View of Siki Soundgarden in Kobe. Featured artwork by Ruri Takahashi

Auch wenn es kurzfristig war: Die Einsendungen zum Open Call waren wieder einmal sensationell!

Hier die Infos zu den Stücken und den Künstler:innen in alphabetischer Reihenfolge.
Am 26. Dezember wird Datscha Radio erneut auf Sendung gehen, diesmal aus Zao, Präfektur Miyagi. Mit neuen Gästen und Beiträgen und ebenfalls mit einer 12-stündigen ‘Nachtschleife’.

Neu dabei für Waste Culture #2 sind: Albert Negredo, Leonie Roessler and Margherita Brillada und Sebastiane Hegarty.

Auch neu:

Talk Space 21:30-22:00 JST (14:30-16:00 CEST)

Talk Space widmet sich den hier in Japan geführten Gesprächen über Umwelt, Abfall und Nachhaltigkeitsstragegien.

Michael traf ich bei einem Erntefest in xxx, bei dem sich alles um die traditionelle Herstelllung von Mochi(Reis)brei drehte. Tradionelle Landbewirtschaftung zieht zunehmend auch Leute aus den Städten an, die sich für ein ‘naturnahes’ Leben interessieren…
Massa, der die Künstlerresidenzen in Togatta und Shiroichi leitet, erklärt, was rund um den riesigen Topf vor sich geht.

Bianca Fürst lebt und arbeitet seit 30 Jahren in Japan und engagiert sich für Stadtplanung und Umweltaktivitäten. Wir sprachen u.a. über die Einführung wiederverwendbarer Küchenutensilien für öffentliche Veranstaltungen und über die Vermittlung von Methoden zur Haltbarmachung von Lebensmitteln. Der Gedanke an katastrophenbedingte Notfälle, bei denen die Menschen auf Vorräte und eine gewisse Unabhängigkeit von Strom und anderen Annehmlichkeiten angewiesen sind, kam auch in dem kurzen Gespräch mit Mako von der Kooperative Farmstand auf.
Nachbarschaftshilfe, gemeinsame Nutzung verbliebener Lebensmittel und die Vorbereitung auf mögliche Notfälle sind auch ihr wichtig. Anschließend wird mir eine Reihe von leckeren Speisen erklärt.

Mit IGES, dem Institute for Global Environmental Strategies führte ich in Tokio ein Interview mit Frau Miwa Tatsuno (Sustainable Consumption and Production – Programme Coordinator) und Frau Alice Yamabe (Sustainable Consumption and Production – Policy Researcher). IGES ist ein regionales Forschungs- und politikbezogenes Netzwerk im asiatisch-pazifischen Raum. Es wurde kurz nach dem Earth Summit 1992 mit Unterstützung der japanischen Regierung und der Präfektur Kanagawa gegründet. Die Themen unseres Gesprächs – beginnend mit einem kurzen Überblick über die Aktivitäten der Organisation – reichten vom aktuellen Plastikproblem über Müllverbrennung und kommunale Stragegien bis hin zu Einblicken in die Unterschiede zwischen Protestkulturen in Japan und Europa.

OPEN CALL ARTISTS ::: Waste Culture #1 and #2

Albert Negredo: He’s Got It (Ron Cola Hadrolla)
4:51 min / Waste Culture #2
A sound piece, based on recordings from the 1950s, when vinyl was still a novelty, through sound recycling, where He’s Got It is reproduced, now in digital, without physical format, to honor the quintessential drink of Cubans, originating during the Hispanic-American War. In turn, we associate Hadrolla with deceit, falsehood and lies, typical of not recognizing alcoholism as a disease.

Dong Zhou: Put You in The Trash
2:54 min
(To Love Is To) Put You in Trash describes an emotional impulse you would have when you drag a file to the trash can. It’s inspired by the waste culture: how we get rid of things without hesitating or remorse, because we know that our investment will be worthless anyway in the end.
Dong Zhou is a composer-performer based in Hamburg. Under the name Congee Rats, Zhou produces and performs music from experimental electronic to alternative punk.

Hannah Hjort: Müllpresse
3:32 min
This is a recording of an automatic compression process of a garbage press and part of an animated short film.
Mixed by Gülberk Elif Bosgelmez, mastered by Konstatntin Frey and supported by Eeva Ojanperä.

Leonie Roessler und Margherita Brillada:  At Recyling
2:12 min Waste Culture #2

“Ein kurzer Impromptuspaziergang zu den Untergrundrecyclingtonnen am Ende der Zuilingstraat. Arrivederci vetro, Arrivederci carta.”

Leonie Roessler and Margherita Brillada:

Johannes Christopher Gérard:  K33
2:56 min

The work is based on personal experiences traversing the paths and rooms filled with trash and debris in a former conservatory building in its final days before demolition. The work seeks a dialogue not only with the physical waste, but also with the spiritual debris of abandoned ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

Johannes Christopher Gérard is a Dutch-German artist working in the field of interdisciplinary and multimedia art. Despite severe hearing problems, he began working and experimenting with sound art in 2022.

Meta Golova (Lena Kilina&Carlos Issa): Evasive Space
8:43 min

Evasive Space is a performance mantra (sound art and spoken word). It is about a new experience of urban occupation in São Paulo-Parque Minhocao and evokes a strong sense of belonging. Hyper-urbanism and hyper-pollution feel like theater and taste like a disease.

Waste is the texture of hyper-urban life. Together, they reveal the city’s internal metabolism — the part no one wants to see. The city as an organism that produces more residue than meaning.

