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30th April: Nightgardening in Berlin

Why should we divide the time when it flows from day to day and night to night?
We will broadcast the “Night of the Nightingales” by meandering around the following tentative schedule:

  • – 20.32 16th Century Choir: “The Nightingale” composed by Thomas Weelkes from the collection “Phantasticke Spirits for Three Voices”
  • – Evenings’s Introduction
  • – Matt Hatters Garden: radiophonic poems on nightingales
  • – Rundgang im Garten |Introduction of location | Niki Matita’s Luscinia-Mix I
  • – ca. 21 Uhr: Leonie Roessler: Copper and Song – Elektronische Echtzeitmusik – komponiert mit Feldaufnahmen aus Isfahan, aufgenommen während des Limited Access Festival 6 im Februar 2016. With a talk about Persian nightingales. DE
  • Secret-plein-aire (Niki Matita & Walter Schulze): live impro w/ synths
  • – ca. 22:00 JD Zazie, Mat Pogo: Live
  • – “Birdsong and Notation”. Playing Nightingale Scores with Rosanna Lovell
  • – 00.00 Midnightingales: A choir rehearsal
  • – Katt Hernandez: “Amid the Alien Corn”
  • – Niki Matita’s Luscinia-Mix II
  • – ca. 1:00  raw audio: “Night Inhale”. Twittering Presences…
  • – ca. 1:30  David Rothenberg talks about nightingales in Berlin and his book “Nightingale Cities” and CD. EN
  • – Felicity Mangan: “stereo’frog’ic”
  • – Nightingales Comparisons: Charlottenburg Rosenthal, Prenzlauer Berg and and “Eclectic Mix” by Udo Noll: Imaginative shop talks
  • – ca. 3.00 Kate Donovan, Gabi Schaffner, Nico Petidan: Slow Storytelling: Ode to a Nightingale and more. DE,EN
  • – 05.00 Coffee Time? “The Nightingale”, phone version.
  • – 05.33 The sun rises (end)

The night is, far more than the day, a sphere of transmission. Fragrances and odours are perceived more strongly, the ear is sharpened, the superiority of the visual recedes.

Since its inception, Datscha Radio has paid special attention to the night. We have broadcast pieces by selected composers and sound artists and, in the “Surprises de Minuit”, conducted interviews, which would never have materialized in the hustle and bustle of the day.

In the three-part event series NACHTGÄRTNERN [NIGHT GARDENING], Datscha Radio intends to fill the living space of the night in a synaesthetic and radiophonic way.
The locations will be three different gardens in Berlin, where we will make radio. We will broadcast live, from exactly sunset to sunrise. (Depending upon transmission date, the transmitting time will vary by around one to two hours.)

I The Night of the Nightingales (April 30th)
Datscha Radio explores the essence of the night on the first evening with a focus on the nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos). The Date is expected to be April 30th, 20.32 – 5:33, May 1st, 2019.

More information in due course.

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