Nous, on est là ! Journal d’une année de luttes en Belgique.
Belgium. Since the national protest on October 14, 2025, we’ve been taking our microphones out into the streets to meet the people fighting against the government’s austerity plan. Amid these crowds, unique voices emerge - from people of all ages, backgrounds, and sectors - bearing witness to the harshness of these measures and their social injustice. Together, these voices are rising up in resistance!
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Lacollective.be est une initiative de citoyen.ne.s travaillant dans le secteur artistique en Belgique, en dehors de tous partis ou groupes idéologiques. Le secteur artistique, bien que mis à mal, doit être aussi fédérateur des luttes de tous secteurs. Nous avons les outils d’expression, de production, d’information, de sensibilisation.
Depuis la manifestation nationale belge du 14 octobre 2025, avec nos micros, nous partons à la rencontre de celles et de ceux qui luttent contre le plan d’austérité des gouvernements. Nous allons dans les écoles, hôpitaux, institutions, usines, bureaux, associations, administrations et dans la rue pour rendre visible ce qu’il est entrain de se passer.
Nous collectons des sons brutes, des paroles peu montées, nous prendrons le temps d’écouter celles et ceux qu’on entend trop peu et qui subissent de plein fouet le tsunami anti-social.
Au sein de ces foules, émergent des paroles singulières de tous âges, toutes provenances, tous secteurs, témoignant de la violence de ces mesures et de leur injustice sociale. Ensemble, les voix s’élèvent pour résister !
Nous, on est là ! Journal d’une année de luttes en Belgique.
Impro8 by Grand8
Impro8 avec les improvisateur·ices de l’espace de pratique porté par Grand8.
En 2016, une poignée de musiciennes et de musiciens, une rencontre, un partage autour de l’improvisation, un désir et un plaisir à jouer ensemble.
Grand8 est né.
Grand8 est sorti d’une urgence, improviser, ensemble, en grand ensemble, sans chef·fe d’orchestre.
Grand8 a d’abord travaillé, construit sa musique, traversé ses espaces, bâti son commun, initié son histoire.
Grand8 a grandi, pour atteindre un effectif d’une quinzaine de musicien·nes.
Grand8 porte une musique improvisée, en grand ensemble, sans chef·fe d’orchestre. Basé à Marseille, l’ensemble réunit des musicien·nes de la région Sud, nationaux et européens.
Grand8 est en résidence au GMEM-CNCM-Marseille depuis 2018.
L’ensemble travaille sur des créations annuelles avec des invité·s pluridisciplinaires et explore les croisements de l’improvisation musicale avec la danse, le texte, l’image, le paysage.
Il se positionne également en tant qu’acteur de la scène en Région Sud avec l’organisation du festival multidisciplinaire Grand Vertige, ainsi que de sessions musique et danse-musique.
Bastien Boni (contrebasse), Olivier Bost (trombone), Sébastien Bouhana (tambour, objets), Laurent Charles (saxophone soprano), Emmanuel Cremer (violoncelle), João Fernandes (instruments numériques), Catherine Jauniaux (voix, objets), Soizic Lebrat (violoncelle), Magali Rubio (clarinettes), Geneviève Sorin (accordéon), Katherine Sowerby (percussions, vibraphone), Nicoló Terrasi (guitare), François Wong (saxophone baryton).
There is nothing to see, only Lithuanian flag
Radio Atatakai is a radio art project and station run by artists Tata Frenkel and dr. Jan Glöckner. Jan’s research interest is choreographic potential of fungi and humans, with a focus on biotechnology, deep tank fermentation, radio and dance. And Tata’s artistic practice encompasses radio, radio-acoustic instruments, diagrammatic drawings, and performative narratives in which the limits of articulation, themes of health and care, and the communication physics intertwine.
Radio Atatakai calls itself a tiny intergalactical station that runs two big sub-programs called “Autonomous education for radio spectrum” and “Fundamental principles of permanent fun”. But maybe that’s the least interesting thing about it. Jan lives with rapidly progressing ALS, while Tata is Jan’s main caretaker. Hence the radio exists in the routine of palliative care. Since the beginning of the Radio Atatakai, it has been transmitting through the high resistance of medical crisis, it was and still is bringing meaning, ground and freedom to create, communicate, share and just to stay yourself when the disease takes one’s ability to participate physically.
