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Essayist in Residence: Silvia Hosseini
2021-09-24 18:30 - 18:45, 2021-09-24 23:45, 2021-09-25 05:45 - 06:00, 2021-09-26 11:45 - 12:00, 2021-09-27 05:45 - 06:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Silvia Hosseini is a writer, critic and teacher based in Tampere. As an ”essayist in residence” she’ll be discussing works, topics and themes of the festival on Radio Helsinki together with Laura Gustafsson. A new conversation will be broadcast every day during the festival.
There’ll also be a conversation about writing: How does an essayist approach their topics? How does one write a subjective essay that moves between the personal and universal? What ways are there to write about sound and visual arts?
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast 6-13 June on {openradio} in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. Festival programme at http://burn.pixelache.ac

Coven Intelligence
2021-09-24 23:00 - 23:45, 2021-09-27 05:00 - 05:45 (Europe/Berlin)
An audio introduction to Coven Intelligence Program’s installation at Pixelache, visual and interactive materials that speak to the entangled STAKES of climate change, racial, heteropatriarchal capitalism, and conceptions of intelligence.
“Our InsurgentEcologies Archive is an open digital archive profiling the companies, technologies, crops, locations and labor bound up in precision agriculture. The InsurgentEcologies Archive operates as a guiding compass for revolutionary interventions into technocapitalist agricultural systems.
Our SpellWeaver application converts spells into weaving patterns and underground forest networks (rhizomes). SpellWeaver enables a different history of computation — linking textile production, plant networks, witches and automated computation.
In our film, What Plant to Teach Ethics to AI a range of herbalists, witches, shamans, and ethnobotanists answer this question in order to address how AgTech is harvesting massive amounts of data on plants. How do we complexify what is being collected? How do we create data that challenges the perception of plants as isolated bodies and resources?”
This project is supported by Colgate University, NY state.
The Coven Intelligence Program (efrén cruz cortés, Margaretha Haughwout, Suzanne Husky) is a techno-botanical coven whose science-fictional mission is to encourage emerging revolutionary ecologies of work between witches, plants and machines through the centuries. We track connections between the persecution of witches burned at the stake, the destruction of multi-species commons, and the rise of racial, patriarchal capitalism. The Coven Intelligence Program’s speculative history is broken into three conceptual categories — Signs: naturalcultural formations displayed in early modernity, leading to Prophecies: by witches and other anti -capitalists, that catalyze Spells: for future alliances between witches, plants and machines. We reach backward and forward in time, to early enclosure movements and European colonization, while imagining livable food forest futures where machines support plant communities and resistance networks rather than exploiting them for corporate profit.
https://covenintelligence.net/

Pixelache member podcast : Juan Duarte : Aether Milieu
2021-09-25 00:00 - 01:00, 2021-09-27 06:00 - 07:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Juan DUARTE (MX/FI)
Aether Milieu (3 episodes only: I, II, III) Podcast, en español & in english.
Juan Duarte works on interactions as a tool for generative art experiments that explore agencies of digital and analog platforms around environmental media. His artistic research, Environmental Media, focuses on a hybrid interaction of technological explorations between human and environmental interfaces. Duarte is a Phd candidate at Aalto University.
http://juanduarteregino.com

I’ll take care of you - selected audio works
2021-09-25 05:00 - 05:45, 2021-09-26 11:00 - 11:45 (Europe/Helsinki)
I’ll take care of you is a collection of selected audio works for Pixelache Festival 2021, curated by festival co-director Laura Gustafsson:
Louise Ölund’s The Nest views fire, not in the way domesticated humans often do, but from distance. She writes in the description of the work about seeing the herd, not fire – the community, not technology – as an engine of survival.
In Daniela Solis’ sound work there are thousands of mexican women, gathered together, fighting to be heard, fighting to not be “comfortably silenced”, and ultimately, fighting for their lives. Yoojin Lee’s piece is also about resistance, though the tone is different. She argues that knowledge builds with time, attention and care, not by force and macho ideas of constant growth. “The cistern contains, fountains overflow.” We need our anger and we need to point it towards those who deserve it. But we also need to grieve, to mourn. Before hearing Christa Wall’s laments in her and Andreea Vladut’s sound performance I did not know how much I missed moirologists
— Laura Gustafsson, Pixelache co-director
List of audio works:
Louise Ölund: The Nest 3:13
Daniela Solis: sonidos de las mujeres que son incómodas (sounds of the uncomfortable women) 5:06
Yoojin Lee & Night(s) of Philosophy: Nighthoek 14:00
Louise Ölund: Cistern Contains 5:20
Andreea Vladut & Christa Wall: Pneuma Lamentare 16:58
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast on {openradio} June 6-13 in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. http://burn.pixelache.ac

