While on the bus, rain torrents flooded the streets…
Later-on, a sunny spell allowed for drinking coffee in the soft afternoon light under the apple trees. Around 5 the first guests arrived, the fire was lit and we had a great party.
Thanks to all of you for your courage to visit the garden in Feb.!
The last and 8th day of Datscha Radio stood under the star of the “Quattroflex”: Hannes Wienert, multi-instrumentalist from Hamburg, unpacked his suitcase and introduced this item to a wide-eyed audience – next to a Tibetan conch, two Korean and Japanese oboes and the Chinese sheng. The “Quattroflex” is a variant of the customary garden water hose, in the inside equipped with a quadruple lining of rills. Therefore, the sound obtains a particular frequency which reminds the listener of electronically processed vibrations. Wienert equips his tubes and shell conches with fitting mouthpieces from various saxophones, such creating a new breed of “hybrid instruments”.
Our guests of honour this day were the chairman of the “Gardening and Housing Society “Einigkeit”, Werner Bär and his wife. Another guest was Gerd Haertl, the event manager of the Rosenthal Autumn Festival. He talked about the history of the village which, having been founded in 1230, is even older than the city of Berlin. And he also played “The Hymn of Rosenthal”. Much to our delight, Mr Bär agreed to do a radio interview on the current and historical situation of the “Einigkeit”, and to emphazise the importance of this greatest of all garden parks in Berlin for the city – and of course, as the home stead of Datscha Radio. Naturally, the Datscha team seized this opportunity to thank Mr. Bär personally for his enduring support by word and deed: Since both, the tent that protected us, our guests and the tables and benches were provided by the “Einigkeit” club house for free. Together with the Liebram couple who maintains the heritage of Rosenthal at the “Altes Landhaus”, our editor Diana McCarty and our Datscha Radio artist Frau Puschel, we formed an agreeable round with coffee and beer and the apple cake vanishing by and by.
At this point, it is fit to refer to the peculiar phenomen of the tomato, being picked, resting on the table, disappearing and reappearing in a constant flow and go these days (as can be observed by looking attentively at our photos). Tomatos were in everybody’s mouth, went through everybody’s hands, they flew through the air, rolled in the grass, fell from the trees, and they ended either in a dish or immediately in somebody’s stomach. They dematerialized and rematerialized, either in a little basket presented by Peter oder in the hands of Diana, were they transformed into little red birds nesting in her hair.
And behold! Late at night, the guests gone, Mr. Wienert on his way back to Hamburg, the moon in the sky and the night owls busy in the trees while Ihlenfeld, Schultz and McCarty were talking around one table (Ms Schaffner already brushing her teeth): Three REAL night owls landed on the datscha trees and took position in a triangle around the tent. So, there were the owls talking to each other and below, the people were talking to each other. And the people laughed at their table and the owls laughed perched up high on their posts. And they hooted “hooho” and “yiipee” and “croocro”. And: “Datscha Radio- ohh-ohh”. We took this as a most positive omen, and afterwards…
we carried on celebrating.
… ganz besonders mit unserem Nachbarn Peter Ihlenfeld, dem König der Königinnen der Nacht. Ohne ihn wäre Datscha-Radio nicht möglich gewesen! Großer Dank vor allem hier also an ihn!!!
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The Finnish national Epos Kalevala tells us that in the beginning of the world all things came into existence with a duck’s egg. Let us now imagine this egg. It is just like the Seventh Datscha-Radio day: Full of surprises, events, music and never-heard-of-things. Among our famous guests were sound artist Klaas Hübner with his experimental Oscillator Fruit Salad, Morgenvogel Radio with Maria Leena Räihälä and Manuel Bonik, a group of talented youngsters who termed their instant-Datscha-band “Bermünch”, Carola Haupt and Julia from the Italian Radio Papesse, … to name just a few of them. And our edtior and great radio show maker Verena Kuni left us to return to Frankfurt. Sigh! Wonderful work and a great time we had with you, Verena!
Meanwhile, we found the time to upload our pictures, so let us take another look at the Datscha-world-egg of the 30th of August:
Evidently the self built oscillator fruits were tasty and did not electrify the ladies savouring them (at least not in any negative sense). Verena Kuni led through the experimental set-up and evolved even more energetic than before. Arrival of the Munich twins Lena and Lulu and Marie Schwab with her guitar. The girls played “This is what we would like to hear in the radio but they don’t play those songs”, Marie sang (a. o. ) a John Lee Hooker, and Lena turned out to be such a talented radio host that I could steal away from their show and join the conversations outside. The girls were joined by their friends Carl (ukulele) and Julian (guitar), both members of the Berlin band “infinity repeat”.
