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Show 1031: Field Transmissions by Tuukka Kaila for OOO Radio (guest slot)

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Field Transmissions

In 2023, OOO (Out of Office) Radio visited Tuukka Kaila’s studio in Herttoniemi to hook into his set up for receiving live audio streams of terrestrial and cosmic weather events that appear as disturbances in the Earth’s electromagnetic field. The resulting natural radio waves on the VLF band (3—30 kHz) are picked up and broadcast as real-time audio streams over the internet by dedicated radio amateurs.

OOO (Out of Office) Radio is a mobile community radio station for experimental sound and curious ears, founded by James Prevett and Samantha Lippett. Based in Helsinki, it is a set of tools and internet broadcasting equipment that can be borrowed and used to broadcast remotely from any space (including outdoors using battery power).

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Show 1030: duration unknown by Sarah Washington & Knut Aufermann (Mobile Radio)

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by Mobile Radio (Sarah Washington & Knut Aufermann)

This piece concerns the uncertainties and contradictions of modern-day car use, and unfolds in the mind rather more as an unfinished philosophical journey than a physical one.
It was conceived as an antidote to the celebratory sentiment (although perhaps ironically intended) engendered in listeners by the Kraftwerk song ‘Autobahn’ – in relationship to the building of an out-of-time motorway bridge over the Mosel valley near Ürzig in Germany. The originally planned action was to detonate the record while it played on a portable turntable on the unfinished bridge, which was deemed somewhat tricky to realise.

The work was made for the show Cafe Sonore on the Dutch national radio channel VPRO in 2010, commissioned by Lukas Simonis. During a residency at WORM in Rotterdam to prepare source material, we recorded all the electronics on their wonderful array of analogue synths, which we interconnected with our own home-made instruments. We also set up radio and open-mic feedback processes in the studio. The voiceover was recorded in our home studio.

Each airing of the work is unique due to a production stunt; this version was specially produced for Radia in December 2024.

Mobile Radio

Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann began Mobile Radio on the 18th September 2005. For the first two years the project was touring Europe without a home base.
It was established as a travelling project to build upon our work across Europe in the fields of radio and sound art which had arisen during the three years that we helped to establish the London art radio station Resonance FM. Our work takes us to media and art festivals, conferences, universities, and one-off events where we run short-lived radio stations, create special live broadcasts, give workshops and talks, design radio installations and play concerts. We also make radiophonic works for public and community radios worldwide, and produce books on the topic of radio art.
Nowadays based in Germany, we continue the work of Mobile Radio with those who want to develop concepts through the medium of radio. Our mission remains the same: to seek out new forms of radio by taking radio production out of the studio environment.
https://mobile-radio.net

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Show 1000: 1000 Likes by Sarah Washington (Mobile Radio)

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1000 Likes

This is a special collaborative show to mark Radia’s 1000th week of broadcasting. It features contributions from 14 member stations and affiliates of the network, which between them collected the voices of 122 participants.
The remit was simple: Ask several people to speak a list of 10 things they like, and compile their voices into a short composition. The result is a heartwarming and amusing gathering of over 1000 genuine likes, which stand in proud relief to the hollowed out kind we have have become accustomed to on social media. Participants were surprised to be asked what turns out to be a very good question.

Concept and realisation: Sarah Washington

Contributors (in order of appearance):

Rádio Zero
Recorded by Ricardo Reis, produced by Sarah Washington
Voices: Rute, André, Miguel, Ricardo

JET FM
Sounds produced by XM TRAN

∏node
Produced by DinahBird
Voices: Jean-Philipe Renoult, KRN, Valérie Vivancos, Claire Serres, DinahBird, Nicolas Montgermont, Julbel, David Christoffel

ORANGE 94.0
Produced by Karl Schönswetter
Voices: Barbara Huber, Milada Huber, Nikola Huber, Barbara Kaiser, Stefan Nussbaumer, Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Karl Schönswetter

Radio Campus Paris
Produced by Philipp Fischer
Voices: Gregoire, Heloise, Jean, Julia, Kelian, Lucas, Maeliss, Philipp

Soundart Radio
Produced by Lucinda Guy
Voices: Alex, Alice, Anne, Audrey, Cathy, Chris B, Chris S, Edie, Lucinda, Rick

