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#449. Dreams in the Worm House by Helena Celle.

Helena Celle is a Glaswegian artist and audio engineer. She is concerned with the participatory representation of the imaginal through the organisation of sound, image and language, and currently produces an hour (or more) of original work for patrons every month. She plays guitar in the band Herbert Powell (Lost Map Records), and previously played bass guitar in the band Anxiety (La Vida Es Un Mus Records).

My partner and I visited WORM in Rotterdam, courtesy of Radiophrenia. We recorded over a days worth of improvisation on an optical disc organ. I edited those recordings down to ninety-nine fragments, then wrote a computer program to represent them in a specific manner over the course of two hours. During recording, my thoughts were occupied by the following: attribution of personhood to the marginal via the radiophonic, animating the inanimate, the early work of The Residents (to whom I owe the kernel of my outlook on life), the uncharacteristically whimsical organ music of Anton LaVey released on Amarillo Records, backmasking and contemporary incidence of satanic panic, Dario Argento’s Suspiria, La Monte Young’s Dream House, and HP Lovecraft’s “Dreams in the Witch House”.

This is a Radiophrenia/Worm/Klangendum production.

#448. Een radiowerk door Kwakman/Simonis: Klankcatalogus.

Dichter/ beeldend kunstenaar Bas Kwakman heeft zijn liefde voor de rafelranden van de muziek in een serie van elf gedichten gevat. Klankcatalogus. De liefde voor de klank zonder geijkte harmonie of liedstructuur, de diepe ontroering bij electronische muziek, de dansbaarheid van free jazz en de avontuurlijke kant van de hedendaagse klassieke muziek.

De veelzijdige improvisatie-gitarist Lukas Simonis, bekend om zijn samenwerkingen met de fine de fleur van de internationale impro- en noise-scène, leunt met zijn klanken tegen de gedichten uit Kwakmans Klankcatalogus aan. Geen muzikale begeleiding van poëzie en geen gedichten als onderschrift bij muziek maar een spannende, gelijkwaardige en unieke dialoog tussen klank en taal.

Een Worm/Klangendum/Concertzender productie.

#447. NO. 69 or FUCK ME! IT IS YET ANOTHER LOUD FEMINIST or A DIRTY PAGE FROM THE DIARIES OF AN ALIEN
 By KWEEN.

OUTLINE
 The work is the outcome of a two week residency at WORM studios in Rotterdam, and a way longerprocess work that has engrossed and signified as I grew, constructed, and deconstructed.

A theme had been picked for the residency; ‘Protest, Resistance, Reclaim’ in its widest sense, and thedescription of the concept was as follows; ‘Through our process of becoming aware and unlearning we go from an indifferent body of profitablecommerce to an active vibrant matter, which merely through its presence and by default, postures a resisting stance –even if its action was a non-presence.

We live in times where a neo-liberal ideology is so strong that it has planted its seeds inside the very cruxof our personal identity. Aiming at an endless growth, an arrow on a diagram that only goes up, its product has become a personified definition of who we are. Capitalist maneuvers at these times are so penetrative and internalized that they will even try to sell you an anti-ideology anti-capitalist product for the sake of profit. Its growth has tightly co opted into our own individual growth. Its stock price is the price we pay for our freedoms of being a self or another, no matter what self it is.
 This manifests itself in different ways and on different scales. We could talk about its rooted influence inside of our individual bodies, or on the collective body of our communities, or on the bigger anthropocenic scale of human against nature, and fundamentally, evidently, in everything, and everywhere.

The ways through-which this is stood against, in its many manifestations, spread widely; from a personal perspective of a body resisting through queering itself from norms, binaries, and singular static identities, to a collective march or a protest, a political presence, through art and culture, through adapting to alternative economic ways of being, reclaiming language, and much many more means that we over and over need to make ours.’
This is what the process of the work, in its essence, in its research, collected and generated material,
 processing, reshaping, and composing, had been busy dealing with. Lastly, and I mention this with lots of love and appreciation, few other artists from different backgrounds were invited to spend a day with me in the studio and add their input. They are accredited at the end of this text.