Radio Atatakai wants to emphasize voices, unseen bodies, radio sky that belongs to everybody. Palliative arts is something that cares for the end, doesn’t ignore it, doesn’t mystify it, it is about care in multitude of its forms. At the same time, for us, it mainly affects the framework, the flexible curation of the transmissions – station is completely adjusted so it’s good for one’s condition, so it’s fun without any damage to energy levels, a producer is also a caregiver, we totally live by unpredictability, by easying the symptoms.
In this show, we have a small restrospective trip that happens somewhere outside.
Music and editing by Tata Frenkel. Voices: Jan Glöckner and Tata.
AUTOMATENKORRIDOR
“In the form of a radio logbook the ‘conductor’ (Gabi Schaffner) & the DJ (DIY Church) make their way through hand-picked corridors, filled with devices. In the radio studio, little doors are opened, devices are drafted, shattered and discarded. Mean machines are exposed. Whole corridors of them […] You can already hear it from afar. A straightener, a chin strap… Access over or through foreign territories. Sovereign domains, high-frequency paradise apples, singing machines. One day it was there, the industrial revolution! Memorable things, more like sights to be seen. Stealing a berry from the neighbor. Searching for… a radio is playing somewhere. Entrance to healthy paranoia – just a pinch. A wind blows once through the corridor – an elongated connecting space in the first half of some century. And no, or was it actually in the museum for selfie sticks? That’s where the expedition began. Luckily, there was a writing tool…” (G.S./E.M.S.)
AUTOMATENKORRIDOR was a live radio performance created for the exhibition “Anybody out there? 100 Years of Radio” at Kunstraum D21 in Leipzig in 2020. Our walk through the corridor lasted for two hours. What you can hear here are the first 26.5 minutes, at the end of which a strange signal lures the wanderers onward. But where to? It’s up to your fantasies…
Live broadcast: November 28, 2020
ERNST MARKUS STEIN
The freelance artist Ernst Markus Stein is a co-founder of the online radio streaming project DIYChurch and a member of the Cashmere Radio collective. When he isn’t filling in at WestGermany (Berlin), he can usually be found at home, where he runs a virtual yacht club and devotes himself to underwater landscape painting, connecting waves, and transforming content management systems into poetry.
From time to time, he disguises himself as a disc jockey (DJ ShluchT) and throws carpets of sound and information around. Lately, he seems to have been wasting his existence on outdated copying machines, using them to print out the internet.
Find out more at swimmer.hopto.org/sidequest/
GABI SCHAFFNER
Gabi Schaffner works as an interdisciplinary sound artist and curator.
Her artistic practice is determined by the methods of poetic ethnography in connection with fluxus-like mise-en-scènes, radio-making and sound art performances. Much of her work originates from journeys. Next to her radiophonic productions, Schaffner creates speculative musical genres and inserts them into music history in order to raise awareness for cultural, gender-related and/or geographical conditions.
Schaffner has been realising award-winning productions with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, radia.fm, Hessian Cultural Radio and ABC Australia. Since 2012 she maintains DATSCHA RADIO, a nomadic transmission project that links the medium of radio to current ecological issues.
Find out more about DATSCHA RADIO at www.datscharadio.de
and about GABI SCHAFFNERs projects in a broader perspective at www.schaffnerin.net
GABI SCHAFFNER & ERNST MARKUS STEIN
Since 2020, GABI SCHAFFNER and ERNST MARKUS STEIN have been working together.
They have created several DATSCHA RADIO iterations, most recently in September 2026 as RADYO PARFÜM in Frankfurt/Main. In 2026, they founded the No-Fashion label U5E.L3ss.
