Radia Show 897: Sleeplessly, a research of insomnia (Radio Student).
Sleeplessly, a research of insomnia. The three-piece soundtrack is inspired by Bukowski's poetry. It consists of several field recordings, audio recordings and a live improvisation recording. It’s attempt is to study insomnia, unrestfullness, stagnation. Poems interpreted: Dreamlessly The suicide kid Roll the Dice The Genius of the Crowd (all by Charles Bukowski) Audio sources include: filed recording from 2019 Metaldays festival field recording, Sava river, 2021 field recording, Soća river, 2019 field recording, Tolmunka river, 2021 field recording of the falling rain from my tent, June 2021 audio recording from exhibition: Piiril/Rajalla at Narva, Esthonia, 7.5.2022 audio recording from Neposlušno / Sound Disobedience festival, 31.3.2022 audio recording from a birthday party somewhere in Bežigrad, Ljubljana, June 2022 live recording at home, Šiška, Ljubljana, 4. 6. 2022 Makis Ananiadis is sound engineer at Radio Študent. Has a few instruments, though he is no musician.

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)

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