Ääniaalto Selected Audio Works
2021-09-25 06:00 - 06:30, 2021-09-26 12:00 - 12:30 (Europe/Helsinki)
Ääniaalto has curated a selection of work to broadcast on Pixelache Festival Radio.
ÄÄNIAALTO is an annual festival of audio-visual oddity empowered by the voluntary work of DADA ry in collaboration with Aalto Media Lab and UniArts Helsinki. It aims to nurture and expand the sound/new media scene in Helsinki, and provide an open culture that is accessible to anybody interested.
ÄÄNIAALTO presents audiovisual performances under the topics of generative systems, DIY/custom instruments, nonlinear narratives in sound performance, live coding, and the intersection between biology and sound among other explorations.
This year’s 6th edition of the ÄÄNIAALTO festival will take place in the Maja Coffee Roastery on 12th of June from 12:00 onwards.
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast 6-13 June on {openradio} in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. Festival programme at http://burn.pixelache.ac

hACkathon by Justin Tyler Tate
2021-09-25 06:30 - 07:00, 2021-09-26 12:30 - 13:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
hACkathon is a multifaceted project, produced for and executed during Pixelache Festival 2021 (2021/06/06-13).
The project encourages individuals to dissemble, examine, hack and repurpose discarded or functional air-conditioning units for the purpose of giving them the added passive functionality of extracting carbon from the atmosphere. Through research conducted for hACkathon, a methodology was discovered that can be applied to all types of AC units. This method is explained in detail during the 30 minute long hACkathon radio program, where the host – Justin Tyler Tate – walks participants through a process of designing and building their own parasitic passive carbon capture devices to augment their air conditioning units using readily available materials and processes. As Individuals cool their spaces in the increasingly hotter summer months, they will also be passively capturing carbon and offsetting their ecological footprint.
Audio material will be supplemented by visual material at the website: http://hackyourac.weebly.com/
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast 6-13 June on {openradio} in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. Festival programme at http://burn.pixelache.ac

Burn_Slow: Nordic-Baltic Sound and Radio Art for Mental Well-being
2021-09-25 11:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
“Burn_Slow: Nordic-Baltic Sound and Radio Art for Mental Well-being” is an international audio art project which unites sound artists and art students from Nordic-Baltic region exploring mental ecology in times of crisis and social seclusion, via online lectures, skill-sharing, discussion and innovative networked audio performances. Invited artists during the course of 2 days will share their artistic practice, methodologies, skills in the context of challenges of today: Krista Dintere (LV) – on time and listening methods in sound art for slowing down; Maija Demitere (LV) – on Slow media art and issues of sustainability; Ieva Vīksne (LV) – of dealing with depression by realtime mental activity driven audio meditation; Jacob Remin (DK) – a sound meditation on loss of control and algorithmic agency; John Grzinich (EE) – on remoteness and telematic sharing possibilities to raise awareness of ecology; Mantautas Krukauskas (LT) – on innovations of spatialized sound; Derek Holzer (SE) – on speculative design of historically informed electronic instruments.

Playlist contains following works:

