Radia 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

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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