Friday 25 May – Monday 28 May 2007
11.30–18:00

Resonance FM will broadcast live from Tate Modern's Starr Auditorium, featuring in-depth interviews with Tate curators, artists, commentators and audiences.  There will be episodes of music and poetry as well as specially commissioned Radio Art by Christof Migone and Sarah Washington; Brazilian language programmes in conjunction with the commission by Marepe and performance staging Hélio Oiticica's Parangolés as well as a youth programme focused on Briand's Spiral. Sunday's panel discussion on Sleep: Warhol/Cage/Satie will also be accessible via the broadcast.

Broadcasts are also available online www.resonancefm.com

 

Friday 25 May

11.30–12.30
Tate Late Breakfast Idea and Object A panel hosted by Cecilia Wee with Mark Nash and David Ryan

12.30–1.00
The Morning After the Night Before  A daily preview programme with in depth interviews by Ed Baxter

1.00–2.00
Graphic Design On the Radio: Adrian Shaughnessy with Rick Poynor

2.00–3.00
Tate Vitrines Bill Furlong talks to Ed Baxter and plays selected recordings from his the Audio Arts Archives

3.00–3.30
Tate Audio Art Gallery Various archival works

3.30–4.00 pre-recorded broadcast
About Last Night Recordings of performances and interviews with artists in the evening programme.

4.00–4.30
Wavelength: Audio miscellany with William English

4.30–5.00
Alex Ressel - RawRadioArt: From a retimed city

5.00–6.00
Shut Your Eyes to Art with Knut Auferman, Tony White, Simon Pope, Freddie Descombe, anon

 

Saturday 26 May

11.30–12.30
Tate Late Breakfast - States of Flux A breakfast show hosted by Cecilia Wee with Lisa le Feuvre, Salome Voegelin and David Mollin

12.30–1.30 pre-recorded broadcast
The Morning After the Night Before A daily preview programme with in depth interviews by Ed Baxter.

1.30–2.00 pre-recorded broadcast
Tate Audio Art Gallery various archival works…

2.00–2.45 pre-recorded broadcast
Tate Radio Art Commission, Foursome by Christof Migone in which he invites four choreographers to translate Beckett’s wordless movement piece Quad for a radio audience.

2.45–3.30 pre-recorded broadcast
About Last Night - Recordings of performances and interviews with artists in the evening programme.

2.45–4.30 pre-recorded broadcast
Spiral Scratched - recordings, interviews and mashups; made in context of Mathieu Briand’s SYS*011. Mie>AbE/SoS\ SYS*010, aka the Spiral

4.30–5.00
RawRadioArt - Oscillatorial Binnage presentCorrosion Suite Live

4.30–5.00
Shut Your Eyes to Art Conceptual round table discussion with Knut Aufermann, Bob & Roberta Smith, Xper.Xr and Robin McGinley

 

Sunday 27 May

11.30–12.30
Tate Late Breakfast - Material Gestures A breakfast show hosted by Cecilia Wee with Andrew Rentonand and Cyril Lepetit

12.30–1.30 pre-recorded broadcast
The Morning After the Night Before A daily preview programme with in depth interviews by Ed Baxter.

1.30–2.30 pre-recorded broadcast

Tate Vitrines Bill Furlong talks to Ed Baxter and plays a selection of recordings from the Audio Arts Archives

2.00–2.30 pre-recorded broadcast
About Last Night Recordings of performances and interviews with artists in the evening programme.

3.00–5.00
Sleep: Warhol/Cage/Satie Panel Discussion
This is a ticketed event please purchase tickets online, by phone or in the foyer on the day

5.00–6.00
Shut Your Eyes to Art Conceptual round table discussion with Knut Aufermann, Grant Newman, Terry Smith and Kersten Glandien

 

Monday 28 May

11.30–12.30
Tate Late Breakfast A panelhosted by Tetine

12.30–1.30 pre-recorded broadcast
The Morning After the Night Before A daily preview programme with in depth interviews by Ed Baxter

1.30–2.30 pre-recorded broadcast
Tate Radio Art Commission, Foursome by Christof Migone in which he invites four choreographers to translate Beckett’s wordless movement piece Quad for a radio audience.

3.15–3.30 pre-recorded broadcast
Tate Vox Pops

3.30–4.00
Tate Radio Art Commission, Hearing in Tongues, Speaking in Ears Commissioned artist Sarah Washington presents Julia Lee Barclay and Apocryphal Theatre

4.00–4.30
RawRadioArt -Max O'Brien & Tom Besley

5.00–6.00
Shut Your Eyes to Art Conceptual round table discussion with Knut Aufermann, Sebastian Craig, Salome Voegelin and others

Broadcasts are also available online www.resonancefm.com

 

 

Sarah Washington is inviting people to email in their quotes and thoughts on Art that she will then use in her live performance on Monday 28, 3.30pm at Tate Modern. See below for how to contribute!

Tate Online Radio Art Commissions in conjunction with Resonance 104.4 FM
Launching as part of UBS Openings: The Long Weekend 2007

Foursome by Christof Migone

Broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM in monthly episodes, launching on 26 May 2007 14.00–14.30 and 28 May 2007 14.30–15.00.
Archived on Tate Online

Foursome, a radio work by Christof Migone in which he invites four choreographers to translate Beckett’s wordless movement piece Quad for a radio audience. They perform various attempts: describing in words as they watch the piece and then from memory, moving in space and on the page, circling around a microphone and then the microphone circling around them. The empty center which is avoided at all costs in Quad is here embodied by a piece which surrounds another without ever taking hold of it. Foursome is a disorienting, disordered, and disarticulated narrative where interpretation is foregrounded. A quadraphonic quadrangle where voices, paces, and noises are intertwined to concoct a radio portrait of a most un-radiogenic work. Foursome will be presented in four installments scheduled at two month intervals. Each episode will trace its unique trajectory, always meandering and provisional.