Burn _Slow – Intro
Jacob Remin – To soothe the body electric is a sound meditation on the loss of control and algorithmic agency. A remake of a poem by Walt Whitman.
John Grzinich – Tangible futures unheard01 is inspired by concepts of remoteness and telematic sharing possibilities that raise awareness of ecology.
Mantautas Krukauskas – LAMENT
Krista Dintere – Reflections focus on how listening to music and sounds in the environment changes our perception of time.
Ieva Viksne – MAD AMFH is a recording of performance on dealing with depression by realtime mental activity driven audio meditation.
Burn_Slow – Open Call intro
Evija Vebere – pirma pasaule The idea behind the piece ”Pirmā pasaule” was to create an organic, evolving space of sound where the listener can tune in and become more present by focusing their attention on what’s happening while simultaneously letting their imagination take over.
Sarah Elizabeth Johnston – ENCOUNTERS is her master’s thesis sound piece
Andrejs Poikans – fTM At its core is a practice of revisiting recorded soundscapes and their corresponding imaginary geographies, which get more abstracted with the breakdown of memory in time, thus every reworking of them is an experience of confronting vividness and feebleness. This time it’s a revisiting of a trip to Nida, Lithuania in September, 2019, where I collected field recordings and notes in the process of hiking across the Curonian Spit. It is an homage to Thomas Mann and his work “The Magic Mountain” who taught me how to think about extended periods of time. Mann’s had a cottage on the Curonian Spit in the 1930’s.
Ivo Taurins – DAB+ Since the 1990’s the FM analog broadcasting has dominated listener radio devices. The analog world is gradually beginning to be replaced by digital, providing unprecedented new opportunities. In this composition, the author shows this transformation from the analog world to the digital. The analog world remains vague and difficult to hear, but the new digital sound is crystal clear. As a matter of fact, the author leaves it to the listener to decide.
Spare Vitola – Vieglakam miegam_For better sleep A composition of violin, electronic instruments and nature sounds. The interaction of clear and high pitches and low, turbulent sound creates a piece that helps the listener to find grounding.
Milda Ziemane – faux BIM IN (m)E 2 is an imaginary sonic world of mysterious creatures created by means of voice recordings and postprocessing.
Elza Ziverte – Celojums uz OMmmmmm zemi is at a time when the virus is raging in the world and borders are closed, the author has apocalyptic feelings. The world seems so loud and there is a desire to escape, albeit for a short time, and return to a more orderly, peaceful environment. The work reflects moments of life that have not been completely clear in the mind and, turning to the depths of one’s mind, the feelings lead to the author’s sensory adventures. The journey is not always fun and enjoyable, it can be dark and frightening, but when the time comes, you have to face your fears and worries about the unknown. The sound composition is based on the Musique concrète. The author of the work made 50 different sound recordings.
Diana Lelis – META MODERN COUNshitNESS a hommage to the metamodern state of life.
Toms Krauklis – tepat in latvian it means “right here” it’s a composition was born from a single riff. Looping feels ecological.
“tepat” is about being aware of both your surroundings and inner creativity. About the Anthropocene effect on the artist and vice versa.
Agita Reke – IN is on the different stages of understanding the ‘’inside’’. Thoughts running around, tickle and scare you. Thoughts that gnaw you and soothe you. In the end it is about trusting your instincts and your inner self. Finding your own inner animal. Being the self.
Inga Salurand – S6nad a sensory sound piece created with voice.
Ella-Mai Matsina – Rustle of the mind This piece marks the journey to finding freedom in the confines of the city, a place with little nature and wilderness. It also tells about being present, the importance of living in the moment. During the lockdown time flowed differently, days passed but it was all kind of foggy. Moments like the one depicted in this piece helped me stay in touch with the world. Listening to the little mysterious sounds of life, my mind was clear again.
Nejausi – Dialogi at MPLab LIVE recording of electronic set of LV experimental music duo Nejausi.
Glociks – ReIntermission takes its base from audio installation “Intermission” (exhibited in solo exhibiton “Reference Metadata” at RIXC gallery, Rīga, Latvia, 2019), which consisted of AI-generated 10 hour audio loop, trained upon a small database of audio taken from latvian tv advertisements. The composition of “Reintermission” bases on 8 notch filters, filtering random frequencies, slowly becoming less impactful, in the end revealing the full spectrum of frequencies. Both Intermission and Reintermission takes inspiration of current seemingly normalised oversaturation of advertisiments.
MakeMake – Dream Machine Our idea for the track Dream Machine originally came the day after a rather intense studio session. While we usually make tracks with beats but after the session and a walk in a forest the next day we could only produce something that is beatless. It somehow captured the feeling of burning out and letting go.
Waterflower – Mushroom-Generated Music Project 002 This audio-visual piece is actually inspired by an amalgamation of all the artist talks that took place during the opening Zoom meeting. There is a little bit of everything there – the impossible instrument, using generative-data to play sound, the mycelium as if a neural network, the the pink oyster mushrooms seen growing in the background during another presentation, and a more selective perception toward the sounds around. This fits hand-in hand with my interest in the audio characteristics of non-music objects.
Credits:
Project Curators Anna Priedola and Krista Dintere
Partners ASTE. Art Science Technology Education, EKA Media Arts, LMTA Music Innovation center, Liepaja University Art Research Lab MpLab, Nordic Culture Point, PIXELACHE
Curated Artists Jacob Remin, John Grzinich, Mantautas Krukauskas, Ieva Viksne, Maija Demitere, Krista Dintere
Selected Young Sound Artists Evija Vebere, Sarah Elizabeth Johnston, Andrejs Poikans, Ivo Taurins, Spare Vitola, Milda Ziemane, Elza Ziverte, Diana Lelis, Toms Krauklis, Agita Reke, Inga Salurand, Ella-Mai Matsina, Nejausi, Glociks, MakeMake, Waterflower.
More info on: https://burn.aste.gallery/listen-explore/
Pixelache Festival, ASTE. Art, Science, Technology, Education, MPLab.

