Show 1063: Brouillon Jardin, Jardin Brouillon by Sophie Courge-Pinna for Jet fm.

Jardin Brouillon est un pièce-recueil d’un temps passé à arpenter les jardins, à tourner
autour des pots, à les dessiner ; inventer son jardin-croquis, le planifier pour l’explorer.
Ajouter un élément un par un, minutieusement fabriquer son paysage. L’autrice nous fait
découvrir ce qui l’obsède dans son jardin secret : les petits être qui l’habitent, les mondes
cachées sous les feuilles. Ballade musicale, improvisations, poèmes et journaux sonores.

Sketchbook Garden is a sound-collection spent wandering through gardens, drawing them;
inventing your sketch-garden, planning it to explore it. Adding elements one by one,
meticulously crafting your landscape. The author lets us discover what obsesses her in her
secret garden: the little beings that inhabit it, the worlds hidden beneath the leaves.
Musical ballad, improvisations, poems and audio journals.

Sophie Courge-Pinna est autrice sonore, poétesse et dessinatrice. Son univers artistique est
peuplé de créatures étranges, qui poussent ou rampent dans des paysages lointains.
Puisant sa force dans la fiction et le fantastique, elle n’hésite pas à brouiller les réalités
dans ses créations, à laisser parler les voix du merveilleux ou de l’inquiétant. Ses œuvres
sont des micro-histoires, des temps d’immersion dans des univers sans codes et
profondément rebelles

 

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Show 1060: “In the waiting room” by Kyriakos Plsds (Kanal 103)

“In the Waiting Room” is a sound performance first presented at To Pikap record store in Thessaloniki, Greece, as part of the art exhibition Empty Chairs, which took place in April, 2025.

The piece draws inspiration from Giannis Skarimpas short story “Three Empty Chairs” – a ghost tale that subtly shifts between the comic and the uncanny. In this work, Skarimpas’ peculiar language is stripped away to be reassembled through sound, a world of scattered fragments, stray echoes, and uncertain sequences – what is said and what remains unsaid.

Kyriakos Plsds: composition and digital programming, electroacoustic guitar, field recordings, vocals

Eleonora Siarava: voice
Recorded and mixed by Kyriakos Plsds
Mastered by Christos Megan

The integral version is available here:

https://kyriakosplsds.bandcamp.com/

Kyriakos Plsds is a musician who moves across a broad spectrum of sonic landscapes. His practice drifts between folk-inspired songwriting and experimental fields. He has released many albums and performed live with bands such as Minor Mine, As Never Before, Next & Patient, My Last Spring, The Coal Heart and Πειραματική Ορχήστρα Ασυμφωνίας.

show 1059: Rumbling for Peace (Soundart Radio)


8th May 2025 was marked in the UK as the 80th Anniversary of VE Day–“Victory in Europe”. The plan was to meet that evening at the Soundart Radio studio, and make some noise on behalf of the cause of peace everywhere. As we gathered to cook and eat together beforehand, we accidentally set off the fire alarms and disrupted the peace for everyone around. This set the tone for the improvisation that followed. Featuring Hessel Veldman, Nicole van der Veen, Sam Richards, Phil Harrison, Kerry Priest, Shelly and Otto Love, Lucinda Guy, Chris Booth and probably some others. Produced by Hessel Veldman for Soundart Radio.

Show 1058: Live at TMAG / Sisters Akousmatica (R1 Dunedin)

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An excerpt from a live performance at TMAG (the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery) for the Dark MOFO 2023 festival, by the nipaluna Hobart based Radio Art duo Sisters Akousmatica (Julia Drouhin and Phillipa Stafford).

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Sisters Akousmatica has been expanding radio projects to explore the radical possibilities of transmission since 2015 within collective and feminist radio practices. From Broom Broom car to Sea Hag boat, Sisters Akousmatica navigate on the edges of ‘legitimate’ broadcast.

