Radia
Encyclopedia
Started in April 2005, the Radia network is an international informal network of community radio stations
that have a common interest in producing and sharing art works
for the radio
. In 2010, the network gathers 17 radio stations from 15 cities across 11 countries, speaking 7 different languages. It also organizes linked-up events and special broadcasts. Radia intends to be a space of reflection about today's radio
and radio art
. Its activities try to contribute to intercultural exchange and artworks and artists circulation.
The network's name freely refers to La Radia , Futurist
manifesto written by Federico Tomaso Marinetti and Pino Masnata in 1933. The network's founders dropped the La to distance themselves from the Futurists' political views. As it stands alone, "radia" is simply "radio" or "radios" in some languages.
, Radia is "bringing new and forgotten ways of making radio to [their] listeners. Each week [they] give artists the challenge to make radio that works all across Europe and beyond." The Radia show intends to cross boundaries and address people of different languages and cultures. It usually explores the different genres of radio art
, separately or by mixing them: sound art
, electroacoustic music
, sound poetry
, radio drama
, soundscape
.
for sound art pieces.
and art-radio projects that broadcast the Radia weekly show and produce shows in turns.
Founding members are:
A non-contributing partner of the network is ORF Kunstradio (Vienna)
Community radio
Community radio is a type of radio service, that offers a third model of radio broadcasting beyond commercial broadcasting and public broadcasting. Community stations can serve geographic communities and communities of interest...
that have a common interest in producing and sharing art works
Work of art
A work of art, artwork, art piece, or art object is an aesthetic item or artistic creation.The term "a work of art" can apply to:*an example of fine art, such as a painting or sculpture*a fine work of architecture or landscape design...
for the radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
. In 2010, the network gathers 17 radio stations from 15 cities across 11 countries, speaking 7 different languages. It also organizes linked-up events and special broadcasts. Radia intends to be a space of reflection about today's radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
and radio art
Radio art
Radio art refers to the use of radio for art. "Radio Art implies that the artist who works in, and with, radio is not necessarily a trained DJ, programmer, producer, engineer, or personality, but one who uses sound to make art and seeks ways to transit it through radio as art...
. Its activities try to contribute to intercultural exchange and artworks and artists circulation.
The network's name freely refers to La Radia , Futurist
Futurism
Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century.Futurism or futurist may refer to:* Afrofuturism, an African-American and African diaspora subculture* Cubo-Futurism* Ego-Futurism...
manifesto written by Federico Tomaso Marinetti and Pino Masnata in 1933. The network's founders dropped the La to distance themselves from the Futurists' political views. As it stands alone, "radia" is simply "radio" or "radios" in some languages.
Shows
The Radia Network's basis is a weekly 28 minutes show broadcast by all the stations. Each station produces the show in turns. Every round of shows is called a season.Content
As stated in their jingleJingle
A jingle is a short tune used in advertising and for other commercial uses. The jingle contains one or more hooks and lyrics that explicitly promote the product being advertised, usually through the use of one or more advertising slogans. Ad buyers use jingles in radio and television...
, Radia is "bringing new and forgotten ways of making radio to [their] listeners. Each week [they] give artists the challenge to make radio that works all across Europe and beyond." The Radia show intends to cross boundaries and address people of different languages and cultures. It usually explores the different genres of radio art
Radio art
Radio art refers to the use of radio for art. "Radio Art implies that the artist who works in, and with, radio is not necessarily a trained DJ, programmer, producer, engineer, or personality, but one who uses sound to make art and seeks ways to transit it through radio as art...
, separately or by mixing them: sound art
Sound art
Sound art is a diverse group of art practices that considers wide notions of sound, listening and hearing as its predominant focus. There are often distinct relationships forged between the visual and aural domains of art and perception by sound artists....
, electroacoustic music
Electroacoustic music
Electroacoustic music originated in Western art music during its modern era following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice. The initial developments in electroacoustic music composition during the mid-20th century are associated with the activities of composers...
, sound poetry
Sound poetry
Sound poetry is an artistic form bridging between literary and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values; "verse without words"...
, radio drama
Radio drama
Radio drama is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story...
, soundscape
Soundscape
A soundscape is a sound or combination of sounds that forms or arises from an immersive environment. The study of soundscape is the subject of acoustic ecology...
.
Production
Usually each member radio station commissions an artist from their local artistic community and gives him/her carte blanche for producing a show. In that sense, Radia uses radio as a galleryArt gallery
An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...
for sound art pieces.
Exchange
To share the shows the Radia Network formerly used Radioswap.net, a semi-public closed platform for program exchange between community radios. Now it utilizes the server space of one of its member stations.Members
Members of the Radia Network are radio stations, webradiosInternet radio
Internet radio is an audio service transmitted via the Internet...
and art-radio projects that broadcast the Radia weekly show and produce shows in turns.
Founding members
On 3–7 February 2005, there was a first meeting of radio stations in Berlin under the banner of NERA (New European Radio Art). The decision was taken to start a broadcast season the following April, and an email discussion list was set up on which the name Radia was finally settled on.Founding members are:
- Resonance FMResonance FMResonance 104.4 FM is a London based non-profit community radio station run by the London Musicians' Collective .The station is staffed by four permanent staff members, including programme controller Ed Baxter and over 300 volunteer technical and production staff.Until September 2007, ResonanceFM...
(London) - Rádio Zero (at the time designated RIIST , Lisbon)
- Kanal 103 (Skopje)
- Reboot.fm (to become Backyard Radio, Radio 1:1, Herbstradio, Berlin)
- Radio Campus (Brussels)
- Radio Cult (Sofia), inactive since December 2006
- Tilos Radio (Budapest), inactive since December 2007
- Orange (Vienna)
- Radio Oxygen (Tirana), would actually never contribute.
