For today's episode,Ciprian Ocean interviews Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe.

Robert Aiki is an artist, curator and composer that works primarily with, but not limited to, voice and modular synthesizer for sound in the realm of spontaneous music. Along with analog video synthesis works, he has brought forth an A/V proposal that has been a focus of live performance and installation / exhibition.⁠

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In the interview the topics will approach the creative process in Candyman, a slasher horror film released at the end of August this year. During the interview Ciprian will also cover topics such as balance and pandemia, electronic music and artistic approach of the amazing Robert Lowe.⁠

Paul Frick is the new member of the Tangerine Dream dynasty, the legendary live electronica band that started with Edgar Froese, Klause Schulze and Conrad Schnitzler.

Paul Frick is also a member of BBF who played in Romania in 2015. Their most recent releases include “3535 Memory”, the fantastic “Echo” and a fresh new remix to Francesco Tristano’s “Toccata”. Paul also released “Hoffnicks” during the pandemia time. A really great record with strong collaborations with legendary names such as Gurdrun Gut.

We’re talking about music,communities and live electronic music looking at Paul's long 14 years within BBF and his recent tour with Tangerine Dream.

A fost jazz-ul interzis la începutul anilor ‘60?

Povestim despre Cornel Chiriac cu Lucian Ștefănescu, colaborator Europa Liberă, autor a mai multor emisiuni dedicate lui Cornel Chiriac începute în 1999. Exemplificăm din emisiunea care a urmat Metronomului la Europa Liberă, o producție cultural muzicală mai recentă, “Dictionar de Sunete”.

Cornel Chiriac a fost implicat în crearea unui club de jazz (pare-se la Pitești), apoi antreprenor și producător de talente în contextul local (a descoperit formația pop-folk Phoenix),în sfârșit, a fost redactorul fondator al Metronomului Europei libere și co-fondator al Federației Europene de Jazz. În 1969 fuge și se refugiază în Munchen de unde continuă emisiunea cu o revoltă și mai puternică împotriva regimului comunist din țară.

Pe deoparte radiourile pirat din Londra de la sfârșitul anilor ‘80 făceau cumva la fel: își luau înapoi un spațiu muzical care le fusese refuzat, DJ-ii de culoare încercau să treacă de ipocrizia rasismului ascuns care permitea muzică persoanelor de culoare dar nu și accesul în cluburi. E cazul construcției LWR care încă emite și azi, principalul competitor în anii 80 al Kiss FM.

Povestea lui Cornel Chiriac e o poveste de interdependență, de expresie, de dedicare, de pasiune și de iubire pentru muzică. Românii îi trimiteau și cereau muzică pentru “Metronomul duminical”.

Lucian Ștefănescu, Alexandru Belc, Georgiana Toea - despre Metronom

Contiunăm să vorbim despre Cornel Chiriac, unul dintre primii disk-jokey români și unul dintre primii producători muzicali de la noi. O odisee puternic impactata de comunismul anilor 60 și 70 care începuse să intre în viețile private ale oamenilor din ce în ce mai mult.

În acest episod Ciprian discută cu Răzvan despre John Hassel, Black Flower, Mischa Blanos (artist român care combină clasicismul pianul acustic cu muzica electronică), Richard Zalai (modular electronica live). Ultimele trei nume vor cânta în cadrul festivalului Smida Jazz Festival, într-unul dintre cele mai faine line-up-uri de anul acesta din România.

This months FRI guest is Lucrecia Dalt, a versatile musician and her universe of structured and layered lyrics that created “¡Ay!”, her latest record released at RVNG.

The record is rooted in a philosophical visual essay that Lucrecia did that captures Miguel Prado’s philosophy and the magnetic improvisation of Judit J. Ferrer. The result is a bolero-sci-fi musical poetry that captures contradictions and structures, time and space perceptions, phenomenology. It’s a statement on human sensibility and the taste of life in a doom-like context maybe.

In this episode Ciprian speaks about electronic music, balance, rhythm with Carsten Nicolai or most known Alva Noto. We look back at the history of electronic music and Luigi Russollo, one of the first futurists and maybe the inventor of the synthesizer concept: a musical box creating electricity driven sounds.

Alva Noto creates visual and acoustic sound sculptures with a surgical focus on auditory and light frequencies. He adds a minimalism and clarity to his art, a simplicity and balance creating a unique musical character. His collaborations include Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mika Vainio and Ryoji Ikeda. He’s also found in commissions together with Blixa Bargeld, Anne-James Chaton and the well known Iggy Pop.

Under the sound spell of “Languoria”, Ciprian Ocean starts the year along Sofie Birch and Antonina Nowacka, a synergy born at Unsound Festival commissioning in 2021.

Sofie Birch is an NTS resident DJ, sound artist and producer from Copenhagen creating electronic music based on improvisation and hardware synthesizers.

Antonina is a versatile Polish musician primarily using her voice as an instrument, without the use of words. Her solo album Lamunan featured recordings of reverberation in a cave from Java island in Indonesia.

Diva of the Diode, Suzanne Ciani is a true synthesizer pioneer. Her love of electronic music began during a field trip to MIT. However, it was her decade-long adventure mastering the Buchla 200 that would define her career. 20 solo albums, 5 Grammy nominations and not only stand proof of a much-appreciated career and a lasting impression she left on the genre.

More on the twisting turns of Suzanne Ciani’s path and her long relationship with the Buchla instrument in this episode featuring an interview taken by Ciprian Ocean in the lobby of Berlin’s Hotel Almodovar in the autumn of 2016.

Fusioning techno, punk attitude and message driven poetry, Gut’s live electronica is one that explores, is pragmatic and present.

She is one of the iconic figures of Berlin music history.

We go through Gudrun Gut’s ways of composing, recording and performing catching the innovation days of Atari computer and then getting back to the man-machine interaction, touch and synergy.

We build our mix based on exemplifications from the Monika Enterprise artists, her work collaborations. We dig into pop music though staying at the edge talking about pirate radios and musical worlds.