Radio Otherwise

Our core members are Kate Donovan, Monaí de Paula Antunes, Niko de Paula Lefort and MK, each bringing their own expertise and curiosity from the fields of radio/transmission art, community and free radio practices, field recording, listening, composition, performance, electronic circuitry, DIY/DITWO, pedagogies, spatial design, and critical, decolonial & feminist theories. We seek dialogical relations with environments, and enjoy extending our networks and working with a wide range of people from various fields within our projects.

Main outcomes include:
- “Spree~Channelsea Radio Group”, an exchange project with soundcamp, (2023). Exploring Berlin/London urban rivers through listening, transmitting and sharing; the project also included a Reading~Listening Group in the months leading up to the exchange. Funded by the Cultural Bridge programme.
- “Heckenradio” (2023) with Spore Initiative Berlin. A durational transmission and listening session from the cemetery/garden/old flight path, bringing together artists, workers, locals, and anyone interested to listen, speak, transmit, receive, harvest, cook and eat together.
- “Circling Thresholds” (2022). A durational receiving-transmitting project from a boat-studio along the Spree, focussing on the infrastructures of flow of water and electromagnetic waves in/along the city. Commissioned by Forests of Antennas, Oceans of Waves.
- “Radio Otherwise. Listening, ecologies, cybernetics” (2021). A seminar for and with Master’s students, Institute for Art & Media, University of Potsdam. MicroFM building workshops and critical reflections in and from urban green areas in Berlin.

Alongside this, we have done various workshops for radio-making, field recording and microFM building, at schools, communities (in Berlin’s independent scene), and arts events (Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, 2022; Floating Transmissions, Hamburg, 2023), as well as live radio transmissions (CTM 2023, Archipel Stations Community Radio 2021-ongoing).