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Montez Press Radio
30 August 2020
30 August 2020, 3:00pm to 7:00pm
We’re pleased to present the fourth and final broadcast in our collaboration with Montez Press Radio - a series of interviews, conversations, readings and sound by artists, writers, publishers, musicians and activists. In light of the current challenges faced across the globe and within the art sector, this series seeks to forge a sense of continued dialogue and community.
The broadcasts are aired on the last Sunday of each month from May to August (31 May, 28 June, 26 July, 30 August) between 3-7pm BST
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Schedule: Sunday 30 August 2020 from 3.00pm
Listen at: https://radio.montezpress.com/#/schedule
Schedule: Sunday 30 August 2020 from 3.00pm
Listen at: https://radio.montezpress.com/#/schedule
PLEASE NOTE: Times shown on Montez Press Radio website are EST (Eastern Standard Time)
Some of the content in Montez Press Radio may not be appropriate for a younger audience.
3.00pm: Zoë Skoulding with Alan Holmes: Footnotes to Water: Sounding Hidden Rivers
Zoë Skoulding's poetry collection Footnotes to Water, winner of the Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award 2020, imagines a river as a transverse section, cutting through urban and rural spaces, connecting places that are themselves in flux. It traces the mysterious path of the buried Afon Adda in Bangor, North Wales, entering conversations with the city and its past as well as with the sound of the river itself, half-heard under the metal plates of the observation chambers along its route. In an unlikely twinning of two very different cities, this journey leads to Paris and to the Bièvre, a lost Parisian stream that once ran through streets of tanneries and past the Gobelins tapestry factory, where the quality of a famous red dye was attributed to the river’s polluted water. This performance, in collaboration with sound artist Alan Holmes, combines poetry with field recordings, looped vocals and interview fragments, and includes a poem in Welsh from special guest Siân Melangell Dafydd.
Zoë Skoulding's poetry collection Footnotes to Water, winner of the Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award 2020, imagines a river as a transverse section, cutting through urban and rural spaces, connecting places that are themselves in flux. It traces the mysterious path of the buried Afon Adda in Bangor, North Wales, entering conversations with the city and its past as well as with the sound of the river itself, half-heard under the metal plates of the observation chambers along its route. In an unlikely twinning of two very different cities, this journey leads to Paris and to the Bièvre, a lost Parisian stream that once ran through streets of tanneries and past the Gobelins tapestry factory, where the quality of a famous red dye was attributed to the river’s polluted water. This performance, in collaboration with sound artist Alan Holmes, combines poetry with field recordings, looped vocals and interview fragments, and includes a poem in Welsh from special guest Siân Melangell Dafydd.
4.00pm: Christelle Oyiri (aka CRYSTALLMESS): Fury in Tremolo
A collage of soundscapes and readings of « Afropessimist » texts from Fanta Sylla, Frank Wilderson III, Sadiya Hartman.
Christelle Oyiri is a Paris-based multidisciplinary artist, who goes by the moniker CRYSTALLMESS when she operates as a composer and DJ. In 2019, she released music on label PAN and country music and self-released her 2018 EP MERE NOISES. Her work highlights the intersection between forgotten mythologies, memory and alienation. Whether she explores black French erasure with her performance piece Collective Amnesia (2018), reflects on the idea of progress and therefore linear time with Necessary Evil (2019) or on her own family history and sonic hauntology with Kiss & Tell (2020), sound is always her place of choice for worldbuilding.
5.00pm: Endangered Languages Project - Voices of Resilience
There are over 7,000 languages spoken on Earth today, but almost half of them are in danger of falling silent soon. Just like biodiversity and cultural diversity, linguistic diversity is facing an unprecedented crisis - but there's hope and resistance growing all over the globe.
There are over 7,000 languages spoken on Earth today, but almost half of them are in danger of falling silent soon. Just like biodiversity and cultural diversity, linguistic diversity is facing an unprecedented crisis - but there's hope and resistance growing all over the globe.
6.00pm: Studio Cybi (Rebecca Gould and Iwan Lewis): Twmpath
This segment by Studio Cybi, a curatorial platform based in North Wales led by artists Iwan Lewis and Rebecca Gould, features sounds from the rave era and audio taken directly from the landscape. The Welsh word ‘twmpath’, means a mound or village green, where traditionally musicians would entertain the community, bringing to mind the rave scene of the 90s that took place in the area. 'Twmpath' aims to rekindle the collective effervescence once experienced here, seeking to question the role of art and its structures in today’s context.
7.00pm: Podge: Mix
A mix of remixes and originals from Podge with some of Podge's favourite tunes to go alongside.
Podge is an electronic artist from the UK who takes influence from a large variety of music, combined with a love for Japanese culture, to create an energetic melting pot of musical styles.
Montez Press is an artist-run publisher and radio station operating between London, Hamburg, New York and Brussels. Envisaged as the third iteration of the spirit of Lola Montez (Lola, Maria, Mario), Montez Press was formed in 2012 and has since worked to publish texts writing against current critical modalities and theoretical dogmas which inform the workings of the contemporary knowledge economy.
Part of MOSTYN's EDGE digital programme, supported by Arts Council of Wales
