PODCAST · arts
VOICINGS
by firefly frequencies
Situated readings and performances of texts of all genres chosen for their urgency, singularity and poetic force. Writers sharing passages from their work. Words and silences coming to voice...
Episodes
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E37 - AROUND A BLUE SUN #1: One Art
As part of VOICINGS, we begin a new series of poetry readings, AROUND A BLUE SUN, equally conceived as sonic experiments. For the first episode, we focus on Elizabeth Bishop's poem "One Art". Through a radical "versioning" that propels the poem into an experience of its own potential loss, we ask...
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E36 - 8 / 2 / 2024 (Essi Pellikka)
Artist and activist Essi Pellika performs a text she wrote as a process towards her MFA thesis... Here is a short extract: “so-called future” stands on the “Semiotics of The End” fiction as feed-backed into theory the feedback of future into the present exploitation of simulation the haze of…
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E35 - Searching for a Voice (Nabil Himich)
Artist Nabil Himich reads passages from his ongoing diary in dialogue with a splintered body of collected thoughts from authors such as Fathi Elmaskini, Etel Adnan, Dionne Brand, Hakim Bey, Adana Shibli… Thank you so much Nabil! Image: Unsquared, Nabil Himich, 2021
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E35 - IF I MUST DIE by Refaat Alareer (read by Rafeef Ziadah)
Rafeef Ziadah recites the poem "If I Must Die" by Refaat Alareer who was killed in an airstrike by the Israeli military December 6, 2023, along with his brother, his brother's son, his sister and her three children. This poem written to his daughter in 2011 was published five weeks before his...
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E34 - Siempre by Ixiar Rozas
"Siempre" is part of "Unisonoa", a project by Ixiar Rozas which is both a collection of poems made up of a single line and a sound work. These were born and grew at the same time, somewhere on the horizon, and each one follows its own path together with a number of collaborators. A composition...
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E33 - Natural Resources by Adrienne Rich (Carmen Josè)
In the late June early July of 2023, a European regional Gathering of the Ecoversities Alliance took place in a very particular place – Arneo, South-East of Italy – a land where peasants struggled for the right of their land since 1950s, being repressed. Now this territory is again at risk....
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E32 - Klagegedicht by R.M. Rilke (Chiara Bockstaller)
In the late June early July of 2023, a European regional Gathering of the Ecoversities Alliance took place in a very particular place – Arneo, South-East of Italy – a land where peasants struggled for the right of their land since 1950s, being repressed. Now this territory is again at risk....
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E31 - A Livella by Totò (Alessandro Paolo)
In the late June early July of 2023, a European regional Gathering of the Ecoversities Alliance took place in a very particular place – Arneo, South-East of Italy – a land where peasants struggled for the right of their land since 1950s, being repressed. Now this territory is again at risk....
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E30 - Speech before the Last by The Red Indian (Mahmoud Darwish)
For English translation please go to https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/speech-of-the-red-indian/ All our solidarity to the Palestinian struggle! Thanks to RADIO ALHARA for the amazing program UNTIL LIBERATION. https://soundcloud.com/radiokara
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E29 - Letter from Gaza (Ghassan Kanafani / John Berger)
In an address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature, English writer, art critic and long-time supporter of Palestine John Berger gave a moving reading of Palestinian writer, Ghassan Kanafani’s “Letter from Gaza”. Kanafani was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad in 1972. A warm thank…
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E28 - Nicht versöhnt (for Jean-Marie Straub)
In homage to one of the most uncompromising figures in the history of cinema, Jean-Marie Straub, this remix presents an assemblage of film fragments by Huillet/Straub including "Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene", "En Rachachant", "La Guerre d'Algérie",...
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E27 - SEA (Etel Adnan)
A reading of the first part of Etel Adnan's poem SEA, from the book "Sea and Fog". Voice: Graeme Thomson Recording and mix: Silvia Maglioni
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E26 - If my words (Rafeef Ziadah)
"If My Words" by Canadian-Palestinian poet and performer Rafeef Ziadah, from the album "We Teach Life".
