Pleased to announce that today, May 9, the Berliner Hörspielfestival will present my piece (among other fabulous works) “Die Gemäldeakustikerin (The Painting’s Acousticist). This happens within the frame of ARTSPRING Berlin, and I will be present for a short talk also. Hear you there!
The Berlin Radio Play Festival as a forum for the independent scene offers radio plays, documentaries and sound art between 60 seconds and 60 minutes. Under the motto ‘[ˈapɡəˌfakt] - something is broken here’, we present a loud selection by and with Berlin audio creators and the best from elsewhere as part of the artspring berlin festival - against noise suppression!
With listenings and talks with the producers on working conditions and the cultural-political situation as well as performative live interventions by sound artist Hye Young Sin and editing virtuoso Carsten Schneider.
RADIOPHRENIA is a radio art collective, festival and art radio station broadcasting intermittently across Glasgow. The broadcast schedule for our 2025 edition includes a series of newly commissioned radio works, public Live-to-Air performances, live studio shows, long-form works, shorts and pre-recorded features. For this year’s selections we were assisted by guest curator Riah Naief of Listen Gallery. Through our public engagement programme we will be working with four different community groups to realise a new series of sound and radio works. As in previous years the majority of the programme will be made up from selections submitted to an international open call for sound art and radio works.
9 April 2025 10:00 pm – 10:30 pm 1) Kristina Loring – DNA ASMR (3:00) 2) Gabi Schaffner – Horom Radio (6:00) 3) andre birken – 31 monstrous demonstrations – GAUMENFREUDEN 8 (0:27) 4) Sylvain Souklaye – INVISIBLE BODY (RAW NOISE) (10:00) 5) Sarah LeMieux – A Phase Change (6:30)
The ancient city of Horom is set in the southwest of Gyumri in Armenia. The hills are strewn with the remnants of ruins… one might guess that this has been a fundament – or that the color of the grassland had changed with what resided underneath. The air was filled with the drones of jets circling a sky with some clouds. The wind chased wilted thistles across the expanse of the land. We walked among the stones and turned my small radio on.
10 April 2025 11:00 am – 11:30 am The devastating earthquake on December 6, 1988, destroyed the greatest part of the city of Gyumri in Armenia. With the Mush II District, a whole new living quarter was stomped out of the ground. Sturdy tenement buildings, a school, three supermarkets, a park with a varied fountain, a football arena, playing grounds and small garden patches, either in the yards or bordering on the overgrown meadows. When stopping by one of those gardens, I was spoken too and afterwards ‘kidnapped’ by two ladies (best friends and gardeners) and taken into the kitchen to drink coffee. English is overestimated as lingua franca once you travel east. I felt discombobulated and difficult. My translator-app worked for Russian only… which created much fun for Gina and Raja. I chose to submit this situation piece because its squeaky ambiguities are so well known to any field recording person/traveler. There is still much to learn.
Datscha Radio is pleased to announce its participation in the Oscillations Festival ::: The Weather, Brussels. Organized by the arts laboratory for experimental music and sound art Q-O2.
The shows will be organized and realised by Gabi Schaffner and Markus Stein.
Datscha Radio at Marais Wiels et al Two days of radio expeditions are planned, that will explore the soundscapes each in a different locations: The Wiels marsh is a natural but accidental body of water in the heart of the urban center where nature has regained its rights after 10 years of abandonment of the site. Datscha Radio’s second location with be in a nearby park, also with a bodies of water in the vicinity.
Workshop “Au travers du miroir” Not just metaphorically in the air but meanwhile confirmed is a workshop about the plants of the Wiels swamp lands in cooperation with the local community center Le Brass, by Ms Schaffner. We will “oscillate’ between micro plant scapes, memory and the seismology of our drawing hands.
Datscha Radio’s 3hour show “The Gardens of Gyumri” can now be accessed on Mixcloud! Additionally you will find three recorded talks about Armenian ecology and plant life:
– A Walk through the Seed Bank, Yerevan Botanic Garden. With Anush Nersesyan, leading researcher, Head of the «Seed Bank of Armenian Flora & Ex Situ Conservation in Living Collections» Research Group
– My Forest Armenia. With André Gumuchdjian, a Belgian-Armenian philanthropist and entrepreneur. He is also the founder and director of the board of the NGO My Forest Armenia
– Plant Diversity in Armenia. With Alla Aleksanyan, Head of the Chair of Plant Diversity and Ecosystem Studies, Botanic Institute in Yerevan
Ms Schaffner is happy to work within the frame of the climate anxiety project“ResonanzLab” at the art association Global Forest.
The ResonanzLab opens up a creative space for artists to work on site with people in the Lake Constance region and specifically focus on their approach to climate change.
