Saturday 24 September
from 14:00 CEST until 12:00 noon on Sunday 25 September
Julia Drouhin
Radio Apothecary
LIVE PERFORMANCE
You are invited to visit the Apdikt, behind the Bridderhaus, 1 Rue Léon Metz, 4238 Esch-sur-Alzette, to experience this live show between 14:00 and 22:22 on Saturday, and between 11:00 and noon on Sunday. Free entry.
Radio Apothecary is an attempt to sonify elements that filter airwaves into poisons or remedies for your ears via a vegetal antenna.
Radio Apothecary is a current research box of radio seeds opened by Sisters Akousmatica, questioning who owns the air.
Following liquid, social and electromagnetic waves, a live broadcast between Julia Drouhin in Esch sur Alzette in Luxembourg and Phillipa Stafford in Carlton River in lutruwita/Tasmania opened this 22 hours of Radio Art Zone, based on a book they wrote together about the end of transmission, The Silent Key, where each chapter is a score for a performance.
14:00 Sisters Akousmatica, Chapter 11, SK, The People's Library, 2018, 22 minutes
14:22 > 22:22 Radio Apothecary from botanical observations in Esch-Sur-Alzette during a month-long residency by Julia Drouhin.
Live broadcast of personal and friends field recordings, sound collages, improvised cut up readings, vinyl, tape, played and eaten chocolate record and Gurkinator with real gurkins.
Young voices from Formida centre after a 3 days ~ Edging the Spektrum ~ workshop: make radio transmitter, walk a line blindfolded in nature and storytelling collage with Julia Drouhin : Serge, Justin, Theo. Special thanks to Sandra Laborier ' radio ARA.
Thanks to all creators of the following tracks:
Senyawa, remixed by Sisters Akousmatica, Alkisah, Silent Army Storeroom, 2021
Das Festival für selbstgebaute Musik, field recordings of audience and artworks, Berlin, 2022
Musik Kaputter Geldautomaten, Institut für Elektroakustik Hamburg, fieldrecordings from destroyed (Kaputte) Automatic Teller Machines (ATM) or Bankomats by Chrisoph S. from 1980 til 2017 in various places around europe, 2022
Kids workshops with Julia Drouhin and Segomotso Motsumi, Victoria Yards, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2019
Train barrier, Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, 2022
Rhys Butler and Julia Drouhin, FUPP, Sounding Together, St Pauls Church, Boorloo-Perth, Australia, 2020 (saxophone, petit cristal baschet, radio, carpet)
Steve Young and Julia Drouhin, Let the snakes macerate, Ladies Lounge, Mona, lutruwita-Tasmania, Australia, 2022 (petit cristal baschet, loop, karaoke microphone, bass clarinet)
Birds in a parisian stairwell, France, 2022
Edwina Stevens, Sisters Akousmatica, Next Wave, Liquid Architecture, naarm-Melbourne, Australia, 2016
Jamal, hairdresser, kids workshop, Sisters Akousmatica, Moonah Community Radio, Moonah Art Center, Australia, 2019
Nicolas Souchal, Michael Nick, Simon Henocq, GUMMI, Coax Records, 2021
Ma vie, episode 1, Julia Drouhin, Paris, France, 2007
Sarah and Sylvia, Planets, Sisters Akousmatica workshop, Junction Festival, Australia, 2021
Julia Drouhin, Bed Bug Bouncy Castle, Make It Up Club, naarm-Melbourne, Australia, 2020
Sisters Akousmatica, Pooseum, Lonely Artefacts, commissioned by Constellation audio, Australia, podcast, 2020
Andrea Breen, Ruins, Brum Brum, Sisters Akousmatica, Junction Festival, Australia, 2021
Nicolas Horber and Julia Drouhin, I love you, live recorded duo at radio art zone studio, 2022 + readings of Légendes et traditions orales d'alsace, basse-alsace, par Jean Variot, Georges Crès & Cie, 1920
Bek Varcoe and Julia Drouhin, Palais, recorded in lutruwita, Australia by Jethro Pickett, 2022
Comptines pour humains qui veulent dormir : Slaap + Doucement, Arjan and Julia voice, karaoke mic, vietnamese jaw harp, european jaw harp
22:22 > 11:00 (Sunday 25 September) - Pre-recorded soundtracks cataplasms
Nematodes Dreams by Selena De Carvalho, Caitlin Fargher, Julia Drouhin, soundwalk and sculptural public space disruptions, supported by Creative Hobart an initiative of City of Hobart, Australia, 2022
Julia Drouhin, A.I.R.(Altitude Immersive Radio), South Africa, 2018 Signature project of the Programme for Innovation in Artform Development (PIAD), an Arts initiative by the University of the Free State and the Vrystaat Art Festival, supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Public Art Project (PAP), SITUATE Art in Festivals, Adelaide Tambo Public Library, Australia Council for the Arts, broadcast by MED FM, CUT FM, Mosupatsela FM, Motheo FM, archived at Süden Radio #3, Radio Papesse.
