Radia Show 838: Gau On by Antoine Bellanger (Jet fm)
GAU ON : A warm night of September, swept by southern wind. Recorded by Antoine Bellanger in the night of septembre 24 to 25, 2020. GAU ON only exists in 100% recycled vinyl. The sleeve was linoprinted and screenprinted using as ink the ashes of pines fallen that night. GAU ON : iraileko gau bat, haize hegoaren goxotasunean. Antoine Bellanger-ek grabaturik, Saran, 2020ko irailaren 24tik 25erako gauean. GAU ON bakarrik binilo birziklatu formatuan aurkitzen da. Azala linograbaketa moduan inprimatua da eta serigrafiatzeko tinta, gau honetan erori pinondo errautsekin egina. GAU ON : Une nuit chaude de septembre balayée par le vent du sud. Enregistrement par Antoine Bellanger dans la nuit du 24 au 25 septembre 2020 à Sare. GAU ON existe uniquement en vinyle 100% recyclé. La pochette est imprimée en linogravure et sérigraphie réalisées à l’aide d’encre de cendres de pins tombés cette nuit là.

Each week one member of the Radia Network produce 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: 17 partners in nine countries and growing all the time.

Radia Stations

* Campus Paris (Paris, FR)
* CFRC 101.9 FM (Kingston, CA)
* CKUT (Montréal, CA)
* JET FM (Nantes, FR)
* 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 Nova (Oslo, NO)
* 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)
* Wave Farm WGXC 90.7-FM (New York, USA)
* XL Air (Brussels, BE)

Affiliates

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