DR KLANGENDUM IS COMING!!!!!!!

Er ging iets mis bij de Concertzender vorige week! Vandaar dat de eerste aflevering van Dr Klangendum vandaag -9 juli- wordt uitgezonden.

 Eerste aflevering Dr Klangendum, woensdag 9 juli 00.00 uur, Concertzender

Dr klangendum 1 / 9 juli 2013 Dr Klangendum

Dr Klangendum is een programma over maar voornamelijk vol radiofonie, geluidskunst en andere audio-non-visuele misverstanden en vondsten (bedoelt U Fondsen ?). De makers zijn Henk Klangendum Bakker en Lukas Klangendum Simonis, voormalige werknemers- en gevers van de WORM Studio te Rotterdam waar ze radio-programma's als Radio Worm en de Hørspil Reeks (via VPRO's Cafe Sonore, nu genomineerd voor de guillotine) de wereld instuurden, en de voormalige CEM studio beheerden. De studio bestaat nog steeds, de activiteiten bestaan ook nog steeds (behalve genoemde ook nog het organiseren van residencies, workshops en eductatie-projecten, het doen van podium producties en het organiseren van experimentele & improv concerten) maar de Worm Studio heeft zich inmiddels afgescheiden van WORM en heet nu Stichting Klangendum… De samenwerking met WORM gaat wel door in de vorm van gezamenlijke producties en ook de locatie van de studio blijft (voorlopig?) dezelfde; in het WORM gebouw.

Dr Klangendum zal geen sleur van een radioprogramma worden… We kunnen niet zo goed tegen de regelmaat van een vast format en iedere keer weer de lijst afwerken… Een vorm van vastigheid is echter onvermijdelijk en die zal bestaan aan een keur van vaste medewerkers (oa. Adam Bohman, Vincent Denieul, Sara Pinheiro, eva.) en een rubriek in samenwerking met het Radia network (zie; radia.fm) waarin iedere week een kunstradio productie zal worden gepresenteerd door een van de leden (de producties duren steevast 28 minuten).  Verder staan er een aantal specials op stapel over geluidskunstenaars die we goed vinden, zullen er regelmatig radiofonische hoorspelen worden vertoond (een voortzetting van onze Hørspil Reeks, die nog tot as. januari bij cafe sonore loopt), hebben we een 'perverse animals' reeks in de maak en zijn er ook vergevorderde plannen voor radiofonische (weer dat woord, zie het als een eufemisme voor 'psychedelisch in onbegrepen zin') documentaires.

Reacties worden op prijs gesteld, bijdrages ook. Email ons; Klangendum@xs4all.nl
Onze website & blog; www.klangendum.nl   (vanaf augustus)

Inhoud Klangendum 1;
The Adam Bohman talking tapes -Adam Bohman
Test Fontaine Vincent -  Vincent Denieul
Arpy - Sarah Davachi
Taut Wires, Lice and Flies - Oscillatorial Binnage
Ultrasonic City - Wendy Van Wynsberghe (Radio Panik voor het Radia Network)



Extra Info;
 Ultrasonic city by Wendy Van Wynsberghe (Radio Panik)
“What do you hear in the city? What sounds are only perceptible in the ultrasonic realm, where bats and crickets communicate? Sounds which are so high, our human ears cannot perceive them. This acoustic world becomes audible in Ultrasonic City and they get their place in the sounds of the city and the world.
The urban sound world is quite dense. By extracting the ultrasound I wanted to reveal a sonic universe or even add another layer to the field recordings. When you hear only the ultrasonic layer of the city, you hear a place devoid of human voices. They simply do not reach that high. Some very quiet sounds get enhanced, such as rubbing your fingers together, frottements in French. In a park at sunset you hear the foraging bats, whilst at the same time, our human ears only register ducks, planes and other humans. A swimming pool gets reduced to splashes, you do not hear the children shriek nor play. Plastic, metal, water all produce ultrasounds.
With the help of ACSR, I was able to record the same place in the city ultrasonically and with high quality “normal” microphones. This revealing/unravelling/hiding of layers of sound I want to present in this documentary.
Director and narrator: Wendy Van Wynsberghe
Fieldrecordings: Marion Guillemette
Edits : Vincent Mattyn and yours truly
Thanks for your patience, support and tenacity: Acsr, Carmello, Clementine & Carine
2013 Creative Commons Attributions Non Commercial Share alike

Sarah Davachi Piece Made In Worm Studio

Sarah Davachi was in the studio a few weeks ago, and now she sends us this piece. Very beautiful work, check it out.

wa da de minse klappe gelak as d'onne basse

Check this event out -about one of our older radioplays "wa da de minse klappe gelak as d'onne basse ''.

