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#56

Show 1100: 74.48 dB(A) by IGOR ŠTROMAJER for radio x

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radia season 56 – show #1100 (radio x) – 74.48 dB(A) – by IGOR ŠTROMAJER
– playing from April 27 to May 3, 2026 –

74.48 dB(A)
Buffering Love in a Hopeless Place

A sonic datastructure.
Programmed, synthesized, and processed by Igor Štromajer and his computers

The title – 74.48 dB(A) – represents the measured average sound pressure level in decibel in the central processing hub of a data center, where the A-weighting curve simulates the human ear’s response to the raw acoustic power of the hardware.

The sonic datastructure 74.48 dB(A) is an acoustic dissection of a heretical technological sacredness. At the core of the composition lies the processor noise of a server hall, establishing a decaying, mathematical, techno-sacred experience through a monotonous sequence of hums and mechanical sounds. This non-human sonic landscape deciphers the materiality of the internet, which manifests through constant vibration, heat, and forced mechanical cooling.The server room transforms from technical infrastructure into a consecrated space of mathematics, a hopeless place where the biological body can no longer survive due to noise and sterility. Here, the data stream reaches its harmonic peak within a post-human environment where machines communicate with one another in total autonomy, devoid of any human interaction or intervention.

This sonic architecture offers the illusion of salvation through the non-stop flow of information. Every single fan in this system acts as a prayer wheel, maintaining the stability of a fractured digital self in an infinite loop.The core state of this meditative sonic experience is buffering. In the server environment, love, affect, and identity cease to be fixed points; they become ongoing processes, constantly loading but never fully materializing. Simultaneously, the sonic datastructure deconstructs the myth of the ethereal data-cloud, confronting the audience with the brutal physical force required to sustain modern metaphysics. This non-human mantra, where noise and grief are the only remaining relics, offers failed tactics for transcending political anxiety and establishes meaningless strategies of groundless resistance.

IGOR ŠTROMAJER

Igor Štromajer – also known as intima.org – is a non-amateur level electric non-artist, “le Pavarotti du HTML”. He explores tactical artistic techno-performative research intimate guerrilla, and low-tech communication strategies.


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He has shown his work at more than two hundred exhibitions in more than sixty countries (transmediale, ISEA, EMAF, SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica Futurelab, V2_, IMPAKT, CYNETART, Manifesta, FILE, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Hamburg Kunsthalle, ARCO, Banff Centre, Les Rencontres Internationales, The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale and in numerous other galleries and museums worldwide) and received a number of awards (in Frankfurt, Moscow, Hamburg, Dresden, Belfort, Madrid, Maribor).

His projects form part of the permanent collections of the prestigious art institutions, among them Le Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Computerfinearts Net and Media Art Collection in New York, and the Maribor Art Gallery in Slovenia.

As a guest artist he lectures at universities and contemporary art institutes. Štromajer lives and works between Frankfurt am Main and Maribor / Ljubljana.

Find out more at intima.org

credits:
great many thanks to Igor Štromajer and his computers for 74.48 dB(A) – Buffering Love in a Hopeless Place!

metadata:
74.48 dB(A) by IGOR ŠTROMAJER
radia production: miss.gunst [GUNST + radiator x]
production date: april 2026
station: radio x, frankfurt am main (germany)
length: 28 min.
licence: (cc-by) Igor Štromajer 2026
www.radiox.de – www.gunst.info – www.intima.org

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
Igor Štromajer: www.intima.org

pics:
(cc-by) Igor Štromajer 2026

#56

RADIA SHOW1099: LORCA AS A DREAM (TEA FM )

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La poesía de Federico García Lorca late como un pulso antiguo que atraviesa la tierra y la voz. En sus versos conviven la música del pueblo, el misterio de la noche y una intensidad emocional que transforma las palabras en imágenes vivas. Lorca escribe con sangre, con luna, con silencio; y en esa mezcla surge una expresividad creativa que desborda los límites del lenguaje. Su poesía no solo se lee: se escucha, se respira, se siente como un eco profundo del alma humana. En cada metáfora vibra un paisaje, en cada ritmo una emoción que invita a imaginar, a escuchar lo invisible.
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The poetry of Federico García Lorca beats like an ancient pulse moving through the earth and the human voice. In his verses live the music of the people, the mystery of the night, and an emotional intensity that turns words into vivid images. Lorca writes with blood, with moonlight, with silence; and from this fusion emerges a creative expressiveness that overflows the limits of language. His poetry is not only read: it is heard, breathed, and felt like a deep echo of the human soul. In every metaphor a landscape vibrates, and in every rhythm there is an emotion inviting us to imagine and to listen to the invisible.

#56

Show 1098: Radio Tecnicolor by Stefan Nussbaumer & Georg Zichy (Radio Orange 94.0)

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The Vienna-based Radia Collective presents the live session “Radio Tecnicolor” featuring Stefan Nussbaumer and Georg Zichy. You are listening to a recording from 9 April 2026 at Basislager – Stefan Nussbaumer’s studio in 1150 Vienna. The concert was produced specifically for Radia transmission no. 1098. The performance can also be viewed in the following video:

You will hear an interweaving of sound and image, in which the video data controls the sound. There is a digital and analogue feedback loop, and radio sounds serve as the connecting element. An app programmed by Stefan Nussbaumer converts colour data into OSC signals. In this way, the sound is controlled by 54 pixels and two human beings.

Concept, production & performance: Stefan Nussbaumer & Georg Zichy
Video & audio recording: Lale Rodgarkia-Dara
Mixing: Karl Schönswetter
Photos: Karl Schönswetter, Georg Zichy

 

#56

Show 1097: mILLième (*Duuu Radio)

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For the Radia Show 1097, *Duuu Radio presents a compilation of tracks from the album “mILLième” (2025). With mILLième, the artist duo Cécile Tonizzo and Nicolas Couturier set out to explore, over a stretch of 217 meters – one-thousandth of the length of the Ill River (Alsace, France) – a fragment of landscape, blending performance, sound design, and graphic art.

In July 2025, a temporary collective was formed for five days with Cyril Magnier, Manuel Zenner, Curtis Coco, and Aquila Lescene. The group built a floating platform, created sound-recording instruments, and printed a series of t-shirts using elements from the Ill. They recorded a collection of sounds, discussions, and musical improvisations for this stretch of the river, with the aim of producing this sound edition.

Produced by the CEAAC, in collaboration with the CSC du Marais in Schiltigheim. The project is part of the “l’Ill – Une collaboration avec la rivière ” initiative between the CRAC Alsace in Altkirch, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, and the CEAAC in Strasbourg, a collaborative project made possible through the “Mieux produire, mieux diffuser” program established by the Ministry of Culture – Drac Grand Est and supported by the Grand Est Region.

Special thanks to Zoé Colombani and Charlotte Raimbault.

Compilation tracklist : Merle Jam – Est-ce que la rivière a changée ? – Milles rivières – Mise à l’eau – Sillure.

Radia editing : Mathias Dupaquier / *Duuu Radio

You can listen to the entire project on *Duuu via this link : https://duuuradio.fr/recherche?tags=un-millieme