On Monday we were guests at bauhaus.fm in Weimar. The artists and radio makers from the Class for Experimental Radio at Bauhaus University Weimar invited us to be part of their live broadcast “Listening to the City”. Sol Rezza introduced her story of mapping the city of Halle acoustically.

Listening to the City — Five acoustic stories of the city

With Sol Rezza, Alejandro Weyler, Andreas von Stosch, Markus Westphal, Eleftherios Krysalis, Grit Lieder, Tina Klatte
Editing: Grit Lieder
Techniqes: Janine Müller
on bauhaus.fm, 23.04.2018, 7pm

The Renaissance palace „Kühle Brunnen“ (cool well) lies hidden in a winding alleway close to the market place of Halle (Saale). Commissioned by the louche cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg the the building was created as a place for bodily welfare and pleasure. Built around 1520 the building now is in private hands and protected as a historic monument.
Sol Rezza, artist-in-residence from Argentina/Mexico, Mark Hornbogen, Tina Klatte, Elisabeth Rändel and Ralf Wendt, radio makers and artists from Halle, brought the Kühle Brunnen to life again.

For one afternoon, on Friday, April 13, they opened up the historic walls and created on air and on site a place liberated from church, conventions and attributions. The secrets surrounding the secular desires of cardinal Albrecht form the historical background for a broadcast questioning the restrictions to present lust and desire.

Extracts of the three hour radio broadcast:

Sol Rezza is mapping the city of Halle acoustically. In April the broadcasting series Sound Mapping Halle is creating and presenting an acoustic map of the city of Halle on air and online. In our first broadcast we talked about the concept of “maps” and the act of mapping. What provides a sounding map? Sol Rezza is presenting the first mark on the acoustic map: “The Wall of Illusions”, an acoustic reflection on the mural of Hans-Joachim Triebsch in Halle

(Broadcast: Sound Mapping the City / 18 March 2018, with: Judith Baidales, Tina Klatte, Sol Rezza)

The act of mapping public and private spaces is an act of tagging these places. In several live broadcasts these acts create real-time radio narratives.The resulting acoustic tags and sonic reflections of the city are gradually shaping a sound map, which proposes an alternative concept of “orientation” for its listeners.

Broadcasting Schedule Sound Mapping the City

on Radio CORAX 95.9 & radiocorax.de

Sunday, April 1 – 8pm: Sound Mapping Halle – an acoustic map of the city

Wir vermessen hier eben die Ufer
Estamos midiendo la orilla del río aquí
نحن هنا لقياس ضفة النهر
We are just measuring the riverside here
Nous mesurons actuellement le rivage ici

Sunday, April 4 – 8pm: Sound Mapping Halle – an acoustic map of the city
Un Tema De Nuestro Tiempo

Friday, April 13 – 3:10pm-6pm:  LIVE  Der Kühle Brunnen (The Cold Well)
The secret activities of cardinal Albrecht in “The Cold Well”, where he created himself a sort of dark room, as well as the place itself, a still existing medieval building, are part of a live radio intervention in public space.

Friday, April 20 – 1pm:  LIVE  Vanishing / Wasserkraft / Klopfzeichen
Transmissions out of the water tower

Sunday, April 22 – 8pm. Sound Mapping Halle – an acoustic map of the city
SALT

Sunday, April 29 – 8pm: Sound Mapping Halle – an acoustic map of the city
The Color of the Sounds by Lyonel