The ResonanzLab explores artistic strategies and inclusive communications, shared feelings, visions and hopes that may express themselves in language and sound, call and response, echo and vibration: visually, collectively, aurally, on site and in motion.
Current information about the upcoming workshops with poet Dirk Huelstrunk and radio artist Marold Langer-Philippsen is available in the same spot.
The ResonanzLab is a co-operation project of the Furtwangen University (HFU), the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and the Global Forest art association. The ResonanzLab project is funded by the Science Network Four-Country Region Lake Constance with funds from the Interreg VI Alpenrhein-Bodensee-Hochrhein programme.
There will be two guided audio tours this Saturday, 19th of October, 11am (Gabi Schaffner); 14:30 pm (Janine Eisenächer).
Das deutsch-polnisch-irische Kunstprojekt ANIMA MUNDI präsentiert in seiner fünften Ausgabe zwei Audio Walks in Bad Freienwalde, die sich mit den Themen Umwelt, Ressourcen und Mobilität, genauer mit Flüssen, Wasserwegen und Zuglinien beschäftigen. Die Arbeit „RAPID(s)TRAIN“ der Künstlerin Gabi Schaffner ist an vier Positionen des Bahnhofs Bad Freienwalde lokalisiert, die Arbeit „Oderbruch Lifelines I“ der Künstlerin Janine Eisenächer am Schöpfwerk in Neutornow bis hinein in das Oderbruch. Das Projekt lädt die lokale Bevölkerung dazu ein, sich hörend auf eine Reise zu begeben, in die Vergangenheit und Zukunft ihrer Umwelt einzutauchen, und ihre bekannte Umgebung durch das Hören bewusster und anders wahrzunehmen. Für das Hören der Klangspaziergänge werden ein Smartphone, die Echoes-App (kostenlos) und Kopfhörer benötigt.
Am Sonnabend, den 19.10., finden um 11 Uhr und 14.30 Uhr geführte Touren zu den Audio Walks statt. Um Voranmeldung wird gebeten.
5,00 -15,00€
Bad Freienwalde, Rapid(s) Trains. Four compositions about trains… and water.
SLEEPERTOWN is presented by Errant Sound/ ANIMA MUNDI #5 and is part of Zeitgeist Irland 24, an initiative by Culture Ireland and the Embassy of Ireland in Germany. ANIMA MUNDI #5 is funded and kindly supported byMusikfonds/ die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Zeitgeist Irland 24 and by the Stiftung für Deutsch-Polnische Zusammenarbeit. The project is also part of the Month of Contemporary Music in Berlin of the Initiative Neue Musik/ field notes berlin.
Datscha Radio is pleased to announce a new radio production for the Austrian Broadcast Station Ö1
Kunst zum Hören presents: The Traveling Garden Radio Thursday 25th 2024, 11:03 pm
Lan: DE; EN Supervisor: Elisabeth Zimmermann
Gabi Schaffner has created two 20-minute collages for Kunst zum Hören. The first takes us to Altenburg in Thuringia in the summer of 2023, where Datscha Radio sent its field research into the ether several times. The second block dives into geographically more distant horticultural worlds of sound. A conversation between Elisabeth Zimmermann and the artist will provide further insights into the traveling garden radio and the practice of world gardening.
Team: Gabi Schaffner, Ernst Markus Stein, Helen Thein
Beiträge: Spaziergang zur Elisabethquelle – Wolfgang Paritzsch; Der Historische Laubengarten – Grit Martinez und Chris Junk; Gärten in der Ukraine – Gartengemeinschaft Einheit.
Gartengeschichte in Altenburg – Christine Nienhold; Unser Gemeinschaftsgarten – Anonym; Licht und Sterne – Frank Vohla; Laubengang – Gabi Schaffner, Ernst Markus Stein.
