Lumpen Station

Une conversation avec Jacques Fasel, EP:2 enregistré en février 2014, interview d'Andrea Marioni, production @lumpenstation  Le sentiment de révolte grandissant, Jacques évite de faire l’armée jusqu’à son emprisonnement pour désertion. C’est derrière les barreaux à la prison de Bellechasse, qu’il fera la rencontre de Daniel Bloch ,un objecteur de conscience enragé contre l’armée et les contradicti...

Animal Skin sound work composed by Grant Jurius,  co-production Lumpen station  LUMPEN CONNEXIONS is a room dedicated to host sound works by artist coming from different backgrounds and around the worlds.  Animal Skin is composed from field recordings collected during the artist's art residency program in Basel, Switzerland, July - September 2022. Animal Skin is an ongoing project that includes a...

objet petit Fergalicious sound work composed by Till Langschied, co-production Lumpen Station LUMPEN CONNEXIONS is a room dedicated to host sound works by artist coming from different backgrounds and around the worlds.   Is my life fergalicious enough? Is anyone's? What is it that I want and what is it that I believe to lack. Do I maybe want this lack? Using Fergie's infamous 2006 anthem as a jump...

Lumpen Prize 2022 - Godzilla Calling  For the first time, Lumpen Station organized a prize open to all participants who wanted to create a sound work on the theme "Godzilla Calling". All contributions have been presented during a public listening session at Café Littéraire on the 12.10.22. The particularity of Lumpen Prize is that the audience  decided the winner by votation in real time during th...

Selbstportrait in Musik #3 with Jeanne Jacob  recorded in Atomic Café, Biel/Bienne, 09.10.22  Selbstportrait in Musik est une série de diffusion radiophonique depuis l’Atomic Café à Bienne pour donner la voix ou plutôt les platines à des artistes de la région biennoise pour partager « le temps d’un apéro » un autoportrait en musique. Attention, les contenus sont hauts en interprétations cryptées s...

Fermentation workshop by Benoit Casot, Byungseo Yoo, Colin St. Mary Lumpen connexions, october 2022, co-production  Presentation : Fermentation workshop radio is a participatory audio program produced with Lumpenstation (https://lumpenstation.art/) by the Fermentation workshop collective, which is researching and practicing the commoning of art-institution through the concept and methodology of fe...

I love u leave me alone - an ode to a mother by Mor Dovrat  Lumpen connexions, release in november 2022  A symphony of daily banal anticlimactic sounds turning into an enchanting rhythmic-entropic sound installation.  Lullabies, pumping milk, cleaning dishes, saying “no”, screaming “no”… .  Routine transposes into a sacred pattern of pulses and sounds. Dark thoughts float and are channeled into an...

Nocturnal Episodes by Diane Barbé Lumpen connexions, release in november 2022 Nocturnal Episodes is a continuous exploration through several dreams that occurred to me in the summer 2022. As the western world picked up again on a post-Covid productivist frenzy, the need for slowness and respite arose through the restlessness. I wondered what dreams and what ideals we pursue as a society; what futu...

We talk about art, La variante Tony Morgan, avec Claude Hubert-Tatot entretien enregistré à Genève le 06.10.22 "Depuis son Angleterre natale, Tony Morgan n'a de cesse de bouger, autant sur le plan géographique que sur le plan formel. En effet, cet artiste touche à tout saura traverser son époque en s'essayant à plusieurs pratiques artistiques, tout en se référant toujours à la peinture. Claude Hub...

2 Rush 2 Breath, By Louis Hector  2 Rush 2 Breath is an exercice in contrast that uses the breath of the turbo as a metaphor for an overwhelming atmosphere. ten mechanic whistles had been tuned and provided with diverse accessories and devices such as digital resonators and shimmering spectral filters, with the constructive principle of using materials used to speed up, improve, and perform. By me...

Echo Chamber #2, by Wassili Widmer  After the first episode of Echo Chamber reflected on the topics of voice and narrativ, this episode will thematise echo and reverb. Part of this will be a deeper reflection of the myth of Ekho and voice experiments. The myth of Ekho is an essential part and basically the origin of the Echo Chamber series. In this episode it is dissected from different angles, in...

You would not be just an ornament, by Tatiana Heuman  It is possible to access new interpretations of the urgencies of the current reality through rest. Dreaming acts as an engine to continue when everything around seems to indicate that one of all ends is approaching. Floating, hidden somewhere, appearing randomly, my dear dream, Should I talk to you or about you? Because you seem to be a form of...