Their joint exhibition “Batteries are not included,” together with Mathias Deutsch and Thomas Lüer, ran from August 14 to September 13, 2026 at Kunstverein Familie Montez in Frankfurt/Main.
great many thanks to GABI SCHAFFNER and ERNST MARKUS STEIN for AUTOMATENKORRIDOR!
metadata:
AUTOMATENKORRIDOR by GABI SCHAFFNER & DIY CHURCH (ERNST MARKUS STEIN)
radia production: miss.gunst [GUNST + radiator x]
production date: september 2026
station: radio x, frankfurt am main (germany)
length: 28 min.
licence: (cc-by-nc-nd) GABI SCHAFFNER & ERNST MARKUS STEIN
www.radiox.de – www.gunst.info – www.datscharadio.de – www.schaffnerin.net – swimmer.hopto.org/sidequest/
additional info:
includes radia jingles (in/out), station and program info/intro (english)
links:
radio x & radiator x: www.radiox.de – www.radiox.de/radiator-x
GUNSTradio & radiator x: www.gunst.info – www.gunst.info/radiator
Gabi Schaffner: www.datscharadio.de – www.schaffnerin.net
Ernst Markus Stein: swimmer.hopto.org/sidequest/
Umbra
On August 12, 2026, for a few minutes, the sun disappeared and the world listened differently. Umbra is a sound piece that begins in that suspended moment and builds a journey between the physical and the imagined: the murmur of hundreds of people looking up, the abrupt silence of birds mistaking noon for night, the wind shifting direction as if it, too, hesitated.
From there, the piece opens outward into space: radio frequencies captured from the solar wind, the low hum of a magnetic field behaving differently during the eclipse, electromagnetic echoes suggesting how the sun — even hidden — keeps shaping the activity of Earth and its neighboring planets. A reminder that our daily rhythm, the tides, the weather, life itself, depend on a star we barely notice until it’s gone.
And when the light returns, Umbra doesn’t reach for easy wonder, but for something quieter: the sense that if, for a moment, an entire continent could pause to look up at the same thing, maybe the world isn’t as broken as it seems. A piece about darkness that doesn’t frighten but orders things; about hope that doesn’t shout, but can be heard low, like an echo taking its time to arrive.
Borborygmes
Depuis 2022, *Duuu fait partie du réseau Radia, groupe international de radios libres créé en 2005, dont les membres proposent chaque semaine une émission originale à diffuser sur toutes les ondes radiophoniques.
Radia Show #1120 : Borborygmes - Ioa Beduneau / *Duuu Radio
Borborygmes est un mixage, une tentative de dialogue entre des prises de sons (d’oiseaux, chauves souris, insectes…) et des sons de synthèse à modèles physiques dans le but de créer une ambiguïté entre les sources sonores et d’en donner à entendre leur richesse respective.
Qu’est ce qui est “naturel” ?
Qu’est ce qui est “synthétique” ? Qu’est ce qui est bruit ?
Qu’est ce qui est musique ?
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Cette pièce sonore a été réalisée et diffusée en août 2026 à l’occasion de la résidence La Pomme, la cuve et le ferment organisée au sein de la coopérative de fermentation expérimentale Pain Liquide, située à Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, dans le Cotentin.
Réalisation par Ioa Beduneau
Production par *Duuu Radio x Pain Liquide
Avec le soutien de la Drac Normandie, du département de la Manche et de la Mairie de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte.
Since 2022, *Duuu has been part of an international group of independent radio stations, Radia, founded in 2005, whose members produce an original programme each week to be broadcast across all radio frequencies.
Borborygmes is a mix, an attempt at a dialogue between field recordings (of birds, bats, insects, etc.) and physically modelled synthetic sounds, with the aim of creating ambiguity between the sound sources and highlighting their respective richness.
What is “natural” ?
What is “synthetic” ? What is noise?
What is music ?
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This sound piece was produced and broadcast in August 2026 as part of the La Pomme, la cuve et le ferment residency organised at the Pain Liquide experimental fermentation cooperative, located in Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (Cotentin, France).
A sound piece by Ioa Beduneau
Produced by *Duuu Radio x Pain Liquide
With the support of the Drac Normandie, the Department of La Manche and the City of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte.
