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Completed shows

Saturday 18 June : Jörg Köppl – zellen-silben (a dreaming machine)

This algorithmic composition by Swiss sound artist Jörg Köppl could be the only content ever needed for a radio station. Behaving like an organic life form it offers the listener sound poetry in six different languages (including Luxembourgish) in an acoustic landscape that never repeats itself. This installation will be interrupted in the evening for a live performance by legendary Japanese musician Otomo Yoshihide!

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Saturday 18 June : Andy Armstrong – Channel 2

Just as our Radio Art Zone studio opens its doors it will be occupied by Andy Armstrong, an American living in France who came to us out of the blue. He will bring a carload of instruments and cassettes and create the sound track for our opening party and beyond. This live performance is open to the public!

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Sunday 19 June : Manja Ristić – Radio Astral

Radio Astral is the work of multi-disciplinary artist and Croatian island dweller Manja Ristić. She takes us on a journey that meanders effortlessly between abstract and concrete sound worlds. Whether you are awake or asleep this transmission will take you onto a higher plane. Hosted by humpback whales.

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Monday 20 June : Konsthall323 – VY

Konsthall323 is a gallery that doubles up as a car. Or is it the other way around? Artist-drivers Ylva Trapp and Frida Krohn will steer Konsthall323 from Stockholm to Esch and present their findings from this journey. During their midsummer night broadcast they will pop up at strategic car parks across town for impromptu public encounters. This live performance is open to the public!

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Tuesday 21 June : Darius Čiuta – 22sTar

Darius Čiuta is an architect and conceptual sound artist based in Kaunas, Lithuania, co-European Capital of Culture in 2022. For Radio Art Zone he delves into the world of software-defined radio (SDR), where the whole spectrum of electromagnetic waves can be made audible. His SDR recordings then become the seed for musical notation.

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Wednesday 22 June : The Society for Nontrivial Pursuits (S4NTP) – FutureVoices presents: Polyglot Futures

Students and teachers from Berlin University of the Arts turn their generative Future Voices radio stream into a special live broadcast for Radio Art Zone. Multi-lingual sound bites from Esch mingle with those already in their collection and are processed in live-coding sessions. Anyone can contribute voices to their website.

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Thursday 23 June : People Like Us – 108

A chronological chart-sweeping opus based around the number 108 by plunderphonic maestra People Like Us. Tune in and follow our social media for a live competition – can you guess the number of hits squeezed into 22 hours? Extra prizes go to those with killer comments on tracks from the past decades of poptastic music! Your ear worms will be plump and fluffy.

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Friday 24 June : Community Radio Tbilisi Collective – The Insider

Follow a mono microphone like a torchlight through the capital of Georgia, as it passes from hand to hand between the Community Radio Tbilisi Collective during an early spring day. Every now and then, between traffic, poetry and clandestine performances, a patchwork of juxtaposed scenarios opens up a stereophonic dimension of the city's soundscape.

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Saturday 25 June : The WORM Merchants – Radio Worm

Six musicians, artists and broadcasters from the eponymous cultural centre WORM in Rotterdam will sow entertaining chaos across the airwaves in a live series of group and individual performances. The public are invited to come and go during the show – at times you will be able to settle down in Kufa Kinosch for a submersive experience and at others you’ll be on the edge of your seats!

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Sunday 26 June : Handa Gote – Control Room 69

The DIY theatre group Handa Gote research & development extend the remix theme of Esch2022. They scour their sound design library and also reanimate outdated audio equipment that has been accumulating dust in their Prague storage room. Only the wax cylinders were spared.

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Monday 27 June : Bruno Hiss – Minute

Bruno Hiss is a sound artist, researcher and Aikido practitioner from São Paulo. This work is a primordial soup of radio art: breath and guttural sounds underscored by the pulsations of his heart, expressing the unspeakable directly from the body. Careful not to alarm your neighbours by playing loud at night through open windows!

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Tuesday 28 June : Gabi Schaffner – {A Wave Novel}

Transdisciplinary artist, datscha doyenne and self-confessed fennophile Gabi Schaffner  trawled her hard drives in search of hitherto unheard recordings. The result is a mix of highly evocative watery landscapes with snatches of music and conversations, with poetry playing the part of drift-wood. Plus a cat.

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Wednesday 29 June : Udo Noll – radio.earth – Sounding Esch

Udo Noll is the custodian of the world's finest collection of field recordings made available online on his aporee maps. Over many years he has perfected the art of streaming live from self-developed mobile mics that can be placed anywhere. A handful of these boxes will be hidden in Esch-sur-Alzette and mixed live to air.