John Macedo The Black Plume

In june, Mister Plume himself was in the worm studio and had a good time with the old synths. He actually seemed to know what he was doing, turning all the knobs and shit...

Sara & Gyz

Also in may, sara Pinheiro & Gyz La Rivière, working in the worm studio, on their soundwalk -that will be presented on the 22th of june at the Radio radio Event @ worm. Here's Sara in a non-related situation.

FENSTER Im Studio

In may the berlin (well, kind of) band FENSTER spend a few days in our studio... Good people! And good music. Hope they send us some of the material if they finish it. They were working on a new album.

Peter & Joseph Simpson Studio Residency

In April Peter & Joseph Simpson (sorry i post this a bit late) visited our studio and had a good time trying out different old synths and some of the Yuri Landman snakes... We're waiting for some stuff that they made during those days. Here's a few pics.

Stig Noise in Worm Studio

A little film they made themselves about Stig Noise in the Worm Studio. This is the comment Jake send me after his visit;

"...aahhh man, it was great, and we made alot of good music,(...). we recorded our live band using a lot of the amazing mics you had available, and worked like that the first couple of nights so not to disturb people in the building too much, and then overdubbed a lot of basically amazing sounds using some of the amazing equipment you have there. thanks so so much (...)...

We 90% recorded the basis for our next split release, 3 full tracks and a bunch of bits  thats coming out in September when we have a hefty tour of europe, greece, romania and serbia for 6 weeks.

We spent a couple of nights laying down the live elements of our music, 2 drumkits and bass and violins were overdubbed. then we got to mess around alot with some of the synths instead of our usual casiotone melodies, the finished mixs will be a mixture of both plus a whole bunch of soundscapes.... what a beautiful place! ..."

the stig noise set-up in the worm studio

Stig Noise in worm

Jelena Glazova in WORM Studio

Jelena Glazova worked in the sound studio last month. Material she worked on will follow. The photo is from her performance in Studio Loos, Den haag (Jelena in the middle). More info about Jelena HERE

A Message From Joel Stern

Hi everyone, i completed the soundtrack to this lovely film, which just showed at International Film Festival Rotterdam whilst working at the worm sound studio in july 2012.

SEE HERE

Harry Taylor in WORM Studio

Harry Taylor was in the studio in january. I think he had a good time. More about that later. On one of his last days in Rotterdam Yuri Landman (who had invited him), Arnold van der Velde & Lukas Simonis came together in the studio with him to make this track. Mix is by Harry. (lukas also promised to put a mix together, if he does, we'll post it here as well).

here are some photo's of the cooperation.  (with the red sweater; lukas, on the ground ; yuri, watching the troops; harry, photo\s by arnold)

Bruiloftslied radioplay on WIRE website

One of the plays we curated a few years ago can be heard on the WIRE website, it goes along with an article in the paper edition about the makers; Alisdair McGregor and Howard Jacques. McGregor and Jacques are featured in an article by Zakia Uddin in The Wire 346. IT'S HERE.

Galen & Planteidt do Hitler

Nicolai Galen (aka Nick Hobbs) and Dolf Planteidt were in the worm studio just last month. They worked on a radioplay called 'Hitler' (explanation below) which will be broadcasted by the Radia Network (the short version) and later Cafe Sonore (the long version)

 RADIO WORM RADIOPLAY;  'Hitler'

A radio play created by Nikolai Galen (voices) and Dolf Planteijdt (soundwork) at the WORM studio in Rotterdam 29.10-3.11.12 with additional work at the Koeienverhuur Mobile in Amsterdam.
Based on a play text by Nikolai Galen.
With thanks to RadioWORM.

We asked Nicolai to tell us a bit more about the play and he did.

