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General themes of the residency, will be maritime
ecology and spectrum ecology. The residency work will
also be inspired by the story of the Prestige oil
Tanker, and the Semaphores located along the coastline
of France. 

The Prestige 

The Prestige oil tanker left Ventspils and passed by
Dunkerque before crashing on the coast of Portugal.
The Prestige is one of many ships that collect oil
sent by train from Russia to Ventspils
harbour(Latvia), and head towards the Atlantic. But as
we know, often international maritime laws are not
well respected, and irresponsible oil companies have
contributed to many black seas on this route in the
past 30 years. 

Semaphores 

The residency also aims to investigate the role of the
semaphores (Semaphores are the control towers on the
coast of France), and their use of radio
communications, radar, sonar, meteorology, sea rescue
and military surveillance. 

The residency will be part of the European Industrial
Ports Culture Festival, ?Lignes de fret : god save the
kranes?, organized by the association Nautilosh ?
Jokelson and the work will be developed in
collaboration with the artists of La Plate-forme and
the Rock Charity Hospital. A container will be
established on the port for each project. 

For more details : 
http://www.nautilosh.org 

During the residency, access to the port Control Tower
and to the tug boat will be organised for the
residents. Access to the navy database of maritime
international cargo traffic will also be given.
Artists and TCM organisers will explain their
initiative in conferences and musicians will give
performances in industrial, experimental and
electronic dance music genres. A final performance
will be staged using material recorded during the
residency and accompanied by live radio scanning and
radar tracking. 

Results of the residency will be presented in the
Art+Communication Festival held in Riga (1-3 October)
by the RIXC, Center for New Medias Culture. Artists :
Aphasic (NL), Clausthome (LV), Max Nullo (SI), r a d i
o q u a l i a (NZ), Ewen Chardronnet (Fr) 

http://www.rixc.lv 

---- 

- Aphasic - Infosphere Dub (NL) 

Performance using two laptops and modified dub sound
system sound effects unit. 

Laptop 1 - live digital signal processing of radio
communications and satellite TV signals using Ableton
LIVE software. Laptop 2 - random and improvised
composition of edited sound recordings using <earshot>
software. These files made on location and may
include: radio/TV satellite signals, other site
specific sound sources, and interviews with other TCM
participants. Dub sound system sound effects unit -
this modified dub sound system effects unit will be
used to add layers of lazer/siren effects to the live
composition. 

Aphasic profile: "This is about the most electric and
instantaneous high that music can provide." Keith
Cameron from The N.M.E on Aphasic's "Bass &
Superstructure" E.P. 

Aphasic (aka Jason Skeet) has been moving through a
dynamic acoustic zone for several years. He is a
pioneering proponent of fast, funky experimental dance
music, and since 1996 he has co-run the influential
label Ambush. Determined to push electronic dance
music to new extremes, Ambush has now inspired a whole
generation of lo-fi producers. [http://ambush.c8.com] 

In 2003 Aphasic started a new label JUNK, dedicated to
exploring further the gap between the dance floor and
the avant-garde. Taking differing measures of drum &
bass, hardcore techno, hip-hop, dancehall ragga,
gabber and dub, JUNK aims to release music that is
dark, groovy and highly infectious. Most of all, it
marks itself out as an essential assault on the hyper
conservative landscape of contemporary culture.
[http://www.j-u-n-k.com] 

In parallel with dance music projects, Aphasic has
worked on developing <earshot> (in collaboration with
Andi Freeman), an audio software downloadable for free
from the web. <earshot> has a unique interface design
enabling particular compositional possibilities, and
proposes that an audio software can be seen as a
musical instrument in its own right. <earshot>
presentations, performances and workshops have been
made at various electronic arts and digital culture
events throughout Europe over the last few years.
[http://www.earshot.info] 



- Clausthome (LV) 

Clausthome is a group of musicians and artists based
in Riga who aims to analyse several new directions of
the music subculture, while experimenting and
participating in the field. Clausthome is mainly
working with 'dark ambient' , 'drum&noise' and
'radio-noise' that is based on sound research. 

They use radio (ether) structure, data gathered by
radio telescopes and archives of universe research
data servers. This information, processed through
sound alteration programs is used as the starting
point of and base for future materials, when in live
performances through mixing and synthesizing they
create sound environment. 

The name 'Clausthome' describes as an open
experimentation phase, where these authentic audio
samples are used without specific processing, and
without making any references to the source they come
from. It is a process of translation and
transformation that leads towards awareness of that
potential environment, which can be created using the
gathered material. 

The Clausthome are: Lauris Vorslavs (mixing), Girts
Radzins (experimentation) and Raimonds Berzins
(keyboard). 

