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What's your radio show? - An evening with independent radio makers in Berlin

Andrea Goetzke — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 11:24:25 +0000

Tuesday, 26 April, 2022 - 19:30

Oyoun Club, Lucy-Lameck-Str. 32, 12049 Berlin

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Berlin has a vibrant scene of independent and artist-run radio stations, that provide frameworks and platforms for musicians, DJs and other artists to produce mixes, radio shows, and sound art. To play music they care about, to share new releases by other musicians, to also to use the airspaces as experimental grounds for creative new ideas. And to also talk about politics, culture and things that matter to them.

For the past 2 pandemic years, live gigs have been quite erratic and impossible in many cases – meanwhile the radio stations have provided a stable and constant outlet for creative sound works. While most of the radio work is volunteer-run and could not compensate for income, still the radio stations have provided and continuously are providing public platforms, rooms to experiment, and spaces to share music and sound. Of course, artist-run radio stations have provided that space for decades, and new stations are starting afresh.
We want to take a moment to celebrate all the manifold sounds that have been aired or streamed, and all the creative and organizing energies that come together to make the many sound streams continuously happen, that inspire people around town and internationally.

And – we would like to discuss with people who are part of running the different stations on the panel, and hopefully also lots of radio makers in the audience, about their experiences, learnings and plans for the future of radio making. We are curious to find out about the histories, cultures and ethos of the different stations – and so also give those of you who are considering to start making radio shows some ideas of where to turn to. We want to understand a bit more about outreach and developing audiences, both as the station and for the radio DJs. About community building and the creative ecosystems around the stations, with a particular view to the context in Berlin. About sustaining the stations and the shows. About the relevance and role of radio for artists and audiences. About artists' experiences with making radio shows. And about ideas and plans for the future.

We hope for many past, current, and future radio makers to join us for this conversation at Oyoun. For musicians who are already doing radio, and for those considering it. And for those who want to learn more about the creative ecosystems around independent radio stations. For an exchange of experience about making radios as musicians, and about hosting those spaces.

We will be discussing with:

DJ Shlucht likes to do things & uses the congregational and communal at the center of what he does as artist, DJ and sometimes thinker. Shlucht is part of the Community Radioproject Cashmere Radio and also helps running westgermany, he works and lives mainly in berlin & the internet.
Cashmere Radio is a not-for-profit community experimental radio station which was originally based in Lichtenberg, Berlin for the first six years of its existence before recently moving to Wedding. The ambition of the station is to preserve and further radio and broadcasting practices by playing with the plasticity and malleability of the medium. It is both a physical station open to the public and an online radio The radio can be heard 24 hours a day, seven days a week on our website, and on Friday and Saturdays via 88,4 Berlin and 90,7 Potsdam via the 24/3 Radio Netzwerk, a collaboration between six of Berlin’s independent radio stations.

Gaby D’Annunzio - is a social activist, community organiser and mental health advocate. She works as community manager and workshop coordinator at Refuge Worldwide radio. With a Master of Arts inPsychology, she has always had a keen interest in social issues and people's well-being. She is also the co-founder of the Open Music Lab, and hosts the Agora podcast series for Give Something Back To Berlin.
Refuge Worldwide - was started as a fundraising platform working in solidarity with grassroots and non-profit organisations. In January 2021 we launched Refuge Worldwide, a new radio station to amplify the music and issues that we care about, broadcasting weekly from Weserstraße 166 in Berlin Neukölln. Refuge Worldwide commits to striving for a gender-balanced station, representative of minorities. The
station is focused on community-building and creating space/visibility for underrepresented artists. We are really excited to present a broad range of shows ranging from 100% music-focused programmes,
to some that incorporate interviews and debate, to programmes completely dedicated to discussion.

SENU is multidisciplinary creative - DJ, radio host, designer and workshop facilitator. She is one of the founding members of SLIC Unit, a DJ collective which was formed in 2020 in order to practice collective joy and radical solidarity within the music industry. She hosts a monthly radio show at Berlins community radio THF, called DRAFT Radio. With the show she is trying to create opportunities for FLNTA* DJs and selectors, in order to share the community space and make the radio experience more accessible to fellow music enthusiasts.
Linda Dowidat is part of THF radio since Summer 2020, as part of the organisation team as well as curating the show soundslike. She found her passion for collective radio work during her studies from 2012-2016. At Hochschulradio Radio Aachen, she experienced how a voluntarily, independent run project can lead to strong engagement, intrinsic learning curves and lasting friendships.
THF Radio a community radio for Tempelhof and beyond for the whole of Berlin. We offer musicians*, artists*, bands and DJ*s a chance to try out different formats. In addition, we are a platform for urban political discourse through various interview and talk formats. The radio is a department of the recently founded Torhaus Berlin e.V., and is correspondingly located in the Torhaus, the gatekeeper house inside the former airport. Launched as a pilot project in the summer of 2019, THF Radio has been in permanent operation since the beginning of 2020, with over 50 different regular shows per month and over 80 radio producers involved.

Among the further participants are reboot.fm.

