#206. Independent sound art, radiophonic projects and other audio non-visual misunderstandings and findings. An episode featuring the work of Reinier van Houdt. Commissioned by Worm/Klangendum, he created the radioplay ‘Igitur Flotsam’, with Current 93’s leading man David Tibet as narrator. This piece was produced for the radio network by Dr. Klangendum. In addition, we will play three other compositions by Van Houdt as well.
playlist;
1. Reinier van Houdt; Igitur Flotsam.
2. Reinier van Houdt: The Fabric Of Loss/Orphic Asylum/Vessel.
3. Michael Pisaro: Half Sleep Beings.
4. Alvin Curran: For Cornelius part 2.
MORE INFO:
IGITUR FLOTSAM – a stream of deserted anthems, disembodied voices, morse signals, crank calls, corroded tapes, radio statics, counting games and wanderings through empty buildings.
This radioplay is based on the unfinished gothic tale IGITUR – a collection of texts abandoned by its writer Stéphane Mallarmé in 1869.
A man wakes up in the middle of the night. Is there something there? Or has something disappeared?
Outside are opaque constellations of stars, the radio plays random sounds from beyond and the phone is dead. It seems as if something has been accompanying him all along, stealing his identity by being a double. Trying to escape this double he leaves his room and outside on the stairs he happens upon more reflections, shadows and doubles.
He tries to conjure these multiples by counting steps and doors on the way.
Finally downstairs everything vanishes in the dark when all the sounds of the world enter the large open space.
Credits:
music: Reinier van Houdt.
text: Stéphane Mallarmé/Reinier van Houdt.
voice: David Tibet.
Thank you: David Tibet, Ossian Brown, Rita Knuistingh Neven, Andere Baustelle,
Simon Lenski, Susanne Fröhlich, Sascha Sulimma.
Produced by Worm/Klangendum.
ABOUT REINIER:
Reinier van Houdt started working with tape recorders, radios, objects and various string instruments at a young age. He studied piano at the Liszt Akademie in Budapest and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He developed a fascination for matters that escape notation: sound, timing, space, physicality, memory, noise, environment – points beyond composition, interpretation and improvisation. He created an unusual repertoire that consistently resulted from personal quests – from collaborations with composers and musicians, from research in archives, from the composing and staging of music performances or from unorthodox studies of classical music.
Apart from his own music he premiered music by Robert Ashley, Alvin Curran, Jerry Hunt, Michael Pisaro and Walter Marchetti. He also worked with John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Peter Ablinger and Christian Marclay.
Reinier van Houdt plays in Current 93, which has recently released an album with contributions by Nick Cave, John Zorn and Antony Hegarty. He is also one of the moving forces of the experimental music collective MAZE.