https://www.sistersakousmatica.org/

https://www.instagram.com/radioqueens/

Show 1057: martiensgohome – “I really should have seen through the airwaves” – Radio Campus Bruxelles

martiensgohome – I really should have seen through the airwaves
The inspiration for this piece came from the idea of treating the radiowaves as a living environment, a complex landscape just waiting to be explored. Applying field-recording methods to the shortwave signals of the radio highlights its various sceneries, and its diverse inhabitants. From radio amateurs to state propaganda, and from entertainers to religious freaks, all types of discourses can be found here competing for attention. Surrounding these voices is an equally fascinating ocean of electronic sounds : magnetic storms, carrier waves, interferences, radio-jamming, hum and buzz. The aether is an infinite synthesizer. The natural tones and human-made noises of the airwaves represent an inexhaustible source of sound material and inspiration.
This piece has been composed with the help of the scordinator, a computer program devised by martiensgohome during a residency in the Q-O2 workspace in 2023. The program generates a graphic score for multiple musicians to follow, suggesting dynamics, entry points and pauses for each performer. Designed for live performance as well as for decision making in the studio, it is both a game and a tool. It reconciles conducting and improvisation insofar as it doesn’t tell the musician what to play, or how, but lets him make creative choices within a timeframe.
martiensgohome is a radio-art collective based in Brussels and has been active on the air since 1996. They operate every week on Radio Campus 92.1 FM where they produce a one hour-long improvised show , using field-recordings, electronics, objects and guitar. They also perform live whenever possible, preferably in special settings, composing site-specific interventions or playing unconventional venues.
you can find and use the scordinator here: https://sublymediagonal.net/scoredinator/
(photo by fabonthemoon)
Curation : Carine Demange for Radio Campus Bruxelles

Show 1056 : Les Corbières | Lucien Bertolina (Radio Grenouille – Euphonia)

The initial idea was to work on the site of Corbières in L’Estaque from recordings to restore the current sound panorama.
I knew the place for having traveled it many times during my childhood and having kept in mind a series of scenes and events lived.
When I began the composition I felt the need to bridge between the present and the past, at the time when Les Corbières was not a place of pleasure but essentially of work. A bridge to better understand the incessant flow of becoming, try to situate myself there.

The Tables:

1 The sunrise
2 Sea holes
3 The Waiting
4 The factory 1
5 The Rove Tunnel
6 The storm
7 Passages
8 The factory II
9 Beyond the shore

I thank Luc Ferrari for allowing me to use the recording of 2 sound objects that he had set during his residency at Euphonia / Grenouille in 2OO3, which are part of 2 pieces in: The Anecdotes by Luc Ferrari.

Lucien Bertolina

Panoptique de l’Estaque : Cyprien Parvex de Collombey
Initial work of 2009

 

Show 1055: Ojú Oró, three pieces by Ajítẹnà Marco Scarassatti (Rádio Zero)

Ojú Oró, three pieces by Brazilian artist Ajítẹnà (Marco Scarassatti) featuring special partnerships offers a dive into his partilhar sound world.

The first, Ojú Oró, Strength and Sorrow, is part of the recent album Notes from a distant listening, released by Sirr-ecords label, and featuring Maya Quilolo. This work emerges as a poetic construction of lived, intuited, and imagined spaces, shaped by listening, memory, documentation, archiving, and invention. It is a journey through the layers of listening, the ways of recording, and the attempt to create a listening situation based on sonic fragments gathered from real places, recordings of improvisations, and (re)visits to a repertoire of recordings found in my personal archives—transforming the ordinary into raw material for invention.

The second sound piece is Arisca, from the yet unreleased album Beira, an improvisational album recorded and produced remotely, the result of a collaboration between singer Inés Terra, who explores a multitude of vocal sounds, and sound artist Ajítẹnà (aka Marco Scarassatti), who plays on this track the instrument he invented, called ẹlẹyẹ, or bird-trough. Beira will be released soon by the Scatter Archive and Brava labels.

At last, Txãi kamã kuru, from the album Ni yuxibū xinã rewe, by Ibã Huni Kuin, master of chant from Huni Kui indigenous amazonian people and Ajítẹnà and released by Sirr-ecords. Ni yuxibū xinã rewe which in Portuguese means Sounds of the Spirit of the Forest, emerged from an initial contact between Ajítẹnà and Ibã, in 2016 when recording the chants of Nixi Pae (Ayahuasca), in Porto Seguro, Bahia., Brazil.

