Radia show 1055: "Ojú Oró" by Ajítẹnà (Rádio Zero)

Ojú Oró, three pieces by Brazilian artist Ajítẹnà (Marco Scarassatti) featuring special partnerships offers a dive into his partilhar sound world.

The first, Ojú Oró, Strength and Sorrow, is part of the recent album Notes from a distant listening, released by Sirr-ecords label, and featuring Maya Quilolo. This work emerges as a poetic construction of lived, intuited, and imagined spaces, shaped by listening, memory, documentation, archiving, and invention. It is a journey through the layers of listening, the ways of recording, and the attempt to create a listening situation based on sonic fragments gathered from real places, recordings of improvisations, and (re)visits to a repertoire of recordings found in my personal archives—transforming the ordinary into raw material for invention.

The second sound piece is Arisca, from the yet unreleased album Beira, an improvisational album recorded and produced remotely, the result of a collaboration between singer Inés Terra, who explores a multitude of vocal sounds, and sound artist Ajítẹnà (aka Marco Scarassatti), who plays on this track the instrument he invented, called ẹlẹyẹ, or bird-trough. Beira will be released soon by the Scatter Archive and Brava labels.

At last, Txãi kamã kuru, from the album Ni yuxibū xinã rewe, by Ibã Huni Kuin, master of chant from Huni Kui indigenous amazonian people and Ajítẹnà and released by Sirr-ecords. Ni yuxibū xinã rewe which in Portuguese means Sounds of the Spirit of the Forest, emerged from an initial contact between Ajítẹnà and Ibã, in 2016 when recording the chants of Nixi Pae (Ayahuasca), in Porto Seguro, Bahia., Brazil.

Ajítẹnà Marco Scarassatti is a sound artist, composer and researcher whose work spans through unique constructed sculptures and instruments, installations and sound emblems. He is a lecturer at the Federal University of Minas Gerais – UFMG, Brazil

Each week one member of the Radia Network produces a show for all the others. The Radia Network emerged from a series of meetings, clandestine events, late-night club discussions, and a lot of email exchanges between cultural radio producers across Europe. The topics vary and the reasons for forming a network are many, but Radia has become a concrete manifestation of the desire to use radio as an art form. The approaches differ, as do the local contexts; from commissioned radio art works to struggles for frequencies to copyright concerns, all the radios share the goal of an audio space where something different can happen. That different is also a form in the making––radio sounds different in each city, on each frequency. Taking radio as an art form, claiming that space for creative production in the mediascape and cracking apart the notion of radio, is what Radia does.

It is producing radio stuff that is hard to describe. Some of it can be labeled radio art, or experimental radio, or creative radio. Sometimes it talks, sometimes it doesn’t. It can be noisy, or a kind of soundscape, or a documentary, a document, a talk, a performance. Each and every week, one of the partners will provide the network program, commissioned and produced especially for this purpose: being broadcast by all the partners and made available online.

Some things have to be said about all those partners. They are radio stations, of the independent, non-commercial, community, cultural species. They all speak different languages, and this should create interesting problems. Although initially they were all European radio stations this has changed over time, and Radia has become not only larger but also more diverse: 22 partners in 14 countries and growing all the time.

Radia Stations

* Duuu (Paris, FR)
* ∏node (Mulhouse, Paris, FR)
* Diffusion (Sydney, AU)
* JET FM (Nantes, FR)
* Kanal 103 (Skopje, MK)
* Orange 94.0 (Vienna, AT)
* Radio Campus (Brussels, BE)
* Radio Grenouille (Marseille, FR)
* Radio Helsinki (Graz, AT)
* Radio One 91 FM (Dunedin, NZ)
* Radio Panik (Brussels, BE)
* Radio Papesse (Firenze, IT)
* Radio Student (Ljubljana, SI)
* radio x (Frankfurt/Main, DE)
* Rádio Zero (Lisboa, PT)
* RadioWORM (Rotterdam, NL)
* Reboot.fm (Berlin, DE)
* Resonance FM (London, UK)
* Soundart Radio (Dartington, UK)
* TEA FM (Zaragoza, ES)
* Usmaradio (San Marino, SM)
* Wave Farm WGXC 90.7-FM (New York, USA)

Affiliates

* Kunstradio (Vienna, AT)
* Mobile Radio (Ürzig, DE)
* Radioart106 (Haifa, PS48)

More information at http://radia.fm