For the Dunkerque residencies the musicians will
participate as Clausthome: mixing both - received
signals from the radars and other scanning devices in
Dunkerque port, and their live 'techniques': the
spectrum of analogue radio receivers, which will be
sent through effect processor and modulation machine.
Also pre-programmed samples of the Irbene radio
telescope data will be used for the final performance.



- Max Nullo (Projekt Atol, SI) 

Aljosa Abrahamsberg, aka Max Nullo, is musician, a
radio-amateur expert and a core member of Makrolab
technical crew and Projekt Atol's audio-visual
performance Signal Sever! Transignal. 

For Dunkerque, Aljosa Abrahamsberg will set up the the
sensor array conceptualized by Projekt Atol - Pact
Systems for Signal Sever! Transignal which maps the
electromagnetic spectrum. In addition the Pact Systems
Radar Unit tracks air and maritime traffic and display
it for the audience. 

http://makrolab.ljudmila.org 


- R a d i o q u a l i a (NZ) 

r a d i o q u a l i a is an art collaboration from New
Zealand. Since 1999 r a d i o q u a l i a has been
based in Europe, maintaining active links with the New
Zealand art community. The participants are New
Zealanders, Honor Harger and Adam Hyde 

r a d i o q u a l i a experiments with the concept of
artistic broadcasting, using the internet and
traditional media forms, such as radio and television,
as primary tools. We are also interested in ways that
audio can be used to illuminate abstract ideas and
processes. We work in gallery, performance, broadcast
and publishing contexts. 

r a d i o q u a l i a will undertake a project
entitled 'dissonance'. The project will focus on
researching and building a hydrophone during the
residency to be used with a new software created by r
a d i o q u a l i a . The software will scan the
acoustic space of water. The software will listen to
maritime communications (generated by humans and
non-humans alike) via the hydrophone and generate
sound collages. The process of building the hydrophone
will be thoroughly documented, and the software will
be released as Open Source. A subsequent performance
by r a d i o q u a l i a will feature sounds recorded
by the hydrophone and acoustic space scanning
software. 

http://www.radioqualia.net 


- Ewen Chardronnet (Ellipse, Fr) 

Artist and researcher in information systems, working
as video maker, journalist, new media arts and space
arts events organiser. He?s the author of the
anthology " Quitter la gravité " (leaving gravity) for
the Association of Autonomous Astronauts (Editions de
l?Eclat, 2001), and he won the Leonardo-@rt Outsiders
New Horizons Prize for the ACOUSTIC SPACE LAB - OPEN
SKY installation which was presented at the Maison
Européenne de la Photographie in Paris during its @rt
Outsiders festival in 2003. 

Ewen Chardronnet is TCM project coordinator for
Ellipse. He will organise project logistics,
relationships with the local partners and the Navy
Control Tower of the port of Dunkerque. 

As a specific project, he will document in video the
SEMAPHORE residency and set the Makrolab Radar unit
with Aljosa Abrahamsberg to track the cargo traffic in
the Channel. 

http://e-ngo.org 

---- 

Public events : 

16 september 2004, 18 h, Jokelson, Port Autonome
Conférence, videos and presentation of the
Trans-Cultural Mapping program With Ellipse and the
artists 21h30 : Marc Ducret Trio (Paris) 

17 september, 2004, 21h30, Jokelson, Port Autonome
Concert with Karochi (DK), Tricky Lobsters (Rostock,
De), Pustki (Gdansk, Pl), Aphasic (NL), Clausthome
(Riga, Lv) and the Semaphore residents. 

24 september, 21 h, Jokelson, Port Autonome Cabaret
concert organised by Rock Charity Hospital 

25 september, 21 h, Jokelson, Port Autonome Final
Concert - Performance of the residency Mapping
Acoustic Space of Radio Communications 

---- 

The "Mapping Acoustic Space of Radio Communications"
residency is organised in the context of the Culture
2000 program « Trans-Cultural Mapping ». The lead
organisation is the RIX-C, The Center for New Media
Culture (RIXC) of Riga (Latvia) and the 6
co-organisers are : Piknik Frequency organisation
(Helsinki, Finland) ; K@2 (Liepaja-Karosta, Latvia) ;
TEKS (Trondheim, Norway) ; Lorna, The Association of
Electronic Artists (Reykjavik, Iceland) ; Projekt Atol
(Ljubljana, Slovenia) ; and Ellipse (Tours, France). 

Mapping Acoustic Space of Radio Communication is
supported by Trans-Cultural Mapping EU Culture 2000
program, the Fondation de France, the association
Plate-forme of Dunkerque, the association Nautilosh ?
Jokelson of Dunkerque, the Port Autonome of Dunkerque
and the City of Dunkerque. 

http://e-ngo.org

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