RADIOSAUNA: is visiting Europe and beyond 2005/ 6/ 7
Persons
Background
Workshop
Scenario
Partners
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Persons:
neture.org
neture.org is project a platform. The name derives from the combination of the two words: the net and nature. It is set up to experience and track traces of nature and honesty in the of today living environment. The new media has a major impact on that. From 2002 on with other participants at neture.org Daniel Guischard and Jan Brueggemeier have worked on various projects (neture, me and the stranger, electronic picnic, ihminen paper, RADIOSAUNA) dealing with the concept of neture and approaching this from different backgrounds.
Daniel Guischard
DG works on human nature in the ordering of space. He holds a diploma in architecture (Bauhaus University Weimar 2004) and has also studied fine art. Besides studying and working in Japan, the Netherlands and Norway, he worked for the Casagrande architecture firm in Helsinki in 2004/ 5. He currently and his family are living in Weimar.
Jan Brueggemeier
JB works with hybrid media formats and free media. He studied experimental radio and holds a diploma in Media Art and Design (Bauhaus University Weimar 2004). He currently works as a freelance artist and musician. Aside from his participation in a number of international festivals, conferences and exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and the US he is the core planner and organizer of a series of international festivals which started in 2001.
A few Words about:
Keywords: Free Radio - Free Sauna, Furniture for the Public Space, Community Media, Radical Connector(s),
Substantial Communication: immediate - disclosing - unexpected - interested, Micro Media, Communication Ecology,
The Art of Gathering: Fire - Sauna - Music - Radio
In terms of material, we are living in a fading world. Communication is bringing the world together again, yes, but all the different shapes of communication customs are multilayered and tricky.
(Tele-) communication nowadays is driving our work and leisure time and even let the borders between them become
indifferent.
What does that mean for the communication in a city? Technical connectivity does not necessarily
generates more contacts to meet with. Although communication has always been a vital part in urban culture the
story of suburbanisation and hyper-privatization is as old and long as the story of cities itself.
Sauna similar to the bathhouse is a traditional place for local communication. The RADIOSAUNA connects such common custom with the media as the current spaces of urban experience while being very careful not to drop the benefits of vital communication:
immediacy - disclosure - surprise - interest.
In respect to the radio program the sauna provides a place for an informal gathering with a relaxing and intimate atmosphere for
conversation. Like while having a picnic together as a by-product the exchange of information of high local priority is being done. The RADIOSAUNA does not want to keep this in a closed-off like situation, but to lift it into a more openly inviting and non-exclsuive frame. To have people, who might be just around the corner, given the chance to join the conversations.
Aside conventional radio the RADIOSAUNA stresses the listeners to pass by, actively join the sauna session then to stay home and keep seated.
Such self-activation on one hand and on the other such degree of personal disclosure at the same eye level is vitally needed for convenient communication in any city.
For the RADIOSAUNA radio is rather meant as a metaphor of a cloudy, non directed and less exclusive outreach versus the direct
addressability of f. ex. the telephone and its initiation ceremony like rituals of passing on each cellular phone numbers to each other. Linked with ancestral forms of common communication culture RADIOSAUNA is trying to make use of the full range of accessible frequencies (low power FM-radio to wifi or
UMTS), Internet live-streaming and mobile media services that are forming the invisible layers of our living in contemporary city architecture.
Further words and related projects:
* [ Daniels RADIOSAUNA fairytale soonish to be published here ]
* the nEture-project
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Workshop:
see technical drawing here:
drawing sauna 1:50 [a3]
sauna:
The mobile sauna is fixed on a car-trailer.
measurements: w/ l/ h 2200/3800/2450 mm
the sauna is built from sandwich elements:
9mm plywood (waterproof and coated),
70mm Styrodur,
inside tin-cladding and sauna wood-panels 16mm.
The RADIOSAUNA is fixed on a stealframe and supported by four unfolding legs.
The sauna hosts inside a volume of 15 cubic meters, that are heated with a wood-fired sauna-oven.
In action the RADIOSAUNA is standing by itself as the trailer-top functions as a stage and sitting platform.
In front of the sauna there is a little veranda, a woodstorage, a dress changing tent, a simple washing
facility and a little closet with a acrylic glass door, holding the technical devices as a mobile phone and a
hand-held/ laptop computer - on the opposing side, the closet has a wooden door that flips out as a small
workingtable for the radio-connection supervisor. Next to those installations there is an unfolding desk where
tea can be served.
[picture to be inserterd here]
The RADIOSAUNA transmission:
Inside the sauna there are at least two fixed microphones installed for the radio performances. Outside the sauna
the the audio feed is being mixed and the Internet live-stream is processed ready for being distributed via all accessible frequencies (miniFM, Internet and mobile media services).
Around the Sauna the program will be presented and an atmosphere of a listening-lounge will be created with radio devices and a little pa-system are being provided to allow visitors to tune in and follow the live programm.
[picture to be inserted here]
The RADIOSAUNA works site specific. To have it running at festival-like occasions, at least following facilities will be needed:
* 15 to 20 square metres presentation space to position the RADIOSAUNA and the dressing tent and the technical unit
* water-connection
* electricity
* some internet connectivity in a reasonable distance
* to have a certain amount of towels in stock for spontanous visitors to join
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Scenario
What will happen?
On its tour through Europe and beyond the RADIOSAUNA is hosting live radio-shows from abroad via Internet,
mini-fm and mobile media service. Idea is to cooperate with local initiatives and exchange program on an
international level with stations like DFM rtv International from
Amsterdam, Radio Kinesonus from Tokyo or the ORF Kunstradio from Vienna or pingfm.org from Weimar.
Starting from the relaxing and stimulating situation of the sauna visit, the RADIOSAUNA focuses on the conversation of the visitors and the mix of topics from politics and social issues which occupies their current daily-life. Accessing all possible media as well as FM-radio (like the Internet and mobile media services), the RADIOSAUNA limits its FM service-area to a radius that allows listeners to come by and join the session easily. The only barrier still remaining is personal communicative disclosure.
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Cooperation Partners:
Junge Hunde Festival Meiningen - Deutschland
architecture firm Casagrande Laboratory Helsinki - Suomi
pingfm.org, netbased media-platform Weimar - Deutschland
Programm-Exchange on international Level with Internet- and FM-radio-stations already includes following stations:
DFM rtv Int, Amsterdam - Nederlande
Radio Kinesonus, Tokyo - Nipon
Kunstradio ORF, Wien - Oesterreich
FSK Hamburg - Deutschland
Project-promotion is/ has been carried out by following institutions:
Myymaelae2 Gallery, Helsinki/ Suomi
Ihminen Magazine, Helsini/ Suomi
BIT Theatergarasjen, Bergen/ Norge
Epifanio, Tallinn/ Eestivabariik
Junge-Hunde-Festival Meiningen/ Deutschland
(Ex-) Zuendfunk BR2, Muenchen/ Deutschland
Kunstradio ORF, Wien, Oesterreich
to be continued ...
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