this is not a love song [radio]
Resonance Extra Aug 2021 – Jan 2022
Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier in collaboration with Jack Prest
This Is Not A Love Song [Radio] is a 30-minute radio program hosted by leading experimental and sound art radio station Resonance Extra, London, live online, every month.
The program builds on an existing field recording project by Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier titled This Is Not A Love Song [Sound Archive]. This is an ongoing project to create a sound archive of major art museums around the world by recording the ambient sounds of exhibition spaces.
This Is Not A Love Song [Sound Archive] appropriates sound to critically study the ambience of institutional space.
Recordings are made using a small handheld recorder or phone in 15-minute sessions by the artists themselves in addition to a global community of contributors. These recordings form the first half of each radio program, a digital A-side.
This Is Not A Love Song [Radio] builds on the archive by pairing each field recording (or A-side) with a digital B-side to create each 30-min program.
The B-side takes the form of a deconstructed, remixed or re-recorded version of the original field recording, created and curated by composer Jack Prest. Stylistically these new compositions explore ambient electronic, contemporary classical, noise and other musical/sound forms conceptually connected to the practice of field recording. Jack will invite other artist to contribute, expanding the community of project collaborators.
This sonic re-contextualisation further transfers the original location through the creative lenses of each contributor creating new imagined spaces and diverse points of access.
EPISODES
EP.01 – Tate Modern (England) 2-2.30pm BST Friday 20th August 2021
A Side - Tate Modern London Field Recording – recorded by Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier. Credit: Tate Modern.
Intermission - Recording of Tate Modern Phone Message - Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier
B Side - Tate Modern London Field Recording (Temporal Adjustment) - Jack Prest
EP.02 – FLV (France) 2-2.30pm BST Tuesday 21st September 2021
Side A – Foundation Louis Vuitton Field Recording - Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier
Side B - Group Improvised Response to Louis Vuitton Institute Field Recording - Electronics - Jack Prest, Piano - Ben Freeman, Percussion - Claire Edwardes, Clarinet - Jason Noble, Cello - Freya Schack-Arnott. Recorded by Jack Prest and Jack Garzonio at Studios 301.
EP.03 – Louvre (France) 2-2.30pm BST Friday 15th October 2021
Side A - Louvre Field Recordings - Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier
Intermission - Walking Louvre and Louvre Phone Call - Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier
Side B – Eye Of The Butterfly – Daniel O’Toole
Sound Engineer – Jack Prest
2-2.30pm BST Friday 19th November 2021
Side A - Kraftwerk Field Recording - Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier
Side B - Group Improvised Response to KFT-WRK Field Recording (Edited) - Electric Guitar - Dave Rodirguez, Drums - Nicholas Meredith, Piano - Benjamin Freeman, Bass - Jarrol Renaud. Recorded by Jack Prest and Jack Garzonio at Studios 301, Australia. A -
EP.05 – M17 Contemporary Art Centre (Ukraine)
2-2.30pm BST Friday 17th December 2021
A Side – M17 Contemporary Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine Field Recording – recorded by Eugenia Gavrilenko, Content Manager, M17 Contemporary Art Centre.
Intermission – Field recording of Joe Wilson using beer vending machine artwork by sound artist Emeka Ogbo, in collaboration with BRLO, feat. “Art Beer #3: Things Fall Apart” at Galerie Konig, Berlin, 2019 – recorded by Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier
B Side – audio collage of museum field recordings and distortions - Joe Wilson
Sound Engineer Ep 5: Ollie Brown
Special thanks so Serhiy Popov for providing introductions and support, and to Eugenia Gavrilenko, Content Manager, M17 Contemporary Art Centre for facilitating and making this A-Side field recording, in addition to support for the larger project.
2-2.30pm BST Friday 21st January 2022
A Side – MCA, Australia Field Recording – Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier
B Side – response to A-side field recording - Ollie Brown
Sound Engineer Ep 6: Ollie Brown