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Radio Italia 1

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Track list Radio Italia 1

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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.

Stomp.Stomp.5.20

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Monday, May 20, 2024

DUG Theater (PAC 199)

Doors 1:15PM

SHOW 1:30 – 2:00PM

FREE!

Can’t be there in person?

https://wwu-edu.zoom.us/j/94560058273

Or listen today at 8PM

Over the last 4 weeks 19 Western Washington University students, enrolled in Wood Sculpture, constructed wooden sound boxes and stomp boxes, electro-acoustic instruments of their own design and making. Each box is outfitted with a trashy array of springs, hooks, strings and prongs, and wired for sound with cheap piezo mics to be amplified through a tasty fleet of guitar effects pedals. Their live performance will be collaborative and experimental. It will never be the same again. 

Artists include:  Sofia Aria, Matt Barry, Becca Bertrand, Inez Chiapella, Allison Conner, Emma Duvien, Molly Ellis, Noah Gray, Joie Hackney, Sage Hartman, Natasha Karkoski, Ian Kolar, Sofia Lazzaro, Chase Munsey, Kelsi Nosal, Felix Park, Tayo Sjoberg-Jamison, Cam Stewart, Sofia Witzel

 

Professor Sasha Petrenko

Teaching Assistant Keely Sandoz

Senior Technician Doug Loewen

WOHESC 2024!!!

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This year we are going to be featured at WOHESC 2024!

FREE POPCORN

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and admission. Doors at 4.

Fairhaven Auditorium

Sunday, December 3rd

Heaven and Earth Magic

with live score by Swil Kanim and Lori Goldston

plus student art showcase and panel discussion.

FREE FREE FREE

Recoder: Heaven & Earth Magic

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The program is evolving and will not be finalized until showtime. However, what is known is that we will begin with a live performance and screenings from music and art students at Western, following by a introduction to and discussion on Harry Smith’s work and impact, culminating with the much anticipated performance by Lori Goldston and Swil Kanim, who will create a live score to Smith’s film Heaven and Earth Magic. Doors 4. Show 4:30. Approximate run time 2 hours & 45 minutes.

Light refreshments will be available.

There will be two short breaks before and after the discussion portion.

Panelists will include:

Bret Lundsford, Felicia Youngblood, Mark Miyake, Swil Kanim, Lori Goldston. Moderated by Sasha Petrenko.

Contact: Sasha Petrenko

This event and Sound.Out.Radio are generously supported by WWU’s Sustainability, Equity and Justice Fund. Thank you SEJF!

Heaven and Earth Magic 12/03/2023

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Sound.Out.Radio presents

Recoder: a new sonic event series where we relook and listen to recover and recode with creative reparative action.

Lori Goldston & Swil Kanim performing a live score to Heaven & Earth Magic

With a dynamic mix of sincerity and irony, Seattle composer Lori Goldston and violinist, native storyteller, Swil Kanim present original cello and violin score to films by Harry Smith in honor of his birth centenary year, inspired by his work as framer and amplifier of the sublime craft and beauty of organic indigenous, folk and underground cultures.

Harry Smith on Heaven and Earth Magic

“The first part depicts the heroine’s toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate exposition of the heavenly land, in terms of Israel, Montreal and the second part depicts the return to Earth from being eaten by Max Muller on the day Edward the Seventh dedicated the Great Sewer of London.”

HARRY SMITH CENTENNIAL RUMINATION!

Time & Location

December 3rd, 2023

Doors 4:00, Show 4:30 – 7:30

Fairhaven Auditorium, Fairhaven College

Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, 98225

THIS IS A FREE EVENT. SPACE IS LIMITED.

WHO WAS HARRY SMITH AND WHY SHOULD WE CARE

Harry Everett Smith (May 29, 1923 – November 27, 1991) was  an underground influencer of 20th century music, art and film. He  grew up the Pacific Northwest (Bellingham & Anacortes), then left in the late ’40s to participate in the San Francisco Beat and Greenwich Village creative communities. Smith’s impact on American culture continues, and has accelerated since his death in 1991, with numerous books, music events, museum exhibits, albums and documentaries devoted to his work.

