Station Radio

Station Radio is an occasional broadcast exploring sound and the theories, practices, politics, and poetics associated with it. The show is seasonal and features guest curators. Every edition is an audio work created by independent musicians, artists, and communities in dialogue with research programs at Garage

Participants in the first season of Station Radio worked with Garage Archive Collection. Focusing on the history of nonconformism and the musical underground-Siberian noise and electronica, poetic performance in Krasnodar, chronicles of a Leningrad rock club or the Pirate Television archive-the artists researched countercultural practices of the past 30 years and attempted to reconstruct little-known episodes from that time.

The second season of Station Radio is built around the Garage Digital program and the World Gone By Computer Class. Each audio work-mixtapes compiled from found tapes, video game soundtracks, and voice messages, an electro-acoustic play, and poeticglossolalia-is accompanied by a commentary from season curator Evgeny Bylina.

Participants of the third season worked with archive documents and reminiscences of residents of the Narkomfin Building, interacting with its real and imagined spaces and addressing the sound experiments of the Soviet avant-garde. The result of their research was five audio works in harmony with the architecture of the building and reacting to its history that are performed in various genres, from an electro-acoustic play to a sound walk.

Participants in the fourth season of Station Radio worked with the archives of Cyber-Femin-Club, referencing its feminist artistic and research practices and tactics. This season involves a drift through sound environments and pulsing interfaces, promising meetings and accords of past and present. The home page for this season was developed by artist Anna Soz. The drawings and videos were created for the project Practical Independence as part of the Garage Archive Commissions series.