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DR 2020

Datscha Radio in a Nutshell

It is unusual enough to broadcast from a garden, creating a studio situation exposed to the immediate surroundings like weather, temperatures and background sounds. With “Nightgardening” In 2019, Datscha Radio took its experimental approach to the garden as a matrix for self-organization, autopoiesis and ecological radio art, even one step further. How can we approach the audible ecospheres of the night, what stories can be told, what fragrances turned into frequencies?
The compilation presents a mix of excerpts taken from “Plots & Prophecies” (2017) and “Nightgardening” (2019), followed by palimpsests and passages from Datscha Radio’s 2020 iteration “Listening to the Universe”. This latter event, happening from the 11th to the 13th of August, was dedicated to the Perseides’ meteor showers. Talks and readings, concerts, and performances revolved around themes like sonification, storytelling, and cosmic relations in the so-called Anthropocene.
This radio(art) collage by Gabi Schaffner formed part of Cashmere Radio's Passage “Radio Garden” program, funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Culture Department.
Jingles, Proben und Mixe: 2012, 2014 Michaela Schimun, Ulrike Stoehring, „Datscha Owl“ von Sarah Washington 2012; Nightgardening III: Gabi Schaffner, Niki Matita; Datscha Radio Taiwan, 2019: Catherine Lee, Yi-Chun Liu, Mabel Wang und Ming-Chun Cheng; Datscha Radio Madrid, 2018: KTA Martin, Romi Casile, Alberto Garcia. Eva Kurly. Radio art pieces (in order of appearance): Babosa, Niki Matita 2019; Seeds, Kate Donovan (mit Scout, Molly und Hunter aus ihrem Garten) 2019; Greenhouse Emissions: Kate Donovan und Ryan McFadyen 2017, Gymnospermium Pills, Gabi Schaffner, 2019, Stimme: Kate Donovan Surprise Insert: Riesenkolibri. Frieder Butzmann bei Datscha Radio 2017 Choir: The Nightingale von Thomas Wheeler, gesungen vom Berliner Chor Singlust e.V. unter der Leitung und mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Andrea Eckhard. Datscha Radio Nightgardening I, "Die Nacht der Nachtigallen“ 2019 Beteiligte MusikerInnen: Hannes Wienert, Mimosa Pale, FX Schroeder Ergänzende O-Töne: Gabi Schaffner

Nachtgartenkosmos@Cashmere Radio

Grit Martinez und Chris Junk. 30. Juni 2023. Musik: Annemarie, Komm Doch In Die Laubenkolonie
Written By – Jean Gilbert, Robert Gilbert.
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DR in Altenburg

Der Historische Laubengarten: Grit Martinez und Chris Junk im Gespraech

Ansage - 30 - Juni

The earthworm travels on radio frequencies, earthy hacks and conglomerates of audio matter. S/he passes through mosquito clouds (yes, this earthworm can fly!), bird song, thunderstorms, attends a Finnish summer theatre show, listens to a boy and his mother singing, visits the aucoustic remnants of a German garden show, finds happiness in the ringing of porcelain bells and, finally, merges into silence and is gone.

Voices: 
-Teuri Haarla, on occacion of his exhibition at Galerie Hilbertraum, 16th January 2016, Berlin, Germany
- Unknown but stunningly convincing actors of a "kesäteatteri" 2010 in Mid Finland
- Gibrain and Virpi Nurmi in their garden in Gießen, Germany

Field recordings by raw audio with snippets/remixes taken from:
momoscas1 by galeko, freesound.org
vartioh__loud-transmissions, freesound.org
spectrm__radio-interference, freesound.org
noisecollector__magnetorcradio, freesound.org
singing saw "fake birds": Mimosa Pale, Berlin. 2011 
guitar in "Birdcage" and flute improvisation, FX Schroeder, Hamburg. 2011
kompost20140711_2047.0.25s, programmed by Pit Schultz, 2014

Teuri Haarla is a FInnish self-taught artist who works with drawings, performance and architecture. For his performances he goes into a state he calls "bio drunk". He also built "Plantheon" tower, 17 metre high and based on the geometry of nature.
During the opening we had a talk in which he explained some of this work and philosophy. 