Open House independent Community Radios

Friday, 11 SEP 2026

At 8pm, MA[RIFA will perform a noise piece at Berlin’s Cashmere Radio.

MA[RIFA is a collaborative project by Tuce Alba and MAF, characterized by deep listening and a shared sensibility for space, material, and presence; the process—which unfolds through intuitive experience, mutual trust, and attunement—takes precedence over individual contributions. Whatever emerges in a given space belongs to no one; it exists only in the moment that they collectively hold onto or let go of.

Tuce Alba, born in Turkey in 1996, is an architect, musician, and sound artist. At the heart of her artistic practice is sound as a material for shaping temporal and spatial experiences. In her works, she explores slow changes, minimal movements, and the physicality of sonic textures. In her live performances, she generates raw, heavy noise, distortions, deep bass, and feedback. Inspired by Brutalist architecture, she treats sound as a solid form that she shatters and reshapes in real time. No melody, no gentleness—just pure energy. Each performance is thus both a spiritual and a physical encounter, meant to be felt as much as it is heard.

MAF (Mental Alchemic Formations) is the creative concept and identity of the artist, singer, composer, curator, writer, and DJ Chris McWayne. At the heart of MAF’s work is the exploration of voice and agency, often from the perspective of non-human beings as subjects and metaphors for communities that are marginalized or excluded within society. There is a particular focus on the experiences of Black people.

Saturday, 12 SEP 2026

At 6pm, Oda Starheim will present her vocal performance ›Porös‹ (Porous) on Cashmere Radio.

The performance explores singing at the limits of the voice—inside and outside bodies, inside and outside cavities. Through expanded vocal techniques and live processing, the performer explores the fragility and boundaries of her voice—a voice that never comes to rest, but instead multiplies, dissolves, mutates, becomes alienated, and distorts. The vocal texture emerges not only as a physical sensation in the throat, but as an expanded form of expression—as movement and stillness, as chaos and silence.

Participants include:

• Cashmere Radio (Berlin), Koloniestraße, 13357 Berlin-Wedding

• Refuge Worldwide

• Mutant Radio (Tbilisi, Georgien / Berlin)

• Radio Industry / Radio Woltersdorf, Schleusenstraße 34, 15569 Woltersdorf

Please register at www.berliner-hoerspielfestival.de

Radio Woltersdorf / Radio Industry will open the doors to their studios on 12 SEP from noon—8pm in cooperation with the Berlin Radio Play Festival and Berlin Art Week 2026. We’re celebrating 10 years of Radio Woltersdorf at the Schleuse and the concept of community radio. We’ll introduce visitors and interested guests to our editorial teams, projects, and studios, where exhibitions will be taking place simultaneously. The bar will serve drinks and snacks during talk sessions, the record store will be open, artists will be spinning music on the terrace, and there will be an open mic right outside the door. We invite you to our artist-run, community-based space at the lock. The event explores the unifying power of community radio and art, as well as the future of radio in the age of artificial intelligence—and we’ll ask and tell you what art has to do with radio and radio with art. The complex at the Woltersdorf Lock consists of the record store Spielerei, the Studio for Radio + Graphics, the bar (Radiobar), and Studio II, which is currently funded by the Kunstfonds Plattformen 2026 Foundation. The studios serve as the headquarters for Radio Woltersdorf (BFR) and Radio Industry, the festival for art and contemporary culture, right on the outskirts of Berlin—and the No. 87 tram stops right in front of the studio.