[spectre] Herbstradio 99.1 FM Berlin on air

[Diana McCarty]

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herbstradio 99.1 FM Berlin
Sept 1. - Nov. 22, 2009
www.herbstradio.org

Aus der Stadt - fuer die Stadt.

September 1st, 18:00 - 22:00
In and around the House of World Cultures
Garden Launch, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee


Klubradio and Radiopiloten are proud to announce the launch of  
Herbstradio 99.1 FM Berlin on September 1st!  The actual broadcast  
starts in the wee hours of the morning and really gets going at 18:00  
when we kick of a marathon program!  Stay home with your kitchen radio  
or join in with your own radio in and around the House of World  
Cultures.

We'll be showcasing the best of past radio projects like funkwelle,  
radio 1:1 and reboot.fm and presenting the best of programs yet to  
come. The line up is an eclectic sample featuring the artists that  
will be tearing up Berlin's airwaves over the next few months: DJ  
Officer, Officer, Gozel Radio, Make Capitalism History, Steve Morell,  
Orient Taxi,  Nouri Ben Redjeb plus special guests.


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Radio is Back! Kill your ipod!

Breaching the airwaves with a new breed of sound: Transmitting from  
two studios in the former east and west parts of the city, a new radio  
project marks the crossings of many cultural communities for the next  
three months. Herbstradio is a continuation of an ongoing  
international experiment: how to map the complex patterns of urban  
culture's productivity and transport it into the ether? While other  
cities around the world have permanent "free cultural radios", Berlin  
has only realized this in temporary forms. Partly, Herbstradio is a  
tribute to Berlin's potential to realize a permanent cultural channel  
like Resonancefm London; WFMU, NYC; Grenouille, Marseilles; Tilos  
Radio Budapest; Orange, Vienna and Corax, Halle or the former  
Radio100, Berlin.

Herbstradio proposes to better promote all the cultures of a city  
which make it vivid and livable but are mostly excluded from the media  
sphere, living in the "long tail" of interim residues of micro-local  
and digital niches. A large portion of the population in Berlin is not  
part of the mainstream and probably never will be: with a migration  
background, as temporary cultural workers, or in permanent underground  
exile, they create different cultural spaces. Cosmopolitan diversity  
is a given condition which drives and inspires cultural institutions  
and events as well as everyday life. Local and far away stories and  
sounds stand for themselves but also blend and mix while radio opens  
up a shared timespace right in your car, office or kitchen.

Cultural production after the global crisis of capital needs to find  
its place between the offerings of the creative industry and your  
friendly facebook friends. Money probably isn't the only means to  
measure productivity these days. A low budget project can still filter  
a considerable amount of interesting cultural data for you. Watching  
the music industry change, one can sense an uncertain future where  
distribution is free and incomes are low. Herbstradio operates on the  
assumption of a universal flatrate model, where everything is  
available but choice needs effort. The isolated ipod user is  
overwhelmed with the task of permanently reorganizing individual  
playlists, while free cultural radio offers a social context where  
relevance can emerge from locality and surprising moments of  
commonality.

New forms of collective subjectivity production are needed which  
connect the physical plane of living together in a locality with the  
abstract sphere of social data on the internet. How to organize the  
unorganizable? How much information you want to digest has to do with  
your capability of how long you can stay up to go clubbing. Then  
again, how many interesting lectures did you miss? For those who  
cannot be at the same place at the same time, radio offers a way to  
include people and extend the social range of a niche. While the globe  
goes digital, the local analogue strikes back. radio is the new vinyl.

You can travel through a city like you can consume a website.  
Herbstradio allows you to dig a little deeper. It will capture more  
than just a glimpse of events, discourses or musical styles without  
trying to be journalistic, objective or representative. This is rather  
a part of the fabrics which hold the city together and drive it, to  
develop the electromagnetic senses which connect it to the past and  
future. Check out the podcast and livestream or tune in to the FM  
broadcast.


Contributors and studio guests include:

Jochen Becker, Franco ?Bifo? Berardi, Kiran Cantuerk, Paddy Catani,  
Chaosradio, Chaussee der Enthusiasten, Chicks On Speed, Club der  
Polnischen Versager, Mike Davis, Till Nicolas von Heiseler, Heinrich  
?DJ Officer, Officer?? Dubel, Dmitry Kleiner, Kodwo Eshun, Harun  
Farocki, Hausradio, Andrej Holm, Darius James, Jahcoozi, Grada  
Kilomba, Karsten Krampitz, Brandon Labelle, Geert Lovink, Liebe Statt  
Drogen, Meena Menon, Mikro.fm, Alla Mitrofanova, Multicult2.0, Carsten  
Nicolai, Orient Taxi, Tanja Ostojic, Polyphon, Radijojo, Radio  
Hochsee, Radio Voodoo, Reformbühne Heim und Welt, Salon Bruit, Hito  
Steyerl, Surfpoeten, Peter Lamborn Wilson and many others.

Supporting events and organizations:
B_Books, Berliner Märchentage, Club Transmediale, General Public, Haus  
der Kulturen der Welt, ICI Berlin, Internationales Literaturfestival  
Berlin, Make Capitalism History, Metrozone, Next, Pro Qm, Radia.fm,  
Transitland Destination Berlin, Vattenfall 20.

Herbstradio is organized in a cooperation between Hausradio/Klubradio  
and Radiopiloten/Brotfabrik and is a combination of two radio  
projects: REWIND2020 and Berlin macht Radio. Hausradio, a cooperation  
between klubradio, Next Intercultural Agency and the House of World  
Cultures is a substantial part of Herbstradio.

The transmitter broadcasts from the tower of the Segenskirche in  
Schoenhauser Allee. This is not only the point of broadcast, but also  
the point where the signals from the two studios join: from  
Radiopiloten at the Freudenhaus Lottumstrasse (Prenzlauerberg) and  
from Klubradio at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Tiergarten).

The Project Rewind2020 is supported by a grant from the Haupstadkultur Fonds.








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Radio is back. Kill your ipods.
herbstradio 99.1 FM Berlin
Sept. 1 - Nov. 22, 2009
www.herbstradio.org

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diana.mccarty at gmail.com
+ 49 (0) 1520 824 9536

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