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Hello specters,<br>
<br>
The Radio Symétrique project at Mains d'Oeuvres - France, was a
media and artistic experiment that aimed to test the possibilities
of a completely open radio device. <br>
A pirate radio was set up for a month and a half, with a very
particular behavior: anyone could speak live automatically by
calling a phone number.<br>
<br>
No human intervention, no editorial filter.<br>
<br>
The radio received more than 100 calls, at the beginning mainly
coming from visits of the exhibition, then as time went by, <br>
people with no connection to the exhibition who received the signal
used the device to speak: musical improvisations, personal messages,
<br>
advertisements for local businesses or expressions of boredom... and
not a single insulting or hateful message.<br>
<br>
A compilation of calls with subtitle and more than 50 raw calls can
be heard on the project page:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://nimon.org/en/radio-symetrique">https://nimon.org/en/radio-symetrique</a><br>
<br>
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<b>Radio Symétrique</b><br>
<i>Telephone, FM Transmitter, Antenna<br>
<br>
</i>"<i>From a distribution device, the radio must be transformed
into a communication device</i>." wrote Bertold Brecht 90 years
ago. <br>
The radio must be thought not as a simple tool for broadcasting
sound but rather as an agent for modifying social relationships. <br>
Radio Symétrique (Radio Symmetrical) is an autonomous radio
territory project that broadcasts in FM around the Mains d'Oeuvres
art center during the exhibition on 107.9 MHz. <br>
Anyone can go live on the radio by calling 06 60 27 17 23. The
messages accumulate as the exhibition progresses and are broadcast
permanently on the radio.<br>
<br>
The usual verticality of the media - a handful of people speak while
a large number listen - is abolished in favor of a device that
allows everyone <br>
to express themselves without an editorial filter. Radio Symétrique
is thus a media, political and social experiment, in the spirit of
the open phones of Radio Alice, <br>
Radio ici et Maintenant or ∏node. What kind of content does this
device generate and what kind of relationships does it create?<br>
<br>
Radio Symétrique is a neighborhood radio: only radio receivers
located around Mains d'Oeuvres can listen to it. <br>
By calling the radio, it is therefore the people behind these
stations who are being addressed: residents, workers and visitors of
the St Ouen flea market neighborhood.<br>
<br>
Thanks to:<br>
. ∏node and Acentrale for the experiments<br>
. RYBN for the phone<br>
. Elsa Döldissen for the voice in the jingle<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://nimon.org/en/radio-symetrique">https://nimon.org/en/radio-symetrique</a><br>
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