This final sonic and experiential conversation navigates the myriad topics raised over the course of Nomadic Cosmologies and Fugitive Power, weaving climate struggles with environmental justice and transformative futures. This closing is also an opening and an invitation to engage with the socio-ecological dimension of energy and people’s resistance against the epistemic injustice that is present in extractivism, datafication and a narrative that claims it cannot be otherwise. It is also a call to celebrate and defend the many forms of life that need space to flourish on their own terms. To mobilize with the overcrossing rebellious rhythms and the ancestrality of resistance.

With Sezgin Boynik, Alberto Torres, Giovanna Esposito Yussif and Sónia Vaz Borges, Sonic Intervention with DJ Zhao
Red Forest Radiograms – Nomadic Cosmologies and Fugitive Power were convened by Red Forest.

Une tentative de se raconter, à travers des récits, des souvenirs, des mémoires animales.
Autobiographie au micro, bruitages, performances vocale et expérimentations sonores sont convoquées pour faire émerger l’animal enfermé…

Les personnes détenues qui ont participé à cette création sonore sont stagiaires de la formation audiovisuelle dispensée par Lieux Fictifs et financée par le Conseil régional Sud Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.

An attempt to tell one another through stories, memories, animal memories.
Autobiography on the microphone, sound effects, vocal performances and sound experiments are called to bring out the animal locked in…

The detainees who participated in this sound creation are trainees of the audiovisual training provided by Lieux Fictifs and financed by the South Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur regional council.

Arnaud Théval : écriture, dispositif
Jean-Baptiste Imbert : écriture, prise de son, montage & mixage
Projet développé dans le cadre des actions de réinsertion portées en partenariat avec l’administration pénitentiaire.

Arnaud Théval : writing, device
Jean-Baptiste Imbert : writing, sound recording, editing & mixing
Project developed in the framework of reintegration actions carried out in partnership with the prison administration.

In 2023, OOO (Out of Office) Radio visited Tuukka Kaila’s studio in Herttoniemi to hook into his set up for receiving live audio streams of terrestrial and cosmic weather events that appear as disturbances in the Earth’s electromagnetic field. The resulting natural radio waves on the VLF band (3—30 kHz) are picked up and broadcast as real-time audio streams over the internet by dedicated radio amateurs.

OOO (Out of Office) Radio is a mobile community radio station for experimental sound and curious ears, founded by James Prevett and Samantha Lippett. Based in Helsinki, it is a set of tools and internet broadcasting equipment that can be borrowed and used to broadcast remotely from any space (including outdoors using battery power).

duration unknown by Mobile Radio (Sarah Washington & Knut Aufermann)

This piece concerns the uncertainties and contradictions of modern-day car use, and unfolds in the mind rather more as an unfinished philosophical journey than a physical one.
It was conceived as an antidote to the celebratory sentiment (although perhaps ironically intended) engendered in listeners by the Kraftwerk song ‘Autobahn’ - in relationship to the building of an out-of-time motorway bridge over the Mosel valley near Ürzig in Germany. The originally planned action was to detonate the record while it played on a portable turntable on the unfinished bridge, which was deemed somewhat tricky to realise.

The work was made for the show Cafe Sonore on the Dutch national radio channel VPRO in 2010, commissioned by Lukas Simonis. During a residency at WORM in Rotterdam to prepare source material, we recorded all the electronics on their wonderful array of analogue synths, which we interconnected with our own home-made instruments. We also set up radio and open-mic feedback processes in the studio. The voiceover was recorded in our home studio.

Mobile Radio

Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann began Mobile Radio on the 18th September 2005. For the first two years the project was touring Europe without a home base.
It was established as a travelling project to build upon our work across Europe in the fields of radio and sound art which had arisen during the three years that we helped to establish the London art radio station Resonance FM. Our work takes us to media and art festivals, conferences, universities, and one-off events where we run short-lived radio stations, create special live broadcasts, give workshops and talks, design radio installations and play concerts. We also make radiophonic works for public and community radios worldwide, and produce books on the topic of radio art. Nowadays based in Germany, we continue the work of Mobile Radio with those who want to develop concepts through the medium of radio. Our mission remains the same: to seek out new forms of radio by taking radio production out of the studio environment.

