The Radio That Matters journey is coming to an end and will culminate in the Listening Biennial online festival, where the audio works produced within the project will be available to the public for listening. The works are released on March 27, 28 and 29, and will be available for listening on the website for a week.
Links to the works will be published on this page according to the release schedule. The works will be available for listening until April 6.
Works and their release schedule:
March 27 | 7:00 PM – Alessandro Bosetti (IT), La memoria risiede nel lobo dell’orecchio (Eng. Memory Resides in the Earlobe)
March 28 | 7:00 PM – Mia Takula & Ellen Virman (FI), Hevosen silmin (Eng. Through the Eyes of a Horse)
March 29 | 6:00 PM – Maud Blandel, Flavio Virzì, and ASLAA (FR), La vraie version (Eng. The Real Version)
THE LISTENING BIENNIAL is an artistic, research initiative focusing on listening as a relational capacity, a philosophical and political proposition, a creative practice, and research framework. It acts as an umbrella bringing together practitioners, researchers, institutions and collectives engaged in listening as a method, a tool, a poetics. This includes the creation of an international Biennial exhibition, as well as organizing the Listening Academy in different cities.
Read more about the Radio That Matters project here.
Alessandro Bosetti
La memoria risiede nel Lobo dell’orecchio
Composer and sound artist Alessandro Bosetti builds a hypothetical “Palace of Memory,” a physical and imaginary space containing sound memories connected to life stories, created in collaboration with a community of blind and visually impaired people attending A.S.P. Sant’Alessio Margherita di Savoia.
The title of the work draws inspiration from Maurizio Bettini’s book Rome, City of Words. Orality Memory Law Religion Poetry (Einaudi, 2022). The audio presented here is the first episode of a two installments radio version for Radio3 Rai that was originally aired on Saturday January 11th and Sunday January 12th, 2025.
an acoustic performance by Alessandro Bosetti
in cooperation with the community of blind and visually impaired people attending the A.S.P. Sant’Alessio Margherita di Savoia
with the voices and the words of Marco Guardati, Sonia Gioia, Giovanni Florio, Alessio Federici, Nikolaj Llevliev, Gianluigi degli Atti
thanks to Piersandra Di Matteo, Francesco Di Stefano, Matteo Angius, Marzia Bonacci
commissionated by AREA06 / Short Theatre
in collaboration with A.S.P. Sant’Alessio Margherita di Savoia
Mia Takula & Ellen Virman
Hevosen silmin
The sound art piece Hevosen silmin (in Eng. Through the Eyes of a Horse) depicts how a horse experiences its environment, fellow species, and other animals – including humans. A horse is, in many ways, a different kind of animal compared to humans, yet it still lives in a human world. How well do we consider the needs of horses?
The piece is interwoven with an effort to see things from the horse’s perspective. We hear various horse sounds, sounds that are part of a horse’s life, and music composed specifically for the piece. Hevosen silmin is the kind of work that even a horse would listen to and enjoy, based on the latest available research and experiential knowledge. However, there is one particular sound that horses do not find pleasant, even though it is a part of their everyday lives.
Characters
Horses: Voltti, Vastaisku, Sisu, Heta, Juuso, Hippa, Fiina, Floris (Lauri), GK Sagittari, Aatu, Roosa, Wallu, and Masi
Humans: Marja Mikola and Verna Vilppula
Marja’s coach: Suvi Kettunen
As well as wild birds present by chance.
Reader for the opening and closing credits: Alex Andra Rekola
Creators
Script and Direction: Mia Takula and Ellen Virman
Journalist: Mia Takula
Sound Design and Composition: Ellen Virman
Photography: Mia Takula
Image: Katri Astala
Commissioned by: Baltic Circle
Maud Blandel, Flavio Virzì ja ASLAA
La vraie version
Choreographer Maud Blandel, composer and guitarist Flavio Virzì and members of ASLAA – Association Sports et Loisirs pour Aveugles et Amblyopes have joined forces to create a radio piece exploring the relationship between voice, memory and emotion. At the crossroads of sound research, performing arts and a reflection on the accessibility of works for the visually impaired, La vraie version is part of the European Radio That Matters project.
The radio creations was followed by a public conversation about the project and broadcasted live on Radio Grenouille.
In partnership with GMEM – Centre national de création musicale and Radio Grenouille with the support of Centre culturel suisse. On tour.
With: El Hadi Guidoum, Cherifa Harzallah, Angélique Huguenin, Karim Maameri, Karim Slaoui and Janine Williams from ASLAA — Association Sports et Loisirs des Aveugles et Amblyopes
Written, directed and edited by: Maud Blandel and Flavio Virzì
Musical creation and mixing: Flavio Virzì
Lighting design: Edouard Hügli
Production: Radio That Matters, Festival Parallèle, I L K A
Residencies: GMEM – Centre national de création musicale, Euphonia l’Atelier-Studio, Radio Grenouille
Thanks to Marie Féréol, Olympe Verdeil-Novara, Jean-Baptiste Imbert, Elodie Olson-Coons, Maya Masse, Louis Schild, Lello and Sonja Horlacher, ASLAA (Association Sports et Loisirs pour Aveugles et Amblyopes) and the GMEM team