Earational Festival 04 at ARTiS (St.Hertogenbosh/Netherlands 2004)

For the space of Artis we wanted to introduce a new element: the interference and its sonic effects that the fm transmitters have on each other.
We used the shear size of Artis and create a grid similar to the industrial construction of the space - a set up that might remind you of a construction hall. We created a long hall in the middle, where three levels of radios are hung horizontally, this at approximately ear level. Behind the wall of radios we placed the production of sound, visible but not dominant. We have used the grid of the pillars to divide the hall into five parts. First, we will have the left and right killers and radios tuned to the same frequency, so the radios will bounce from one signal to the other, creating a dynamic sound on the left and right side. If you walk through the hall, the effects of the radios will vary.
And to contradict the static installation sound, we use small battery operated radios on 3 sets of train models, which will be running in and out the FM stream of the vinyl killers, and use the movement of the radios to map the transmission fields., for it will drive in and out the two interfering frequencies. In the second grid the radios on the left side are tuned to a different frequency than the right side, thus creating a more static stereo sound. The third grid is like the first etc. to create an industrial machine like situation.
We have made a special 12" record for this installation that consists of 11 groups of 5 different loops.
Some made for interference, some made to harmonise, all made for the location. For one side of this record we created loops of our own and for the other side we have invited artists to make loops.
Danmarks Ældste Sangskat ønsker: Mainpal Inverted
Massimo
Jim O'Rourke  
Rechenzentrum
Nerve Net Noise
Heimir
Pimmon
John Hegre
Kozo Inada
Freiband
Radboud
- For the opening we play the installation and use a large variety of material, illustrating its possibilities and potential.
- For the last day we did an extra live set, with 10 vinyl killers, and used just 10 high quality Tivoli PAL radios, feeding their signals to a mixing desk, creating a mix out of loops, vinyl and radio sounds.

Staalplaat Soundsystem is Geert-Jan Hobijn (NL) and Carsten Stabenow (GER).
Soon Audio and video documentation will be online

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Press :
Brabants Dagblad 19 Feb. 2004
NRC-12-02-04
Bossche_Omroep21-03-2004
:Stadsblad 17-03-2004
Vlucht Magazine Mach 2004

Thanks to: Tivoli PAL for the radio's, Bral Reststoff-Bearbeitungs GmbH for the coffeemachines, mixers etc,
With suport of: PCS Electronics,  RAZY WORKS, The Ernst Paul Lehmann Patentwerk (Nürnberg, D), the singuhr - hörgalerie in parochial (Berlin, D) and the Royal Netherlands embassy in Berlin, photo's by Jolanda Kempers and staalplaat soundsystem.