Radio Approxim
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The music institute Radio Approxim is a response to experiences with improvised jazz. Hence the warning as the caption of each sound from this company: Probably Not Your Kind Of Jazz. This is evident in the approach of the musicians who take a more intellectual, not danceable and less commercial attitude to the traditional audience. Approxim stays away from traditional ideas and techniques, but elicits like unconventional sounds of traditional musical instruments and household appliances, neither are the musicians impeded by any knowledge. The members of Approxim are also founders of the new platform experimental music, the organization behind the PNEM Sound Art Festival.
Recently Radio Approxim took part in a series of international radio projects in the Portuguese capital Lisbon, in cooperation with the Lisbon Architecture Triennial. To this end they made an ‘audio portrait’ of their hometown Uden, in which the atmosphere and space with sounds of their city was mapped. At first, a base tape was made from a 20-minute journey through the landscape of Uden, which was recorded as a single track. Afterwards more layers with local sounds were recorded and mixed to the final audio portrait, named ‘Next Stop’. The premiere of the piece was played in Lisbon, during the Architecture Triennial and simultaneously worldwide via Radio Stress.fm. During the festival you can not only hear the soundtrack, but also view the video that was made during the rough journey around Uden.
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