Svetlana Maraš


Phonart is a cultural network project, which was launched in 2010 and will continue until the end of April 2012. The network is part-financed by the EU Culture fund. 
More info at www.phonart.eu

Phonart Live Radio
(performance, improvisation)
live from Belgrade, Prague, Pula and Vienna

The programme consists of live stream signals from each of the partner countries. Four different versions of the same piece will be broadcast in realtime in the four cities, and in the internet, using the the radio as a communicative cultural platform and broadcasting medium beyond borders.

The partners involved are Enterprise Z from Austria, RingRing Festival from Belgrade, and mamapapa from Prague. The Croatian partners, Mani D.O.O., are based in Istria and are responsible for the radio piece Phonart Radio Network.

The Phonart Live Radio in Belgrade has been created, developed and recorded by Svetlana Maras with Ring Ring All Stars team and sounds by: Lila Cona, Svetlana Spajic, Luka Toyboy, Blank Disc Trio with Nenad Markovic, WoO and Svetlana Maras
Live radio mix: Svetlana Maras and Lukatoyboy at Radio Belgrade 3
Co-ordination and support Ksenija Stevanovic and Bojan Djordjevic

Poetica micro mix 
(micro cut-ups from sound poetry, vocal improvisations and compositions)

The Lost Languages of Europe is a part of the Phonart project dedicated to Ring Ring Festival of New Music which takes place in Belgrade, annually. The programme was a radio mix played at Kunstradio on April 17th, and it consisted of pieces by various artists who were dealing in different musical ways, with the idea of lost languages. Commissioned for this programme was my piece "Poetica micro-mix", which explores musicality of human voice by using the smallest fragments of existing recordings (micro cut-ups) from the capital works of sound poetry, contemporary music and vocal improvisation genres. Find more info about this piece here.


"The network project PhonArt dedicates its appearance at Belgrade’s Ring Ring Festival 2011 to a vanishing language: Aromanian is spoken by an ethnic minority living in the Balkan region, Greece and Romania. Artists from Croatia, Austria, Serbia and the Czech Republic team up for performances dealing with the lost language. Kunstradio presents a radio mix of the spoken word and sound performances from Belgrade."

http://www.kunstradio.at/2011A/17_04_11en.html
 
Kunstradio broadcast:
  • 1) "poetica_micromix" by Svetlana Maras
  • 2) live studio performance by Luka Toyboy and WoO: "Luka and WoO growing up with Ring Ring"
  • 3) song by Svetlana Spajic and Sainkho Namchylak
  • 4) Luka and WoO “Audio Comments”
  • 5) reading from the text "Who are Aromanians" followed by the poem read in Aromani by Lila Cona
  • 6) Luka and Woo interlude
  • 7) Aromani choir Gramosteanj
  • 8) Luka and WoO “Going PhonArt”
  • 9) final piece by Zahra Mani, Luka Toyboy and WoO