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One of my favorite curatorial projects/art historians, ➚Triple Candie, put together an audio-scape of environmental sounds (bird calls, city sounds and honking horns, the clamor of sailboat halyards flapping against aluminum masts, water lapping against a dock) interspersed with: readings of texts by the artists Ryan Gander, Katerina Šedá, and Swoon (all 2008); interviews with two sailors living aboard their boats in the Chesapeake Bay (2022); a text by Tacita Dean on the Bas Jan Ader (2006); a 19th-century sea shanty; and an excerpt from Tadeusz Kantor’s Let the Artists Die (1985).

Triple Candie is a curatorial production agency that ran a 6,000 sq. ft. gallery in Harlem in the aughts. Today, it guest-organizes exhibitions internationally while populating a 22 sq. ft. gallery near the U.S. Capitol Building. ➚Its projects, often rigorously researched and occasionally irreverent, comprise unfaithful copies and props.

Track Listing:
00:00 Bird calls.
05:13 City sounds and honking cars.
06:06 Audio track sample from Francis Alÿs, Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing, Mexico City, video, 1997.
06:20 Audio track sample from David Hammons, Phat Free, video, 1995–99
07:08 Alÿs, Sometimes Making Something.
07:37 Katerina Šedá, “Dear Diary,” commissioned by Shelly Bancroft, Peter Nesbett, and Rebecca Sears and published in artonpaper magazine in 2008. Excerpts read by Shelly Bancroft.
12:52 Alÿs, Sometimes Making Something.
13:42 Audio excerpt from a video of Ryan Gander’s installation, I Need Some Meaning I Can Memorise (The Invisible Pull), 2012, Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany.
14:08 Excerpts from a phone interview in May 2022 with a friend who lives aboard his 42’ sailboat at Harbor Island Marina, Solomons Island, Maryland.
16:51 Mast halyards clanking in the wind.
18:58 Excerpts from an audio recording by Austin Hutchinson, a friend who lives aboard his 30’ sailboat in the Chesapeake Bay.
22:17 “A Life on the Ocean Wave” (1838), words by Epes Sargent, music by Henry Russell, sung by Fred Feild.
23:38 Audio track sample from a video of the final scene in “Let the Artists Die” (1985), by the Polish playwright, director, and artist Tadeusz Kantor, performance venue unknown.
33:43 Mast halyards clanking in the wind.
35:26 Gander, I Need Some Meaning.”
35:41 Ryan Gander, “Dear Diary,” commissioned by Shelly Bancroft, Peter Nesbett, and Rebecca Sears and published in artonpaper magazine in 2008. Excerpts read by Peter Nesbett, recorded with a voice filter.
40:03 Alÿs, Sometimes Making Something.
40:33 Bird songs.
46:20 Swoon, “Dear Diary,” commissioned by Shelly Bancroft, Peter Nesbett, and Rebecca Sears and published in artonpaper magazine in 2008. Excerpts read by Shelly Bancroft.
49:04 City sounds and honking cars.
49:57 Alÿs, Sometimes Making Something.
50:19 Tacita Dean, “And he fell into the sea,” from Bas Jan Ader: Please Don’t Leave Me, edited by Rein Wolfs (Rotterdam: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2006). Further edited and read by Peter Nesbett.
55:44 Harbor, waves, and ocean sounds.

 

 

 

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Anja Dietmann translated an interview between Hanne Darboven and Gerwig Epkes, recorded for Sprechzeit in 1999–kindly supported by the ➚Hanne Darboven Foundation in Hamburg, Germany. Hanne Darboven talks about her work, her childhood, and her stay in New York between 1966 and 1968 (she was not impressed with what New Yorkers. were reading). We will also listen to her New York letters addressed to her parents, followed by excerpts from her musical works Opus 17 A and Opus 25A.

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Bonus: ➚Vanessa Place on Hanne Darboven

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Image Credit: Radio Raum, Hannah Sawtell, 2022 

It’s Labor Day in the US so we wanted to highlight a recent live performance by Hannah Sawtell, originally broadcast on May 1st 2022, during a Montez Press Radio offsite project in Berlin. Montez Press was there for the Miss Read Book Fair and MPR collaborated with Cashmere Radio to co-program a live broadcast. In ➚MAYDAY: RADIO RAUM, Sawtell revisits and re-contextualises a work she made 10 years ago called ➚MAYDAY:THE BOOTH (Clocktower Radio, New York, 2012) for May Day 2022 in Berlin. 50 collaborators were asked to respond (through sound) to what the word Mayday means to them.

Collaborators as follows: ATM Kreutzberg, automat, Blak Tony, Black Hole Club, Cash for Gold, James Crossley, Marcia Carr, Dale Cornish, Darcus Howe Legacy, Keith Dodds, Food Not Bombs, J Hügel Geist, Harvinder, KEIZ, Lauren Flax, Esther Leslie, Mick Lynch, Ms Bioland, Marc Mac, McDaid, Lisa Mckenzie, Mel Mullings, Nathan Carter extrastereo, Eleni Poulou, Antonio Roberts, Oliver Romoff, Rap Saunders, Raumer, Jas Singh, Sylvie Lee, Robin Stewart, Giant Swan, Cathy Wade, Kühle Wampe, Tony F Wilson, Women Within RMT, Working Class Collective, Matthew Worley, Lady Brat Wurst and Walworth Choir. Each contribution was edited and mixed live by Hannah.

International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in most countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of workers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year in the UK and Europe on the 1st of May.

Hannah Sawtell is an artist working with sound, video, collectively built app development, installation, performance, radio, and sculpture. She lives and works in London, though her background is in the electronic music scene in London and Detroit; she co-ran the label Planet E. From her life as a DJ and organiser, she started to work as a performer and artist. Sawtell's multi-disciplinary practice is concerned with our globally connected society and aims to provoke debate around the technology of access, labour, capital and surplus, desire and excess. Her work exploits the processes and materials accessible in the current culture of connectivity.

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➚Listen to Mayday the Booth (2012)

 

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JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJerome Ellis is a stuttering, Afro-Caribbean composer, performer, and writer. Listen to his 2020 MPR segment ➚here

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John Miller plays music he's made over the years with some incredble artists including: J.D. King, Thurston Moore, Dan Walworth, Tony Oursler, Bill Stobaugh, John Arnheim, Mike Kelley, Takuji Kogo, Aura Rosenberg, Frank Lutz, Greg Parma Smith, Jon Kessler, David Humphrey, Tony Conrad, Jutta Koether, Servane Mary, Jose Martos, Bill Komoski, Judith Raum, Raimar Stange, Andreas Schlaegel, Laura Oldenburg, Micz Flor, Kim Gordon

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Check out John and Takuji Kogo's '➚Robot' YT channel for more * spectacular * music videos:

 

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A slow but based interview with Tao Lin on the occasion of ➚Nick Irvin's (➚Song Cycle) exhibition of Lin's Mandala drawings at Ka-Vá, Kava & Kratom Bar.

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