Free Radio was a part of Festival of New Art (FONA) in Rijeka. It started broadcasting on 89.0 FM on 9th of September and was broadcasting from 14h until 24 h.

FONA took place in multimedia Center ‘Palach’ in ‘OK Gallery’ and was curated by Branko Cerovac. MMC Palach is for more than a decade place where non institutional and alternative art has been created almost in spite of all the obstacles that politics, institutions and after-war black economy can initiate. In similar position as most of the autonomous cultural spaces in Croatia only defiance and enthusiasm prevailed for this excellent manifestation to happen.

FTR was a huge success on FONA. 98 FM had broadcasted more talks, music and seen more hands on microphone in a short time than ever before. Young people understood the radio immediately and started playing their favorite hits from mobile phones.

Branko Cerovac and Krešimir Kovačićek gave a broad insight in FONA and matters that surround it. Other actors on Rijeka scene were here to discus, scream and laugh, invite others to participatate on the radio.

As this year’s theme was Art&Criminality, a free radio, more popularly called pirate radio, was used also to invite local police for opening of the exhibition. They were the ones that would benefit the most from this cultural event. Instead of police an inspection appeared. Easiest way to close down the event is to measure more decibels in the air than law allows, but luckily festival speakers didn’t go above 87 and as 90 was allowed inspection sticked around to check again and again. No luck for them.

Beside FTR there were different exhibits, performances and live music act in the MMC. In the middle of them was a radio receiver playing materials that were broadcasting in another room. People were scrolling between two rooms to talk and listen to the free radio program.

Many thanx to organizers of Fona and others that helped and to Monteparadiso Hacklab who borrowed FM transmitter.

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Free Traveling Radio will broadcast on FONA 07 – Festival of New Art in Rijeka, Croatia. FONA 07 theme is UMJETNOST I KRIMINAL / ART&CRIMINALITY. Exhibitions, performances and other program will be happening at CLUB PALACH, GALERIJA O.K., M.O.N.A. from 09.11.-11.11.2007.

The preparations are starting with choosing a right freqvency (89.0 mHz) and putting antenna on the roof f the MMC Palach, a multimedia center where festival will take place.

Other artists and project that will be represented include:Sven Stilinović, Vladimir Dodig Trokut (V.D.Trokut / M. Baldini / B. Cerovac), Vlatko Vincek, David Belas, Josip Pino Ivančić, Laszlo Kerekes, Krešo Mustać, Krešo Kovačićek, Igor Zlobec, Denis Krašković, Sandro Đukić, Milomir Repac Zvezda, Zoran Krema, Dejan Kljun, Davor Dundara, Andrea Kustić, Spartak Dulić, Edvin Šabanović Šabo , Iris Radivoj, Edita Matan, Branka Cvjetičanin, Ratka Lugumerski, Jelica Culafić, Tajči Čekada, Andrea Knežević, Zoran Štajdohar Zoff, Mijau Lab, Kruno Jošt, Damir Čargonja, Marko Vojnić- Gin,Iva Pevalek, Predrag Kraljević, A 3, Muzej M.O.N.A. – Work in progress, „M.U.P.” (Muzej ukradenih predmeta),Galerija moći umjetnika, Bushwac, Miševi.

During the first couple of days at ‘Nepokoreni grad’ (Unconquered City) festival in Karlovac, Free Traveling Radio Crew (Djahjah, Maris, Anna, Tatiana, Lesh and Kruno) has been working on radio streaming over FRSM a well as FM radio on 99.0. Radio was working 24 hours for two days on 25th and 26th of august 2007.

Preparations for program have started in Križevci where we have been working on circuit bending, making our own electronic circuits and working with cellular automata software that would help us make music and sounds. We had a plan to study PD as well and to finish a robot (RobyDRobot) for cellular automata performance, but we weren’t lucky with the equipment. Robot was supposed to have a wireless control, and we were also thinking of making a batteries that would supply its energy.

We are appreciating help of the mister from RTV service ‘Telesonic’ from Križevci that gave us lots of old tape recorders, electronic boards, radios etc, and others that donated old toys. We broke them apart and got many interesting parts and different sounds out of them.

While in Karlovac we have set up antenna on the roof of the Youth Center ‘Domaći’ re-creating Duchamps first and lost ‘Fountain’

Djahjah made an audio pice “Sinfonia nº1 – dos atentados terroristas e dos financiamentos estatais” on his newly finished instrument ‘Weird Sound Generator’.

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Anna and Djahjah are making a performance using the possibilities of 2nd Line, Steve Buchanan invention which transforms a dance into music. 2nd line uses a board and piezzo microphones that are connected with midi sound bank. By stepping n the board you can choose which instruments you want to play.

International team of free media and free culture artivists (and those who don’t know who they are but don’t care much) will celebrate end of right wing orientated Brasilian politician Antonio Carlos Peixotoa (better known as ACM or Evil Tony) rule. By celebrating his death we are making a base for new era of collaboration in free media and free culture between Croatia and Brasil.

During 80′s ACM gave media frequencies (both TV and radio) to narrow group of rich and powerful friends and familly which resulted in centralized media production and ended up with today’s media picture of Brasil, led by only 7 families.

ACM has been lying in the hospital for 3 months before his death. In Brasil word is that it was this long because nether god or devil wanted to take him, reflecting the national feeling for this politician.

