A Letter From Your Diarist in 5 Magnetic Layers by Gabi Schaffner Tuesday November 22nd, 2016 Maya Urstadmiyuki jokiranta Hello! 5th Nov. 23:00 Magnetic Layer #3 I am scanning through my picture files. To see what is left there of moments, most of them photographed almost in sheer darkness. ...
Seconds: Café Quotes and Jeloussticks by Gabi Schaffner Wednesday November 2nd, 2016 Marcus HeeschMonika Heinrich Favourite Dialogue: Darf ich mir Kaffee nehmen? Monika: Nein, das mach ich schon. Groß oder klein? – Klein bitte. Milch? Zucker? -Nur Milch bitte. Na da! Bitte! – Dankeschön. Was...
00:00, 30th Oct: Some more magnetic layers by Gabi Schaffner Tuesday November 1st, 2016 Marcus-Andreas Mohr 1. Nov., 18:16 supplementary notes on switching off and party and life after Revolten Rewinding memory tape to the Tower/2nd magnetic layer: Despite much anticipation there was no time left...
Bride of Radio Art Stays True to Her Darling by Gabi Schaffner Tuesday November 1st, 2016 Lucinda Guy 30. Okt. 20:30 Something’s happening here but you don’t know what it is… quite freely after this quote we look expectantly at a radio propped up on stage and listen...
Resounding Sprachzweifel: Tinya.org by Gabi Schaffner Monday October 31st, 2016 Helen HahmannRadio Corax 30. Okt. 22:42 The very last performance of the Revolten Festival belonged to Radio Corax’ collaboration with “SUBstrakt featuring tinya.org” staging Helen Hahmann at a desk with a multiple arrangement...
Radio Cabaret + Alien Creatures by Gabi Schaffner Monday October 31st, 2016 Gregory WhiteheadRoberto Paci DalòTetsuo Kogawa 28. Oct, 23:15 Much was expected from this almost ultimate Revolten Klub evening with the radio art pioneers Gregory Whitehead and Tetsuo Kogawa starred in the program. Additionally, the Italian...
0:00 Goodbye Radio Revolten by Gabi Schaffner Monday October 31st, 2016 Radio Revolten’s 99.3 fm and 1575 mw were taken from the German air waves last night! The diary though will continue for the course of next week: We had a...
Bells and Animals by Gabi Schaffner Sunday October 30th, 2016 Hans W. Koch 30. Oct. 18:20 There are lights and there are shadows. There is an elephant trumpeting inside a radio I hold in my hand, followed by a shuffling sound as if...
Chocolate Relay Circus by Gabi Schaffner Sunday October 30th, 2016 Fari BradleyJulia Drouhin 29. Oct. 15:30 Sweet Tribology If I hadn’t known this was true I would have thought I’d been teletransported into a gothic fairy tale in one of my (literally) sweetest...
Radio Fall… 12 Hours to Go! by Gabi Schaffner Sunday October 30th, 2016 Dear Readers, your diarist is presently curing her head with a dose of mushroom jazz and lots of cold green tea. She’s sorting yesterday’s pictures and some other cued up...
Resounding Sculptures & Iceland CB by Gabi Schaffner Saturday October 29th, 2016 Anna FrizGabi SchaffnerKonrad KorabiewskiReni Hofmüller Okt. 27, 21:34 These are harsh sounds that DIY artist and activist Reni Hofmüller puts forth through the speakers: crackles and patters that come and go in waves, sometimes at...
The Hour of Silence by Gabi Schaffner Friday October 28th, 2016 Knut Aufermann Oct. 27, 18:04 The worst thing which can happen to a radio station is a technical defect that stops it from broadcasting. „Changing of the Guard“ by Knut Aufermann addresses...