New members
- Radio Grenouille (Marseille, France), February 2006
- Lemurie TAZ (Prague, Czech Republic), March 2006, inactive since November 2008
- free103point9 (New York City, USA), first non-European radio station, September 2006
- Radio Panik (Brussels, Belgium), January 2007
- Soundart RadioSoundart RadioSoundart Radio 102.5 fm is an art radio station based in Dartington, Totnes, Devon, UK. Founded as a student radio station in 2006 by two graduates of Dartington College of Arts, Nell Harrison and Lucinda Guy, the station moved onto a full time Community Radio Licence in February 2009 broadcasting...
(Dartington, UK), March 2007 - Radio Corax (Halle, Germany), May 2007
- Radio X (Frankfurt, Germany), April 2008
- XL Air (Brussels, Belgium), June 2008
- CKUT (Montreal, Canada), July 2008
- Radio One (Dunedin, New Zealand), August 2009
- CFRC (Kingston, Canada), December 2009
- Radio Helsinki (Graz, Austria), February 2010
- Radio Papesse (Siena, Italy), March 2010
- Radio WORM (Rotterdam, Netherlands), May 2010
- Escuela Creativa de Radio TEA FM (Zaragoza, Aragon-Spain), January 2011
A non-contributing partner of the network is ORF Kunstradio (Vienna)
Special events and broadcasts
- 15–18 October 2004: Resonance "Radio Art Riot", a four-night event bringing together some of the foremost radio artists and thinkers from around the world in a studio-as-creative-lab situation which featured round table discussions, live radio art, performances at venues around London and streamed events from other countries. Themes included ‘Plunderphonics/Sampling’, 'Copyright/Copyleft’ and ‘Radio Text’. This was the first time that some of the radio stations that would later become Radia worked together - Resonance from the U.K., reboot.fm from Germany, Orange and Kunstradio from Austria, Tilos from Hungary and Radio Cult from Bulgaria.
- 10–14 April 2006: Meeting in Lisbon and co-producing of a radio art festival with Rádio Zero under the banner of RadiaLx2006.
- 15 September 2006: First Radia special, simultaneously broadcast live on 9 radio stations: Time labs is a collection of one-minute pieces from artists of the Radia Network. It was released for the final conference of the radio territories project.
- April 2007: The Radia Network has received an honorary mention at the 2007 Prix Ars Electronica in the category "digital communities" of the Ars Electronica FestivalArs ElectronicaArs Electronica is an organization based in Linz, Austria, founded in 1979 around a festival for art, technology and society that was part of the International Bruckner Festival. Herbert W. Franke is one of its founders. It became its own festival and a yearly event in 1986. Its director until 1995...
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- 19 July 2007: The Radia Network is presented at the Radio Grenouille's Grenouille Capitale festival in Paris, with a special piece by Radio Free Robots collective broadcast on Radio Campus ParisRadio Campus ParisRadio Campus Paris is a non-profit Student radio station. Founded in 1998 and first broadcast on the Internet, the radio can be listened to in Paris, France on 93.9 FM . Managed by volunteers , this indie student radio focuses on emerging music and local and student-related news.-External links:*...
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- 28 October 2007: The Radia Network was invited by the Radiophonic festival in Brussels. Radioactive Radiophony is a 4 hour live show made with in situ and streamed performances, simultaneously broadcast on 13 radio stations.
- December 2007 - January 2008: Diverse retrospectives of the Network's recent activity. 3 journeys through Radia on ÖRF Kunstradio, a Radia retrospective on Resonance FM, Espectro Electro Magnético on Antena 2 (Rádio e Televisão de Portugal).
- 28 February - 8 March 2008: Radia shows are featured daily on the "AV festivalAV FestivalThe AV Festival is the UK’s largest international festival of electronic art, and features new media art, film, music, and games. As with festivals such as Ars Electronica, ISEA and DEAF, it is considered to be a new media art festival...
radio station" in Newcastle. Besides this regular shows from Radia member stations are broadcast on Soundscape FM in Sunderland.
- 20 to 28 September 2008: the RadiaLx2008 festival hosts a meeting for Radia and promotes Radia shows and Radia artists performances in Lisbon, Portugal.
- 28 December 2008: a special 2008 review/mashup is broadcast at Kunstradio.
- Selected works from the more than, at the time, 200 productions of Radia shows could be listened during the 2009 edition of Festival Silêncio, promoted by Goethe-Institut Lisbon, Portugal .
- A special selection of radia shows was broadcast during Radio Futura, a temporary station of the Future Places Festival in Porto, 14–17 October 2009.
- Radia gave support to the 3rd edition of the RadiaLx Festival in Lisboa in 2010. Several stations did live streamings to the Festival and other rebroacasted parts of it.
- In September 2010 Radia started uploading it's archive into archive.org
- From the 12th to the 16th October the full of season 23 of Radia programmes was re-broadcast during Future Places Festival in O'Porto, Portugal, incorporated in the Radio Futura temporary radio station (91.5 MHz FM Porto).
- From October to December 2010 ORF Kunstradio broadcast a series of five radio art programmes specially curated by Radia, that were recorded during the Radia Art Camp in July 2010 at the Gasometer in OberhausenGasometer OberhausenThe Oberhausen gasometer, the largest disc-type gas holder in Europe, is an industrial monument located in Oberhausen, Germany. It was constructed between 1927 and 1929. Today it is an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage and serves as an exhibition hall...
External links
- The Radia Network website Radia.fm
- Old Radia Network website radia.constantvzw.org
- Radia programmes archive at archive.org