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Gasometer

by Paulo Raposo

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Measure Me 11:06
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Dead Rabbits 11:33
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Don´t Measure Me 05:30
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This work was realised and recorded in location around the top of the huge Gasometer in Oberhausen, Germany.

With a height of 117 metres this structure is one of the most imposing industrial spaces in Europe. it boasts one of the most extreme acoustics of any public building, with a perplexing natural reverb. 

The recordings, including Verena's voice, were made collectively in the top of the structure,exploring maybe obsessively the massive metal labyriith while a violent and unexpected TORNADO was hitting us, leaving behind a trail of dead rabbits.

One radio artist and camper - Jean-Philippe Renoult - puts it:
"In the middle of July, just as most of Europe was sweltering under
temperatures of 36°C, eight intrepid radio makers made their way by
air, train and car to Oberhausen, Germany, to take part in a radio art
camp. We spent two days and nights around the giant steel cylinder and began to incubate our ideas which were subsequently finalised in their own studios."

A short quarantine experience: as the huge tornado appears from nowhere and all artists, not easiiy, search shelter inside the gasometer. As Leaving my equipment outside, i wondered during hours how resilient was my recorder. And when I finally recovered i found a trail of dead rabbits.

The mission was to produce a series of radio shows to be broadcast on Kunstradio, Austria.

All the ideas the gasometer generated "were many and varied and ranged from a dialogue that stretched over 100 metres, recordings of people gasping up the 800 step outside staircase, which were then reinjected back into the space, to balloon pops, megaphone screams, feedback loops, and a bouncy ball concert.

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released May 18, 2020

Recordings, composition: Paulo Raposo
Main voice: Verena Kuni
Collective sounds and recordings by Knut Aufermann, Barbara Kaiser,, Sarah Washington, Verena Kuni, Felix Kubin, Jean-Philippe Renoult, and DinahBird.

Cover art by Silvia Coelho.

This project was kindly supported by Kunstradio and Radia sound group.
Thanks to Elizabeth Elisabeth Zimmermann and all.

www.radia.fm
www.kunstradio.at
www.gasometer.de

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Paulo Raposo is a sound artist, curator and publisher. He started working on the early nineties in the medium of live electronics and computer sound, performing, recording and exhibiting works in Europe, Middle East and United States. Founded the label Sirr in 2001.

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