Radio Hito

Days and nights, living in the clarity of mind and voice: Radio Hito’s compositions get stripped down to the bare elements while still retaining the solemn power of truth. The words of others gain meaning of their own through a contemplatively personal rendition whose simplicity manages to brim with endless poetic possibility. With Radio Hito, Zen My Nguyen has spent the last two years adapting a poem by Claude Royet-Journoud, "L’usage et les attributs du cœur". A ten-sequences song cycle for soundfonts and voice, and an Italian libretto which had evolved over the course of about 80 concerts, from Galicia to Kazakhstan, before finding its recorded form. Her project is experiential and based on principles of economy of performance, simple words, forms and contexts; if poetry is a ‘profession of ignorance’ according to Claude Royet-Journoud, then Radio Hito would gladly be a hobby that strives to know. On stage, the project was adapted for prepared piano, electric keyboard, FM radios, church organs, Philicorda, and visuals in Europe and Asia, featuring on special occasions: Suzan Peeters, Able Noise's Alex Andropoulos, Arthur Chambry, David Bennewith and Omar Cheikh, Fera, Adrián de Alfonso and Lieven Dousselaere.