[artinfo] MU / european sound & radio art residencies summer 2008

[Nikolett Eross]

MU, a non profit artistic organisation based in Paris-F is currently 
working on a project for summer 2008 called *EUROPEAN SOUND DELTA a 
mobile project on Danube & Rhine Rivers focusing on radio-art made with 
sounds of the cities*. Our partners for that European project are EU 
Space 21 and Arena media (Bulgaria) and Rokollectiv (Bucharest). You may 
know Cosmin Tapu.

In short, 2 teams will be travelling on two boats next summer, making 
sound-recording, performances and radio lives with local sound-artists. 
(to know more about the process you can go to www.sound-delta.eu and 
download a complete presentation of the project).

A final exhibition is scheduled in Strasbourg-F by the end of september 
2008 in the frame of les Nuits de l'Ososphère 
_http://www.ososphere.org/2007/_ , a festival where contemporary music 
meets electronic & pop culture.

The project is already supported by the UE (Culture Program 2007-2013, 
French Ministry of Culture and various partners as Orange (telecom), 
Ville de Strasbourg-F, and Ville de Lille-F.


A *call for residencies* can be downloaded at:
http://www.sound-delta.eu/files/Call_for_Participation_EN.pdf



The boat travelling on Danube will of course make *a week stop in 
Budapest, planed from 11th to 18th august 08*. On board, we’ll have 
material for field recording, a radio studio, and material to organize 
some events or sonic installations :

    * installation of audiowalks in the city >
      http://edith.paname.org/sounddrop/,
    * webradio on board “Radio2radio”, with link up to Rhine boat and
      shared podcasts
    * headphone festival “Le Placard” > http://www.leplacard.org/
    * streaming, webradio and new media workshops for students or young
      professionals
    * “le poulpe” , sonic installatio networking radio/webradio
      broadcasts at different places in the city, interconnecting them
      and proposing aleatory and automated radiophonic broadcasts on the
      boat webradio > http://www.riam.info/03/article.php?id_article=78


*We are looking for partners in Budapest* to set up those sonic 
installation, organize events (headphone festival for example or music 
performances), collaborate on the webradio etc...





*EUROPEAN SOUND DELTA
*
Our project is supported by European Union in the Cultural Program (year 
2008).

*Main Objectives*:
--> To give young people from difficult urban areas (Bucharest, Sofia & 
Paris) the experience of a professional project (and to experience 
mobility)
--> A documentary artistic research on the sound identity of European cities
--> A network of European representatives in the field of sound art 
through cultural cooperation (11 countries)
--> Experiment with mobile communication technologies via innovative 
artistic practices

*Countries involved in the project*:
--> Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, 
Netherlands, Romania, Serbia & Slovakia
*
Focus on some events & activities:

*-->* */Bridge Meeting festival:/* *beginning of the travel, sound art 
festival, collaboration between Bulgarian & Romanian organisations on 
the Danube border
--> /Exchange of experiences/: artists issue from eastern part of the 
project will be invited to share their experiences on the other part 
(second boat)
--> /European radio & sound artists network/ will be solicited thru a 
collective curatorial exchange and a participation call
--> Final Event: an Interactive Musical Space (between Strasbourg (F) & 
Kehl (D))


This investigation is designed to study the audio characteristics of the 
public space (ambient sounds, languages, music), from a sample of 
European cities, in order to compose a musical piece made of these 
multiple identities. A gathering of European sound art practitioners, 
meant to prefigure an original network of cultural cooperation, conveys 
the project. Another purpose of the scheme is to make young people from 
underprivileged areas more aware of a possible mobility and to initiate 
them to the sound art techniques. The artists will try and generate new 
creative processes through the integration of the latest information and 
communication technologies. As for the public space, it will be the 
focus of attention: the prime research ground for artists and a display 
site for their work.

The project operates on a singular mode. Two boats will simultaneously 
navigate upstream on the Rhine and Danube, departing from their 
estuaries. Equipments and crews including guest sound artists and 
interns will all be on board, together with the production and teaching 
teams from the three collective organisers: The Romanian « RoKolectiv », 
the Bulgarian « EU Space 21 » and the French « MU. » A special meeting, 
THE BRIDGE, will simultaneously take place at the border of the eastern 
Danube and on the Rhine estuary (Rotterdam) the first days of the 
travel. The conception and production of this event results from a close 
collaboration between coorganisers.

The multicultural teams will stop regularly in the towns and cities 
bordering the rivers. Many opportunities will thus be created to explore 
and record, but also to display the collective productions. These will 
be generated on board from a pool of field recordings collected in 
previously visited cities. The sound recording work, the workshops, the 
concerts and in situ performances will facilitate an encounter with 
local citizens from some twenty cities and 11 countries. The use of 
radio devices and the dynamics of a website is also central to the 
project. The audio material, collected and transformed by the 
participants, will be broadcast daily via both medias, a webradio 
between the two rivers and a website 2.0. The city of Strasbourg is the 
final destination, meant to be reached by both creative studio-boats. 
There, an exceptional sound installation will be displayed.


*Partners* :
Orange France & Culture Mobile <_http://www.culturemobile.net/_>
Ville de Paris
Saison Européenne / Cultures France
European Journalists Association
RFI (Radio France Internationale)
Magazine Mouvement <_http://mouvement.net/_>
Lille3000
Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg
DRAC Alsace
Ambassade de Roumanie en France
Ambassade de Slovénie en France
ACSR.be
Magazine www.Vïbrofiles.com <_http://www.V%EFbrofiles.com_>
Collection sonore Erratum.org
Point Ephémère _ centre de dynamique artistique à Paris
Voies Navigables de France
Osophère
Théâtre de Ruse
Fondation Elias Canetti
Fondation ProHelvétia
www.via-donau.org <_http://www.via-donau.org_>
Voies Navigables de France - www.vnf.org <_http://www.vnf.org_>