Jonathan Frigeri, lets his mind blow out in all directions about the mysteries of the ether. He plays with old radios, tapes, balloons and wires. He gets lost over albatrosses and dedicates the viewer as a shaman in the role of radio in times of war and peace. An associative auditory trip. This liminal connection…
The work aims to explore the idea of connection and provide keys to be more aware of our entourage, above all, the invisible and inaudible one. It is this, in between two states of consciousness, like the bardo or the hypnagogia or the trance, where we can also locate the radio transmission. What forces are…
The music on the radio is background and must support an existing structure and leave space for discussion, other sounds, other sound events. Une musique d’habillement that is not invasive and that allows other things to exist. The radio imposes a passive aspect of listening, unlike the cd or the vinyl, which requires us to…
The real ritual is related to a liminal experience. It is an experience that is usually happening on the border of two worlds, two dimensions, two spaces. You are living something that is bringing you outside of your normal existence and changing your status or your belief forever. This is one of the paradigms to…
We talk about Music for the radio because we believed in an initial hypothesis where specific music for the radio exists and whose optimal listening conditions are through the radio, through the radio device and through the radio speaker. A series of concerts conceived for the radio and transmitted exclusively on the radio It was…
Un projet radiophonique documentaire et musical. La composition musicale a été entièrement créée à partir de sons domestiques collectés chez les habitants du quartier qui ont ouvert leur porte pour nous faire partager leur son de prédilection, favori ou redouté. Cette approche vise à mettre en relation les sons de l’espace intime et la potentielle…
Für Sou-Sou #7 werden Arbeiten von Künstlern präsentiert, die namentlich nicht bekannt sind. Jonathan Frigeri stellt dafür eine selbstgemachte Jukebox ins Kassenhäuschen. Darauf kann Musik abgerufen werden, die im öffentlichen Raum auf der ganzen Welt gespielt wurde. Die Aufnahmen wurden im Rahmen des von Jonathan Frigeri und Daniel Kemeny initiierten Projekts Calle Records gesammelt,…
“The sounds I am listening to every night at first appear to be human voices conversing back and forth in a language I cannot understand. I find it difficult to imagine that I am actually hearing real voices from people not of this planet. There must be a more simple explanation that has so far…
The Tibetan word bardo (བར་དོ་ Wylie: bar do) means literally « intermediate state »—also translated as « transitional state » or « in-between state » or « liminal state ». Used loosely, the term « bardo » refers to the state of existence intermediate between two lives on earth. According to Tibetan tradition, after death and before one’s next birth, when one’s consciousness is not connected…
Radio by Artists is a series of programs of works for radio by visual artists, recorded from 2012 to 2017. This series was produced and curated by Jonathan Frigeri. With Sthephanie Pfister, Alexandre Joly, Angela Marzullo, Francesco Cavalliere, Julien Marret, Yves Levasseur, Alex Baladi, Davide Cascio, Oliver Scharpf, Rudy Deceliere, Marius Schaffter, Ceel Mogami de…
The project speaks about the altered states of human beings. States when we don’t see things through our everyday eyes, when something is changing, when we get a look at what is behind reality or behind the reality that we are supposed to perceive in a normal state in our society. This kind of reality…
The sound connects me to a world from which i had disengaged. From an early age we learn to analyze sounds and collect information about the world, based on acoustic perception. Nevertheless, sound is still considered ephemeral, and listening to an environment or a city is rarely considered. In the forest, still a highly acoustic…
RESIDENCE FOR CREATIVE RADIO Radio Picnic is a laboratory for ideas and people, a crossroad where new ideas blend and where radio is used as art. As a crossroads for innovative minds, Radio Picnic redefines the boundaries of radio by transforming it into a form of art. Operating in both ethereal and physical spaces, Radio…
SOUNDTOWERAZ could be an abbreviation of « alle zusammen », « Autonomes Zentrum » or a wink to the babel tower and his muddle of languages.To see is a tower or better a ruin tower made of speaker.To listen is the crackle of a fragile structure.Every 30 minutes a live act give breath to the tower. http://www.zonoff.net/zonoff/az/AZ.mp3 Location:…
STREET MUSIC ONLINE ARCHIVE Calle record is an online archive project that intends to develop, through a multimedia platform, the recording, documentation and accessibility of music played in public spaces. The Calle Record project developed out of its creators’ interest in music and its diffusion in public spaces. Musical performances on the street combine different…
48 radio showThe conference of the birds refer to a long and celebrated Sufi poem written in Persian by the poet Farid ud-Din Attar. Theme of the festival: ImmigrationTheme of the radio: Migration In the poem, the birds of the world gather to decide who is to be their king, as they have none. The…
GAME MUSIC – AN HOMAGE TO ROAMING AND SURPRISEThe music we usually compose has more often than not been solely based on the traditional narrative structure of beginning middle and end, the notion that the performance is going to be heard in exactly the order in which it was composed. In Music Hole the linearity…
ARCHIVING SOUND OF DESTRUCTIONA sound research.Ceramics, glasses, figurines, furniture, kitsch, presents that you never liked, etcWith a help of hammers, feet, crowbars, dynamite, towels, boards, gravity, acid, etcobjects are destroyed and their sound recorded. http://www.zonoff.net/web/jfz/jfz/audio/radio/audio_destructionteam.mp3 Location: Radio Picnic, BerlinEvent: 88.4FmDate: 2014Authours: Jonathan Frigeri, Markus Stein, Fritz & LolaTag: #Intaractive Sound Installation #Sound Archive…
The sound is broadcasted trough an fm emitter to a bunch of radios where unexpected interference fuse with the original sound. Performed live with tape player and loop pedal. No speaker – only radio! WAVE ON THE AIR http://www.zonoff.net/grrr/audio/haway_cellar.mp3 Location: Alte Kindl-Brauerei, Berlin Date: June 2014 Author: Jonathan Frigeri Tag: #Live sound #Radio Interference #Fm Emitter #Hidden…
CONTEMPORARY MUSICAL RITUALMusic, performed from the altar of the Sanatorium by musicians and following the codes of a possible rite, is here exalted as a means of transcending the functionality of the laptop that becomes instrument and medium of a personal and shared manifestation of the sacred. In the folklore of a period, the religion,…