Radia Show # 1080: Cyborg Lullaby by Gwen Sainte-Rose (Radio Campus Bruxelles)

« Cyborg Lullaby » from Gwen Sainte-Rose
(1st part of upcoming “Those who are not Mothers”)

« Est-ce que vous avez des enfants ? »
A cette question qui paraît anodine, celles qui ne sont pas mères peuvent apporter, chacune, une réponse et une histoire très différentes.
Gwen y répond ici à sa façon, dans ce premier geste sonore qui raconte son histoire et son rapport à la non-maternité. D’autres créations sur cette question suivront, présentant les univers singuliers de chacune autour du projet : « Celles qui ne sont pas mères ».

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“Do you have children?”
To this seemingly innocuous question, those who are not mothers can each give a very different answer and tell a very different story.
 Gwen responds in their own way, in this first sound piece that tells their story and their relationship with non-motherhood.

It’s also about what they feel on a sensory level. How they live in a binary and heterosexual system. What is “natural” or not. And how they find their way in there.
Other creations on this question will follow, presenting each person’s unique universe on this theme.

Gwen Sainte-Rose is a musician, composer and sound artist. Their creations are always guided by sensitive listening.
For cello and loopstation, they composed “Collines – Racines”, two soundscapes inspired by the Forêt de Soignes and the Gaume region in South Belgium.

They produced the radio documentary “Ne pleure pas !” (Don’t cry!), about child abuse.
Now they are also exploring links between videos they made with a microscope camera, sound and music, as in « Garden ».

Production, sound design and music : Gwen Sainte-Rose

Curation : Carine Demange

Each week one member of the Radia Network produces a show for all the others. The Radia Network emerged from a series of meetings, clandestine events, late-night club discussions, and a lot of email exchanges between cultural radio producers across Europe. The topics vary and the reasons for forming a network are many, but Radia has become a concrete manifestation of the desire to use radio as an art form. The approaches differ, as do the local contexts; from commissioned radio art works to struggles for frequencies to copyright concerns, all the radios share the goal of an audio space where something different can happen. That different is also a form in the making––radio sounds different in each city, on each frequency. Taking radio as an art form, claiming that space for creative production in the mediascape and cracking apart the notion of radio, is what Radia does.

It is producing radio stuff that is hard to describe. Some of it can be labeled radio art, or experimental radio, or creative radio. Sometimes it talks, sometimes it doesn’t. It can be noisy, or a kind of soundscape, or a documentary, a document, a talk, a performance. Each and every week, one of the partners will provide the network program, commissioned and produced especially for this purpose: being broadcast by all the partners and made available online.

Some things have to be said about all those partners. They are radio stations, of the independent, non-commercial, community, cultural species. They all speak different languages, and this should create interesting problems. Although initially they were all European radio stations this has changed over time, and Radia has become not only larger but also more diverse: 22 partners in 14 countries and growing all the time.

Radia Stations

* Duuu (Paris, FR)
* ∏node (Mulhouse, Paris, FR)
* Diffusion (Sydney, AU)
* JET FM (Nantes, FR)
* Kanal 103 (Skopje, MK)
* Orange 94.0 (Vienna, AT)
* Radio Campus (Brussels, BE)
* Radio Grenouille (Marseille, FR)
* Radio Helsinki (Graz, AT)
* Radio One 91 FM (Dunedin, NZ)
* Radio Panik (Brussels, BE)
* Radio Papesse (Firenze, IT)
* Radio Student (Ljubljana, SI)
* radio x (Frankfurt/Main, DE)
* Rádio Zero (Lisboa, PT)
* RadioWORM (Rotterdam, NL)
* Reboot.fm (Berlin, DE)
* Resonance FM (London, UK)
* Soundart Radio (Dartington, UK)
* TEA FM (Zaragoza, ES)
* Usmaradio (San Marino, SM)
* Wave Farm WGXC 90.7-FM (New York, USA)

Affiliates

* Kunstradio (Vienna, AT)
* Mobile Radio (Ürzig, DE)
* Rádio Zero (Lisboa, PT)
* Radioart106 (Haifa, PS48)

Syndicated By

* Campus Paris (Paris, FR)
* Harrogate Community Radio (North Yorkshire, UK)
* KZradio (Tel Aviv, IL)
* Noise Radio (Zwolle, NL)
* Radio ARA (Luxembourg, LU)

More information at http://radia.fm