View from Julia Drouhin’s terrace in Sandfly, TAS 

The Datscha performance and concert garden is a wild yet poetic combination of musicians, performing artists, apiculturists and philosophically minded DJs and writers.

According to our theme days, we’ll share accoustic wonders and adventures with you, from black&white gardens and hidden elements to private bee stories, wired pots and pans, arctic soul searching, musical nightshades and mud boogies, German strange pop, watering can trumpeting… and more

The main time slot for all of this is between 4 pm and 11pm, varying times, please check our daily broadcasting schedule – available on this site from the 25th on.

You are welcome to visit: If so, please follow the directions given under “Directions”. The entry is free, donations for creature comforts would be welcome, and sending an email before would be greatly appreciated as the Datscha and its surroundings are not equipped for a large influx.

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.