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Show 1038: Numberstations by Lale Rodgarkia-Dara (Radio Helsinki)

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“Der akustische Schatten ist die Impulsantwort / The sonic shadow is the impulse response. “Schatten unserer selbst” – Sounding beyond the European Union.”

"Reflex Blue Series, Number 7", 2022 credit Lale Rodgarkia-Dara
“Reflex Blue Series, Number 7”, 2022 credit Lale Rodgarkia-Dara
Numberstations by Lale Rodgarkia-Dara
radia # 1038, season 54

There are two kinds of dedicated radio listeners.
Those who head for their FM Soundscape while, working, reading living and those who head for numbers and morse-code on short wave. Distracting at least one of these groups may seem like an achievable aim. While we are discussing pipeline-holes and ripped interbet-cables in the Baltic sea, the neo-rebellion in Iran and drones in circles, it had all been broadcasted beforehand.

This Radia-show is dedicated to numberstations, a way of broadcasting encrypted information via serieses of numbers or letters, using either automated voice, Morse code, or a digital mode. A methode that has been used since WW I and is still used as this signals are not sensitive to any distortion and disturbance and reach out via aether into the air and water. Foreign intelligence agenciesunder water or overseas keep on useing this practical methode of informations transportation.

Nida Live-Performance from Sept 28th 2022 was developed during a residency at the Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts and performed there.

Numberstations was re-performed at Wien Modern November 24th 2024 as part of a project of the collective Institut for Transacoustic Research (Institut für Transakustische forschung).
IFTAF: AUF DEN SPUREN DER 12
Ein transakustischer Spaziergang
https://www.wienmodern.at/2024-iftaf-auf-den-spuren-der-12-de-4262

Thanks a lot to the Nida Art Colony and its team especially Vasilisa Filatova and Egija Inzule.

Lale Rodgarkia-Dara – works as an author, radio producer and media artist.

She is part of the Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory Collective, which runs a feminist art/hacker space in Vienna, the Vienna Radia Collective (co-founder of radia.fm) and the of radia.fm) as well as co-founder of Elektronik Teatime (until 2015) and the Radio Ironie Orchestra of Radio Helsinki (2019). She somehow always invents projects with literature, media art and mostly in transitory spaces or on the radio.
Initiator and co-founder of the Palais Rössl. It is an intergenerational, polydisciplinary, queer, growing symbiotic connection of artists, musicians, designers and cultural workers in the heart of Vienna. Together with Judith Unterpertinger, she forms the duo Under the given circumstances. She is currently the strategic managing director of Radio Helsinki 92.6 – Freies Radio Graz.

In recent years, she has explored the intersection between art, science and culture in a series of socio-political and artistic projects. Since 2003 she has been holding radio workshops with young people and adults and giving lectures in formal and informal educational institutions and universities. She was artistic lecturer at the TU Vienna (SKUOR, 2013-2014), lecturer at the IEM –
Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics at the KUG in Graz (2017/2018) and at the Institute for Artistic Teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in the field of Acoustics (2018/2019, 2021/2022), since 2024 University of Applied Arts Vienna
(teaching as the collective Mz* Baltzar’s Laboratory).
Juror for the Hans Weigel Literature Scholarship 2013-2015, advisory board and juror for the the Media Art Prize of the City of Vienna 2017, advisory board Literatur&Kritik 2023-2024.

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SHOW 1037: WILL DISCUSS (KANAL 103)

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Blind date at Kanal 103.

Meet and greet, plug and play.

Deep into the pandemic, live music felt impossible. But we have Kanal 103, our little capsule in space. Two musicians, strangers until that moment, were brought together for an impromptu live session. This recording captures that initial spark and the genesis of Todor Karakolev’s Will Discuss, a project carelessly abandoned to the thrill of on-the-spot musical encounters.

Will Discuss for the occasion:
Todor Karakolev – electronics
Kristijan Savikj – guitar

Recorded live at Kanal 103 (15.11.2020) as part of the Music & Friendship series.

Will Discuss debut release is available here:
https://stotrojka.bandcamp.com/album/will-discuss

 

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Show 1036 “Light Hesitates” by Katrina Brown for Soundart Radio

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Light Hesitates is a text-voice piece and a contemplation on hesitation. [glitch, interval, this way-that way dubiousness, slight delay, sharp intake, split second gap] Hesitancy being present in the body and perhaps a useful tactic to disrupt linear progression and certainty, to notice other ways of seeing. Ideas of partial visibility and translucency (mist, tracing paper, dusk) and of navigation in relation to light (moth, dung beetle, ear) crept into the work from the periphery. The texts stem from a summer artist residency at Hospitalfields Arbroath Scotland in 2023.

As choreographer I was experimenting with writing that emerged from an immediacy of experience and of moving. I am curious how language inhabits and how the body inhabits language, how words resonate from the body and fold back into the body. How certain words organised in score-like structures become dance partners. In writing for radio, as a new way of making a choreographic work, I was working perhaps with how words are held in a voice as an extension of the body, how to bring lightness and spatiality to words spoken aloud and play with what surfaces between writing, reading, speaking, listening.