Each airing of the work is unique due to a production stunt; this version was specially produced for Radia in December 2024.

With the programme VIENNA CRAWLING, the Vienna Radia Collective feat. Fabi Lux would like to welcome a new guest (Fabi) to Vienna and make ‘arriving in the city’ the topic of discussion.

Equipped with the sounds of the city on their way to the radio station, the group met for a radio programme in which the concept of the programme was discussed live in an on-air public editorial meeting. Fabi Lux used the material from all the participants, including the recording of this editorial meeting, as material for a remix.

Fabi mixed the sounds with DJ software, changed speeds, added effects and asked chance if it would like to contribute to the flow. VIENNA CRAWLING is a mixtape that tells of the journey, of arriving and then inviting you to take another trip.

Sound-Recordings by Fabi Lux, Barbara Kaiser, Stefan Nussbaumer, Karl Schönswetter
Mixdown by Fabi Lux
Photo by Fabi Lux

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. À l’occasion du Radia Show 1027, Duuu Radio propose une compilation de titres issus du vinyle « Lo gëm, mu nekk », réalisé par l’artiste Bocar Niang et édité par *Duuu en 2023.

Le vinyle LGMN est un album de rap composé de 10 titres. L’album explore ses influences musicales grâce à la multitude des langues qui y résonnent, dont le wolof, l’anglais et le français. Ce projet musical est le fruit de 6 ans de recherche, autour de l’écriture, de la composition et de la diffusion de la musique. On traduirait « Lo gëm, mu nekk » du wolof vers le français par Advient ce en quoi tu crois. Bocar imagine le concept Lo gëm, mu nekk comme un slogan pour les jeunes sénégalais. Pour donner de l’espoir et du courage à la société sénégalaise, africaine et à sa diaspora qui désespérément, subissent les dictatures africaines, qui se perpétuent.

LGMN appelle au dialogue, à l’ouverture des esprits et des mentalités, prône l’amitié, la solidarité et le respect mutuel entre habitant.es de la Terre. L’art sonore est un moyen puissant de se connecter, et de partager ensemble des “good vibes”.

Bocar Niang est né griot d’une famille de griot.te.s, à Tambacounda au Sénégal. Performeur, poète, plasticien et musicien, Bocar Niang est diplômé de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop (Dakar) et de l’École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy. Il mène une thèse de recherche et création artistique au sein du programme doctoral Radian, et est pensionnaire de l’Académie de France à Rome - Villa Médicis 2022-2023. En 2013 il est à l’initiative de la création du label musicale Free Label à Tambacounda Le collectif Free Label travaille à faire connaitre et à développer la jeune création tambacoundoise sous toutes ses formes.

Textes et voix : Bocar Niang aka Bocar Freeman
Beat: Khalil Diougue, Adama Diagne, Florian della Gortiglia
Réalisation : Studio Duuu / La Villette
Prise de son et mixage : Mathis Ouidir / Duuu
Mastering : Paul Castillon / Duuu
Production : Loraine Baud et Simon Nicaise / Duuu
Co-production : le bureau des heures invisibles
Dessin : Pierre Grandclaude
Graphisme : Alice Bourdelon
Radia Show compilation : Ariel Nisand & Arthur Bécart

Merci à mes amies et proches, à mes parents et famille griotte, aux acteurs des cultures urbaines en Afrique et dans le monde, à Constance, nekkalante, LGMN.

Édité et gravé sur les platines de *Duuu

A compilation of pieces by the Graz based band C.O.R.N!, (Patrick Wurzwallner, Nick Acorne) who as NI (natural intelligence) have dedicated themselves to the improvised emulation of pop music and beyond. Their corpus of musical content is contemporary, exuberant and for the most part freely available online.

A programme which blends textured audio from cassette recordings by Joe Wilson & Chanelle Collier with tonal imagery by Bruna Volpi and Jake Terrey. Sound engineering by Ollie Brown.

Joe and Chanelle’s audio recordings encompass ambient sounds, conversation, experimental composition and improvised instrumental response. Cassette drones, loop pedals, voice and guitar are used to echo, mimic or bend over bird calls, thunderstorms, night sounds, indistinguishable chatter, museum reverberations and urban movement. These moments captured to tape are presented in two halves as an A-side/B-side format.

