Saturday, November 28, 2020

Djalma Primordial Science Curriculum Vitae Back-Up

 just in case we cannot preserve the website of the project after the next year, I will archive here... this is not exhaustive -- there have been other actions after 2010 but they divide into the East and West streams of the project.

2010

January 20: "Une Poutre entre Nous" Ephia, Jeff Gburek and Thibault Delferière at La Ferme de Biereau and L'An Vert, Belgium.
March: "Jericho" film by Tamara Erde  featuring the dance of Ephia premiers at Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts contemporains, France.
Mai 8: Ephia performs in the "festival des solos insolites" Trevoux, France.
July: Le Corps: SENS DEDANS DEHORS, workshop dedicated to the encounter of body and environment led by Ephia on the plateau of Aubrac in collaboration with ATSARA-théâtre des sons

2009

October 31: The Secret Life of Matter 2-day workshop hosted by London's Butoh Festival.
November: Ephia premiers in "CHAOSanatomique"  in collaboration with Compagnie SCOLOPENDRE, Lyon.
July 8-12: "CONTRE-IMAGE" plays in the festival "NOUS N'IRONS PAS A AVIGNON" Vitry-sur-seine.
July 3, 4,5: Ephia performs with Toni DiNapoli in "Courant D'Art Festival" of Collectif Ishtar, Rignat.
February 24: Premier of "CONTRE-IMAGE" multidisciplinary performance in collaboration with Yael Karavan. Artistic residencies at CCN de Rillieux-La-Pape, Cie Maguy Marin, Micadanse, Atelier Carolyn Carlson in Paris.
January: Ephia begins long-running collaboration with Collectif Ishtar (Bourg-en-Bresse). Improvised music and dance in urban and rural locations.

2008

December: Body Mapping/Getting Lost, 6-day dance-theater workshop at Exploratorium Berlin.
November 5: "Mirrorminded Curiousitease" performed at UNIDRAM 15. Festival, Potsdam.
August 1-10: Le Corps: SENS DEDANS DEHORS 10-day land-based workshop at NOGANETS, FRANCE.
Mai 16: "Quatrième Participant Invisible", Ephia performs with Benoit Cancoin and Mathias Forge, Lyon.
February: Ephia is teaches at Hambre y Vida theatre-laboratory in Andalousia with anatgon theatreAKTion.
January 6-10: Body Mapping/Getting Lost, 5-day dance-theater workshop at Exploratorium Berlin.

2007

December 9-12: Unmasking the Body, 4-day workshop at London's Theater Training Initiative. 
November 2-30: Ephia begins long-running collaboration with Compagnie SCOLOPENDRE, developing a new approach to shadow and object-theater in artistic residency at RAMDAM, Saint Foy les Lyon.
October 2: MYOPIA perfomed at Le Petit Carre D'Art, St. Affrique, France.
September 29-30: Le Corps Démasqué Weekend Workshop in Marcillac, France. 
September 27-28: "mirrorminded curiousitease" performed at La Menuiserie, Rodez, France.
September 20-21: MYOPIA performed at Le Croiseur in Lyon, France. 
September 16: ODBO+DJALMA improvisation at l'Atelier Blanc, Villefranche de Rouergue, France.
September 15: ODBO+DJALMA improvisation at La Maison Peinte, Toulouse, France.
September 7-9: "mirrorminded curiousitease" performed at Espace 44, Lyon, France. 
August 10-18: Le Corps: SENS DEDANS DEHORS 10-day land-based workshop at NOGANETS, FRANCE. 
March 31-April 14: Body Mapping/Getting Lost, 13-day dance-theater workshop at Exploratorium Berlin.
March 23-25: "mirrorminded curiousitease" performed at Gallery Weissen Seer am Freitag, Berlin, DE.