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Thursday 30 June : martiensgohome – Je crois qu’il y a un malentendu

For more than two decades the improvising radio ensemble martiensgohome have kept the Brussels airwaves alien free. Faced with the challenge to emit 22 hours, they have chosen to organise their Radio Art Zone broadcast in 60 abstract audio segments of equal length which are framed with attempts to describe their sounds in words.

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Friday 1 July : Mariola Brillowska – Polnische Hochzeit, eine unendliche Reise

Mariola Brillowska is the Polish enfant terrible of the German Hörspiel scene and forms a Hamburg triumvirate in Radio Art Zone together with Kubin and Reznicek. Her contribution, the Polish Wedding Competition, is the starting point for a laugh-out-loud dystopian train journey of a travelling saleswoman. Sendung auf deutsch.

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Saturday 2 July : Richtung22 – D'Ried vun der helleger Barbara (St. Barbaras speech)

The Luxembourgish art collective Richtung22 don't mince their words. For their radio marathon they hand over the mic to local citizen Barbara who will vent her anger at the gentrification of Esch while hoping to beat Fidel Castro's entry to the book of world records for the longest rant. This live performance is open to the public!

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Sunday 3 July : Paulo Raposo – Buried Salt

Lisbon based sound artist and label boss Paulo Raposo has assembled an enigmatic field-recording opera with the help of two dozen contributors from the lusophone world and beyond, serving up a radiophonic buffet for the large group of Esch inhabitants that speak Portuguese as their mother tongue. And everybody else too.

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Monday 4 July : Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere – The War of the Worlds Extended Wavelength

H.G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds and it's eponymous radio adaptation by Orson Wells is the starting point for New York based researchers and radio activists Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere, treating it like an electromagnetic dough that has risen in time and space for over 80 years by now. Broadcast on Independence Day.

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Tuesday 5 July : Absolute Value of Noise – The Talking Tree

Peter Courtemanche, under his moniker Absolute Value of Noise, is a doyen of long-form radio art based in Vancouver. For Radio Art Zone he combines distinct sound sources such as wind, flutes, frogs and his signature bio-electric synths into a world inspired by the life of trees.

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Wednesday 6 July : Billy Roisz & dieb13 – global siesta

Hunkered down in their Sperrmuecc studio in Vienna, Billy Roisz and dieb13 make sure that time stands still for 22 hours, by remixing any available live sources coming from places in timezones between 2 and 3 pm as they perform. An audible trip around the afternoon world, punctuated by a date change.

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Thursday 7 July : Haco + Tarnovski – Kagero Dial

This track by Japanese-Czech songsmith duo Haco & Tarnovski has turned out a bit longer than usual. Their long-distance collaboration is based around a haunting leitmotiv played on a wooden music box. The resulting trip could be classified as bedtime music for baby sloths or ASMR for retired spies.

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Friday 8 July : David Buckland – RiverRun

After having sailed the seven seas, environmental arts impressario David Buckland turns his attention to water closer to home – the chalk stream flowing right outside of his Dorset studio. Expect underwater recordings, scientific updates, poetry and river themed popular music to lighten the mood.

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Saturday 9 July : Rodrigo Ríos Zunino – Lifewave : The Infinite Feedback Loop That I Am

Live from Chile, Rodrigo Ríos Zunino and collaborators perform a radio ritual of sonic, poetic, biological, and para-functional feedback between artists, scientists, mystics, earth-beings, and aliens to delve into the everlasting questions that surround the unfathomable mystery of Life, Breath and Sound.

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Sunday 10 July : Mark Vernon – Keeping Time

Radio art instigator Mark Vernon turns his forensic attention to time itself – deconstructing and reconstituting hours and minutes by immersing us in the polyrhythms of clock workshops, constructing a giant collection of self-created seconds, and asks horologists: “How does your occupation affect your perception of time?”

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Monday 11 July : Karim Aït-Gacem – Radio Parloir

Karim Aït-Gacem invites the inmates of Lantin prison to create radio fiction. During the sessions, convicts invent characters, giving them objectives and obstacles. The process allows them to hold up a mirror. They tell us about themselves, their life in prison, the one they had before, and about the one that awaits them afterwards.

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Tuesday 12 July : Chris Cutler – INSIDE BROADCAST A Day in Other People’s Ears

Eminent musician Chris Cutler asked people to record, in real time and unedited, five to twenty minutes of their lives – at work, in an environment they would like to share – on the principle that, divorced from the other senses and unfiltered by goals and expectations, the sounds of everyday life engage us by default.

