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Radio Concrete
Hosted by Hagai Izenberg · EN
Radio Concrete is a monthly experimental radio show, broadcasted at Resonance Extra (UK), Halas AM (ISR) and Wave Farm/WGXC (NY).
It's focus is on sounds which people are exposed to on a daily basis in a spontaneous and unplanned manner; from the immediate surroundings, the street and the radio.
Fresh raw materials including field recordings of our everyday routine, samples from tv & radio, news editions and advertisements are all gathered on a regular basis and then mixed together with live sources (FM and AM stations and other live online streaming sources) and objects (such as amplified/hacked toys).
Hagai is a sound artist, composer and musician and a founder member of the electronic band Rendezvous
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Radio Concrete #60 - Hybrid Moments #5
Dec 1500:28:59Tap to summarizeThis episode features original music by Or Rimer, a Tel Aviv-based musician and composer born in 1986 . Rimer is active in several local bands and projects, collaborating with a wide range of artists—including filmmakers, choreographers, and visual and performance artists—creating unique scores and soundscapes. Beyond his music, he also coaches football. Or Rimer opposes the genocide in Gaza. Music: Ghedalia Tazartes,,Corsican Women's Polyphonies,Laurie Anderson,Yuli Novak,fire,Steve Reich,Joseph Kudrica,Fire,Lungfish,Or Rimer.
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Radio Concrete #59 - Snezhana Reizen - Antenna
Sep 1900:29:00Tap to summarizeIntroducing a special Radio Concrete episode by Snezhana Reizen. Antenna. The madness of the day.. “Antenna” is a series of works on transduction with the sole sound source taking place - radio waves. Here I was devoured by discontinuity and discharge inherent to the "miracle of the wireless. the omnipresence.. the overleaping of frontiers” - the radio, like it was marked by R. Arnheim. This piece emerged in two phases: the first one can be called a transduction - a process of conveying potential energy from discharge into a signal. It was a spontaneous live radio-noise set recorded close to the closed shelter. This summer I found myself stuck in between absence and presence in amplified senses, confronting the avalanche of the noises erupting on us by this world, facing the chaos, “embracing alienation”, holding a degree of disbelief.. that this "disparity can be modulated”.. Yet, seeking the perceptual transmutation. Biologists say there are two phases for the perception, so that after transduction of the signal, a transformation should take its place. Following this logic, the second phase of this work appeared as an improvised procession with effects and filters - a real-time mix-ture, with slight subsequent recombinations. If there's something one can call a ground for this piece, besides its sound source, it dwells upon a chance. It is a conversation with a present moment beyond the borders by a flying carpet of propagating radio waves. "Antenna" was created drawing on ambisonic spatialisation with a mixed approach, so that some sounds move through in a chaotic manner, while the trajectories of others were meticulously calibrated. In doing so, I did not seek to determine the exact location or direction for each sound particle, but rather to underline the traces - their nomadic movements within the whole sphere of the revealed ensemble. Follow Snezhana Reizen: https://www.alienationindex.xyz/reizen https://www.instagram.com/snezhanareizen?igsh=ZGc4eXB0NmxmbjRk
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Radio Concrete 56 - Stefan Voglsinger
Oct 10, 202400:29:00Tap to summarizeThis episode features solo live recordings by Stefan Voglsinger, captured over the past seven years across the globe, and remixed and edited by Hagai Izenberg. Exclusively released and archived on Radio Concrete, Resonance Extra (UK). Stefan Voglsinger *1986 is a musician and performer based in Vienna. He studied drums at the Vienna Music Institute, Music & Movement Pedagogy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and Sound for Films at the Escuela internacional de Cine y Television in Cuba. He focuses on interdisciplinary experiments working with sound and image, developing performances or audiovisual installations including selfbuilt or hacked electronic circuits. At Setzkasten he modifies analog film projectors, works in the darkroom and the sound studio. As a curator he organizes regularly concerts and transdisciplinary evenings, holds Circuit Cooking soldering workshops in schools and at festivals. He works at the Filmmuseum Vienna, is co-curator of Klangmanifeste and plays with The Vegetable Orchestra. https://voglsinger.klingt.org https://www.hagaizenberg.com
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Radio Concrete #55 - Ilan Barkani
Aug 15, 202400:29:00Tap to summarizeThis episode features original sounds by Ilan Barkani. Barkani is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, improviser and teacher, living and working in Jerusalem, a founding member of the artist collective "Sedek", and a member of the interdisciplinary collaborative ensemble “Ptilia". "A geography of sound [...] is the geography of encounters, misses, happenstance and events: invisible trajectories and configurations between people and things, unfolding in the dimension of the actual while formlessly forming the dimensions of its possibility" - Salomé Voegelin, The Political Possibility of Sound In this piece, called ‘halls (joining)’, Barkani continues his exploration of combining field recordings and minimal/reductionist instrumentals, to compose and perform imagined, semi-coincidental, (what Voegelin calls) “impossible territories”. Radio Concrete by Hagai Izenberg is a monthly experimental radio show broadcasted on Resonance Extra, focusing on live mixing and processing of field recordings together with contemporary music and soundscapes. https://ilan-barkani.bandcamp.com/ https://www.hagaizenberg.com/
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Radio Concrete #54 - Snezhana Reizen - Lost Letter
Jun 13, 202400:29:01Tap to summarizeA new piece called Lost Letter, composed by Snezhana for this episode of Radio Concrete. The following are her words about that: -- To describe the process in which I was involved here, I would need to convey some details of the setting and the basic materials that formed the backbone of this piece. In the beginning, there were noises appearing between unconnected wires (an additional and sort of premortal material to my upcoming album “Parallel Movements”) I found some of the themes this material suggested, such as the desperate seeking of connection in disconnection or beauty in noise or meaning in life full of war, fairly corresponding with what is going on in general or what i can perceive from my current environment in particular. So these sources were fertilised with Israeli radio, military helicopters severing the night sky, smithereens of debris and bird’s voices, and various sounds of 'human and not' presence and not. There were some attempts to reverse signifiers of sound in an acousmatic manner so that rolling stones of “go-game” appeared as breathing or speeded human heartbeat as erupting calvary. Water, though, was included in its literalness as a fragrance of hope to the deserted. The water here is Sicilian — a good memory from the Oooh and RARA improvisation art festivals. But besides processing concrete sounds, closer to the end, I allowed myself a bit of sound synthesis. .. “Lost Letter” is the second chapter of my new series “Cryptography”.
