#366. Independent sound art, radiophonic projects and other audio non-visual misunderstandings and findings. With a new and an old Worm production; Water Saus by Lili Huston-Herterich & Ash Kilmartin and Truus Makes Waves by Truus de Groot.
Water Saus by Lili Huston-Herterich & Ash Kilmartin.
Water Saus is an audio work by Ash Kilmartin and Lili Huston-Herterich, produced during the development of their collaborative exhibition of the same title. The work began as the sketch of an invented character—a poet who writes in the shower, as a way to compose (in) privacy—but transformed into a journal of writing and making together. The recordings travel across Rotterdam, from one studio to another to home and back again, as the artists chat, eat, piss, sing in the shower, make moulds for soap, and compare playlists and book collections.
Lili Huston-Herterich is an American-Canadian artist who runs the project space Available & The Rat in her apartment. Ash Kilmartin is an artist from Aotearoa New Zealand and the founder of a shop called LIFE. They both live in Rotterdam.
This is a Radio Worm/Klangendum production.
Truus Makes Waves by Truus de Groot.
An Autobiographic opera by Truus de Groot. (2012)
With:
Johnny Dowd – presenter
Solex (aka Elisabeth Esselink) – Instrumentation on “NY NY”
Kathy Ziegler – Bontempi Organ on “Toilet Dame”
Analog Synthesizers sounds from Worm.
Timeline:
Intro by Johnny Dowd.
Truus reads from Diary from 1980 (actual recording from 1980)
Truus reads from Diary from 1979 .
Song: Done Me wrong Blues (recorded at WORM 2012)
Hoboken Street argument – (actual recording from 1983)
Song: Hoboken Runaround – recorded in Hoboken 1983 .
Song: NY NY – written in 1983 (recorded at WORM 2012) instrumentation by Solex.
Song: Seven Rounds (recorded at WORM 2012)
Song: Hoboken Dirty Kids – (actual recording from 1983)
Song: Hector – (actual recording from 1987)
strange Phone call – >From Truus’ strange phone call collection
Song: Unlikely Crush – (recorded at WORM 2012)
Song: Toilet Dame – (recorded at WORM 2012)
Closing words by Johnny Dowd.
Written by Truus de Groot (aka Geertruda De Groot Hrnjak) 2012.
Truus Makes waves.
An autobiographical opera by Truus de Groot. About her earliest years in the US. Dealing with the isolation and loneliness through her ongoing often humorous audio observations that she has collected over the years.
The piece starts out with Truus reading form her Diary in 1980, shortly before her departure to the US. Just minor observations of a 20 year old, nothing special yet a moment in time. Not really a clue she would be going to the US mere months later, never to call the Netherlands her home again.
It was an adventure looking back for her, but at that time these were just impulsive decisions. Never thinking twice, why am I doing this? Is there future here?? What will I do? Her first stop was a connection she made on a whim in Eindhoven, David Linton, who lived in Tribeca, NY. His roommate was Lee Renaldo, who was at that time painting. From there her US journey began.
In her isolation she could see the absurd humor of a culture that was so new to her. The many hours spent just looking at people, their silly habits, crazy public fights, moody encounters, make this opera a time capsule of sorts. It also conveys her frustrations of being harassed endlessly by the prying eyes of males that feasted their eyes on a beautiful yet naive young immigrant.
However bothersome that might have been, Truus always translated it into humorous musical reflections. It is not dark yet perhaps a bit cynical, but full of irony.
It travels from 1979 to up to around 1990’s.