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Wednesday 13 July : Anne-Laure Sotin + Izabela Matoš – Sound weavers

Sound and visual artists Anne-Laure Sotin and Izabela Matoš weave their voices, recordings and creations together with those of Sarah Clénet, Anne-Line Drocourt, Isabelle Duthoit, Erell Latimier, Soizic Lebrat, Sylvie Noël, Yuko Oshima, Aude Rabillon, Claire Veysset, Rosa Parlato... from all along the river Loire. Cette émission est majoritairement en français.

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Thursday 14 July : Anna Friz – Fog Refrain

Radio art pioneer Anna Friz performs a live radiophonic composition, spanning day and night by listening and responding to signals gathered within the long slender fog zone between Santa Cruz and Jenner on the northern California coast. Public welcome to drop in at the Bridderhaus Apdikt!

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Friday 15 July : Frauke Berg & Oliver Gather – Eternal Slide Show

Prime movers of the Düsseldorf scene Frauke Berg & Oliver Gather liberate Grandpa J’s archive of several thousand photographic slides. Over 50 years of memories of his wife, travels, the children growing up. Will these traces of family life end up in the rubbish or be preserved? We accompany him on another, perhaps final, slide show.

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Saturday 16 July : Jean-Daniel Lafontant (Temple Na-Ri-VéH) –

Jean-Daniel Lafontant and Badji members of the Sacred Temple Na-Ri-VéH 777 contribute to the preservation of Vodou's religious and cultural heritage. Here they present some highlights of various traditions and events such as a funeral, the Easter Rara procession, an agricultural protection rite, and activities in the temple.

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Sunday 17 July : Leandro Nerefuh & Caetano & Libidiunga – CLÓVIS HORIZON - buraco da minhoca

Leandro Nerefuh & Caetano & Libidiunga lure us into trance as CLOVIS interstellar entities. The CLOVIS are Solar Worshippers and Guardians of the Sun, travelling far and wide across the universe including the earth, which they have been visiting for millennia. This live performance is open to the public!

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Monday 18 July : Günter Reznicek – Das Gelbe vom Pirol

An ornithological journey through the head of Günter Reznicek in 11 chapters: Zri-zri-zrütt, hiit, track, bsrü / Kikiki kü-kü-kü-kü kö, tjk tjk tjk / Hup hup hup, tscherr, schäär / Kuu-li, kuui-kui-kuh, oot oüt trru-i trrru-il trrrrru-il trrrru-ühl / Ühlp, errrr, lu lu lü lü li li, ihp ihp / Tjok tjok tjok tjok tjok tjok tjok tjok... etc.!

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Tuesday 19 July : Knut Aufermann – 2 : 1

"2 : 1" brings together two longtime occupations of Knut Aufermann: the setting up of live sound installations that utilise radio feedback to create a continuously shifting sound, and the joy of playing the traditional German card game Skat. If all goes well, both will happen simultaneously in the Radio Art Zone studio.

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Wednesday 20 July : Cheuk Wing Nam – CovidHK

Interdisciplinary artist Cheuk Wing Nam reflects the strange and contradictory phenomenon of a silent metropolis. During the lockdowns and isolation caused by COVID-19, Hong Kong became a silent place. Is a city recognisable any more from its soundscape? What even is a city, if not for the hustle and bustle?

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Thursday 21 July : Claire Serres – The Waves Choir

Vocalist and performer Claire Serres brings voices together to create choralité, as a practice without repertoire or vocal hierarchy, but through improvised singing in relation to breath and gesture, listening to others and to ourselves. The Waves Choir illuminates this process in its vocal, social and emotional dimensions.

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Friday 22 July : RESONANT SOUTH – SUR RESONANTE

Fabiano Kueva curates a 22-hour sound body from the work of 8 Central and South American artists based on environmental political listening, radical soundscaping, pre/during/post pandemic tones, the archive of voices, oral memory, and traditional music, proposing a diverse sound palette in aesthetics and reflections.

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Saturday 23 July : Luxembourg Amateur Radio Union – Special Event Station LX22RAZ

The Special Event Station LX22RAZ is an amateur radio station operating over 22 hours especially for Radio Art Zone. Members of the Luxembourg Amateur Radio Union give us a glimpse into their world of unique soundscapes from all over the ham radio world using a variety of communication modes. This live broadcast is open to the public!

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Sunday 24 July : Echo Roe – Sounds Like Teen Spirit Radio

Echo Roe was born into radio, and here she presents a conceptual time capsule of American teenage life in the present day. Using a snapshot of the American Top 40 list of most popular songs as a reference, she creates an unrecognizable, yet strangely familiar sound-bed for field recordings from significant events in her daily life.