A Grammy winner for lifetime achievement, he was “famous everywhere underground,” in the words of Allen Ginsberg, who recalled: “He was given a moment to make a speech and said very briefly that he was happy to live long enough to see the American political culture affected and moved and shaped somewhat by American folk music, meaning the whole rock-n-roll, Bob Dylan, Beatnik, post-Beatnik youth culture.”

From the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2023 Harry Smith exhibition: “Fragments of a Faith Forgotten:  the Art of Harry Smith”

“Over the course of fifty years, Smith made renegade and innovative use of the changing recording and distribution technologies, from his voracious approach to record collecting to experiments with early tape-recording systems to groundbreaking manipulations of abstraction and collage in film. Smith was an innovator in collecting, organizing, and sequencing images and artifacts that structure the ways we understand and share culture and experiences today. He created a life and practice largely outside of institutions and capitalism, offering an eccentric model for engagement with a society today even further dominated by these systems. Vitally, Smith brought to light and wrestled with—sometimes imperfectly—facets of America’s rich histories, tracing and sharing underappreciated veins of culture often invisible to mainstream society. Very much outside of his time, Smith nonetheless created his own rich vein of American culture that says more about this country, its arts, and its diverse creative communities than nearly any other artist of his time.”

PROGRAM:

Doors 4

Show starts 4:30

Begin with a Student Showcase from the Departments of Music and Studio Art, then a Conversation with Artists and Scholars on Harry Smith, life and work, Followed by an expanded cinema performance by Lori Goldston and Swil Kanim.

Light refreshments will be available.

ARTIST BIOS:

Lori Goldston is a cellist and composer from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist draws connections between far-flung ideas and explores timbral thresholds of her instrument, driven by a restless curiosity and informed by a long, widely varied history of collaborations with bands, ensembles large and small, composers, film makers and choreographers including Earth, Nirvana, the BBC Scottish Symphony, Mirah, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Helms Alee, Jim Fletcher, Christian Rizzo, Maya Dunietz, Jherek Bischoff, Jessika Kenney, Eyvind Kang, Ilan Volkov, David Byrne, Lonnie Holley, Stuart Dempster, Shelley Hirsch, Ghedalia Tezartes, Ellen Fullman, Lynn Shelton and many, many others. Referred to by UK’s  The Quietus as a “ a hugely important character in contemporary music history”, she  performs in the US and abroad, and has released recordings on on Sub Rosa, Woodland Fauna, Marginal Frequency, Yo Yo, K Records, Second Editions, Sub Pop, Mississippi Records, Eiderdown, Substrata, Ed Banger, PIAPTK, SofaBurn, Broken Clover, and No Sun.

Swil Kanim is a US Army Veteran, classically trained violinist, native storyteller and actor, is a member of the Lummi Nation. Because of his unique ability to inspire audiences to express themselves honorably, Swil Kanim is a sought-after keynote speaker for conferences, workshops, school assemblies, and rehabilitation centers. He travels extensively throughout the United States, enchanting audiences with his original composition music and native storytelling. Swil Kanim considers himself and his music to be the product of a well supported public school music program. Music and the performance of music helped him to process the traumas associated with his early placement into the foster care system. Swil Kanim’s compositions incorporate classical influences as well as musical interpretations of his journey from depression and despair to spiritual and emotional freedom. The music and stories that emerge from his experiences have been transforming people’s lives for decades.

