Radio Concrete

Hagai Izenberg
Radio Concrete

Radio Concrete is a monthly experimental radio show, broadcasted at Resonance Extra (UK), Halas AM (ISR) and Wave Farm/WGXC (NY). It's focus is on sounds which people are exposed to on a daily basis in a spontaneous and unplanned manner; from the immediate surroundings, the street and the radio. Fresh raw materials including field recordings of our everyday routine, samples from tv & radio, news editions and advertisements are all gathered on a regular basis and then mixed together with live sources (FM and AM stations and other live online streaming sources) and objects (such as amplified/hacked toys). Hagai is a sound artist, composer and musician and a founder member of the electronic band Rendezvous

  1. Radio Concrete #54 - Snezhana Reizen - Lost Letter

    JUN 13

    Radio Concrete #54 - Snezhana Reizen - Lost Letter

    A new piece called Lost Letter, composed by Snezhana for this episode of Radio Concrete. The following are her words about that: -- To describe the process in which I was involved here, I would need to convey some details of the setting and the basic materials that formed the backbone of this piece. In the beginning, there were noises appearing between unconnected wires (an additional and sort of premortal material to my upcoming album “Parallel Movements”) I found some of the themes this material suggested, such as the desperate seeking of connection in disconnection or beauty in noise or meaning in life full of war, fairly corresponding with what is going on in general or what i can perceive from my current environment in particular. So these sources were fertilised with Israeli radio, military helicopters severing the night sky, smithereens of debris and bird’s voices, and various sounds of 'human and not' presence and not. There were some attempts to reverse signifiers of sound in an acousmatic manner so that rolling stones of “go-game” appeared as breathing or speeded human heartbeat as erupting calvary. Water, though, was included in its literalness as a fragrance of hope to the deserted. The water here is Sicilian — a good memory from the Oooh and RARA improvisation art festivals. But besides processing concrete sounds, closer to the end, I allowed myself a bit of sound synthesis. .. “Lost Letter” is the second chapter of my new series “Cryptography”.

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Radio Concrete is a monthly experimental radio show, broadcasted at Resonance Extra (UK), Halas AM (ISR) and Wave Farm/WGXC (NY). It's focus is on sounds which people are exposed to on a daily basis in a spontaneous and unplanned manner; from the immediate surroundings, the street and the radio. Fresh raw materials including field recordings of our everyday routine, samples from tv & radio, news editions and advertisements are all gathered on a regular basis and then mixed together with live sources (FM and AM stations and other live online streaming sources) and objects (such as amplified/hacked toys). Hagai is a sound artist, composer and musician and a founder member of the electronic band Rendezvous

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