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Monday 25 July : Renata Roman – Lugares que atravessamos, lugares que nos atravessam

Brazilian sound art pioneer Renata Roman presents places visited in Latin America: Brazil, Cuba, Argentina and Uruguay. Places as bridges. Places to be. Places to escape. Places where listening was everything. Places to forget. Places of waiting, arrivals and departures. Places of subjective and lingering storms...

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Tuesday 26 July : Maia Urstad – TRAIN TABLES AND RADIO WAVES – a 22-hour journey by ear

Maia Urstad typically creates unique spatial sound installations. Here with a sound composition transmitted over the airwaves she follows train schedules in “real time” from one destination to another across the globe. Listeners are invited to embark on a journey along the railway line from station to station, country to country.

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Wednesday 27 July : Chris Weaver + Adam Bohman – Rushy Green Tape Exchange

Once Chris Weaver was drawn into a talking tape exchange with cult musician Adam Bohman there was no going back. For five years they have kept a correspondence using cassettes mailed to each through the post, documenting their daily lives. This special series for Radio Art Zone is an array of talking tapes, audio diaries and sound letters.

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Thursday 28 July : Saša Spačal – Anatomy of a Symbiosis

Saša Spačal explores the fragility of the symbiotic bond between the soil bacteria Rhizobium trifolii and red clover Trifolium pratense in industrial food production. In a 22-hour sonic close-up she focuses on this union which sustains the lives of both plant and bacteria, and enriches soil to sustain a plethora of beings on this planet, including humans.

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Friday 29 July : Élodie Brochier – RONDE SAUVAGE Des Antipodes aux Antipodes

Actor, puppeteer and musician Élodie Brochier echos an artistic, scientific, intellectual and existential adventure, proposing that you turn your most intimate ears to a remote corner of Lorraine: Bataville. Since 2014, a singular collective experience has been invented – la fabrique autonome des acteurs (the autonomous factory of actors).

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Saturday 30 July : Irina Gheorghe – The Day They Come

Performance artist extraordinaire Irina Gheorghe interrogates the limitations of a potential human-alien exchange through the use of the performing voice, navigating the space between human and non-human resonances in extended anticipation of a never accomplished cosmic contact. This live performance is open to the public!

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Sunday 31 July : AGF – pluraLISTism {a hybrid poem}

Vocalist, and media artist Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF) uses language, field recordings, and composition to install a poly-cultural soundspace in the open air for trans-species reconciliation, forest repair, restoration, interspecies co-existence, and planetary anti-deforestation in a trans-feminist queer poetics of free-quency and politics.

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Monday 1 August : Zach Poff – Fast Slow Radio

Media artist, educator and maker Zach Poff presents 22 sonic impressions from locations around the globe. Each 60 minute section is an “audio time-lapse” combining thousands of chronological audio samples collected during a 24 hour period. Slow changes become audible, like the hidden movement of plants revealed by a time-lapse film.

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Tuesday 2 August : Ralf Wendt – Making Nature

Art is equivalent to an extreme sport in the unmissable public interventions of Ralf Wendt. For 22 hours straight he will wander around Esch broadcasting live, speaking and listening to animals and plants, extraordinary and invented beings and landscapes. If you are fortunate you may catch him out and about!

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Wednesday 3 August : Milo Thesiger-Meacham – Body Edit Mind

Body Edit Mind features audio recordings, original music, sound design, writing, and large amounts of material found online, converted from video into audio-only formats. Starting with a lone narrator recording themselves in their recently sold building, the project is about editing and its impact on human thought processes, naming, recollection and language.

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Thursday 4 August : Marcus Maeder – Cultosols

Artist, researcher and composer of electronic music Marcus Maeder listens into the underground of Esch through particular soils in the city: former industrial areas, gardens, parks, and brownfield sites, and generates a 22-hour soundscape of field recordings and musical transformations from a large variety of anthropogenically shaped soil types.

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Friday 5 August : Jasmina Al-Qaisi – Hart Servis

Life-poet Jasmina Al-Qaisi finally acquires an office to perform bizarre customer service roles. Visit her behind the counter of a shop in Esch to interact with her various self-assigned professions: Walking Scientist, Self-entitled Self-entitlement Officer, Bites Expert, Archivist of Regrets, and Birdwatcher Watcher amongst others!

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Saturday 6 August : Mega Mingiedi + Jaguar Ntumi – Radio Bala-Bala

There are times in life you have to let go and follow your instincts, listen to your inner self… when you have to get out of the realm of reality, to reinvent stories... Mega Mingiedi and Jaguar Ntumi invite the people of Kinshasa and other participants to talk about the city, their experiences and their lives. These gestures support the idea of being free.