TEXTS INCLUDED IN THE PIECE
● ROTS – Poetry bundle / 2022 ‘Huilen op een goedkope vlucht’
● Verginia Despentes – King Kong Theory – A gun for every girl
● Verginia Despentes – King kong Theory – She’s so depraved, You can’t rape her
● Andrea Long Chu – Females
COLLECTED MATERIAL
● Slavoj Žižek – Violence – Talks at Google
● Marsha P Johnson interviewed by Betty Brown
● Alan Ginsberg – Howl
● Sylvia Rivera – “Y’all Better Quiet Down” 1973 Gay Pride Rally NYC
● Sojourner Truth Speech of 1851, “Ain’t I a Woman” – performed by Pat Theriault
● Hang Youth – ‘LEG DE ZUIDAS IN DE AS’

Sounds: 
MUSICIAN, FILM MAKER
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NO. 69 or FUCK ME! IT IS YET ANOTHER LOUD FEMINIST or A DIRTY PAGE FROM THE DIARIES OF AN ALIEN
KWEEN aka Ghaith Qoutainy 2022 | Residency @ WORM Rotterdam

From appr. Minute 39 on, we added some weird noises from our vaults to complete the hour… (says dr klangendum)

#446. Two productions from the radia network; Tksitevy – Suzy Vincens for Radio Campus Bruxelles and Variance V – David Merlo for Radio Grenouille.

1. Tksitevy – Suzy Vincens for Radio Campus Bruxelles.

2. Variance V – David Merlo for Radio Grenouille.

Scenography: Rémy Rivoire.

Sound control room: Virgile Abela.

General control room: Thomas Royez.

Credit photos : Chloé Blondeau.

Jingles & presentation by Dr. Klang.

#445. Twee Radia uitzendingen uit den oude doos. Verwarring voor het gehele gezin!

#444. Dr. Klangendum invited Eli Gras to talk about her own music.

This is how it’s done; first ask Eli to make a playlist of songs, that ran all through her career, play the song in the show, ask her about it… It’s almost ‘normal’ radio stuff… It resulted in a very entertaining and interesting story about one artist’s artistic life…

01. Camp
. 02. Osos. 
03. Muneca. 
04. Etnia Improv fragment – Etnia
. 05. Insectes
. 06. Hawai Sustitos
. 07. Taxi
. 08. Bicicleta Robada. 
09. Puente – Baranda
. 10. Baby Elephant. 
11. Improv Fragment – The Shower Sisters
. 12. Calixto. 
13. Me Gusta – Motor Combo. 
14. Run Run
(all songs by Eli Gras, unless dedicated otherwise)

ELI GRAS BIO;

Multidisciplinary artist, Eli has worked in several creative fields.

In addition to being a member of Motor Combo (with Florenci Salesas, electro-pop-dadá), Eli works the solo projects “UnPop” (dada-folk, “one band girl”) and have played in many venues and festivals around Europe as Sonic (DK), Worldtronics (DE), Experimentaclub (ES), Blurred Edges (DE), Vigo Jazz Fest. Imaxinasons (ES), Jardins Efémeros (POR), Lab30 (DE), Sonar (ES), LEM (ES)… and did residences at Worm (ND), Estruch (ES), De Perifeer (ND), Sonoscopia (POR) or Champ des Possibles (FR).
She is mainly a composer, experimental luthier DIY person, and built/performs her sound and visual installation “Peeled Piano” and “Saló Sonor” currently working together with Mar Morey (visuals),  as well as solo experimental improvisation music performances and workshops/talks (children/adults).

Aside from musical projects and sonic experimentation, she has also been involved in some other creative areas, like graphic design, script writer for animation films, special effects assistant for publicity, radio, illustrator, photographer, videographer…

Onafhankelijke geluidskunst, radiofonische projecten en andere audio-non-visuele misverstanden en vondsten.

#443. Christmas Special! What fits better in these horrible hot times then a cold shower with beautiful chrismas songs.

01. jingle bells  – Prysknaller.
 02. Baby Jesus – Matthew Sweet.
 03. Don’t give me no goose for christmas – The Korn Kobblers.
 04. In the hot sun of a christmas day – Caetano Veloso.
 05. Chrismtmas Commercial – John Baker.
 06. Gelk (excerpt) – Autechre.
 07. Bumble Boogie – The Roto Rooter Good Time Christmas Band.
 08. Schoolboy Bob’s christmas torture/Dance On The Foetus – Itsa Miserable Day.
 09. The Real Christmas – R Stevie Moore.
 10. Trappenhuis – Liana Flu Winks.
 11. How right and real the christmas tree – R Stevie Moore.
 12. Himmelfahrt – Hirckenbach/Hitz.
 13. Mensa – Harry Merry (and band).
 14. Riffs and More – Goh Lee Kwang, Julien Ottavi, Lukas Simonis. 
15. From Nowhere – Phoe Jeebee and Dj Pausa.

#442. Onafhankelijke geluidskunst, radiofonische projecten en andere audio-non-visuele misverstanden en vondsten.

1. PERVERSE ANIMALS #2 The Ireland Tapes.

2. Stubnitz Benefiet Tracks.

3. An island In The Moon door Lucinda Guy (excerpt).

Onafhankelijke geluidskunst, radiofonische projecten en andere audio-non-visuele misverstanden en vondsten.