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Radio_Copernicus in Berlin and on air
The German-Polish artist radio will be 
transmitting until the end of the year on 95,2 
MHz UKW (VHF)

From the 1st to the 30th November 2005, Radio_Copernicus, the
German-Polish artist radio will be broadcasting 24 hours a day live from
Berlin on the local UKW frequency 95,2 MHz and as an Internet-Live-Stream.
In December, the station will be transmitting live from Wroclaw on the local
frequency 91,3 UKW (VHF) and broadcasting simultaneously on Berlin 95,2
UKW (VHF).

With a Grand Re:Opening on November 1st, from 4 p.m to 6 p.m,
Radio_Copernicus will introduce its third season from Berlin in
co-operation with Dis_Positionen/Academy of Arts. 
Featuring a multi-faceted program of
art forms, it will offer a forum that is devoted especially to
electroacoustic art forms, new concepts and space 
in sonic media art and a multitude of other radio
artistic approaches.


Radio_Copernicus at Dis_Positionen/Berlin
Dis_Positionen - Sound, Media and Urban Space: 18-20.11.2005, Akademie der
Künste/Academy of Arts, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin. Info:
www.adk.de/raum/

Radio_Copernicus picks up its theme in collaboration with Akademie der
Künste/Academy of Arts and its festival 
'Dis_Positionen - Sound, Media and Urban Space'
(18.11. to 20.11.2005). This is dedicated to the interplay between sound,
media and space and features artists like Akitsugu Maebayashi, Gerhard
Eckel, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Ned Bouhalassa and Zbigniew Karkowski.
Selected excerpts from the festival will be broadcast by
Radio_Copernicus and developed in interviews, 
background information, and audio-artistic works.
Moreover, Radio_Copernicus itself embodies the theme of Dis_Positionen:
Thus, art radio represents a public electro-acoustic space in itself, which
seeks different, perhaps new, sound aesthetics and media-architectural
forms of expression to create a programming environment and initiate
discourse.
On 20.11.2005, the Dis_Positionen festival will close at the Akademie
der Künste/Academy of Arts with a discussion 
panel on the relationship between radio,
politics and art.

Commissioned Productions for Radio_Copernicus
In order to document the current radio and media-aesthetic trends in
both countries, again commissioned seven radio art productions,
which will be premiered on air during November. In Berlin, the premieres of
these commissioned works represent a programming highpoint. The
programme slot "Explorations" will present these productions as well as
repeat commissioned works which had been premiered earlier during
the project from Stralsund and Warsaw.
For the period of transmission in Berlin, seven new
productions have been commissioned. Zbigniew Karkowski, Robert Lippok,
Wojtek Zamiara, Raphael Roginski + Cukunft, Maria Peszek & Elektrolot,
Sasker Scheerder and the duo Merzouga will be presented on "Explorations".
Two of these productions will come into being through the simultaneous
broadcast on two radio frequencies, for which the listener will be
invited to turn on two radio sets at the same time.

Friday, 25.11.2005, 6.30 pm
In collaboration with the Berlin Philharmonic (Educational Department):
Zukunft at BPhil, Remix - Asyla (after Thomas Adès)
Hubert Machnik and Catherine Milliken
In his composition 'Asyla', the British composer Thomas Adès traces the
various meanings of the word 'asylum':. Students of Berlin's Hermann-Köhl
High School approached 'Asyla' by means of traditional instruments,
everyday noises and computer processes, and 
sought their own sound-language in the
creation of their remix version.

into radio
radio_copernicus @ inn.to
For four evenings, Radio_Copernicus will be a guest at the media art and
performance space, inn.to - thus presenting itself not merely in the
ether and on the Internet, but also in a tangible way: on the spot.
(December 4/5, 11/12)

Radio_Copernicus is broadcasting on Berlin UKW 95,2 Ffrom the 1st November
to the 31st December 2005 and permanently and world-wide as an
Internet-live-steam until 31 December 2005 on www.radio copernicus.org.
Further information can be found in Polish, German and English here:
www.radio-copernicus.org


Studio Radio_Copernicus
University of the Arts Berlin
Postfach 120544
D-10595 Berlin
Tel. +49 30 3185-2482
Fax +49 30 3185-2530
Email info at radio-copernicus.org
http://www.radio-copernicus.org