Smoo and the Glass Ladies by Gabi Schaffner Thursday October 27th, 2016 Alina PopaIrina GheorgheIvor KallinJohn Bisset 26. Oct. 22:00 Of course there is no such word like „smoo“, but the spectrum of its relatives is already quite interesting: smooth, smog, smudge, shoe, smooch&smoochy, smut… I even...
Dog Echoes at Riverside by Gabi Schaffner Thursday October 27th, 2016 26. Oct. 9:30 This morning the diarist stole away from her desk to take a walk along the river Saale. There was „Reichhard’s Garden“ with leaf-strewn paths that lead along...
Hauser in the cities by Sarah Thursday October 27th, 2016 Ralf Wendt 25th Oct. 22:36 I am angry, the causes of which I don’t fully understand or want to explore beyond the feeling it is one of those days. I need to...
The Beauty of Breath: Dead Air Spaces by Gabi Schaffner Wednesday October 26th, 2016 Fari BradleyMark Vernon 25. Okt. 20:55 Although he is not wearing a top hat, Mark Vernon is a magician. He makes round objects hover in mid air, he speaks through balloons, and he...
Blindfold Babies – From Outer Space by Gabi Schaffner Tuesday October 25th, 2016 Felix KubinFelix Raeithel 22:48, 23. Okt. Kann man mit verbundenen Augen fürs Radio auflegen? Wahrscheinlich. Oder? Oder kommt darauf an wie sehr man seine Platten mag… In einem Weltpremieren-Experiment unterzogen Felix Kubin und...
Handmade Radio Art by Gabi Schaffner Tuesday October 25th, 2016 Alessandro BosettiAnne Laure Pigache 20:32, 23 Okt. A single loudspeaker stands on a table, nicely illuminated by a spotlight. What are we to expect from this… a single speaker? Alessandro Bosetti and Anne Laure...
A Sphere of Multitudes by Gabi Schaffner Monday October 24th, 2016 Andrea-Jane Cornell 23. Okt, 23:50 chasing the sound file of my talk with Andrea-Jane Cornell from the 21st. It won’t transfer to my hard drive for ages… too much oscillation in between...
Post-Didactic Mermaids & Demo(n)s by Gabi Schaffner Sunday October 23rd, 2016 Anna RaimondoCéline BernardFelix KubinFelix Raeithella Ligna 22/23. Okt. 16:14 14:20 Universitätsplatz Es ist schön in der frischen Luft zu stehen und die KünstlerInnen und Mitstreiter der Radiorevolten auch mal bei Tageslicht zu sehen. Wir bekommen tragbare...
Strobe Radio by Gabi Schaffner Saturday October 22nd, 2016 Aki Onda Aki Onda turns a radio in his hands and the frequencies shift. He walks around, slowly, and the frequencies shift. A deep hum comes from the speakers in the background...
Duo Infernal by Gabi Schaffner Saturday October 22nd, 2016 Famoudou Don MoyeHartmut Geerken 22. Oct, 11:15 remembering 20. Oct, 19:20 The Websters dictionary offers the following meanings of „infernal“: 1. hellish; fiendish; diabolical: an infernal plot. 2. extremely troublesome, annoying, etc.; outrageous: an...
Mosquito Magic: Pipa Musical by Gabi Schaffner Thursday October 20th, 2016 pipa musicalRogerio KrepskiXTO Oct. 19, 22:09 How can you chase away a mosquito that is irritating you? Answer: Imitate the male mosquito’s buzz and the bloodthirsty female will leave. Pipa Musical from São...
(de) Hauser ohne Minigolf by Gabi Schaffner Wednesday October 19th, 2016 Marold Langer-PhilippsenRalf Wendt Oct 18, 22:24 About 15-18 people huddle together in a round chamber of one of the Hausmannstürme and listen to their radios. Two men sit opposite each other, mute. A...
Minigolf without Hauser by Gabi Schaffner Wednesday October 19th, 2016 Alessandro BosettiDeutschlandradio kultur 18. Oct, 20:30 Minigolf by Alessandro Bosetti . Produktion: DLR/Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart/Radio 2014 (Translation follows) Es mag ein wenig peinlich sein es zuzugeben, aber während der gesamten Dauer von Alessandro Bosettis...
