A JOURNEY INSIDE AN AUDIO PROJECT
We - Claudia Wegener and Terry Humphrey, two radio obsessed artists in London – kicked off the NO-GO-ZONES audio project with a series of weekly workshops, drop-in radio sessions and live broadcasts on Resonance104.4fm in the spring 2007. We have been working with a young production team of students from Camberwell College of Art and teenagers from the area of South London. Out with the NO-GO-ZONES studio van, we recorded the life stories of individuals experiences and discussions of groups. The result of this activity is an open archive of people’s no-go-zone stories, issues and concerns.
AN OPEN ARCHIVE
The archive of the NO-GO-ZONES project contains the recordings of our live radio programmes, as well as all individual audio clips used in the broadcasts. The clips are free to download for everyone who’d like to listen and utilise the audio in their own work; play-lists of clips can be browsed via the blog ( http://www.nogozones.wordpress.com ). We are continuously adding to the archive and very much welcome your contributions, recordings and responses.
RADIO COMMUNITIES
On June 4th, NO-GO-ZONES had an ‘outing’ on Canadian air: Garth Rennie, who is running the weekly show, ‘sound scape rhythms’, at CJAM ( http://www.cjam.ca ) presented live radio mixes from our on-line archive and an interview with us on the phone about the project. The following day, we aired clips of the CJAM broadcast in our show on Resonance fm ( http://www.resonancefm.com ). You can listen to the sound of this on-air encounter and live mixing via the following link:
http://www.archive.org/details/No-go-zonesLiveShows5
The process of a correspondence via radio productions and programmes seemed to us an opportunity for communication and exchange worth developing. We are interested exploring these forms of transient and spontaneous ‘communities’ on-air with groups and individuals elsewhere, across divides, around common concerns.
And this is why we’d like to invite you to listen to our archive and send us a record of the encounter with yours: we are calling for 100 listening encounters that will influence us and the next twists and turns in our journey:
WELCOME TO influence 100
We are inviting submissions of 2-3 mins ‘edited mixes’ in response to the on-line archive of NO-GO-ZONES samples. Your ‘edited mixes’ could be single or multiple track, entirely based on samples from the NO-GO-ZONES archive, or mixed with recordings of your own archive, or it could be the recording of a text you read or have written in response to listening to our on-line samples. Your contribution will be included in our on-line publications and a special DVD influence100 to be released by Double Entendre in Spring 2008.
If you’d like to contribute a mix and be one of our 100 influences please contact us now via: [email protected] . We are accepting submissions for influence100 until 4th February 2008.
There are some links to examples of re-mixes and influences in the latest blog entry on this site entitled: '1 2 3 of 100 influences'.
animated mix by FRANK SCHUURMANS
SEND US YOUR MIX
Please upload your 2-3 min audio piece on http://www.archive.org and include all the written information about you and the work you’d like to go with it, and then send us the link. For the DVD publication, we’d also like to ask you to send us an uncompressed version of your piece either to the address below or, alternatively you could send us an uncompressed file via ‘you send it’ and again mail us the link to our e-mail address:
[email protected]
Camberwell College of Art
NO-GO-ZONES/ influence 100
Peckham Rd.
LONDON SE5 8UF
The NO-GO-ZONES audio radio project received funding from the Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts programme, Camberwell College of Arts and Southwark Council.