2006

December 17: Entre Centre et Absence, improvisational performance @ Wedding Salon, Berlin, DE. 
December 5: (MYOPIA)2 performed @ ODIN Teatret, Holstebro, Denmark. 
December 1-2: (MYOPIA)2 performed @ GAYA-Karmanoia Theater, Berlin, De. 
November 14: "mirrorminded curiousitease" performed @ Theater Kapelle, Berlin, DE. 
November 4-5: Anatomie der (Un-)Ordnung weekend workshop @ Exploratorium Berlin, DE.
October 30: (MYOPIA)2 performed @ UNIDRAM 13. Festival fuer junges Theater in Europa. Potsdam, DE. 
September 14: LA RALENTIE performed @ Club der Polnischen Versager, Berlin, DE. 
August 26-27: "Una Anatomia de la Sombre" performed @ Gaya Theater, Berlin. 
August 10-19: Die Entlarvung des Körpers(Unmasking the Body), Summer Intensive workshop in Berlin.
July 16-23: integrating with/disintegrating into THE LAND, 8-day desert workshop, New Mexico.
Juni 23-24: "Una Anatomia de la Sombra" performed @ 48 Stunden Neukölln. Gaya Theater, Berlin, DE. 
Mai 30: "der Walzer der Blendung" performed @ Club der Polnischen Versager, Berlin, DE.
April 25: "mirrorminded curiousitease" performed @ Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Köln, DE.
April 8-9: Operations on the Nerve-play of Life workshop @ Exploratorium Berlin, DE.
April 2: Operations on the Nerve-play of Life workshop @ Dans Space Pauline de Groot, Amsterdam, NL.
April 1: (MYOPIA)2 performed @ Overtoom 301, Amsterdam, NL.
March 9: Improvisational performance at Small Music Theater, Athens, Greece
February 11, 12: Operations on the Nerve-play of Life workshop @ Protagon e.V., Frankfurt am Main, DE.
February 3: (MYOPIA)2 at HAU 3, @ 100° BERLIN DAS 3. LANGE WOCHENENDE DES FREIEN THEATERS.
January 28 & 29: Operations on the Nerve-play of Life workshop @ Exploratorium Berlin, DE.

2005

December 5: (MYOPIA)2 performance premiere at Labor Sonor, KuLe, Berlin, DE.
November 19-20: SOUNDING THE UNSOUND BODY workshop for the exploration of movement-theater and voice in collaboration with Pamela Prather in New York City, NY. 
November 9: "Ci-Gît: six pregnancies for Antonin Artaud" at Les Voutes, Paris, FR.
November 2: "le couteau à encoches de mon autre fille NENEKA"
Une rencontre du guitare préparée et le corps précaire, fragile, et volatil 
avec installation photographique de Monique Robert at La Menuiserie, Rodez, FR. 
October 29, 30: Operations on the Nerve-Play of Life, workshop at MIME Centrum Berlin, DE.
October 12: "Ci-Gît: six pregnancies for Antonin Artaud" at Espace Antonin Artaud, Rodez, FR. 
October 9: "MURMUR" unsound body, video, live sound at Les Explorateurs Associés, Le Thoronet, FR.
October 7: "Ci-Gît: six pregnancies for Antonin Artaud" at Les Explorateurs Associés, Le Thoronet, FR.
Septmeber 24, 25: Operations on the Nerve-Play of Life, workshop at Oerkenforte, Copenhagen, DK.
September 23: "Ci-Gît: six pregnancies for Antonin Artaud" at Oerkenforte,Copenhagen, DK.
September 22: "Ci-Gît: six pregnancies for Antonin Artaud" at ODIN Teatret, Holstebro, DK.
August: Physical Address, four public encounters in Alexanderplatz, Berlin, DE.
July 11-24: Die Entlarvung des Körpers/UNMASKING THE BODY 
13-day movement theater workshop at MIME Centrum Berlin, DE.
July 2: "Ci-Gît: six pregnancies for Antonin Artaud" at LaLeLy, Berlin, DE
June 28: "Ci-Gît: six pregnancies for Antonin Artaud" at Nieuw Atlantis Festival, Amsterdam, NL.
May 17: "Ci-Gît: six pregnancies for Antonin Artaud" at HET VERTREK, Arnhem, NL
May 14, 15: SOUNDING THE UNSOUND BODY workshop at Marci Panis, Amsterdam, NL
May 12, 13: "Ci-Gît: six pregnancies for Antonin Artaud" at Marci Panis, Amsterdam, NL
March 19, 20: SOUNDING THE UNSOUND BODY workshop at the Nordic School of Butoh, Copenhagen, DK
March 13: "Ci-Gît: six pregnancies for Antonin Artaud" at Meet Da Lama Festival, Copenhagen, DK
March 8: "wife, life, tripe, damnit and THAT" at NISUS/Galeria Galou, Brooklyn, New York 
February 25, 26: "wife, life, tripe, damnit and THAT" at Jon Sims Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
February 19, 20: SOUNDING THE UNSOUND BODY workshop at Jon Sims Center for the Arts, SF, CA
January 31: "wife, life, tripe, damnit and THAT" at The LIDA Project Theatre, Denver, CO

