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