Belgium. Since the national protest on October 14, 2025, we’ve been taking our microphones out into the streets to meet the people fighting against the government’s austerity plan. Amid these crowds, unique voices emerge—from people of all ages, backgrounds, and sectors—bearing witness to the harshness of these measures and their social injustice. Together, these voices are rising up in resistance!
Lacollective.be est une initiative de citoyen.ne.s travaillant dans le secteur artistique en Belgique, en dehors de tous partis ou groupes idéologiques.
Le secteur artistique, bien que mis à mal, doit être aussi fédérateur des luttes de tous secteurs.
Nous avons les outils d’expression, de production, d’information, de sensibilisation.
Depuis la manifestation nationale belge du 14 octobre 2025, avec nos micros, nous partons à la rencontre de celles et de ceux qui luttent contre le plan d’austérité des gouvernements.
Nous allons dans les écoles, hôpitaux, institutions, usines, bureaux, associations, administrations et dans la rue pour rendre visible ce qu’il est entrain de se passer.
Nous collectons des sons brutes, des paroles peu montées, nous prendrons le temps d’écouter celles et ceux qu’on entend trop peu et qui subissent de plein fouet le tsunami anti-social.
Au sein de ces foules, émergent des paroles singulières de tous âges, toutes provenances, tous secteurs, témoignant de la violence de ces mesures et de leur injustice sociale. Ensemble, les voix s’élèvent pour résister !
Nous, on est là ! Journal d’une année de luttes en Belgique.
Impro8 with the improvisers·ices of the practice space carried by Grand8. extract —
In 2016, a handful of musicians, an encounter, a sharing around improvisation, a desire and a pleasure to play together.
Grand8 was born.
Grand8 came out of a hurry, improvising, together, in a big ensemble, without an orchestra conductor·fe.
Grand8 first worked, built his music, crossed his spaces, built his community, initiated his history.
Grand8 has grown to reach a membership of about fifteen musicians·nts.
Grand8 carries improvised music, in a large ensemble, without an orchestra conductor. Based in Marseille, the ensemble brings together musicians from the southern region, both national and European.
Grand8 has been in residence at GMEM-CNCM-Marseille since 2018. The ensemble works on annual creations with multidisciplinary guests and explores the intersections of musical improvisation with dance, text, image, and landscape.
He also positions himself as an actor on the stage in the Southern Region with the organization of the multidisciplinary festival Grand Vertige, as well as music and dance-music sessions.
Bastien Boni (double bass), Olivier Bost (trombone), Sébastien Bouhana (drum, objects), Laurent Charles (soprano saxophone), Emmanuel Cremer (cello), João Fernandes (digital instruments), Catherine Jauniaux (voice, objects), Soizic Lebrat (cello), Magali Rubio (clarinets), Geneviève Sorin (accordion), Katherine Sowerby (percussion, vibraphone), Nicoló Terrasi (guitar), François Wong (baritone saxophone).
Radio Atatakai is a radio art project and station run by artists Tata Frenkel and dr. Jan Glöckner. Jan’s research interest is choreographic potential of fungi and humans, with a focus on biotechnology, deep tank fermentation, radio and dance. And Tata’s artistic practice encompasses radio, radio-acoustic instruments, diagrammatic drawings, and performative narratives in which the limits of articulation, themes of health and care, and the communication physics intertwine. Radio Atatakai calls itself a tiny intergalactical station that runs two big sub-programs called “Autonomous education for radio spectrum” and “Fundamental principles of permanent fun”. But maybe that’s the least interesting thing about it. Jan lives with rapidly progressing ALS, while Tata is Jan’s main caretaker. Hence the radio exists in the routine of palliative care. Since the beginning of the Radio Atatakai, it has been transmitting through the high resistance of medical crisis, it was and still is bringing meaning, ground and freedom to create, communicate, share and just to stay yourself when the disease takes one’s ability to participate physically. Radio Atatakai wants to emphasize voices, unseen bodies, radio sky that belongs to everybody. Palliative arts is something that cares for the end, doesn’t ignore it, doesn’t mystify it, it is about care in multitude of its forms. At the same time, for us, it mainly affects the framework, the flexible curation of the transmissions – station is completely adjusted so it’s good for one’s condition, so it’s fun without any damage to energy levels, a producer is also a caregiver, we totally live by unpredictability, by easying the symptoms.
