Radia Show 1083: Music is Murder by Martin Djorlev (Kanal103)

Мартин Џорлев – Музиката е отепувачка

This episode captures the closing moments of Kanal 103’s marathon broadcast marking 81 years of Macedonian Radio, on 28.12.2025. After more than 15 hours on air and a never-ending closing live session, the scheduled program slowly dissolved into an open situation. Recorded around 4am, as the night tipped into morning, the studio shifted into a different mode. Using the station computer, Martin Djorlev began mixing live from multiple internet sources, navigating streams, fragments, and digital noise in real time.

What emerged was an unplanned deep drone / ambient mix, imperfect, glitchy, unbalanced, marked by signal cracks and bleed from an old mixer worn down by years of use. Slow and immersive, the sound hovers somewhere between exhaustion and focus. A live navigation through online audio, shaped by the moment, the hour, and the accumulated energy of the broadcast.

Martin Djorlev is a central figure in the new Macedonian music scene. Active across projects, genres, and formats, he plays almost nightly, releases constantly, and moves between live performance, composition, and experimentation. This set reflects that momentum, created without preparation, without pause, as if there were no tomorrow.

Some of his recent music:
https://zhivotni.bandcamp.com/album/-
https://ubijdedo.bandcamp.com/album/-
https://stotrojka.bandcamp.com/album/–10

Recorded live at Kanal 103, Skopje.
End of broadcast, beginning of another space.

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