NOIES MUSIK
SZENE NRW
Zeitung für neue und experimentelle Musik

em guide the voices that wait

This essay explores my encounter with the archive of Chile al día, a broadcast transmitted from Radio Berlin International in the GDR between 1973 and 1990, during the same period as Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile. I visited the Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv in Babelsberg, where this archive resides, six times between 28 August and 18 October 2024. Those visits involved me with it on different levels, whereas my listening practice was affected as I opened myself up to an aesthetic of resonance (Friz, 2009). From my listening experience, I shift the definition of this archive as such, presenting it rather as a radio show capable of creating an elsewhere from the sonic.

Januar 2025

Kika Echeverría

em guide southernests: radiolibre. free communication infrastructures from colombia

In this series by 3/4 magazine, Argentina-based curator, researcher and sound artist Florencia Curci introduces us to artists and creators who, through their diverse activities, bring communities together to educate, create and express themselves within the cultural and political landscape of South America. Drawing from this intensive engagement with sound and archival practices, Florencia researches tools for community-building. These gatherings act as nests of friendship that give rise to actions that build foundations for better futures, resisting the monoculture of the present.

Dezember 2024

gespräch mit cute community radio: taktwechsel und neue räume – wie das cute community radio musik in bochum neu zentriert.

Das Cute Community Radio war eines der Kollektive, das im Sommer im Kunstmuseum Bochum das 50-jährige Jubiläum der Kemnade International feierte – ein einzigartiges Musikfestival, das erstmals 1974 von migrantischen Selbstorganisationen und dem Museum Bochum organisiert wurde. Die Journalistin Dîlan Şirin Çelik traf den CCR Gründer Guy Dermosessian auf ein Gespräch.

Oktober 2024

Guy Dermosessian, der Gründer des Cute Community Radios. © Henning Rogge