2004

November 19-20: SOUNDING THE UNSOUND BODY workshop for the exploration of movement-theater and voice in collaboration with Pamela Prather in New York City, NY 
October 30, 31: "wife, life, tripe, damnit and THAT" at Modified Arts, Teatro Caliente Festival, Phoenix, AZ 
October 23, 24: Excavations Within the Unsound Body workshop in New Orleans, LA 
October 21, 22: "wife, life, tripe, damnit and THAT" at The Jewel Gallery in New Orleans, LA
September 25, 26: Excavations Within the Unsound Body workshop in Birmingham, AL
September 23, 24: "wife, life, tripe, damnit and THAT" at Omni Studio, Birmingham, AL
September 10: MURMUR. unsound body, video projection, live sound in Taos, NM. 
August 27-29: ASYLUM: a study of place and ghost. Trans-media event. Sol Arts, ABQ, NM 
July 18-24: integrating with/disintegrating into the landscape: BUTOH ON THE LAND III, 
seven-day workshop at THE LAND/an art site, Mountainair, NM 
June 4: "MYOPIA: the secret boxcars of pubescence" at The Other Side Arts, Denver, CO 
May 29, 30: Excavations Within the Unsound Body workshop at PIA, Amsterdam, NL 
May 28, 29: "MYOPIA: the secret boxcars of pubescence" at Illuseum, Amsterdam, NL 
April 25: "wife, life, tripe, damnit and THAT" in celebration of ARTAUD at WELD, Austin, TX 
April 23, 24: "MYOPIA: the secret boxcars of pubescence" at The Church of the Friendly Ghost, Austin, TX 
April 19: "MYOPIA: the secret boxcars of pubescence" at The Nightingale Theater, Tulsa, OK
April 2,3: "MYOPIA: the secret boxcars of pubescence" at Joe's Movement Emporium, Mt. Ranier, MD
March 27, 28: Excavations Within the Unsound Body workshop at Virginia Tech University 
March 26: "MYOPIA: the secret boxcars of pubescence" at in Blacksburg, VA 
March 19,20: "MYOPIA: the secret boxcars of pubescence" at CCA Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM 
January 24, 25: "MYOPIA: the secret boxcars of pubescence" in Yucca Valley and Palm Springs, CA
January 22, 23: "MYOPIA: the secret boxcars of pubescence" at The Salvation Theater, Los Angeles, CA
January 16, 17: "MYOPIA: the secret boxcars of pubescence" at Perihelion, Phoenix, AZ

2003

December 14: Excavations Within the Unsound Body workshop, LIDA Project, Denver 
December 13: en.ve.lope/djalma: events(interlacing),
trans-media performance collaboration, Cordell Taylor Gallery, Denver 
October 12: Premier of "MYOPIA: the secret boxcars of pubescence," The Performance Space, ABQ
July 29-August 3: BUTOH ON THE LAND II, five-day workshop at THE LAND/an art site, Mountainair, NM
July 5,6: JELLYFISH GUILLOTINE butoh performance and installation at The Red Door, Austin, TX
June 23,24: JELLYFISH GUILLOTINE butoh performance and installation at The Performance Space, ABQ
June 2-27: Djalma Primordial Science teaches at Harwood Summer Arts Camp, ABQ
May 24, 25: The Unspeakable Bodies of Butoh Workshop, Chicago
May 20, 23: "Lovesong of Human Waste" performed at Hothouse and Spareroom, Chicago
May 16, 17: guest appearance in "Trading the World Center," a multi-media performance, ABQ 
April 29: "The Human Waste Project", a ten hour no-action performance, UNM Campus, ABQ
March 23-April 13: The Unspeakable Bodies of Butoh Workshop, ABQ
March 5: The Unspeakable Bodies of Butoh Workshop, LIDA Project, Denver
Feb. 28-March 4: Djalma Primordial Science performs with Keith Rowe at College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe,
Outpost Performance Space, ABQ, and LIDA Project, Denver
Feb. 15: Performance of "Half-Life" to culminate the WAR PARTY, ABQ
Feb. 15: WAR PARTY, djalma hosts eight hours of oppositional performance, ABQ
Jan. 16-Feb7: Teaching Residency at VSA NM, an arts center for the developmentally disabled, ABQ

