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Show 1126 : “Nous on est là !” par La Collective.be – Radio Campus Bruxelles

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Belgium. Since the national protest on October 14, 2025, we’ve been taking our microphones out into the streets to meet the people fighting against the government’s austerity plan. Amid these crowds, unique voices emerge—from people of all ages, backgrounds, and sectors—bearing witness to the harshness of these measures and their social injustice. Together, these voices are rising up in resistance!

Lacollective.be est une initiative de citoyen.ne.s travaillant dans le secteur artistique en Belgique, en dehors de tous partis ou groupes idéologiques.
Le secteur artistique, bien que mis à mal, doit être aussi fédérateur des luttes de tous secteurs.
Nous avons les outils d’expression, de production, d’information, de sensibilisation.
Depuis la manifestation nationale belge du 14 octobre 2025, avec nos micros, nous partons à la rencontre de celles et de ceux qui luttent contre le plan d’austérité des gouvernements.
Nous allons dans les écoles, hôpitaux, institutions, usines, bureaux, associations, administrations et dans la rue pour rendre visible ce qu’il est entrain de se passer.

Nous collectons des sons brutes, des paroles peu montées, nous prendrons le temps d’écouter celles et ceux qu’on entend trop peu et qui subissent de plein fouet le tsunami anti-social.

Au sein de ces foules, émergent des paroles singulières de tous âges, toutes provenances, tous secteurs, témoignant de la violence de ces mesures et de leur injustice sociale. Ensemble, les voix s’élèvent pour résister !

Nous, on est là ! Journal d’une année de luttes en Belgique.

La Collective.be

Curation and production : Carine Demange for Radio Campus Bruxelles

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Show 1125 | Impro8 by Grand8 | Radio Grenouille

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Impro8 with the improvisers·ices of the practice space carried by Grand8.
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In 2016, a handful of musicians, an encounter, a sharing around improvisation, a desire and a pleasure to play together.
Grand8 was born.
Grand8 came out of a hurry, improvising, together, in a big ensemble, without an orchestra conductor·fe.

Grand8 first worked, built his music, crossed his spaces, built his community, initiated his history.
Grand8 has grown to reach a membership of about fifteen musicians·nts.

Grand8 carries improvised music, in a large ensemble, without an orchestra conductor. Based in Marseille, the ensemble brings together musicians from the southern region, both national and European.

Grand8 has been in residence at GMEM-CNCM-Marseille since 2018. The ensemble works on annual creations with multidisciplinary guests and explores the intersections of musical improvisation with dance, text, image, and landscape.
He also positions himself as an actor on the stage in the Southern Region with the organization of the multidisciplinary festival Grand Vertige, as well as music and dance-music sessions.

Bastien Boni (double bass), Olivier Bost (trombone), Sébastien Bouhana (drum, objects), Laurent Charles (soprano saxophone), Emmanuel Cremer (cello), João Fernandes (digital instruments), Catherine Jauniaux (voice, objects), Soizic Lebrat (cello), Magali Rubio (clarinets), Geneviève Sorin (accordion), Katherine Sowerby (percussion, vibraphone), Nicoló Terrasi (guitar), François Wong (baritone saxophone).

 

 

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Show 1124: Cul-de-sac by Radio Atatakai (Guest Slot)

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Cul-de-sac Show

Radio Atatakai is a radio art project and station run by artists Tata Frenkel and dr. Jan Glöckner. Jan’s research interest is choreographic potential of fungi and humans, with a focus on biotechnology, deep tank fermentation, radio and dance. And Tata’s artistic practice encompasses radio, radio-acoustic instruments, diagrammatic drawings, and performative narratives in which the limits of articulation, themes of health and care, and the communication physics intertwine. Radio Atatakai calls itself a tiny intergalactical station that runs two big sub-programs called “Autonomous education for radio spectrum” and “Fundamental principles of permanent fun”. But maybe that’s the least interesting thing about it. Jan lives with rapidly progressing ALS, while Tata is Jan’s main caretaker. Hence the radio exists in the routine of palliative care. Since the beginning of the Radio Atatakai, it has been transmitting through the high resistance of medical crisis, it was and still is bringing meaning, ground and freedom to create, communicate, share and just to stay yourself when the disease takes one’s ability to participate physically. Radio Atatakai wants to emphasize voices, unseen bodies, radio sky that belongs to everybody. Palliative arts is something that cares for the end, doesn’t ignore it, doesn’t mystify it, it is about care in multitude of its forms. At the same time, for us, it mainly affects the framework, the flexible curation of the transmissions – station is completely adjusted so it’s good for one’s condition, so it’s fun without any damage to energy levels, a producer is also a caregiver, we totally live by unpredictability, by easying the symptoms.