Enriched by visual counterpoints for each episode, Bruna’s critical eye forms an ambiguous tonal narrative from Jake’s method of stumbling into excellence. Mountain, valley, glacier, and urban horizon are presented in stereo format, to parallel the A-side/B-side format.

Field Notes

Side A - For Kites

Sounds made on Residency, Bundanon Trust, October 2022, Development # 2.
A day in the rehearsal space, experimental sound, guitar pedals and vocals. Casio Watch Alarm; Fender Delux Reverb Tone Master Amplifier, Reverb, Vibrato; Boss ME-70 Multi Effects, Compression, Classic Distortion, Delay, Loop Pedal, Expression Pedal Octave Pitch Shift; Panasonic SlimLine RQ 2102 Cassette Recorder, Field Recording ; Boss VE-20 Vocal Performer, Reverb, Looper Pedal.

The Wind and the Sun. Playing the cassette BUN 2_8 Side A. In the grassy field where the kangaroos gather at dusk; a HEAVY wind. The Mona Lisa, a heavy kite. SOUND and sun blaring. Kite flyers running. Skin tingling. A concert to nature. Satisfying exhaustion. – Joe Wilson

Side B – The Storm

Field Recording of a thunderstorm made on Residency at Bundanon Trust, August - October 2023, Development # 3 & 4.
A Personal Note, a Broken Heart, a Broken Body. Bundanon, a gully flat. Surrounded by hills. The storm is caught on the high rocks and is flung around the encroaching bushland. The lightning sheers across the last of the evening’s sunlight, across the way, a distance. The thunder chases the light, the sound chases the cut sky. Drawing closer. Volume rising. Bright white cracks become total for an instant. Birds continue to sing. Trees fall. – Joe Wilson

This program has been made on the stolen lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, we pay respect to the Elders both past and present.

Project lead and sound by Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier. Creative direction by Bruna Volpi. Photography by Jake Terrey.

Supported by Higher Ground Studios.

This episode was made as part of the Bundanon Trust artists in residence programme, and has been performed live at the Bundanon Museum. The Museum is on the stolen land of the Dharawal and Dhurga language groups.

Against the backdrop of Slovakia’s terrifying socio-political turmoil, this documentary radio piece explores Bratislava’s vibrant and courageous independent music and cultural scene and some of the community spaces in which it develops. Now they are facing their biggest challenge, to keep it alive and kicking.

We’ve been there (for the bad parts mostly), and we are still stuck there.

From Skopje to Bratislava, with love.

…

Recorded and edited by Gjorgji Janevski (summer 2024)
Additional interviews and recordings by Vid Bešter (Radio Študent)

Voices: Jonáš Gruska, Matúš Kobolka, Adela Mede, Poli, Daniel Vadas, Janneke Van Der Putten, Oliver from the garages, Olja Triaška Stefanović, Rozalia Vlaskova, Tomaš Hučko.

Music excerpts from Adela Mede, Bolka, Jonáš Gruska, Fissures, Patrick Balthrop, Rrrr

Let’s bring some new questions to our radio making

Where do we live? Where is my horse? Where comes the air from? How to build healthy relationships? Wie viele Leute kennst du hier? Is there a silent place here? Warum? Warum gerade jetzt? Why am I here? Welche Eissorte? Warum? When is it 17 o‘ clock? Where is my horse? What do I hear? Where do you live? What sound do you like to hear when falling asleep?

Perhaps we won’t find all the answers this time, but there is always next year, by the lake.

Produced in the ‘long form sound installation’ workshop at Radiocamp, Bodensee, Mai 2024 by Insa Trölenberg, Lukas Zittlan, Lukas Lammer, Alexander Schab, Laszlo Ivanovic, Normann Schuh, Anna Claus, Gerald Wang, Kika Demange, Lisa Humsickes, Roman Kalex, Mo Borghorst, Celik Armet, Susann Tonne, Saskia Ackermann, with Lucinda Guy and Alice Armstrong.

