Show 1074: Funkfeuer (Wiener Radia Kollektiv, Radio Orange 94.0)

What became of the Library of Alexandria? It seems to have fallen victim to the flames. Just like our beautiful jingle. Only remnants of it remain, because we allowed ourselves to play with fire in this programme. We were amazed at how many levels there are links between the element of fire and radio! It starts with the German word “Funkfeuer” (radio beacon) and ends with Telefunken and lightning. We enjoy the convivial warmth of the campfire and marvel at electromagnetic inventiveness.

A programme featuring sonic illusions and surprising parallel universes.

Production and recordings by Barbara Huber, Barbara Kaiser, Fabi Lux, Stefan Nussbaumer & Karl Schönswetter. Contains industrial recordings by kwandalist.

Arrangement & mixing by Karl Schönswetter.

From our Elements series. Previously released: Earth, Water and Metal.

Cover: Karl Schönswetter

Morse Code Snippets (hidden):

Code 1: Hello, this is a show from radia
Code 2: Funkfeuer, Funken schlagen, Prometheus sei Dank
Code 3: Radio is like the fire around we congregate

Show 1073: B.O.O (Broadcasting Otherworldly Oscillations) – *Duuu Radio

Sur les ondes hantées du B.O.O., les fantômes prennent la parole.
Un paysage sonore où résonnent monstres, maisons hantées et autres présences invisibles.
Une proposition de Reem Saleh et Louise Siffert pour *Duuu.

Cette playlist a été diffusée à l’occasion de l’événement A Ghost Radio Camp, une soirée horrifique organisée en juillet 2025 à *Duuu Radio / Folie N4, Parc de la Villette (Paris).

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On the haunted radio waves of B.O.O., ghosts speak out.
A soundscape filled with monsters, haunted houses, and other invisible presences.
A proposition by Reem Saleh and Louise Siffert for *Duuu.
This playlist was broadcast during the A Ghost Radio Camp event, a horrific evening organized in July 2025 at *Duuu Radio / Folie N4, Parc de la Villette (Paris).

Links : https://duuuradio.fr

Show 1072 : The Cristal Receivers by DinahBird and Julia Drouhin ( ∏-Node)

The KunschTTurm Club was located in the Kunstturm, a 100 m² apartment, on the 22nd floor of the Tour de l’Europe in Mulhouse. Made available by its owners, the club quickly became a second studio for the Alsace branch of ∏-Node. Julia and Dinah bubbled up the closing weekend. Armed with their cristal Baschets, they pulled the plug from the heat in the bathroom for a 2 hours improvised installation/performance. Inspired by Anne Carson’s poem ‘Guillermo’s Sigh Symphony‘ (2002) which was copied onto the tiled walls, ears steaming near the bath tub of sounds, the audience drifted in and out. The “souffleuses de son” captured FM radio through the pipes, read extracts from the poem, and used hydrophones and small radios to amplify the drip, drip, dripping.

This is an edit from the ∏-Node stream, during the KunschTTurm Club, Season 1-31 jan-31 july 2025

Thanks to : JPRRR for the mastering, individu and the whole KunschTTurm crew.

Show 1071: Don Giovanni Metamorphosen Fragmente (Usmaradio)



Radio version of the audiovisual performance

By Paolo F. Bragaglia

Damian Dombrowski, Chiara Pietroni: narrators
Ludovica Gasparri: soprano 

On stage
Lillevan: live cinema, images
Paolo F. Bragaglia: sound design, synthesizer
Leonardo Francesconi: piano, synthesizer


Don Giovanni is one of the archetypes of our culture, one of its founding myths. And myth is not an inert fable but an active, creative force, it nourishes, in a surprisingly circular way, the very culture that gave it life.
Over the course of four centuries, Don Giovanni has taken on – or disguised himself in – countless and extraordinarily varied forms.

With this audiovisual project, we seek to explore the recurring and often mutable archetype concealed beneath Mozart’s masterpiece, creating a performance that draws on a contemporary aesthetic and language. Mozart’s music itself undergoes metamorphosis, electronic, sampled and manipulated, from old vinyl records to acoustic renditions, serving as the foundation for literary “evocations” of Don Giovanni, from Tirso de Molina to José Saramago, from Molière to Baudelaire, Hoffmann, Kierkegaard, Byron, and many others. And, of course, the operatic libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

The project includes readings, sung passages, and historical recordings of actors’ performances, a sound carousel that conjures the situations, characters, texts, and voices that have given life to the Don Giovanni myth across different historical periods, authors, and its continual metamorphoses. Whether invoking the unrepentant libertine or the punished sinner, the paradise of the senses, the complexity of human relationships, or the hell of damnation.

A production of Mozartfest Würzburg
World premiere: June 21, 2019


 

Paolo Bragaglia - Usmaradio

Paolo F. Bragaglia is an electronic composer born in an entirely analog world, who has stubbornly journeyed into our digital age. Ever fascinated by the metamorphosis of sound across genres, over the years he has expanded his interests toward the intersections between music and moving images, dance, architectural spaces, visual arts, spoken word, and theatre.

This has led to an intense career as a composer of film scores, soundtracks, and multimedia performances, alongside record production, sound art, and sound installations. He is the creator and artistic director of the electroacoustic music festival “Acusmatiq”, held for twenty years in Ancona at the Mole Vanvitelliana, and the founder and president of the Museo del Synth Marchigiano (Museum of the Marchigian Synth)


Usmaradio – Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale per la Radiofonia (CRIR) / Interdepartmental Research Centre for Radio Studies, is a workplace of The School of Radio to develop an innovative radio pedagogy. Workshops, work sessions, meetings, presentations of live performance as sections of the project. Produced by UNIRSM | Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino. usmaradio.org / theschoolofradio.org / unirsm.sm