Julia Drouhin

Inspired by 100-year-old Edison wax cylinder recordings, SWEET TRIBOLOGY is an international radio art project with 40 women from 10 countries who make chocolate records to be listened to and eaten during radiophonic picnics in Europe and Australia where listeners will bring their radios. Each event will invite the listener to be immersed in various soundscapes through radio speakers, while eating the music printed on chocolate records.

I'm Julia Drouhin, guest curator for LABoral, art center in Spain, where I will present the first event of SWEET TRIBOLOGY the 15th of August 2015. This ephemeral event is part of Spectrum (LABoratorio de sonido FM radio). Listeners are welcome to bring their own radios in situ. Other choco radio picnics are planning in Australia and Europe for 2015 - 2016.

I thank YOU very much for giving what YOU can to contribute to pay the artists, produce the vynil and chocolate records and organize radiophonic picnics. I REALLY LOVE both CHOCOLATE & MUSIC. Don't you?

Sweet Tribology was on national ABC TV news and 2 ABC radios (Melbourne&Hobart).

Tribology is the science of 'friction of interacting surfaces in relative motion'.

SWEET TRIBOLOGY explore frictions between
hard & soft,
art & archive,
past & present,
audio & visual,
original & copy,
inside & outside,
ears & guts
dead air & live music.

SWEET TRIBOLOGY is a collective response to the fading beauty of forgotten memories,  de/re-generation, and sharing music in public space.

SWEET TRIBOLOGY is a radio picnic with edible chocolate records inspired by wax cylinders.

Ancestors of the flat Bakelite record, Wax cylinders melt as chocolate.
As the diamond reaches the surface, the sculpted sound is erased.
The more you play the soft recording, the less you hear the original and instead, hear the other sounds all around.

40 women digested ghostly voices from the past.

Artists from 10 countries were invited by Julia Drouhin, guest curator for LABoral (Spectrum - LABoratorio de sonido FM radio and L.E.V.) in 2015, to interpret a custom minute sample of popular music played on wax cylinders recorded at SPAT (Sound Preservation Association of Tasmania).

I've invited international artists who inspire me to respond to a minute sample of popular music played from wax cylinders that I've recorded at SPAT (Sound Preservation Association of Tasmania) in Bellerive, Tasmania. Those cylinders are the ancestors of the flat vynil record. They are very fragile and melt as chocolate. I then associated the samples with each artists. Their responses will be printed on 7" picture discs that I will transform into 7" chocolate records.

This is how 1 wax cylinder plays popular music from a hundred years ago:

RADIO PICNIC

A local radio broadcast the new soundtracks from 7" picture discs in a radiophonic picnic where the chocolate copies can be played and eaten. Listeners are welcome to bring their radios.

ARTISTS
Camille Antoine, Felicia Atkinson, Frieda Beukenkamp, Dinah Bird, Maya Boquet, Emma Bugg, Tania Buisse, Andrea Cohen, Lou Conboy, Selena De Carvalho, Kate Geck, Emmanuelle Gibello, Rosalind Hall, Hanna Hartman, Carola Haupt, Julie Honoré, Cat Hope, Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, Zoe Irvine, Coraline Janvier, Shannon Johnson, Anne Laplantine, Sally Ann McIntyre, Mish Meijers, Miss Despoinas, Rosa Menkman, Maria Papadomanolaki, Edith Perrenot, Nadège Philippe-Janon, Sally Rees, Eve Risser, Elissa Ritson, Anne-Laure Robin, Sabio Design, Pip Stafford, Rachel Tribout, Maia Urstad, Valérie Vivancos, Tricky Walsh, Sarah Washington.

I'm a French artist and curator living at one end of the earth in the bush of Tasmania in Australia.

I've  created this sweet project for LABoral, but I want this radiophonic women event to travel the world.