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E25 - La escucha (Pauline Oliveros / Valeria Muledda)
Ho sognato Pauline Oliveros. Era dicembre, vicino al mio compleanno. Era lì, con me. Allo stesso tempo da qualche parte. Come terra nella terra. Dentro. Le palme delle mani. Ascolta. Il silenzio un respiro che diventa. Ovunque. La ringrazio. Ti ringrazio Pauline.
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E24 - VIET-CONG (Adrian Mitchell / Kirill Medvedev / Nikolay Oleynikov)
Adrian Mitchell from Out Loud, 1968 (translation to Russian by Kirill Medvedev)
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E23 - Ridarsi al sogno per rubarsi al presente (anna martinatti)
Questo testo è il tentativo di trascrivere e fissare attraverso le parole un sogno misterioso che feci durante il periodo di primo lockdown in Italia. Ho trascorso quattro mesi in una casa disabitata e le uniche relazioni che intrattenni erano con gli autori e le autrici dei libri che portai con...
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E22 - Experiments in Imagining Otherwise / Chara Stergiou
An extract from "Experiments in Imagining Otherwise" by Lola Olufemi Voice: Chara Stergiou
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E21 - Devenir Vivants - (Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux / Viola Berlanda)
La mia vita e cambiata inaspettatamente: da fotografa viaggiatrice sono diventata la custode di un nuovo bosco. Ma cosa ha mosso questo cambiamento di rotta? Leggendo le parole del libro di Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux, "Devenir Vivant" ho trovato la spiegazione... Voice - Viola Berlanda
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E20 - Orsa maggiore (Ingeborg Bachmann / Sergio Atzeni / Valeria Muledda / Christoph Pennig)
Orsa maggiore nasce come incontro tra due artisti sonori nel piano della parola poetica. Il pezzo si compone nell’esplorazione della poesia come esperienza di un pronunciare misterioso, del suono di lingue diverse, e della lingua come suono. Il testo condiviso crea il suo spazio tra frammenti di...
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E19 - Le città invisibili (Italo Calvino / Cinzia Di Meglio)
Testo visionario onirico a episodi: Marco Polo narra a Kublai Khan, vecchio malinconico le città attraversate nei suoi viaggi. Voice - Cinzia Di Meglio
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E18 - Incubatio (Emilio Fantin)
from "Dreaming Is Common to All" by Emilio Fantin
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E17 - We lit this flame with a candle/ Zapatista Women/ Alessandra Pomarico
An excerpt of the Words of the Zapatista Women at the closing ceremony of the Encuentro de las Mujeres en Lucha, from the book "When the Roots start moving: To navigate Backwords/ Resonating with Zapatismo" eds Alessandra Pomarico & Nikolay Oleynikov (Archive Books, 2019). Voice: Alessandra Pomarico
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E16 - Listening Without Ends
Excerpt from an unfinished essay by Oe, 2006
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E15 - Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society (Antonin Artaud)
“And what is an authentic lunatic? He is a man who has preferred to become what is socially understood as mad rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. In its asylums, society has managed to strangle all those it has wished to rid itself of or defend itself from, because they...
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E14 - Chaos (Hakim Bey)
An episode in memory of Peter Lamborn Wilson/ Hakim Bey, visionary poet and theorist of the Temporary Autonomous Zone, featuring Chaos from the album T.A.Z.
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E13 - Waiting for the Sybil (William Kentridge)
In this extract from a recent talk he gave in Palermo, South African artist William Kentridge reflects on some of the inspirations behind his recent chamber opera "Waiting for the Sybil" - from Somerset Maugham's story "Appointment in Samarra" to the spinning mobiles of Alexander Calder's Work in...
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E12 - Are You One of These Motherfuckers? (Fred Moten)
We recorded Fred Moten in Paris, at the Cité internationale des arts, on the 17th of February 2022, when he gave a warm and generous reading "Perennial Fashion (Presence Falling)". This is one of the poems he read. Thank you Fred! Are You One of These Motherfuckers? Yeah, yeah you are. And you...