Website:
burn.pixelache.ac
https://burn.aste.gallery/
https://mplab.lv/en/

Living Musically
2021-09-25 17:00 - 18:05, 2021-09-26 23:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
What role does music play in our lives? Can music teach us something about how to live? Dr Tom Cochrane and Faisal Gill discuss how musical improvisation gives us a model of freedom that we can recreate in everyday life. Of particular importance is the idea of working with what we have to hand, rather than imposing a sense of how things are supposed to be. This idea is applied to the use of one’s emotions in a generative way.
Host: Dr Tom Cochrane
Guest Speaker: Faisal Gill
Thanks to Atteqa Malik
Music Faisal Gill and Dr Tom Cochrane
Editor Siena Bordignon
Supported by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)
Partners are Karachi Biennale Trust, Pixelache Helsinki and GEM Connect Pty. Ltd.

Creativity and Well-being Series across 3 Continents
2021-09-25 18:05 - 19:05, 2021-09-27 00:05 - 01:05 (Europe/Helsinki)
Thanks to the ASEF Mobility First! Grant, tune in for a Creativity and Well-being Series across 3 Continents: Finland, Pakistan and Australia. This will be a recorded talk.
These collaborative 50min podcasts have been curated in memory of young creative Arsalan Malik and include the following topics: “Feel. Think. Do!” – The importance of young creatives getting decision-support to stay at their passion; “Living Musically “ – music and its impact on health;.
For topics, speaker sessions and dates please visit our website: gemconnect.com
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast 6-13 June on {openradio} in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. Festival programme at http://burn.pixelache.ac

Диалоги с городом / Dialogues with the city
2021-09-25 23:00 - 23:40, 2021-09-26 05:00 - 05:40, 2021-09-27 11:00 - 11:40 (Europe/Helsinki)
Фрукты Врукты / Frukty Vrukty will tell and show what street art is for them, about their experience in creating street art and how they talk with the city and its inhabitants.
More info: http://partizaning.org/?p=10777
https://vk.com/@chasovoy.zavod-ya-professionalnyi-nehudozhnik-kak-permyaki-sozdaut-strit-ar
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast 6-13 June on {openradio} in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. Festival programme at http://burn.pixelache.ac

