Radia

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Radia
Type radio and online
AvailabilityInternational 
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 2024, the network gathers 22 radio stations from 21 cities across 15 countries, speaking 9 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.

Contents

The network's name freely refers to La Radia, [2] a Futurist manifesto written by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti [3] 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.

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 and archive

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. All Radia shows are archived at the Internet Archive. [4]

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

Syndicating partners who play but do not produce Radia shows are Resonance Extra (Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, London, Norwich, UK), Radio Campus Paris (Paris, France), CFRU (Guelph, Canada), CKUT (Montreal, Canada), KZradio (Tel Aviv, Israel), Radio ARA  [ lb ] (Luxembourg) and Radio Corax  [ de ] (Halle, Germany).

Affiliated to the network are ORF Kunstradio  [ de ] (Vienna, Austria), Mobile Radio [10] (Ürzig, Germany) and Radioart106 (Haifa, Israel).

From 2017 on each season also includes a guest slot reserved for individual producers or radio stations that are not part of the network.

Special events and broadcasts

Notes

  1. ↑ German, English, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Macedonian, Italian, Spanish, Slovene
  2. ↑ La Radia Futurist manifesto of October 1933 by Federico Tomaso Marinetti and Pino Masnata (Originally published in "Gazzetta del Popolo")
  3. ↑ "Marinétti, Filippo Tommaso nell'Enciclopedia Treccani".
  4. ↑ "Radia collection at the Internet Archive".
  5. ↑ Chosen date is the date of first contribution to the network.
  6. ↑ "teafm.net" (in Spanish). teafm.net. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
  7. ↑ radiostudent.si
  8. ↑ "curiousbroadcast.com". curiousbroadcast.com. 31 July 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
  9. ↑ Kol HaCampus 106fm Archived 2 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ "Mobile Radio".
  11. ↑ Archived 28 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ↑ "2007 Prix Winners: Digital Communities - Prix Ars Electronica" . Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  13. ↑ RadiaLx website
  14. ↑ Festival Silêncio, 18–27 June 2009
  15. ↑ "Digital Media, Local Cultures: an ongoing challenge" (in Portuguese). FuturePlaces. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
  16. ↑ "radialx 2012". Radialx.radiozero.pt. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
  17. ↑ "Radia programas at" . Retrieved 14 November 2013.
  18. ↑ "Kunstradio "Curated by" series". Kunstradio.at. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
  19. ↑ "About Mobile Radio BSP". Mobile Radio. 9 December 2012. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
  20. ↑ "Radio Revolten, International Radio Art Festival coming to Halle, Germany in October" . Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  21. ↑ "documenta 14 radio - SAVVYfunk" . Retrieved 12 December 2017.

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