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…
This project is about the exploration of places; the ritual in part forgotten and the new one that aggregates “different communities” (the young, the old, those who left, those who returned, those who never left). The inhabitants of a small village in South Italy are invited to come with their car in the central square…
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…
“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 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…
Supernatural est un centre de réception et de diffusion d’onde radioélectrique, une caverne de l’imaginaire dans laquelle la connexion avec le grand deep space demeure possible. C’est un lieu d’oscillation entre le monde des rêves, celui du système nerveux, et le monde des fantômes et des sphères célestes. C’est une organisation pure de sensations radiophoniques…
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,…
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:…
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…
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,…
Showcase for music publicationLocation: Milkshake Agency, GenevaEvent: ShowcaseDate:Author: Jonathan FrigeriProducer: Edition Ripopée http://www.zonoff.net/jfz/jfz/audio/sound/MusurgiaVolucris.mp3 ☞ Music CD (12 audio track) and five stickers – Edited by Editions Ripopée, Nyon, Switzerland [supsystic-slider id=10 position= »center »]Tag: #Birds Song #Music #Fieldrecording
A music box is an automatic musical instrument, inside a box, that produces sounds.Margarethe Radio Box is a human musical instrument, inside a human scale box, that produces sounds. Margarethe Radio Box have been set in music by Jonathan Frigeri, Daniel Kemeny, Rico Schalueckwith contribution from Astro Pietra, Cabinet de logique, Jay Pennington and many…