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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

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.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

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?"

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

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

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Marie Gavois & Michel Klöfkorn turn their many talents to radio, scheduling their live performance according to local time zones around the world; waking up in New York at 2pm Esch time, falling asleep an hour later in Jakarta. Speaking several languages they converse with an Australian drone pilot, a dancer in Belarus, a lecturer in Stockholm...

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Echo Ho and friends broadcast a hybrid radiophonic fiction live from the artist's garden in Cologne. Developing a pattern language based on the life cycles of plants, tracing symbiotic entanglements of sowing, tending, eating, digesting and preserving, in a potential sonic ecosystem full of sympathetic relationships for healing and reconciliation.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

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.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

  Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

Please visit the Radio Art Zone website for a detailed programme description.

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 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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?”

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.!

"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.

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?

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.

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.

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!

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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).

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.