Lumpen Station

Studio Mood #2 at Lisa Lurati  As art practices often require moments of solitude, mind trip, inner envision or simply to catch the wave, Lumpen Station asked artists to share their personal playlist while working in their studio. Above enlarging music knowledge, the intend here is to reveal a sort of original soundtrack in the backstage of art works. It's also a way for artists to moove from thei...

Studio Mood #1 at Lucas Herzig  As art practices often require moments of solitude, mind trip, inner envision or simply to catch the wave, Lumpen Station asked artists to share their personal playlist while working in their studio. Above enlarging music knowledge, the intend here is to reveal a sort of original soundtrack in the backstage of art works. It's also a way for artists to moove from the...

The incredible artist's career of...  Introducing : Phil Kassel  EP1, Lumpen Station production, © 2023 The incredible artist's career of... is a workshop dedicated on experimental narratives and screenwriting technics. On this first episode, participants start the biography of an artist, find the name Phil Kassel after a round of dice and create original sequences describing art works and career...

Come se non ci fosse un domani – live at Balabiott Museum during La Straordinaria@lumpen station, recorded 24.03.23, podcast released in may 2023  Using the expression "come se non ci fosse un domani" ("like there isn’t a tomorrow") as a starting point to ask artists to propose their relation with present and future. This archive renders the peculiar atmosphere in the Balabiott Museum during La St...

Come se non ci fosse un domani – live at Balabiott Museum during La Straordinaria @lumpen station, recorded 25.03.23, podcast released in may 2023  Using the expression "come se non ci fosse un domani" ("like there isn’t a tomorrow") as a starting point to ask artists to propose their relation with present and future. This archive renders the peculiar atmosphere in the Balabiott Museum during La S...

Dangerous Dances and the meaning of the word slosh by Megan Orsi co-production Lumpen Station, release in may 2023  Dangerous Dances and the meaning of the word slosh Dangerous Dances and the meaning of the word slosh is an ode to an ambivalent love for mosh pits. It's about the delicious pleasure of being shoved and pushed by strangers. A moment where clashing bodies and raw sounds are in sync. A...

Migrants headbox by Andrea Marinelli & Kratu  co-production Lumpen Station, released in may 2023  Vocal music flexes with more agility than any other at the change of eras, styles, ways of communication, movements. We offer here a brief mix of highly refined artists who destabilized the voice conception with a broad cultural spectrum from the ancestral music of the Greek migrants of the 19th c...

Otters holding hands is curated by Ambra Viviani and co-production Lumpen Station Unreliable Object by Federico Pozuelo has been released in may 2023  "Unreliable Object is a radio drama that explores our perception of reality through a story of love, contraband, and science fiction." Federico Pozuelo is a visual artist who explores the construction of historical and cultural narratives through di...

Quién hace tanta bulla, by Ale Hop & Ignacio Briceño co-production Lumpen Station, released in may 2023  Peruvian artists, Ale Hop & Ignacio Briceño, join the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the publication of Cesar Vallejo's Trilce, one of the most innovative and influential works of poetry in the Spanish language, with the sound artwork QUIÉN HACE TANTA BULLA, an exploration of...

Artist in residence 2022-2023Crosslines II by Sara Lana, co-production Lumpen Station  Released in april 2023 This second episode of Crosslines is a compilation of calls made to telephones, all over the world, that were answered by calls mysteriously pre-recorded. Some appear to be trivial conversations, others telephone services or even spam calls. Crosslines is a series of 3 sound works created...

Une conversation avec Jacques Fasel, EP:3 enregistré en février 2014, interview d'Andrea Marioni, production @lumpenstation  L'activité révolutionnaire en cours commence à se confronter aux premières difficultés, l'amitié reste une valeur centrale qui passe le mur de la prison et permet aussi d'organiser des évasions... 

Otters holding Hands is a sound exhibition series curated by Ambra Viviani Lumpen station's associates curator Between pure rain and sea water, by Nora Berman, release in april 2023, co-production: Lumpen Station and Giulietta  "The charismatic transmission of one’s attainment to another through the mystical process of love and adoration." Nora Berman is a Californian artist whose work seems to en...

Emma Souharce artist in residence presents: CREPA  Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Pratiques Aventureuses EP7 - Randonée ultra légère by Thomas Köppel co-production Lumpen Station  Nous initions la saison 2 du CREPA avec une septième session tellement foisonnante que nous la publions en 2 épisodes. Dans cette première partie, nous écoutons Thomas Köppel nous présenter le contenu du sac à dos av...

Echo chamber #3 by Wassili Widmer artist in residency 2022-2023, released february 2023 Meet the residents, co-production Lumpen Station  In the third episode of the Echo Chamber project, you can hear a spoken word performance recorded in an echo chamber. The three performers had a simple score that provided them with a framework for their actions. The two main elements were repetition and contrad...

Fantasmagor EP2, by Renato Grieco, released in february 2021 Meet the residents host different artist to create a long terms collaboration with Lumpen Station co-production Lumpen Station  Fantasmagór is a media-archeological speculation about imaginary audio equipment. This second episode appears as a talk by two members of Ritorna Digital, a private company that provides audio simulation service...

BEZ ZUB, by Marko Miladinovic Lumpen connexions, january 2023,  © co-production Lumpen Station   BEZ ZUB contains jingles, sound-poetry and canzonettə. Composed of unreleased tracks, forgotten sessions and superulteriori. @miladinowitzsch is a swiss-italian-ex-jugoslavian-not-yet-european poet.  a——————— 00.00 intro vxrp 00.41 più sì no 02.03 subretta 04.37 amantini 05.16 ultimo sole 06.57 ha-te 0...

 His master's voice, Rodrigo Toro Madrid Meet the residents, @co-production Lumpen Station, january 2023  For the residency I propose a narrative divided in three chapters with sound elements that will involve experimentation with analog and mechanical recorded media: antique and modern gramophone records, handmade recordings, intervened record players, along with spoken word. In each chapter I’ll...

STRETCHING OUT, Radna Rumping Lumpen connexions, co-production Lumpen Station, release in january 2023  “After stretching, it is possible to spring back into the original shape, like a rubber band, but in the meantime something has changed. There has been a shift.” STRETCHING OUT is an audio essay by Radna Rumping. In this 30 minute long text, she invites a silence, looks at a record cover of Boot...

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...