[spectre] datscha Radio / Berlin Rathenow / Open Call

Wed Aug 1 22:13:37 CEST 2012

Greetings Spectre,

for those of you working with sound and gardening... here you go. I
guess this is a summer holiday for reboot.fm

cheers,

diana

Datscha Radio
To create a garden for listening and international cooperation which
appeals to all of the senses - this is the aim of Datscha-Radio. For 7
days, 24 hours, from 24th to 31st of August, we will be broadcasting
directly from a typical Berlin garden patch. Rain or shine!

http://datscharadio.de/en/
http://datscharadio.de/en/open-call/

The Idea
Sparkling diversity: Tulipa turkestanica

Since the late 80s of the 20th century the garden has increasingly
gained the attention of the public eye: in terms of aesthetics,
history and ecology. As a definite place, the garden can take variable
shapes, from ornamental to kitchen gardens, from castle gardens to
cloister gardens. Being located between nature and culture, the garden
has been a place for the production of art and architecture, of
literature and music.

The garden functions as a mirror of social and political spheres,
while being a metaphor for a lost paradise beyond all worldly orders.
You can find “the garden” as a model imprinted on bio-technology and
futurology and as an underlying principle in social networks and
computer programming.

The garden’s true potential, though, does not ground on its
functionalisation as a model to be fitted into other faculties. It is
founded in the garden itself, in its multi-faceted resources that
alternate, take turns, complete each other and which, in their
mutability, create a wealth of new points of contact. A garden is not
just one place, it is many places. And it is not just a system, it is
many systems.
Datscha-Radio

Datscha-Radio takes the garden in all its diversity as its foundation
and taps its full potentials: straight on site, out of nature and
plants, from the knowledge of the gardeners and from the inexhaustible
richness of the worlds linked to the garden. The combination of
“garden” and radio technology touches the very boundaries between the
real and the imaginary, between the material and the visionary worlds.
Datscha Radio is an art and culture project and is subsidized by the
faculty for art and culture of the district council Pankow, Berlin.
Garten and radio: Suits fine!

Datscha-Radio focuses on the garden: :

- in terms of art as an acoustic landscape (sound art, field
recordings, composition)
 - collectively (contributions of the gardeners and members of the
neighbouring garden patches)
 - in terms of local politics (communal issues, self-determination,
right of nature)
  - as a personal living space (Garden work and leisure, holidays in
the garden, community)
  - as a form of discourse and majoe topic (Urban Gardening, garden
philosophy, – architecture and –poetry, interviews and talks)
  - as a living organizing principle in creating our program

Datscha Radio lives in the garden, works in the garden and broadcasts
from the garden. You will hear the voices of: Gardeners and
neighbours, artists (with an emphasis in their work on
gardening/nature), surprise guests and curators. And just like any
good gardener shares her most valuable plants with her neighbours,
Datscha Radio is co-operating in exchange with other international
radio stations.

Berlin – Rosenthal

Berlin is the city with the greatest number of “Schrebergardens”
(private garden plots for self subsistence) in Germany. Thus, the
garden(plot) culture forms a vital part of the diverse cultures of
Berlin since its beginnings from the late 18th century. During the 90s
the Schrebergarden gained increasing attention as an economic and
ecologic model, as sociocultural topic and as an urban sanctuary and
recreational haven.

At the same time, Berlin is one of the most international cities of
the world. And the gardens of the association “Einigkeit” (“Unity”)
with their almost 1000 garden plots form one one Berlins biggest
garden communities. Datscha-Radio is located in the Mönchmühler Str.
12, plot no. 665, of the “Garten- und Siedlergemeinschaft Einigkeit e.
V” (“Gardening and Estate Association Unitiy). Our place is mix-used,
partly kitchen garden, flowers and fruit trees, the “datscha” has
approx. 60 sqm. (including the winter garden).

Garden culture and Berlin culture, locality and internationaliy, there
can be no better opportunity to link those two – at all levels.
Already the location alone proffers a diversity of interests: local
and municipal politics, East and West, town and country, past and
present.

Garden politics

Less than 200 m distant from the No. 665 and until 1989, ran the
Berlin wall which separated the East German “Rosenthal” from the
Western “Maerkisches Viertel”. The gardens of the “Einigkeit” exist
since 1915. After the turnaround, the gardens were still considered as
“garden plots”, but soon after a juristic tug of war concerning their
official status started that lasts to date. The reason lies in the
size of the plots (on average 600 sqm.) and their partly quite
extensive development which runs contrary to the German laws on garden
plots. In 2005, the garden “plots” of the “Einigkeit” lost their
“plot” status. The district office designed a plan for “partly
removal” plus for a conversion of the plots into building land. In a
series of relentless negotiations the “Einigkeit” succeeded in
consolidating the juridical status of the gardens as one of a
“protected recreational park”… at least until 2025.

With Datscha Radio, there is another voice to support the preservation
of the gardens of the “Einigkeit”.

Formats and realisation
The winter garden. As yet without radio equipment

Team

Currently working at Datscha Radio are: Gabi Schaffner
(schaffnerin.net: project managment/editing); Pit Schultz (reboot.fm,
klubradio GmbH: technical manager/editing; Wolfgang Kriener (web;
streaming assistance) ; Diana McCarty (reboot.fm: editing), Verena
Kuni (GUNSTradio/radiator x: editing).
Contents

Datscha Radio presents a mix of fixed features, live events and music.
For broadcasting, the wintergarden will be  converted into a studio.
Since Mid-June we are in the ongoing process of organizing our
program.
 Artist and gardener philosophising

The individual formats are:

-   Garden topics (literature, discourse, philosophy, art)
 - Garden specials (expert knowledge plants, advice on horticulture,
garden recipes)
 - Live sets (concerts, talks, readings)
  - Garden music (following the gardener’s suggestions, Berlin and
international contributions)
 - Night-Loop (Fieldrecordings/compositions/ambient dealing with the
nocturnal garden, 3times3 hours)
 - Quick Snaps (live, on the occasion)
 -  Guest broadcasts (contributions by other radio stations worldwide)

Documentation
The radio at the world’s door

www.datscharadio.de will serve as an online documentation and sound
archive for at least three years. Excerpts from broadcasts, texts,
links and a selection of the biographies and works of the
participating artists will be available to the public (partly as
downloads too).

A less extensive selection of material will be assembled into print.
Envisaged is a small catlogue, ca. 48 pages, bi-lingual, colour.
Number of copies: ca 250.
Supporters and sponsors of Datscha-Radio:

Garten- und Siedlergemeinschaft Einigkeit e. V.
Amt für Wissenschaft und Kultur Pankow

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