Radia Mixage : Mathias Dupaquier
Modulations Radiales
Every Summer, close to the full moon, a group of sound artists walk up montain carryng radios. Modulation is a micro radio camp run by artists Emma Loriaut and Julien Clauss for the past 16 years. Participants have to have a battery-operated or acoustic sound set up, a tent, some food and a portable FM radio. Over the 24 hours, participants chose their time slot, focusing on environmental sounds, day light or moon presence, temperature and the mountain itself. In this way the landscape dictates the line up. This concatenation sound piece came out of the 26 radio concerts that took place between 4 - 5 July 2026, at 1700m alttitude in the Devoluy Mountains. Every time you hear a cut, a new musician is playing.
Aether
Aether continues a field recording discipline that extends listening beyond the limits of human perception, revealing electromagnetic environments that exist alongside the audible world. Recorded in three remote locations - the Nevada Desert (2016), St Agnes in the Isles of Scilly (2021) and the Pyrenees (2023)—the works were created using a Stephen P. McGreevy VLF receiver. The environments were chosen for their lack of technological interference, where human-made electromagnetic activity recedes and the Earth’s own radio environment emerges.
Stephen Shiell is a London-based sound artist, improviser, composer and field recordist working across experimental music, radiophonic art and site-responsive practice. His recorded works, live performances, sound walks, and workshops explore listening, gathering and performing as social, ecological and political acts, engaging with sound as a means of understanding place and environment. Drawing on field recordings, found and self-built instruments, electromagnetic sound and live electronics, he creates immersive works spanning solo and collaborative performance, radio and participatory projects. He is a certified Deep Listening practitioner and one half of the duo Blanc Sceol. He works collaboratively through Surge Cooperative on listening-based projects along the Channelsea River in East London.
c/o Sirius
“Hello, this is Anna calling, from Earth. Just a few meters away from the top of Ancient Minoa. Last time I was here I found ‘my’ Tree broken by the wind. I touched it and wished us a ‘New Life’. I must return, I know. You, too. I know. I wish you a Happy New Life. I knitted this sonic shawl for you, to wish me a Happy New (personal) Year, soon! I love you! Your little cat”.
An imaginary letter from a daughter to a mother, consisting of the “Amphilyce”, “Ad Vivam Flammam” & “Hestia Fields” Diptych and “Galanthus” sound works, all produced and compiled by Anna Stereopoulou, featuring (free) Space Sounds compiled through the CARISMA. On the occasion of August Celestial Events and the composer’s birthday.
Anna Stereopoulou specialises in the field of Music Composition for Film & TV, whilst since 2017, she has been introducing a special form of live presentations, described as Cymatic Environment© (SYN and PLANO projects) and inspired by her Art & Science research. She has also composed music for the Theatre, Dance, Installations, Radio, Music Ensembles and Orchestra, and has presented her art in cultural venues and archaeological sites. Since 2006, she has occasionally been presenting her FEELMUSIC seminar series, whilst she has worked as an Advisor/Programmer in Music & Film Festivals (Italy, France) and has developed her work through a wide range of collaborations, through her activity in the field of Culture, Education, Journalism and Tourism, and as a member of female:pressure network.
Anna Stereopoulou | composer-pianist-researcher
A STEREOSCOPIC perspective of Music & Art©
FOSSIL///NOISE
An archive on the regulatory sense offers two shapes to live in : the grid, discrete, indexed, metric, the space of the catalogue and the timestamp, where everything has a slot and a slot has everything, or the flow, smooth, continuous, borderless, the space of the algorithm that sorts by resemblance instead of by rule. The flow looks like an escape from the grid. It works instead as the grid’s next form. Control doesn’t need walls once it can modulate a stream. Smoothness rarely means freedom: it works as surveillance without edges. A technofossil, though, doesn’t live in either shape. It lives in the escape of a different dimension from them, a fugitive geography. Between any two points in an archive there are always more points, mysterious, semiopen parts that are somehow both separable and inseparable from their neighbors, a texture that is neither cleanly cut nor cleanly continuous. This is a mereotopology. A technofossil can then be a fragment that stays a fragment no matter which classification tries to absorb it. It works less like debris than like a lure. A technofossil behaves the way a living fossil like the Arctic lamprey hunts, offering part of itself as bait, a tongue that wiggles like prey, close enough to something known to be pulled in and named, then slipping the catch just as recognition closes over it, a catastrophe of recognition that keeps recurring. Fugitiveness works this way too, staying legible only to itself, moving in ways the archive’s capturing apparatus hasn’t learned to follow yet.
