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{{Short description|International radio network}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Infobox broadcasting network
| network_name     = Radia
| network_logo     = [[File:radialogo.png|200px|Radia logo]]
| network_type     = [[radio]] and [[Website|online]]
| available        = International&nbsp;
| launch_date      = 2005
| motto            = {{nowrap|"New and forgotten ways of making radio"}}
| website          = http://www.radia.fm
}}
Started in April 2005, the '''Radia''' network is an international informal network of [[community radio|community radio stations]] that have a common interest in producing and sharing [[Work of art|art works]] for the [[radio]]. In 2024, the network gathers 22 radio stations from 21 cities across 15 countries, speaking 9 different languages.<ref>German, English, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Macedonian, Italian, Spanish, Slovene</ref> It also organizes linked-up events and special [[broadcasts]]. '''Radia''' intends to be a space of reflection about today's [[radio]] and [[radio art]]. Its activities try to contribute to intercultural exchange and artworks' and artists' circulation.
The network's name freely refers to ''La Radia'',<ref>[http://www.kunstradio.at/2002A/27_01_02/laradia-e.html ''La Radia''] Futurist manifesto of October 1933 by Federico Tomaso Marinetti and Pino Masnata (Originally published in "[[Gazzetta del Popolo]]")</ref> a [[futurism|Futurist]] manifesto written by [[Filippo Tommaso Marinetti]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/filippo-tommaso-marinetti/|title=Marinétti, Filippo Tommaso nell'Enciclopedia Treccani}}</ref> and Pino Masnata in 1933. The network's founders dropped the ''La'' to distance themselves from the Futurists' political views. As it stands alone, "radia" is simply "radio" or "radios" in some languages.
== Shows ==
The Radia Network's basis is a weekly 28 minutes [[Radio program|show]] broadcast by all the stations. Each station produces the show in turns. Every round of shows is called a ''season''.
=== Content ===
As stated in their [[jingle]], Radia is "bringing new and forgotten ways of making radio to [their] listeners. Each week [they] give artists the challenge to make radio that works all across Europe and beyond." The Radia show intends to cross boundaries and address people of different languages and cultures. It usually explores the different genres of [[radio art]], separately or by mixing them: [[sound art]], [[electroacoustic music]], [[sound poetry]], [[radio drama]], [[soundscape]].
=== Production ===
Usually each member radio station commissions an artist from their local artistic community and gives him/her [[Blank cheque|carte blanche]] for producing a show. In that sense, Radia uses radio as a [[art gallery|gallery]] for sound art pieces.
=== Exchange and archive ===
To share the shows the Radia Network formerly used Radioswap.net, a semi-public closed platform for program exchange between community radios. Now it utilizes the server space of one of its member stations. All Radia shows are archived at the [[Internet Archive]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/radiafm?&sort=-date |title=Radia collection at the Internet Archive}}</ref>
== Members ==
Members of the Radia Network are [[radio stations]], [[Internet radio|webradios]] and art-radio projects that broadcast the Radia weekly show and produce shows in turns.
=== Founding members ===
On 3–7 February 2005, there was a first meeting of radio stations in Berlin under the banner of NERA (New European Radio Art). The decision was taken to start a broadcast season the following April, and an email discussion list was set up on which the name Radia was finally settled on.
Founding members are:
*[[Resonance FM]] (London, UK)
*[[Rádio Zero]] at the time designated RIIST (Lisbon, Portugal)
*Kanal 103 (Skopje, Macedonia)
*[[reboot.fm]] (Berlin, Germany)
*{{Interlanguage link multi|Radio Campus Bruxelles|fr}} (Brussels, Belgium)
*Radio Cult (Sofia, Bulgaria), inactive since December 2006
*[[Tilos Radio]] (Budapest, Hungary), inactive since December 2007
*{{Interlanguage link multi|Orange 94.0|de}} (Vienna, Austria)
* Radio Oxygen (Tirana, Albania), would actually never contribute.