Morgenvogel Radio’s show featured the artist Michael (surname will be added) as performing guest and presented a surrealist blend of live performance, interview, talk on bird houses, musical interventions and readings from the Kalevala. Manuel Bonik’s laptop was wired to the boombox – analogue mixing without a mixer! –, the micro was wired to our spontaneous brain waves, a black egg served as another musical medium, a ladder was placed next to the cherry tree and Datscha-Radio got presented with an original Morgenvogel bird house – manufactured by the tender hands of Maria Räihälä herself. Thank you! More bird houses are still available from Morgenvogel Real Estate: The aim is to establish more homes for birds (and you don’t need to own a garden for that!): Be it your window sill, roof top or balkony, your favorite tree in the park, etc. Only traffic lights won’t work since they usually lack the leafy, green environment needed for a bird’s natural habitat.
In the meantime, the artist KH Jeron showed up, again in his seemingly favourite disguise as a cooking magician. This time he conjured a very delicious apple crumble pie for us of us. Thank you!
Around 10 pm Hannes Wienert arrived straight from Hamburg, wearing with a toupee and carrying his suitcase full of his peculiar collection of Asian and not-so-Asian instruments into our datscha. Morgenvogel Radio had gone slightly huppelissa, tangos were played and the full moon was up in a misty sky.
This is how the “Moon Hour” started. Manuel Bonik moved his laptop to the studio, Hannes played improvisations on this Chinese mouth organ – the infamous sheng – and as far as I remember Maria and I sang a karaoke version of Blue Moon… or did we?
Yes, and after a mind-bending free gallop over the nightly fields of more loony moony tunes, the reading of Finnish poems and more tango, there came the sad and terrible moment to say Goodbye to Verena Kuni, our brilliant co-editor from radia.fm. A treasure of knowledge and practical thought she is! Again great thanks to you, without your help a great part of our program would have never been realized!
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No, it is not that our Datscha has suddenly moved, but tonight we were broadcasting one hour via Marold Langer-Philippsen’s current location in Dresden: Somehow he got stuck there at an Ibis Hotel and decided to make his show from there: ORACULUM CYRILLI. But this was between 9 and 10 pm.
The actual day started with a TV-Team from WDR arriving to shoot some scenes for “Ratgeber Technik”. Datscha-Radio should explain how Web Radio works… and well, we did. Mark Matthes played the violin under the roseless rose arch and then left for Leipzig. Around 2 pm, Erica Mayr, an apiculturist for city bees arrived and we had a talk on bees and related issues, wonderfully accentuated by bee music. And a glass of honey, of course. As the afternoon wore on, more great shows were staged: One with Martin Howse from Mycelium Radio on Telluric Substrates, the other with the singer and harpnist Joulia Strauss. The weather was a dream. Parents, brothers, guests and friends arrived. Special surprise guest was Werner Gutmann who generously helped Datscha-Radio to a supply in beer, wine and bread. Thank you!
Late at night, another two royal blossoms opened their petals for us at Peter Ihlenfeld’s Queens the Night Garden. This time, they smelled of chocolate.
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Part 1: The weather is drizzly, but later on it will clear up and the light will be just as on the EP cover above. Of course there’s a reason for this placement: Around 6 pm we will have Gudrun Gut live with Mo Loschelder from Media Loca as Datscha-Radio studio guests. The Mark Matthes Kammerorchester has meanwhile also arrived. An apple cake is being prepared too.
Part 2: Almost 1 pm. Pit Schultz and Verena Kuni are presently excelling in the “ghost hour” with wolf sounds and anecdotes on Night people vs. Morning people as well as on dogs, cats and owls. Gudrun Gut got lost on her way to Datscha-Radio, walked her trolley almost to the neighbouring village of Lübars but was luckily re-captured. There evolved a very agreeable talk, together with Mo Loschelder from Media Loca (GG’s label), interspersed with lots of songs by exclusively female musicians. The Mark Matthes Kammerorchester started with some delay, some highly irritated neighbours turned up who demanded the volume (of violins, violins!) to be turned down. The apple cake – cooked by Michelle Teran– was gratefully received by everybody, by Mo’s aunt too. Iwanka’s (from Mix Cloud) niece climbed our trees and challenged Augustin for his third caught mouse: “Killing is evil”. Augustin was severely distraught and hid himself with his prey in the strawberries. Barbara Mürdter was also on-site, took a number of great photographs and found an interesting discussion partner in our garden neighbour Jürgen. Rindchen’s Weinkontor’s excellent wines found most grateful consumers, the marinated cutlets will remain with us for tomorrow, only Augustin’s food bowl needs a refill, but not until tomorrow, tomorrow….