Nicolai about the text;

While choosing and writing the different texts which make up the text as a whole, I found myself attempting to grapple with some specific - and daunting -  themes. Namely:
 - Anti-Semitism: What is it? Where does it spring from? How on Earth has it survived and festered for millennia? Why did it explode so pathologically in Hitler's thinking and Nazism in general. Presumably most of us (me included) sometimes have proto-racist feelings of discomfort in the presence of people (perhaps immigrants, perhaps those of a different class) who seem especially other to us, whose presence, whose cultural differences can irritate us, even though, at the same time, we might (I hope) be irritated with ourselves for being irritated, for carrying such sick prejudices. Yet it's an awfully, unimaginably, inconceivably long way from such feelings to genocide. Yet, there are plenty of populist politicians and their followers around, happy to play with racism in its various forms (they're taking our jobs, they're thieves and pimps, they're incompatible with our ways and beliefs, they're diluting the national spirit, they've no wish to integrate, etc...) fomented by nationalism, by myths of cultural difference and superiority, by a national claim for us versus them, and for this land being our land and all that. Bigotry is alive, well and kicking, as an uncountable and shameful number of contemporary murders and 'cleansings', especially in the world's numerous 'conflict zones', testify.
- Hitler's popularity in Germany: How on Earth could such a pathetic, mad and manically-deluded man be so popular, and for so long? I could ask the same question about, say, George W. Bush, yet Bush isn't mad, was Hitler mad? And what does it mean to say that he was evil? And given that he was evil (in a way Bush can't hold a candle to) - radically evil - then how come he was so popular, so adored...?
- How could 20th Century European culture, in the form of Nazism, be so unimaginably violent, even sadistic, even without any kind of rational justification, however feeble? Most obviously, there was no military reason for the death factories, nor the destruction of swathes of the Soviet Union after those regions had been conquered. It was as if the (German) nation (as imagined by itself) was infected with blood-lust.
- What does it mean to say (as Jung does, amongst others) that Hitler was some kind of incarnation of the German collective psyche, of the national myth (made all the more absurd by Hitler being a puny black-haired guy, not a strapping blonde athlete)? What are the myths at the heart of Nazism, from where do they derive their power...?
All of which I could only scratch the surface of. And the more I scratched, the deeper I found myself in the bowels of Western Culture. And it's not a pleasant place...

Nicolai about the radioplay;

For the radio version of Hitler we found ourselves layering and treating voices in ways which led me to thinking that we were purposely giving voice to Hitler and the other protagonists without (anyway impossible for the medium) giving them body. The voices are disembodied. They float by like phantoms. The texts we chose for the radio play are particularly obsessed with death - one could say, with the factory production of phantoms. One could also say that Hitler aimed to make his Promethean utopia (which would of course have been the dystopia to end all dystopias) out of death (something he had in common with other great dictators). Perhaps out of death he thought he would be able to resurrect a new ('better' for das Volk at least) kind of life. Instead, out of death he only produced the final vast and awful nothing of silence and phantoms. The phantoms of the dead. The phantoms of those - people and cultures - that can never be resurrected.

But our terrible times are less different from those terrible times than perhaps we would like to believe. War carries on unabated in its demented fury, and some of those wars - those in the Middle East - have some of their roots in World War Two. And as we rape and ravage the planet, we also are leaving behind us silence and phantoms, with much more, and maybe much worse, to come. On the one hand it seems an absurd question to say, 'George Bush was a little Hitler' but I'm not so sure. The veneer may be politer, and the process of gaining power more 'democratic' (but not for the victims, they had no say in it); but was, say, Bush really so much less Promethean, especially when the juggernaut power of the USA is looked at as a whole.

But I don't want to single out the USA, many other states are just as bad, only not as powerful. Anyway, it seems to me that what happened seventy-odd years ago has rather faded from the memories of many, especially those for whom only the grandparents lived through that war. Trying to bring the horror of Hitler and his accomplices back to life seems to me essential. But let them stay only as voices, as phantom voices. The attempt to give them flesh (as in cinema) just doesn't seem to carry sufficient horror to be anything other than another entertainment, just another war movie. But when we only hear the voices, they enter our heads, we can't keep them out, and therefore we have to engage with them. We have to never forget them and we have to recognise that the times have not changed very much at all.

Sun Araw in Worm Studio

I found these photo's hanging in my telephone, they are from last june (2012). It's the boys from Sun Araw doing all kinds of things with synths, mu-tron (theirs) and suitcases in the Worm studio. Hey boys from Sun Araw, made anything here worth listening to? if so, let us know...

 

(update; a reaction)

HAY GUYS

cameron from SUN ARAW here!  just saw that BLOG POST....yah mon, we are still editing the jams we did there and planning an LP release of them hopefully SPRING/SUMMER, band name "CELEBRATE MUSIC SYNTHESIZER GROUP"

here's a taste



1. software;

2. hardware;

New Record by Gonzo Almeida & Fred Lonberg-Holm

 New Record by Gonzo Almeida & Fred Lonberg-Holm recorded at the WORM Studio.
For more info, SEE HERE