Intimate Space
Andrea Sodomka, 2009
Intimate Space
The poetry of transmission
duration: 35'30"
Definition: Intimate Space is the area around a human body, about an arm's length, in which one is comfortable with loved ones and close friends
A story about distance, communication and intimacy.
Radioart today appears in numerous, hybrid forms: sound installations, mobile phone-performances, Mini-FM-transmitter-installations, satellite-concerts, internetradio-pieces, podcasts....
Radiopieces are projected into so many different environments: your home, garden, car, trains,... Many of them into mobile situations.
When I´m listening to podcasts on my iPod, transmitted by a minimal distance transmitter in my car, it doesn't matter where I am, or when I'm listening. Radio creates a mapping between time and space, transforming an acoustical geometry into a spatial geometry.
In this extended transmission-space I use radio like an instrument:
A transmitter might be triggered by a guitar, or a telephone call, or a robot- voice from my netbook.
Intimate spaces and public realms are connected via mobile sound communication devices.
My home is where my communication tools are.
Intimate Space
radio installation for Mini-FM-Transmitters
alien productions (Andrea Sodomka, Norbert Math), 2009
Hear performance of this work.
Voice: August Black
Accordion: Heidelinde Gratzl
Electric Guitar: Helmut Jasbar
with a sound-donation by Daniel Lercher
Sound Engineer: Anton Reininger