Kaggen is a demiurge and folk hero of the San people of Southern Africa. He is a trickster god who can shape shift, usually taking the form of a praying mantis but also a bull eland, a louse, a snake, and a caterpillar. This piece — inspired by this entity and informed by the elementary principles of neural synthesis — consists of a collage stemming from a series of recording sessions, employing both field recordings and phrases/ phonemes generated by a circuit of analogue components arranged in order to achieve self-generative feedbacks.

pä (Paulo da Fonseca and Filipa Campos) started making music as a duo in Lisbon, back in 2015. The sound sources/ studying tools they took on consisted mainly of analogue synthesizers. From then on, pä has become a place of ongoing study, research and experimentation blending historically informed electroacoustic music, poetry, field recordings, graphic design, deep listening music and sound installations.

The tenth of may 2024 - Bodensee, a lake that seperates Germany from Switzerland. Above the dark and still waters, the majestuaous aurora borealis is visible in all it’s splendour. At the shoreline of the same lake, just a few hours before the electromagnetic solar storm carressed the earth, sound artists Gérald Wang and Sebastian Dingens gave the workshop The Revolution will not be digitalised, in which they returned to the roots of radio; analog technologie, live creation and electromagnetic communication.

In retrospect, the program sounds almost as a forecast of the upcoming events; With the use of any analog tools, we will explore the possibilities of the analog world, to make creative radio. From tape to vinyl, analog wireless transmission and echos from space. We will develop a setup, to perform together in a radio show. 25 radiopeople, professionals and amateurs, participated. What you are about to hear is the almost intact registration of the final presentation, recorded on tape.

The revolution will not be digitalized - Learn how not to use a computer for making creative radio In this world, computers are everywhere.

It’s becoming very simple to broadcast from anywhere, using the tool everyone have in the pocket. But what if we try something else? With the use of any analog tools, we will enjoy the possibilities that offer the analog world to make creative radio. From tape to vinyl, to analog wireless transmission and echo from space. We will develop a setup, to perform together in a radio show.

Sound arts in the garden
An action of collective practices with the Mutual Assistance Group bringing together people concerned by psychiatry (Léo, Parenthèses, Gem Marseille and Sentinelles-equality), with whom we have experienced many ways to take sound and listen in several gardens of Marseille.

The sound library made with several hands was staged and sound during a public restitution in the garden of the convent Levat by Julie Rousse, JB Imbert and Nelly Flecher.

ZÄRTLICH GEHT DIE WELT ZUGRUNDE: STILL LOOKING FOR MEDUSA is a tribute to corals, the sensitive critters of Gaia’s underwater realms, showcasing their profound ability to forge symbiotic relationships. Corals, as holobionts for zooxanthellae, epitomize interdependence; as reefs, they offer shelter to many marine creatures; as strong formations, they modulate the ocean’s ebb and flow into gentler currents. As the ancient ancestors of Medusa, they hold the spirit of nature’s often misunderstood and transformative powers. Medusa herself, a female figure of Greek mythology, represents the recurring theme of metamorphosis and the complex dynamics of power and seduction, banished to safeguard the male gaze.

Through a rich saturation of marine bioacoustics, noise pollution, mythic tones, Nina M. W. Queißner and Linda Weiß beckon you to immerse yourself in the deep, dark blue soundscape. Here, lose your way, welcome the feeling of otherness, and give yourself to the waves of yearning, and acknowledge cold shivers. Picture Medusa, whose symbiosis sustains the life that thrives beneath the waves.

underwater sound recordings: Coral reefs (Red Sea, Egypt), shipping traffic on the Main River and the English Channel of the Alabaster Coast; additional sound recordings: Baking soda in water, hot oil, ice cubes, crystal glass and water, tadpoles, rain on polyamide, etc., synthesizer, melodica, Sansa.