The sound and art duo Meta Golova is Lena Kilina and Carlos Issa.

Notorische Ruhestörung: “Live at FFUS”
9:26 min

“Live at FFUS” by Notorische Ruhestörung relates to the topic of waste as the instruments used to play it have been DIY built from scrap parts from old devices. Waste does not necessarily need to go to a landfill – I believe in the power of recycling!

Notorische Ruhestörung is an artist, organizer & activist mainly focusing on sound and music, but also active in other fields such as video, performance, zines and painting, DIY noisy electronics & improvisation.

Olena Lazutkina: 3 Minutes before New Life
4:21 min // Waste Culture #1 only

This piece is a 4-minute immersive audio installation built around one existential question: what do we truly keep, and what do we leave behind when everything collapses in one second? The listener hears an ordinary morning, interrupted by an explosion, and then has three minutes to decide which items from their life remain meaningful enough to take into the unknown.The work reflects on urgency, survival, memory, and the shifting value of objects—what becomes essential, what becomes “waste”, and how quickly our relationship with material things transforms in crisis.

My name is Olena Lazutkina, a Ukrainian queer artist currently based in Berlin.

Pjotr Safnonov: Pocket
2:04 min

Piece: The phone accidentally started recording in my pocket and became a container for sonic waste; in this recording, raw noise gradually forms a shifting envelope of the space

Person: I identify as a field philosopher, working outside institutional and academic constraints to cultivate collective, non-hierarchical concept co-creation grounded in everyday interactions with people and other beings.

Roberto D’Ugo Junior
Forgotten L_o_o_p_s_’ _Sketchbook, 2023-2024 (17:06)

Life is a beautiful glitch. A rhythmic essay on our flaws and imperfections. An infinite list of small mistakes and forgetfulness that swirl and thicken in the mind of the poet, a sound artist.

The piece is made up of three parts. Voice: Anna Carl Lucchese

Roberto D’Ugo Junior is a Brazilian artist-researcher dedicated to radio art. One of the main features of his work is the ritualistic repetition of speech residues and fragments of field recordings.

Sebastiane Hegarty: A short ‘field-recording’ of an anonymous EEG
2:00 min / Waste Culture #2

An ambulatory EEG is a diagnostic medical procedure which records the sound of spontaneous electrical brain activity. Recorded on a C120 audio cassette,  the sound is digitally transcribed as visual waveforms for analysis, the sound and cassette discarded as the waste material of a diagnosis.

Svyaoty Istochnik: The Moon is Huge

This track — like the entire album “9_” _— was created entirely from waste. It is composed of discarded guitar loops from songs that were never recorded in the studio or on tour, and from monotonous droning sounds that I had saved for no clear reason.

Greetings. My name is Svyaoty Istochnik. I create music using old guitar pedals, an electric guitar, and a microphone.

VICTORIA Stellpflug: Greenhouse
3:32 min

Greenhouse is an electro-acoustic composition layering soft and harsh soundscapes; it’s the moment of returning to reality after you tried to escape a world of noise, machinery, and petromasculinity*. I walked through forests, and I entered greenhouses, and I saw all this life turning into trash to make room for more streets and cars and consumption, so I politely asked the birds for help in this canon. *(Cara Daggett)

Victoria Stellpflug is a Berlin composer, performance and theater musician, vocalist, and lyricist, currently based in Essen. In her work, she moves freely between styles, forms, and genres— from sound art and contemporary composition to experimental pop culture.

Tiger Stangl: The Trash Waste Chant
0:42 min

Weitere Stücke: Laublied, 2:17 min. In The Soil, 2:15 min.

For the chants, I used the audio function of the translator app on my phone, in English and Japanese, and along I did a little drumming on the tambourine

i love trash // trash is a treasure

Tiger Stangl is a graphic designer, artist, gardener and musician living in Berlin.

Tisa World: Dust
8:56 min

Dust is omnipresent, dust is persistent, dust is a metaphor for community and action.
This radioplay was made in one take, in a live setting, including the participating audience that constructed the polyvocal character of The Dust. It was recorded in Divo Institute, Beja, Portugal, in June 2025.

Tisa Neža Herlec aka Tisa World (Slovenia/Netherlands) is a multi-disciplinarian whose practice weaves voice, language, print-making, performance, composition and collective endeavours. She loves to share her methods of creation and empower collective art-making and publishing, often within the context of performative arts and radio. Currently, she is a resident of Švicarija, MGLC (The International Centre of Graphic Arts) in Ljubljana, Slovenia (2025-2027).

Werner DASHA The Muttering Void
21:49 min

This is a recording of Muttering Void, a sound piece, performed in the oldest brick building of the Netherlands, in which vacuum cleaners, trashcans, trash bags and drainage pipes become active performers.

I, Werner van der Zwan, am an artist working trash and robotics using robotic techniques to transform objects into performers and for this piece I collaborated with media artist Gökay Atabek a.k.a. Volksamt! Kultur Manufaktur.

Zelda Diedrich: Watershed
4:58 min

Product of a site-specific artistic research project, “watershed” follows the path of the groundwater in the artificially maintained ecosystem of a post-extraction site. Bitterfeld-Wolfen is one of the most heavily contaminated areas in Europe, thus the groundwater running under the city is filtered through a complex system of wells and pipelines to extract toxic waste before it reaches the rivers and lakes next to the city.

Zelda Diedrich is a sound and performance artist currently residing in Linz/Austria. Her current focus is on machine spirituality, covering the quasi-religious reverence we feel for machinery and code; on engineering as a practice of faith; and on technology as a savior and god-like entity.