Lumpen Station

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...

Talking Gazes, 30.06.22 Live recorded in Tinguely Museum Basel in the exhibition BANG BANG : translocal hi:stories of performance art. "For this first Talking Gazes broadcast, our guest had shared lived their impression about performance programm they follow saturday 25.06.22. In this talk show, the conversation turned around the questions of "extended queer" approach offered by each performance,...

SESSION 6 : Aurélie Doutre Sujet : du cinéma visuel au cinéma sonore La sixième session du CREPA a le plaisir d’accueillir la cinéaste plasticienne et chercheuse Aurélie Doutre, qui a également co-géré la programmation du cinéma genevois indépendant Le Spoutnik pendant 4 ans, et participe aussi à l’organisation de la DAF tivi, une télévision collective événementielle et éphémère.  Ces dernières an...

Dolly and Raffaele  by Geneviève Costello Soundworks produced for Lumpen Station Connexions, june 2022 Moving between languages and multi-generational Italian-American and American-French immigrant life, « Dolly and Raffaele » forms an aural diary - a temporal and spatial maze of communication, love, and inhabiting. Part testimony, poetic sequence, annotation, and sound effect, « Dolly and Raffael...

Suisse: une phylogenèse entretien enregistré à Bienne en avril 2022 avec Roberto Biolzi  animateur: Andrea Marioni  Friederich Dürrenmatt aimait dire que la Suisse n’existe pas, pourtant elle est bien là, avec son drapeau carré, ses montres à coucou, son chocolat et ses commerces internationaux. La question serait plutôt de savoir si «les suisse·e·s existent» car ce petit pays au cœur de l’Europe...

PORCINI, Castel d'Ardona soundwork produced for Lumpen Station connexions room, june 2022 W. Porcini consists in a sonic entity unfolding throughout bodies, artefacts, architectures and emotional implications. Together with sporadical allies, the novice, the factotum and the composer regularly meet in peculiar locations to set up ambiguous performances, for ambiguous, often more than human, audien...

Talking Gazes, 23.06.22 Live recorded in Tinguely Museum Basel in the exhibition BANG BANG : translocal hi:stories of performance art. "For this first Talking Gazes broadcast, our guest had presented a personal feedback about the performances presented the 18.06.22 under the title: Emancipation from the medium. The discussion open up questions about presenting performance in Museum Tinguely, use o...

Talking Gazes, 16.06.22 Live recorded in Tinguely Museum Basel in the exhibition BANG BANG : translocal hi:stories of performance art. "For this first Talking Gazes broadcast, our guest had presented a personal feedback about the performances presented the 12.06.22 under the title SAGA. The discussion open up questions about archives, re-enactment, reception and  performances presented in institut...