2002

Dec. 14,15: Death, Our Mother, butoh workshop, Austin, TX
Dec. 13: "pale and what eyes fall on the eggshells", performance at The Blue Theater, Austin, TX
Dec. 5: "To Walk Without Shoes," a documentary by Benjamin Walsh
on the work of Djalma Primordial Science premieres
Nov. 17-Dec 8: Extended Investigations into the Bodies of Butoh, workshop, ABQ
Nov. 1, 2, 3: Los Dias de los Muertos Workshop & Performance at The Performance Space, ABQ
October 19: Jeff Gburek + Ephia, raw junk electronics at Amethyst Luna, ABQ
October 6 & 13: "Naufragio Ballante", 12 hour site specific performance with sound installation 
at THE LAND/an art site, Mountainair, NM
August 29: BUTOH ON THE LAND I, five-day intensive workshop 
at THE LAND/an art site, Mountainair, NM
June 15, 16: Metamorphosis and Magma workshop in Austin, TX
June 13: Metamorphosis and Magma workshop in Houston, TX
June 12: “no-body nowheres” performance in Houston, TX
June 9: “no-body nowheres” performance at A.R.K., New Orleans
June 8, 9: Metamorphosis and Magma workshop in New Orleans, LA
April 6: “no-body nowheres” performance at Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque, NM
March-April: “Five Heads of Temptenchki” performance workshop directed by Djalma, Taos, NM
Feb 17, 18: Metamorphosis and Magma workshop, Santa Fe, NM
Jan. 24, 25, 26: “Tears of the Ditchdigger” performed at Theater X, UNM. 
Produced by Tricklock Co. Revolutions International Theater Festival.
Jan. 21-23: Metamorphosis and Magma workshops at UMN Department of Theater and Dance, ABQ
NOV 2001-MARCH 2002: “Cruciosa/Static Abject”, weekly performance 
happening for visual artists, Taos, NM

2001

Nov.3: Day of the Dead performance at CCA Santa Fe, NM
Djalma USA Performance Tour 2001:
Oct. 24: with Charalambides in Austin, TX
Oct. 23: with philip gayle, Houston, TX
Oct. 19: Zeitgeist, New Orleans, LA
Oct. 13: collaboration with Toshi Makihara, Red Room in Baltimore, MD
Oct. 11: Knitting Factory, NYC 
Oct. 7: MadLab, Columbus, OH
Oct. 4: Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Oct 3: Artswatch Gallery, Lousville, KY
Sept 18-Oct 2: Artist’s Residency at Workspace for Choreographers, VA
Sept. 8, 9: Metamorphosis and Magma workshop in Santa Fe, NM
Aug. 25, 26: “Water-Bearers Site 1,” outdoor performance in Taos, NM
July 15: “Rags of Larium Pali”, with Ben Wright, at Swann Fest, Taos, NM
June 28: performance of “Rags of Larium Pali”, Lincoln, NE
June 23-24: Metamorphosis and Magma workshop, Boulder, CO
May 18-19: ”El Migre,” composition for micro-tonal guitar and 
micro-incremental movement, EL PUENTE Theater, Penasco, NM
March 24: “Aint Observin Increments,” composition for two micro-tonal guitars 
and micro-incremental movement, Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin, Germany.
Feb 24: Djalma collaboration w/Erik Fakambi, voodoo body-painter
from Benin, West Africa and instrumentalist Andreas Wenzlova at Open Space, Berlin, Germany
Feb. 26: Djalma gamelan concert w/ Marcelo Aguirre at Acud Café, Berlin, Germany.
Feb. 17, 18: "Null Achtzehn, the one whose name was stolen and forgotten"
Performed at Acud Theater, Berlin, Germany 
Jan. 26: "Null Achtzehn, the one whose name was stolen and forgotten" 
Performed at Klappstuhl Festival, Wuppertal, Germany