USMARADIO
Produced by Angela Herres, mixed by Alessandro Renzi
Voices: Angela Herres, Anna Herres, Annalisa De Palma, Federica Orrù, Mirella Podda, Greca Vargiu, Pietro Podda, Raimund Herres, Clara Herres, Maria Herres, Samuele Ferraro, Erica Podda, Colette Podda

Radio Helsinki
Produced by Reni Hofmüller
Voices: Andreas Unterweger, Barbara Edlinger, Jogi Hofmüller, Karli Braun, Margo Sarkisova, Max Höfler, Natascha Gangl, Nika Pfeifer, Reni Hofmüller, Thomas Antonic, Valentina Vuksic

diffusion
Produced by Jon Panther
Voices: Hethre Contant, Jon Panther, Peter Blamey, Richard Kennedy, Stephen Allkins

Kanal 103
Produced by Gjorgji Janevski, post production Todor Karakolev
Voices: Ena Mitrevska, Jovan Gakovski, Stefan Petrovski, Joana Risteska, Blagica Jovceska, Ivo Nikolovski, Marija Janevska, Stefan Alijevikj, Jana Delovska, Damjan Ilikj, Eva Stojanovska, Ivo Veikj, Ena Mitrevska, Gjorgji Janevski

Wave Farm Radio
Produced by Meredith Kooi
Voices: Jillian McDonald, Julia Drouhin, Khonsu X, Tom Miller, Matthew Ostrowski, Mike Bullock, Desiree Mwalimu-Banks, Oluwafemi

*Duuu Radio
Recorded by Sampson Staples & Sarah Banville, produced by Sampson Staples
Voices: 5 passersby in Parc de la Villette, Sampson Staples, Paul Castillon, Sarah Banville

Mobile Radio
Produced by Sarah Washington
Voices: Sandra, Edka, Emma, AGEE, CC, Élodie, Felix, Givan, Jasmina, JD, Leandro, Natalie, Necef, Renata, Stefan, Sarah, XTO, Xuan, Knut

radioart106
Produced by Meira Asher
Voices: Claudia Wegener, Laila Abd el-Razaq, Hannah White, Stephen Shiell, Paul Kendall, Meira Asher

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Show 976: Armen by Andrius Arutiunian (Radio Papesse)

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Since 2019, the weekend closest to December 13th Radio Papesse turns the volume on LUCIA, a small independent and international festival dedicated to possible forms of audio narratives and shared listenings.

This week should have been LUCIA’s, but starting this year the festival becomes a biennial event and, looking forward to 2024, this RADIA show throws back to the sounds that have been shared.

So here comes Andrius Arutiunian’s Armen as it has been broadcasted during LUCIA 2020 (the transmission-only edition broadcasted in pandemic times).

Enjoy and find you again in 2024!

Armen | Andrius Arutiunian

Armen is a sound work and collection which Andrius Arutiunian has been developing since 2016 related to the diasporic music.

It traces obscure Armenian disco releases from the 80’s, remakes little-known pop songs from different parts of the Armenian diaspora, and navigates this treacherous sonic field in polyphonous, and sometimes contradictive ways.

Armen is also a homage to one of the most common Armenian names.

In 2017 an iteration of Armen was published as a vinyl release. As writer Monika Kalinauskaitė wrote in her text for this publication: “But right now, at this moment, on a rug, in a car, by the monotonous music machine, the only circles you draw are your first ones, spinning the body and thought, breaking the world’s axis into millions of dancing small figures. You may as well hear of those rivers – it’s a miracle, but they reach everywhere, populating the world with gold-headed fish. Only blood and bodies alter their flows, oh look, we are now trapped in an island that was not here before, I believe we are also humming songs we never knew, but somehow remember.”

Bio | Andrius Arutiunian

Andrius Arutiunian is a sound artist and composer based in the Netherlands. He works through sound and hybrid forms of media, with a particular interest in sonic artefacts, aural identities, and digital, automated technologies.

Sonic dissent, alternate modes of political and musical organisation, and playful investigation of esoteric and vernacular histories form Arutiunian’s most recent works.

Using hypnotic and enigmatic forms, Arutiunian’s works often question the notion of musical and political attunement.

In 2022 Andrius Arutiunian represented Armenia at the 59th Venice Art Biennale with a solo show entitled Gharīb. Other recent solo shows include Counterfates (Meduza Vilnius, 2023) Diaphonics (Centrala Birmingham, 2023), and Incantations (CTM and silent green, Berlin, 2021).