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Sunday 7 August : Otomo Yoshihide – Chronological Archive (1975-2022) including many unreleased recordings

From his home recordings made in 1975 when he was 16 years old to the recordings made in 2022 for this broadcast, this 22-hour program will cover 47 years of Otomo Yoshihide's performances and recordings, in chronological order, with commentary by Otomo himself. To close Radio Art Zone he will perform live in Esch on 25th September.

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Monday 8 August : nula.cc – Beyond sublargo

Tape-beatles co-founder, editor, publisher and epic traveller Lloyd Dunn ( nula.cc ) takes us on a poetic journey of imaginings across landscapes vast and distant. Made up of field recordings and found material – from the unexpected sounds of grasslands to short wave cicadas, his heartfelt narration leads us into dreaming.

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Tuesday 9 August : Edyta Jarząb – 22 Major Arcana of Fungi

Edyta Jarząb imagines mushrooms as signs, like cards drawn from a Tarot pack to uncover transformative powers, journeys of discovery, and endless potentialities. Participating artists interpret the cards through fungal sounds and initiation into personal secrets in the forest, while listening, singing, and mushroom picking.

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Wednesday 10 August : Olivia Bradley-Skill – Ceremonies For A Commuter

Playing on the idea of a soundwalk, radio DJ, sound designer, and experimentalist Olivia Bradley-Skill records her daily 30 minute route to work at freeform radio station WFMU. The broadcast meditates on 3 main themes: what it means to record, walking as an activity, and finding creativity in the mundane realities of daily life.

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Thursday 11 August : Lucinda Guy – Skylark

Skylark is a full time FM radio station, broadcasting across Dartmoor National Park in South West England. It has no programmes, but plays a continuous, generated piece of local voices and noises. Skylark director Lucinda Guy creates a new version of its soundscape for Radio Art Zone

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Friday 12 August : Shortwave Collective – Constellations of Listening

At the height of the 2022 Perseids meteor shower, Shortwave Collective cycle through group and solo listening experiences from Austria, France, Greece, Germany, the UK and US, searching live for radio reception with Open Wave-Receivers, scanning VHF, VLF, SDR, EM and walkie-talkie signals during ‘grey-line’ times of dusk and dawn.

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Saturday 13 August : Pipa Musical – Sound-pleasant ramblings in terra brasilis

Radio art collective Pipa Musical use the language of radio with humour, in critical opposition to commercial radios and to any established order. Here they present an impressive array of artists from their circles of sound art, experimental music and sonic research in São Paulo.

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Sunday 14 August : Jogi Hofmüller – Satellite Concert

Jogi Hofmüller performs a live sonification of every satellite whose radio signal could theoretically be received from Esch during his 22 hour show. Together all the satellites form an invisible orchestra, each playing their part for the few minutes it takes them to cross the sky above us before fading away again. This live performance is open to the public!

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Monday 15 August : Therapeutische Hörgruppe Köln – Squelch 'n' Squirrel

The therapeutical listening group Cologne offers us a sound installation that was recorded in situ with a plethora of different microphones, that slowly shift the position of the listener in a real acoustic space. The content draws inspiration from a shadowy part of radio history: number stations. Hobby-cryptologists can expect to find a hidden meaning.

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Tuesday 16 August : Felix Kubin – The Speaking Clock

A man on a mission - Mr. Kubin revives the Speaking clock! Follow Felix around his hometown Hamburg while he attempts to announce the time every minute. There's no guarantee for chronological accuracy but tuning in today will change your idea of radio. For full immersion listen on headphones. Sendung auf deutsch.

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Wednesday 17 August : Reni Hofmüller – SENSORium

Reni Hofmüller mounts sensors in Esch to measure radiation, temperature, humidity and fine dust. These provide live data streams which are directly converted into sound or trigger compositions, light and volume controls. The material environment will become audible to our limited human senses in this live performance which is open to the public!

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Thursday 18 August : 60 Secondes Radio – UNE RÉTROSPECTIVE 2015-2022

60 Secondes Radio is a Canadian contest for short form radio art that started in 2015. Artists from around the world have been sending in works that last exactly one minute. As it happens the overall length of all contributions is close to 22 hours, so our format becomes a complete retrospective. Kudos to head honcho Boris Chassagne for the marathon back announcements.

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Friday 19 August : Nina Guo & Augustė Vickunaitė – Nina and Augustė Radio

Nina Guo & Augustė Vickunaitė will perform 3 live sets for voice and tape recorders during their show, which is otherwise based on recordings never intended for public consumption. These have been crafted into a series of named Hours: Golden, Blue, Witching, Behaviour, Outsiders etc., to capture the moods uncovered in the archive. This live performance is open to the public!

