CONTINUUM was a one-hour collaborative radio performance conceived by Roberto Paci Dalò for the TACTUS Radio Festival and broadcast on 2 December 2023 from Usmaradio together with a network of radio stations. Eighteen performers played together, some on site in the Republic of San Marino and others remotely from Santa Cruz, Vienna and Weimar, most of them without having met or spoken before.
The performance was a radical improvisation without conduction or prior rules, held together only by the attention of each performer to the others. It continued the practice of telematic radio performance that developed in the early 1990s around ORF Kunstradio, Ars Electronica and L’Arte dell’Ascolto, bringing independent stations and public broadcasters together again.
At the same festival I gave the talk Mobile devices and live radio improvisations.
Credits:
Idea: Roberto Paci Dalò. Station manager and general coordination: Alessandro Renzi. Mixing board: Lorenzo Ricci. Post-production and mastering: Alessandro Renzi.
From San Marino: Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, L’Impero della Luce, NicoNote, Roberto Paci Dalò, Tobia Bandini, Vittoria Assembri. From Santa Cruz: Anna Friz. From Vienna: alien productions (Andrea Sodomka and Norbert Math). From Weimar, Bauhaus Radio Ensemble: Tilman Böhnke, Fritzi Buhtz, Adrian Ciesielski, Lefteris Krysalis, Finn Röhmer-Litzmann, João Afonso Soares Leiria Parreira Ticão, Amir Shokati, Karlotta Sperling.
Broadcast live on Usmaradio, San Marino RTV, bauhaus.fm, Wave Farm, ARTxFM / WXOX 97.1 FM, Beware The Radio, Radio Tsonami, diffusion FM, Radio Bloc ORAL, Fango Radio, Radio Raheem and NEU Radio; later aired as Radia Show 977.