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Radio Concrete 53 - Or Rimer (3)
Apr 15, 202400:29:32Tap to summarizeThis episode features original music by the Or Rimer. Rimer, born in 1986, is a musician and composer based in Tel Aviv who plays in several bands and works with a variety of artists, including video and film makers, choreographers, and visual and performance artists, for whom he creates original scores and soundscapes. He also trains soccer teams. Radio Concrete by Hagai Izenberg is a monthly experimental radio show broadcasted on Resonance Extra - which deals with live mixing and processing of field recordings together with radio broadcasting and concrete sounds. www.hagaizenberg.com/
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Radio Concrete 52 - Izenberg & Sesper
Mar 12, 202400:29:00Tap to summarizeThis episode is composed by Izenberg out of flexi-discs, synthesizers and live radio sampling. Using a few flexi discs including ones found in old National Geographic and Psychology magazines I’ve crafted a few short pieces from found sounds. Last piece includes Alex Cruz Sesper on tapes and synthesizer. Radio Concrete is a monthly experimental radio show, broadcasted at Resonance Extra (UK), Halas AM (ISR) and Wave Farm/WGXC (NY). It's focus is on sounds which people are exposed to on a daily basis in a spontaneous and unplanned manner; from the immediate surroundings, the street and the radio.
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Radio Concrete #51 - Karmen Ponikvar
Feb 21, 202400:29:01Tap to summarizeSpecial episode of Radio Concrete composer by Karmen Ponikvar. Symphony of clicks and bleeps echoing from the voltage control studio, modulated field recordings, disembodied voices, re-mixed radio samples and cassette sounds. Through decontextualization and reconstruction, I aim to translate the environment and its natural state of disorder. Tape manipulation, tape loops and sampling techniques are used. Juxtaposing raw, unaltered material and its modulated counterparts serves to create a dynamic interplay, inviting listeners to traverse the boundaries between real and imaginary. Samples from: Female voice and viola, The Swamp in June, Jingles & Génériques, Radio Play Excerpt by Ulrike Haage on Eva Hesse, 180º, Jaap Vink and Recording of Shortwave Numbers Stations. more Radio Concrete at: https://open.spotify.com/show/2XsFbXXL8vXwB7PD6hc4UR https://www.hagaizenberg.com/
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Radio Concrete #49 - Assaf Shatil
Nov 13, 202300:29:00Tap to summarizeThis set is a collage of excerpts from chamber works, installations and field recordings by Assaf Shatil edited by Hagai Izenberg and Assaf Shatil. https://assafshatil.bandcamp.com/ Assaf Shatil is an interdisciplinary composer, pianist, improviser, singer/songwriter and educator based in Tel Aviv, Israel. His practice intersects sound and poetry, investigating the intricacies of performance as a liminal space imbued with aspects of ritual, contemplation, and transfigured temporality. Premieres of his work have been performed by ensembles such as Musica Nova(Israel), Israel Contemporary Players, The Jerusalem Symphony, Jack Quartet(NYC), WasteLAnd(LA), The Sound ensemble(Seattle), Ninth Planet(SF) and others. He completed his DMA in music composition at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he worked with Larry Polansky, Michelle Lou and David Evan Jones. Excerpts from: Gardens Propeller/ Woods Waves/ Myers Duo Analogue Mountains FSH Rain Etude - maybe one more distant quiet now dreaming Midrash - Jacob’s Ladder How to assemble an Opera? El Toch Yam Repent Insects in Shavei Zion Ravel Ostinato Porto Etude (In) One Movement Oto Leviathan The Aleph
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Radio Concrete #48 - Eyal Cohen
Aug 10, 202300:29:00Tap to summarizeEyal Cohen is a multidisciplinary artist based in Jerusalem: "Fuelled by a curiosity to explore the interplay between our world and the sounds it generates, I've crafted sonic 'etudes' that blend various artistic practices, incorporating edited field recordings, samples, and curated YouTube videos. The final segment of the chapter, spanning the last four minutes, features a musical contribution from Shaul Dahan's album." Special thanks to Neomi Ela Dery for lending her voice in both English and French.
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