What makes this geography fugitive, rather than simply unmapped, is that the archive’s own attempt at closure produces it, from inside its own edges. Any finite set of rules, any index, any algorithm, any catalogue, throws off a remainder it cannot account for, an incompressible residue generated by the very act of trying to make the archive total. A technofossil behaves the same way a transmission behaves once it has outlived the station that sent it, an archive of doom still propagating after the system that made it has closed the file. It persisted, migrated onto substrates nobody built for it, the way certain organisms take a bomb crater or a subculture takes root in the wreckage of a project that already failed, an ecology of distortion. It can also work as an archive of the hypothetical, a wrong prediction still waiting in the record for a chance to act on the present again.
In an attempt to scavenge a technofossil in this mix, nothing is mourned back into coherence. It stays inhabited in its ruined form, activated at the exact pitch of its distortion, an affection for destruction, that distortion is still carrying a charge.
Here, we are interested in the incomputable residue that any act of transmission, capture, or archiving throws off, and in treating that residue as the actual terrain worth mapping. An archive that fully accounts for everything it holds has stopped being strange to itself. Fossil///Noise is built from the technofossils it can’t hold, the fragments left over once the filing is done.
Samples include :
André Damião – Deumaestrutura (from NARVA2) — 2022
Merzboom – un till ed #002 – The Nightmare Continues — 2024
Yuri Bruscky – Trava-Língua nº 3 — 2023
W. Halliday – Arctic Noise (WCS Canada Ice Sounds) — n.d.
W. Halliday – Fish Grunt Sachs — 2015
W. Halliday – Bearded Seal — 2016
God Pussy – Raízes em Transe (from Diáspora: Expressão Ancestral) — 2023
God Pussy – Contos de Sinhá (from Diáspora: Expressão Ancestral) — 2023
Jesse Paul Miller – Sounds of Secret Records — 1995/1998
Martín Rodríguez – Des Cloches À La Solidarité / Une Grande Onde, Entre Temps Perdus (Transmission Ecologies Ep.14) — 2022
Sbjtvo – Isla decepción (title track) — 2020
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay – Sonic Psychogeographies II — 2025
Ajítẹnà – Chuva (from Habitar as coisas) — 2023
Jordan Belson & Stephen Beck – Cycles — 1974
Len Lye (film) / Andrew Pask (soundtrack) – Tusalava — 2008
Takashi Ito – Thunder — 1982
Amy Ireland – Cultivating Darkness — n.d.
Class Divide (dir. Simon James) – Neolithic Cannibals Soundscape — 2024
Reza Negarestani – On the Practical Necessity of Having Demons (Session 4) — n.d.
Sadie Plant – Where to with Cyberfeminism (CTM 2014) — 2014
The Sonic Epidermis of Lake Léman
An introduction to the concept of the undulatory epidermis.
This is the story of Jaklos, a young man who, following in the footsteps of his uncle Perdida, embarks on a long journey that will take him to the shores of Lake Léman, where he will make his fortune. In this epic tale, Lake Léman exerts a fascination over him that goes far beyond mere aesthetic admiration.
Very quickly, the lake will become an essential element of this tragedy, representing far more than a mere detail of the landscape, as it exerts a profound influence on his psyche. Like an oracle, it will reveal itself to be an evil creature, and Jaklos will not be its only victim.
Epiderme sonore du Léman
Introduction à la notion d’épiderme ondulatoire.
C’est l’histoire de Jaklos, un jeune homme qui, suivant les traces de son Oncle Perdida, entamera un long voyage qui le conduira au bord du lac Léman où il fera fortune. Dans cette épopée, le lac Léman exerce sur lui une forme de fascination qui va beaucoup plus loin que la simple admiration esthétique.
Très vite le lac va devenir un élément essentiel de cette tragédie, et représenter bien plus qu’un simple détail du paysage, agissant sur sa psyché. À la manière d’un oracle, il se révélera être une créature maléfique et Jaklos n’en sera pas la seule victime.
