WORD UP?! - 03./04.10. @ Acker Stadt Palast

Featuring: Sookee & Infinite Livez
With: Miako Klein, Shasta Ellenbogen, Rui Faustino
Devised, produced and arranged by: Ferdinand Breil, Laura Mello, Nicolas Wiese
WORD UP?! on Facebook
 
  Word Up ?! / Teaser from Mariella & Olgadie on Vimeo.

Living Radio - live Audio Guide Intervention - August 8 @ Museumsquartier Vienna

Foto: Laura Mello / Grafik: Frank Paul

Voices in the radio spot: Christoph Theussl, Fernanda Farah, Pawel Kaminski

LIVING RADIO IN MUSEUMSQUARTIER VIENNA - TONSPUR 66

TONSPUR für einen öffentlichen raum 2015

3-part Live-Audio-Guide-Intervention and Live-Radio Show

On August 8 turn on your radio on Orange 94.00 FM (in Vienna) or your internet device on http://o94.at/ and be a part of Living Radio.

Two actors investigate the area in Museumsquartier – Vienna, and speak their 
observations, impressions, fantasies into wireless microphones. The material from this live Audio Guide will be combined live with sound composed by Laura Mello (Artist-in-Residence in Quartier 21 curated by Tonspur) and broadcasted live on Orange 94.0 (http://o94.at) within the radio series from the viennese Radia collective. You can listen to it on spot using your smartphone with VHF radio or worldwide via internet radio.

Schedule on August 08 (click to listen to the full recording):

16:00 –16:30 (GMT +2) Part 1

17:30 –18:30 (GMT +2) Part 2

21:00 –22:00 (GMT +2) Part 3

How to participate:

LISTEN LIVE on ORANGE 94.0

 


Livestream: http://o94.at

o94 Radio-App: http://app.o94.at

Radio UKW: 94.0 Mhz - in Wien
Telekabel: 92.7 Mhz - in Wien

 







SAY “HERE”, “NOW” or "CHANGE"

Come to Museumsquartier on August 8 at the times listed above, look for the microphone, say the words “here”, “now” or "change" (in any language), and your voice may be integrated in the installation

Concept, Composition: Laura Mello
Actors: Roberta Cortese, Christoph Theußl
Sound direction: Wolfgang Musil
Organisation: Tonspur / Georg Weckwerth
Realisation: Orange 94.0
Partner: Ö1 Kunstradio, Radia

In its autopoietic intention, between real and staged life, accepting what is there through the filters of our actual condition, multiplied by our gained culture multiplied by the actual circumstances.

It may open space for individual spontaneous observations. For different kinds of expressions, different media: sounds and words in different accents or dialects.

The medium is the message and not invisible at all. It is as invisible as the illusion of your bodies, which we may be able to perceive, but still can hardly express in words.

Von Zügen Ziehen

I´ve just posted my last piece Von Zügen ziehen for the project Personal Soundscapes from

ORF Musikprotokoll im steirischen Herbst 2013.

About "Von Zügen ziehen":

8´00 stereo Soundscapes inside and outside trains and train stations in Germany. Train sounds are themselves the source for compositional impulses. The verb "Ziehen" as an idea of "extending", "stretching" the soundspace we live in. 

As it happens when one travels regularly by train: it becomes an extension, a stretch between two or more places one lives. Either sitting on a couch (sharing a cabin or even alone), working at a desk or laying on a bed, trains are small transportable rooms that extend our owns. Radio premiere: ORF, 28.10.2012

Kafkeywordeska - Kafka and the german language in the beginning of the 19th century

Grafik©Judith Keller

Kafkeywordeska is my piece based on Kafka´s book "Letter to his father" or later "Dearest father" (2008 translation by Hannah and Richard Stokes). Kafka wrote the letter in 1919, and in 2012, almost 100 years later, a group of five composers (Sarah Nemtsov, Rom Rojo Poller, Laura Mello, Arne Sanders and Sebastian Ellikowski-Winkler), together with director Lotte Greschik and dramatic adviser Mauricio Veloso, staged Kafkaskop,

Geschichte des Wartens im Schwarzen Kanal Aug 2011

Geschichte des Wartens:

Installation nach der Ausstellung Gudrun Schlemmers
@ Quear Audio Festival
5.-7.08.11 im Schwarzen Kanal
Vertont von Laura Mello
Mit den Stimmen von
Anne Kohl
Anna Tob
Christiane Marx
Oliver Kube

Invitation to touch - with Rachel Brooker & Anima Dance

Invitation at Dock 11 from Rachel Brooker on Vimeo     Invitation to touch was a performative and interactive installation directed by Rachel Brooker for which I had the pleasure to make the music.

Living Radio @ UniT - UdK Berlin

  Living Radio from Laura Mello on Vimeo.


Am 09.02.08
in der Langen Musiktheaternacht
Uni.T UdK Fasanenstrasse 1B
18:00 Eintrit 4€ ermäßigt 2€

Eine Live Übetragung aus der nahegelegenen Umgebung
Für 2 kabellos verstärke Sprecher, Zuspiel und Live Elektronik.

In dieser Sendung wird kein Thema diskutiert, keine vorproduzierten Aussagen gefällt: Alles, was erzählt wird, ergibt sich echtzeit... Oder auch nicht.
Die Sendung wird von keinem herkömmlichen Radioteam produziert, hier sind Menschen nicht wichtiger als das technische Equipment. Sie sind wie defekte Filtergeräte, die durch ihren eigenen unkontrollierbaren Parameter die Wirklichkeit durchlassen.

Toilet Templates

Installation

An itinerant installation uses WCs as platforms for exchanges amongst cultures. The walls are covered with transparent plastic sheets, pencils and materials are hanging on the wall, which toilet users can use to write their thoughts. A monitor somewhere in the room shows a video from the written wall of the last site where the installation was. After the site has been visited and "used", I post-produce a video rewriting the best thoughts and record my act of writing, the sound of the pencil on the material, sometimes also the human voice. Thus, the video shown in the toilet will "grow" after each new site, serving as the so-called Template. For the next installation, the video will report the previous installation, using the messages as sources for new video and audio material, and so on. In the very first installation, the video was made of transparent squares, used as a template for writing chinese characters, because I hope one day to finish this installation in China.  Going into the WC installation, people from different countries and cultures can experience intimate thoughts about each other. After the installation reaches the final station in China, a video will display all of the videos at the same time on a big screen.
This installation is open for any kinds of thoughts, and reflects environments as they are. Nevertheless, I do not have the intention to spread any critical content like racism, sexism, fundamentalism or any "ism" that leads to any kind of violence.

The template video for the first installation:



Sites:
1. Ladyfest Fringe @ Studiobühne Ritterstrasse Berlin