=== New members ===
*{{Interlanguage link multi|Radio Grenouille|fr}} (Marseille, France), February 2006<ref>Chosen date is the date of first contribution to the network.</ref>
*Lemurie TAZ (Prague, Czech Republic), March 2006, inactive since November 2008
*[[WGXC]]/Wave Farm at the time designated free103point9 (Acra, New York, USA), first non-European radio station, September 2006
*{{Interlanguage link multi|Radio Panik|fr}} (Brussels, Belgium), January 2007
*[[Soundart Radio]] (Dartington, UK), March 2007
*{{Interlanguage link multi|Radio Corax|de}} (Halle, Germany), May 2007, inactive since November 2020
*{{Illm|Radio X (Frankfurt)|lt=Radio X|de|Radio X (Frankfurt)}} (Frankfurt, Germany), April 2008
*[[XL Air]] (Brussels, Belgium), June 2008, inactive since July 2018
*[[CKUT]] (Montreal, Canada), July 2008, inactive since August 2022
*[[Radio One (New Zealand)|Radio One]] (Dunedin, New Zealand), August 2009
*[[CFRC]] (Kingston, Canada), December 2009, inactive since December 2019
*{{Interlanguage link multi|Radio Helsinki|de|3=Radio Helsinki – Verein freies Radio Steiermark}} (Graz, Austria), February 2010
*{{Interlanguage link multi|Radio Papesse|it}} (Siena, Italy), March 2010
*[[WORM (Rotterdam)|Radio WORM]] (Rotterdam, Netherlands), May 2010
*Escuela Creativa de Radio TEA FM<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.teafm.net |title=teafm.net |language=es |publisher=teafm.net |accessdate=2013-11-14}}</ref> (Zaragoza, Aragon-Spain), January 2011
*Radio Student<ref>[http://www.radiostudent.si radiostudent.si]</ref> (Ljubljana, Slovenia), February 2012
*Curious Broadcast<ref>{{cite web|url=http://curiousbroadcast.com |title=curiousbroadcast.com |publisher=curiousbroadcast.com |date=2011-07-31 |accessdate=2013-11-14}}</ref> (Dublin, Ireland), April 2012, inactive since September 2013
*Radio Valerie (Melbourne, Australia), July 2012, inactive since August 2012
*{{Interlanguage link multi|Jet FM|fr}} (Nantes, France), October 2012
*[[Radio Nova (Norway)|Radio Nova]] (Oslo, Norway), February 2013, inactive since March 2018
*[[Radio Campus Paris]] (Paris, France), March 2014, inactive since May 2020
*[[Eastside Radio|Eastside FM]] (Sydney, Australia), May 2015, inactive since December 2017
*Kol HaCampus<ref>[http://www.106fm.co.il/ Kol HaCampus 106fm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120802003107/http://www.106fm.co.il/ |date=2 August 2012 }}</ref> (Tel Aviv, Israel), May 2016, inactive since September 2017
*DiffusionFM 91.9 (Sydney, Australia), January 2018
*Usmaradio (San Marino), July 2018
*{{Interlanguage link multi|Radio ARA|lb}} (Luxembourg), January 2019, inactive since December 2022
*<nowiki>*</nowiki>Duuu (Paris, France), August 2022
Syndicating partners who play but do not produce Radia shows are Resonance Extra (Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, London, Norwich, UK), [[Radio Campus Paris]] (Paris, France), [[CFRU-FM|CFRU]] (Guelph, Canada), [[CKUT]] (Montreal, Canada), KZradio (Tel Aviv, Israel), {{Interlanguage link multi|Radio ARA|lb}} (Luxembourg) and {{Interlanguage link multi|Radio Corax|de}} (Halle, Germany).
Affiliated to the network are {{Interlanguage link multi|ORF Kunstradio|de|3=Kunstradio – Radiokunst}} (Vienna, Austria), Mobile Radio<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mobile-radio.net |title=Mobile Radio}}</ref> (Ürzig, Germany) and Radioart106 (Haifa, Israel).
From 2017 on each season also includes a guest slot reserved for individual producers or radio stations that are not part of the network.
== Special events and broadcasts ==
*15–18 October 2004: Resonance "Radio Art Riot", a four-night event bringing together some of the foremost radio artists and thinkers from around the world in a studio-as-creative-lab situation which featured round table discussions, live radio art, performances at venues around London and streamed events from other countries. Themes included 'Plunderphonics/Sampling', 'Copyright/Copyleft' and 'Radio Text'. This was the first time that some of the radio stations that would later become Radia worked together - Resonance from the U.K., reboot.fm from Germany, Orange and Kunstradio from Austria, Tilos from Hungary and Radio Cult from Bulgaria.
*10–14 April 2006: Meeting in Lisbon and co-producing of a radio art festival with Rádio Zero under the banner of RadiaLx2006.
*15 September 2006: '''First Radia special''', simultaneously broadcast live on 9 radio stations: ''Time labs'' is a collection of one-minute pieces from artists of the Radia Network. It was released for the final conference of the radio territories project.<ref>[http://radia.fm/territories/info ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070728080458/http://radia.fm/territories/info |date=28 July 2007 }}</ref>
*April 2007: The Radia Network has received an '''honorary mention''' at the 2007 Prix [[Ars Electronica]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aec.at/prix/jp/winners/2007-prix-gewinner-digital-communities/|title=2007 Prix Winners: Digital Communities - Prix Ars Electronica|accessdate=2017-12-12 }}</ref> According to the Ars Electronica website, ''"The Radia Network is a community of independent radio stations who have combined to facilitate an ongoing shared cultural initiative. The stations, based throughout Europe, share in weekly commissioned pieces that explore radio as an art form. Each station produces a piece in turn, which all of the partners then publish. The pieces do not seek to promote a common language, but to celebrate the diversity of the breadth of their contributors. It uses the possibilities opened up by the net to share the work and ideas not only of the stations but also of the artistic communities that themselves represent the audience of each contributor and then, through extension, of the whole."''
