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Essayist in Residence: Silvia Hosseini
2021-09-03 06:00 - 07:00 (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

Pixelache travel guide part 3: in the here and now - selected audio works
2021-09-03 05:00 - 06:00
In the here and now is a collection of selected audio works for Pixelache Festival 2021, curated by festival co-director Laura Gustafsson:
This travel guide differs from the two earlier in that it encourages listeners to sit still and open their senses to the surroundings. Leo Pahta’s Itäinen Mynämäki MW 96 has been recorded on a specific site that gives the work its title (let’s say it together: Itäinen Mynämäki). Julian Scordato’s soundscape composition reminds us about sonic ecology and how soundscapes, too, may become extinct. Center for Genomic Gastronomy combines a relaxing meditation practice to waking up and smelling the air pollution. After the revealing smog smelling session we take an escapist break, a walk through “electronic forest of things”, finally returning to here and now, letting Veera Launonen guide us to her hometown to contemplate the (often small) things that create a livable city.
— Laura Gustafsson, Pixelache co-director
List of audio works:
Leo Pahta: Itäinen Mynämäki MW 96 6:50
Julian Scordato: Study for a landscape #2 10:00
Center for Genomic Gastronomy: Guided Smog Smelling — a 3 way meditation series 24:00
Leo Pahta: Sylva Sylvarum 10:07
Veera Launonen: Sinä olet helmi 3:06
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast on {openradio} June 6-13 in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. http://burn.pixelache.ac

Sophie Hope, Owen Kelly - Meanwhile in an abandoned warehouse (podcast)
2021-09-03 00:10 - 01:30, 2021-09-02 18:10 - 19:30, 2021-09-02 12:10 - 12:30, 2021-09-02 06:10 - 07:30
Pixelache festival radio is featuring podcasts by members of the Pixelache collective:
Sophie Hope & Owen Kelly – Meanwhile in an abandoned warehouse
Episode 042: A day on the commons
Owen Kelly joins Sophie Hope for an examination of the commons, and its possible relationship to ideas of cultural democracy. They base their discussion on a reading of Guy Standing’s book Plunder of the Commons. They also borrow ideas from David Bollier’s book Think Like a Commoner.
Presenters: Sophie Hope & Owen Kelly
Soundscapes and theme: Negrava
Episode 045: A Little Piece of Land
A Little Piece of Land operates as a cultural project and creative exploration on a small triangle of land near Sheffield, about half an acre in size and surrounded on all sides by miles of industrial scale agriculture. In this episode Monika Dutta and Jake Harries discuss with Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly. They explain “what it is actually like” to engage in this work, not just in theory but in day to day practice. How does rewilding work? How do they know what they can eat? How do they know how to cook it? How do they relate to their neighbours, and how do their neighbours relate to them?
Presenters: Sophie Hope & Owen Kelly
Guests: Jake Harries, Monika Dutta
Soundscapes and theme: Negrava
Website:
https://miaaw.net

haunting futures, cyborgs and test subjects - selected audio works
2021-09-02 23:00, 2021-09-02 17:00 - 18:10, 2021-09-02 11:00 - 12:10, 2021-09-02 05:00 - 06:10
haunting futures, cyborgs and test subjects is a collection of selected audio works for Pixelache Festival 2021, curated by festival co-director Laura Gustafsson:
This playlist goes under my skin. For me, Aistė Laisvė Viršulytė’s work speaks of the horrors of in vivo testing, or vivisection – regardless of the species of the test subject. Swan Meat (whose concert I wish to witness live someday!) takes Donna Haraway’s ideas of Chthulucene and grotesques as a framework for her elegantly layered sonic essay. From mythological views we bump into Boris Getaz’s essayistic collage that carries on with questioning human belief in technology. The work mixes various time layers, not in an anachronistic way but so that it comes clear that even though our gadgets have changed a bit, we, as a species, haven’t really evolved that much. In her experimental sound work Ida Nerbø mixes organic sounds, such as wind, with the unnatural. I recognize and identify with the words in the description she sent: “the sense of facing something alien and intruding, yet intriguing”.
— Laura Gustafsson, Pixelache co-director
List of audio works:
Aistė Laisvė Viršulytė: Medmachine for Biomass. Cost. Teardrops. 6:42
Swan Meat: String Figures and Grotesques 20:35
Boris Getaz: May vegetables grow with electricity 31:29
Ida Nerbø: Creep 6:00
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast on {openradio} June 6-13 in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. http://burn.pixelache.ac

Ferment Radio - I wish I had superpowers to see microbes and Fermenting our way out of trouble (Podcast)
2021-09-02 00:10 - 01:10, 2021-09-01 17:10 - 18:10, 2021-09-01 12:10 - 13:10, 2021-09-01 06:10 - 07:10
Pixelache festival radio is featuring podcasts by members of the pixelache collective:
Ferment Radio – I wish I had superpowers to see microbes & Fermenting our way out of trouble (conversations with Maya Hey)
Ferment Radio is a podcast series on bacterial and social fermentation.
During Pixelache Festival Radio, Ferment Radio is thrilled to present a conversation with Maya Hey; a two-part episode which originally aired at the end of 2020.
Maya Hey is a scholar and PhD candidate at Concordia University doing research on fermentation and feminist theory. From chemistry labs to culinary kitchens, organic farms, and food markets, her work is a constant search to answer questions around embodied knowledge, collective ethics, and interspecies thriving.
In this conversation, we discuss the bigger picture of fermentation: fermentation as a selfless practice, and the impossibility of understanding the microbial part of ourselves. We also reflect on the impossibility of controlling something that is inseparable from us, fermentation as a feminist practice, and the cultural appropriation of food recipes.
Host: Aga Pokrywka
Guest: Maya Hey
Produced by Super Eclectic
Supported by Culture of Cultures, a Research project studying the social aspects of human-microbe relations.
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

