SUNDAY, 6. Mai 2001, 23:00. - 24:00, Ö1 and online www.kunstradio.at
"Social Music"
"Social Setup"
by and with Achim Wollscheid
"It is my intention to look at "radio" as an
"instrument", as kind of a tool - and not to, as it's usually
done, consider it as a (neutral) multiplier between a sender and a
receiver - to consider it as a tool, whose different modes of function
become actual when activated in an experimental manner. Because music
can't be imagined without a social background, it's present total
integration in the media as an important function within the social
apparatus poses the question: under which conditions does the
interpretation of the term "social" take place? This even more
so because in the "social music" project artists from different
cultural areas participate, and so the interpretations of what
"social" is, quite naturally, differ. There is no such thing as
an explicit topic or issue for this broadcast - in the sense of something
being spoken about. It's rather something which is spoken into.
"Into" not in the sense of a direction, but as an attempt to
create a more or less stable connection between the different forms of
studio equipment, and to deliver an example for a discretion of
hierarchies." (Achim Wollscheid)
"Social Setup" is part 1 of the Kunstradio-series
"Social Music", curated by Brandon LaBelle.
Production of art and especially of music often takes place in an
isolated space. Artists in their work process often sever their ties with
social reality intentionally. In this series Brandon LaBelle - Los
Angeles based artist - introduces artists and musicians working with
opposite methods: intentionally creating contacts and taking up social
processes, using them as means to produce music. "Social Music"
tries to make relations audible: relations between producer and listener,
between individuum and society.
"Social Setup"
Achim Wollscheid 6.5.2001
"Sociality as Aftereffect"
Minoru Sato 10.6.2001
"Death of the Composer"
Brandon LaBelle 8.7.2001
"Social <- Private -> Public Representation"
Giuseppe Ielasi 2.9.2001
"Secret Sounds of Music"
Michel Henritzti 7.10.2001