Friday 13.05.05

On air - Introductory Course
With Timo Stadler from Querfunk Karlsruhe

A practical introduction to working with Free Radio:
it won’t turn you into a perfect radio journalist, but you’ll know enough basics to be able to create a programme and you’ll also learn something of Free Radio principles

Presentation and Programme Design
With Benji Gross and André Schibli
from the "Klipp und Klang" Radio School, Zürich

This Workshop offers an introduction to presentation. Particular emphasis will be placed on the thematic arc through the programme. It’s the job of the presenter to accompany the listeners through the programme, so it’s important to relate the different elements of a programme to each other. This creates a thematic arc that carries the listener from article to article. We will try to "tease" the articles appropriately and to distribute their contents throughout the programme, with the aim of accompanying the listeners through the programme.

KIDS on the Mike!
Spacige Shortcuts
With Ute Abmayr, Theater Educationalist,
speaker with Radio mikro’welle, Ulm

For kids between 8 and 13 years old
We’re going to beam ourselves to another planet, where you can decide for yourself what things happen and how. We’ll record the stories you create with a microphone and edit them together on the computer. Then we’ll add some sound effects and present our Space Stories to the audience on the final evening. Please bring your favourite CD!

Radio Theory – Revolution Theory
With Thorsten Michaelsen and Ole Frahm from FSK Hamburg

It’s no secret: it was once thought that the medium of Free Radios could be used to advance the communist revolution. Self-organization, acquisition, advice, ambiguous and dubious slogans that articulated desires – this was the starting point of Free Radio politics. We want to update these claims through discussions of the texts of the Situationist Internationale, Deleuze/Guattari and, last but not least, Brecht.

Multilingual Programme Presentation
With Adriane Borger and Claudia Ackermann fromRadio LoRa Zürich, Intermedia-Projekt

Free Radios are multilingual, but usually the different languages are applied parallel and not used together. This course presents and experiments with methods of bilingual and multilingual programme presentation. The question of which situations and audiences are appropriate for multilingual programme formats will also be discussed.

Friday Evening

Podiums Discussion:
"Free Media in Europe"
Is a pan-European organization necessary
– and if yes, then with what goals?

Saturday 14.05.05

Radio as Experiment
With Sven Thiermann from Berlin

Radio-related communication theory is often confronted with the strange relationship of distribution and ubiquity of the radio. This workshop will explore the possibilities of, in particular, a technically varied use of radio alongside the classic and reception-oriented (but not necessarily bad) uses. Mobile mini-broadcasters, reception relays and Internet nodes are some potential cornerstones of a technical appropriation of the medium, which appears to be all but waiting for an artistic application.
For preparation:
colomar.com/Shavano/patchbox.html
llbest.com/PassiveMixer.htm
anarchy.k2.tku.ac.jp/radio/micro/index.html

Radio for the "People’s Community"
Mit Robert Heinze aus Konstanz

Radio in the Third Reich distinguished itself through a subtle entertainment concept intended to construct a "People’s Community", which guaranteed a connection between home and the front in the "Musical Requests for the Armed Forces" programme and which carried national socialist propaganda in schmaltzy pop songs and certain programme formats. Listeners were regularly asked what they wished to hear and the broadcast format was constructed around these requests. In this workshop we want to examine the construction of the "People’s Community" in radio and its success with the listeners using a propaganda film "Wunschkonzert" and several acoustic examples.

Markelfingen FM – Youth Camp-Radio
With Katja Röckel from Radio Blau Leipzig

There’s a lot of room for experimentation with this radio play. What can I do with an interview? Or with a sound collage, a reportage, etc.? You may pick whichever topic you choose, and together we’ll develop the thematic arc of our stories. Our aim is to make a bit of the Lake Constance camp audible and listenable. If anyone has a collection of cool sounds, music, audio quotes or anything else – bring them along!

