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∏ node (pronounced Pi node) is a radio station broadcasting on 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 brings the station to life, and develops it in a variety of forms, not only relating to the world of radio, but also to the fields of sound, visual and digital arts.
Since its creation in 2013, ∏node has devoted itself to imagining what a distributed radio would be, breaking with classic centralized models, a space where listeners would be able to freely participate in radio.
Listen to Jean-Philippe Renoult 's Cargo Cult: each week, a cult record is analyzed, and here it's Alice Coltrane's Turiya Sings (1982).
Rather than an architecture built around a central studio and a single broadcast channel, ∏node has bet on a fleet of small studios allowing anyone to build one at home, and set up their own broadcast channel, their own micro-webradio hosted on ∏node.
Here are a few of them: Radio Tisto by the young people of Hopital du Jour d'Antony, Epsilonia (in collaboration with Radio Libertaire), Domestic Noise by Sarah Brown and Perfuzz with Carl_Y , which you can listen to here:
∏node is built as a space dedicated to radio practices, and defends radio as a symmetrical, hybrid, multichannel, decentralized media.
On the strength of this unique and singular model, ∏node is dedicated to reinterrogating and experimenting with sound creation and the radio experience, reconfiguring its modes of broadcasting according to context, thanks to its multiple mobile micro-studios, enabling it to aggregate to singular events.
∏Node has been broadcasting in Mulhouse on DAB+ since February 2019, and has also made a major contribution to the establishment of Mulhouse's independent MBC multiplex, enabling the 13 radios located on this multiplex to independently own and manage their broadcasts. ∏node obtains CSA authorization to broadcast in Paris too, and begins broadcasting in April 2020.
∏node has thus created a hybrid analog and digital, terrestrial and networked, local and international broadcasting system.
CWCH Collective , produced by Mobile Radio and broadcast across Europe
Radio Plouf continues to develop its programs and collaborations (Radio Plouf with CCNRB Rennes, Festival Oscillation QO2 Bruxelles 2021), as well as its artistic activities.
In the news for 2021, in addition to its activities on the Mulhousian and Parisian DAB+ airwaves, ∏node - as an artists' collective - will be taking part in the "Donner forme à l'éther" exhibition from June 19, curated by Pali Meursault at the espace Multimédia Gantner, where the collective will be setting up a participatory open radio studio installation, enabling the various sound streams running through the exhibition to be listened to and mixed online and over the airwaves. Other artists in the exhibition are Dinah Bird & Jean-Philippe Renoult, Julien Clauss, Joyce Hinterding and Nicolas Montgermont, with contributions from Anna Friz, Tetsuo Kogawa, Christina Kubisch, Victor Mazón Gardoqui, Mobile Radio, Sisters Akousmatica, Juliette Volcler, Franz Xaver, Carl Y and Elisabeth Zimmermann.
As part of the Sonic Protest 2021 festival, taking place over almost the same period from June 23 to July 11, the collective will present its "Radio Fischli & Weiss" installation at the Brasserie Bouchoule, Montreuil. Here, the collective assembles a series of interlinked radio transmission devices, in which the signal is eroded and transformed as it passes through the various technical devices and encoding and decoding protocols, while at the same time allowing each transmission node in the network to be listened to in its own particular way. The installation is a clear reference to Fichli & Weiss's Der Lauf der Dinge (1987).
π-Node @ Orleanoïde : modules from Pauline Node on Vimeo.
Sandrine Maricot Despretz