Atomized Cinnamon: The Envelope of the Hour by Gabi Schaffner Wednesday October 19th, 2016 Anna Friz 18. Oct. 14:30 Higher and higher up the staircase waft the scents of the market from far down below: Bratwurst, waffles, cinnamon, smoked fish. The higher one climbs the more...
Gremlins Under a Bow String 2: Howlround by Gabi Schaffner Tuesday October 18th, 2016 Chris WeaverHowlroundRobin The Fog Loops are such strange things…or (better maybe) concepts? In one way they are limited, and in another way they are endless. In one way they connect to the myth of...
Gremlins under a Violin Bow 1: Chris Cutler by Gabi Schaffner Monday October 17th, 2016 Chris CutlerChris WeaverRobin The Fog (Translation follows) „Radiokunst und Musik, wir wussten ja nicht: Wollen wir das? Geht das zusammen? Getrennt? Oder wollen wir nur Radiokunst?“ So oder ähnlich lautete Knut Aufermanns kleines Vorgeplänkel, bevor...
Transmission Philosophy 2: On 105.7 MHz by Gabi Schaffner Monday October 17th, 2016 Víctor Mazón Gardoqui 16. Oct., 15:20 + 21:44 Honestly I was too lazy to build my own antenna in Victor’s workshop. Just re-soldered some basic parts to my transmitter and decided on contemplation...
Needles and Pigs 2: Willem de Ridder by Gabi Schaffner Sunday October 16th, 2016 Willem de Ridder (übersetzung folgt) Willem de Ridder’s show evening happened to concede with his 77 birthday. Probably everybody with a great and long and famous past is eligible to highlight his (or...
Needles and Pigs 1: The Sound Stitcher by Gabi Schaffner Sunday October 16th, 2016 Mary Stark Mary Stark sings a song while she attaches loops of film strips to a wire washing line spanned between the speakers. Coming from a generation of textile factory workers in...
Sunday Morning by Gabi Schaffner Sunday October 16th, 2016 16. Okt. 10:33 When I woke up this morning I found it hard to decide which of the events of the preceding day I should pick to start with in...
Transmission Philosophy by Gabi Schaffner Saturday October 15th, 2016 Víctor Mazón Gardoqui 15. Oct. 17:45 The philosophy of transmission is the topic of Victor Mazón Gardoqui’s workshop. While giving his introduction on the semantic and historical origins of the term, he enthusiastically...
Random Listening: Hidden Elements by Gabi Schaffner Friday October 14th, 2016 14. Oct. 12:24 Switched into „Hidden elements“… I hear wavestorms, wind noise and an introduction to Maria Cunitz, one of the most learned women in astronomy. Born around 1610, Wołów,...
The Shortwave Experience: Myke Dodge Weiskopf by Gabi Schaffner Friday October 14th, 2016 Myke Dodge Weiskopf 5. Oct. 17:25 Interview with Myke Dodge Weiskopf on the day after his performance and just before his radio show at the Revolten studio. It took some time to insert...
Order is a Dangerous Thing by Gabi Schaffner Thursday October 13th, 2016 Ralf WendtXentos 'Fray' Bentos Okt. 12, 20:31 Xentos ‘Fray’ Bentos is only one of the 280 pseudonyms Jim Whelton uses to propel his works into the universe. The London-based video and radio artist, writer,...
Hooray: Faster into German! by Gabi Schaffner Thursday October 13th, 2016 13. Okt. 14:47 Gorgeous! The diarist can happily announce that her translations back into the German language are now activley supported by Der Emil. You see him here (no, it’s...
Into the Green 2 by Gabi Schaffner Thursday October 13th, 2016 Hartmut Geerken 12. Okt. 16:45 October feels already like November, the eyes are searching for color in absence of blue patches in the sky. Revisiting the Botanic Garden I took a pear...