Bret Lundsford is an American vocalist, songwriter, guitarist, author and founding member of the influential band Beat Happening and D+. In addition to his own musical endeavors, Lunsford owns and operates Knw-Yr-Own Records, an independent label based in Lunsford’s hometown of Anacortes, Washington, and manages What the Heck Fest, an annual music festival featuring independent and local musicians. He is also a writer of cultural criticism, and author of Images of America, Anacortes. From 1990 to 2005, Lunsford was the owner of The Business record store in Anacortes. In 2021, Lundsford’s book Sounding for Harry Smith: Early Pacific Northwest Influences is a biography of Harry Everett Smith (1923-1991) that explores the mysteries of his Salish Sea youth during the Great Depression years in Anacortes, Washington, was published.

Felicia Youngblood received her PhD in Musicology from Florida State University in 2019, where she was a member of the Fellows Society, a Krebs Scholar, and a graduate assistant with the Program for Instructional Excellence. Her current work evaluates how music sustainability efforts can be used to reclaim traditionally underrepresented voices, for which she received a Presser Foundation Graduate Music Research Award in 2017. In particular, she collaborates with the Club per l’UNESCO di Galatina to analyze how the contributions of women to a centuries-old Southern Italian ritual, known as tarantism. Dr. Youngblood’s research explores how the Club’s tarantism festival and reenactments highlight the voices and essential roles of these women as cornerstones of Apulian identity. An article on this topic, “On Un-Silencing Voices: Tarantismo and the Gendered Heritage of Apulia,” was published in the journal Folk Life in March 2019. Youngblood is associate professor of Musicology/Ethnomusicology, Musicology Area Coordinator at Western Washington University

Mark Y. Miyake is Assistant Professor of Music and Society at Fairhaven College and leads the program in Audio Technology, Music, and Society at Western Washington University. He also currently serves as the Chair-Elect of the Board of Trustees of Humanities Washington (the WA state humanities council), on the Board of Directors of the Federation of State Humanities Councils, on the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress, and holds a rotating executive position with the Northwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology. More locally, he is also on the boards of the Center for Washington Cultural Traditions (the Washington State agency charged with supporting community and traditional arts in the state), Make.Shift Art Space (Bellingham’s primary non-profit all-ages space for music and art), and Bellingham Girls Rock Camp. He has also recently served on several major awards and grants panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, ArtsFund, the Washington State Department of Commerce, and most of the organizations listed above.

Moderated by Sasha Petrenko, Associate Professor of Sculpture and Expanded Media at Western Washington University in Bellingham. where she also runs Sound.Out.Radio with amazing student TAs and volunteers

 

 

 

FLOW Live Broadcast 11/4 + 11/5

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Sound.Out Radio is hitting the road and going to Tacoma’s Puget Sound University to participate in and broadcast live! Yes, we are back after a long summer hiatus and thrilled to have some wonderful events and sounds to share in the very near future.

Flow: Art and Ecology in the Time of Global Warming and Concurrent In the Flow Exhibit

Symposium, November 3-4, 2023

University of Puget Sound

Flow: Art and Ecology in the Time of Global Warming is a two day symposium at the University of Puget Sound on November 3-4, 2023. The symposium includes an affiliated Kittredge Gallery exhibition, In the Flow: Art, Ecology, and Pedagogy. 

The exhibit features the work of nine artists and collaborative teams working in the Salish Sea Watershed and Columbia River Basin. The artworks explore how land and place can help us connect and build new kinds of relationships in the face of accelerated climate change.

The symposium includes workshops, and facilitated conversations and presentations that engage with place/land based ways of knowing around the Columbia River basin and Salish Sea while contending with climate change. Nine individuals, listed below, co-organized this two day gathering,  integrating reflection, discussion, and hands on interactive programming. 

Flow explores ways to integrate, embody, and enact intersections between art and ecology through direct engagement with matter and materials such as dyes, pigments, and mycelium, multi-sensory guided walks, reflection on positionality and place, and critical examination of language and classification’s role in creating a sense of place and displacement. Guiding themes and questions include:

  • What is the role of the artist as healer and maker in navigating this current moment?
  • How can approaches to reparative work and re-imagining be taught through creative practices?
  • How can place/land based knowledge teach us how to connect and build relationships?
  • How do we practice remediation and utilize loss? 

