I want to eat the earth

A sonic almanac from the New School of the Anthropocene

On Monday 22nd 7pm UK / 8pm CET, we broadcast the equinox editions of I want to eat the earth.

‘I want to eat the earth’ A sonic almanac from the New School of the Anthropocene

NSOTA is a radical experiment in alternative education, away from marketisation and arcane specialism towards co-sensing systems change through creative practice.

This is an ecological transmission of DIY ethics, non-hierarchical structures, radical networks, interconnected sensing through sound, text, voice, spoken word, human and more-than-human collaborative practice, patchwork group thinking, and radio art.

This episode is created for the September equinox, when dark and light equalize for a brief pause in the turn of the year, a short moment before the long exhale into the next season. The piece is curated and produced by Stephen Shiell and composed using original material from NSOTA scholars and friends.

Scholar contributions:

Stephen Shiell a field recording at the bus station at LA airport, waiting for a bus to Hollywood, and a chance encounter with a fellow traveller, 2016, on the way to Burning Man festival.
Skye Selection from work in progress, Notebook
Venetia Allen & Tim Rabjohns (aka shimmerglisten) Embrace the Surrender exploring the sounds of our natural world through ambient song Rhona Eve Clews field recording of fruit sellers, late Sunday night, London
Michael Timmerman the Introit of a Requiem, based on Fauré and introducing the theme that the harmonic series that grounds all music is a fact of physics. “Extracting” beautiful melodies from a universal phenomenon is a universal thing. The piece carries forward the beauty, balance and optimism placed in the Christ figure and offers a take on a requiem for a future that is unlikely to take place. Special thanks to Nainita Desai and Chris Watson for their track “A Glacier’s Journey, Iceland”, which is sampled here.
Pascal Sleigh and Elspeth Leitch I hate the landfill, the persistent and carcinogenic chemicals which build up in Canterbury’s Shelford landfill site are re-practiced through speech and improvised piano. A delay effect imitates the way these materials pollute a future which is unlivable, and unlistenable.
Hannah White Oyster Girl old english folk song depicting a tale of female resistance and retaliation on the streets of 18th century London Simon McClelland Morris Autumn is Now Falling, A brief comparison of trust systems, and the expectation that one season follows another as it always has, and always will, even in the time of climate collapse
Rhona Eve Clews field recording of fruit sellers, late Sunday night, London
Chris de Sel South Downs Flat Time Holborn – Glyndebourne – Goodwood – Brent. Hydrophone recordings from deep time ecopoetics workshop with Hugh Dunkerley at the Artworkers Guild
Rhona Eve Clews found broken intercom, Green lanes, London
Rhona Eve Clews The body rumbles on (we’re iron filings after all), spoken poem
Rhona Eve Clews field recordings from The Grange residency, Norfolk
Carol Melo field recording of hollow monkeys in my morning walk in the tropical forest of La Sierra Nevada, Colombia.
Breathing Space Collective Ember, an improvisation dedicated to the element of fire, from the void before sparks to the roaring flames, echoed through organ drones and voice. Performed live at St. Leonard's Church in Shoreditch, as part of an immersive evening in collaboration with Sun At Night around the theme of 'Fire'. Using a multi-channel speaker system the audience was immersed in a sonic tapestry of voice, percussion, bell and organ, exploring resonance and harmonics.
Carol Melo recorded with ebird. An app that helps to identify bird spices through their song. This special recording shows so many species in one morning in my little house in the tropical forest.

PachaKamani

On Tuesday 23. September on our 12:00 CET FM slot on Colaboradio / Freies Radio Berlin Brandenburg, we present our monthly program of PachaKamani from Bolivia,

Concierto Música y Danza Afroboliviana. 23 de septiembre, día del Pueblo y la Cultura Afroboliviana Concierto realizado el jueves 27 de septiembre 2018, parte de la «Semana del pueblo y la cultura Afroboliviana». Lugar: La Casa del Artista – Ministerio de Culturas y Turismo.

