(Übersetzung folgt) there have been rumours and yes, it is true: There will be two Kaamos shows and they will be not be identical :) Here comes a program sketch for both days. As this is all quite in the making. Changes might occur. Kaamos Radio can be heard on: https://datscharadio.de and: openradio/live.in But here we go… already with some sounds!
February 13-14 The NIGHT Broadcast
Jingles spoken by (this is for both events):
Kari Soinio
Leevi Tuominen
Sophea Lerner
Guests in the studio:
Anita Hannunen – Serlachius Museum
Kari Soinio – artist in residence
Tixa Juka – feeling dealer
Tyyra Juka – mushroom expert
Matti Kivilahti + 1 (or 2) – poet, teacher and priest
Night Stream Special:
Aelita by Marold Langer-Philippsen
Composers and Contributors:
Brainquake
Elmo Holopainen
Felipe Otondo
Jaana Korhonen
Jane Foley / Warlock Fulltime
Kate Donovan
Michael Begg
Konrad Behr / Rundfunkorchester Weimar
La Claud
Sebastien Pafundo
Stories in Colour
Tom Miller
Trihn Lo
Vernon & Burns
February 20 The Day Broadcast
A focus is put on shows and recording made by and with the local people of Mänttä/Vilppula and Ruovesi. Also, a special on Karelian lament songs – with artist Krisi Poutanen – is in preparation.
Guests (so far): Mika Tepponen – Merikanto -Opisto; Anita Gratzer, artist in residence; Tomi Voronin (Poet Society Mänttä-Vilppula)
Evening Stream Special from 7pm to midnight:
Aelita (2nd part of the journey) by Marold Langer-Philippsen
Composers and contributors
Björn Eriksson (and sound art class: Cecilia Enberg, Anna Lindkvist, Amanda Nowèn, Lisa W. Carlson, Louise Ölund, Karl Åberg )
Blanc Sceol, in collaboration with Charlotte Wendy Law and James Worse
Kaamos – this means something like arctic night, melancholy, darkness, yes, and also somehow “lock-down”. A story of the Sami in Lapland tells of the sun retreating into a nest behind the horizon during these days. Others say it is the time when the earth breathes long and deeply and draws strength … while it breathes out in the other half of the year – such blowing the life-breath into the plants and animals of the earth to awaken them.
Whatever will happen now during this 14-hour program dedicated to winter and its long, long, deep breath, it will take place at a leisurely pace.
Please note: We start in Mänttä at 7 p.m. local time; in Germany it is 6 p.m. (CET) and accordingly different times in other places. A view of the slightly snow-drifty program is hereby given, put blankets and pillows ready:
7-9 Mänttä People Open Doors with:
Anita Hannunen, Representative Serlachius Residency. Anita took me on a sleigh ride around the small island here in front of the Einola house. It was a kick sled, and while I set comfortable on the tiny wooden seat, she pushed the sled while telling me about ‘kaamos’ and her horse Lissu…
Kari Soinio (Artist in Residence). Kari is a visual artist based in Helsinki. We mostly meet at breakfast, neither of us talking much. And we meet in the evenings talking more – ocasionally. He will introduce his work to us and maybe talk about the different kinds of snow in this region of the world.
Tyyra Juka will join us with her husband Tixa and bring some mushroom samples along. Do mushrooms grow during wintertime too, I wonder? Tyyra will know the answers. She is a nature resource producer by profession and mushroom counsellor number 7263 (sienineuvoja). She is also member of the board of Local Conservation of Nature Society (Suomen luonnonsuojeluyhdistys, Virtain-Ruovesden luonnonsuojeluhdistys ry.) And as well a member of the Finnish Mycological Society (Suomen sieniseura ry.).
Matti Kivilahti is a poet and a teacher and a priest. He wrote to me sending three poems about the ‘kaamos” state of mind and feeling. We will listen and talk and translate and exchange our thoughts. He will bring a guest along who is also a writer. Hyvä!!!
The Open Call! More than 30 compositions reached Kaamos Radio, all of them special: from ice swimming to artic opera, from time-warped Berlin punk (?) poetry to orchestral fridges. And more – I cannot tell since I am still sorting out the timelines. There is a rough plan, and a list of participating artist will follow shortly in an extra post. Bear with me! Shorter pieces will be played in between the conversations (will we grab a coffee or pancake); 11pm to 1am pieces of a medium lenght will be introduced; durational pieces will accompany us in the long hours before the sun rises from its nest.
Rough schedule continued: 9-11
Tixa is a reindeer bone sawing man! Click on the audio player to the right on this page. (I am still editing the other jingle) He also catches fish, lost a jacket made to “greet the bears”, and he is a man of words and sounds. Most important: He is a ‘feeling dealer’. What feelings will he trade for us? A portable record player will be brought along, together with whatever he feels fit to make these dark times lighter for us listeners.