A radia guest slot from L’Institut International de Recherche sur la Radio et la Magie
Produced by the International Institute for Research for Radio and Magic
Produit par l’Institut International de Recherche sur la Radio et la Mag
Schisma Gulf, Isogloss & Lament For The Old Clock
Three works for radio by composer and sound artist Harvey Young.
First, Schisma Gulf: “In September 2024, I traced ethnographer Maurice Born’s journey to the island of Spinalonga, a former leper colony in the Gulf of Elounda, Crete. Buoyed by foggy iterations of Saint Panteleimon and mid-50s atrium film nights, I set about sonifying his initial investigations, from his arrival in a blow-up dinghy to the final survey of the admission and disinfection buildings.”
Secondly, Isolgoss, a composition for five loudspeakers: “I’d been reading linguist James Burridge’s work on dialectal formation and spread. He applies surface tension dynamics to the interaction between language groupings. I thought it would be tasteful to interpret these mechanics using extended vocal techniques (trills, ululation, phonetically varied vowel shapes) and granular synthesis to capture the kineticism that underpins linguistic evolution. Mixed into spatial audio at Piel View House, Cumbria.”
Thirdly, Lament for the Old Clock which tells the story of an 18th-century agricultural worker plunged into the vicious new frontier of industrial capitalism who must leave his simple agrarian existence behind and submit to the callous and dehumanising demands of the factory floor. The piece documents the change in temporality from the feudal notion of cyclical, reverential time to the concept of future-oriented progress that defined the beginning of the industrial revolution. Through extended vocal techniques, found instruments and granulation, Lament for the Old Clock explores this transient yet profound period of temporal and spiritual upheaval.
Harvey is a composer-in-residence at the Abeceda Institute, Ljubljana (2025), and has presented electroacoustic installations in Europe and North America. His experimental opera and poetry works have been commissioned by Resonance Extra and Whitechapel Gallery, and he writes at presents Pitch-Complex on Radio Worm. He has contributed research to Oscar-nominated producer Jaimie D’Cruz’s Acme Films, and assisted John Akomfrah on the video installation In the Hour of the Dog for the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Freeze, Asian Archive
Freeze, Asian Archive documents the immigrant neighbourhood stretching from West Kruisplein to Mathenesserplein in Rotterdam. Starting from the East Asian shops and restaurants often known as Rotterdam’s Chinatown, this 2.3 km street extends into a mix of Asian and other non-European grocery stores, restaurants, small businesses, and third spaces, representing communities from East, South, Southeast, and West Asia, as well as South America, Africa, and former Dutch colonies. Immigrants often carry with them an image of home from the time they left. As they recreate these spaces abroad, they become time capsules where the past is preserved through visually through the interiors and sonically through the music playing inside. In November 2025, I walked this street and recorded the music playing in different Asian and Non-European grocery stores and restaurants. This soundwalk is a homage to the moments of time that remain frozen through migration and displacement.
Avita Maheen (aka two4.41139) is a Bangladeshi sound, performance, media artist, writer, and curator based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Her practice is centered on sound, memory and she authored the framework titled the embryonic desire, with autoethnographic research on personal and urban influences of globalization in post-millenium Bangladeshi urban music culture. Maheen is the founder of Kalponik Rekha and Chaya Chobi, platforms for South Asian experimental sound art and ambient cinema, and is a guest Adjunct Faculty at Pathshala South Asian Media Institute.
funfair - screams and terrifying sounds
A patchwork of raw recordings from a funfair - screams and terrifying sounds, robotic voices, anti-capitalist songs and slot machines, carnival barkers, crackling loudspeakers, a parade in the night - all leaving the impression of witnessing a strange ritual.
as or another
Although sonically it contains almost opposite sound textures, from fast, loud free improvisations to (very) silent chamber music, it is still based on same compositional/improvisational strategies. The work is centered to main piece, as or another for piano and electronics, but starts with a collage of free improvisations by author. After both is two spectral compositions, based on previous piece: string quartet movement using free improvisation collage as harmonic/rhythmic material, and piece for sine tones based on spectra of as or another. A kind of four movement piece, where the last section contains also music from third part of the piece.