Moderation: Andrea Goetzke - is part of Music Pool Berlin, and also a long term radio maker and host of different shows, starting out at reboot.fm and now at ByteFM.

The networking part after the discussion will take place in the abadän café/bar upstairs (in the same building).

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Tue, 28.06. Legal and technological frameworks for music culture - example of pirate radio in London 7:30pm

Eileen Möller — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 09:52:48 +0000

This Music Pool evening examines today’s legal and technological frameworks of music culture and discusses in which way these frameworks encourage musical, artistic, and creative practices.
Where are legal frameworks in favor of creative practices, and where are they not? What are the conditions that shape whether artists and creative communities actually benefit from laws and technology?
Where do laws and technological developments discourage music culture? Where and why do illegal and also non-digital practices in music persist?

DJ Ripley aka Dr. Larisa K Mann will present her findings of an in-depth study of the still flourishing pirate radio scenes in London. Through a deep, engaged analysis of one of the world's vibrant and influential music scenes, we will learn how legal institutions, architecture, and community struggles for cultural survival all contribute to illegal broadcast radio's relevance even in the digital era. The talk will examine the key factors that make a technology relevant (or not) to a creative community. Having around 80 pirate radio stations broadcasting on the air in the city of London, even in the era of digital radio, raises many questions. How come that unlicensed broadcast radio is still commonly found, well after the rise of digital radio, cell phones and other networked technologies that we might have expected to supplant radio.

In a Q+A after the talk together with DJ Ripley and Rike Maier we will also localize some of the questions raised and think about in what ways law and technology limit or expand flourishing music cultures, as well as independent radio here in Berlin and in Germany.

Dj Ripley (HEAVY/Dutty Artz NYC) aka Dr. Larisa K Mann, Assistant Professor of Emergent Media, Dept of Media Studies & Production, Temple University: DJ Ripley plays global street bass music, playing music to celebrate people’s stories across race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality while highlighting the beauty of interconnecting global narratives. Dj Ripley mixes music to highlight difference rather than seamlessness. In her academic career, she is a a legal ethnographer with a PhD from UC Berkeley Law School, examining legal and technological conditions of creative practices.

Rike Maier studied law at Humboldt University Berlin and is now doing research in copyright and media law at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. Her research focuses on exceptions to copyright for creative reuses of preexisting material such as film remixes or music sampling.

Music before and after the conversation: DJ Ripley

Venue:
Echo Bücher - Bookstore for contemporary music, sound and club culture
Grüntaler Str. 9
13357 Berlin (Wedding)

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Music Pool Berlin and BLN.FM start with "Gefährliches Halbwissen" (dangerous superficial knowledge)- the guide for music, media and law questions

Eileen Möller — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:54:52 +0000

Berlin, January 13th, 2015, Music Pool Berlin, the central consulting place for musicians in Berlin and BLN.FM start the first radio programm, "Gefährliches Halbwissen" (dangerous superficial knowledge)- the guide for music, media and law questions, together. The programm will start on Februar the 2nd, and will be every first monday of the month and help musicians and media people all around Germany. BLN.FM Founder Tim Thaler will answer the questions, together with an expert from Music Pool Berlin as well as the Cologne based Lawyer for entertainment and copyright law Marco Erler( Lausen Rechtsanwälte).

"I noticed when I talk with friends and acquaintances about the topics of my lessons, I felt a lot of uncertainty and dangerous superficial knowledge of the music and media law. I'm happy to bring light into the darkness together with the experts from Music Pool Berlin and Marco Erler." says Tim Thaler, Founder of BLN.FM

"Over one year already we, Music Pool Berlin, answer questions all around the music business. Our expert pool is always growing and we try to find answers and experts for even the most difficult questions. We are happy to present our knowledge now also on air to a wider audience of the creativ scene." says Robert Witoschek, head of Noisy Academy and founding member of Music Pool Berlin

The Programm will start on Monday 02.02.2015 at 8pm. Questions can be ask live in the broadcast as well as send in via Email and left on the answering machine.

Contacts:

Number: 030 69202098 (at 8pm live or on the answering machine)
Mail: halbwissen [at] bln.fm

contact person press Music Pool Berlin
Katharina Zegers | kathi [at] musicpoolberlin.net | tel. +49 163 716 72 52

contact person BLN.FM
Tim Thaler | tim.thaler [at] bln.fm | tel. + 49 179 502 64 30

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Community Evening with Brian Turner

Eileen Möller — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:34:10 +0000

In yesterdays community evening everything was about radio, in detail it was about freeform radiostations in Germany and the US.

We had Brian Turner, music director from WFMU, over and he talked about his daily work at the biggest freeform radio station in New York/ New Jersey area.

In the afternoon he talked to a small group, in a more detailed way, about his work and answered questions from how do your own radio show and the different formats at WFMU, in our expert consultation? As well as many many other questions.

A few impressions below.

Quotes:

"..The challenge is to find music that you don't know.." #BrianTurner

"..The unseen and the unobvious is what makes art in radio.." #BrianTurner

"..People really relate to artwork and physical records.." #BrianTurner

A big thank you to Brian Turner , reboot.fm, ACUD and as always our audience for making it an successful evening.