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RADIO ART PROJECT SINCE 1993

LISTEN LIVE RADIO NOW:

LISTEN BORGBOT

LISTEN TRIBOT - OFF

LISTEN RADIOACT

LISTEN TRANZION RADIO

History:

-1993 to 1995: radio shows at libre radio Beton (Tours)

-1996 to 2001: radio shows and radio experimentations (radio art) at JetFm and Alternantes

-2002 to 2006 : Radio interventions in different projects with Cellule d'Intervention d'Apo33

-2006 to 2018 : numbers of performances / compositions / installations for radio (web, airwaves, pirate, free, libre, hacked…)

Selected works:

B.A.R.G. - Brouillge Anti-Radio Group (2015 - 2018)

pirate radio, brouillage and multiple transmissions live on air waves and streaming

INTERNATIONAL RADIOBOT PROGRAM - JULIEN OTTAVI / APO33 (2011)

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MANIFESTO ONE :

RADIO IS THE MEDIUM

RADIO IS A SCORE

TRANSMISSION IS THE INSTRUMENT

RECEIVERS ARE THE AGENTS

RADIOBOT BRING LOST DISRUPTION IN THE WAVES

RADIOBOT TRANSPORT TIME OUTSIDE TIME

RADIOBOT IS TRYING TO BE AUTONOMOUS

RADIOBOT BELONG TO RADIOBOT

RADIOBOT IS LIBRE

RADIO IS COPYLEFT

RADIOBOT OBJECTIVES ARE :

-HACK YOUR EARS

-DEHUMANIZE THE AIRWAVES

-FREE YOUR RADIO

-MUST DISPEAR WITHIN RADIO FAILURE

SCORE TO PLAY RADIOBOT :

PLAYERS :

MINIMUM REQUIREMENT TO START YOUR BOT IS COMPUTER / GNULINUX / PUREDATA / VNCVIEWER MIXER / MICROPHONES / CONTACT MIC INTERNET

CREATE AUTOMATION SYSTEM OR ASK FOR PRE-PROGRAMED PATCH

CREATE AN AUDIOZONE AS A SOUNDTRAP OR AS FEEDBACK SPIRAL

CONNECT A STREAM AS MINIMUM 128Kb/s TO APO33 STREAMING SERVER, TRANSMITTING THE OUTPUT OF YOUR AUTOMATION PATCH

USERS :

THE AUDIENCE COULD ALSO BE INVOLVED AS USERS

TO BE USERS, YOU WILL NEED A COMPUTER, INTERNET CONNECTION AND A RADIO RECEIVER

DOWNLOAD PROGRAM TO PLAY RADIO

FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS

PLAY THE PROGRAM

LISTEN THE COMBINATION

RADIO NOISE INTERFERENCES COLLECTIVE - JULIEN OTTAVI (2010)

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Based on radio hacking devices, Radio Noise Interferences Collective extracts the essence of radio waves through unexpected revelations of their micro-activities. The combination of electricity and electromagnetic resonances, through the interaction of bodies and machinic connections, reveals the invisible fluidity within a noise-cloud. The participant/performers are picked at random at the beginning of the Live Performance. The Performers are asked to interpret a noise-cloud, all acting as a modulation of the same organism, decoding and recoding the universe in one movement. Detuning the radio frequency, playing with the fundamental lights of our life, interlayering of world sounds and using flesh to connect to an alternate sound world.

score / direction for the performers :

1- Get a hacked radio device

2- Produce some radio interferences within the cloud of noise

3- Think of your body before sound

4- Play like you are the movement of radio waves

RADIO TRANSARCHITECTURE - JULIEN OTTAVI RADIO ART RESEARCH (2007 - 2009)

principle : transform the street of the gallery into a radio transmission spiral. Every shops and every part of this ancient gallery & bookshop street mutate into radio waves generators, the people passing through became interferences to finally change resonant property of the transmissions.

performance / action (every 30min): walking in the streets performers called a number transfered to the radio transmitter. While the performers tell what going around them, eventually broadcast sounds from where they are, a program transform and mix the ensemble to be sent back to the street through radio waves.

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Radio art installation - Arc & Senan/FR - 2008

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Behind the scene, radio transmitters and receivers are playing together in a radio feedback system modulated by the hyper surveillance architecture. The main principle of this installation was to reverse the panopticum situation (half circle centered surveillance) through airwaves and feedback changing the perspective of the viewer / listener moving around and escaping the surveillance, the frequencies generated are impossible to control in this sense.

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N:Q - Nantes Radiophonic Quartet - (2006 - 2010)

Keith Rowe (radios & electronics) Manu Leduc (radios & electronics) Julien Ottavi (radios & electronics) Will Guthrie (radios & electronics)

The radio. Its possibilities and extensions. This is what (N:Q) explores: the use of the radio and its meanings. An electroacoustic ensemble, perpetually in movement, forging a soundworld of its own. Like airwaves transformed into music transformed into airwaves.

MOBILE RADIOPHONIQUE DEVICE - CIA/APO33 (2001 - 2006)

Radio action in combination with webradio transmission

Radio art action - Sound Camping / Radio performance and transmission Alpes - 2005

Radio art action - between New York City & Paris - 2005

Radio action come & back forward from Paris to NYC & vice versa (street action with radio receivers)

NYC

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Paris

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Radio art action - Espace Bourogne - 2004

the studio in the tent / radio & threes

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Radio art action - Malakoff Garden - 2002

transmitters & receivers

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Live radio performance - Balinière Rezé 2001 (only airwaves)

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DigitalLiveRadioSession - DLRS - (2001 - 2003)

with Manu Leduc, John Morin and Christophe Havard

Christophe Havard (radio, tape, motors, contact microphones, mini-disc), Emmanuel Leduc (no input mixing board, radios feedback, sampler), John Morin (turntables, sampler), and Julien Ottavi (laptop, radios, electronics) met in February 2001 for an improvised set of electronic music. The result is “DigitalLiveRadioSession?”, a title that refers, not to a live broadcast over digital radio, but to the instruments used. With two radios and the vocals and other such samples emitted from turntables and tape player, an overall atmosphere of information and media permeates through the static. Tinny, noisy tones, rather than severe, sub-frequency glitches, consume the majority of the session.

JULIEN OTTAVI - RADIO PIECES - 1996 - MADE FOR RADIO WITH FOUND OBJECTS, TURNTABLES, RADIOS...ETC

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