“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 Lately, he seems to have been wasting his existence on outdated copying machines, using them to print out the internet.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/