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Ecce, sigh! Siren calls… still, I feel the same.
“Who remembers all that? History throws its empty bottles out the window.“
Sans Soleil, Chris Marker, 1983
A song is playing, in the background. Hey —
Schock!
Still, alive.
Waste(d) land revisited.
This is an acousmatic cadavre, reassembling thoughts and samples that are rotting on a hard drive in a box, in the downloads folder of my laptop causing slow pace or being captured in the fields very soon. As if it was a prehistoric cave, creatures pass in and out. The traces of another time lie buried in the undefined terrain, but I will arrange and add yet another layer to this palimpsest of sounds and form a loop of sonic references and anecdotes, like a Stone/r/d henge in a sonic sphere. Roll out a carpet of sub frequencies! You may hear the echoes of the sirens, they speak with a German accent in their voice in dramatic tone… still, I feel the same.
With voices of Meta D-1, Gertrude Stein, Anna Oppermann, Fiona and the author and a quote by Lawrence English.
„Ecce, sigh! Siren calls… still, I feel the same.“ von Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow Vor ihrem Studium der Angewandten Theaterwissenschaft und dem Master in „Klang & Realität“ in Düsseldorf, studierte Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow zunächst Archäologie – und auch ihre künstlerische Herangehensweise beim Stück „„Ecce, sigh! Siren calls… still, I feel the same“ ist archäologisch: Sie gräbt sich durch die Schichten ihrer Festplatte, fördert längst Vergessenes zutage und arrangiert die akustischen Bruchstücke zu einem neuen Ganzen, zu einem akusmatischen Kadaver, wie sie es nennt.
Das Stück wurde 2024 mit dem Karl-Sczuka-Förderpreis ausgezeichnet.
Begründung der Jury:
„Den Karl-Sczuka Förderpreis 2024 erhält die Produktion "Ecce, sigh! Siren calls... still, I feel the same" von Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow. In ihrer künstlerischen Praxis unternimmt Beeskow eine archäologische Expedition in akustische Archive des Alltags. Souverän entwirft sie einen offenen Hörraum, in dem traditionelle Kategorien von Bedeutung, Werk und Autorschaft spielerisch unterlaufen werden.“
The piece was awarded the Karl Sczuka Grant Prize 2024.
What touches without directly expressing something? Can I say something without language? What do we hear when we listen? And in which spatial-temporal dimension are we located? Is it a moment or a memory? Perhaps an observation of sound artifacts that are casually recorded and yet not forgotten.
Composition and realisation: Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow
Production: Radiophrenia Glasgow 2023 in co-operation with ORF Kunstradio
First broadcast on 25.8.2023 in Radiophrenia Glasgow
The jury gave the following reasons for their decisions
In her artistic practice, Beeskow undertakes an archaeological expedition into the acoustic archives of everyday life. In doing so, she creates an open auditory space in which traditional categories of meaning, work, and authorship are playfully subverted.
‘Ecce, sigh! Siren calls… still, I feel the same.‘
is a co-commission between Radiophrenia and Kunstradio Radiokunst for Ö1, Austria.