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Honeybees at London’s SAVOIR FAYRE

The Savoir Fayre - enough buying, let's learn! Organised by Lynn Chambers, this fair took place on August 9, 2008 at the Hackney City Farm. The idea is the sharing of knowledge and making rather than money or finished products. Free entry to the Fayre offered Londoners the chance to learn how to fix their bike, make their own pinata, learn how to knit, how to do stop-frame animation, among many other exciting things for all ages. The atmosphere was buzzing, not least because there were hundreds of bees busy showing how they make honey - live. We hope the Savoir Fayre comes around again soon. #

Play 3:42 min, AAIR 9/8/2008

Peter Cusack & A Catastrophic Silence

Lecture by Peter Cusack, Senior Lecturer Sound Arts & Design at the London College of Communication, as invited by the AA Summer School unit 'A Catastrophic Silence' run by Steve Bates, Joshua Bonnetta, and Douglas Moffat (http://catastrophicsilence.tumblr.com). Peter talks through his own projects exploring the sounds characteristic to different cities and the role these sounds play in the lives of the city inhabitants. Your Favorite London Sound and Your Favorite Beijing Sound are followed by another of Peter's research into the sonic conditions of what he terms 'Dangerous Places' - urban environments which have experienced sudden and major devastation. Peter Cusack, based in London, works as a sound artist, musician and environmental recordist with a special interest in environmental sound and acoustic ecology. Projects move from community arts to research into the contribution of sound to our senses of place to recordings that document areas of special sonic interest, e.g. Lake Baikal, Siberia, and Xinjang, China’s most western province. Recently involved in 'Sound & the City' the British Council sound art project in Beijing 2005. His current project 'Sounds From Dangerous Places’ examines the soundscapes of sites of major environmental damage, e.g. Chernobyl, the Azerbaijan oil fields, controversial dams on the Tigris and Euphratees river systems in south east Turkey. #

Play 105:51 min, Ema Bonifacic 18/7/2008

Bauhaus Archive

An introduction to the next clip 'Bauhaus Reviewed', for everybody who feels that they still might need one. Paul McCarthy in Hamburger Bahnhof, audio guide to Bauhaus Archive in Berlin and M.A. Numminen who sings poems by Heinrich Heine. #

Play 20:13 min, Taneli Mansikkamaki 8/2/2008

Berliner Philharmonie and Daniel Barenboim’s Grand Piano

Inter 1 in Berlin, October 2007. Everything you have ever wanted to know about the main concert hall of Hans Scharoun's Berliner Philharmonie, with a soundtrack done by the great conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim's --- tuner. The main concert hall is in the shape of a pentagon and the stage is at the center of the hall. The acoustics are excellent; from every seat the sound is nearly equally great. The recording is from the furthest end of the hall. #

Play 15:30 min, Taneli Mansikkamaki 14/1/2008

SAG DOCH AUCH MAL WAS! ODER DAS LUXURIEREN DER BASTARDE

By Hermann Bohlen. "The radio piece, or Hšrspiel, consists of private tape recordings of the sixties and early seventies. At that time, the old fashioned recorders with big reels were widely used among families. They served the same purpose as video does today: to document the development of the kids, dogs and grandparents. Some people also used it as diary or to record anything occurring on the radio which they thought to be important (besides the top-ten). "Sag doch auch mal was!", English for "Say something!" was one of the most common phrases to be found on the recordings. In thrift-stores and fleamarkets Bohlen collected more than 30 hours of material - additional to some twenty hours from his own and friends’ families. In collage- technic, this dirty stuff, the different voices from all over the country, east and west, were arranged to form a big family, portraying a time that for gods sake is over." Born in 1963, Hermann Bohlen is a German sound artist, and radio writer and producer. He is now based in Berlin. His final diploma thesis was on Onomatopoeia in the Chinese language. This record is a classic and we highly recommend you get yourself an original copy on vinyl - visit www.90-prozent-wasser.de #

Play 26:36 min, AAIR 27/11/2007