art2.network (Be/Fr)

1 November 2019 City Sonic

Radios World

Radios World is a project to explore more than 2000 radio stations from around the world. The change of station is done by the displacement of the listener in the geographical space. Like the steering the frequency of a radio listening, the physical strolling determined by the use of the GPS causes, depending on the distances covered, the change of flow.

Production: Transcultures.

How to

A web application for Android smartphones and tablets, RadioWalk simply requires Internet access and GPS, preferably headphones and a pair of good shoes for a walk.

Click on the link citysonic.be/RadiosWorld (or scan the QR code) and follow the instructions on the screen. If no radio is launched, your web browser is probably incompatible with this artwork. This project is part of the Sonic Walks.

Lectures urbaines (creation)

20 places and 20 texts from a UCL writing workshop will lead you to discover the city of Louvain-La-Neuve. A poetic wandering is interspersed with a selection of sound objects from fifteen years of City Sonic Festival. This project started in 2017 with the UCLouvain Culture is an experiment on sound paths. This year it takes a new form by experimenting the Escapad application.

Texts: Belinda Cannone, Myriam Delmotte, Maxime Deblander, Perrine Estienne, Benedict Lambert, Romuald La Morte, Camille Dasseleer.
Framing writing workshops: Belinda Cannone, Myriam Delmotte.
Reading/Interpretation: Benjamin Chaval & Laurie Bellanca.
Sound creation: aMute, Christophe Bailleau, Stephan Dunkelman, Gilles Malatray, Paradise Now, Franck Soudan…
Production: Transcultures and the partnership of the non-profit organization Lettres en voix and UCLouvain Culture. With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. The Lectures Urbaines is based on the RHYZOmatics geolocalised project conceived in 2017 by the art2.network collective, developed by the artist-coder Franck Soudan as the result of a partnership between Transcultures, UCLouvain Culture (Frédéric Blondeau) and the non-profit organization Lettres en voix. With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (digital arts).

Escapad (application)

This project is part of the Sonic Walks and will take place in the application for smartphone and tablet Escapade (to download and install on your mobile).

Biography

art2.network is a European collective with variable geometry based in Brussels and initiated in 2017 by Franck Soudan (Fr) and Jacques Urbanska (Be) following a European Pepinieres of Creation residence. Their projects – hybrid, modular, contextual, thematic… – explore the physical and virtual networks as a field of investigation and raw material of creation. The group’s achievements include collective or individual works involving different creators depending on the desires and / or specific needs of each project.