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Baracca do Sound System

Application summary

‘Baracca do Sound System’ is a public radio shack: a portable recording studio and a bicycle-mounted public radio intervention. The project will research and publishing on local—often migrant—rhythm cultures. Over a series of workshops, Baracca do Sound System will produce music to be made available for voicing, ‘versioning’ and remixing. It will engage with local rappers, singers, poets, (oral) historians, citizen journalists, community spokespersons, DJs and musicians to produce freestyle live radio, experimental audio essays, interviews and site-specific commentary. The Baracca will culminate as a series of live public radio interventions. Podcasts and audio bundles will be made available online. Baraccas are informal shack bars that can be found on the beaches of Rio. Often fitted out with powerful sound systems to attract patrons, they effectively broadcast suppressed histories documented as popular music. Baracca do Sound System emphasises the capacity of radio to produce (counter) publics and music as a record of social struggles and histories.

fugitive radio (formerly ‘Baracca do Sound System’) responds to the uptake of radio in contemporary art by pursuing live and collectively-realised modes of ‘performance-radio’, often using free and open-source tools. So far these include: a radiophonic picnic, audio fanzines, a radiophonic voicing ritual, Hum Klub, karaoke therapy and an online club. fugitive radio also produces a monthly podcast ‘fugitive frequency’ concerned with migrant, queer and anticolonial issues and music.

fugitive radio was initiated in 2020 in collaboration with long-standing (more than) media arts association Pixelache Helsinki and in consultation with {openradio}, an independent platform for open and experimental radio. The first phase of the project culminated as a series of live performance-radio broadcasts at Pixelache Helsinki Festival #BURN____2021, 6–13 June, Oodi Central Library. The project is ongoing and evolving in 2022 over a series residencies, workshops, exhibitions, events including: Helsinki International Artists Programme (HIAP), documenta fifteen, Dinacon 3 (Digital Naturalism Conference) Sri Lanka and a series of self-organised residencies in Brazil.
https://fugitive-radio.net/

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