Open Call Artists and Contributions

08-12-2025

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Open Call Artists and Contributions

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

Even though it was short notice, the submissions to the open call were once again sensational!

Here is the information about the pieces and the artists in alphabetical order and as provided in the pdfs. On 26 December, Datscha Radio will be back on air, this time from Zao, Miyagi Prefecture. With new guests and contributions, and also with an 8-hour “night loop”.

New to Waste Culture #2 are: Albert Negredo, Leonie Roessler, Margherita Brillada and Sebastiane Hegarty.

Also new:

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

Talk Space is dedicated to conversations held here in Japan about the environment, waste and sustainability strategies.

I met Michael at a harvest festival in xxx, which was all about the traditional production of mochi (rice) porridge. Traditional farming is increasingly attracting people from the cities who are interested in a “close to nature” lifestyle…
Massa-san, who runs the artist residencies in Togatta and Shiroichi, explains what is going on around the huge pot.

Bianca Fürst has been living and working in Japan for 30 years and is involved in urban planning and environmental activities. We talked about the introduction of reusable kitchen utensils for public events and teaching methods for preserving food, among other things. The idea of disaster-related emergencies, where people are dependent on supplies and a certain independence from electricity and other amenities, also came up in the short conversation with Mako from the Farmstand cooperative.
Neighbourly help, sharing leftover food and preparing for possible emergencies are also important to her. Afterwards, she explains a range of delicious dishes to me.

At IGES, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, I conducted an interview in Tokyo with Ms
Miwa Tatsuno (Sustainable Consumption and Production – Programme Coordinator) and Ms Alice Yamabe (Sustainable Consumption and Production – Policy Researcher). IGES is a regional research and policy-related network in the Asia-Pacific region. It was founded shortly after the 1992 Earth Summit with the support of the Japanese government and Kanagawa Prefecture. The topics of our conversation – beginning with a brief overview of the organisation’s activities – ranged from the current plastic problem to waste incineration and municipal strategies to insights into the differences between protest cultures in Japan and Europe.

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 honour the quintessential drink of Cubans, originating during the Hispanic-American War. In turn, we associate Hadrolla with deceit, falsehood and lies, typical of not recognising 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 Konstantin Frey and supported by Eeva Ojanperä.

Leonie Roessler and Margherita Brillada: At Recyling
2:12 min

“At Recycling” (Info follows)

Leonie Roessler und Margherita Brillada: info follows

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.

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.

Beckettian anti-resolutions that emerge like a litany during a brief meditation on everyday life. The author’s poem, presented by means of a superimposition of vocal lines made up of loops with different psychological framings of the text. Simultaneities. The irregularity of the loops used in the piece, the result of sudden gestures of improvisation on the recorded material, results in an approximation to the technical precariousness of s_i_l_l_o_n_ _f_e_r_m_é, the closed groove inscribed on old acetate discs. Cuts and overlaps animate the resulting patterns.

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.

These were sounds I had fully intended to throw away. In every sense, they were “trash.” Yet five years later, this “trash” unexpectedly gained value. I felt compelled to return to it and shape it into something meaningful. It felt like picking up an old button dumbphone in 2025: suddenly you want to recharge it, polish it, and listen to what it has to say. I aimed to create something that resembles an old Nokia with a newly inserted battery — a device that runs for three days and, during that time, rapidly reconnects with the world, analyzing everything that has changed during its long hibernation. Why is it no longer waste? Because in a world that changes endlessly, we sometimes look for old sensations — and for that, we must learn to listen carefully to what we once considered disposable.

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.

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