Pixelache travel guide part 2: Random City - selected audio work
2021-09-01 23:00, 2021-09-01 17:00 - 18:10, 2021-09-01 11:00 - 12:10, 2021-09-01 05:00 - 06:10
Pixelache travel guide part 2: Random City is part of a collection of selected audio works for Pixelache Festival 2021.
Alëna Korolëva’s travelogue “grazes across sonic neighborhoods that might resemble Tbilisi, Batumi, Toronto, Havana, St. Petersburg, Ulyanovsk, Strasbourg, Marseille, Naples, Reggio Calabria, Lisbon and Barcelona.” It’s based on field recordings made in public spaces of different cities in 2018–20. Random City appealed especially to Andrew who’s missing traveling more than I do.
Audio work:
Alëna Korolëva: Random City 57:00
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast on {openradio} June 6-13 in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. http://burn.pixelache.ac

Mariana Salgado - Diseño y diáspora (Podcast)
2021-09-01 00:00 - 01:00, 2021-08-31 18:00 - 19:00, 2021-08-31 12:00 - 13:00, 2021-08-31 06:00 - 07:00
Pixelache festival radio is featuring podcasts by members of the pixelache collective:
Mariana Salgado – Diseño y diáspora ep. 194 Arturo Escobar
Este es un episodio de Diseño y diáspora podcast, donde Mariana Salgado entrevista a Arturo Escobar, un antropólogo colombiano que hace mucho tiempo viene inspirando y guiando el trabajo de diseñadores. Él sabe cómo explicar procesos complejos de una manera que lo hace parecer simple y ofrece una visión para transformar los mundos. Según Arturo el diseño tiene que ver con la construcción de los mundos y pensar qué es la vida, y eso lo hizo acercarse a la disciplina. También encontró en la relación que tiene el diseño con la creación una manera de entender la lucha política y el activismo. Él trabaja con grupos de origen africano en Colombia y feminismo negro. Y nos recuerda la importancia de “pensar con quién pensamos y desde donde pensamos. Si pensamos con los movimientos sociales, no solo con los libros, ya estamos haciendo una intervención”. Y nos propone que podemos anticipar, para que las cosas que van emergiendo, se vayan conectando las unas con las otras para que vayan surgiendo rizomas, redes autoorganizadas y que surjan alternativas radicales, viables y creíbles.
This is a program in Spanish.
Credits,
Diseño y diáspora podcast
Website: disenoydiaspora.org
Artist name: Mariana Salgado
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

a spark in a barn, in the body, in an oppressing society - selected audio works
2021-08-31 23:00, 2021-08-31 17:00 - 18:00, 2021-08-31 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-08-31 05:00 - 06:00
a spark in a barn, in the body, in an oppressing society is a collection of selected audio works for Pixelache Festival 2021, curated by festival co-director Laura Gustafsson:
This playlist is about how bodies resonate with the environment – sometimes creating disharmony and destruction. Bengisu Uykusu’s work processes the conflicted feelings one easily develops towards people and things that one has grown up with. She writes that her loneliness, desire, and fury are peering around the edges of her piece. (This is one of those that made me laugh, in an uneasy way, though).
Maximilian Latva’s work is nostalgic to those of us who remember the Helsinki Makasiinit, a sort of center for underground culture before people were evicted from there and the place was burnt (it felt like a sacrifice, somehow). The piece also addresses the theme of burnout and what the city surroundings might feel like for a traumatized individual.
In Ola Zielińska’s sonic report individuals join their force and rise against the oppressor. Poland’s government has failed its female citizens – along with LGBTQI people and many others (so many, that in fact together they are the majority) – who now begin to create their own communities and bonds. Witnessing in resonance is a powerful testimony about fear, rage, and solidarity.
caitlin davis fisher, a former professional footballer, also strikes the patriarchal society in her beautifully intense spoken word piece (I assume a good game must feel exactly like that if you’re into it).
— Laura Gustafsson, Pixelache co-director
List of works:
Bengisu Uykusu: My Own Greenhouse 5:59
Maximilian Latva: Makasiini palaa 6:47
Ola Zielińska: Witnessing in resonance. Sonic report on disobedience. 29:32
caitlin davis fisher: Resisting Market Enclosure & Imagining Another (Football) Future / Dear Market 4:47
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast on {openradio} June 6-13 in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. http://burn.pixelache.ac

Karachi Biennale Trust - Realizing One's Creativity
2021-08-31 00:10 - 01:00, 2021-08-30 18:10 - 19:00
In this session we discuss some of the issues young people in Pakistan and across the world are facing in their creative pursuits. We talk about the power of art and the important role it can have in its ability to aid young people in their search for meaning.
Atteqa Malik – producer
Channan Hanif – guest speaker, music and sound design
Sadiq Malik- production assistant
Arsalan Malik – poem
Amina Zoomkawala – filming
Miraal Habib – image design, filming and editing
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

Pixelache travel guide part 1: Val di Fiemme - selected audio work
2021-08-30 23:00, 2021-08-30 17:00 - 18:10
Pixelache travel guide part 1: Val di Fiemme is part of a collection of curated audio works for Pixelache Festival 2021.
Benoit Boris spent June 2020 in Val di Fiemme in the Dolomites with Francesca Bolognesi, the co-author of this documentary creation. They followed the men of the region who were choosing the fir trees that would best suit for violins.
Audio work:
Benoit Boris: La foresta dei violini 1:06:53
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast on {openradio} June 6-13 in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. http://burn.pixelache.ac
