le grand méchant cochon et les trois gentils petits loups

'L'histoire, que vous savez, est racontée et mise en musique dans une nouvelle saga pleine de blagues et de connivences avec l'enfant qui écoute. Aucun n'y résistera, c'est vraiment très drôle'

Jerôme Savary

Né en Argentine en 1942, son père était écrivain et sa mère la fille de Frank Higgins, Gouverneur de l’Etat de New York. Sa mère revient en France en 1947 et sa famille s’installe en Haute-Loire où Jérôme Savary poursuit sa scolarité au Collège Cévenol.

Très jeune, il part pour Paris où il étudie la musique avec Les Martenots, avec l’ambition de devenir musicien de jazz. En 1958, il entre à l’Ecole des Arts Décoratifs. A 19 ans il part pour New York où il s’immerge dans le monde du jazz et rencontre Lenny Bruce, Count Basie et Thelonious Monk.

Quand il revient en France, il intègre le monde du théâtre et les « argentins de Paris » parmi lesquels : Jorge Lavelli, Copi et Fernando Arrabal. En 1965, il fonde sa première compagnie théâtrale : la Compagnie Jérôme Savary, qui sera ensuite appelée le Grand Magic Circus, avant de devenir en 1968 le Grand Magic Circus et ses animaux tristes.

De 1982 à 1985 il est directeur du Centre Dramatique National du Languedoc-Roussillon à Béziers et Montpellier. Il est nommé par le ministre de la Culture et par la ville de Lyon directeur du Carrefour Européen du Théâtre - Théâtre du 8e de 1986 à 1988.

En 1988 il est nommé Directeur du Théâtre National de Chaillot, poste qu’il occupera jusqu’à sa nomination à l’Opéra Comique le 1er octobre 2000. (in: ThêatreOnline)

Grand Magic Circus - Le Grand Méchant Cochon et les Trois Gentils Petits Loups (1974)

Anton Bruhin - In/Out (In/Out) 1981

INOUT was recorded on a Sanyo M7300L stereo radio cassette recorder with both an integrated and external microphone.

The recorder is in the recording standby position, both RECORD and PAUSE buttons are pushed. Then I sing or play a tone into the microphone. During this tone, I release the PAUSE button by pushing it. Subsequently, I press the PAUSE button again within a fraction of a second. Now the first short note is recorded. In InOut I added this way thousands of very short notes like a patchwork, like an acoustic quilt with geometric irregularities and varied patterns.

The percussive effect was produced by the clicking noise of the PAUSE button. Recorded with the integrated microphone, those clickings appear with pretty high amplitude, depending on the vehemence by which I pushed the button. Recorded with the external microphone, the clicking will not be recorded and remain silent on tape. For InOut I alternated both possibilities; for a longer passage I recorded solely clicking noises to obtain a percussion solo. (in: ubuweb)

evp - electronic voice phenomenon

Electronic voice phenomena (EVP) é uma expressão cunhada pela editora Colin Smythe Ltd. para descrever sons de fala humana ou próximos da fala humana, supostamente de origem paranormal, que ocorrem em meios de gravação não usados préviamente.
Tais sons foram previamente denominados "Vozes de Raudive", pelo próprio Konstantin Raudive, um estudante de Carl Jung, professor da Universidade de Upsalla, na Suécia, que estudou durante toda a sua vida sobretudo fenómenos de parapsicologia, nomeadamente os ligados à vida depois da morte. Foi pois um dos primeiros a estudar este tipo de fenómenos, ao lado do alemão Hans Bender. Raudive escreveu um livro famoso sobre este tema, chamado "Breakthrough: An amazing experiment in electronic communication with the dead" e editado em 1971. Esse disco era acompanhado por um flexi-disc, com alguns registos daquele fenómeno e com a respectiva descrição.
O programa de hoje foi construído a partir desse flexi-disc.

Mais informação na WFMU


Konstantin Raudive - Breakthrough: An Amazing experiment in electronic communication with the dead (1971)
ELpH vs. Coil - Worship the glitch (1995)
Alva Noto - Transform (2001)
Ryoji Ikeda - Time and Space (2000)
Ryoji Ikeda - op. (2002)

acoustic design

O programa de hoje baseou-se num projecto canadiano de acústica ambiental - The vancouver soundscape (1973) - que explora, desde os anos 70, o som dos espaços urbanos de Vancouver. No entanto, a inspiração levou-nos a misturar os sons desta viagem acústica urbana com o som de outros "arquitectos" sonoplastas, entre os quais Basil Kirchin, Conrad Schnitzler e os japoneses Tolerance.

"Acoustic design is described by the WSP [World Soundscape Project] as the practical, applied component of soundscape studies. It is considered as necessary in order to deal with the growing complexity and the unbalancing of the modern soundscape, which cannot be solved ‘naturally’. In the conclusion of the Five Village Soundscapes (1977), Schafer presents acoustic design as a discipline “which will concern itself with techniques for the analysis and improvement of existing soundscapes and the creation of new ones” " (Describing the contemporary sound environment+)

The World Soundscape Project (WSP) was established as an educational and research group by R. Murray Schafer at Simon Fraser University during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It grew out of Schafer's initial attempt to draw attention to the sonic environment through a course in noise pollution, as well as from his personal distaste for the more raucous aspects of Vancouver's rapidly changing soundscape. This work resulted in two small educational booklets, The New Soundscape and The Book of Noise, plus a compendium of Canadian noise bylaws. However, the negative approach that noise pollution inevitably fosters suggested that a more positive approach had to be found, the first attempt being an extended essay by Schafer (in 1973) called 'The Music of the Environment,' in which he describes examples of acoustic design, good and bad, drawing largely on examples from literature.

"Combining the gentlest of the urban projects, a 1973 survey of Vancouver's soundscape, with the most stylistically varied, a 1996 reprise of the project, this two disc set is a great place to begin tuning your ears toward human soundscapes. The first disc, recorded and released during acoustic ecology's birth in British Columbia, is a loving portrait of city soundmarks. Each track focuses on a certain element of the city's voice: the harbor ambience, the music of horns and whistles, park sounds, etc.; there is no chaos or sense of overwhelm here, but rather a celebration of the sonic beauties and comforts found in daily city sounds. Perhaps this disc is a relic of bygone days, when even cities were a bit more hospitable to our ears and souls." (Earth Ear+)

Fragmentos de:
Basil Kirchin+ - Worlds within worlds (1974)
Conrad Schnitzler+ - Gelb (1974/1981)
Conrad Schnitzler - Rot (1973)
Tolerance+ - Divin (1981)

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erinnerungen, träume, gedanken

Carl G. Jung (1875-1961)

Na primavera de 1957, com a idade de 81 anos, C. G. Jung tomou a iniciativa de escrever a narrativa da sua vida e obra. Regularmente, tinha conversas com a sua amiga e colega Aniela Jaffe, colaborando com ela na preparação do texto baseado nessas conversas. Por vezes, ele mesmo escreveu de sua mão capítulos inteiros do livro, e continuou a trabalhar nas fases finais do manuscrito até quase à data da sua morte, em 6 de Junho de 1961. O programa de hoje foi baseado em leituras desse livro: Memories, Dreams, reflections.

Fragmentos de Bill Laswell & Terre Thaemlitz (Web), Redux Creative (live), Máquina Preservadora (Neil Jung Rendered), Henry Purcell (King Arthur), Mika Vainio (Kantamoinen), Wolf Eyes (Slicer), Oval (Systemisch), NWW (Ladies Home Tickler), Kazumoto Endo (Brick and Mortar)...