Surplace Radio

Surplace Radio is a performance that takes the form of a radio programme. From a temporary studio, Michele Di Stefano takes on the role of presenter and presents a programme of new releases and ethnomusical imagery, based on *L’altro Hotel*, a recording project produced by Xing for Xong collection – artist records. The work stems from a vast collection of voice memos recorded by the artist whilst travelling around the world, like a catalogue of localised sounds, precise moments of personal experience. The creation of the album involved transforming these recordings into tracks inspired by elusive theories on non-selective listening (‘placed music’ or ‘accanto theory’) and presented in the form of a radio programme now in its fifty-fourth episode. Michele Di Stefano, the presenter, contextualises them according to the conventions of music journalism, evoking forms of non-selective listening, in which sound manifests itself alongside the listener, without necessarily capturing their attention. What emerges is a sonic geography in which distant places, landscapes and everyday situations overlap, whilst reality and fiction become intertwined.