A composition imagining gestures, an anthropological archive of the body, as sound objects, predominantly through an acousmatic approach to the deconstruction and reconstruction of field/phone recordings, using the CD and CDJ as a tool or instrument for real-time manipulation, re-recording and improvisation, highlighting the musical potential of seemingly trivial real world sounds.

A sound situation extracting and trapping gestures from a socio-cultural landscape into an unpredictable set of sonic objects, continuously re-arranged and re-choreographed in time.

This radio piece is in direct relation to Milic’s expanded cinema performance INSCRIPTION, ENDURING; POTENTIAL which centers on gesture as holder of subtle cultural memory and history (the body as an anthropological and sociological archive) using found footage to practice experimental autoethnography – extracting glimpses of gestural movement from super8 home movies and interconnecting them in multi-projections.

“Gesture is the name of this intersection between life and art, act and power, general and particular, text and execution. It is a moment of life subtracted from the context of individual biography as well as a moment of art subtracted from the neutrality of aesthetics: it is pure praxis. The gesture is neither use value nor exchange value, neither biographic experience nor impersonal event: it is the other side of the commodity that lets the “crystals of this common social substance” sink into the situation.” (Giorgio Agamben)

Geanina Gypt is a leftfield music project of artist and DJ Maja Milić, fueled by a hardcore use of loops, extensive resampling, deconstruction and creating rhythms by misuse and destruction of samples or trivial sonic elements of reality, as well as the use of DJ equipment as tool for real-time manipulation of prerecorded sound (improvisation of an improvisation), mostly on tapes and CD.

She uses radio as a space for releasing music in long form or testing conceptual ideas, often intermedial (like, broadcast of images or live happenings), through her show Gypt Sessions on Berlin’s artist radio reboot.fm, and sometimes through Intruder Sessions, which is an irregular intrusion of the radio with spontaneous sets or concepts. She started to self-release tapes under Gypt Records.

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