Audiobox
Des que les generaux ne meurent plus a cheval,
les peintres ne sont plus obliges de mourir devant le chevalet.
With this flash of perception Marcel Duchamp suggested to the artists of the
ending century to liberate themselves from the rules and limits which still
interfere with research and expression. It was from the same notion that RAI
began in the end of the seventies to propose a new way of practicing the
radiophonic research which had, up to then, restricted to certain well-defined
genres (radio-theatre, contemporary music etc.) RAI started with the program
Fonosfera by Armando Adolgiso & Pinotto Fava and continued with the still
existing AUDIOBOX.
As we combine form and technique, we actually intend to sketch different lines of writing and new grammars to specifically explore those which spring from the confrontation of new & unexpected currents whose short-circuits potentially create or provoke new sources of power.
Seeking to establish international contacts with experimental projects of other radiophonic institutions, AUDIOBOX took two decisions in 1984. On the one hand, inspired by reflection as well by the 5 AUDIOBOX-festivals supported by the EBU/UER, to take part in the organisation of metings with other stations concentrating on radiophonic research. On the other, the realization of international coproductions of live events based upon the simultaneous participation of various artists in diferent artists in diferent places as well as on experiments with new models of transmission by using new electronical and numerical technologies.
The programs, the audio-works of AUDIOBOX, though very heterogenous in themselves, oscillate between extreme conditions and positions in an opposition which seems to be beyond determined definition: instant/infinity, source/structure, city/desert, art/communication, seduction/provocation, necessity/hazard etc. In this sense, experimentation with reciprocal and complex systems of communication based upon expansion of the perspective possibilities, electronic space, telematic channels, virtual voyages and free planetary communications appear to be possible and necessary, especially for the radio which, even today, remain associated with the image a melancholy medium and, consequently, with the past.