2000

Djalma gamelan performance at I.M.Eimer, Berlin, Germany
"Null Achtzehn, the one whose name was stolen and forgotten" performed at "und ab die Post 2000" in Berlin; at Teatro Studio in Grossetto, Italy; at PLAMA in Gdansk and at KANA in Szceczin, Poland
Djalma "NUPTUAL" performance at Zionskirche, Berlin, Germany for Sakra Festival
Djalma Ensemble Tour of USA 2000:
(with Ephia, Gburek, Neel Murgai, Rich Gross, Chris Forsyth)
Go! Studios, Carrboro, NC
Wherehouse, Winston-Salem, NC
Flicker Theater, Athens, GA
Earthshaking Music, Atlanta, GA
Barking Legs Theater, Chattanooga, TN
Monopod Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama
Knitting Factory, NYC

1999

Ephia & Gburek travel to study with Min Tanaka in Hakushu, Kazuo & Yoshito Ohno in Yokohama, Japan.
“Mountain Behind My Eyes”, two separate site-specific performances in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Djalma performances at C.O.M.A., Baby Jupiter, ABC-NO RIO, The Cooler and Knitting Factory.
“Rags of Larium Pali” performed at Eco Books, Brooklyn

1998

Gburek and Ephia conduct four months of physical/sonic research in Indonesia
“Blind We Run Into Ourselves,” (Ephia and Gburek's first collaboration) site-specific choreography 
for five dancers and live music by Orphan Sound System, Grant’s Tomb, Manhattan

Thursday, November 26, 2020

Twin Oscillators (​(​An Electro​-​Isolation Suite for 2020​)​)

 

 https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/album/twin-oscillators-an-electro-isolation-suite-for-2020

Recorded in Various Locations and Dreamtimes in the Pandemic Peristyles within the Eternal Raves of the Mind and Never imaginable without the Earth Resonance Science and Myth Traditions. Arkestral Elements: Turntables, Drums, Voice, Flutes, Field Recordings, Roland MC-309, Arturia Microfreak, Android Sampler App, Wash Basins, Radios, Micro-cassette, Audiomulch, Supercolloder. Karolina Ossowska on track 9. Bonus track is Ripped Covid Membrane. Follow us on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek

Giving, Thanks
November 26, 2020
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Saturday, November 14, 2020

being an ex-poet/ign'ant stone/everyday I have the blues/rushing up to the note-book/no matter when a sentence/for ages the white gauze/when the furthest/gone for only a moment/when the demon dissolves/how often does continuity occur


being an ex-poet
my line's free
going nowhere
empty shoe
footless home
inner wildness
outwardly secure
thoughtless binders
without resonance
 
*
ign'ant stone
stupid intelligence
only you, your broken
heart, isolate.
oneness of solidity,
inverted meltdown,
standing waves.
 
*
everyday I have the blues,
reds, greens, turquoises, oranges
pinks, crimson-purples
white hots -- only for you --
speed-freak medallion queen
ripper of the roads
who are never here
in order to show
the on/off switch
& how it doesn't work
 
*
rushing up to the note-book,
scrambling for a pencil, pause.
nothing to say. again.
evaporating breath of urgency.
no cop, no donut.
 
*
no matter when a sentence
falls out of place.
there are the Pleiades,
fish-bones adrift.
red, auriferrous, Mars
& no mood for fighting,
no mood for peace.
 
