Datscha Radio can happily announce that funding is secured for its radiophonic stargazing event “In Between… The Stars”, on occasion of the Perseides’ falling stars in mid-August 2020. The project will be supported by the Amt for Weiterbildung und Kultur, Berlin-Pankow, and the Hans and Charlotte Krull foundation.
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How does making radio in the garden sound like? Between bugs and beetle bread, under the spell of the moon, in the small hours of the morning. How can the garden and its ecologies resound in radio?
These questions lay at the core of my archival and radiophonic investigations of what “makes” Datscha Radio special. On commission of Kunstradio Vienna a 51 minute sound collage was put together, to be broadcast on
Includes excerpts of Datscha Radio 2017 and the Nightgardening series 2019 plus additional material. Datscha Radio Berlin is realized with Kate Donovan, Helen Thein and Niki Matita.
Full Credit List, artists in order of appearance:
Intros Datscha Radio aus 2017 und 2019
Sarah Washington: Analogue Birds, Datscha Radio 2014 (Backdrop)
Hidden Stories Singers (Dafne Della Dafne, Rosanna Lovell, Zara Verity Morris, Shanti Suki Osman, Mary Beth Volker): Let Us All Speak Our Minds by Elizabeth Knight
Martha Zapparoli: Improvisation – inaudible sound project
Silky Toss & Pete de Ville: Sugar Bee, von Eddy Schuler
Frieder Butzmann. Twitter Twitter Tirili.
Seamus O’Donnell und Mi Ho: Freshly Squeezed Juice (Backdrop)
Presentation: Niki Matita
Datscha Abendchor mit Seamus O’Donnell, Mi Ho, Rosanna Lovell, Hans Kellett, Mat Pogo, Zelda Panda
Presentation Niki Matita (mit JD Zazie)
Marek Brandt: Musik für Nacktschnecken
Presentation Kate Donovan, Gabi Schaffner
Hans Kellett: Gardening with Perennials for Winter Interest
Hannes Wienert: Horchfelder
Datscha Radio Madrid Jingle with KTA Martin, Eva Kurly, Alberto Garcia and Romi Casile
Niina Lehtonen-Braun: Pikku Lintu
Tech Check. Donovan, Schaffner, Thein
Niina Lehtonen-Braun: Iltakahvit
Kat Austen: The Beetles’ Harvest Supper
Helen Thein und Christy Spackman: The Scent of Water
Hans Kellett: Polar Star. From the series „10 (S)Cent Poems“ by Gabi Schaffner
Niki Matita and Walter Schulze: Secret-en-plein-aire
Moderation: Niki Matita
Lukatoyboy: 7“ Bird Vinyls (Backdrop)
Mimi Coertse: The Nightingale and the Rose, 1932. Von Camille Saint-Saens.
Nightingale. Live Stream Nightgardening
Jari Koho: Piano / FM Radio / Loop(Backdrop)
Helena Otto: Moon & Beetroot from the Performance „To the Belly and Back“ mit Jasmina Al-Qaisi
Niki Matita and Walter Schulze: Secret-en-plein-aire (Backdrop)
Ela Spalding: Reading from „The Anthropocene“ by Christian Schwägerl
Kate Donovan: Gratitude Ritual
Ana Berkenhoff: Beast Jetzt (Tiny Sample)
Ela Spalding: Sundown
Marold Langer-Philippsen: Maschkera (The Night Garden)
Peggy Sylopp with Gabi Schaffner: Dawn walk
Jingle
Sarah Washington: Datscha Owl, Datscha Radio 2012
Assortment, editing and additional sounds: Gabi Schaffner, 2020
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Nightcall Radio by Kate Donovan: On magnetism and the unheard, unsung, of the night.
A live stream of a microFM transmission from a garden in Berlin. Starting at 21:15 CET, when the night officially begins, Nightcall Radio wonders which signals are sent at night – in the radio, in the garden – and which are also received.
This spring is different. It’s a good thing there’s radio! We’ve put together some special radiophonic seeds for you and will send them to you on air in the near future. Miraculously, there are various “seed distribution resources” that will support their dispersal.
New broadcasting studio in Berlin
On March 31st, the new FRBB studio will open in Haus der Statistik on Alexanderplatz in Berlin. From 3 – 10 p.m. there will be contributions by Colaboradio, frrapò – freies radio potsdam, Ohrfunk.de, Ohrsicht, onda, Pi Radio – Sender Berlin 88,4 MHz, Radio aporee, Freies Bürgerradio Slubfurt, Radio PAX, Radio Woltersdorf, Studio Ansage…. and to be heard from Datscha Radio.
“Datscha Radio in a Nutshell” is the title of the 10-minute sound collage that Niki Matita will present as part of her contribution. (Listen here at the sidebar on the right – credits at the end of this post). We are happy to participate and congratulatefr-bb.org on the new studio!
Matters of Transmission at Soundcamp, London
Kate Donovan’s contribution to the Soundcamp Festival in London is expected to be streamed between May 2nd and 3rd. “Matters of Transmission: Nightfall Radio” will begin at sunset and relates directly to Kate’s radiophonic research: natural radio, magnetite, memory, migration, multi-species communications, trans-scalar issues…
SoundCamp is an art collective in the Stave Hill Ecological Park in Rotherhithe that has existed since 2013. Their practice continues to evolve in response to its location through residencies, collaborations and commissions.
Vienna has also discovered the “garden on the radio” for itself. As part of this theme park, Kunstradio will seemingly broadcast a 50-minute soundcollage about Datscha Radio on May 20. Produced by Elisabeth Zimmermann and Gabi Schaffner.
Datscha Radio in a Nutshell – Credits
Composition and editing: Gabi Schaffner 2020. Length: 10 min
Excerpts taken from:
Jingles, rehearsals and mixes: 2012, 2014 Michaela Schimun, Ulrike Stoehring, “Datscha Owl” by Sarah Washington 2012; Nightgardening III: Gabi Schaffner, Niki Matita; Datscha Radio Taiwan, 2019: Catherine Lee, Yi-Chun Liu, Mabel Wang and Ming-Chun Cheng; Datscha Radio Madrid, 2018: KTA Martin, Romi Casile, Alberto Garcia. Eva Kurly.
Radio art pieces (in order of appearance): Babosa, Niki Matita 2019; Seeds, Kate Donovan (with Scout, Molly and Hunter from their garden) 2019; Greenhouse Emissions, Kate Donovan and Ryan McFadyen 2017, Gymnospermium Pills, Gabi Schaffner, 2019, voice: Kate Donovan
Surprise insert: The Giant Hummingbird. Frieder Butzmann at Datscha Radio 2017
Choir: The Nightingale by Thomas Wheeler, sung by the Berlin choir Singlust e.V. under the direction and by courtesy of Andrea Eckhard. Datscha Radio Nightgardening I, “The Night of the Nightingales” 2019
Musicians involved: Hannes Wienert, Mimosa Pale, FX Schroeder
Additional sound bites: Gabi Schaffner