Ajítẹnà Marco Scarassatti is a sound artist, composer and researcher whose work spans through unique constructed sculptures and instruments, installations and sound emblems. He is a lecturer at the Federal University of Minas Gerais – UFMG, Brazil

Show 1054: Partitura Para Um Sino Independente (Guest Slot)

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Partitura para um sino independente

E assim arranca o quotidiano. Uma subtileza feita de sons que reconhecemos, mas tantas vezes ignoramos. É só um ruído de fundo. Hoje, não há bruxas — há culpa. A voz como espelho do incómodo, da tosse, do grito. E os sinos, sempre lá. Ao longe, persistentes, como uma entidade que dita o compasso dos nossos passos. Num tempo em que ‘liberdade’ se tornou palavra frágil, sussurramos, segredamos, entoamos — e transformamo-nos na multidão que, por instantes, se faz ouvir acima dos sinos.

Foi a partir desta escuta atenta — e inquieta — que, em março de 2025, um grupo de curiosos sonoros se reuniu em Braga para um workshop de arte radiofónica, promovido pela Braga Media Arts, no âmbito de Braga 25 – Capital Portuguesa da Cultura. Sob a orientação de Sarah Washington e Knut Aufermann (Mobile Radio), nasceu uma emissão construída a partir desse fundo sonoro.

Ao pensar-se na identidade sonora de Braga — marcada por uma presença religiosa notável, que lhe valeu o epíteto de “Roma portuguesa” — chega-se sempre aos sinos. Eles habitam as torres das inúmeras igrejas da cidade, marcam o tempo, entoam melodias sagradas, convocam à oração. E parecem, por vezes, perscrutar as almas em busca de pecados. Por existirem — e por se fazerem ouvir — os sinos moldam, inevitavelmente, o nosso quotidiano.

Os sinos e os cordofones que ouvimos nesta peça foram gravados durante ensaios e apresentações do projeto artístico “Novos Ecos de Uma Paisagem Sonora”, do Grupo de Percussão da Universidade do Minho, com direção de João Dias, acompanhados à viola braguesa e cavaquinho por Luís Capela.

Conceção e gravações: Bernardo Pinheiro, Brendan Hemsworth, cátia faísco, José Costa, Líria Varne, Luís Pinto, mi, Pedro Rui, Rui Tavares, Sara Pereira, Steffi Koch, Virgínia Valente, Marta Durão.

Montagem e edição: Brendan Hemsworth

Agradecimentos: João Dias, Luís Capela, Fábio Saraiva, Filipe Abreu, Pedro Arrieche, Simão Veiga, Carlos Jerónimo, Francisco Novais e Sara Borges; Circuito Braga Media Arts / Braga 25; Rádio Universitária do Minho; Fundição de Sinos de Braga.

Score for an independent bell

And so everyday life begins. A subtlety made up of sounds that we recognise but so often ignore. It’s just background noise. Today, there are no witches — there is guilt. The voice as a mirror of discomfort, of coughing, of screaming. And the bells, always there. In the distance, persistent, like an entity dictating the pace of our steps. At a time when “freedom” has become a fragile word, we whisper, we murmur, we chant — and we become the crowd that, for a moment, makes itself heard above the bells.

It was from this attentive — and restless — listening that, in March 2025, a group of curious sound enthusiasts gathered in Braga for a radio art workshop, promoted by Braga Media Arts, as part of Braga 25 — Portuguese Capital of Culture. Under the guidance of Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann (Mobile Radio), a broadcast was created from this soundscape.

When thinking about the sound identity of Braga — marked by a notable religious presence, which earned it the epithet ‘Portuguese Rome’ — one always comes back to bells. They inhabit the towers of the city’s countless churches, mark time, sing sacred melodies, call people to prayer. And sometimes they seem to scrutinise souls in search of sins. Because they exist — and because they make themselves heard — bells inevitably shape our daily lives.

The bells and chordophones heard in this piece were recorded during rehearsals and performances of the artistic project ‘Novos Ecos de Uma Paisagem Sonora’ (New Echoes of a Soundscape), by the Percussion Group of the University of Minho, directed by João Dias, accompanied on the Braguesa guitar and cavaquinho by Luís Capela.

Concept and recordings: Bernardo Pinheiro, Brendan Hemsworth, Cátia Faísco, José Costa, Líria Varne, Luís Pinto, Mi, Pedro Rui, Rui Tavares, Sara Pereira, Steffi Koch, Virgínia Valente, Marta Durão.