Evento que formó parte de la «Semana del pueblo y la cultura Afroboliviana» realizada entre el 24 al 28 de septiembre de 2018. ORGANIZADO POR:

Contenido del video:

• Agrupación Cultural “Tambor Mayor” (La Paz) • Explicación de la música y los instrumentos de la Saya (Comunidad Chicaloma) • Conjunto «Saya Chicaloma» (Sud Yungas) • Testimonio de Daniel Barra. • Conjunto «Saya Chicaloma» (Sud Yungas) • La Semba, danza de la fertilidad (Agrupación Cultural “Tambor Mayor”)

PachaKamani

AIRES CREATIVOS

On Tuesday 23. September on our 14:00 CET and replay the next day at 2:00 CET FM slot on Colaboradio / Freies Radio Berlin Brandenburg, we present our monthly program of Aires Creativos from Chile.

En este mes de septiembre, presentamos un nuevo episodio del podcast Aires Creativos, del proyecto Nuevos Aires Chilenos para Oboe. La periodista Nayive Ananías, conversará con el compositor Cristian Pereira sobre su quehacer como creador musical, sus inquietudes y como es motivado por su entorno en el Sur de Chile. Podremos escuchar las obras "El lamento de Perséfone" para dos oboes y “Niebla ficticia” para oboe solo.

La mitad de las entrevistas son realizadas por Nayive Ananías y la otra mitad, por Romina de la Sotta. Se estrenará una sesión al mes, hasta diciembre.

Aires Creativos se transmite por Spotify y Archipel Community Radio de Berlín.

Producción, José Luis Urquieta Producción Alemania-Bolivia, Bertha Elena Artero Ponce, Lluvia Bustos Soria, Comusik

Archipel e.V is a small arts and culture association registered within the german requirments, according to which we assigned as our main purpose advocating for tolerance in all areas of culture and the concept of international understanding, especially supporting the emancipation of entities that have been pushed to the margins.

In the last months we have watched consecutive war crimes being commited by Israel backlashing Hamas horrendous attentat on October 7th 2023. We have watched powerful governments, in particular the German, support inconditionally and financially an offensive in Palestine that is unjustifiable. We watched hate speech profaned by the mouths of people in charge. We watched hundreds of international human rights organisations desperately denoucing an on-going massacre. We have watched protests, especially in Berlin, that in no way endorsed Hamas - instead mourne and demanded respect to human rights - be violently supressed. We have watched police reinforcement of racial profiling and provocations to the Palestinian, Arab and Muslim communitites living in Berlin. We have watched a quick escalation of discrimitation and ignorant statements about Arabs and Muslims, specially inside schools, from educational staff and school communities. We have watched german art and educational institutions, when at all making public statements, show solidarity to the losses of Israel and silence about what is happening in Palestine. We confirm a complex set of silencing mechanisms at play against those that are critical of mainstream narratives.

Hereby we publicly declare our devastation about this situation and that we do not agree with the ways the German government and the German cultural and academic circuit has acted so far. We are disapointed and specially revolted by the discrepancy between all the decolonial discourse that has permeated the arts - a staging in which all members of our organisation have acted upon - and the general retraction to a brutal scenario that blows up the main injustices and power inequalities decolonization fights against. We understand there are many mechanisms for silencing at play, still, we cannot accept the submission to this oppression of speech and criticism. We call specially the german voices to work out through their reasons not to speak up and use their locus of speech that is of particular relevance to the injustices exploding in the last months and to the extreme-right agenda that is taking over more and more space.

We would like also to call attention to the many ways in which this current crisis reinforce mechanisms of polarization and separation between people all over the world. Archipel will put its efforts in maintaing its open channel for all voices and contuining to produce spaces of encounter in times of further increase in broken relationships. Inasmusch as we feel we must speak out against the current upmost injustices, we also need to stay aware of the importance of connectivity and cross-communication in the sight of a large aparatus that is trying to disrupt valuable interpersonal relationships. We want to contribute to free and diverse media environment and foster cultures of listening that produce empathy and respect.

CEASE FIRE NOW. REPAIR.

p.s. We keep changing at the beginning of this statment days, for weeks, for months... now it's almost two years.

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