Radio Lovers
article about my relationship with radio written for the thesis "sketch in tune" by Giovanna Nicosia ( March 2008)
talking about my relationship with the radio is like replace the shelf of my life, cities, friends, discoveries and especially the music and falling. Before
as a listener then it all started as a conductor in the '80s, there was the "new wave", and tried to follow the wave. Shows such as "Nocturnal Emission" I have opened a world, I have ridden a wave, in which I immersed myself, I've chased for cities all over Europe in search of records, concerts, situations.
listened to the radio in a closet, in the sense that I had blocked the door of the room with a wardrobe which I had removed the bottom. Enter the enclosure was going into the deepest secrets and then shut himself in there with friends was like being in the video for "Close to Me" by The Cure's just that instead of filling up the closet was filled with sounds of water.
1985, one evening in Padua, The Cure in concert. State of Grace. A teen ager between excitement and sadness decides he must communicate his passion, his excitement tinged with anxiety, and radio, will be the means.
few years later my transmission is born while the needles of turntable is beginning to replace the laser compact disc, communication with the audience traveled again by phone and letter, but the electronic age was around the corner.
's atmosphere on the radio (radio SandonĂ ) was one of the cabinet, low lights and loud music through headphones, but he was there with the yellow sponge from scream coming down on the mixer: the microphone. I was surprised because I am a shy and certainly the most taciturn of the company, but in front of the yellow sponge melted me and say things that perhaps would not be without that exit through. I realized that I have the audience only after the first letter received, it was 1989 and I was too young and confused state to understand that from that moment I would not have stopped transmitting.
The nineties were an extraordinary result, the electronic revolution, the disintegration of identity that made the backbone of the twentieth century, global communication and musically the end of the musical waves.
There are more new wave and even no-wave, the wave is because the world itself, the music is endless and causes sea sickness, internet, scanning, makes things more complex (richer?) But
Despite this turbulent ocean will not stop the sweet stems, creating maps of release, accelerating exits techno-worldly, where the mind and body are breathing right to continue the journey into sound.
Introducing "Desertion," knowing that there are no waves to follow but to draw maps.
There are sounds, voices, people we need to find when you're lost in the chaos, because they are part of us, allow you to chain, to find the right rhythm.
So the way I found Radio Sherwood, for me, a legendary radio, many listeners later became collaborators and especially those who made me excited about the radio, or Mirco and Max "Nocturnal Emission".
"Desertion" also becomes "vs Nocturnal Emission" investigating returns, wanderings pulse, looking for an echo of the sound scattered in the global era, creating (im) probable routes of travel.
the radio today, I think, in time of hyper-production semiotics must be able to go to the rhythm of unpredictable mild benefit, and mapping, sounds and emotions to come.
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