Hextape, 2Fast2Furious, Forever Drifting, Revenge, 2020
Emily Sanzaro, Corolla on Charles, Sisters Akousmatica Brum Brum, Junction festival, Australia, 2021
Sisters Akousmatica, Borderadio, Shaping the Aether, curated by Pali Meursault, Espace Gantner, France, 2021
Alexandra Spence, Immaterial, 2019
Company Fuck, Afterlife Disco, Serendip compilation 10 years, France, 2022
The Roaring Forties, Structures Sonores et Cristal Baschet France to Contemporary Art Tasmania, 2019, with Rodolphe Alexis, DinahBird, Blenno Die Wurstbrucke Povera, Pierre-Yvan Blondet, Emile Boudghene, Angelique Buisson, Marco Dapic, Julia Drouhin, Frederic Fradet, Michal Mitro, Jean-Philippe Renoult, Lea Roger, Dexter Rosengrave and Valerie Vivancos
Cricket, Flinders Island, Australia, 2021
Julia Drouhin, Ghost Track, Soundproof, ABC, 2016
Emily Sanzaro, Lauren Tsamouras, Niki Johnson, Pei Ann Yeoh, Julia Drouhin, 2 AM, Australia Art Orchestra Creative Intensive, Tarraleah, lutruwita, Australia, 2019
Tapetronic, Cuillères, Serendip compilation 10 years, France, 2022
Solomon Frank and Julia Drouhin, Bodies of water, Australia Art Orchestra Creative Intensive, Tarraleah, lutruwita, Australia, 2019
Coraline Janvier, Naissance, Pédiluv, Radio Campus Paris, 2010
IBP5 (instrument builders project 5), Mona Foma, curated by Contemporary Art Tasmania, Liquid Architecture and Volcanic Winds, Australia, 2021
Art Technique, Kill The Father, Serendip compilation 10 years, France, 2022
Cookie News, Radio Kiddo workshop with Julia Drouhin, Rosny barn, lutruwita, Australia, 2019
A murder of crows in Sandlfy, lutruwita, Australia, 2014
The Parques (Edith Perrenot, Phillipa Stafford, Julia Drouhin), For the Dusk, lutruwita, Australia, 2020
Annika Moses, White gums are standing with their feet in the water, 2018
Extra Tourist, Serendip compilation 10 years, France, 2022
Sisters Akousmatica, Music Tasmania with SPAT (sound Preservation Association of Tasmania) and Dr Warren Hankey, podcast, Australia, 2021
Nadege Philippe-janon, You Are A Microbe, You are a Mass Extinction : A Guided Meditation, 2022
Julia Drouhin, MER4, Memory | Dream | Encounter : Nichola Scrutton's commission 2021, supported by Creative Scotland
X-press radio (Luke, William, Lucy, Alex, Lawrence, Hannah), Edge Radio 99.3FM, lutruwita-Tasmania, Australia, 2022
Angélique Buisson, Vert Vert, Chant I, II, III and IV, Duuu, 2022
Knit your bits, Goodwood Community Center, Women Health in lutruwita-Tasmania, 2022
Sage Pbbbt, Charms, Invocations of unknown entities, 2017
Azumi O E, Blenno Die Wurstbrücke, Takuya Nakamura, Urge Lab, Serendip compilation 10 years, France, 2022
Anita Earl, interview of a radio sea hag in a broom broom car, lutruwita, Australia, 2022
11:00 > 12:00 Live entanglement of drinkable end of broadcast
Adjust your set, Sisters Akousmatica workshop, Junction Festival, Australia, 2021
Léa Roger, Les Trois Eaux, 2020
Andrea Breen, Randomly absurd, Brum Brum, Sisters Akousmatica, Junction Festival, Australia, 2021
RAD.io, Eduardo Cossio, Julia Drouhin, All glistening picture after in, Tone List, 2020, online improvisation with megaphone, harmonica, voices, whistles, radio frequencies, commissioned by NotNot Music Festival.