FM Enlightens the Lonely: Tonic Train und der Funkamateur by Gabi Schaffner Wednesday October 12th, 2016 Bernd KukielkaKnut AufermannSarah Washington Pics that look like film stills, either from „the Cabinett of Dr. Caligari“ or similar out of the pool of the mystery movie imagery: what the photographer or „picture taker“...
Madonnas in Buzz by Gabi Schaffner Wednesday October 12th, 2016 Joyce Hinterding 11. Okt, 17:05 Finally! Visiting Joyce Hinterding’s installation at the Moritzburg on an already semi-dark drizzly Halle afternoon. The glass cabinets hold blood-weeping madonnas, dying St. Sebastians, altar pieces from...
Salami Music by Gabi Schaffner Tuesday October 11th, 2016 Henk BakkerLukas Simonis Okt. 11, 14:47 Returned from space travel & re-tuned into Radio Revolten on 99.3 with my new spy radio: I am not sure whom I am listening to; humor, accent...
Rock’n’Roll Station: Paulo Raposo by Gabi Schaffner Tuesday October 11th, 2016 Paulo Raposo 9. Oct. 21:00 Among the crowd of radia founders and members who held their conference during the weekend was also radio artist Paulo Raposo from Radio Zero Lisbon. Although we...
Space Travel by Gabi Schaffner Tuesday October 11th, 2016 10. Oct. 11:20 Traveling from Halle feels like space travel. I’m on the bus to Berlin. Maybe this is because there is so much is happening at the Radio Revolten...
Werkleitz Blow-up by Gabi Schaffner Sunday October 9th, 2016 Okt 9, 0:20 / respectively 9th 14:34 Ah, the feeling of parties that have halfway disappeared already into the darker recesses of the brain leaving a memory of a sound...
At the Oracle by Gabi Schaffner Sunday October 9th, 2016 Marold Langer-Philippsen 8. Oct. 17-18:00 Two walnuts and four acorns collected from the Botanic Garden in Halle was my set of questions to the oracle. What’s really in them remains unknown as...
In the Air we Share by Gabi Schaffner Saturday October 8th, 2016 Marold Langer-PhilippsenSarah Washington It is not quite sure how many steps lead up into the magician’s studio on the Hausmannstürme, but the passage has three sections: first one is stone steps, second one...
Hallucinated Sounds by Gabi Schaffner Saturday October 8th, 2016 Steve Bates Steve Bates talks about his performance, 6. Oct. 22:04 – This was… (Passer-by from the audience): Very well constructed! – These sounds you just talked about… (Passer-by from the audience):...
Radia/o Birds by Gabi Schaffner Saturday October 8th, 2016 Carola HauptRodrigo Ríos Zunino 8. Okt. 10:42 While the first radio artists prepare to leave Halle, others keep arriving. Many leave only to settle in another distant country: Jeff Kolar will be traveling to...
Steve Bates by Gabi Schaffner Friday October 7th, 2016 Steve Bates Let there be volume! And volume happened! And it was wonder-full! Here come the “quick-notes”; the interview made after his concert will follow soon on this blog. 6. Oct. 21:12...
Fifty Hertz Bells by Gabi Schaffner Friday October 7th, 2016 Ilja RogatchevskiLaura Michelle Smith 6. Okt. 20:34 Fifty Hertz: Experiments in the Modulation of Utility Frequenzies and Earth Radio: Notes taken during the concert Ilia Rogatchevski & Laura Michelle Smith This drizzly 6th of...
Sufi Radio by Gabi Schaffner Friday October 7th, 2016 Fernando GodoyRodrigo Ríos Zunino 7. Okt. reflecting on an evening on the 5th., written on the 6th, 19:50 There is a slightly eerie feeling when little machines move about the floor, making slurring noises...