Editing and production: Brendan Hemsworth

Acknowledgements: João Dias, Luís Capela, Fábio Saraiva, Filipe Abreu, Pedro Arrieche, Simão Veiga, Carlos Jerónimo, Francisco Novais and Sara Borges; Circuito Braga Media Arts / Braga 25; Rádio Universitária do Minho; Fundição de Sinos de Braga.

Show 1053: FLOATING FIELD RESEARCH by GABI SCHAFFNER for radio x

radia season 54 – show #1053 (radio x) – FLOATING FIELD RESEARCH – by GABI SCHAFFNER
– playing from June 2 to June 8, 2025 –

FLOATING FIELD RESEARCH
in two pieces by GABI SCHAFFNER

The first piece is
Kukka Shop Overdrive (2021)
The location: A small kiosk selling flowers and eggs, next to a heavily trafficked road on the island of Lajasalo in Helsinki. The shop has been in the neighborhood for the last 20 years I was told, but egg sales occur only on Wednesdays. They are sold in trays by 40 pieces only. The weather was gritty, slush and gravel spurted from the cars in the road and form the overall backdrop of the ‘kukka’ shop conversations.
The recordings: All recordings originate either from the site of the ‘kukka’ shop at Lajasalo and another flower shop in Mäntta – and finally a private greenhouse in Taiwan.
Additional sounds derive from the frying of several eggs and a visit to a chicken shack in Ruovesi to collect more eggs.

Credits for Kukka Shop Overdrive (2021)
Field Recordings and composition: Gabi Schaffner.
Voice Taiwan: Margaret Shiu, Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei.
Chicken: Tyyra Jukka, Ruovesi.

The second piece is
Schweben | Floating (2023)
“Schweben” is an invitation to immerse you in a series of short narratives about body musings. The narratives have been collected on the legendary art ship MS Stubnitz, located at Hamburg harbour.
“Schweben” takes ‘float(ing)’ literally: Guests, passers-by and members of the Stubnitz staff were asked about their experiences in floating or hovering in the air…
Other bodies of water and air whirl alongside, from vitamin tablets to ship ventilators.
The piano belongs to the MS Stubnitz. We listen to it in an improvisation played by the crew’s cook, Renard.

Credits for Schweben | Floating (2023)
Stimmen/Voices: Claudia, H.W., Karim, Jann, L., Mathias, Tina.
Piano: Renard.
Fieldrecordings: Gabi Schaffner.
Other: “Ein Zimmer voller Sterne”, Schaffner, 2020.

GABI SCHAFFNER
Gabi Schaffner works as an interdisciplinary sound artist and curator. Her artistic practice is determined by the methods of poetic ethnography in connection with fluxus-like mise-en-scènes, radio-making and sound art performances. Much of her work originates from journeys. Next to her radiophonic productions, Schaffner creates speculative musical genres and inserts them into music history in order to raise awareness for cultural, gender-related and/or geographical conditions. Schaffner has been realising award-winning productions with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, radia.fm, Hessian Cultural Radio and ABC Australia. Since 2012 she maintains DATSCHA RADIO, a nomadic transmission project that links the medium of radio to current ecological issues.

Find out more about DATSCHA RADIO at www.datscharadio.de
and about GABI SCHAFFNERs projects in a broader perspective at www.schaffnerin.net

credits:
great many thanks to GABI SCHAFFNER for FLOATING FIELD RESEARCH … and we also say thank you to her artistic collaborators, contributors and donators – especially to Augustin the cat!

metadata:
FLOATING FIELD RESEARCH by GABI SCHAFFNER
radia production: miss.gunst [GUNST + radiator x]
production date: may 2025
station: radio x, frankfurt am main (germany)
length: 28 min.
licence: (cc-by-nc-nd) GABI SCHAFFNER
www.radiox.de – www.gunst.info – www.datscharadio.de – www.schaffnerin.net

additional info:
includes radia jingles (in/out), station and program info/intro (english)

links:
radio x & radiator x: www.radiox.de – www.radiox.de/radiator-x
GUNSTradio & radiator x: www.gunst.info – www.gunst.info/radiator
Gabi Schaffner: www.datscharadio.de – www.schaffnerin.net
radia art radio network: radia.fm

pic:
(c) Gabi Schaffner 2025