Paysages sonores du Portugal

by Diana Duta and Stefan Christoff

Broadcast on

Radio Panik, Bruxelles, 1er octobre à 12h00

https://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/l-heure-de-pointe/paysages-sonores-du-portugal-juillet-2024/

Radio Campus Bruxelles, 21/10/2024 – 16h

https://www.radiocampus.be/creation-radiophonique-21-10-2024-16h-paysages-sonores-du-portugal-juillet-2024-diana-duta-et-stefan-christoff/

Radio AlHara, Bethlehem, Palestine, 03/11/2024 - 18h

http://radioalhara.net

framework radio, #909: 2024.11.10

https://frameworkradio.net/2024/11/909-2024-11-10/

Radio Flouka, 29/11/2024

https://soundcloud.com/radioflouka/diana-duta-and-stefan-christoff-portugal-soundscapes-29-11-2024

This mix came together after being in touch with sound artist Diana Duta. I recalled a conversation we had last year over a coffee in Brussels after we joined a Palestine solidarity protest together. We talked about how creating experimental non corporate sounds can possibly create ruptures in the flow of the hyper colonial capitalist death machine that is aiming to commodify everything. The soundscape blends together my own recordings from a visit I made to Portugal with my family in 2024, and Diana’s recordings from the 25th of April, which marked the 50 year anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal - a symbol of independence and freedom. It is really about listening and arriving at a solidarity that is about being open, also about taking action, but also reflecting in real time beyond the noise of colonial capitalist power that is trying to always occupy our minds.

Ce mix est né après avoir pris contact avec l'artiste sonore Diana Duta, basée à Bruxelles. Je me souviens d'une conversation qu’on a eu autour d'un café à Bruxelles, après avoir participé ensemble à une manifestation de solidarité avec la Palestine en 2023. Après la marche, on est allées prendre un café avec notre amie commune Julia E. Dyck. On a continué notre conversation, en parlant de la manifestation et de la façon dont nous pouvons, en tant qu'artistes, trouver des moyens pour exprimer notre soutien pour la Palestine. Ces questionnements ont fait egalement partie de ce moment, et la conversation a portée sur la façon dont la création de sons expérimentaux non corporatifs peut éventuellement créer des ruptures dans le flux de la machine capitaliste hyper coloniale, qui vise à tout marchandiser et tout ettoufer. J'ai apprécié la façon dont Diana et Julia ont été presentes et ont vraiment écouté.

Track listing

(artist name / track name)

01. Diana Duta - 25/04/2024, 13h00, Douro beach

ZOOM H5 on the rocks on Praia Cabedelo do Douro

02. Anarchist Mountains, Underwater

From the album VHS

03. Diana Duta - 24/04/2024, 12h19, taxi

Motorola Edge 30 Neo in the taxi to Douro beach

04. Stefan Christoff, Lisbon morning birds 07/2024

ZOOM H4n, recorded at a small playground not far from Parque Eduardo VII

05. Stefan Christoff, Wind chimes in Lisbon 07/2024

ZOOM H4n, recorded at a BBQ with some family friends

06. Anarchist Mountains - Inside the Signals

From the album Fire Waves

07. Stefan Christoff - Street sounds in Lisbon 07/2024

ZOOM H4n, recorded while walking in the city

08. Diana Duta - 25/04/2024, 16h44, bus 15

ZOOM H5 on the bus from Porto to Coimbra

09. Anarchist Mountains - Moving a Dimension

From the album Fire Waves

10. Diana Duta - 25/04/2024, 21h25, Barril de Alva

ZOOM H5 to the studio and back, Barril de Alva

11. Stefan Christoff - Chalga Remixed

From the album Inner Lands

12. Diana Duta - 25/04/2024, 13h00, Douro beach

ZOOM H5 on the rocks on Praia Cabedelo do Douro

13. Diana Duta - 25/04/2024, 15h50, taxi

Motorola Edge 30 Neo in the taxi to Campanhã Bus terminal

14. Diana Duta - River while I swim

On this edition of Art in Action for Nov. 2024 we feature a conversation with hip-hop artist and educator Lou Piensa, based in São Paulo, Brazil. Lou speaks about his work with the ground breaking ensemble Nomadic Massive and reflects on hip-hop as a tool to share experiences, struggles and culture across borders. Lou offers reflections on hip-hop culture today in Brazil and also talks about how artists are emerging from the context of pandemic lockdowns and working to reconnect away from zoom screens.