Open Call Tracks: Apfel Birne Quitte – Tiger Stangl; Samensinfonie. Aus dem Leben eines Kerns – Ian Joyce, Tiger Stangl
Musiken/Sampling/Mixe: Ernst Markus Stein. Jingle Streuobst unter Verwendung von „Frau Holle“ – Goldmarie
Field Recordings: Gabi Schaffner
Datscha Radio International
Datscha Radio Ii, 2022
Team: Tina- Marie Friedrich, Gabi Schaffner
Beiträge: Towards Atmospheric Care – Hanna Husberg und Agata Marzecovas; Kilimandscharo – Inari Virmakoski; The River Ii Bridge – Tina-Marie Friedrich; Weather Changes – Heli Paaso-Rantala; Cloud Engineering – Filips Stanislavskis
Open Call Tracks: Love is in the Air – Jaakko Autio; On The Inhale – Elisabeth Shores
Datscha Radio Taipei, 2019
Team: Gabi Schaffner, Gabriel de Seta
Beiträge: Waste Culture – Margareth Shiu/Bamboo Curtain Studio, Mark van Tongeren, Hauyu Yang; Listening Culture – Laila Fan; Praying Machine Hacks – Lu Yi mit Gabriel de Seta; Listening Culture Reprise – Laila Fan
Musiken: Sea Waste 7.0 – Ken Yu; Praying Machine – Lu Yi
Field Recordings: Gabi Schaffner
Datscha Radio Madrid, 2018
Team: Gabi Schaffner, Maite Camacho/InSonora Artist Collective, Victor Jara/MediaLab Prado
Beiträge: Esta es Una Plaza – Alberto Peralta; Plant Sensor Music – Joaquin Diaz, KTA Martin; El Hospital de las Plantas – Óscar Domínguez mit Eva Kurly; Retiro Garden – Daniel Horcajo; The Batan Community Garden – Irene Prins
Musiken: 9 Olas – Carolina Carubba; Plant Music – Joaquin Diaz, KTA Martin; Atomic Garden – Alberto Garcia.
Freshly printed: Datscha Radio’s documentation about Radio Gardening in Altenburg. 32 pages. 2023. With contributions by: Gabi Schaffner, Grit Martinez, Helen Thein, Luise Krischke (Fliegender Salon). Graphic design: tigerworx. Radio art concepts: Ernst Markus Stein, Gabi Schaffner, Helen Thein. Number of copies (Datscha Radio): 250; (Fliegender Salon) 250.
Our Altenburg adventures include the chapters:
Sommergartenradio (30. Juni 2023) – Summergarden Radio
Laubenlauschen (3.-6. August 2023) – Listening to Arbours
Streuobstradio (1. Oktober 2023) – OrchardFruitRadio
Der Fliegende Salon: “Experimentierfreude im Fokus”
Summary in English
Radiorezepturen – Radio Recipes
All participating artists and gardeners are invited or order or fetch their personal copies. An online PDF will be available soon! For Berlin/international artists: please write to info(at)datscharadio.de.
My essay on fly ribbons and their entanglement with the human world will form part of a new book titled “39 Small Things Between the Species. Keywords for a more-than-human world.”
In: Borgards, Roland, Frederike Felcht, Verena Kuni, Frederike Middelhoff, Robert Pütz und Antje Schlottmann (Hrsg.): 39 Kleinigkeiten zwischen den Arten. Von Fliegenfängern und Katzenklappen. Stichworte zu einer mehr-als-menschlichen Welt. Göttingen, Wallstein. 2024
Illustration: Gabi Schaffner. Critter #8. 2023. Gouache on paper.
“Von den vielfältigen Beziehungen zwischen den Arten erzählen in diesem interdisziplinären Buch unter anderem ein flauschiger Teddybär, ein kühler Weinkeller und klebrige Spinnenfäden. Ausgehend von oft unscheinbaren Akteur:innen wird gezeigt, wie das naturkulturelle Verhältnis von mehr-als-menschlichen Gesellschaften fortlaufend neu bestimmt und gestaltet wird. Die Autor:innen schlagen vor, menschliche Sichtweisen zu dezentrieren und sich für das Eigenleben anderer Arten zu öffnen. Dabei nutzen sie die Brillen ihrer jeweiligen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen, um über diese hinauszublicken und weiterführende Perspektiven aufzuzeigen.” Text: Book info, courtesy Wallstein Verlag 2023
Exhibition at Ordinary Music Archives Budapest, Dec. 1
Videowork: Micro Arboreta. 12 videos about plantscapes in the Botanic Garden of Vácrátót, Hungary
Performance: Turing a Leaf. 16:37 min. LowFi Loop #5
Mimeograph printings: 4 works on paper.
Many thanks to Nikolaus Gerszewski for hosting me and to the Hungarian Writers Association that facilitated the residency at the Botanic Garden Vácrátót.
Here are some images… and a poem.
Persuasion
Red is a language without words. It spells in colour.
Red in the language of berries and birds means food.
Red is persuasion.
Warning Permeation Permutation Invasion
Red is a loud sound Drumming screaming maybe if eyes were ears.
Birds are good with reds. They know the hues and the rules.
Humans fall prey
to red, easily. Blood and tears.
Red fruit and seeds are carried far
traveling in the bowels across borders and continents
A podcast by sound artist Adrian Newton assembles 12 excerpts from radioart.zone into a one-hour piece titled “Sound mosaics for a broken world.” Listen here: https://lnns.co/ek9y4OalKXY
“Our world is breaking. Ecosystems are collapsing, our house is burning. But we can fix it like a mosaic, sticking it back together piece by piece. Here’s a soundtrack for the recovery process, incorporating sound art, experimental music, audio essays and field recording.”
