Radio Concrete #55 - Ilan Barkani

Radio Concrete by Hagai Izenberg is a monthly experimental radio show which deals with live mixing and processing of field recordings together with radio broadcasting and concrete sounds. Fresh raw materials including everyday sounds, samples from tv & radio, news editions and advertisements are all gathered on a regular basis and then mixed together with live sources (FM and AM stations and other live online streaming sources) and objects (such as amplified/hacked toys).

Ilan Barkani is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, improviser and teacher, living and working in Jerusalem, a founding member of the artist collective Sedek, and a member of the interdisciplinary collaborative ensemble Ptilia.

"A geography of sound [...] is the geography of encounters, misses, happenstance and events: invisible trajectories and configurations between people and things, unfolding in the dimension of the actual while formlessly forming the dimensions of its possibility" – Salomé Voegelin, The Political Possibility of Sound

In this piece, called halls (joining), Barkani continues his exploration of combining field recordings and minimal/reductionist instrumentals, to compose and perform imagined, semi-coincidental, (what Voegelin calls) “impossible territories”.