Accompanying image is a photo of artwork by Suzana Queiroga, the piece is called Santa Suzana and is acrylic on canvas, full painting is 140x120cm and it was created in 1998. The artwork is used with permission, view more of Suzana's work here:

https://www.suzanaqueiroga.net

Check-out a recent release by Lou Piensa here:

https://mentalabstrato1.bandcamp.com/album/still-in-transit-lou-piensa-mental-abstrato

Stefan produces this monthly artist interview series, Art in Action, that broadcasts monthly on Radio AlHara in regular programming on the first Friday of each month at 4:30pm in Bethlehem, Palestine and 9:30am eastern time. This series also airs on the third Friday of each month at 11am on CKUT in Montreal (ckut.ca) and on the second Thursday of each month on CJLO 1690 AM at 8am also in Montreal.

A joint mix with Mexico City based musician Emiliano Cruz for Radio AlHara in Palestine. Track listing below, artist name / track name. Photo taken in Mexico City at ObreraCentro.

01. Torso Corso, # 1

02. La Kriego, Abrir lo mirado

03. Gibrana Cervantes, V​ó​rtex Submarino

04. Rodrigo Ambriz, Las Brasas (excerpt)

05. Melodies In My Head, Life Is A Sine Wave (featuring Fira Yakawrath)

06. Cyrus Bayandor, Part 1 Monarch

07. Clayborne, [Sn2309]

08. Martín Rodríguez, Radio Vestige broadcast featuring Stefan Christoff (excerpt)

This interview details the ways that grassroots activism played a role in the successful struggle to begin implementing a national Pharmacare program in Canada. Public healthcare in Canada has been a reality for decades but one of the missing element was a public drug policy, over the course of multiple Liberal governments there have been promises to make that a reality. In the context of a Liberal NDP coalition government in 2023, due to the pressure of grassroots campaigning that Nikolas Barry-Shaw was involved in through the Council of Canadians a Pharmacare act is close to reality now. For more information visit:

https://canadians.org/pharmacare-now

The accompanying music is by Anarchist Mountains. Thanks to the Social Justice Centre for supporting my work on this weekly program.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from educator and translator Eric-John Russell who shares reflections on engaging with the work of Anselm Jappe and particularly "The Self-Devouring Society: Capitalism, Narcissism, and Self-Destruction."

Eric-John translated these texts into English and points to the ways that the critiques outlined in the book can be understood as relevant to addressing the ways that there persists a wide lack of knowledge around the fact that surviving daily life is collective in many ways.

Info on the book here:

https://www.commonnotions.org/the-self-devouring-society

The accompanying music is by Anarchist Mountains. Thanks to the Social Justice Centre for supporting my work on this weekly program. The graphic is by Josh MacPhee of Justseeds artists' cooperative and forms the cover of "The Self-Devouring Society."

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

A discussion with filmmaker and artist Riar Rizaldi who speaks about their project Tellurian Drama. This conversation revolves around the ways that recognized narratives around land and spirituality can shift depending on the domestic political agenda. This work shifts from the Dutch colonial period in Indonesia until the present and is described in this way:

"May 5th, 1923. The Dutch East Indies government celebrated the opening of a new radio station in West Java. It was called Radio Malabar. In March 2020, the local Indonesian government plans to reactivate the station as a historical site and tourist attraction. Tellurian Drama imagines what would have happened in between: the vital role of mountain in history; colonial ruins as an apparatus for geoengineering technology; and the invisible power of indigenous ancestral. Narrated based on the forgotten text written by a prominent pseudo-anthropologist Drs. Munarwan, Tellurian Drama problematizes the notion of decolonisation, geocentric technology, and historicity of communication."