Jukka-Pekka Kervinen is a Finnish composer, musician and visual artist. He is a member of Wandelweiser composer-collective, active musician, and runs a few record labels dedicated to experimental music.
as or another is a composition/collage for radia.fm.
Commissioned by Paulo Raposo/Rádio Zero for radia.fm
I am from the North, the North of South.
Art’s Birthday 26 @ ESC -Medien Kunst Labor, Graz
Art’s Birthday (French: anniversaire de l’art) is the birthday of art, arbitrarily set in 1963 by the French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou (1926–1987) on the day of his own birth, January 17th, and 1,000,000 years before 1963.
Initiated as a tribute to art and intended to celebrate its presence in everyday life, this day of action is now celebrated annually and resonates worldwide. We are celebrating Art’s Birthday with a live broadcast from the esc mkl on Radio Helsinki in Graz 92.6 FM and the EBU Ars Acustica Group.
Initiated as a tribute to art and intended to celebrate its presence in everyday life, this day of action is now celebrated annually and resonates worldwide. We are celebrating the birthday of art with a live broadcast from the esc mkl on Radio Helsinki in Graz 92.6 FM and EBU Ars Acustica Group.
Excerpts from:
Deta: Afterimage
Nayarí Castillo und Hanns Holger Rutz: Invisibilties
Reni Hofmüller: Khipu meets Resonating Sculptures
ШУМ
Kanal 103 celebrated World Radio Day with a live experiment from our small capsule in space, performed by Martin Djorlev, Mae Josifovska and Vasil Jordanov. They are part of a new generation of Macedonian musicians who move beyond genre, toward risk, curiosity and sonic exploration.
SHUM / ШУМ (Macedonian for “noise”) is an open-ended experimental music project initiated by Vasil Jordanov, appearing in different incarnations and collaborations.
This is the second part of the live performance recorded on 13 February 2026.
It is the last radio session produced in the Kanal 103 studio before access to the space was lost again, arriving right on time for our 35th anniversary.
We’ll be back.
From this point, continue the line on an horizontal plane into the center of G7.
Now that we are 20 years as a radio station and 20 years as a radia station, here are eleven shows from the first decade. Rather than selected clips, they are all playing at once, but mixed up-and-down-and-in-and-out through a largely intuitive process.
It’s a chaotic muddle with moments of beauty. Just like running a community radio station.
Not a retrospective, as you can’t see it.
Featuring radia shows 102, 114, 126, 137, 175, 190, 219, 264, 342, 483, 584.
By Chris Booth, Stephen Cornford, GilbertandGrape, Sarah Gray, Lucinda Guy, Shelley Hodgson, Anna Keleher, Lona Kozik, Stormsmith Nomi, Alexander Paterson, David Prior, Claire Long, Andrius Savickus.
Struggling to find my way back…but also never quite leaving.
The Game takes its name from the attempts made by asylum-seekers to reach the EU via the overland border between Bosnia and Croatia. Located on the so-called Western Balkan migrant route—and only 10 kilometres from the border—Bihać has for the last 15 years been used as a point from which to attempt ‘the game’. Visible from the nearby monument on Garavice Hill is the local cemetery which contains a small, unkempt plot of graves of many who did not succeed—either drowning in the Una river after jumping off the trainline which snakes along beside it, encountering bears or unexploded land mines from the 90’s wars, or as a result of injuries sustained by the brutal push-backs administered by the Croatian border police. The monument, symbolising twelve weeping mothers looking out over their fallen children from the National War of Liberation (WWII), now takes on new meaning.
Additionally, the title references the local football stadium which at the height of the migrant crisis was used as a makeshift refuge for asylum-seekers. In contrast to the rising authoritarianism in Europe at present which manifests as increasingly harsh immigration policies, Bihać was the first region liberated from Nazi-allied forces in WWII. It was here that the founding principles of Yugoslavia, including its anti-colonial engagement with the global south were first fleshed out, guided by the Partisan call-to-arms ‘Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu’ (Death to fascism, freedom to the people).
