The weather was just too fabulous and we moved our studio outside under the tree. Featured artists this Tuesday were Frieder Butzmann, Rosanna Lovell and Hannes Wienert.

Nachtgewächsl & DJ Shlucht haben die Datscha bespielt …

während die Zuhörerenden im Garten immer mehr werden.

Whist another wonderful Datscharadio-day has started and our Morning Choir has passed the mike to the birds and bees, please let here speak the flowers – remember that it’s been only some hours ago that PLANTS AND EMPIRE made us listen to them in the most pleasant way you can imagine, so this is the chance to make the proof: lesson learned.

During this summer the British artist Kat Austen has been exploring the arctic as artist-in-residence at the Scott Polar Research Institute of the University of Cambridge. Today she is our guest in the wintergarden studio to talk about her (sound)research at place – and of course to let us listen to some of the results.

… of our water, apple cider and vodka in the Datscha Garden and generating sounds from them. Talking live about all this in our wintergarden radio studio with Kate Donovan.
Find out more about her projects and her research in the garden in our next blog post…

Susann Richter

Paradise Lost: City. While some of our cities want to embrace wilderness, allotment gardens are alternately flooded by rain or dried to dust by untimely persistent periods of heat. While blossoming trees are waiting in vain for pollinating bees and the Buddleja davidii lacks to attract butterflies, legions of hungry snails and larvae are gnawing down leaves and fruit – in case the fungi have left some of the latter.

foto: Helen Thein

Dear all, this a quick letter from the breakfast table at Datscha Radio 17. Cloudy sky, sun rays coming through and an early phone call from the streaming tech master AB: There is still an issue with our nightloop stream not having been played last night. We sincerely apologize!!!! This minute our studio tech gulps down his coffee to check and fix this problem. 

… with some beautiful noisy stuff from Singing Kitchen aka Kasia Justka

Foto: Susann Richter