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
Have you got your wishes ready for the falling stars? We’ll help them travel the aether and further and further… Datscha Radio hopes to gather a continuous assemblage of your audio or text messages to the stars that will be played or read out over the course of our 48 hour transmission. The universe will listen, be assured!
Send a message via the mentioned messenger service to: “Star Telegram” OR: Send to info@datscharadio.de
We accept poems, statements, messages in text but even better: in audio.
Thank you for your excellent, intricate and lovingly created submissions. All in all some 50 tracks from all over the galaxy reached the orbit of the festival. The spectrum of compositions was immense: From star-system snooker playing to in-depth imaginations of meteors, from dialogues with the whispering universe to space opera, from intricate sound webs to radiophonic invocations, from the drama of matter, stargazing and the human voice to full-blown radio show productions.
Two thematically different loops/constellations were created for each of the festival nights.
I Voicing the Universe August 12, 3-9 am (alphabetical order)
Beate Gördes – Sound–Imagination (Kosmos x1) Bea Xu – Apocalypse Narratives catenation – shrouded matter (li… Cio D`Or – A4 ContinuumLynlee: Traceless Land – Feline & Strange – Science Fiction Hairs Abyss – Remembering the West Joan Schuman – Hyperacousia Könemann Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka und Nacht–Egal – der leere raum – konstellationen Lazy Lizzie & The Taxi Boat –Celestial Soup Sista Goldie Bee and Steve Transcoder – Dark Crying Sky Trihn Lo – DisApparences Topp&Dubio – Am–I-Flow-sound Weijing Xiao – Then I dissolve
II Matter of Space August 13, 5am-10am (alphabetical order)
Alice Pamuk – Snooker Anna Stereopoulos – Amphilyce Brainquake – Starfish Chelidon Frame – Halimede (Neptune IX) Cio D`Or – Permanent Key Constantine Katsiris – NASA Spaceweather Broadcast Das unpreetzise Klang–Labor – The Elements Derek Harrison – Perseus Visits Jacob Moginot – Magnetic Reconnection Jaripekka Koho/Tulasi – Pulse of Perseids Julia Drouhin – Jupiter at 6 pm Julian Scordato – Earth Song Karen Chalco – n4ziap Keddie Victoria –AscendingNode Lydia_Ang – Moth and Mayfly Ruta_Vitkauskaite – Orion Arm Sebastian Pafundo –LA CREAtion Sebastiane Hegarty – Nothing for harp and southwest Ubu Kung – Euclid
If you don’t find your name in the lists: Some productions will surface within the course of our still flexible 48-hour program. At this point, Datscha Radio cannot name precise slots. A more definite account of „Listening to the Universe“ will be added by later on.
Again, Datscha Radio wishes to express her thanks for your creative involvement. Let us listen, across the globe, with our senses exposed to the touch of the radio waves. We will hear us in the 5th dimension!
