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Radio Italia 1

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Track list Radio Italia 1

LINK TO AUDIO

Intro, sasha p

Air France take off from Vancouver. Sasha Petrenko

S Cowan Quan Anticipation, 2024

Carly Simon Anticipation, 1971

Laila White The Big Show, 2024

Nya Mace, Early Morning, 2024

Elliot Davis, Sounds of home, 2024

Ella True, Anticipation, 2024

Kayla Bunton, Many Bugs, 2024

Dylan Werts, Anticipation, 2024

Natasha Karkoski, Anticipatio.N7

Hello friends, it’s Sasha P. We’re back and we’re world wide broadcasting today from Florence Italy with the first of 5 segments featuring original soundscapes and freshtracks. Tonight I’ve picked out a few to get us going. With the theme of anticipation. I’m over here, in Italia, with my intermedia art class, and Professor Cara Jaye, for 4 weeks!

Before we left Washington state, last Friday, wow, that feels like so long ago, I asked my my students to create short audio art works that encapsulate the feeling or feelings of anticipation. All of their responses touch on the many ways we were feeling, coping, managing, in this moment, packing up to leave home. For more than a few of us, we cast our ballots on the way to the airport, since they arrived on the eve of our departure.

What you’ll hear next includes the following, a field recording I made at take-off from the Vancouver Airport, a sonic lift off by S Cowan Quan, Carly Simon’s great song Anticipation, leading into Laila Whites Big Show. Next Nya Mace makes a found sound collage about greeting the morning that you can dance to, and Elliot Davis shares with us some sounds of home. Ella True’s track features sounds of a candle being lit, a tub being drawn, a river rushing and a roommate stums the guitar, followed by Kayla Bunton’s sound poem about bugs bugs bugs. We wrap things up with another sound poem, by Dylan Werts, who really does have a way with words, and Natasha Karkoski, using just her voice and a beat squencer, delivers us to a new land.

The last tracks include a field recording of our Air France plane landing, with the awesome and epitomous Air France landing song by L’Imperatrice called Vanille Fraise. Thank you for flying with us! I’ll play these now with no interuptions. So sit back, relax, and enjoy your flight.

 

Sound Walk #1

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Tuesday October 1st Sound Walk

Fairhaven Park / 100 Acre Woods

Some guidelines for Soundwalking:

No Talking. Let’s hold our silence like a secret!

Try to give each other enough space to hear your own footsteps.

Walk as if your feet have ears!

Listen without expectations or judgement, without the need to define or categorise.

Listen with your heart.

When soundwalking you are listening to your own hearing self and the environment. You are part of the soundscape too.

If anyone asks what you are doing, tell them, “we are on a sound walk.”

Sound Hunting:

Halfway through our walk I will make a sound and we will change from soundwalking to soundhunting!

Try to identify at least one example of 3 kinds of sounds:

Biophony  Sounds made by more than human living organisms like animals, trees, insects.

Anthropophony (anne-throw-puff-o-phone-E)  Sounds made by humans, directly, like talking, singing and indirectly, like traffic and construction noise.

Geophony:  Sounds made by natural elements, water, earth, fire, air.

During our soundhunt, make mental notes of what sounds you hear and what type of sound they are. What is the most common sound? What is the least common sound? What sound surprised you?

I will lead us on a route that makes a loop inside 100 Acre Woods. Once we get back to the amphitheater we can let go of our secret silence.