Written and performed by Katrina Brown
Additional voices Myrte Blanken and Juno Brown
Produced by Lucinda Guy for Soundart Radio

katrinabrown.net
soundartradio.org.uk

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Show 1035 “Poetics of Liberation” by Red Forest for Reboot.fm

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Poetics of Liberation and a call for nourishing pluralistic ways of being(excerpt) for radia.fm via reboot.fm

This final sonic and experiential conversation navigates the myriad
topics raised over the course of Nomadic Cosmologies and Fugitive
Power, weaving climate struggles with environmental justice and
transformative futures. This closing is also an opening and an
invitation to engage with the socio-ecological dimension of energy and
people’s resistance against the epistemic injustice that is present in
extractivism, datafication and a narrative that claims it cannot be
otherwise. It is also a call to celebrate and defend the many forms of
life that need space to flourish on their own terms. To mobilize with
the overcrossing rebellious rhythms and the ancestrality of
resistance.

With Sezgin Boynik, Alberto Torres, Giovanna Esposito Yussif and Sónia Vaz Borges, Sonic Intervention with DJ Zhao

Red Forest Radiograms – Nomadic Cosmologies and Fugitive Power were convened by Red Forest. More information,
https://www.goethe.de/ins/it/en/sta/mai/ver/tri.html#accordion_toggle_7858455_8

http://redforest.world
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Show 1034 : “Hypercabane” from Radio Campus Bruxelles

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Hypercabane is a collective project airing monthly on Radio Campus Bruxelles.
Our research explores the plastic forms of sound and radio, the potential of the voice and the distortion of reality.
Each month, we collaborate with guest artists on live experiments guided by creative protocols, challenging notions of the linearity of time and space, while travelling through a sound-designed universe with a dreamlike, retro-fantasy aesthetic.

In the manner of a cut-up, the recordings of these live broadcasts become the raw material for the editing and pasting process that we carry out alongside our work on the broadcasts themselves.
As we celebrate the third anniversary of the project, we’ve delved deep into our archives to blend our earliest and most recent shows into a brand new journey.

With the voices of :
Flavia, Maxime, Djeline, Paolo, Valentin, Jules, Eugène, Maria, Carla, Marie, Zélie, Mia, Eline, Elisa, Inès, Lilith, Ian, Orlane, Mathilde

With samples from :
Allergène – FunkyPastaBox
Irreversible Entanglements – Our Land Back
Mark Seibert – Conquests Of Camelot OST

Links :
https://www.instagram.com/hypercabane_officiel/
https://soundcloud.com/hypercabane
https://www.mixcloud.com/HYPERCABANE/stream/

Curated by Carine Demange for Radio Campus Bruxelles

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Show 1033 : Do you hear the animal locked up ? (Radio Grenouille-Euphonia)

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Do you hear the animal locked up ?

An attempt to tell one another through stories, memories, animal memories.
Autobiography on the microphone, sound effects, vocal performances and sound experiments are called to bring out the animal locked in…

Arnaud Théval : writing, artistic device
Jean-Baptiste Imbert : writing, sound recording, editing & mixing
Animal et prison, les pistes du vivant,
by Radio Grenouille et Lieux Fictifs.

The detainees who participated in this sound creation are trainees of the audiovisual training provided by Lieux Fictifs and financed by the South Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur regional council. Project developed in the framework of reintegration actions carried out in partnership with the prison administration.

Entends-tu l’animal enfermé ?

 Une tentative de se raconter, à travers des récits, des souvenirs, des mémoires animales.
Autobiographie au micro, bruitages, performances vocale et expérimentations sonores sont convoquées pour faire émerger l’animal enfermé…

Arnaud Théval : écriture, dispositif
Jean-Baptiste Imbert : écriture, prise de son, montage & mixage

Animal et prison, les pistes du vivant,
 une proposition de Radio Grenouille et Lieux Fictifs.

Les personnes détenues qui ont participé à cette création sonore sont stagiaires de la formation audiovisuelle dispensée par Lieux Fictifs et financée par le Conseil régional Sud Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
Projet développé dans le cadre des actions de réinsertion portées en partenariat avec l’administration pénitentiaire.

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Show 1032: IUrDi by Darius Čiuta (Rádio Zero)

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surround texture as text.

Radio work recorded, composed and mastered by  Darius Čiuta in Kaunas Lithuania. Further demixed redux by Paulo Raposo in Lisbon

Darius Čiuta, Lithuanian architect, sound artist, born 1966, is an artist that definitely can not be pigeonholed for the marketing
purposes of narrative and aesthetic unidirectional coherence, although if you stand between and shuffle through his work you will find a labyrinth of communicating vessels. His works  explore continuously new alphabets spectrums, building an intricate vocabulary of frequencies and densities as translations and transformations (exchange between sound and spaces). Structured architectural approaches with a clear perspective not only invites to what is beyond stritctly personal music but rather emtwines a evershifting method of researching a singular plunge into sound itself.