During international celebration, from 24th to 27th of August, people from Poland, Brasil and Croatia will held different activities such as artistic actions, games and entertainment, free media collaborations, workshops, etc.

Games and entertainment
Dart games – hit Evil Tonys nose and score a free song on free radio.

Creative workshops for kids
Draw a donkey ears (or whatever you want) on Evil Tonys head.

Party time
‘Brasil<>Croatia’ – wild DJs playing national anthems in all directions (forward and reverse).

New technology workshops
Circuit bending workshops and playing with star of the party – RobyDRobot. DJ RobyDRobot will play cellular machine hits that will hit charts next year.

High culture
Ceremonial exchange in pirated versions of CDs and DVDs between Brasilian and Croatian cultural communities representatives under working title ‘Pirates are Cool’.

Performance:
During 2006. Brasilian gene was implanted in polish person. During NG ’07 a transitions in persons behaviour and organism will be observed, as well as her communication with local population.
Special focus will be focused on biological functions such as way of consumption of food or sexual appetites. Also a cultural changes will be observed, a need to dance, to listen music and so on. Sequences of this observations will be streamed over video to Brasil and Poland.
This work will by help of new technologies and advanced science make a research on possibilities how can genes mixing be used as a way to stop world round right wing and nationalistic trends.

Lesh arrived with RobbyDRobot. Robby will get a new functions so it can get transformed by just clicking one button into dancing and singing machine.

Lesh also developed another robot.More soon…

Free Traveling Radio collective will wisit Nepokoreni grad festival. Preparation for program ‘Better that Evil Tony died than me’ has started in Križevci with circuit bending workshops. Here are some photos and small video on our first circuit bending toy. We had so much fun with noises that eventually we burned it.

We have captured interesting sounds of Zadar to give u a sound representations where we have been working for last week.
Sounds include street recordings and famous Sea Organ constructed in Zadars harbor in 2005.

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from http://radio.dyne.org/ 

Festivalski radio (Festival Radio) is streaming over http://stanicamir.org and will soon be on 98.6 FM. Festivalski radio will transmit recorded sounds from Zadar, lots of music from all around the world, loca DJs. Also we will read material which we find interesting concerning free radio and pirate radio.

Stay tuned! And if u want us to re-transmit your stream over our FM broadcast contact us on uke@jabber.cz or udrugauke(at)gmail.com.

Festivalski radio will transmit until 14th of August. Check the program of the Zadar snova contemporary theater festival at http://www.zadarsnova.hr/program.htm

We are lucky enough to have (again!) guests from Brasil. Tatiana and Djahjah will help us in creating a program, and with us is omnipresent Zadar’s DJ Daniela Fox.

Putujući radio visited FUZIJA (Festival of Artists, Scientists and Activists) in Valpovo, East Croatia. This is only festival of this type in Valpovo, small town of some 10 000 inhabitants.Putujući radio was set at the bank of river Drava, where a Fuzija camp was organized. Benjamin climbed the tree and set up the antenna. Even if we knew that trees are not the best places for putting up the antenna, we didn’t have no choice. When radio was connected we tested it. It could be heard all over the beach.

People started pulling up their cars and finding station 99.3 FM. Some brought their CDs and organizer brought beer tap and beans were cooked for everyone. Local kids made up a poster for radio. Suddenly carriages from local horse farm appeared so the whole situation became more picturesque.

Festival was held in old castle in Valpove and during the night local bands performed, but also many musicians from the region, including Montenegro and Serbia.

Traveling radio took a big hunk of work and went to support Tabor Film festival ’07 in Gornja Stubica at castel Oršić.

A peasant uprising in 16th century that was lead by peasant general Matija Gubec is depicted in exhibition in Oršić castle museum. In socialist system he was a figure symbolizing revolt to ruling class so government financed making a huge statue depicting his hand rising towards sky, standing in rags. Behind him there are scenes from peasant uprising battles. Uprising was eventually brought to the end by joined army of different rulers in the area.

Film festival showed to be a hard case for setting up Free radio as everyone is concentrated on consuming movies. It is hard to involve people in whole process of setting up the radio and working on it. Some technical difficulties didn’t help also (15 watt booster died, and transmitter didn’t want to work for first 2 hours). Eventually transmitter worked out and we had ‘castle radio’ that was joined by kids excursion from Montenegro and some of the festival stuff.

Free radio became truly a part of the festival when technicians made a mistake during start of the evening projections. People were sitting in front of the screen and movie starts but instead of the sound of the movie a sound of free radio bursts over big speakers. One sentence over microphone: ”This is free radio” and technician got the mistake. Worth while intervention from radio to film.

Many thanks to Benjamin from south Africa that helped with antenna and to organizers Gabriela, Anja, Nenad and Lukša for having a radio at the festival and to Sky for borrowing nice mixer.

Thnx to Joe, Kristina, Igor, Stjepan and all other people from Free festival we had lots of fun hosting singers, readers and grendpa and his flute.

Traveling Radio at Free Festival in Čakovec had to be creative to get antenna up as high as possible without any poles or high house roofs around. The freedom of creativity helped us to arrange first balloon radio.
If u cant get high let your antenna fly.

Free Festival is event organized by network of non profit organizations in Čakovec. They are bussy with work on open source, sustainable developement ad human rights. Festial included presentations, workshops, exhibitions and music concerts.