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E11 - XINJIANG (Tilek Yrysbek)
an exerpt from a poem: Communism is your heaven – Darwin, Duchamp, and Gerhard, too. In the name of heavenly communism, you must scribble your name on paper a thousand times. Tiananmen, who said you were more valuable than Tibet? Maybe, Hai Zi† died for this and became India under the wheels....
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E10 - If you are not rain, my dear / Mahmoud Darwish
If you are not rain, my dear Be tree Sated with fertility, be tree And If you are not tree, my dear Be stone Saturated with humidity, be stone And If you are not stone, my dear Be moon In the dream of your beloved one, be moon [So spoke a woman to her son at his funeral] Excerpt from Mahmoud...
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E09 - Questioning Women (Alexandra Kollontai & Daniela Attanasio / Dora Garcia & Maria Rosa Sossai)
A long-distance, sonic correspondence between artist Dora Garcia and researcher Maria Rosa Sossai through the words of Alexandra Kollontai and Daniela Attanasio, between Spanish and Italian. Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian revolutionary who was appointed commissar of social welfare after the...
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E08 - Radio Brutal / anarcorporëos - Giorgia Frisardi & Mattia Pellegrini
RADIO BRUTAL nasce come proseguimento radiofonico-visivo di MANIFESTO BRUTAL. Ricerca balbettante, viaggio poetico-sonoro attraverso le parole di tante e tanti. In questa traccia inveisce e si nutre tra e con Brecht, Pasolini, Nina Cassian, Vivian Lamarque, Antonia Pozzi... CHE MONDO IN DESERTO...
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E07 - Transit in the House of Cancer / Camila Marambio, Bárbara Saavedra, Ariel Bustamante (Preview)
Built from an unwieldy conversation about cancerous embodiments, "Transit in the House of Cancer" is a breathing exchange between the curator Camila Marambio and the ecologist Bárbara Saavedra – who for years have worked together as part of Ensayos, a nomadic research program based in Tierra del...
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E06 - Moloch (Allen Ginsberg / George Caffentzis)
George Caffentzis reads Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" Part II, evoking through the figure of Moloch the ravages of capitalism, the military industrial complex and corporate state power. Recorded by Jesal Kapadia
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E05 - The Low Road (Marge Piercy / Silvia Federici)
This poem of hope, solidarity and togetherness was shared by Silvia Federici during the Assembling of January 3, 2021 - a collectively constructed "ceremony" welcoming the new year hosted on zoom by 16 Beaver Group and friends. TESTING ASSEMBLING http://centreparrhesia.org/assembling/
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E04 - Je suis une voix OFF / Anne Creissels
“Je suis une voix off” assumes an agency and embodiment of what is absent, playing on various metamorphoses of a voice recorded on a dictaphone. Interrogating different modalities of presentation, enunciation and knowledge transmission, language becomes material trace as the voice is switched…
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E03 - In the Beginning was the Firefly / Mick Taussig
Mick Taussig reads "In the Beginning was the Firefly!" from his recent book "Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown"... as a good omen for Firefly Frequencies! More info about "Mastery of Non-Mastery": https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo46980359.html
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E02 - The Place is Lit by Memory (Widad Nabi / Sara Naili)
* Read by Sara Naili (To our homes in our absence after war and abandonment) Sadness is visiting the ruins of your house in dreams and coming back without dust on your hands. Delicacy is watering the wilted flowers in your neighbour’s garden because yours have perished under the bombs. Distance…
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E01 - A Short Tale About the Closure of the Sea (Najwan Darwish / Fateh Hamdan)
* Read by Fateh Hamdan If you go down that road, at the city's edge, the one that leads to the refugee camp, if you run into a bunch of kids at the gate of that school that looks like a prison, if you come across seven who stare at the threshold of silence, if you see a lithe little boy with eyes...
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Situated readings and performances of texts of all genres chosen for their urgency, singularity and poetic force. Writers sharing passages from their work. Words and silences coming to voice...
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