[spectre] Backyard Radio Berlin - Imagine Radio 2.0 - November 1.-4., 2007

[Diana McCarty]

Backyard Radio Berlin
Imagine Radio 2.0
November 1.-4., 2007

Micro.fm snatches the radio from tv towers and broadcasting agencies
and instead of showering down on the city, the radio waves beam out of
the districts and neighborhoods. Micro.fm uses small fm transmitters
and wireless access points to broadcast in an area like a house or a
neighborhood, it allows everybody with broadband access to run a tiny
radio transmitter covering the own block. Everyone who passionately
cares about his or her neighborhood adopts the medium and populates
the ether. Backyard Radio reintroduces radio into the context of
social media and peer to peer networks. A digitized version of  the
micro radio of the early 80's, it is a great pleasure to have Tetsuo
Kogawa present with the Radia.Fm Network.  A long weekend of lectures,
workshops, concerts and broadcasts take radio art apart and put it
back together again.

tagcloud:
micro.fm, microradio, minifm, freifunk, bootlab, reboot.fm, radio1:1, radia.fm


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1. November, 20:00 - 22.00 C-Base, Rungestr. 20, U/S-Bahn Jannowitzbrücke

Lecture: Tetsuo Kogawa - The History of Micro.Fm


Micro radio used to be a compromise to restrain oneself from using
higher power transmitter because of the financial or regulatory
reason. The first conscious micro radio started in the mid-1970s in
Italy. As Félix Guattari wrote, "des millions et des millions d'Alice
en puissance", over a thousand of micro free radio stations appeared
along with the 'Autonomia' movement in Italy and then influenced other
countries especially France. In Australia, the situation was
different. Under the clever decision of Whitlam government, many
cities started to have a new type of multi-lingual and multi-cultural
community radio stations in the late 70s. In Japan, "Mini FM" boom
began in the early 80s. It was a totally different type of micro
radio: radio with literally micro-powered transmitter. It was a
miracle that such a micro radio did work as a radio. So, the micro
radio scene of the 80s was a mixture of the Italian free radio and a
new element of the technological paradox. (...)
(excerpt: A Micro Radio Manifesto)
http://anarchy.translocal.jp/radio/micro/index.html


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2. November,  21:00 M12, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 13, 1st Floor, Berlin-
Alexanderplatz (Berlin Carré)

Live:  The Multitude in Micro Radio - Tetsuo Kogawa

FM: I/O  Live:  Tetsuo Kogawa,  Knut Aufermann, & Sarah Washington

A Radio Party with DJs Every Kid on Speed & MyTube YouSpace 'Oriental
Dubstep Mashup'


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3. November, 18:00 - 20:00
United Nations Plaza, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 14a (WUNP -95.2FM)

May a Hundred Broadcasts Bloom! With Neurotransmitter (NYC)


Guests : Knut Aufermann (LDN),  Shu Lea Cheang (LDN), Toni Dimitrov
(SKP), Tetsuo Kogawa (IST), Serhat Koksal (TRK), Verena Kuni (FRA),
Etienne Noiseau (MRS), Rocket Scientists (LIS), DJ Sanyi (BUD), Sarah
Washington (LDN) and others.


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4. November 18:00-20:00 bootlab, Oranienburgerstr. 54 (U OranienburgerTOR)

Imagine Radio 2.0 : closing discussion with Radia.fm
If the official death of analogue radio is announced for 2010 when
it will be switched to digital, will radio then just disappear?


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organized by Klubradio GmbH, funded by the german cultural foundation



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