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Show 1118: Aether (Usmaradio)

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Credit Hannah White

Aether continues a field recording discipline that extends listening beyond the limits of human perception, revealing electromagnetic environments that exist alongside the audible world. Recorded in three remote locations – the Nevada Desert (2016), St Agnes in the Isles of Scilly (2021) and the Pyrenees (2023)—the works were created using a Stephen P. McGreevy VLF receiver. The environments were chosen for their lack of technological interference, where human-made electromagnetic activity recedes and the Earth’s own radio environment emerges. 

Stephen Shiell is a London-based sound artist, improviser, composer and field recordist working across experimental music, radiophonic art and site-responsive practice. His recorded works, live performances, sound walks, and workshops explore listening, gathering and performing as social, ecological and political acts, engaging with sound as a means of understanding place and environment. Drawing on field recordings, found and self-built instruments, electromagnetic sound and live electronics, he creates immersive works spanning solo and collaborative performance, radio and participatory projects. He is a certified Deep Listening practitioner and one half of the duo Blanc Sceol. He works collaboratively through Surge Cooperative on listening-based projects along the Channelsea River in East London.

http://www.stephenshiell.co.uk

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

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Show 1116: c/o Sirius by Anna Stereopoulou (radioart106)

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“Hello, this is Anna calling, from Earth. Just a few meters away from the top of Ancient Minoa. Last time I was here I found ‘my’ Tree broken by the wind. I touched it and wished us a ‘New Life’. I must return, I know. You, too. I know. I wish you a Happy New Life. I knitted this sonic shawl for you, to wish me a Happy New (personal) Year, soon! I love you! Your little cat”.
An imaginary letter from a daughter to a mother, consisting of the “Amphilyce”, “Ad Vivam Flammam” & “Hestia Fields” Diptych and “Galanthus” sound works, all produced and compiled by Anna Stereopoulou, featuring (free) Space Sounds compiled through the CARISMA. On the occasion of August Celestial Events and the composer’s birthday.

Anna Stereopoulou specialises in the field of Music Composition for Film & TV, whilst since 2017, she has been introducing a special form of live presentations, described as Cymatic Environment© (SYN and PLANO projects) and inspired by her Art & Science research. She has also composed music for the Theatre, Dance, Installations, Radio, Music Ensembles and Orchestra, and has presented her art in cultural venues and archaeological sites. Since 2006, she has occasionally been presenting her FEELMUSIC seminar series, whilst she has worked as an Advisor/Programmer in Music & Film Festivals (Italy, France) and has developed her work through a wide range of collaborations, through her activity in the field of Culture, Education, Journalism and Tourism, and as a member of female:pressure network.

Anna Stereopoulou | composer-pianist-researcher
A STEREOSCOPIC perspective of Music & Art©
W: https://annastereoscopic.wordpress.com/

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Show 1114: RADAVATART by Radio Študent

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Show 1114: RADAVATART by Radio Študent

The open radio (artistic-theoretical) research platform R A D A R presents the seventeenth edition of the audio-visual experience RADART, this time entitled RADAVATART.

“Before matter, there was interference.
Before interference, there was noise.
And the noise never wanted to die.”

RADAVATART is a noise opera about a body composed of four elements that attempts to break itself down into its constituent parts. Earth. Water. Air. Fire. Each element demands its own ritual, its own deity, and its own renunciation.
On stage, performers were accompanied by a trampoline, earth, water, fans, signal fire, sirens, radio voices, special guests and circus colleagues to create conceptual art in a self-ironising audio-visual spectacle.

RADAVATART took place on June 4th 2026 in the circus tent on Ambrožev Trg, Ljubljana, as a part of Trojne Salte Festival and the RADART platform. It was also broadcast on FM radio and video streaming services.
This audio-visual performance, through noise, radio fiction, and elemental catastrophes, explores whether it is possible to shut down signals by destroying their constituent parts.
So far, it seems not.
Sound never dies )))

The event was organized by the R A D A R team, as part of Radio Študent’s program, in collaboration with Cirkokrog and MismoNismo, with the support of the City of Ljubljana (MOL). For more of our transmissions, please see our webpage:
https://radiostudent.si/kultura/r-a-d-a-r