By the way: yes, we had excactly the same weather as shown on the record cover above.
Incredible line-up of events today (see below)!
Apart from that there were talks about spiders, aliens and seed patents, electrified apples and walnuts, the weather changing from sun, wind and rain to wind, rain and sun, families visiting, Elvis singing, zucchini killing, apple cake and conversations about more art and music, vegetable recipes and a children radio play. reboot.fm started with a live stream of Tetsuo Kogawa from Tokyo. For this, please view the previous post.
Late at night, internet broke down. The broadcast of the first nightloop from the series “Composer’s Nightloops”, titled “Into the forest” is therefore slightly delayed.
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We woke up with the sound of a excavator: communal roadwork was scheduled. Closely, very closely our DSL cable was saved from being cut through. Men between 5 and 75 years of age held shovels and harks in their fists and a lady with garden gloves on and pruning shears removed weeds. The excavator spread raw earth on the potholes… and the bumpy garden paths improved visibly.
Meanwhile: Talks about Pomerian cucumber recipes, other gardeners, garden community laws, runaway turtles, the upcoming fruit and vegetable show (8th of Sept. at the community house) and, of course, Datscha-Radio.
by Zelda Panda
Radio show from a garden in Brandenburg (Veilchenweg, Oranienburg)
A walk to a little desert spot,
meeting trees, flowers, vegetables and humans..
with poems, nature and music from the kitchen of our datscha,
greeting spirits, swinging on a wooden old swing
learning how a cactus becomes a hotel.
Eine Stunde Gespräch und Musik zur Pomologie mit dem Frankfurter Künstler Jörg Spamer | One hour talk and music about pomology Jörg Spamer (talk in German, music international)
Weitere Infos und Playlist: www.datscharadio.de | More info and playlist: www.datscharadio.de
The result of an “under-ground-hunt” in the internet for mushroom songs and videos, some already well known and others far beyond the public (middle European) reception.
Excerpts from:
Wladimir Solouchin, Die dritte Jagd. Aufzeichnungen eines Pilzjägers. Gelesen von/Read by Ulrike Stöhring
Gustav Schenk, Schatten der Nacht. Die Macht des Giftes in der Welt. Gelesen von/Read by Mattias Scheliga
Paul Scheerbart, Münchhausen und Clarissa. Gelesen von/Read by Mattias Scheliga
Zitate von / Quotes from Knut Hamsun und/and Friedrich Nietzsche. Gelesen von/Read by Michaela Schimun
“Notiz” und/and “Pilze” aus “Phänomene der Inneren Topografie” von/by Gabi Schaffner. Gelesen von/Read by Gabi Schaffner
Other texts and songs: ask if you want to know
Nach langer Abwesenheit zurück – Team Officer, Officer und Paulator. Eine neue Folge KQSM – Kerker, Quote, Stubenmusi, ab jetzt im kompakten Einstundenformat. Thema: eine wunderbare, neue Wissenschaft namens Örnithölögie. Richtig gelesen: Örnithölögie. Es geht um Vögel.
Gesendet wird aus einer Riesenvöliere. Und wie ..
The first day was adventurous. Stage fright with Ms. Schaffner at 12 a.m., first guests arrived at 12:15 with gardener’s gifts such as “fruit leather” and a basket full of walnuts and peaches. Arrivals: Verena Kuni, the unbelievably brilliant catering team with 4 excellent salads, the friendliest bar keeper in the world. Then an interview with Pankow District Councillor Dr. Thorsten Kühne. And the highlight of the day, a stunning concert with Mimosa Pale (singing saw) and John Blue (cello) … as you can see: “Not Far From a Tree”.
Broadcast of the day: “Paradise Hour”. A reading by Matthias Scheliga, “Papapaparadies”, a radio play by Georg Klein, “Paradise”, and a soundwalk composed by Sherre Delys: “Jarman’s Garden”.
Now it is 1 a.m. and outside in the garden world politics have come to the table. Just a while ago, the internet was down, but it’s up again!
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