Akaklaklak

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Akaklaklak is more than a radio play - it is a radio performance - it is first a radio composition... - but also a study of the creative use of modern computer technology - further it is a trip to virtual sound in space - and an attempt to develop radio's acoustic story telling - Radio Art... also performed in other spaces with visual elements - it is a performance with authors playing live with their magic instruments - cycle of 25 mixed media paintings - an folia installation with 300 pictures on windows, glass portales - 300 folia pictures … continued below

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1 sound recording (26 min., 48 sec.)

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Sirén, Pekka, 1946- & Waligórska, Agnieszka [1989..1993].

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  • Main Title: Akaklaklak
  • Series Title: MISAME

Description

Akaklaklak is more than a radio play - it is a radio performance
- it is first a radio composition...
- but also a study of the creative use of modern computer technology
- further it is a trip to virtual sound in space
- and an attempt to develop radio's acoustic story telling - Radio Art...

also performed in other spaces with visual elements

- it is a performance with authors playing live with their
magic instruments
- cycle of 25 mixed media paintings
- an folia installation with 300 pictures on windows, glass portales
- 300 folia pictures hanging in trees
- 130 pictures on cork plates
- an outside radio spectacle for a loudspeaker orchestra
- live 8-track mixing, a five floor high vertical sound sculpture
- a television documentary of authors' sound art directed by Iza Lewenstam
Main instrument: Human voice, the paragon of all instruments

Others: bird skulls, bones, wooden flutes, stones, bows, drums, bowls, hay, horns, seeds, sand, stamping tubes, rain sticks, bull-roarers, aerophones, rattlers,
didgeridoos, dance tubes, computer programmes, samplers, multitrack tape recorders.

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1 sound recording (26 min., 48 sec.)

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Mnemothèque Internationale des Arts Electroacoustiques

Sound recordings of electroacoustic music from the archive of the International de musique électroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB). The works were created in the IMEB studios or submitted by participants of the Festival Synthèse or the Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition. Access is restricted to the UNT community.

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  • [1989..1993]

Added to The UNT Digital Library

  • Nov. 17, 2019, 9:26 a.m.

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  • Feb. 9, 2024, 6:08 p.m.

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Sirén, Pekka, 1946- & Waligórska, Agnieszka. Akaklaklak, audio recording, [1989..1993]; Bourges, France. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1585859/: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Music Library.

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