*
for ages the white gauze
enwrapped the yoni-lingham
statuette in travel packages
until one day becoming a bandage
for a deep cut that healed
it was bound again
with a rusty red-stained gauze
& we headed
toward the hills
 
*
when the furthest
& highest mountain
is the crest of one's own bed
there is anything but property
 
practice is the best
medicine
 
don't sing, dear bird,
just to be heard
unless you know
who truly loves you
 
*
gone, for only a moment.
days go by.
time always ahead.
steel scaffold.
or behind.
 
adaptive consciousness
billows on electrostatic
leylines, we laugh.
 
mapping the relatable
to the hazardous,
whatever this sandy texture
sounds like, exactly
what you hear.
 
dearest bird, since I have no wings,
teach me how not to fly.
 
*
when the demon is dissolved
hell's canti
turn thirstily
in search of new subjects,
for material burn.
 
*
how often
does continuity
occur?
 
*
to be continued
t
b
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?
fourteen november
2020

Thursday, November 12, 2020

Overwhelming Waves: Radio Wide World Narrated for Radiophrenia. Texts, Scores, Bibliography, Links, Additional Notes, Whatever Comes to Mind

 listen via soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek/overwhelming-waves-radio-wide-world-retrospective

 listen/support via: https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/album/overwhelming-waves-let-the-black-crosses-fade-split-ep

     "The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants and of numerical constants; and since in them nothing occurs without supreme reason—not, to be sure, such as discursive reasoning discovers, but such as existed from the first in the Creators's design and is preserved from that origin to this day in the wonderful nature of animal faculties, I do not believe that even in a snowflake this ordered pattern exists at random."

— Johannes Kepler

 (text ad lib interpolation of Foucault's idea of "the visual gaze" in painting-- improvised, not rehearsed...transfer over to the guardianship of the ear -- riffing off the idea of the dromenon of Greek religious theater Jane Ellen Harrsion writes about -- where the audience member of a performance mimic the stage action mentally, physically, according to the entrained concept of the Eleusinian Mysteries -- the idea being that the listener is among many listeners and also imagines themselves as among the imaginary community of listeners whose listening is being heard -- ceaseless exchange ceaseless exchange ceaseless exchange ceaseless exchange ceaseless exchange

 over the wide arcs of (always inner?) space// inner to what, enveloping who...

where I had a dream I was standing on top of the ionosphere

----_____----____----____----++++++____******************************

7/_______      I use radio noises the way a painters uses pigments, color, sono-pigments

 After Twelve Comes Thirteen | Thirteen Comes Twelve (time reversal/rehearsal)

here on the trembling lip of the Anthropocene

the (g)listening dew

and the question spanning the late night hours...what has become of you? what have we become? 

what have we done? (to the earth, mom)

   "The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless airy ice, across thousands of versts, towards those who are equally lonely on earth, and listen to the endless howling of dogs."

 ssssssso wrote Yevgeny Zamyatin, in 1923  in the his "Story About the Most Important Thing"

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Zamyatin

 ....between 1987 and 1999 the American composer Pauline Oliveros 

 http://www.paulineoliveros.us/about.html 

 transmitted sounds to the moon

 over 800,000 kilometers away 

back and forth

  384, 400 km

round-trip

  in order to hear and

to play with the signal of our own voices bounced back

after a 2 and a half second interval -- some of the original signal being absorbed, lost in the craters of the moon -- or reflected into lost ears -- we don't whose --

 -- although the moon had been grappled with physically by astronauts  --this creative use of our nearest large stone neighbor employed radio specialists & transmitters

and the patience of listening to the sonosphere & latency

 Echoes of the Moon is one of the most interesting radio-oriented music & interactive sound art pieces -- it reaches out into the sky --

in a gesture of human consciousness finding it's global limits

and it exemplifies what Douglas Kahn calls

the earth-scaled art & technologies

 (read more of Doug, here: https://www.thewire.co.uk/about/contributors/douglas-kahn/read_introduction-to-douglas-kahn_s-earth-sound-earth-signal

 earth sounds have there own resonance regions

and on this journey we will explore the invisible via the audible

as I have capture the shortwave spectrum bouncing of the ionosphere

 over the course of many years

 here on the trembling lip of the Anthropocene

the glistening dew

 what has become of us?

what has become of you?


