Expanded radio means that the medium of radio becomes connected to actions and settings that evolve around situations of listening, making radio or poetic metaphors of all four.

Datscha Radio 17 now extends its horticultural realm to different countries and continents inviting gardeners and listener to our:

­­International Garden Radio Listening Club [interGARLIC]

• Do you enjoy free radio and find radio art exciting?
• Do you have a garden, a green yard or a balcony, do you love to picnic in the park, or do you know of a nice green spot with internet connection?
• Then register with your own International Garden Radio Listening Club!

In the 1920s, when the radio was a brand new medium, most people could not afford this modern technology. That’s why they formed listening communities and radio clubs. Occasionally , they even built the radios and antennas themselves. We want to revive this tradition of listening to the radio in the greenery.

Public Viewing was yesterday – 2017 Public Listening is en vogue !!!

To register for DR17’s International Garden Radio Listening Club please provide:

• Host’s name, contact and web site (if you have one):
• Location (park, balcony, etc, public/non-public):
• Listening Time/Date:
• Copyright-free photo photo (with credits) of the place to be recorded for announcement and World Garden Radio map
• Copyright-free photo photo (with credits) from the action for blog and documentation 

Disclaimer *: Datscha Radio 17 is not liable for any costs incurred in connection with the realization of an International Garden Radio Listening Club. Any fees that may be incurred are the responsibility of the local organizer.

The Language of Plants. In: Junge Welt, 1. August 2017. Article by Rafik Will. For full text and image please click on the excerpt. 

25 – 29 August 2017

Plots & Prophecies | Parzellenprognosen

A five-day programme combining radio, gardening, hospitality and contemporary discourse in a live radio festival in a garden in the North of Berlin. Datscha Radio 17 used radio as an artistic medium and as a source of inspiration and action. The process of radio making – otherwise quite a hidden event – became transparent in the winter garden of the house. Creative, interdisciplinary and open to everybody, Datscha Radio 17 transformed the privacy of the allotment garden into a public space for art and communication.

With „Plots and Prophecies“, Datscha Radio took a look at the future of gardening, the links between biology and technology, and at the changing role of people in this world. Something has shifted in the old imbalance of flora and fauna … and we cannot be so sure that our present awareness will suffice to put these changes into a dialogue with the environment.

5 days = 5 themes

The Datscha radio garden assembled practitioners, gardeners and guests from various fields: music and performance, science and art, local and international.
Together we traced and listened to the diverse voices, sounds, imprints and languages of the garden. We broadcasted in German and English, but there were other languages heard as well.

Our documentation.

Intro: Plots & Prophecies | Parzellenprognosen Essay: Gabi Schaffner

Day 1: Hortus Politicus (Friday, 25.08.2017) Essay: Shanti Suki Osman
Day 2: New Symbioses (Saturday, 26.08.2017) Essay: Gabi Schaffner
Day 3: Biotope in Future II (Sunday, 27.08.2017) Essay: Verena Kuni
Day 4: Bees and Birds (Monday, 28.08.2017) Essay: Niki Matita
Day 5: Subterranean Meditations (Tuesday, 29.08.2017) Essay: Kate Donovan

Outro: Echo Essay Rafik Will

Our Open Call invited international sound gardeners and radiophiles to participate by applying (with broadcasts / features / compositions).

We could be heard:

•  online at www.datscharadio.de
•  over micro-FM in the surrounding of the garden
•  at selected times on the 88.4 Berlin and 90.7 in Potsdam

In the Audio Archive the programms, features and interviews of Datscha Radio 17 can be found.

Media reception

Actually it is still late spring… The Datscha experiences a wondrous tidying-up and amazing repairs (water !). The evening round brings lots of pinks and blues and the dance of three almost nude peony ballerinas.

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