Darkish Matter Radio Studio Jeetze (DMRS Jeetze)
is a temporary radio studio in a small village in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, which is impacted on one side by infrastructure deficiencies, on the other by massive investments in renewable energy systems and high-tech agriculture.
knowbotiq has set up a translocal radio station, where on- or off-site produced audio programs interfere with the, the subcutaneous infrasound of the ubiquitous wind turbines, the cawing calls of a pair of barn owls on their nightly hunt, leaving their bloody droppings all over the garden, and the vibrations of incredible masses of so-called weeds caused by over-fertilized soils.
The windows of the studio are wide open to the garden and the surrounding, the walls of the radio are covered with ornaments of dried organic plants . These organic “panels” function not as Sound Absorbers, but as Sound Resorbers. They consist of weeds, medicinal and kitchen herbs and the affects of guest listeners.
Transmission schedule of DRMS Jeetze
November/December: Radio Kal / District Berlin Knotweed Frequentes
January: Wale-Radio (Pico) (animistic encounters)
February: Swiss Psychotropic Gold (Zurich)
March: SF Altmark (the peripheral as an ornamental line)
April: Mercurybodies (Quibdo) (translocal materialities / remote sensations)
Dark Resonances: absorbed, diffused, fortified
About Psycho-Active Acoustics (Resorption)
Radio Kal RJ Promona Sengupta and dark ecology specialist Yvonne Wilhelm of knowbotiq offer practical tips and tricks learned from the ghostcolonial lands of Jeetze to callers and listeners who are struggling with ghosts haunting their own gardens and plants. Through two radio episodes that are aired according to the lunar almanac of dark goddess Kali, they gather together important information about post-industrial farming, plant migration and seed sovereignty in the wake of coloniality, the relationship of the supernatural with plants, food practices of the Bengal Famine and the otherworldly claims of psychoactive wild weeds.
District Spaces
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30 November, 14:17 h CET (moon rise in Jeetze) online at radio kal
sound into the tension as long as your breath can hold it
A Frei with Sakina Aliakbar, Suza Husse, Veenadara Lakshika Jayakody, Hema Shironi Joseph, Sophia-Layla Afsar, Alishba Memon, Ayesha Tariq, Basil Andrews, Betül Merve Tekoglu, Rheremita Cera, Sumugan Sivanesan, Seba Ali and Special Guest Izidora L LETHE
«(…) If it is a past thought for example reverse it so that you now see it as in front of you. If it is a future memory reverse it so that you now see it as behind you. Now, take one of the future thoughts you have reversed and build up a memory out of it. (…)» Black Quantum Futurism, Time Travel Experiment Number 2.
Connecting participants in and beyond Karachi, Colombo and Berlin, A Frei’s Relational Listening Composing Workshop was an experiment with relationality beyond linear notions of time, attunement toward difference and simultaneity of place and shared sonic fields.
1 – 10 December, dates and moon times to be announced online at radio kal
Transmissions from the Houses of Kal Colombo, Karachi and Berlin
with Arshia Fatima Haq of Discostan & Raed Yassin, Ayesha Chaudhry and guests, Fatima Asghar, Nuray Demir & Venuri Perera, Sehan Khanna with Surkh Hina & Arham Bhaiji, SpaceShip Beben, and House of Kal Colombo residents.
4 December, New Moon Local time Jeetze online at radio kal
Aural Sex: The Hour of Kali
Live radio show with Promona Sengupta
RJs Captain Pro and Nav Chief Hydra hole themselves up in the DMRS Jeetze transmission station on the dark night of the New Moon in Sagittarius, exactly one month after the New Moon of Kali, the goddess of Death. Marking the end of the cycle of the dark goddess in this earthly realm, this transmission takes a deep dive into the realm of ghosts and horror radio programming.
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