Abroad Cast for AV Festival Radio 08

Opening speech given by festival director Honor Harger at the Discovery Museum.

Knut Aufermann was asked to run a radio station for the the AV festival from Discovery Museum. He invited Sarah Washington, DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult to join him. Round the clock for 10 days we broadcast radio art, experimental music, AV festival guests, live sound art, radio serials, stories, live streams from the Radia network and whatever else took our fancy. The nights were filled with the evolving sounds of Knut's feedback installation.

Action stations. From top left to right Knut Aufermann, Tetsuo Kogawa, DinahBird, JP Renoult, Sarah Wasington, Ed Baxtor.

Each morning from 10am- midday DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult produced and presented  Abroad Cast,  a live two hour translocational radio show featuring a wealth of studio guests, lively discussion, special reports from our correspondants dotted around the world and Outer Space, radiophonic creations interspersed with musical interludes, verbal va et vient,  and our daily classic serial.
Highlights include M.O.L.E.cast, a sonic exploration of snow piles and sock drawers, Musical Maths with Professor Rebus, songs from Ocean Viva Silver our Extreme Weather Girl,  and Cinema Pour Les Oreilles,  radio adaptations of cult film and TV classics from David Cronenberg’s Videodrome, to The Lone Ranger and Frankenstein.

Many thanks to our tireless correspondants without whom the programme would have been a lot shorter and not nearly so interesting and the Discovery Museum for making us feel so welcome.

You can listen to some jingles, and a 30 mins extract from a four hour live improvised radio show by Zoe Irvine, DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult for Sunderland University radio loosely based around the theme of worship.

Many thanks to Sarah Washington for the photos.