Come together in a dream by Garancina, Music does the talking, co-production Lumpen Station 2022  ੈ✩‧₊˚ Come together in a dream is a tribute to bizarre parties, bizarre crowds, bizarre sounds and bizarre dreams. The sound piece is inspired by, and functions as an odd dj set composed of original tracks produced by the artist, that would follow you in your reveries, in your reminiscence of adventur...

Fantasmagor EP. 1 by Renato Grieco, artist in residence on Lumpen Station in 2022  Fantasmagór is a media-archeological speculation about a device capable of recording the imaginative and affective aural experience of the user. The whole story appears like a set of keynote speeches at a conference of psychiatrists reviewing various case studies related to the use of the device to observe aural act...

La liste à Lulu  by Marjorie Kapelusz, Lumpen connexions, soundwork, 2022  co-produced by Lumpen station  La liste à Lulu : Sonate pour une tronçonneuse est une visite d’atelier sonore. Lulu et sa tronçonneuse vous invite au cœur de ses rêveries et de ses dialogues internes. Les sons témoignent parfois d’un héritage culturel parfois des gestes qui s’activent dans l’atelier. Et d’ailleurs c’est quo...

Talking Gazes, 25.08.22 Live recorded in Tinguely Museum Basel in the exhibition BANG BANG : translocal hi:stories of performance art. "Last but not least encounter with our Talking Gazes within Bang Bang translocal histories. For this ending episode we were live from Kasko art Space in Basel broadcasting with our caddy-Tinguely-studio. Monica German and Francesca Sproccati shared their impression...

Talking Gazes, 18.08.22 Live recorded in Tinguely Museum Basel in the exhibition BANG BANG : translocal hi:stories of performance art. "In this talk our guest share their impression about performances seen the previous saturday and asked themselves about the theme frame, the artist propositions and their reception. Follow their Talking Gazes and have an hint about the performances presented in Tin...

Talking Gazes, 07.07.22 Live recorded in Tinguely Museum Basel in the exhibition BANG BANG : translocal hi:stories of performance art. "After a break of fw week, Bang Bang comes back in Tinguely museum by presenting a final blast of Sozial elegance, during all saturday, more than 80 performances animated the park in front of the museum. From an open call all the participants had the possibility to...

Crossline I by Sara Lana, Lumpen station residents in 2022  Crosslines is a series of 3 sound pieces created from calls made to public telephones all over the world. Multiple calls made to recipients hitherto unknown or even non-existent.  The phones were found using maps with panoramic views of public spaces. The number of each phone was retrieved by crossing its coordinates identified on the rou...

Deep Listening, by Daniela Brugger deep listening is an invitation to relax and focusses on notification sounds present in our everyday life. The electronic devices relate to us by saying hello, goodbye, well done, generally commenting, and observing the user. The machines seeking our attention, and communicating with us via sounds, while we receive messages, send Emails, or start a computer. The...

Encounter with Charlemagne Palestine interview hosted by Andrea Marioni recorded in théâtre de la Valère, Sion, 21.07.22 within the exhibition Beauty & Room curated by Balthazar Lovay sound extracts: Charlemagne Palestine, live in the église des Jésuites, Sion, 23.07.22 for PALP Festival  Charlemagne Palestine went through important decades of sound art avant-garde by collaborating with import...

FEEDBACK SYMPHONY N°1.1 by Léon Jodry Soundwork co-produced by Lumpen Station and Léon Jodry for Lumpen Connexions room, July 2022   This sound piece consists in a non-stop-evolving drone produced by 12 diverse homemade feedback-devices (6 guitar amps with 6 guitar pickups hanged under 6 piano strings, 4 guitar amps and 2 PA with 6 piezo microphones glued on diverse resonant material) placed in a...

Selbstportrait in Musik #2 with Thibaud Gerber recorded in Atomic café, Biel/Bienne, 10.04.22  Selbstportrait in Musik est une série de diffusion radiophonique depuis l’Atomic Café à Bienne pour donner la voix ou plutôt les platines à des artistes de la région biennoise pour partager « le temps d’un apéro » un autoportrait en musique. Attention, les contenus sont hauts en interprétations cryptées...

Talking Gazes, 07.07.22 Live recorded in Tinguely Museum Basel in the exhibition BANG BANG : translocal hi:stories of performance art. "For this fourth Talking Gazes broadcast, our guest discussed about the performance programm of the 03.07.22 and the role of the exhibition Bang Bang in Tinguely Museum. It has also been the occasion to question politics in performance and how feminismus can find w...