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Saturday 20 August : Julien Clauss & Emma Loriaut – Modulation

Julien Clauss & Emma Loriaut send this year’s edition of Modulation live from the Pyrenees, where participants produce experimental music, sound poetry, radio art, and anything else that can fit into a mixer or a microphone to portable radios brought by the visiting public into the vicinity of a small mountaintop transmitter.

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Sunday 21 August : Erwin Stache – Ich höre Stimmen – irgendwo / I hear voices – somewhere

Erwin Stache takes over the algorithms of some of his existing sound installations such as string box matrix, ground socket organ, and time and sound which he will play in real time to create an acoustic summary of 22 works. Moments of sound turn into a meditative listening experience – each hour starts quickly and ends slowly.

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Monday 22 August : Nichola Scrutton – Dream Stream

Award-winning composer and sound artist Nichola Scrutton weaves together field recordings, voice, fragments of text, visualisations, stories, performance, archive materials and collaborative productions in a sonic contemplation of inner/outer landscapes, producing a transient dream-like encounter based upon the flowing of water.

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Tuesday 23 August : Lepke B – Radio K

Lepke B is the missing dimension in the world of matter and anti-matter. In this unputdownable mega voyage around the krevices of time, gleefully spilling all over the space, his killer kut-up kollaging processes koalesce around the letter K. We forever entrust him to kut the krap!

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Wednesday 24 August : RURAL DEVELOPMENT –

Herded together by indefatigable initiator Givan Bela, artists from Tokyo, the Baltic sea, Kerminy, Karlsruhe, Hranice, Gdansk, Den Haag, Brussels, Bratislava, Berlin and beyond band together as Rural Development, performing live outdoors and off-grid through field recordings, open mics, DIY instruments and walking.

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Thursday 25 August : Ayọ̀ Akínwándé – Observation is Not a Crime

Interdisciplinary artist Ayọ̀ Akínwándé is interested in how the vibrations of urban spaces are sonically sculpted, and how the line between noise and sound is constantly shifting. The definition of ‘relevant music’ and ‘irrelevant noise’ today depends on the listener in question, being either a participant or an observer, a guest or a resident.

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Friday 26 August : Xentos Fray Bentos – Dream Home

Pull up a stool. Or a seven-legged chair. You’re just in time. The year is 2122 – the year of culture, exactly one hundred years beyond your immediate future. First of all, as an ignorant 21st Centurion, you are going to require some definitions if you wish to navigate through the Dream Home guide of expert futurologist Xentos Fray Bentos.

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Saturday 27 August : Oda Projesi – Radio Within A Radio

The artist collective Oda Projesi have been active for decades, and create mini autonomous radio channels within existing stations. For this part-live production they set up 22 people, 22 places, 22 acts, 22 strategies and 22 incidents. Their current research asks: "What does it mean to be a mother and an artist at the same time?"

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Sunday 28 August : Mélia Roger + Eric Larrieux – Air Listening Station

In collaboration with the Air Quality Lab from the City of Zurich, Mélia Roger & Eric Larrieux gather scientific data in order to modify field recordings from Zurich. The changes of the particulate matter (PM10), nitrogen oxides (NOX), ozone (O3) and ammonia (NH3), trigger interviews with the researchers of the lab among other sounds.

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Monday 29 August : Ed Baxter – Forty Four Folk Tales

Radio art visionary Ed Baxter presents a series of sketch-like monologues which strive towards the creation of a psychological object through radio. Narrative here is secondary to an articulation of how the mind works, locale directs the traffic of mood in a digressive manner, and themes recur the way memory determines.

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Tuesday 30 August : Claire Thill + Catherine Kontz + S.L. Grange – Desire Lines & Wou d’Uelzecht

Claire Thill & Catherine Kontz & S.L. Grange explore the theme of resistance in a radiophonic performance, with conversations relating to borders, gender fluidity, rivers and migration, musics that resist trends, categorisation, and political situations. Plus they offer us the opportunity to fall asleep and wake up with the Alzette... This live performance is open to the public!

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Wednesday 31 August : Christina Ertl-Shirley – Salix matsudana Tortuosa

Christina Ertl-Shirley focuses on a particular half-felled corkscrew willow. Passing walkers mourn around this once-beautiful tree, but are also amused by its current state of unruliness. Its biological processes are sonified, and facts, anecdotes, songs, poems, dreams, and conversations interwoven into a multidimensional narrative.

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Thursday 1 September : Marie Gavois + Michel Klöfkorn – Do you hear this picture¿

Focusing microphones on specific details as if they were video cameras, Gavois and Klöfkorn carefully record more than 70 soundchecks by all kinds of bands. Picking up particular sounds – like fingers drumming on the keyboard of an organ, or a pick flicking across the strings of an unplugged electric guitar… This show will feature a participatory livechat via p-node!

