From 23 to 25 October Studio Tallinn 1965 becomes a radiophonic event space, an ether created through reference and technological means. One end of this ether space, joining the radiosphere, extends within a limited area around the Estonian Centre of Contemporary Music on the FM frequency 107.3 MHz, and the other to a web stream. Everything that happens in the studio becomes part of the radio programme, and all participants are part of the Üle Heli Daily Menu.
The Daily Menu, as the name says, contains various pieces that punctuate the radio broadcast. Such interruptions are conversations, interviews and presentations. Spontaneous additions are possible, arising from the electronic or acoustic means on site, as the studio contains generators, synthesisers, filters and kilometres of magnetic tape that may from time to time slide over the sound heads. With these means a knowledgeable enthusiast can relate to the ether.
Outside the studio door two loudspeakers stand on stands, playing the radio broadcast from inside, in addition to the transistor radios set up here and there. These are for listeners who prefer to be receivers.
Raadio Tallinn 1965 expands the media space on its own terms, as a process still taking shape, and considers the open stream, the event and the action to be what matters. Having turned back to one possibility, in the 60s, it runs in parallel, crossing what exists here and there from time to time, giving meaning to what has been, what is and what is becoming. This gives the opportunity to offer alternatives, to dispute and argue when needed, in a word, to rethink what concerns experimentality, media space and that eternally returning thing: radio.
Raadio Tallinn 1965 is testing an app called ‘Väin’, whose beta version can be downloaded for both Android and iOS mobile devices. ‘Väin’ lets you listen to the RT65 live web stream, but also gives the user the chance to transmit sound material from their own mobile phone. The app takes shape according to feedback from users and adds the sounds transmitted by users to the broadcast, modulating them in the live transmission. On Sunday 25 October there is an experimental sound collection: from 16:00 the ‘Väin’ channel opens, where everyone registered in the app can send the sounds around them to the stream, to be reworked by the slowly rotating motor at the bottom of ‘Väin’, which modulates the radio waves. Sunday's process helps us tune this motor with the participants' help.
You can download the Väin app here: Android and iOS via TestFlight
More information about the app and ‘Väin’ is available here: User guide
The radio is run by Raul Keller, Tarmo Johannes, Andrus Laansalu, Kristjan Jansen, Maria Hansar, Anastasiia Dolgaia and Mike Cole.
See also linktr.ee/radiotallinn1965