RADIO SHOW:
🔊SAVVYZΛΛR meets DYSTOPIA & ERRANT SOUND🔊
With @dystopiabiennial & @errant.sound
→ Sunday 22.09.2024
16:00 [Berlin]
→ 17:00 Followed by a re-wind of Urban Feral’s „Everything is Sound“
→ ON AIR in Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM reboot.fm as well as streamed online on our website.
Super happy about a two-part collaboration between Savvyzaar (the radio presence of Savvy Contemporary) and Dystopia Biennial, the sound art festival that has been happening in Berlin since 2018, organized by Errant Sound. This year’s edition, directed by Nida Ghouse and @georgekleinberlin, dives into sound art from across the Indian subcontinent and Europe.
In this first edition, I wrap up one week of Dystopia Biennial, speak with and play music by the participating artists Hemant Sreekumar, Alifiyah Imani, Zeerak Ahmed aka Slowspin and Sarathy Korwar.
Hemant Sreekumar is an Indian artist from Bangalore. He has a background in art history, fine arts and digital media. He creates performance art with synthetic audio using principles of emergence + also produces visual media including prints and light based works. His works respond to notions of decay, generative bias and loss of semantics.
Alifiyah Imani is a sound artist and writer working with sensory listening rituals through installation, electroacoustic music, and experimental radio. Locating sound as a lived and relational process, she explores the nuances of drones, harmonics, and overtone colourations. Her practice takes inspiration from her interest in the Rasa aesthetics of Bharatanatyam and the voice culture around Dhrupad music.
Vladimir Razhev is a sound engineer and multimedia artist, exploring the expressive interactions between technology and sound through creative coding and maker practices. He has a background in classical music and has extensive experience with live sound engineering and spatial sound technologies.
Zeerak Ahmed / SLOWSPIN is a US-based Pakistani artist. She produces voice-based sculptures, site-specific installations and uniquely fragile sound collages that explore notions of identity, memory and longing. Slowspin has a distinct sound practice grounded in Hindustaani classical vocal traditions, dream-folk, ambient and experimental electronic music. Poetry and melodies in her mother tongue(s)—Urdu, Farsi, Purbi and English—build new textural soundscapes.
Sarathy Korwar is a US-born, Indian-raised, London-based drummer, percussionist, composer and bandleader. He works predominantly in a jazz and Indo jazz field but also incorporates elements of hip-hop, and other fusions. Indo-futurist manifesto KALAK followed in November 2022 – Korwar’s third studio album. In rhythmic step with the past and the present, it sets out to describe a route forward. It celebrates a rich South Asian culture of music and literature, which resonates with spirituality and community, while envisaging a better future from those building blocks.
Tracklist:
– Akashvani – Recordings of Hemant Sreekumar´s concert at the Galiläa Church on Sep 7th 2024, based on his installation, to be seen at the Galiläa Church
– ~an entropy of one´s own~ – Recordings of Alifiyah Imani´s and Vladimir Rhazev´s installation to be seen at Errant Sound@Miss Read
– Lilt and forget (Slowspin – TALISMAN)
– Hamari (Slowspin – TALISMAN)
– Apnay Mahal Ma (Audio from Zeerak Ahmed´s installation, to be seen at the Galiläa Church)
– That Clocks Don’t Tell But Make Time (Sarathy Korwar – KALAK)
– Utopia Is A Colonial Project (Sarathy Korwar – KALAK)
