BUSY DAY
De Appel
08-07-2017
(This show was a live broadcast only and is not available in our archive)
Part of BUSY DAYS with Christine Sun Kim, and one of five artistic interventions in Amsterdam (and beyond) by Christine Sun Kim.
For Busy Day, originally conceived for French Radio program Web SYNadio (2014), Berlin-based artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Benno Mader invited 24 participants to contribute by recording the busiest hour of their day. Participants’ files were then compiled as a 24 hour long play list titled «Busy Day» along with a description of each individual hour.
Each contributor’s hour description is available online, to make the project not only sonically but also conceptually accessible for viewers who prefer to read. Please find the PDF with all descriptions here.
Excerpt from the invitation letter to the contributors:
“I’m writing about the radio playlist collaboration I am working on with Thomas Mader. It’s for an online radio station in France called webSYNradio. Since they broadcast 24/7 worldwide, Thomas and I have been thinking about what would best capture the sound of being “busy” in our times. We would like to constitute an actual full day of “busy” sounds by inviting participants to record themselves for an hour during their studio time, ranging from reading to thinking to talking to typing, or all combined. After we receive an hour-long file from each participant, we will arrange them as a full day and invite the public to tune in and listen. This way we will create a sort of “archive of busy”, raw material people can use to get inspired, to procrastinate or to satisfy their voyeuristic tendencies.
PARTICIPANTS
00. Taeyoon Choi, Artist/Teacher
01. Bill Dietz, Composer
02. Matana Roberts, Musician
03. Aron Sanchez, Musician
04. Joseph del Pesco, Director/Curator
05. Gordon Hall, Artist
06. Pauline Oliveros, Musician/Teacher
07. Zach Layton, Artist
08. David Horvitz, Artist
09. Marc Handelman, Artist
10. Tully Arnot, Artist
11. Deville Cohen, Artist
12. Ryan Holladay with Hays Holladay, Musicians/Sound Artists
13. Gryphon Rue with Cosmo Sheldrake, Musicians
www.gryphonrue.com
14. Anna Moschovakis, Writer
15. Harper Reed, CTO/Hacker
16. Shoham Arad, Designer/Director
www.ted.com/participate/ted-fellows-program
17. Alison O’Daniel, Artist
18. Taylor Davis, Artist
19. Alexandro Segade, Artist
20. Jordan Robin, Artist
21. William Tucci, Musician
www.unstoppabledeathmachines.com
22. Hank Willis Thomas, Artist
23. Lisa Yun Lee, Director/Curator
20. Jordan Robin, Artist
21. William Tucci, Musician
www.unstoppabledeathmachines.com
22. Hank Willis Thomas, Artist
23. Lisa Yun Lee, Director/Curator
Artist / Organisation: De Appel
Length: 1440 min