In this show, we have a small restrospective trip that happens somewhere outside. Music and editing by Tata Frenkel. Voices: Jan Glöckner and Tata.

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Show 1123: AUTOMATENKORRIDOR by GABI SCHAFFNER & DIY CHURCH for radio x

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radia season 57 – show #1123 (radio x) – AUTOMATENKORRIDOR – by GABI SCHAFFNER & DIY CHURCH
– playing from Oct 5 to Oct 11, 2026 –

AUTOMATENKORRIDOR (radia edit)
by GABI SCHAFFNER & DIY CHURCH (ERNST MARKUS STEIN)

“In the form of a radio logbook the ‘conductor’ (Gabi Schaffner) & the DJ (DIY Church) make their way through hand-picked corridors, filled with devices. In the radio studio, little doors are opened, devices are drafted, shattered and discarded. Mean machines are exposed. Whole corridors of them […] You can already hear it from afar. A straightener, a chin strap… Access over or through foreign territories. Sovereign domains, high-frequency paradise apples, singing machines. One day it was there, the industrial revolution! Memorable things, more like sights to be seen. Stealing a berry from the neighbor. Searching for… a radio is playing somewhere. Entrance to healthy paranoia – just a pinch. A wind blows once through the corridor – an elongated connecting space in the first half of some century. And no, or was it actually in the museum for selfie sticks? That’s where the expedition began. Luckily, there was a writing tool…” (G.S./E.M.S.)

AUTOMATENKORRIDOR was a live radio performance created for the exhibition “Anybody out there? 100 Years of Radio” at Kunstraum D21 in Leipzig in 2020. Our walk through the corridor lasted for two hours. What you can hear here are the first 26.5 minutes, at the end of which a strange signal lures the wanderers onward. But where to? It’s up to your fantasies…
Live broadcast: November 28, 2020

ERNST MARKUS STEIN
The freelance artist Ernst Markus Stein is a co-founder of the online radio streaming project DIYChurch and a member of the Cashmere Radio collective. When he isn’t filling in at WestGermany (Berlin), he can usually be found at home, where he runs a virtual yacht club and devotes himself to underwater landscape painting, connecting waves, and transforming content management systems into poetry.
From time to time, he disguises himself as a disc jockey (DJ ShluchT) and throws carpets of sound and information around. Lately, he seems to have been wasting his existence on outdated copying machines, using them to print out the internet.
Find out more at swimmer.hopto.org/sidequest/

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

GABI SCHAFFNER & ERNST MARKUS STEIN
Since 2020, GABI SCHAFFNER and ERNST MARKUS STEIN have been working together.
They have created several DATSCHA RADIO iterations, most recently in September 2026 as RADYO PARFÜM in Frankfurt/Main. In 2026, they founded the No-Fashion label U5E.L3ss.
Their joint exhibition “Batteries are not included,” together with Mathias Deutsch and Thomas Lüer, ran from August 14 to September 13, 2026 at Kunstverein Familie Montez in Frankfurt/Main.

credits:
great many thanks to GABI SCHAFFNER and ERNST MARKUS STEIN for AUTOMATENKORRIDOR!

metadata:
AUTOMATENKORRIDOR by GABI SCHAFFNER & DIY CHURCH (ERNST MARKUS STEIN)
radia production: miss.gunst [GUNST + radiator x]
production date: september 2026
station: radio x, frankfurt am main (germany)
length: 28 min.
licence: (cc-by-nc-nd) GABI SCHAFFNER & ERNST MARKUS STEIN
www.radiox.de – www.gunst.info – www.datscharadio.de – www.schaffnerin.net – swimmer.hopto.org/sidequest/

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
Ernst Markus Stein: swimmer.hopto.org/sidequest/

pic:
(c) Ernst Markus Stein 2020