Radia

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Radia
Type radio and online
Country
Availability International 
Motto "New and forgotten ways of making radio"
Launch date 2005
Official website http://www.radia.fm

Started in April 2005, the Radia network is an international informal network of community radio stations that have a common interest in producing and sharing art works for the radio. In 2011, the network gathers 20 radio stations from 18 cities across 13 countries, speaking 8 different languages[1]. It also organizes linked-up events and special broadcasts. Radia intends to be a space of reflection about today's radio and radio art. Its activities try to contribute to intercultural exchange and artworks and artists circulation.

The network's name freely refers to La Radia [2], Futurist manifesto written by Federico Tomaso Marinetti and Pino Masnata in 1933. The network's founders dropped the La to distance themselves from the Futurists' political views. As it stands alone, "radia" is simply "radio" or "radios" in some languages.

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Shows

The Radia Network's basis is a weekly 28 minutes show broadcast by all the stations. Each station produces the show in turns. Every round of shows is called a season.

Content

As stated in their jingle, Radia is "bringing new and forgotten ways of making radio to [their] listeners. Each week [they] give artists the challenge to make radio that works all across Europe and beyond." The Radia show intends to cross boundaries and address people of different languages and cultures. It usually explores the different genres of radio art, separately or by mixing them: sound art, electroacoustic music, sound poetry, radio drama, soundscape.

Production

Usually each member radio station commissions an artist from their local artistic community and gives him/her carte blanche for producing a show. In that sense, Radia uses radio as a gallery for sound art pieces.

Exchange

To share the shows the Radia Network formerly used Radioswap.net, a semi-public closed platform for program exchange between community radios. Now it utilizes the server space of one of its member stations.

Members

Members of the Radia Network are radio stations, webradios and art-radio projects that broadcast the Radia weekly show and produce shows in turns.

Founding members

On 3–7 February 2005, there was a first meeting of radio stations in Berlin under the banner of NERA (New European Radio Art). The decision was taken to start a broadcast season the following April, and an email discussion list was set up on which the name Radia was finally settled on.

Founding members are:

New members

A non-contributing partner of the network is ORF Kunstradio (Vienna)

Special events and broadcasts

Notes

  1. ^ German, English, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Macedonian, Italian, Spanish
  2. ^ La Radia Futurist manifesto of October 1933 by Federico Tomaso Marinetti and Pino Masnata (Originally published in "Gazzetta del Popolo")
  3. ^ Chosen date is the date of first contribution to the network.
  4. ^ According to the Ars Electronica website, "The Radia Network is a community of independent radio stations who have combined to facilitate an ongoing shared cultural initiative. The stations, based throughout Europe, share in weekly commissioned pieces that explore radio as an art form. Each station produces a piece in turn, which all of the partners then publish. The pieces do not seek to promote a common language, but to celebrate the diversity of the breadth of their contributors. It uses the possibilities opened up by the net to share the work and ideas not only of the stations but also of the artistic communities that themselves represent the audience of each contributor and then, through extension, of the whole."
  5. ^ RadiaLx website
  6. ^ Festival Silêncio, 18–27 June 2009
  7. ^ http://futureplaces.org
  8. ^ http://radialx.radiozero.pt
  9. ^ Radia programas at archive.org
  10. ^ Kunstradio "Curated by" series

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