[Reader-list] Juniradio-first call

[renu]

The Juniradio - free/open radio project sounds interesting. Would be 
great if readers, practitioners, researchers from outside and from 
within sarai can contribute to the project.

best,
Renu.


(*) JUNIRADIO - FIRST CALL

JUNIRADIO

Juniradio (http://juniradio.net) is a free and open radio that will broadcast
from June 8 until June 29 2003, 24 hours per day, on 104.1 FM in 
Berlin and as a
live stream on the internet. Juniradio is a free radio since it lacks the
commercial or institutional constraints that, in Berlin and elsewhere, prevent
almost anything unforseeable from happening on the radio, and it is an open
radio since it will not be produced by editors, professionals or 
experts, but by
a wide network of local and international groups, initiatives and persons.

Juniradio will be a political radio as well, since it addresses a 
certain social
imagination: the desire and the demand for a permanent free and open radio in
Berlin that would not emerge as a speculation about a defined market niche or
target group, but as a bet on real, meaningful and productive connections.
Connections between the artistic, political, or whatever work of the
participants, as well as, finally, connections between the production and the
consumption of radio, and between the radio program and the life of the people.

BROADCASTS

This is, above all, an invitation to participate in the Juniradio project, and
to produce transmissions. A broadcast can be a lot of things: radio plays, dj
sets, short monologues, endless discussions, your favorite record revisited,
radio mangas, audio tracks of Belgian nouvelle vague movies, phone interviews,
cooking courses, computer-generated lectures, field recordings, 8-bit tracks,
news tickers of censored headlines, Chinese hip hop, live reports from personal
crisis areas, atmospheres, transmission breaks, audio salads.

A broadcast can reach us as a pre-produced audio file, can be recorded
beforehand in our studio or be produced live. Before your transmission please
check out the technical details (http://juniradio.net/faq.txt) or 
show up at one
of our workshops (see dates, below).

Normally a broadcast should have a length of 55 minutes -- while for sure there
may be good reasons why a certain program must last 3 hours or just 15 minutes.
Serial formats are imaginable as well.

The transmissions will be broadcast between June 9 and 29, even though some
programs may already air between June 2 and 8. The definte dates and times will
only emerge during the very process we are inviting you to -- while for sure
there may be good reasons why a some programs have to happen on a 
certain day or
at a certain time.

Your ideas, proposals or concepts should reach us until May 9 2003 -- while for
sure there may be good reasons why certain things take more time. Anyhow we are
inviting you to a first meeting on May 9 (see dates, below). Until then, any
feedback should be sent to alle at juniradio.net, or to the sender of this
invitation.

NET/RADIO

Another connection on which Juniradio will rely is the combination of radio and
internet. This means both the collaborative connections between local and
international initiatives and the productive relations between the techniques
and cultures of two different media.

The archive that the radio contributions will constitute is to remain free and
open and will be available to other independent radio projects for
non-commercial use. The legal model that we are tending towards is the Creative
Commons License (see http://creativecommons.org/learn/licenses) -- while for
sure there may be good reasons why certain material should be handled under
different conditions.

Additionally the radio program will be streamed live on the internet during the
whole month of June, and may be repeated afterwards.

CONDITIONS OF PRODUCTION

Fortunately or unfortunately, Juniradio is working within a gift economy. While
time and knowledge resources are present in abundance, there is an almost
absolute lack of financial means. Just as the organisation of the 
radio is based
on unpaid work, we can neither refund any costs or disburse any fees. All we
have to offer is the kind of surplus value that is generated through exhaustive
collaboration in a temporarily autonomous area -- as well as, 
certainly, through
collective sending and receiving.

DATES

Workshop: free formats / listening models
Thursday, April 24, 5 pm

First meeting of everyone remotely involved
Friday, May 9, 8 pm

Workshop: radio techniques: cut and mix
Saturday, May 17, 2 pm

Workshop: speaking and reading
Saturday, May 24, 2 pm / Sunday, May 25, 2 pm

Location: Bootlab, Ziegelstrasse 20, Berlin Mitte
(separate invitations will follow)

WHOIS

Juniradio (http://juniradio.net) is a project at Bootlab (http://bootlab.org),
organized by radiokampagne.de (http://radiokampagne.de), Klubradio
(http://klubradio.de), TwenFM (http://twen-fm.de), Radio Internationale Stadt
(http://orang.orang.org), Partner gegen Berlin (http://partnergegenberlin.de)
and others.

TRACEROUTE

Juniradio is part of a cooperation with Ersatzradio 
(http://ersatzmedia.info), a
temporary radio station presenting within a period of one week (June 1 - 7) a
thematic atlas on the production and control of space. Ersatzradio is an
Ersatzstadt production - an initiative project of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes
in cooperation with the Volksbuehne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. The Ersatzstadt
presentations will be directed by two teams of curators, Metrozones (Jochen
Becker, Stephan Lanz) and Tulip House (Anselm Franke, Hannah Hurtzig).

Thank you.

--
Monica Narula
Sarai:The New Media Initiative
29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054
www.sarai.net