RADIOPHONIC MONDAYS mit ROBIN MINARD (CA/DE)

RADIOPHONIC MONDAYS MIT ROBIN MINARD (CA/DE)

On every even hour
Kayapó – The Crying Chieftain Raoni
Featuring an introductory interview conducted by Katharina Rosenberger with artist Robin Minard

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On every uneven hour

The Qikiqtaaluk Deep Map
Featuring an introductory interview conducted by Katharina Rosenberger with artist Robin Minard

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Kayapó – The Crying Chieftain Raoni (49’00)

In the spring of 2018, Robin Minard traveled to Brazil, where he participated in the week-long “Acampamento Terra Livre” (ATL) indigenous protests in Brasilia and then visited the Amazon rainforest north of Manaus. During the protests in Brasilia, Minard interviewed indigenous people, recorded their songs and stories, and documented their protests against the Brazilian government’s policies. These policies are causing the destruction of traditional indigenous lands and the extinction of indigenous people. Since the completion of the radio composition in 2019, the Covid crisis has only deepened the suffering of indigenous people in Brazil.

After the 2018 ATL protests, Minard traveled to the rainforest near Manaus to experience the beauty of the forest firsthand. With the help of a local guide, he spent a week collecting acoustic documentation. His field recordings paint vivid pictures of the forest: the sound of the sunrise from the depths of the rainforest, flocks of canaries gathering at sunset, spider monkeys, howler monkeys, bird calls, distant storms, gentle rain.

The work interweaves field recordings with indigenous voices and stories, as well as lists of murders committed against indigenous peoples for reasons of prejudice, greed and politics. The work paints a tragic picture of Brazil’s indigenous people and their struggle for survival.

“Kayapó – The Crying Chieftain Raoni” was commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur Berlin and WDR3 Cologne and was first broadcast in May 2019. The work was a finalist in the Field Recording category of the Phonurgia Nova Awards (Paris 2019) and has since received several broadcasts in Europe. In 2021, Brazilian sound and radio artist Janete El Haouli collaborated with Robin Minard to create a Portuguese version of the work that was widely broadcast on radio and Internet within Brazil. The work is dedicated to the Kayapó and Guarani people of the Amazon rainforest and the Kayapó leader Raoni Metuktire.

The Qikiqtaaluk Deep Map (49’00)

"Qikiqtaaluk" is what the Inuit call Baffin Island, a large island situated directly across from Greenland in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Robin Minard traveled there in the winter of 2012/2013 to search for traces of traditional Inuit culture. In and around the iced-in city of Iqaluit, Minard recorded a great variety of sounds. In “The Qikiqtaaluk Deep Map”, recordings of noise and silence, of acoustic cityscapes and baren frozen landscapes are intertwined with traditional Inuit throat singing and fragments of interviews with native people. ”The Inuit are traditionally a very patient people," says an Inuk from Iqaluit. "Therefore, they will have the patience to weave the old and the new into a modern way of life.”

“The Qikiqtaaluk Deep Map” was commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur Berlin and WDR3 Cologne and was first broadcast in January 2014.

Photo Credit: Robin Minard, recording near Iqaluit for The Qikiqtaaluk Deep Map. Photographed by S. Minard