Christof Migone is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. His work and research delves into language, voice, bodies, performance, intimacy, complicity, endurance. He co-edited the book and CD Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language (Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Press, 2001) and his writings have been published in Aural Cultures, S:ON, Experimental Sound & Radio, Musicworks, Radio Rethink, Semiotext(e), Angelaki, etc. He obtained an MFA from NSCAD in 1996 and a PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University in 2007. He has released six solo audio cds on various labels (Avatar, ND, Alien 8, Locust, Oral). He has curated a number of events in the sound and radio arts: Touch that Dial (1990), Radio Contortions (1991), Rappel (1994), Double Site (1998), stuttermouthface (2002). He has performed at Beyond Music Sound Festival (Los Angeles), kaaistudios (Brussels), Resonance FM (London), Nouvelles Scènes (Dijon), On the Air (Innsbruck), Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), Experimental Intermedia (NYC), Méduse (Québec), Victoriaville Festival, and in Montreal at Radio Canada, Quinzaine de la Voix, Musiques Fragiles, Galerie Oboro, Casa del Popolo, Théâtre La Chapelle, etc. His installations have been exhibited at the Banff Center, Rotterdam Film Festival, Gallery 101, Art Lab, eyelevelgallery, Forest City Gallery, Studio 5 Beekman. He has collaborated with Lynda Gaudreau, Martin Tétreault, Tammy Forsythe, Alexandre St-Onge, Michel F. Côté, Gregory Whitehead, Set Fire To Flames, and Fly Pan Am. A monograph on his work, Christof Migone - Sound Voice Perform, was published in 2005. In 2006, the Galerie de l¹UQAM presented a retrospective on his work accompanied by a catalog and a DVD. He currently lives in Montréal and teaches at Concordia University.
http://www.christofmigone.com/index_cm.html

Hearing in Tongues, Speaking in Ears
Sarah Washington presents Julia Lee Barclay and Apocryphal Theatre.

Live participatory performance, Tate Modern Starr Auditorium and broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM on 28 May 2007 15.30–16.00

In recent years cultural radio has witnessed a renaissance and as part of this today's radio makers have begun to reinvent the stage as a site for live broadcast. New independent stations are invigorating old radio ways and presenting opportunities for many voices to be heard. This live radio event compliments Sarah Washington's Hearing in Tongues series of recorded radio works for the Tate Modern, through which she creates a new Babel - a transmutation of language from ancient Greek to computer code through which the voice multiplies and cracks open for many interpretations.

For our on-air show we take one language - English - and attempt to extract extra meaning from the words we commonly speak. What will happen if we expose our prejudices about a cultural behemoth such as the Tate Modern? Does art rule the day, or are we fixed in a world of cliché? Through the artifice of word-play we bring you a theatre of radio. If you have ever longed to grace the airwaves, then come and play language with us. Otherwise, you are free to enjoy the live radio buzz while you sit back and soak up our choice of words and creation of new meanings.

All are welcome to contribute clichés about art during the show, or to give them in written form in advance. Expose the current notions of 'modern art', 'intellectuals', 'women artists', 'male preserve', 'art institutions', 'working class heroes', 'art school posers' or anything else concerning artists/art, intellectuals/academia or modernism.

Email your clichés to: artcliche@hotmail.com

Hearing in Tongues by Sarah Washington

Broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM in weekly episodes launching on 28 May 2007 and archived on Tate Online

Everyday we encounter many languages and we generate many understandings. Often we strive for some sort of universal language, yet there is much to gain from the destruction of the Tower of Babel. When we adopt another's native tongue the new language mutates, liquefies our long-held definitions and transforms our consciousness. We are stimulated by our encounters with alien concepts, and are inspired by rich mental spikes of misinterpretation.

Due to innumerable cultural factors there can be no honest attempt to realize the pure concept of a universal language. Looking at language differently, the avant-garde have long sought to free words from meaning. Can we make a dishonest attempt at universal language by inviting language to take itself apart? Can an 'art of voices' communicate to the entire human race?

This radio series is a recreation of Babel - one tongue becomes many. We begin with an ancient tongue and zoom through to the present day; with each progression the voice increases in intensity and the languages multiply. A transmutation of voice from ancient Greek to computer code which cracks open for many interpretations.

Sarah Washington is an improvising musician and electronic instrument builder, who lectures and gives workshops in Circuit Bending. She plays with the international groups Responge, P Sing Cho, Feedback People and The Owl Service as well as the duo Tonic Train and performing solo. Sarah is also a radio artist, who has produced hundreds of hours of live and recorded programmes for Resonance 104.4FM, London’s art radio station which she helped to create. She now acts on behalf of the station forming new radio art projects with other independent radio stations across Europe, and is producing itinerant broadcasts with Tonic Train’s new venture – Mobile Radio.

www.mobile-radio.net
www.radia.fm

Apocryphal Theatre was formed in July 2004 as a theatre laboratory under the direction of Julia Lee Barclay to explore further techniques in the creation of experimental theatre, with a focus on levels of presence. The primary goal of Apocryphal Theatre (which means, among other things, ‘of dubious authorship’) is to make visible the received reality grid of our daily lives, in other words anything about which we say ‘that’s the way it is’, regarding issues personal and political, through creating work which aims to enact a process of becoming rather than represent a static nature of being, the hope being we can see how we construct the very language with which we create the world around us, listening for the voices which have not yet formed, not yet been heard but nonetheless can call to us in an as yet undefined language which is perhaps no less real or pressing to our unsaid experience of this life.

www.flyingoutofsequence.org/aboutus.html

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
Free, no bookings taken