11-1am (still Helsinki time): Musings, Open Call, a snow cake meditation, a “Twilight talk”, sleigh rides, we’ll see… (details until Friday)
Starting from around 1am (12pm CET): Radio artist Marold Langer-Philippsen will step in at this time of the night and convert the ‘stream’ into a six hour kaamos dreaming. His piece is called “Aelita” and this is what he writes:
“Frozen bells, Aelita, and radio messages from Mars will be the base for soundscapes and stories from the void in the universe and a vast bluish Kaamos landscape.”
From approximately 7am to 8 am more selected compositions from the open call contributions will be played and you may join me in my getting up from the studio sofa bed and drinking coffee under a sky filled with the distant drones of the Mänttä paper factory.
Lifted out of the darkness of the bag to light: Datscha Radio’s wonderful documentation of its Berlin activities in 2019 and 2020 is here! We are most pleased!
“Nachtgärtnern I-III / Radiophonien des Alls” boasts numerous photos, a ‘vignette parcours’ taken directly from radio quotes, an essay by Kate Donovan, foreword and epilogue and of course the list of all participating artists – in the garden and of our open calls. A look at the table of contents reveals the skilful hand (and eye) of our graphic designer Tiger Stangl. Enjoy! Enjoy!
Above all, we would like to thank you – and have reserved a physical copy for everyone who participated on site. Hence the appeal to all Berlin contributors: Please write to us when and how you would like to pick up your catalogue. We cannot send copies via post.
We collect your inquiries and of course, we hope that there will be an opportunity in late spring to hand over the booklet personally at a ‘distanced’ garden party. Until then, we will endeavour to distribute the copies in a smaller circle (if possible in accordance with the applicable Corona requirements).
Kaamos Radio. A radiophonic journey into the (sub)arctic winter
Kuunvalo nukahti ja tähdet katosivat taivaalta. Ja maa hengitti hiljaa lumen alla.
The moonlight fell asleep and the stars disappeared from the sky. And the earth breathed quietly under the snow.
KAAMOS RADIO: An invitation The term ‘Kaamos’ refers to the lightless period of the year (above the 60th latitude) when the sun lingers below the horizon. Kaamos is the time of darkness, of stillness and quietude and of the arctic light, a time of storytelling, contemplation and of taking a rest. A Sami legend tells us of the ‘Nest days’, because it was believed that the sun rests like an egg in its nest during that time. ‘Kaamos’ also stands for a mental state that is difficult to endure and is also used synonymously for winter depression in Finnish culture.
LOCATION The town of Mäntää-Vilppula is located approximatly 180 km northeast of Tampere, on the shores of Lake Melasjärvi. It is surrounded by a sparsely populated landscape made up of forests, lakes and rivers. Temperatures in January and February go from – 20 to -2 degrees Celsius. Northern lights occur at times.
KAAMOS RADIO will track both the phenomenon and variations of its inner states. Please share with us:
your theme specific compositions
favourite winter-time stories
poems and spoken word
recordings and investigations
Please send your files via wetransfer to kaamos@datscharadio.de. Please provide two or three lines each about the piece and yourself including a website, if possible. Please put Kaamos Radio Contribution as a subject line.
LIVE STREAM As the project is still in its planning stage, the final dates need to be confirmed yet. Scheduled are
Saturday, February 13, 2021
Saturday, February 20, 2021
The length of the broadcasts is between 2 and 6 hours on the respective days.
DEADLINE Please submit your audio piece until the 3rd of February 2021
KAAMOS RADIO is a temporary radio art project located at the residency studios of the Serlachius Museum in Mänttä/Central Finland. It is initiated and maintained by the Berlin sound artist and performer Gabi Schaffner, in cooperation with Sophea Lerner (Open Radio, Helsinki), Marold Langer-Philippsen (radiolada, Bratislava) and aporee.org (Berlin)
SCHEDULE The program will grow with the flow of the events. There is no fixed time schedule. You’ll find a list of all participating artists on the datscharadio website in due time.
COPYRIGHTS Kaamos Radio is a non-commercial art and culture project. The copyright for all submitted files remains with the artists. The legal model is the Creative Commons License (see http://creativecommons.org/learn/licenses).
KAAMOS RADIO CAN BE HEARD ON
datscharadio.de
openradio.in
in collaboration with other radio stations and projects (if interested, please, let me know)
Datscha Radio’s sound collage “Nachtgartenkosmos”, produced in October 2020 for Cashmere Radio, Berlin, has traveled on to Barcalona!
On December 15, the experimental radio station tesla.fm – led by artist Shak Benavides – will broadcast “Nachtgartenkosmos” twice:
Dec 15, 12-1 pm and 4-5 pm (CET) It’s unusual enough to broadcast from a garden and create a studio situation exposed to the immediate environment (weather, temperatures, noises). With “NightGardening,” Datscha Radio took its experimental approach one step further. How can we approach the audible spheres and ecologies of the night, what stories can be told, what scents could be transformed into frequencies? Gabi Schaffner’s radiophonic sound collage presents a mix of excerpts from “Plots & Prophecies” (2017) and “Nightgardening” (2019), followed by palimpsests and passages from Datscha Radio’s 2020 festival “Listening to the Universe – Radiophonien des Alls.” The latter took place from August 11 to 13 and was dedicated to the Perseids meteor showers.
