radio LOOS

by Leonie Roessler

Radio LOOS is the radio branch of Studio LOOS. It will be a regular feature presenting music and sound art that is either produced at Studio LOOS, or coming out of its (inter)national network. The focus is on art radio, community, and connecting communities. Radio LOOS will be there for our community members who have returned to their home countries or moved on to other cities, as well as our friends and colleagues from places near and far who are unable to be here with us in person. And, as always in the mysterious world of radio broadcasts, it will be there for you strangers out there, unexpected listeners around the globe, aficionados of the experimental world we live in, and total newbies who are curious to hear something fresh and new away from the mainstream.

12. Radio Concrete/Radio LOOS - A Mad(wo)man's Tale

A Mad Woman's Tale explores the surreal and often chaotic nature of daily life. Drawing on a range of everyday sounds, including a washing machine, a crocheting instructional audio, and live radio sampling, the work invites the audience to immerse themselves in a world of familiar noises, creating their own interpretation of the piece.

A Studio LOOS/Radio Concrete Production, created by Hagai Izenberg and Leonie Roessler during a seven-hour blitz session in December.

11. special - Light Cloud and a Moderate Disease (22.12.01)

A meditation on memory and clarity – attachments to objects, people and places, losing and finding things, letting go of things, the blurring of edges and the obfuscation of meaning.
Produced during a micro-residency at Studio LOOS, Den Haag in September 2022.
A studio LOOS production by Leonie Roessler & Mark Vernon.

10. special - on creativity in the postpartum period (22.10.20)

Radio LOOS Special II, on Creativity during the postpartum period, is a follow-up to the pervious episode which explores the creative process artists experience while being pregnant. How do women navigate their lives as artists after giving birth? Can the demands of motherhood be met while an artstic practice is maintained? Words, thoughts, and impressions from Asami Kiuchi, Darina Zurková, Dewi de Vree, Kate Donovan, Maia Koenig, Rosanna Lovell, and Tatiana Kolganova, to an all-too familiar soundscape that all parents will recognize at once…

Curated and produced by Leonie Roessler for Studio LOOS, with funding from the Gemeente Den Haag.

9. special - on creativity during pregnancy (2022.06.13)

Traditionally it has been challenging for women to secure a career in the arts and to pursue art as a profession rather than simply as a hobby. When women emancipated themselves and contraception became widely available they could pursue artistic careers, but often had to, or felt like they had to choose between their work and becoming mothers.

This is only changing slowly and balancing work and motherhood remains a challenge. However, many women also feel a new surge of creativity during pregnancy and when entering motherhood, and there is scientific evidence that suggests that the physical changes brought on by motherhood promote a new sort of creativity.

This episode of Radio LOOS is an informal exploration of this topic, with contributions from Tatiana Kolganova, Asami Kiuchi Oishi, and Maya Felixbrodt.

8. on art, disability, barriers, and chances 2 (2021.12.07)

This is the second edition of our series on Art, Disability, Barriers, and Chances. This time including discussions on barriers in education, neurodiversity in the dance studio, standardized work environments that leave out people who don't fit the bell curve, and last but certainly not least the extermination of disabled people during (and before) the holocaust. Featured works and interviews by Amble Skuse, Ben Lunn, Kris Halpin, Laura Cantliff, Nabil Shaban, Toria Banks, Sonia Allori.

Produced and Curated by Leonie Roessler

7. on art, disability, barriers, and chances (2021.10.26)

The first of three Radio LOOS productions featuring interviews with, and works by the following disabled artists, musicians, actors, writers, composers and dancers:
Amble Skuse, Ben Lunn, Kris Halpin, Laura Cantliff, Nabil Shaban, Toria Banks, Sonia Allori.

6. political art radio: the light & shadow of control - a collage of the police state (2021.07.21)

Radio LOOS features Jeremy Young.

Radio LOOS presents two works of Jeremy Young - The Light and Shadow of Control and Elegy in C Minor for the Victims of Police Brutality. Meira Asher, Em Schwarzwald, and Leonie Roessler engage in conversation with the artist.

5. three works on the colonisation of palestine (2021.06.11)

Radio LOOS presents sound/noise artist Meira Asher's work on Palestine. The following pieces are part of the program:

Still Sleeping
North Jordan Valley
Tansik

In dialogue with Meira are Jeremy Young and host Leonie Roessler.

4. radiophrenia - the light at the end of the dial

Radio LOOS was aired on Radiophrenia on November 9th.
Featuring Words and Works by Barbara Ellison, Francisco Lopez, and BMB con (Justin Bennett and Roelf Toxopeus).

Radiophrenia is a temporary art radio station – a two-week exploration into current trends in sound and transmission arts. Broadcast live from Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, the station aims to promote radio as an art form, encouraging challenging and radical new approaches to the medium.