Rain Motors by Gabi Schaffner Thursday October 6th, 2016 Peter Courtemanche 15:00 6. Okt. 2016 Yesterday I had a talk with Peter Courtemanche. He doesn’t like the idea of attaching his art works to animals but this is probably one of...
Microwave Meringues 2 by Gabi Schaffner Thursday October 6th, 2016 anna frJeff KolarKristen Roos As promised, here comes the talk with Kristen, Jeff and Anna from 3rd. Oct. – I understand that the three of you never played together. Can you tell me about...
Mikrowave Meringues 1 by Gabi Schaffner Wednesday October 5th, 2016 5. Okt in hindsight: 20:30, 4th Okt. What had happened in my dream was a shift from soap to pizza, a subconscious beatification of the smell that evaporated from Kristen...
Cat dreams & Breathers by Gabi Schaffner Wednesday October 5th, 2016 Emmanuel MadanSophea Lerner Okt 5: 9:34 Nine black cats follow a grey cat through a gothic shaped door into a derelict building after me and Augustin (my grey cat) had looked at three...
Sirens with Copper Wigs by Gabi Schaffner Tuesday October 4th, 2016 DinahBirdJean-Philippe RenoultJoyce Hinterding 3. Okt. 22:10 What’s the difficulty in writing about sound – or music? the difficulty is the word „about“. Listening to both concerts this evening I feel touched, moved, permeated...
Everything Spins… by Gabi Schaffner Tuesday October 4th, 2016 Fernando GodoyRodrigo Ríos Zunino Okt. 3, 15:26 A short talk with Rodrigo Ríos Zunino – You just said 360° was about satellites… and failures… Yes. There was an invitation by Anna Friz to Fernando...
Marold’s Chorus by Gabi Schaffner Monday October 3rd, 2016 Marold Langer-Philippsen 14:00, 3. Oktober These days I keep thinking about a haiku that goes a bit like this: “Umbrellas – in endless numbers! – hesitantly move up the road.” (Don’t count...
Das Große Rauschen 2 by Gabi Schaffner Monday October 3rd, 2016 Ed BaxterMyke Dodge Weiskopf 21:30 “The Arthur Craven Memorial Boxing Match”, also written by Ed Baxter, is actively on stage. The text is spoken by Emilia Portaluppi, Daniel Villar, Rodrigo Rios and Carmen Gonzalez....
Das Große Rauschen 1 by Gabi Schaffner Monday October 3rd, 2016 Anna FrizDinahBirdJean-Philippe RenoultJeff Kolar 16:20 The house is filled with whispers, drones and hums, the doors in this corridor open to the exhibitions of the Radiorevolten festival. At this point in time, not yet...
Into the Green by Gabi Schaffner Sunday October 2nd, 2016 Peter Courtemanche 10:00 Botanischer Garten, a tour to the works of Peter Courtmanche near the “systematic plots” and Hartmut Geerken in the hot houses. From a rambling bush thin branches reach out...
“… those whale songs!” by Gabi Schaffner Sunday October 2nd, 2016 1. Okt. 18:30 On the market the people are drifting by, eddies build around the stands, not only by the rain water. In the air too, eddies are forming… „Well...
Radiorevolten Opening by Gabi Schaffner Saturday October 1st, 2016 Halle / Dream 8:30, 1. Okt. 2016 The morning is wet and fresh, the asters are dripping with rain, the sky is promising drizzle. Last night I crawled with the...
Radio Gardening by Gabi Schaffner Thursday August 18th, 2016 Alex KlinkGabi Schaffner 13th of August, a suitcase with David’s Harp, German iris and Turkish sage, a bag filled with oregano, wild strawberries and woodruff are being sorted in the radio garden. The...
The Radio Revolten diary by knut Sunday June 5th, 2016 start From 1st of October 2016 you will find here daily missives of our own festival blogger Gabi Schaffner, who as a photographer, author and radio artists herself is perfectly suited...