radio aporee ::: maps
radio aporee ::: maps is an open project about the creation and exploration of public soundscapes. it collects and organizes recordings of daily surroundings and other sonic environments from all over the world. the sounds are organized within a mashup system of mapping software, databases, telephone networks and the Internet. sites and sounds can also be explored and accessed in situ by recent GPS-enabled mobile devices.the project reflects on actual changes and developments in mobile computing and so called locative media, which we assume to be crucial to the way we experience our near future daily life, where media and markets will emerge at the precise position of our body. whether and how we can create and keep unoccupied spaces aside from predetermined functions and fictions, is an important question to the project.
radio aporee ::: world
not exactly a project... it steals world misery statistics from several more or less official sources and speaks the truth (in german...)"In diesem Moment leben 6 Milliarden, 616 Millionen, 131 Tausend und 52 Menschen auf der Erde. Seit dem letzten Aufruf dieser Seite vor 14 Minuten und 54 Sekunden sind weltweit 255 Menschen verhungert. Davon waren 149 Kinder. 112 Menschen sind an den Folgen verschmutzten Wassers gestorben. Davon waren 60 Kinder. Außerdem haben sich 149 Menschen neu mit H I V infiziert. 224 Menschen sind an Tuberkulose erkrankt. 89 sind an den Folgen von Aids gestorben. 60 starben an den Folgen der Tuberkulose. Nebenbei wurden im gleichen Zeitraum 319 Hektar tropischer Urwald vernichtet und 849300 Tonnen Kohlendioxid in die Atmosphäre emittiert. Desweiteren ist weltweit eine Tier oder Pflanzenart ausgestorben. Guten Tag und vielen Dank für Ihre Aufmerksamkeit."
fmwalks / radio.aporee.org
fmwalks started 1999 as an experimental setting for various techniques and concepts, mobile FM radio, home made transmitters, networks, internet streaming, telephone systems in various configurations. it was the starting point for radio aporee, which is a more consistent form for these different approaches, all related to spaces, places, topographies, sense of place and esp. sound. currently, on radio.aporee.org you find a permanent stream of sounds from many places and contributors around the world.there are references to my first radio, an old receiver called nordmende raumklang, with its densely stacked short wave scales, which was the first of these maps: names of unknown places, spoken words in incomprehensible languages, sounds, noise, space.
parole
As in a type of "Borgesian" dream, parole establishes a permanently fluid and unstable mapping of the actual urban condition throughout the world, looking at the variations and alterations in language and in the discourse of several different disciplines. Neologisms, slang terms, theories, utopic projects, nicknames attributed to specific sites, urbanism, architecture, anthropology, contemporary art are some of the multiple material included in parole." In short, it's a dictionary of the contemporary city.
über den äther
Von der Quinta Essentia der Antike bis zur dunklen Energie moderner Kosmologien begleitet uns der Äther in wechselnder Bedeutung durch die Räume der Wissenschaft und Weltanschauung: Nie bewiesen, dennoch immer anwesend, widersprüchlich und weltausfüllend, ist er Medium und mythischer Stoff bis heute.this project is/was about the ancient (and maybe recent...) ether/aether/äther, it started in 2005 during the Einsteinjahr, and had a physical manifestation in a sound object/installation at the historic market in Potsdam. see also...