Together with the human and more-than-human islanders and artist guests, and under the umbrella of the Nomad Academy of Experimental Arts and its founder Kari Yli-Annala, we created a daily 3-hour program from May 25-28 on Harakka Island, Helsinki.
Click on the images to read the resumes on datscharadio.de
Ms Schaffner is most pleased to announce a 4 day radio event on the island of Harakka Finland. We will broadcast on 92 MHz from 2-5pm on the 25-28th of May.
Just in case you did not know: the 22nd of May is The Day of the Impossible, as proclaimed by the infamous musician Sun Ra. For a whole week from the 22nd on, the Finnish media artist and performer Kari Yli-Annala invites the world to join the artistic activities at Nomad Academy on Harakka Island, Helsinki. This year’s theme is The Magic and the Analogue. – And what can be more magic and analogue than a W-Lan-free radio station on an island?
Together with the human and more-than-human islanders and artist guests, and under the umbrella of the Nomad Academy of Experimental Arts and is founder Kari Yli-Annala we will create a 3-hour program for 4 days.
The Island
‘Magpie’ island is situated a 6 min ferry ride from the center of Helsinki, a mostly flat and rocky slab of basalt and mica gneiss, streaked with magnetit and other shimmering minerals. Harakka Island is not resting still: with a speed of 3-4 mm (30-40 cm pro century) it continues to rise above sea level. It is nowadays uninhabited, but hosts a nature preservation and education center, and very diverse buildings and barracks that date back to the time of the Russian occupation. The festival’s main location, Nomad Academy, was formerly a telecommunication center.
The Open Call
With your contribution you can help to create the ‘impossible’ radio on Harakka Island.
Radio Art Festival “On Air On Site” starts tomorrow, April 14! Live Radio at Institute of Sonology. Curated by Margherita Brillada and Leonie Roessler
On Air -On Site #1 is a sound investigation of a temporary radio event consisting of a broadcast schedule of 48 hours of non-stop streaming, including live performances/shows, fixed media, and prerecorded work specifically composed for the festival.By re-thinking radio as an exhibition space for experimental sound art andexperimental electronic music, the event aims to explore the possibilities of a broader project with the ultimate goal of developing a community experimental radio station in Den Haag, seeking collaborators and looking for a common interest in radio practice. The event will explore the boundaries of being simultaneously on air in a physical and virtual space, challenging different radio formats.
Loop #3 has evolved from my recent experiments in micro-looping and its influence on time perception dating back to 2020. “Time Is A Sliding Door” (Radiophrenia 2020) could be considered a forerunner, and clearly speaks with the voices of many clocks and cuckoos entangled in frequencies and field recording, yet… Later in 2021, sifting through tons of field recordings for the 22-hour {A Wave Novel} for radioart.zone, I dreamt of giant ‘musical waves’ generated for this mission by some really smart and lucid machine/program/spaceship. It did not happen; instead, I assembled everything by hand.
Finally, at the IMPROVISORIUM Seanaps Radio Lab in 2022 I took up that thoroughly composted idea of using micro snippets of ‘audio trash’, long-lived-with sonic crumbs, and further semi-redundant sound material of short duration as a pattern-weaving material. And lo behold: It worked out. At least I think so.
Pleased to announce that the German version of my 2019 “10 (S)Cent Poems” has been accepted for production by deutschlandfunk Kultur (German National Radio). Such, a new “Wurfsendung” is coming up. Curated by Julia Tieke.
Duftgesänge Poems, recording & composition: Gabi Schaffner Voice: Hans Kellett Will we manage before the blooming season ends? Ms Schaffner hopes so!
Lavendel Lavendel Lavendel
Ein Duft steigt auf und rundet sich schwebt in der Luft und weitet sich wie ein Ballon… So breit und weit Wie der nächtliche Garten Von einem Winkel Zum anderen.
Oh würziges Amor-Aroma! Du weckst die Damen aus der Ohnmacht Du schöpfst den Trost ins müde Herz Du bringst den Schlaf Vertreibst die Pest. Du wirst geliebt Vom Hummelvolk Und den Bienen.
Lavendel Lavendel
Du wehst davon in Wellen Lavendel-Ballon Du wehst davon in Welten Verschwenderisch veränderlich
Ich atme aromatisches Szenario, veränderlich verschwenderisch…
Ms Schaffner is pleased to announce that her composition “The Lion Dreams Of Hunting” forms part of EARLID’s latest online exhibition of 12 pieces about dreamscapes, THE DREAM HAD ME: http://www.earlid.org/posts/the-dream-had-me/. Get lured into your favourite lucid state!
Quick update: THE DREAM HAD ME will be broadcast by Wave Farm in May 2020. More info in short notice.