The composition unfolds over nine thematic chapters (five of which feature in this excerpt), each focusing on one part of the constellational matrix of sites related to Garavice. The composition progresses through abandoned spaces used as makeshift asylum-seeker accommodation, game day at the local football stadium, the fields around Garavice, a border crossing, and archives related to the site, concluding at the point at which a group of asylum-seekers prepare to make a covert, nighttime border crossing. Interludes highlight the geological settings of these locations, while at other points field notes appear in the form of voice over, ruminating on the listening process.
The Game was first exhibited as a 60-minute, 22-channel sound installation incorporating geological and found objects activated by exciters and reclaimed speaker components, in Naarm/Melbourne in February 2026.
- D A Calf is a Naarm/Melbourne-based sound and installation artist and researcher, working predominantly with sound, text and photography to explore the remnants and dormant possibilities of failed modernisms. Through field work and archival research his practice contends with archives—impossible, hidden, contested, and otherwise—of place.
Curated by Sally Ann McIntyre for Radio One 91fm, Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand, May 2026.
Make the internet a better place.
Dreaming is an essential activity in processing experiences and witnessed events. It helps us construct a sense of identity, reality and can (partly) help to process traumatic experiences.
Since AI is constantly confronted with the most violent content on the internet, the Sonic Research Kitchen thinks it is very important that we learn this new technology how to dream. How else can we expect it to process all the violence it encounters on the internet?
If we don’t act now, we’d better reserve the poor thing a spot on the waiting list for a decent psychotherapist.
This is our humble contribution in trying to learn AI to dream. With many thanks to the contributors who preferred to stay anonymous.
Yours truly,
Sebastian Dingens,
for the Sonic Research Kitchen.
About Sebastian Dingens
Sebastian Dingens plays around, and calls it research. He lets his mind drift and calls it improvisation. He makes drawings and calls them compositions. He turns knobs and calls it synthesis. He fiddles with recorded sounds and calls it radiophonic. But he is very serious about all of these things.
AI says that he works at the intersection of experimental music, listening practices, radio and sonic research.
He is fascinated by processes of geological erosion, processes of forgetting and the emergence of memories of never-lived experiences.
The truth, in the end, is one’s own perception of reality.
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cardboard cartoon figures of board surfers on waves of distant ice ages publicity for pubic hair and wrinkled bellies
anorexic skeletons disguised as bones of dinosaurs
fascinating drawings of young children,
curiously smiling with white teeth of disillusion
In a state of introvert depression rage I go to war,
I go to fight my own anger
with the violence of my own blood
on the brown battlefield under a dessert of black clouds
I am seeing myself standing there
but I am looking inward with closed eyes
fatigued by useless attempts to stay human in a hopelessly sick world
—
there’s an impenetrable forest,
a forest inside myself
and inside this forest, there’s a clearing. I am standing there,
in the middle of the clearing
of the forest
inside of myself
there’s no animals moving about.. except for insects
small little insects
crawling around
with the speed of light
….
segmented legs
weird flies
…
a thousand faceted eyes
observe me
I feel their gaze piercing
my own
harnass
….
through bark and bush
there’s only a slow peculation of light
a glimmering reflection
of what used to be hope
seeps through the leaveless branches of berches pale bodied
their skinns inscribed with badly healed wounds as if this groove remembers
a wound I have not yet spoken
…
But if we change perspective ….
I am sitting in front of the open window my legs are a curtain
through the open window
I see a field of refined flowers wheeping, still in the wind
there’s a lot of berchtrees.
my skinn is waving
it is a waving curtain
my skinn is a curtain, waving in the wind ….
the waving enlightens in me a burning desire
the waving enlightens in me an inseasable desire …
and through the open window I see
…
cardboard cartoon figures of board surfers on waves of distant ice ages publicity for pubic hair and wrinkled bellies
anorexic skeletons disguised as bones of dinosaurs
fascinating drawings of young children,
curiously smiling with white teeth of disillusion
In a state of introvert depression rage I go to war,
I go to fight my own anger
with the violence of my own blood
on the brown battlefield under a dessert of black clouds
I am seeing myself standing there
but I am looking inward with closed eyes
fatigued by useless attempts to stay human in a hopelessly sick world
Radia show curated by Carine Demange for Radio Campus Bruxelles.