*19 July 2007: The Radia Network is presented at the Radio Grenouille's ''Grenouille Capitale'' festival in Paris, with a special piece by Radio Free Robots collective broadcast on [[Radio Campus Paris]].
*28 October 2007: The Radia Network was invited by the Radiophonic festival in Brussels. ''Radioactive Radiophony'' is a '''4-hour live show''' made with in situ and streamed performances, simultaneously broadcast on 13 radio stations.
*December 2007 – January 2008: Diverse '''retrospectives''' of the Network's recent activity. ''3 journeys through Radia'' on ÖRF Kunstradio, ''a Radia retrospective'' on Resonance FM, ''Espectro Electro Magnético'' on Antena 2 (Rádio e Televisão de Portugal).
*28 February – 8 March 2008: Radia shows are featured daily on the "[[AV Festival|AV festival]] radio station" in Newcastle. Besides this regular shows from Radia member stations are broadcast on Soundscape FM in Sunderland.
*20 to 28 September 2008: the RadiaLx2008<ref>[http://radialx.radiozero.pt RadiaLx] website</ref> festival hosts a meeting for Radia and promotes Radia shows and Radia artists performances in Lisbon, Portugal.
*28 December 2008: a special 2008 review/mashup is broadcast at Kunstradio.
* Selected works from the more than, at the time, 200 productions of Radia shows could be listened during the 2009 edition of Festival Silêncio, promoted by Goethe-Institut Lisbon, Portugal.<ref>[http://www.goethe.de/ins/pt/lis/kue/lit/sil/jds/pt4628005v.htm Festival Silêncio], 18–27 June 2009</ref>
* A special selection of Radia shows was broadcast during Radio Futura, a temporary station of the Future Places Festival in Porto, 14–17 October 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://futureplaces.org |title=Digital Media, Local Cultures: an ongoing challenge |language=pt |publisher=FuturePlaces |accessdate=2013-11-14}}</ref>
* Radia gave support to the 3rd edition of the RadiaLx Festival in Lisboa in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://radialx.radiozero.pt |title=radialx 2012 |publisher=Radialx.radiozero.pt |accessdate=2013-11-14}}</ref> Several stations did live streamings to the Festival and other rebroacasted parts of it.
* In September 2010 Radia started uploading its archive into archive.org.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/radiafm |title=Radia programas at |accessdate=2013-11-14}}</ref>
* From 12 to 16 October 2010 the full of season 23 of Radia programmes was re-broadcast during Future Places Festival in O'Porto, Portugal, incorporated in the Radio Futura temporary radio station (91.5&nbsp;MHz FM Porto).
* From October to December 2010 [[:de:Kunstradio – Radiokunst|ORF Kunstradio]] broadcast a series of five radio art programmes specially curated by Radia, that were recorded during the Radia Art Camp in July 2010 at the [[Gasometer Oberhausen|Gasometer in Oberhausen]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kunstradio.at/PROJECTS/CURATED_BY/RADIA/index.html |title=Kunstradio "Curated by" series |publisher=Kunstradio.at |accessdate=2013-11-14}}</ref>
* From September to December 2012 the first '''complete retrospective''' of Radia shows was broadcast on Mobile Radio BSP<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mobile-radio.net/?page_id=1447 |title=About Mobile Radio BSP |publisher=Mobile Radio |date=2012-12-09 |accessdate=2013-11-14}}</ref> as part of the 30th [[São Paulo Art Biennial|Biennial of São Paulo]] in Brazil.
* During the [[:de:Radio Corax#Radiorevolten|Radio Revolten]] festival in Halle, in Germany, - from 7 to 9 October 2016 - a general meeting of the Radia network took place, mixing performances from members and re-tuning the network for the future.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wavefarm.org/ta/newsroom/87d2g7|title=Radio Revolten, International Radio Art Festival coming to Halle, Germany in October|accessdate=2016-10-30}}</ref>
* A 21-part programme series called Radiaphiles showcasing member stations and associated artists of the Radia network was produced for and broadcast as part of [[documenta 14]] in Kassel and Berlin from 17 June - 7 July 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.documenta14.de/en/public-radio/13778/savvy-funk|title=documenta 14 radio - SAVVYfunk|accessdate=2017-12-12}}</ref>
== Notes ==
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== External links ==
*The Radia Network website [http://www.radia.fm Radia.fm]
*Old Radia Network website @ archive.org waybackmachine : from March 2005 to May 2006 [https://web.archive.org/web/20070313060210/http://radia.constantvzw.org/ radia.constantvzw.org]
*Radia Network website @ archive.org waybackmachine : from August 2006 onwards [https://web.archive.org/web/20070313060210/http://radia.fm/ radia.fm]
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