acknowledge the audio/radio production partnership with {openradio}, Korppiradio and M-Cult.
We acknowledge audiovisual streaming partnership with Aavistus Festival (Helsinki), and Elektron platform by MIM Project (Tallinn, EE), supported by Suomalais-Virolainen-Kulttuurisäätiö (Finnish-Estonian Cultural Foundation).
We have a media partnership with Radio Helsinki and Enostone Kustannus (Helsinki).
We have a ‘quarantine’ accommodation partnership with Architectural Democracy (Lohja).
We are sponsored support in outdoor infrastructure by Kino Rentals.
We have a working relationship with Job’d platform (Helsinki), funded by Helsinki City.
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Main Funding Support
Pixelache programme 2020-2021, including Festival 2021 is produced with support from:
Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Art Promotion Centre Finland) Activity grant: Media art special fund.
Helsingin Kaupunki (Helsinki City) Activity grant.
NB: Particular contributions are funded by particular sources, named above in list.
