Radia Show 594: o u r t i m e t o g e t h e r by Isabelle Stragliati from Radio Campus in Paris. An audio collage / a radio piece / a sound diary/an impression / a perception of this very time/July 2016. “What is the chance to meet through experiences, events, etc. ? It seems that time is what will ensure that we can meet.” Gibus in Le Jardin, Radio Brume – Grenoble, 1998 with field recordings and voice by Isabelle Stragliati, a few vinyl rareties, and excerpts from the following tapes archives and pieces: DJ Sprinkles ‎– Sloppy 42nds (IS Orlando Tribute Version) Sloppy 42nds is A Tribute to the 42nd Street Transsexual Clubs Destroyed by Walt Disney’s Buyout of Times Square http://www.comatonse.com/releases/c006.html On IS Orlando Tribute Version, Sloppy 42nds is stretched 12.0616 times Ultra Red – Cruise Control Ultra-red defends the LA park gay cruising scene on their vinyl debut, ‘Ode to Johnny Rio’ http://www.comatonse.com/releases/c005.html Le Jardin (Radio Brume, Grenoble, 1998) with the voices and works from Sophie Decoret, E.N.O.S., Emmanuelle, Gibus Julian Beck – Je n’ai pas le droit de voyager sans passeport Gongs of Cambodia and Laos, recorded by Laurent Jeanneau – Kink Gong Suaves Figures – Nouveaux Gymnastes Augusto de Campos – Cidade City Cité Ultra-Red – Movement for Airports-Single Version Chang Fo Ji, recorded by Laurent Jeanneau – Kink Gong Square Dance – Jerome Tillié à L’Eurovision : Luxembourg 2001 Instrumix And extracts from the following texts: Voisins / Neigbors by Dorothy Allison Chez moi by Philippe Corbé https://medium.com/@corbephilippe/chez-moi-12fd6c92d561#.an21ybz0r Don Quichotte / Don Quixote by Kathy Acker Vision myope depuis la Baie des Anges by Charles Danzig Extra snippet from lasonotheque.org Isabelle Stragliati is a sound artist, field recordist, radio producer, musician and dj living in Grenoble (France). Coming from the visual arts, she turned to the medium of sound in 2002 through DJing, as an extension of her approach to film editing (under the moniker Rescue). She then practiced numerous aspects of radio production ( radio host, producer, music programmer, technician and program director) before reconciling it with her creative work. Her productions use field recording, documentary, musique concrète or techno, and have been broadcast on national radios (France Culture, Radio Campus France), in festivals and events in Europe (Longueur d’Ondes, Futura, Brouillage, Take You There in France, Radiophrenia in Scotland, CinemaInYourHead in Luxembourg) and in contemporary art centers (CNAC de Grenoble, La Criée à Rennes, Casino Luxembourg). More on noearnosound.net

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: 17 partners in nine countries and growing all the time.

Radia Stations

* CFRC 101.9 FM (Kingston, CA)
* CKUT (Montréal, CA)
* free103point9 WGXC 90.7-FM (New York, USA)
* Kanal 103 (Skopje, MK)
* Orange 94.0 (Vienna, AT)
* Radio Campus (Brussels, BE)
* Radio Corax (Halle, DE)
* Radio Grenouille (Marseille, FR)
* Radio Helsinki (Graz, AT)
* Radio One 91 FM (Dunedin, NZ)
* Radio Panik (Brussels, BE)
* Radio Papesse (Siena, IT)
* radio x (Frankfurt/Main, DE)
* Rádio Zero (Lisboa, PT)
* RadioWORM (Rotterdam, NL)
* Reboot.fm (Berlin, DE)
* Resonance104.4fm (London, UK)
* Soundart Radio (Dartington, UK)
* TEA FM (Zaragoza, ES)
* XL Air (Brussels, BE)

Affiliates

* Kunstradio (Vienna, AT) More information at http://radia.fm