Oscillation Bulletin ::: Episode 8 – It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon

Dear endurance listeners,

The Oscillation diehards are feeling it this morning, five days is a lot of festival. Jana Rush’s footwork acrobatism, Valentina Vuksic’s stress procedure glitches, Sandar Tun Tun’s proper misuse of cdj’s, Ji Youn Kang’s cross-wired xylophone noise outbursts and Franziska Windisch’s fascinating formal insights got us perplexed once [removed];

To keep the fire burning right to the end, we asked four Oscillation veterans to give us their tips , the results of which you can read below, as well as the announcement of the winner of the first Oscillation ‘works on paper’ [removed];But, there is of course only one true way to cure the upcoming post-Oscillation blues: come to the beautiful B********** A***S (every performance is taking place in a different space), where there’s food (moussaka and petit sandwiches for €7 – bring cash!), an incredible patio, and our program starting at 15:00 :::

Today’s timetable:

15:00: Conversation #3 w/ Liew Niyomkarn, Jonáš Gruska, Pak Yan Lau. Moderated by Natasha Pirard: 
16:00: Emilie Škrijelj & Tom Malmendier: The duo presents Presque île, a small autonomous shape that casts a unique, sensitive and poetic artistic look on a territory. Snare drum, objects, small accordions and mouth organ mingle with a near and far natural soundscape.
17:00: Nika Son: Scatter is a multi-channel sound performance with video, objects, and light. In her work, Nika Son observes the realms of sleeplessness (insomnia), flickering between fatigue, restlessness and yearning.
18:30: Tetsuya Umeda: For Oscillation, Umeda will make a cylindrical sound sculpture from ordinary objects like tins, nets, stove, and rice. The sculpture’s unexpected sounds and simple processes are influenced by the idea of “Narikama”, an ancient Japanese ritual performed for 500 years.
19:30: Jonáš Gruska: A performance exploring generative, algorithmic, or chaotic patterns, speaker choreography, psychoacoustic effects and ultrasonic parametric speakers via a custom built sound reproducing tower. A world premiere, with an instrument constructed specifically for this occasion.

•´¯`•» Festival tips from Oscillation veterans «•´¯`•

Tip 1: Each night when you get home from Oscillation, seperate two eggs, cure them in a bath of soy sauce and mirin and eat them uncooked next with a bowl of short grain rice. (Note from the editor: Yuck!)

Tip 2: Pace your hangouts. Spend no more than 2 jetons between concerts and focus on only one conversation. Misantropy is the father of stamina.

Tip 3: Sleep? Keep it to a minimum. Early night? No, stay for the footwork moves. Afternoon nap? Never – be on time for the [removed]; A body fed with content will never tire.

Tip 4: Pack your sunglasses. You’ll look ‘cool’, and you unlock the option of having clandestine naps during sets.

𝐎𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 ‘𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫’ 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

Thanks for all the submissions for our inaugural ‘works on paper’ [removed];There were many amazing submissions, but there can only be one winner: Vanessa de Michelis’s rendering of Bojana Cvejić Listening, transindividually talk. Our esteemed jury has this to say about her work:

“With its elegant line drawing, reminiscent of Jean Cocteau or early Warhol, this drawing perfectly captures the approachable but impassioned topic of Bojana’s talk, envisioning the universal in the mundane. The inclusion of the collage element of the conference ticket boldly ruptures the pictorial space with an infusing of the real. The drawing poses the provocation that the negative space of the image might be a space of political [removed]#8221;