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Friday 2 September : Buttress O’Kneel – WorkArt

In this epic plunder-composition, Buttress O'Kneel uses her breakcore-infused audiopiratical intellectronica to interrogate class, unemployment, fatigue, work/life balance, hierarchies, universal basic income, insomnia, creativity, circadian rhythms, burnout, money, nightmares, need, status, anarchy, loyalty, fungibility, value, and death.

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Saturday 3 September : Echo Ho – 2.5097481 x 10^-5 Centuries

Echo Ho broadcasts a hybrid radiophonic fiction live from her garden in Cologne, featuring the contributions of guest artists from far and wide – tracing symbiotic entanglements of sowing, tending, eating, digesting and preserving in a sonic ecosystem full of sympathetic relationships for healing and reconciliation.

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Sunday 4 September : Martha Regueiro – Tree of lifes / L'Arbre de vies

The Kabbalistic Tree of Life consists of 22 paths. Martha Regueiro imagines the Tree of Life as the finality of our existence, the acquisition of certain wisdom through the understanding of the world around us. To achieve this we all choose a different path, hence she offers 22 portraits of different ages, 22 life instincts, 22 different perceptions.

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Monday 5 September : DinahBird & Jean-Philippe Renoult – Birth of a Signal

DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult start from the resonant frequencies of St Aoustrille’s transmitting station Batiment B, following the Birth of a Signal from microphone to receiver, using archives, field recordings, mechanical murmurings, electro-magnetics, technical logs, short wave scans, generative sounds and interviews. Join the artists for a live listening session!

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Tuesday 6 September : Heidi Neilson – Orbits

Heidi Neilson imagines 12 orbits, beginning and ending in Esch. Each loop takes a different direction around the world and is inspired by the unique character of the path travelled – from the point of view of an orbiting body tuning into multiple radio frequencies simultaneously, listening to the sounds of the earth from the ground and into space.

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Wednesday 7 September : Elaine W. Ho – What can a phrase such as 'natural course' mean anymore in a time of such intense production? (Esch)

For Elaine W. Ho, the challenge of this livestream is to create a translation of the ‘narrowcast’ from the materiality of the artist’s studio to a narrative space that catches up to the broad cast of the sociopolitical. These stories form an archive of maybe shouts and maybe whispers, to be triggered in the form a self-directed oral game with possible intervening players.

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Thursday 8 September : Ralf Schreiber + Christian Faubel – Extended Astwerk - Vorgefertigte Wildnis mit klapprigen Klängen

Ralf Schreiber and Christian Faubel create a geometric framework for a self-playing sound installation consisting of a multitude of thin branches and sticks. These form pyramid-shaped elements, with many tiny electromechanical sound machines integrated into the wooden framework which rub and scrape, making the bark of the branches audible. This live broadcast is open to the public!

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Friday 9 September : Liquid Penguin Ensemble – ERDANZIEHUNG

The Saarbrücken based Liquid Pengiun Ensemble are two of Germany's best Hörspiel makers. Their Radio Art Zone lies underground, literally. They dig their way through soil and rock following the eternal call of gravity. Earth experts past and present are captured by their microphones along the journey. Die Sprachanteile sind auf deutsch.

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Saturday 10 September : Caroline Kraabel + John Edwards – Improvisers and Improvisations

Improv music luminaries Caroline Kraabel and John Edwards present a blend of music and life stories, featuring improvised acoustic music, electronic music and atmospheres, interviews and conversations between improvisers, and segments of live improvisation in various places around Esch-sur-Alzette. This live broadcast is open to the public!

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Sunday 11 September : LokaalRaadio – The Dreamer Falls Asleep

Based on the sleep cycle of the Australian Koala, LokaalRaadio create a generative modular sound machine, synthesizing a long meditative dreamscape stimulated by snippets of text and sound, not unlike the way we produce a dreamscape while asleep out of our daily reality. The artists fall in and out of dreamlike states during the making of the piece.

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Monday 12 September : Daniel R. Wilson – Asphyxia: The "Idiote", the Library Wifi and the Suppressed Safe

Exemplary ‘Pure Volunteer’ Daniel R. Wilson constructs a damaged would-be radio documentary exploring the Narnia of restricted access material with its wedded themes of suspicion, gatekeeping, conspiracy, frustration, and the maddening infinite regress that emerges wherever information is suppressed.

