Show 596: our act to time has come by [q_a] (Radio Corax) Posted on 2016/08/29 by knut political protest is always about delivering a message. about sending a signal to the public. in this piece i tried to catch the signals to the public of a day in frankfurt, 150318, when the new ecb-tower was opened to the public and when massive protests took place. i made some soundwalks this day and this piece is a version to listen to the music of the streets wrapped up for radio. // [q_a] is a sound artist from halle/saale. he experiments with special soundscapes, random noises and acoustical devices, mostly cello. he is a member of the improvisation group “sohne” with whom he performs since 2013. Also he played at improhazard-festival 2014 and 2016 and at blurred edges festival 2015 and 2016. Starting from october 2016 he will study time-based-arts at the burg giebichenstein kunsthochschule halle.

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.

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* CFRC 101.9 FM (Kingston, CA)
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* 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)
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* radio x (Frankfurt/Main, DE)
* Rádio Zero (Lisboa, PT)
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* TEA FM (Zaragoza, ES)
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