Radio Apothecary est une tentative de sonification d'éléments filtrant les ondes électromagnétiques en poisons ou remèdes pour vos oreilles, à travers une antenne végétale.
Radio Apothecary est une boîte à graines radiophoniques ouverte par Sisters Akousmatica qui questionne la propriété des ondes.
Following liquid, social and electromagnetic waves, a live broadcast between Julia Drouhin in Esch sur Alzette in Luxembourg and Phillipa Stafford in Carlton River in lutruwita/Tasmania will open this 22 hours of Radio Art Zone, based on a book they wrote together about the end of transmission, SK, where each chapter is a score for a performance.
14:00 - Chapitre 11, SK, Sisters Akousmatica, 22 minutes
14:22 > 22:22 - Assemblage de Radio Apothecary par Julia Drouhin à partir d’observations botaniques à Esch-Sur-Alzette lors d’une résidence d’un mois à Radio Art Zone.
Transmission en direct d’enregistrements personnels et collectifs, collages sonores, lectures, vinyles, cassettes…
Partage de jeunes voix projetées lors d’un atelier radio de 3 jours, Edging the Spektrum, au centre Formida avec Julia Drouhin.
22:22 > 11:00 (dimanche 25 septembre) - Cataplasmes pré-enregistrés
11:00>12:00 - Enchevêtrement de fin de transmission à siroter en direct
Dr Julia Drouhin est une artiste sonore française basée à lutruwita/tasmanie en australie. Elle s'intéresse aux ondes sonores, fluides et sociales en lieux spécifiques, souvent explorées de manière collaborative. Son travail tissant performance, dessin, fréquence électromagnétique, nourriture, shibari, instrument à eau ou léchage de pierres a été présenté en europe, Hong Kong, brésil, afrique du sud, australie, ondes radio et en ligne. Elle a terminé son doctorat en 2011 à Paris 8, France à propos de l’art de la marche et de l'impact radiophonique dans l’espace publique. Elle développe ses projets lors de résidences comme récemment à Visual Bulk et All That We Are pour une exposition avec Camille Antoine à la galerie Penny Contemporary à nipaluna/hobart. Elle a bénéficié de la Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris par l’Australia Council for the Arts avec les Structures Sonores et Cristal Baschet (2019), Spring Bay Mill (2021), FLOAT residency (2022), Australia Art Orchestra residency creative music intensive (2019), Tone List Sounding Together (2020), Tankwa Artscape residency (2019), Contemporary Art Tasmania studio (2019), Claudio Al Corso (2016), Situate Art Lab (2016) et Musique, Architecture et Environnement en Suisse où elle a gagné le prix Giuseppe Englert en 2014.
Elle fait partie des Sisters Akousmatica qui a reçu le CBAA Excellence in Music Programming award avec la radio communautaire 3CR en 2017 et des Instrument Builders Project Tasmania (IBP5) présenté à Mona Foma en 2021.
Julia Drouhin (she/her, VK7HAG) amplifies invisible soundstreams that reveal friction in sociality via radioscape, installation or collaborative performance. You can find her jumping with broken plates on a mini trampoline or licking some rocks at the beach. She was part of the Instrument Builder Project (IBP5) engaging artists from Australia and the Asia-Pacific curated by Contemporary Art Tasmania, Volcanic Winds and Liquid Architecture for Mona Foma 2021. She undertook a mentorship at the Structures Sonores et Cristal Baschet supported by the Australia Council for the Arts at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France in 2019 to study water based instruments made primarily for autistic children. She was one recipient of 2019 Australia Art Orchestra residency creative music intensive and Situate Art Lab 2016 that supported a street walk commission by Vrystaat Festival (South Africa) in 2018: Altitude Immersive Radio.
Her project Sisters Akousmatica with Phillipa Stafford shifts usual modes of transmission since 2016. They support socio-cultural and gender minorities in the field of radio arts and were awarded the Excellence in Music Programming award at the 2017 Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Conference with 3CR.
Julia completed her Ph.D about the art of walking and broadcast impact in public space in Paris 8 France in 2011 before living in lutruwita/Tasmania (Australia), where she currently works with artists with disabilities and youth in local communities.