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 They scour their sound design library and also reanimate outdated audio equipment that has been accumulating dust in their Prague storage room.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!

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

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

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. Stay tuned for details of this live performance!

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.

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

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

Life-poet Jasmina Al-Qaisi finally acquires an office to perform her Heart Service. 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!

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.

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

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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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.

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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!

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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.

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.

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

I record the soundscape surrounding me during isolation period in Hong Kong. And make it as BGM. During COVID-19, Hong Kong is becoming a silent place. There is a big different with Hong Kong 2019.

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.