NINA M. W. QUEIßNER adopts a poetic and research-oriented approach using recording technologies and soundscape composition to explore the experiential dimensions of sound and listening, closely integrated with multidisciplinary concepts of landscape and environment. LINDA WEIß creates immersive installations that examine the dynamics of shared spaces, engaging in dialogue with more-than-human collaborators such as fungi and bacteria. Together, they work on the ongoing project LOOKING FOR MEDUSA that invites audiences on a journey through past and future mythologies. Starting with Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the project weaves together references from cosmologies and ecosystems to create an experimental habitat for speculative future coral creatures. Their audio-visual installation was first exhibited at the Senckenberg Nature Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 2023. Follow their research on tempe-corals.tumblr.com

concept/production: Nina M. W. Queissner

World Listening Day is an annual celebration held on July 18 to promote the importance of conscious and attentive listening in daily life. This event is organized by the World Listening Project, an organization dedicated to education and research on sound and listening.

The goal of World Listening Day is to raise awareness about the acoustic environment, fostering a greater awareness of the sounds around us and how they influence our lives and the environment.

This day also aims to highlight the importance of listening as a tool for understanding and connection between people, as well as for environmental care, helping to identify and mitigate noise pollution and other sound-related issues.

The celebration includes activities such as soundwalks, field recordings, workshops, concerts, and other forms of sound-related art and education.
This year, we went to the town of Escucha in the Bajo Aragón region, in the Cuencas Mineras district, to honor the name of the town and… listen.

Incalmo. Une exploration sonore de la création au Cirva

Écoutez créer. En partenariat avec *Duuu radio, le Cirva vous propose d’entrer au cœur d’un moment de création. Incalmo, c’est une archive sonore des résidences au Cirva. Incalmo, c’est un format expérimental.

Une émission proposée par *Duuu au Cirva
Enregistrement au Cirva en mai 2024
Montage : Bérangère Huguet, Cirva
Mixage : Sampson Staples, *Duuu

Another programme from the “Elements” series. Previous parts: Earth, water. This time it’s about metal.

“Heinrich, der Wagen bricht!”
“Nein, Herr, der Wagen nicht, Es ist ein Band von meinem Herzen,
Das da lag in großen Schmerzen, Als Ihr in dem Brunnen saßt

Und in einen Frosch verzaubert wart.”

Gebrüder Grimm - Der Froschkönig

The Viennese radia collective thematically revolves around the largest group of chemical elements. In addition to the collage of characteristic soundscapes, the group embarks on a fabulous and mystical search for clues.

spoken passages of text:
Peter Schilling - Metall (Song):

Metall Um meinen Hals
Metall Auf meiner Haut
Metall Wir fühlen nichts Doch uns geht es glänzend
Metall An meiner Hand
Metall Auf meinem Haupt
Metall Wir sind schön Wir sind blank polierte Menschen

A ballad poet (around 1887) - “Die Sage vom Erzberg” (The tale of the Erzberg):

Und wählet Ihr ein silbern Herz,
Wählt Ihr den gold’nen Fuß
Bedenkt, daß Silber und auch Gold
Gar bald Euch schwinden muß.
Doch wählet Ihr von dunklem Erz
Den festen Eisenhut,
Das Eisen, - ew’ge Zeiten währt’s,
Der Hut hält lang und gut.

Gebrüder Grimm - Der Froschkönig:

“Heinrich, der Wagen bricht!”
“Nein, Herr, der Wagen nicht,
Es ist ein Band von meinem Herzen,
Das da lag in großen Schmerzen,
Als Ihr in dem Brunnen saßt
Und in einen Frosch verzaubert wart.”

Ovid - Metamorphosen:

Latin:

Aurea prima sata est aetas, quae vindice nullo, sponte sua, sine lege fidem rectumque colebat. poena metusque aberant, nec verba minantia fixo aere legebantur, nec supplex turba timebat iudicis ora sui, sed erant sine vindice tuti.

German:

Als erstes entstand das Goldene Zeitalter, welches ohne einen Strafvollstrecker, freiwillig und ohne ein Gesetz immer die Aufrichtigkeit und das rechte Tun hochhielt. Strafe und Furcht gab es nicht, auch las man keine drohenden Worte, in Erz geschrieben; keine flehende Menge zitterte vor dem Spruch ihres Richters, sondern alle waren in Sicherheit ohne einen Rächer.

A programme by (in alphabetical order):
Barbara Huber, Barbara Kaiser, Stefan Nussbaumer, Marian Potocar, Karl Schönswetter, Kaiser Wilhelm
Thanks to: Martina, Cuco