With our regular broadcasters on their summer holidays, we go live to the Radio Art Zone, the 100-day radio art festival curated by Knut Aufermann and Sarah Washington realised as part of Esch2022, European Capital of Culture. Today, till 11am: RURAL DEVELOPMENT. Herded together by indefatigable initiator Givan Bela, artists from Tokyo, the Baltic sea, Kerminy, Karlsruhe, Hranice, Gdansk, Den Haag, Brussels, Bratislava, Berlin and beyond band together as Rural Development, performing live outdoors and off-grid through field recordings, open mics, DIY instruments and walking. At 11am we join the daily À table! till 1pm, when a new 22 hour show starts: Ayọ̀ Akínwándé – Observation is Not a Crime. A 22-hour long radio piece that uses sonic materials from Ayọ̀ Akínwándé's Lagos sound archive and his travels in different cities around the world. The 22 tracks are his observations of the politics, economics, systems, policies, and daily lives of people in the foreign cities he has been immersed in.
With our regular broadcasters on their summer holidays, we go live to the Radio Art Zone, the 100-day radio art festival curated by Knut Aufermann and Sarah Washington realised as part of Esch2022, European Capital of Culture. Today, till 11am: Ayọ̀ Akínwándé – Observation is Not a Crime. A 22-hour long radio piece that uses sonic materials from Ayọ̀ Akínwándé's Lagos sound archive and his travels in different cities around the world. The 22 tracks are his observations of the politics, economics, systems, policies, and daily lives of people in the foreign cities he has been immersed in. At 11am we join the daily À table! till 1pm, when a new 22 hour show starts: Xentos Fray Bentos – Dream Home. Set in the Year of Culture 2122, Dream Home transports us to the cultural city of Esch-sur-Alzette. "In this current age of mass surveillance the only remaining freedom left to us exists in the form of the future - that unassailable vault of aspirations, that clueless repository of unthinkable terrors or an anodyne index of come-what-may." Tuning in, you may find yourself unwilling or unable to make the return journey to our divisive, troubled times.