Audio Editing with Audacity
With Andreas Klug from Radio Dreyeckland Freiburg

Free media and free software go hand-in-hand – up to now, though, a move to the open source operating system Linux has suffered from the lack of a decent audio-editing program. In this workshop we’ll get to know the current (and already perfectly usable) build of Audacity: the open source editor is already available for all the prevalent operating systems. Additionally, a current developer version will also be presented as a sampler of version 1.4, which will most probably be available in the autumn.
Information about: Audacity
Reader for Audacity by: Mediensyndikat

Racism in the (Free) Media?
With Andreas Linder from Tübingen, Intermedia-Projekt

The media are considered to be the fourth State authority. In the past few years they have contributed considerably to the proliferation of racist mindsets and behaviour. Following on from the asylum debate at the beginning of the ‘90’s came the Kanther-Kohl deportation-era and the highlights of the years of red-green governance are the debates on citizenship, immigration laws and the relationship between Christianity and Islam since “9-11”. But has something changed in the media discourse on immigration, asylum and neo-fascism, because something has changed in society? According to what logic do the media function, and as whose mouthpiece do they function in which situation? And what about the free media? Are these free of verbal racism because they don’t conform to the interests of the political classes?

Sunday 15.05.05

ACCESS 4 ALL?
Radio as a place of Intercultural Encounter
and Communication
With Angela Isphording and Beate Flechtker, Inter.Media-Projekt

Free radios see themselves as a media open to the public, particularly for the socially disadvantaged. They see themselves as a place of intercultural encounter and communication, but the reality is often quite different. We will imitate day-to day situations in radio using different exercises and role-playing games. We will examine points at which the exchange and communication go wrong, reflect on the obstacles and cultural dimensions to communication in order to decide how to open radio for the "other world". We would be pleased to see participation from as many foreigners as possible.

The Working World in Radio
Unknown

Many Free Radios broadcast programmes which are made by trade unionists or non-organized colleagues. These programmes discuss not only topics such as the most recent bargainings on pay-scale contracts but also present complex issues from the working world. The purpose of this workshop is not just to present a forum for the exchange of experiences but also to encourage the founding of more editorial offices dealing with work-related topics.

Making Gender-Bending Audible,
or: Ass-Kicking Identity in Radio
With Dagmar Brunow from FSK Hamburg

To give our own communities a voice, we broadcast in Female-Immigrant-Gay-Lesbo-Tranny. But what if it turns out that the community doesn’t speak with a homogenous voice? The theme of this workshop is running a radio that doesn’t see itself as the mouthpiece of any one particular group. How can we use our programmes to challenge notions of gender, sexuality or ethnicity? Bring along relevant audio examples!
As preparation:
Female Machos: "Gender-Bending hörbar machen" in
TESTCARD #10: Zukunftsmusik
Text as PDF:
S. 1 S. 2 S. 3 S. 4 S. 5 S. 6 S. 7

National Sensitivities post 9-11
With Martin Büsser, “Testcard” Editorial Office

A new wave of anti-Americanism in Germany, debates on radio quotas and national-pop, and on the other side a massive underground revival in the USA.
Using lyrical and musical examples, this workshop intends to examine the question of to what degree the relationship between pop and politics has changed on both sides of the Atlantic as a result of the events surrounding 9-11.

Courage:
Right-Wing Extremism? Not If We Have A Say!
With Members of the “Demokratie und Courage” Network

Picture it: you could start a youth club with your friends, set it up as you want to and decide what stuff you want to go on there and what music you want played. Great idea, no?
But what if there are people around who are against exactly that, people who want to dictate to you which styles are acceptable and which aren’t, who threaten you with violence or who even attack you if you look different, listen to different music or think differently?
This is already a reality in many areas of Germany.
The “We Are Different” project day concerns itself with the variety among youth cultures and illuminates right-wing extremist attempts to repress this cultural diversity and to present itself as the only alternative. And it will discuss ideas for defending oneself against such tendencies.

Workshops

Here is a more detailed description of the workshops on offer during the Radio Camp