Radiophrenia’s radio sun is shining… night and day. From today, November 9 to November 22, 2020. Datscha Radio is happy to announce that selected works by Kate Donovan and Gabi Schaffner are being broadcast as part of the festival program. We are also happy to point out that many of Datscha Radios open call and performing artists are also featured, among them Chelidon Frame, Claudia Wegener, Joan Schumann, Leonie Roessler, Mobile Radio…
A quick overview (no claim to completeness)
Shorts 17Q Kate Donovan – Raum III 11. November 2020 @ 10:30-11:00
Shorts 10 Kate Donovan – Seed Dispersal 18 November 2020 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Gabi Schaffner – Fazzoletto per un eternità 18. November 2020 @ 4:00-5:00
Gabi Schaffner – Time is a Sliding Door (Radiophrenia commission) 19 November 2020 @ 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm 20 November 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Kate Donovan – Nightcall Radio 22 November 2020 @ 10:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Radiophrenia is also broadcast on Resonance Extra via its website, TuneIn and Radioplayer and on DAB+ Digital Radio in Brighton & Hove, central Bristol, Cambridge, Greater London and Norwich.
Datscha Radio will explore in radiophonic expeditions the unusual biotope of the Floating University and the program of the festival. In conversations with the artists and in interventions on site, Datscha Radio explores the modes of life and survival strategies of nature in a world shaped by humans. At times an idyllic lake, sometimes a dried up wasteland, sometimes a swampland the size of a football field – the water retention basin of the Tempelhofer Feld fluctuates between effective area and dreamscape, biomass and place of retreat.
Installations: Felicity Mangan: Amphi’theater (sound installation) Ana Maria Rodriguez: Only for one day (sound installation) Stefanie Loveday: Landfall, Collapse (video installation)
Concerts: 19:30h JD Zazie: Goldilocks Zone (turntable, CD) 20:30h Pascal Arnold, Christoph Brünggel & Benny Jaberg: Still und Dunkel (audiovisual concert-installation)
Dear artists, participants, guests and listeners, „Listening to the Universe“ from August 11 to August 13, turned out to be a true trip to the stars, mentally as well as soul-wise, yet also in terms of multiple signal reception/reflections, wave streaming and antenna experiments. Many new friendships were formed under the trees and under the night sky. During the last day though, the sun almost melted the mixer connections and we “Listening to the Universe”, from August 11 to August 13, turned out to be a true trip to the stars – for the mind as well as for the soul – but also in multiple signal receptions/reflections, wave streaming and antenna experiments. Many new friendships were formed under the trees and beneath the night sky. During the last day, the sun almost melted the mixer connections and we had to switch off for half an hour to let the tech cool down… We also had a huge Yagi-antenna attached to the Datscha roof, catching signals from the Perseids’ falling stars. As for the garden; wasp season has just started, apples and early plums kept falling off the trees, and we had to bribe an allotment neighbour with some beers to keep him from working with his electric saw.
TThe day before yesterday, we loaded our trolleys and rucksacks, and filled our bags with early-autumn apples to travel together back into the city.
The festival’s success is definitely owing to the radiophile friends and helpers who lent their hands (and heads) to “Listening to the Universe”.
Tina-Marie Friedrich (here at 4 a.m. on August 13th) for her helping hands. She looked after the guests (and us), stayed up with us until late at night and was able to find a positive side to every breakdown. Sal
Tina-Marie Friedrich (here at 4 a.m. on August 13) for her helping hands. She looked after the guests (and us), stayed up with us until late at night and was able to find a positive side to every breakdown. Salome Bühler, currently doing her voluntary social year at Studio Ansage, supported us for two days by looking after the artists and documenting the program. Jasmine Monique Guffond supported us as a sound engineer on the first day of the festival and patiently got our open-air studio up and running. Tim Schleinitz supported us at the mixer during the night of August 12 to 13, and shared his enthusiasm for GDR science fiction films with us. Tiger Stangl lent her car, gave moral support and watered the flowers JD Zazie did the sound engineering for us. Her enthusiasm for unusual sounds on the radio was as contagious as her laughter. Marold Langer-Phillipsen monitored the stream while travelling the highways between Munich and Bratislava. In the event of any tech problems he provided a remote analysis and advised us on the phone.
Please keep an eye on the Datscha website as we will strive – after a few days of rest – to fill in some gaps (more artist info, images, festival resume). A mix cloud documentation can be expected, but not before the end of September.
DatschDatscha Radio also expresses its thanks to all radio stations and radio makers that supported our work by (re)broadcasting the festival: Colaboradio, Studio Ansage and Pi Radio in Berlin; Radio Lora in Zurich; Radio Blau in Leipzig; Radio Orange in Graz; SoundArt Radio in Dartington, Devon, UK.
Soon you’ll find some photographs attached of how it looked: our set-up by day and during the night, as well as of the sky – permeated by your radiating presences and interstellar audio contributions.
Tina-Marie FriedrichJasmine GuffondJD ZazieTim SchleinitzTiger StanglMarold Langer-Philippsen on remoteSalome BühlerRead More
