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Last Updated: 12/17/2009

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City: Totnes
State: Southwest
Country: UK
Signup Date: 8/18/2006

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Saturday, October 03, 2009 
Well obviously we're not really into blogging, having only updated this a couple of times in the last few years.
Why read, when you can listen to what we're up to?!

As I write this our Stories to Share installation is on air, several days worth of a looped piece, constructed from local people sharing their experiences and anecdotes. After a series of workshops this Summer we edited lots of short stories together to form a continuous and anonymous flow of voices.
Often in the moment of making a recording you don't realise the value of what you have, but listening back to these I'm quite shocked by how intimate and poetic a lot of them are. It feels like precious stuff to have captured.

The next week is madly busy for us as our Autumn season of programmes is about to kick off, including some new shows and some old favourites. We currently have about 70 programme makers - you can see the full schedule at www.soundartradio.org.uk - and we're about to train up a new team of volunteer studio managers who'll help keep things running smoothly.
Also about to start is our Creative Radio Course at the Mansion in Totnes. This is the most substantial training we've been able to offer so far, thanks to funding from the SW Foundation.

We're also just finalising the posters and tickets for a Fete Worse Than Death, our Halloween party at Aller Park, Dartington with Countryside Alliance Crew, Katie Marie, the Weaver Twins, the Hillbilly Girls and lots of other stuff including mulled cider, an unlucky dip and a visit from the night Mayor.



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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 

Current mood:  sweaty
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

Link to Soundart Radio

Tune in to Ergo Phizmiz's show on Soundart Radio for the next six weeks to hear a piece of Phizmiz history!

"Sticky White Glue", a 12 part radio-art series originally created for Resonance FM between 2003-2004 and not broadcast since, was the foundation for everything that blasted out of the various Phizmiz studios since. The first time Ergo fully explored, in rich and intricate combinations, the relationships between sampling, live instrumentation, sound-poetry, musique-concrete, and vocals, it was the huge brainstorm that started everything that came since.

ArtForum magazine, back in the day, said "Ergo Phizmiz's Sticky White Glue, a twelve-part series of sound montages--voices, music, and plunderphonic juxtapositions of the two--reminds us why radio has been described as "schizophonic," packing more disembodied sounds and voices than the ear can process", and webzine Robots & Electronics Brains described it as "genius". Vicki Bennett, aka People Like Us, described the show as every episode being like an album in itself.

The series was jam-packed full of collages, songs, wild fantasias jumping between and exploratively combining instruments and samples, noise compositions, electronic and electroacoustic music, and a generous serving of Laurel & Hardy, to whom the series was dedicated. It also features contributions from many long term Ergo collaborators, including Martha Moopette, Erik Bumbledonk (who covers the Disney song "Beauty and the Beast" to hilarious effect), and The Travelling Mongoose.

So - tune in to Soundart Radio at 2pm UK time Thursdays, starting May 21. Each episode of the Soundart broadcast will contain two episodes of SWG.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 

Current mood:  electric
Category: Music
Well, off we go. The station launched quietly on Monday 26th January, the day after my 36th birthday, with little fanfare, some unusual conversation, random occurances, the chatter of children and the mellow glow of something, however small, achieved and underway and making its own path into the unknown. We hope you all come along for the ride.
   The festival for Imbolc, FIRST SPARK, starts shortly, and we have a week of special programming featuring soundart submissions from all over the world. It should be a very interesting week of radio, and a sign of how we mean to go on, bringing you the widest selection of sounds your're ever going to find on your FM dial. Check out the webpage for all the scheduling details

www.soundartradio.org.uk

Happy listening.

Chris


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Monday, October 01, 2007 

"Cancel all plans and tune in to Soundart Radio",


Jonathan Cainer, The Daily Mail,  Friday 28 September 2007 


 


If you would like to listen live to storms on Jupiter, tune in on Thursday 4th October between 6-8pm.  This is part of a collaboration between the Arts and Ecology MA students and sound artists Jem Finer and Ansuman Biswas.   The group will erect a radio telescope on campus and attempt to tune in to Jovian radio storms on Jupiter.


 


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Thursday, July 12, 2007 

Current mood:  optimistic

Since launching in Nov 06, we've managed to rack up over 1600 hours of live (well, almost) fm radio broadcast throughout the environs of Dartington College of Arts and beyond.  We've been bowled over by the amount of interest and dedication shown by our programme makers and volunteers who just keep showing up to park their bum's on the squeaky hot-seat. 

We want this to continue.  In fact, we want more than this.  We want this radio station to grow beyond Dartington College of Arts to become a part of local people's lives.  Since being awarded a community licence from the broadcast regulator Ofcom, we now have a unique opportunity to become a local not-for-profit arts-based radio station for Totnes and surrounding communties.  To pull this off, we need goodwill and money, and we have 18 months in which to do it.

If Dartington College of Arts merges with Falmouth University (and it isn't a foregone conclusion, but....), we will need a new home.  Our preference is to move to Totnes and our ultimate dream is to have a coffee house where people can gather, dream up their radio ideas, receive training and broadcast from our studio housed within the coffe house.  Of course, it could also be a venue for live broadcast of poetry, discussion, storeytelling, music, drama and comedy.....the possibilities really are endless. 

We are now actively seeking like-minded friends for this radio adventure. If you want to get involved, whether it be to make programmes or to support us behind the scenes with your time, support-in-kind, or cold hard cash, then please contact Nell Harrison or Lucinda Guy on soundartradio@dartington.ac.uk

Keep listening!
Nell xx

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Saturday, October 28, 2006 
Those of you hoving around 87.7FM on Friday may have had the pleasure of tuning in to Soundart radio, thats right! Some test broadcasts went out into the airwaves. It's here and it's real!!!!

Get involved email: soundartradio@dartington.ac.uk
And don't miss the official launch on Monday 13 November in The Roundhouse.
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