In this show, we have a small restrospective trip that happens somewhere outside. Music and editing by Tata Frenkel. Voices: Jan Glöckner and Tata.
radia season 57 – show #1123 (radio x) – AUTOMATENKORRIDOR – by GABI SCHAFFNER & DIY CHURCH
– playing from Oct 5 to Oct 11, 2026 –
AUTOMATENKORRIDOR (radia edit) by GABI SCHAFFNER & DIY CHURCH (ERNST MARKUS STEIN)
“In the form of a radio logbook the ‘conductor’ (Gabi Schaffner) & the DJ (DIY Church) make their way through hand-picked corridors, filled with devices. In the radio studio, little doors are opened, devices are drafted, shattered and discarded. Mean machines are exposed. Whole corridors of them […] You can already hear it from afar. A straightener, a chin strap… Access over or through foreign territories. Sovereign domains, high-frequency paradise apples, singing machines. One day it was there, the industrial revolution! Memorable things, more like sights to be seen. Stealing a berry from the neighbor. Searching for… a radio is playing somewhere. Entrance to healthy paranoia – just a pinch. A wind blows once through the corridor – an elongated connecting space in the first half of some century. And no, or was it actually in the museum for selfie sticks? That’s where the expedition began. Luckily, there was a writing tool…” (G.S./E.M.S.)
AUTOMATENKORRIDOR was a live radio performance created for the exhibition “Anybody out there? 100 Years of Radio” at Kunstraum D21 in Leipzig in 2020. Our walk through the corridor lasted for two hours. What you can hear here are the first 26.5 minutes, at the end of which a strange signal lures the wanderers onward. But where to? It’s up to your fantasies…
Live broadcast: November 28, 2020
ERNST MARKUS STEIN
The freelance artist Ernst Markus Stein is a co-founder of the online radio streaming project DIYChurch and a member of the Cashmere Radio collective. When he isn’t filling in at WestGermany (Berlin), he can usually be found at home, where he runs a virtual yacht club and devotes himself to underwater landscape painting, connecting waves, and transforming content management systems into poetry.
From time to time, he disguises himself as a disc jockey (DJ ShluchT) and throws carpets of sound and information around. Lately, he seems to have been wasting his existence on outdated copying machines, using them to print out the internet.
Find out more at swimmer.hopto.org/sidequest/
GABI SCHAFFNER
Gabi Schaffner works as an interdisciplinary sound artist and curator.
Her artistic practice is determined by the methods of poetic ethnography in connection with fluxus-like mise-en-scènes, radio-making and sound art performances. Much of her work originates from journeys. Next to her radiophonic productions, Schaffner creates speculative musical genres and inserts them into music history in order to raise awareness for cultural, gender-related and/or geographical conditions.
Schaffner has been realising award-winning productions with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, radia.fm, Hessian Cultural Radio and ABC Australia. Since 2012 she maintains DATSCHA RADIO, a nomadic transmission project that links the medium of radio to current ecological issues.
Find out more about DATSCHA RADIO at www.datscharadio.de
and about GABI SCHAFFNERs projects in a broader perspective at www.schaffnerin.net
GABI SCHAFFNER & ERNST MARKUS STEIN
Since 2020, GABI SCHAFFNER and ERNST MARKUS STEIN have been working together.
They have created several DATSCHA RADIO iterations, most recently in September 2026 as RADYO PARFÜM in Frankfurt/Main. In 2026, they founded the No-Fashion label U5E.L3ss.
Their joint exhibition “Batteries are not included,” together with Mathias Deutsch and Thomas Lüer, ran from August 14 to September 13, 2026 at Kunstverein Familie Montez in Frankfurt/Main.
credits:
great many thanks to GABI SCHAFFNER and ERNST MARKUS STEIN for AUTOMATENKORRIDOR!
metadata:
AUTOMATENKORRIDOR by GABI SCHAFFNER & DIY CHURCH (ERNST MARKUS STEIN)
radia production: miss.gunst [GUNST + radiator x]
production date: september 2026
station: radio x, frankfurt am main (germany)
length: 28 min.
licence: (cc-by-nc-nd) GABI SCHAFFNER & ERNST MARKUS STEIN
www.radiox.de – www.gunst.info – www.datscharadio.de – www.schaffnerin.net – swimmer.hopto.org/sidequest/
additional info:
includes radia jingles (in/out), station and program info/intro (english)
links:
radio x & radiator x: www.radiox.de – www.radiox.de/radiator-x
GUNSTradio & radiator x: www.gunst.info – www.gunst.info/radiator
Gabi Schaffner: www.datscharadio.de – www.schaffnerin.net
Ernst Markus Stein: swimmer.hopto.org/sidequest/
Umbra
On August 12, 2026, for a few minutes, the sun disappeared and the world listened differently. Umbra is a sound piece that begins in that suspended moment and builds a journey between the physical and the imagined: the murmur of hundreds of people looking up, the abrupt silence of birds mistaking noon for night, the wind shifting direction as if it, too, hesitated.
