It is unusual enough to broadcast from a garden, creating a studio situation exposed to the immediate surroundings like weather, temperatures and background sounds. With “Nightgardening” In 2019, Datscha Radio took its experimental approach to the garden as a matrix for self-organization, autopoiesis and ecological radio art, even one step further. How can we approach the audible ecospheres of the night, what stories can be told, what fragrances turned into frequencies?
The compilation presents a mix of excerpts taken from “Plots & Prophecies” (2017) and “Nightgardening” (2019), followed by palimpsests and passages from Datscha Radio’s 2020 iteration “Listening to the Universe”. This latter event, happening from the 11th to the 13th of August, was dedicated to the Perseides’ meteor showers. Talks and readings, concerts and performances revolved around themes like sonification, storytelling, and cosmic relations in the so-called Anthropocene.
Credits
Datscha Radio: Nachtgartenkosmos
A radio(art) collage by Gabi Schaffner.
Length: 51:48 min
A commission for Cashmere Radio
List of participating artists and
titles of their contributions
in order of their
appearance
I What happened before
- Intros Datscha Radio from the 2017 festival “Plots and Prophecies”
- Body Garden Experiment by Kerry Morrison, read by Kate Donovan + Rosanna Lovell in conversation with Gregor Kaspar (Cut up)
- Carolina Carubba: Kalimba Rain. Datscha Radio Madrid, 2018
II Nightgardening
- Lukatoyboy: 7“ Bird Vinyls
- Marold Langer-Philippsen: Maschkera (Excerpts)
- Cutup: Niina Lehtonen-Braun: Iltakahvit + Kat Austen: The Beetles’ Harvest Supper
- Niki Matita, Walter Schulze: Secret-en-plein-aire (Excerpt)
- Kate Donovan: Gratitude Ritual
- Peggy Sylopp with Gabi Schaffner: Dämmerungsspaziergang
III Listening to the Universe
- Jingle Universe (Helen Thein)
- Ally Bishop: Possible Vehicles for Time Travel
- Kate Donovan with Sasha Engelmann: Satellite Séance
- Tiger Stangl: Milchstraße links unten
- Vladimir Kryuchev: Nye Sbylos (Some Dreams Never Come True)
- Jasmina Al-Qaisi and Helena Otto „To the Belly and Back: Star Taste“ (Excerpts)
- Elo Masing: Day Sky Improvisation +| Gabi Schaffner: Cosmogonic Storytelling I (Mix!)
- Gabi Schaffner: Satellite Signals/Der Schweigende Stern
- Tim Schleinitz and Helen Thein: GDR Science Fiction Movies + Niki Matita/Elo Masing: Nativitas (Cutup) + Tiger Stangl: Ein Stern geht auf (Backdrop, modified)
- Ela Spalding: Moonrise Reflection / Gabi Schaffner: A Walk between Bamboo and Ghosts (Backdrop)
- Marta Zapparoli (and Kate Donovan): Echoes from Outer Space
- Sarah Washington: Datscha Owl, Datscha Radio Jingle 2012
Selection, editing and additional sounds: Gabi Schaffner, 2020