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Tuesday 13 September : Meira Asher – Sonic Voyage of Resistance

Composer, performer and Human Rights activist Meira Asher embarks on a sonic voyage of Palestinian popular resistance. Documented at some of the many locations where it has frequently manifested since the beginning of the occupation 74 years ago, the recordings were made mainly during the period of Ramadan.

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Wednesday 14 September : D’Kréiennascht – Héiergebées mat Kréieféiss

D’Kréiennascht present their work as a Luxembourgish interdisciplinary art collective. This radio artwork consists of individual short radio plays by different members and experimental sound art pieces created together. These range from “Sounding Research” to satirical “Weltschmerz”, surrealistic journeys and sonic documentaries.

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Thursday 15 September : Barbara Kaiser – Transitions - Stationen einer Klassenreise

Barbara Kaiser explores the situations faced when people change social class. Usually they report neither feeling at home in one world nor the other. The impressions and experiences of these class travellers determine the composition of this audible journey, based around texts from Klassenreise by Brigitte Theissl and Betina Aumair.

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Friday 16 September : Ricardo iamuuri Robinson – SPF 22

Ricardo iamuuri Robinson integrates a variety of sonic landscapes to convey the journey of black skin. Using tarpaulins of aluminium foil, durable plastic and waterproof canvas to depict skin, the work also transmits voices and sounds which articulate the interplay between black skin and the fight against the forces determined to control where it shines.

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Saturday 17 September : bauhaus.fm-Rundfunkorchester –

The bauhaus.fm-Rundfunkorchester consists of activists of their experimental radio station, alumni of the Bauhaus University Weimar and friends. The collaborative instrument Funkstern plus, developed with the artist Steffen Koritzsch, lets the group itself become a radio station. It invites the audience to participate by using their own radio receivers. This live broadcast is open to the public!

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Sunday 18 September : zvukac – Glosolalia

Prague luminary Miloš Vojtěchovský gathers together a flow of recordings, exposing the variety of languages and dialects, some languages still living, some already moribund, some absorbed by English, including recordings of vocalisations of animals, which are included in the human soundscapes.

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Monday 19 September : Marold Langer-Philippsen – RADIOTERRESTRICA

Marold Langer-Philippsen receives signals from Earth on a newly discovered type of star in the centre of the Milky Way, and sends a radio mobile on a journey to Earth, where it lands in Europe – an entity of nearly 50 states with almost as many languages, many more dialects, and a variety of sounds that seems hitherto unknown on other stars. This live broadcast is open to the public!

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Tuesday 20 September : Julia Lee Barclay-Morton + Viv Corringham – Shadow/Text or Here Nothing Ends

Julia Lee Barclay-Morton and Viv Corringham interweave experiments in finding ways in and through a body of texts, memory, place, and voice, while responding to each other and place with deep listening. They have also included the discussions about how to create this sound-text-scape. Welcome to backstage!

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Wednesday 21 September : Florencia Curci + Investigaciones del Futuro – Karukinka

Florencia Curci broadcasts live a 22-hour campfire, lit somewhere in Argentina. An installation of FM radios play field recordings, songs and stories in a live radio choreography, scripted by fire, that cannot be rehearsed as it can only be realised in the moment. Maybe some friends will come by with the things that fire brings together.

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Thursday 22 September : Michal Kindernay + Magdaléna Manderlová – Kozmic Sounds

Michal Kindernay and Magdaléna Manderlová investigate the transformed sonic landscape of Kozmic meadows – a system of floodplains in the Opava region of the Czech Republic. They walk, talk, and listen together with local experts, ornithologists, musicians, artists, friends, wanderers, birds, animals, insects, and other sensitive beings.

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Friday 23 September : Шшш – SHHHHITTY Shame

With an exorcism of airwaves, Шшш [pronounced Shhhh] will do one of two things for our listeners, depending on their fundamental predisposition. Those bearing a burden of unreasonable shame will be liberated, while this shame released will be reassigned to shameless oppressors the world over. This live broadcast is open to the public!

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Saturday 24 September : Julia Drouhin – Radio Apothecary

As the conclusion of a one month residency at Radio Art Zone, extraordinary sound artist and otherworldly performer Julia Drouhin explores the feminist nature of electromagnetic activities through ritualistic research of fluid, sonic and social waves. This live broadcast is open to the public!

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Sunday 25 September : Jörg Köppl – zellen-silben (a dreaming machine)

This algorithmic composition by Swiss sound artist Jörg Köppl could be the only content ever needed for a radio station. Behaving like an organic life form it offers the listener sound poetry in six different languages (including Luxembourgish) in an acoustic landscape that never repeats itself. This installation will be interrupted in the evening for a live performance by legendary Japanese musician Otomo Yoshihide!

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