From there, the piece opens outward into space: radio frequencies captured from the solar wind, the low hum of a magnetic field behaving differently during the eclipse, electromagnetic echoes suggesting how the sun — even hidden — keeps shaping the activity of Earth and its neighboring planets. A reminder that our daily rhythm, the tides, the weather, life itself, depend on a star we barely notice until it’s gone.
And when the light returns, Umbra doesn’t reach for easy wonder, but for something quieter: the sense that if, for a moment, an entire continent could pause to look up at the same thing, maybe the world isn’t as broken as it seems. A piece about darkness that doesn’t frighten but orders things; about hope that doesn’t shout, but can be heard low, like an echo taking its time to arrive.
Disclaimer: This programme contains explicit content and is not suitable for children or young people.
The Palais Rössl is a cross-generational, multidisciplinary, growing symbiotic network of artists, musicians, designers and cultural practitioners in the heart of Vienna, as well as a hybrid entity transcending time and space, open to interconnections of all kinds. We share a love of communal spaces and poetic-political co-creation, with sound and soundproduction serving as a strong binding force.
Spanning 700 m², the space is home to art studios, music studios, rehearsal rooms, workshops, exhibition spaces, communal areas and a garden for fish.
Lale Rodgarkia-Dara reading at the Palais Rössl opening on 31 May 2024.
Two members of the Viennese Radia collective – Karl H. Schönswetter and Lale Rodgarkia-Dara – as well as a former member, Maria Herold, are key contributors to the Palais Rössl. Maria Herold collected sound clips from artists at the Palais Rössl which provide an acoustic insight into the ‘Soundpalais Rössl’.
At the Radia Show No. 1121 “The Rössl Radia Show” you will listen to the work of Auto Sophia, Bassano, TJ Tall, Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Herrror and The Sir Teens. The Show is embedded by the live-performance of “under the given circumstances” by JUUN and Lale Rodgarkia-Dara at the Re-Compose-Festival 2021.
The Mycorrizha Mix, Art’s Birthday Party at Palais Rössl on 17 January 2024.
AUTO SOPHIA – Excerpt from Verwüstung
Member of Palais Rössl
This is an excerpt from Verwüstung, an audiovisual performance about structural violence in gynecological surgery, created in collaboration with Constanza Mendoza as scar sisters.
Anto Manhartsberger, also known as Auto Sophia, is a sound and performance artist. Her artistic and academic interests lie in sound art in public spaces, the spatialization of sound, the socio-political potential of new media and technologies, audiovisual design, and collective artistic practice.
BASSANO – Excerpt from Sound Encounters
Member of Palais Rössl
Bassano Bonelli Bassano is a sound artist attuning to the world through listening as a way of conversation and transformation. Moving through poetry, resonance and vibration, they weave organic, mineral and digital textures into immersive sound stories that rebel against imposed logics of separation.
Excerpt of Sound Encounters – Seeds: three sound stories with water, wind, sand, copper, stone, microphones and voice.
TJ TALL – Mama I’m GROWN
Member of Palais Rössl Concert excerpt from Palais Rössl as part of the event “Black PPL Time” organized by TJ Tall
Born and raised on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, TJ Tall started making music to express inner truths and connect with his roots. His music is influenced by soca, reggae, and dub, blending these genres with a distinctly queer perspective. It can be described as raw, political, and dance-driven.
LALE RODGARKIA-DARA – Excerpt from radia #1038, season 54
Member of Palais Rössl
Lale Rodgarkia-Dara is an author, radio producer, and media artist. In recent years, she has explored the intersection between art, science, and culture through a series of socio-political and artistic projects.
Numberstation is dedicated to number stations, a way of broadcasting encrypted information through sequences of numbers or letters, using automated voice, Morse code, or a digital mode.
HERRROR – Air Plant & Hill
Member of Palais Rössl
herrror is a art pop project between music, film and installation. herrror is interested in the spaces in between, where errors become the point rather than something to fix
THE SIR TEENS – The End
Members of Palais Rössl
Karl Schönswetter, Maria Herold, and Maria Hruscka form the band The Sir Teens, combining singer-songwriter melodies with electronic sounds. Based at Palais Rössl, they constantly pursue new musical expressions.