this is the radio speaking

this is the radio behind (muted voice)

the radio speaking

 and the radio between the stations (stuttered/gapped voice)

 radio natur

 radio mycorrhiza  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza

radio as a midnight nature portal

 this is an essay of radio signal and radio noise

 

one could argue there has been an ongoing extinction of shortwave radio since the internet took to the air, the medium may itself be on it's last leg 

but I am here to open the portal and to listen to what is still out there

 

what I'd like the listener ultimately to feel is the sense of the enveloping invisible radio spectrum, that it all around us as a kind of plasm, a super-organism, or a sheath of electromagnetic energy

that surrounds us -- connects us -- even without their being any focal point broadcast

 [[  i think of it sometimes like the myco-rhizza, that symbiotic network of sharing between the fungus and the roots of green plants in the forest: hidden from view, sharing information packets of mineral nutrients, glucose and water back and forth   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza

 

   I wish you to come away with = ((((((((

a sense of mystery of the radio as multi-dimensional, time-traveling

     potentiality for attunement --......  

((0000OOOOOooooooooooooooooooooo

        1) for neurological transformation, brain-change, re-wiringto become aware of fact that radio communicates not only broadcast information but also it's pure essence, it radiological pulsation

        2) a materialist era proto-para-psychological aid

       3) an immersion in deeper and therefore more subtle physicality

    4) the experience of hearing something before it's meaning and usage is "invented"

5) the radio as The Open -- a wilderness of -- things as they are --

 this is a plea to re-wild the planet 

(by re-wilding the brain)

 to listen in between to sounds unknown

-- an endless play between form and formlessness --

an open call to

fill your half-empty with the half-full

 HELLO IN THERE!

this is Radiophrenia and I'm Jeff Gburek

sound artist from the USA 

currently found bouncing signals in Eastern Europe

 and yet

there's a good chance you are listening to this via a live stream

 where things are smooth and reception good

but

Hey! this is Jeff Gburek

in the constructed world

and I'm here on a special TRANS mission, with another vision,

about the messier days of radio

when you had to turn the dial and there was interference

and indeterminacy like crazy

 

(voices noises)

 

(cable noise buzz)

 

that buzz you are getting is the Earth, the Ground

 

and more commonly the sound of the Earth resonating, sending

ripples of electromagnetic storms through the statistical static

and the distant buzz of the mind-night suns

 

(schumann resonance)  https://www.brmi.online/post/2019/09/20/schumann-resonances-and-their-effect-on-human-bioregulation

 

My experience with the radio buzz began

many many years ago (1993 actually) while I was studying Italian literature in Firenze

there came a moment (that would recur)

wherein the radio became the ultimate poem or poetry

enter John Elmanahi -- voice over --

        for after the witching hour there came a crackle between stations, a drift and mingling of sounds unconscious of one another, a luminous mega-brain flashing with oracles

and the veil of the radiosphere was suddenly flapping in the breeze

there was something about it so compelling and psychedelic and surreal

that I starting recording onto cassettes exactly what I could hear

 

      Radio Wide World had been played on the radio in Montreal and in New Mexico

and later would be published in a 4 CD limited edition set, largely forgotten

until it came to the attention of media arts students and curators in Chicago (Jeff Kolar and Meredit Kooi)

where they ran a pirate radio stations and it would become a Radius feature in 2011

 --- proof in here:  https://theradius.us/episode11 

--- support here:  https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/track/remix-for-radius-fm-2012


these ionospheric crackles I would later learn

 were in fact electrical storms off in the distances, very long distances

 even potentially on the other side of the planet

 there were the sweeping noise that reflected the earth's electromagnetic signature

whistlers and snaps -- of my static electricity --

know my own electro-magnetic field has sounded into the audio stream

 when I touched the antenna a station would appear or a new metrnomic click

I too was some kind of transmitter, my own body had an aura that mingled with the ether

but nothing really changed all that much, just a sense of expansion of perception

was this transpercption? I called it the radiosphere...