Further information and context can be found here.

Flow: Art and Ecology in the Time of Global Warming co-organizers: 

Melonie Ancheta, Director Pigments Revealed International, researcher, artist, educator

Natalie Baloy, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Western Washington University

Cynthia Camlin, Professor, Art and Art History, Western Washington, University

Heidi Gustafson, artist and ochre specialist

Beverly Naidus, Emerita Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio Arts, University of Washington, Tacoma

Daniela Naomi Molnar, independent artist and poet

Matt Reynolds, Associate Professor of Art History, Whitman College

Elise Richman, Professor Art and Art History, University of Puget Sound

Cara Tomlinson, Professor Art, Lewis and Clark College

Additional Participants:

Rachel DeMotts, Professor, Environmental Policy and Decision Making, University of Puget Sound

Dann Disciglio, Visiting Professor of Digital Media, Lewis and Clark College

Amanda Leigh Evans, Visiting Assistant Professor, Art, Whitman College

Cleo Wölfle Hazard, Assistant Professor School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington

Yixuan Pan, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio Arts, University of Washington, Tacoma

Sasha Petrenko, Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Expanded Media, Western Washington University

Renee Simms, Associate Professor & Leadership Team Member, African American Studies, and the Race and Pedagogy Institute, University of Puget Sound

Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, Assistant Professor in Socially Engaged Art, Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Western Washington University + Visiting Professor, Institut für Kunst im Kontext, Universität der Künste Berlin (2023-24)

Banu Subramanium, Professor & Chair, Women’s and Gender Studies, Wellesley College

Arianne True, Washington State Poet Laureate (Choctaw, Chickasaw)

Lewis and Clark Art and Ecology course students: Sophie Abbassian, Miriam Baena, Summer Dae Binder, Owen Clark, Allison Clarke, Mallory Dubois, Margo Gaillard, Liv Ladaire, Gillian Largay, Paloma Richeson, Gabriel Rosenfield, Stella Scheffer, Anthi Sklavenitis, Ezequiel Walker, Lila Ward, and Aiden Wilkson

Western Washington Art and Ecology Students

Flashback Monday!

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Hi Friends! To celebrate the last week of the exhibition, here’s a post from a few weeks ago, when we started this show. Thanks for listening. New stuff coming tomorrow!

April 7th, 2023

76Cascades is a little something new made at workshop I lead back in March at Jack Straw Cultural Center in Seattle. I had the great pleasure of working with some talented folks ranging in age and ability. We sonified some data taken from tree rings across the Cascade Range. Our data set, or our song started around year 1776 and the numbers came up with a pretty spooky cool chord progression. The rest is just me jamming with folks, 5, 6, 14 and 16 years old! This is certainly just a rough mix. More to come including a new work made in collaboration with Whatcom Middle School Students. Listen for it!

Let’s Party!

A special playlist today, starting at 10AM we replayed Ambient Mondaze. You can find the tracks in post 4.3.23.

Please enjoy. Thanks for listening! Sasha

All tomorrow’s parties, Velvet Underground, feat. Nico, 1966

I don’t have the data, Sonic Antartica, Andrea Polli, 2009

Cricket Voice, Hildegard Westerkamp, 1996

76Cascades, Sasha Petrenko  w/Jack Straw Cultural Center, 2023

Construction sound recording, Professor Ashley Mask and students, 2022

Lessons from the Forest, Part 3, Sasha Petrenko, 2019

CRUSH, Ryan Lien, 2023

I’ll Call You Back! Claire Kaveney, 2023

SoundPoem, Max Marsh, 2023

Sachsenhausen Music in the Void by Taran Wilkewitz, 2022

sound project version 1, Aiko Enomoto, 2022

The Pacific Banana Slug, Tilly Bishop, 2022

Bats in East Finchley, Ryan Fisher, 2022

Summer rain in midnightsun, Elin Mar Oyen Vistor, 2021

Black Sun, Sasha Petrenko, 2016