He self-released many cassettes in Lithuania during the 1990s under the Naj moniker, and was included in the ‘500 Lock Grooves by Artists’ LP on RRR in 1998. While Čiuta is known for his noise music during the 1990s, he turned to a very particular electro-acoustic music later on, exploring approaches to musique concrète made from found objects, radio, turntable, tapes and found sounds.

some of his recent works can be found here on Sirr label.

sirr-ecords.bandcamp.com/album/23-t-2
sirr-ecords.bandcamp.com/album/tekstai-2
sirr-ecords.bandcamp.com/album/alt-iu-kb
sirr-ecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-middle-of-1234

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Show 1031: Field Transmissions by Tuukka Kaila for OOO Radio (guest slot)

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Field Transmissions

In 2023, OOO (Out of Office) Radio visited Tuukka Kaila’s studio in Herttoniemi to hook into his set up for receiving live audio streams of terrestrial and cosmic weather events that appear as disturbances in the Earth’s electromagnetic field. The resulting natural radio waves on the VLF band (3—30 kHz) are picked up and broadcast as real-time audio streams over the internet by dedicated radio amateurs.

OOO (Out of Office) Radio is a mobile community radio station for experimental sound and curious ears, founded by James Prevett and Samantha Lippett. Based in Helsinki, it is a set of tools and internet broadcasting equipment that can be borrowed and used to broadcast remotely from any space (including outdoors using battery power).

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Show 1030: duration unknown by Sarah Washington & Knut Aufermann (Mobile Radio)

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by Mobile Radio (Sarah Washington & Knut Aufermann)

This piece concerns the uncertainties and contradictions of modern-day car use, and unfolds in the mind rather more as an unfinished philosophical journey than a physical one.
It was conceived as an antidote to the celebratory sentiment (although perhaps ironically intended) engendered in listeners by the Kraftwerk song ‘Autobahn’ – in relationship to the building of an out-of-time motorway bridge over the Mosel valley near Ürzig in Germany. The originally planned action was to detonate the record while it played on a portable turntable on the unfinished bridge, which was deemed somewhat tricky to realise.

The work was made for the show Cafe Sonore on the Dutch national radio channel VPRO in 2010, commissioned by Lukas Simonis. During a residency at WORM in Rotterdam to prepare source material, we recorded all the electronics on their wonderful array of analogue synths, which we interconnected with our own home-made instruments. We also set up radio and open-mic feedback processes in the studio. The voiceover was recorded in our home studio.

Each airing of the work is unique due to a production stunt; this version was specially produced for Radia in December 2024.

Mobile Radio

Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann began Mobile Radio on the 18th September 2005. For the first two years the project was touring Europe without a home base.
It was established as a travelling project to build upon our work across Europe in the fields of radio and sound art which had arisen during the three years that we helped to establish the London art radio station Resonance FM. Our work takes us to media and art festivals, conferences, universities, and one-off events where we run short-lived radio stations, create special live broadcasts, give workshops and talks, design radio installations and play concerts. We also make radiophonic works for public and community radios worldwide, and produce books on the topic of radio art.
Nowadays based in Germany, we continue the work of Mobile Radio with those who want to develop concepts through the medium of radio. Our mission remains the same: to seek out new forms of radio by taking radio production out of the studio environment.
https://mobile-radio.net

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SHOW 1029. FAST REWINDS. (TEAFM RADIO WORKSHOP)

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Time travel has long been a tantalizing concept in both science fiction and theoretical physics. While we often imagine time travel as a physical journey through past and future landscapes, it can also be experienced in a more abstract yet profound way—through sounds.

Sounds of the Past
The past resonates with echoes that we can sometimes recreate or reimagine. Ancient musical instruments, historical recordings, and even the ambient noise of a bygone era—such as the clatter of horse-drawn carriages or the crackle of early radios—allow us to immerse ourselves in history. Time capsules of sound, like phonographs and vinyl records, are portals to another time. Through these, we don’t just hear the past; we feel its texture and rhythm.

Imagine walking into a cathedral where Gregorian chants are sung exactly as they were centuries ago. In that moment, the separation between now and then dissolves. Similarly, technologies like audio restoration bring forgotten voices and music back to life, giving us a sensory experience of eras we’ve never lived.

Sounds of the Future
The future, by contrast, is harder to predict. What will the world sound like in 50 or 100 years? Speculative sound design in films and media offers some possibilities—mechanical drones, synthetic symphonies, and alien languages. Advances in technology might also bring us auditory experiences we can’t yet conceive, like music tailored to our emotions in real-time or soundscapes of entirely virtual worlds.

The idea of time travel through sound becomes even more fascinating when paired with concepts like acoustic archaeology or audio synthesis. Could we someday accurately recreate the voice of a long-dead figure based on historical data? Could we design sounds that represent the potential noises of a future city or a space station?

Living Between Past and Future
We live at an intersection of temporal sounds. While digitized archives allow us to dive into historical audio, modern soundscapes are already capturing this era for future generations. Every recording, from a bustling city street to a personal podcast, becomes a thread in the fabric of history.

Time travel, then, doesn’t require a machine. It requires listening—tuning into the echoes of the past and the imagined vibrations of what’s to come. Sounds are a bridge, a timeline written not in years but in waves and frequencies. What does your time sound like? What echoes will you leave behind?