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Kunstsonntag on Ö1: A Radio Garden

Datscha Radio on Air. Photo: ©Gabi Schaffner

How does making radio in the garden sound like? Between bugs and beetle bread, under the spell of the moon, in the small hours of the morning. How can the garden and its ecologies resound in radio?
These questions lay at the core of my archival and radiophonic investigations of what “makes” Datscha Radio special. On commission of Kunstradio Vienna a 51 minute sound collage was put together, to be broadcast on


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Includes excerpts of Datscha Radio 2017 and the Nightgardening series 2019 plus additional material. Datscha Radio Berlin is realized with Kate Donovan, Helen Thein and Niki Matita.

Full Credit List, artists in order of appearance:

Intros Datscha Radio aus 2017 und 2019

Sarah Washington: Analogue Birds, Datscha Radio 2014 (Backdrop)

Hidden Stories Singers (Dafne Della Dafne, Rosanna Lovell, Zara Verity Morris, Shanti Suki Osman, Mary Beth Volker): Let Us All Speak Our Minds by Elizabeth Knight

Martha Zapparoli: Improvisation – inaudible sound project 

Silky Toss & Pete de Ville: Sugar Bee, von Eddy Schuler

Frieder Butzmann. Twitter Twitter Tirili.

Seamus O’Donnell und Mi Ho: Freshly Squeezed Juice (Backdrop)

Presentation: Niki Matita
Datscha Abendchor mit Seamus O’Donnell, Mi Ho, Rosanna Lovell, Hans Kellett, Mat Pogo, Zelda Panda

Presentation Niki Matita (mit JD Zazie)
Marek Brandt: Musik für Nacktschnecken

Presentation Kate Donovan, Gabi Schaffner
Hans Kellett: Gardening with Perennials for Winter Interest
Hannes Wienert: Horchfelder 

Datscha Radio Madrid Jingle with KTA Martin, Eva Kurly, Alberto Garcia and Romi Casile

Niina Lehtonen-Braun: Pikku Lintu

Tech Check. Donovan, Schaffner, Thein

Niina Lehtonen-Braun: Iltakahvit

Kat Austen: The Beetles’ Harvest Supper

Helen Thein und Christy Spackman: The Scent of Water

Hans Kellett: Polar Star. From the series „10 (S)Cent Poems“ by Gabi Schaffner

Niki Matita and Walter Schulze: Secret-en-plein-aire 

Moderation: Niki Matita
Lukatoyboy: 7“ Bird Vinyls (Backdrop)

Mimi Coertse: The Nightingale and the Rose, 1932. Von Camille Saint-Saens. 

Nightingale. Live Stream Nightgardening

Jari Koho: Piano / FM Radio / Loop(Backdrop)

Helena Otto: Moon & Beetroot from the Performance „To the Belly and Back“ mit Jasmina Al-Qaisi

Niki Matita and Walter Schulze: Secret-en-plein-aire (Backdrop)

Ela Spalding: Reading from „The Anthropocene“ by Christian Schwägerl

Kate Donovan: Gratitude Ritual 

Ana Berkenhoff: Beast Jetzt (Tiny Sample)

Ela Spalding: Sundown

Marold Langer-Philippsen: Maschkera (The Night Garden)

Peggy Sylopp with Gabi Schaffner: Dawn walk

Jingle 

Sarah Washington: Datscha Owl, Datscha Radio 2012

Assortment, editing and additional sounds: Gabi Schaffner, 2020

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