art’s birthday 2005-2010

release date : 2010

label : ebu / ars acoustica

“Art’s Birthday” is an annual event first proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou. He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on the 17th of January to be precise, Art was born. According to Filliou, it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Modest beginnings, but look at us now. Filliou proposed a public holiday to celebrate the presence of art in our lives. In recent years, the idea has been taken up by a loose network of artists and friends around the world. Each year the Eternal Network evolves to include new partners - working with the ideas of exchange and telecommunications-art. Artists have celebrated Art’s Birthday with lavish parties and gatherings, correspondence and mailart, and through Telematic networks using SloScan TV, Videophones, music composed for telephone lines, modem-to-modem MIDI connections, early bulletin board and chat systems, and (starting in the mid 1990’s) the Internet.

In January 2010, David Fenech, Jac Berrocal and Ghédalia Tazartès played live from “La Maison de la Radio” in Paris. This recording was selected for the French contribution for a compilation of a selection of best moments from the “art’s birthday events” between 2005 and 2010.

Tracklisting :

CD1 :

01. ward weis - a letter by letter reading of robert filliou’s whispered art history

02. marc weiser - wär ich doch in düsseldorf geblieben

03. norbert math with daniel lercher - the great highlander jubilee

04. ghedalia tazartes, jac berrocal, david fenech - quando

05. karl-heinz blomann, richard ortmann - sometimes pumpstation

06. arsenije jovanovic - birthday collage, selected fragments from arts birthday contributions

07. martin jezek - sound performance based on milan grygar’s graphic scores

08. olesya rostovskaya - shine

CD2:

01. radboud mens - drone

02. olesya rostovskaya - music of breath

03. leopoldo amigo, miguel molina - dudadadá

04. ivan marusic klif, ivana ivkovic - in the place where we are, still looking for some relation

05. jérôme joy, dinahbird, caroline bouissou, björn eriksson, kaffe matthews, emmanuelle gibello - sobralasolas! a parasite radiopera

06. robert rudolf and the joystick radio melody orchestra - dans la petite maison sous les chutes

07. jaap blonk, martin brandlmayr, werner dafeldecker, markus popp, matthias schubert - redesigning the future … remix

08. stephie büttrich, anne wellmer - if i could i had but i can’t so i didn’t …live sound 0for a radio cartoon