For more information on Riar's work visit: https://rizaldiriar.com

The accompanying music is by Anarchist Mountains. Thanks to the Social Justice Centre for supporting my work on this weekly program.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

Listen to an interview with Sara and Rodrigo from the Landra collective speaking about their involvement in the Sismógrafo art space in Porto, Portugal. The interview is centred on a project that took place in the summer of 2024 to open up a community reading group with a list co-curated by Palestinian artist and filmmaker Jumana Manna. The reading list aimed to highlight historical critiques of imperial based practices of political, economic and cultural control over people's relationship to land, from Portugal historically going back to the Roman imperial period, to the last centuries of Portugal as a violent colonial force. Critically the reading list also looks at the centrality of the Palestinian relationship to land in the context of the struggle against Israeli settler colonialism in Palestine today.

For more information about Jumana visit: https://www.jumanamanna.com

Info on the Landra project here: http://www.landra.pt

Info on Sismógrafo here:

https://sismografo.org

This interview series hosted by Stefan Christoff airs on the first Monday of each month on Radio AlHara at 5:30pm, Palestine time, 10:30am eastern time. Also this series will start to air on a network of community radio stations. To listen in on Radio AlHara visit : radioalahra.net

Listen to an interview with cultural worker and curator José Cortés Ortega about the cultural space 316centro in the heart of Mexico City.

This interview explores the ways that the space creates an opening for experimental music and cultural in a cultural landscape that is radically different from other major cities in North America. Here we hear about the work to create Mexico oriented cultural programming that feeds the local scenes and all the complexities involved. For example the fact that the space is in the historic centre of the city which is a key area of the megacity where Indigenous migrants from around Mexico, but also the broader Central American region, arrive at and work to make a living. This space takes a radically different approach from traditional art centres that are less accessible. Also we hear about the ways that contemporary musicians in Mexico interact with people creating current takes on cultural traditions like the La danza del venado (deer dance).

For more information on 316centro visit: https://www.316centro.com

Thanks to the Social Justice Centre for supporting my work on this weekly program.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

On the October 2024 edition of Art in Action we hear from artist Robert Ostertag based in the Bay Area. In this exchange Robert speaks on a series of creative sound works addressing the intersections of contexts of political violence and efforts to create artistic space to address the profound injustices at play. The specific pieces that Robert speaks about are "Sooner or Later" about the genocidal right wing US backed death squads in in El Salvador, the piece working with the sound of a grieving mother burying her child. Robert also speaks on a piece about the 1990s wars in the Balkans, "Yugoslavia Suite" and speaks on visiting occupied Palestine and work with the Israeli anti occupation group Breaking the Silence.

Stefan produces this monthly artist interview series, Art in Action, that broadcasts monthly on Radio AlHara in regular programming on the first Friday of each month at 4:30pm in Bethlehem, Palestine and 9:30am eastern time. This series also airs on the third Friday of each month at 11am on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal (ckut.ca) and on the second Thursday of each month on CJLO 1690 AM at 8am also in Montreal.

This live broadcast on CKUT 90.3 FM broadcast today, on Sounds of Resistance was co-hosted by Samaa Elibyari, a long-time CKUT volunteer programmer and Stefan Christoff.

Stefan presented an extended segment on migrant justice organizing in Montréal. In this segment we will hear audio from an interview with Palestinian lawyer and community organizer Rabie Masri speaking about the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees in 2003.

This is archive material that Stefan has prepared within the context of the ongoing Community Radio in Action Archive Project. This segment will speak to the post 9/11 political environment in Canada that saw attacks on the rights of migrants and refugees, in this context migrant communities organized collectively for justice and against deportations, this process led to the formation and emergence of projects like Solidarity Across Borders.

In this segment we will also hear from longtime community organizer Mostafa Henaway in an interview recorded on Wednesday, Sept. 18 speaking about the ways to understand the organizing that took place in the years after 9/11 and the current #StatusForAll movement.

The live in-studio element for this program was a round table on current movements for Palestine solidarity with Samar Alkhdour, poet Ehab Lotayef and Shelley Frydman who is a member of Independent Jewish Voices.

The accompanying photo is by Allen Bleich. Thank you to Sasha Avrutsky for the technical support during the broadcast and to Jack Solar for admin support from CKUT 90.3 FM. Also thanks to Janice Kerfoot for the support of this project on the archiving side.