MMKamp + Putujući slobodni radio

Free Traveling Radio was hosted by Clubture Forum in Autonomous Cultural Center Medika in Zagreb. During four days of forum and festival activities we have had almost 24/7 radio going on with open microphone, DJ sets, recorded talks and a special show about sounds and music from famous Pokemon Pikachu.

Microphone was changing hands and peoples view on: politics, economy, student issues, festival events, squatted building of Medika and many other.

Short video shows atmosphere around the radio:

Podcast files from the Medika broadcast:

 

 Igors Pikachu show - CRO: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 OtvorenaRadnaSesija-neprofitniMediji: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 OtvorenaRadnaSesija-neprofitniMediji-2: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 NezavisniJavniProstorizaKulturu: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Intervju: Antonija Letinic i Dea Vidovic: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is roof view where antena of Free Traveling Radio was placed on the top of Croatian Cultural Club Sušak. FTR was a part of Mine, Yours, Ours Fair (Moje, tvoje, naše) happening yearly in town of Rijeka, Croatia.

FTR was placed among desks where music distributions, zines, books, pamphlets and other informational materials could be found from Croatia and other parts of the world. People could freely interact and participate in program making of the radio. Also exchange place was built so one can leave something they dont need, like an old book or record and exchange it for something they find useful.

Every year Fair is visited by alternative publishing houses like ‘Što čitaš’ (What are you reading), international guests from Hamburg with project called Cafe Libertad and many more.

Antenna was set up more than 7 floors high and most of the Rijeka could be seen from there. Unfortunatelly 7 floors are lots of walk when one has to go up and down because of kable problems. So word of advice: test and retest your cables before you set them up.

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.

More photos here >>

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’

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.

This short film was shot during the mounting of the antenna for the first free community pirate radio in Pula (Croatia).
Produced by the Monteparadiso Videofarm.

http://www.archive.org/details/Pula-Radio-R-Evolution

The MonteParadiso Hacklab is an amazing place, we were very well acomodated and lots of cool people showed up for the workshop. This time we actually set up a free radio that will stay after we leave, they had their own antena and 7W transmitter so we went up to the roof, set the antena, and put their transmission to it’s mission! It’s on! 90.0 FM

Singing Chees ->> creative moments exchange between Brazil <> Austria.

 

 Katapultura interview about putujuci slobodni radio in Pula: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

At our stop at Rijeka Putujuci Slobodni Radio visited Drugo More were we set up the Radio on 95.7 FM and reached most of downtown! During our short stay we had a couple of interviews happen and a lot of music! Ovo je Brazilska Glazba! In the evening we went to a theatre play and to our surprise they were using the forum teathre methodology from Teatro do Oprimido, Augusto Boal, a brazilian came up with this… Listen to Kristijan’s interview and find more about it.

 

 interview with kristijan about teatro do oprimido @ rijeka: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We had fun in Zadar, even though we lost our car keys and the workshop was delayed for a couple of ours, we managed to get a new key and move on… You can listen to Kristijan’s interview on the podcast about the radio they will set up there soon!

 

 Kristijan Interview - Zadar Snova Radio (in ogg): Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Kristijan Interview - Zadar Snova Radio (in mp3): Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The iSummit is over, it was fun, Putujuci Slobodni Radio was there and we finally got some new podcasts for you to listen to! Check out a couple of interviews with local radio-active activist Maris and Lazzareti’s coordinator Slaven Tolj, and thanks to Meike Richter from CommonsPage.net you can also listen to Cory Doctorow and the crew from Starwreck Studios!

I really liked the welcoming drinks…

 

 Cory Doctorow Interview: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Starwreck interview: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 This girl is radio-active!: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Interview with Slaven: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download