Radia Show 1065: Echoes of a Promenade / Presque rien, tout à côté (for Radio Panik)

Non-linear fragments from an afternoon tracing the northern coastline of Tenerife.
Casual conversations between two friends — about everything and nothing — dissolve into echoes of an impromptu jam session from later that same week. Layered throughout are scattered field recordings: wind, footsteps, passing voices, and the distant roar of La Palma’s Cumbre Vieja volcano, captured during its 2021 eruption and interwoven with snippets of local radio.

What emerges is a strangely coherent dérive — a collage of conversation, environmental textures, and informal improvisation. A radio piece that doesn’t tell a story so much as wander through one.
Echoes of a promenade. Presque rien, tout à côté.

Recorded in Tenerife, May 2025.
All music by Paskali and Gonçalo, except a short loop sampled from “Montes Caucasus” by Andreas Tilliander & Goran Kajfeš.
Edited by Gonçalo F. Cardoso, Tenerife 2025.

Pascal Van Leemput, a.k.a. Paskali Wonderful, presents his radio show Sub Culture every Friday afternoon on Radio Panik.

Gonçalo F Cardoso is the founder of the label Discrepant, and presents his show Sub Culture Discrépances every third Saturdays of the month on Radio Panik.

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)
* Radioart106 (Haifa, PS48)

More information at http://radia.fm