Ковчег Sci-Hub для спасения науки / The Collapse of Science and the ark of Sci-Hub
2021-09-25 23:40, 2021-09-26 05:40 - 06:40, 2021-09-27 11:40 - 12:40 (Europe/Helsinki)
Science today is no more a public enterprise: it became controlled by a few big corporations, such as Elsevier, Wiley and Springer-Nature. These commercial companies own most academic journals, where new scientific findings are communicated. Such journals have been the main medium for exchanging information between scientists since XVII century, playing a role in science akin to blood circulation system. But in second half of XX century most important academic journals have been bought by corporations. The price for journals started to increase since then at an extreme speed, making it impossible to access and read them. As a response the Open Access Movement emerged in 1990s, that included many scientists, and many prominent ones. Science continued to collapse however. In 2011 Sci-Hub emerged to save the situation. The project now is helping about 500,000 people every day. «Science and knowledge should not be a private property of some corporation» its creator Alexandra Elbakyan says.
Note: This event is by remote participation and will be in Russian, with English interpretation.
Наука сегодня уже не принадлежит обществу: её контролируют несколько крупных корпораций, таких, как Elsevier, Wiley и Springer-Nature. Этим коммерическим компаниям принадлежит большинство научных журналов, в которых публикуются результаты новых исследований. Начиная с 17 века, такие журналы были основным способом коммуникации между учеными. Их роль в науке аналогична роли кровеносной системы в организме. Но начиная со второй половины XX века большинство основных научных журналов были скуплены корпорациями. С тех пора цена подписки на научные журналы растет, и выросла до такой степени, что стало невозможно получить к ним доступ и прочитать. Как реакция на эту ситуацию в науке в 1990-х годах возникло движение Открытого Доступа, в котором состоят многие ученые, и многие из них авторитетные. Однако разрушение науки, несмотря на это, продолжилось. В 2011 году, чтобы спасти ситуацию, появился проект Sci-Hub. Сейчас он помогает около 500,000 человек каждый день. «Знание и наука не должны быть частной собственностью некой корпорации» говорит Александра Элбакян, создатель проекта.
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast 6-13 June on {openradio} in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. Festival programme at http://burn.pixelache.ac

Interview: RYBN - The Great Offshore
2021-09-26 17:00 - 17:20 (Europe/Berlin)
Ahead of this afternoon’s live performance of The Great Offshore by RYBN you can hear this recently recorded interview, Produced by m-cult, about the larger project behind the performance.

The Great Offshore - Radio performance
2021-09-26 17:20 - 18:20 (Europe/Helsinki)
RYBN.org presents a live radio performance based on their project The Great Offshore.
The Great Offshore is a long-term artistic research project aiming to highlight the inner mechanisms, networks and agents of offshore finance, and how they shape new kinds of extra-territorialities beyond legislation. The project studies the recent manifestations of offshore within the processes of financialisation of art, citizenship, outer space, waste externalisation, climate change unregulation, etc. Ultimately, the research is an attempt to understand how offshore has grown and spread from its primary form of tax havens to become the new economic norm of globalisation.
The radio performance at Pixelache Burn is based on various sonic layers of fractal dimensions: it mixes a proxified audio hunt for the financial spectres haunting Helsinki city center and Oodi’s neighborhood, a poetic dérive within the terra incognita of offshore territories, and a systematic deconstruction of the abstract schemes that lies at the core of offshore capitalism.
With the participation of Jean-François Blanquet and Tuukka Haapakorpi.
For more information: https://m-cult.org/productions/great-offshore
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast 6-13 June on {openradio} in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. Festival programme at http://burn.pixelache.ac

Rasos Radio - Ūmėdė* festival presentation
2021-09-26 18:30 - 19:00, 2021-09-27 00:30 - 01:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Rasų radijas (Rasos radio), rasuradijas.lt – presents interdisciplinary festival Ūmėdė*: x⬳disciplinary symposium for emerging art & related matters. What happened after the meteorite of the anthropocene has hit contemporary art, and bioactivists together with AI and XR* have exploded the discourse formerly known as media? During the show you will hear festival presentation by Ūmedė aristic director Vytautas Michelkevičius and cocurators Ignas Pavliukevičius and Gailė Griciūtė as well as collection of sound works by selected Ūmedė sound artists: Szuszkiewicz, Audrius Šimkūnas, Heta Bilaletdin, Adomas Palekas, Laurynas Jukonis.
Sound compositions:
Kamil Szuszkiewicz – Spiewak (Singer)
Audrius Šimkūnas – Forest Drone
Heta Bilaletdin – sound composition for an installation SYNX
Adomas Palekas – An excerpt from live performance Some Plastic
Laurynas Jukonis. –project NULIS:S:S:S
Voices: Gailė Griciūtė, Vytautas Muchelkevičius and Ignas Pavliukevičius
Sound engineer Gailė Griciūtė
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Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast 6-13 June on {openradio} in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. Festival programme at http://burn.pixelache.ac
