viktoria rochambeau (she/her)
viktoriaweber@rochambeau.de
PLAY TIME is an experimental radio show on tīrkultūra to which I invite old, new and future friends to discuss the ideas at the core of their sound practices. Between chit-chat and intimate confessions, our thoughts drift away as time elapses.
In
ep.5 [ bus no. 53 ] I take the bus to Zolitūde. Listening to melodies of recent pasts I enter bus no. 53 with its poetic destination. What awaits me is a microdistrict that just like many others symbolised hope for a new way of life. People live side by side but concrete cracks reveal the bleak reality of failed utopias. What happens when a place becomes a state of mind becomes a way of life becomes what? The heavy weight of a doomed world doesn't stay in Zolitūde, it finds its way around the globe to confront us with one question: What makes life worth living? || 14.09.2024
ep.4 [ distance has many faces ]: AND Y [Isabella Andrea Pacher] and I use voice messages as a form of sonic lettering to grasp the physical and emotional distance between each other and within ourselves. In her mix AND Y invites us into the rigid space between herself, her harp, and its strings to show us how distance, proximity, and intimacy are constantly changing, relational sensations. While an epidemic of solitude is spreading across the globe, we are questioning how to shape relationships with one another and ourselves. How much space do we need between each other, each word, each note? || 15.06.2024
ep.3 [ shaking heads, bending spines, liberating one’s body ]: Inspired by her own pain in the face of hostile political climates, german rap‘s resistance to assimilation, and the arabic songs of her childhood, Mona Khaled‘s [Mona Abdel Baky] mixes become moving yet danceable artefacts of time. It‘s these moments of communities coming together into seemingly unorganised, liberating choreographies of shaking heads, bending spines and moving bodies that Mona accompanies with their sonic practice. For this session she curated a special mix that together with the interview explores how sounds of one’s past can become the soundtrack of tomorrow. || 18.05.2024
ep.2 [ moving on ] is a sonic reflection of leaving my long-term companion Vienna. With its honeymoon phase, its turbulences, its everlasting romance, our relationship ended in the hurtful breakup a first love deserves. The session showcases this journey of departure through field recordings, songs that still echo in my heart, and the insatiable quest for answers not to be found. What does it mean to leave a city that will never leave you? Arriving in frosty Riga, this place has warmed my soul, caressed my heartache, and despite all I am confronted by one question. Will I ever be able to move on? || 20.04.2024
ep.1 [ Bleach ]: Na, Ša. [ Matas Sergijus Šatūnas ] and me meet in his studio apartment in Vilnius after both recently having left Vienna to sip on semi-sweet cherry wine. Between half smoked cigarettes, the clicking of the lighter separates our conversation as we discuss a
comeback of vaporwave, nostalgia for the unfamiliar and bleach as not merely an aesthetical choice but the longing for an absence of color. Our talks are contextualised by two mixes by Na, Ša. that showcase the music we listened to as well as Na, Ša.‘s own tracks. || 16.03.2024
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