 

We were bouncing around inside the bubble of the planet earth... still reflecting our biosphere... but later I learned

 

there were also extraterrestrial noises -- that I was listening to hybrid noise monsters --


the extraterrestrial noises were solar flares, coronal ejections,

Jovian and Saturnian flares and in discovering these phenomenon

 brought me into contact with the works of Thomas Ashcraft 

website here: http://www.heliotown.com/

(whom I will speak about/ quote from/  later in this program)

and we could also hear the sounds of radio signals bouncing off asteroids

and satellites and the ham radio operators and the spies

their numbers stations and their jamming frequencies

 

"Radio is not always a technological control device supplied with energy from a battery or plug in the wall; sometimes it is the energy"

 

but the most peculiar phenomenon of all

was hearing live signals burst into fragments,

 split into several different streams, asteroid scatter,

sounds -- a Daffy Duck squawk and a quavering waveform --

and with this a strange repetition of the same message across the bandwidths

as if tra-versing several samsaras of signal

 

repeated signals --  the first was a Spanish broadcaster on one radio

then on another radio a few milliseconds later

the very same transmission but shunted down the timeline ((--0o0--))

but I was sitting in one room in small city in Tuscany, not moving at all

 sometimes a delay between two radios tuned to the same position

but more puzzling was when the transmission would skip, float across the band

 (the hams, I wasn't aware, I was in their range also)

there were many moments were I felt like I could be losing my mind

but as I continued these nightly seances

 the style of skip and bounce was recognizable

even if not predictable -- and I could never force it

nor induce it's occurrence

 

it was this time-defying phenomenon that amused and mesmerized me the most

it was a spatialization and also somehow an orchestration of time

 

where was the wave that carried the sound? how did it bend and fold back?

 

did it move randomly in the swamp of signals 

or was it a function of still other signals

that I had not been able to hear?

 many years later I would learn about heterodynes, the literal science of wave-forms, encodings, much of which is technical, even beyond my vocabulary

--  but in I began to wonder if my radio was broken or that

my radio experiences were simply examples of the decline of western radiographic civilization, ordinary malfunctions --- but in 1993 the aesthetics of the broken and glitch hadn't yet been invented, the science of the mistake hadn't surfaced --

I was however experiencing in those evenings a kind of radio hey-day and its sweetly decadent swan-song --  by the year 2000 the internet had taken hold of listeners --

and with it the rich and strange cosmos of radiophonic noise would vanish

 

horror vacuui -- nature doesn't like a vacuum

a principle whose meaning has changed for me over the years

and in the case of the short, medium and long wave radio

meant that the curvature of space and time was never empty

that the static itself was some kind of substance

white noise they say was the flat mixture of all frequencies

but then again nothing is pure

in the radio spectrum there was a struggle of signals, a tumultuous interactivity

and slippage along the arrow of time

stations would disappear and in the gaps new stations would appear

 that all things had interdependencies

causes woven inside other causal networks

reminded of the Gaian Principle in my first primitive grasp

that the there was a chaotic mixture of intentional and accidental

living forms versus inanimate forms flowing around and sometimes within one another

 http://www.gaiatheory.org/overview/

 

 

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encode to sine

spark coils, morse code, sine waves, base frequency oscillator

Monday, November 9, 2020

"Overwhelming Waves" (new sound art piece of mine) premieres on Radiophrenia this Wednesday, 11th November, 12pm and this Thursday, 12th November, 3pm.

Radiophrenia is on the air around Glasgow 87.9 FM even as I type this. From November 9 until November 22.

streaming listen links:  https://radiophrenia.scot/how-to-listen/

Many an earful will be shelled out there over the next 2 weeks, many unpredictable sonorous varieties,  many unknowns, many a mystery I will hope to be attending to when I can do so. 

This message is to alert you to the times my commissioned works will be appearing in the temporal order of their appearance. Glasgow times, of course.

  "Voscillations" airs on 10 November 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm

 My premiere commissioned work, run time 50 minutes

"Overwhelming Waves, Radio Wide World Retrospective" will be airing twice. 

 Wednesday, 11th November, 12pm – 12.50pm

 "Animals & Loss" airs 12 November 2020 somewhere between @ 11:30 am - 12:00 pm  

"Overwhelming Waves, Radio Wide World Retrospective"

 Thursday, 12th November, 3pm – 3.50pm

 link to my page at Radiophrenia: https://radiophrenia.scot/portfolio/jeff-gburek/

Everything will be up on my soundcloud site as soon as the they have been played 

live as per the exclusive contract.

 https://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek

 Cheers.