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∏ node (pronounced Pi node) is a radio station that broadcasts in DAB+ in Paris and Mulhouse, and on the web. Supported by a collective of artists and structured on a unique distributed model, it produces and broadcasts varied and demanding content, and spreads through workshops and training in radio creation tools.
These workshops are led by members of the artists' collective that works to bring the station to life, and which develops it in different forms, not only relating to the radio world, but also to the field of sound arts, plastic arts and digital arts.
Since its inception in 2013, ∏node has been dedicated to imagining what a distributed radio would be, breaking away from traditional centralized models, a space where listeners would be able to freely participate in radio.
Listen to Cargo Cult, by Jean-Philippe Renoult: each week, a cult record is analysed and here it is Turiya Sings by Alice Coltrane (1982)
Rather than an architecture around a central studio and a single broadcast channel, ∏node bet on a fleet of small studios allowing anyone to build one at home, and set up their own broadcast channel, their own ∏node-hosted micro-webradio.
Here are some of them: Radio Tisto by the young people of the Hopital du Jour in Antony, Epsilonia (in collaboration with Radio Libertaire), Domestic Noise by Sarah Brown and Perfuzz with Carl_Y that you can listen to here :
∏node is built as a space dedicated to radio practices, and defends radio as a symmetrical, hybrid, multichannel, and decentralized media.
With this unique and singular model, ∏node is dedicated to reinterrogating and experimenting with sound creation and the radio experience, reconfiguring its broadcasting modes according to the contexts, thanks to its multiple mobile micro-studios, allowing to aggregate to singular events.
∏Node has been broadcasting in Mulhouse on DAB+ since February 2019 and has also strongly contributed to the establishment of the independent Mulhouse MBC multiplex, allowing the 13 radio stations located on this multiplex to independently own and manage their broadcast. ∏node obtains CSA authorization to broadcast in Paris as well, and begins broadcasting in April 2020.
∏node thus realizes a hybrid analog and digital, terrestrial and network, local and international broadcasting device.
CWCH Collective , produced by Mobile Radio and broadcasted all over Europe
The radio continues to develop its programmes, its collaborations (Radio Plouf with the CCNRB Rennes, Oscillation QO2 Brussels 2021 Festival), but also its artistic activities.
In 2021 news, in addition to its activities on the Mulhousian and Parisian DAB+ airwaves, ∏node - as an artist collective - will participate in the exhibition "Giving shape to the ether" from June 19, organized by Pali Meursault at the Gantner Multimedia Space, where the collective will set up a participatory open radio studio installation, allowing to listen to and mix the different sound streams running through the exhibition online and on the airwaves. Other artists in the exhibition are Dinah Bird & Jean-Philippe Renoult, Julien Clauss, Joyce Hinterding and Nicolas Montgermont, as well as contributions from Anna Friz, Tetsuo Kogawa, Christina Kubisch, Victor Mazón Gardoqui, Mobile Radio, Sisters Akousmatica, Juliette Volcler, Franz Xaver, Carl Y and Elisabeth Zimmermann.
During the Sonic Protest 2021 festival, from June 23 to July 11, the collective will present its installation "Radio Fischli & Weiss" at the Bouchoule brewery in Montreuil. Here, the collective assembles a series of wireless transmission devices, chained together, where the signal is eroded and transformed as it passes through the various technical devices and the different protocols for encoding and decoding the signal, while allowing a particular listening to each transmission node of the network thus formed. The installation obviously refers to the work of the visual artists Fichli & Weiss, Der Lauf der Dinge (1987).
π-Node @ Orleanoid : modules from Pauline Node on Vimeo.
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