This Show is arranged by Karl H. Schönswetter, with the help of Maria Herold and Lale Rodgarkia-Dara.
Borborygmes est un mixage, une tentative de dialogue entre des prises de sons (d’oiseaux, chauves souris, insectes…) et des sons de synthèse à modèles physiques dans le but de créer une ambiguïté entre les sources sonores et d’en donner à entendre leur richesse respective.
Qu’est ce qui est “naturel” ?
Qu’est ce qui est “synthétique” ? Qu’est ce qui est bruit ?
Qu’est ce qui est musique ?
Cette pièce sonore a été réalisée et diffusée en août 2026 à l’occasion de la résidence “La Pomme, la cuve et le ferment” organisée au sein de la coopérative de fermentation expérimentale Pain Liquide, située à Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, dans le Cotentin.
Réalisation par Ioa Beduneau
Production par *Duuu Radio x Pain Liquide
Avec le soutien de la Drac Normandie, du département de la Manche et de la Mairie de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte.
Borborygmes is a mix, an attempt at a dialogue between field recordings (of birds, bats, insects, etc.) and physically modelled synthetic sounds, with the aim of creating ambiguity between the sound sources and highlighting their respective richness.
What is “natural” ?
What is “synthetic” ? What is noise?
What is music ?
This sound piece was produced and broadcast in August 2026 as part of the “La Pomme, la cuve et le ferment” residency organised at the Pain Liquide experimental fermentation cooperative, located in Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (Cotentin, France).
A sound piece by Ioa Beduneau
Produced by *Duuu Radio x Pain Liquide
With the support of the Drac Normandie, the Department of La Manche and the City of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte.
Every Summer, close to the full moon, a group of sound artists walk up a chosen montain carrying radios. Modulation is a micro radio camp run by artists Emma Loriaut and Julien Clauss for the past 16 years. Participants have to have a battery-operated or acoustic sound set up, a tent, some food and a portable FM radio. Over the 24 hours, participants chose their time slot, focusing on environmental sounds, day light or moon presence, temperature and the mountain itself. In this way the landscape dictates the line up. This concatenation sound piece came out of the 26 radio concerts that took place between 4 – 5 July 2026, at 1700m alttitude in the Devoluy Mountains. Every time you hear a cut, a new musician is playing.
Aether continues a field recording discipline that extends listening beyond the limits of human perception, revealing electromagnetic environments that exist alongside the audible world. Recorded in three remote locations – the Nevada Desert (2016), St Agnes in the Isles of Scilly (2021) and the Pyrenees (2023)—the works were created using a Stephen P. McGreevy VLF receiver. The environments were chosen for their lack of technological interference, where human-made electromagnetic activity recedes and the Earth’s own radio environment emerges.
Stephen Shiell is a London-based sound artist, improviser, composer and field recordist working across experimental music, radiophonic art and site-responsive practice. His recorded works, live performances, sound walks, and workshops explore listening, gathering and performing as social, ecological and political acts, engaging with sound as a means of understanding place and environment. Drawing on field recordings, found and self-built instruments, electromagnetic sound and live electronics, he creates immersive works spanning solo and collaborative performance, radio and participatory projects. He is a certified Deep Listening practitioner and one half of the duo Blanc Sceol. He works collaboratively through Surge Cooperative on listening-based projects along the Channelsea River in East London.
Usmaradio – Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale per la Radiofonia (CRIR) / Interdepartmental Research Centre for Radio Studies, is a workplace of The School of Radio to develop an innovative radio pedagogy. Workshops, work sessions, meetings, presentations of live performance as sections of the project. Produced by UNIRSM | Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino. usmaradio.org / theschoolofradio.org / unirsm.sm
“Hello, this is Anna calling, from Earth. Just a few meters away from the top of Ancient Minoa. Last time I was here I found ‘my’ Tree broken by the wind. I touched it and wished us a ‘New Life’. I must return, I know. You, too. I know. I wish you a Happy New Life. I knitted this sonic shawl for you, to wish me a Happy New (personal) Year, soon! I love you! Your little cat”.
An imaginary letter from a daughter to a mother, consisting of the “Amphilyce”, “Ad Vivam Flammam” & “Hestia Fields” Diptych and “Galanthus” sound works, all produced and compiled by Anna Stereopoulou, featuring (free) Space Sounds compiled through the CARISMA. On the occasion of August Celestial Events and the composer’s birthday.
