is a sound art project that incubates the Belgrade district of Savamala with sounds from Savamala: The GingerEnsemble – in cooperation with Miroslav Savić and guests – embarks on a kind of journey of discovery “with pricked ears”. The Savamala district will be subjected to a forensic sound-tracing. Specific sounds will be collected, transformed, released again in Savamala in several interlocking composition processes in the incubator created on site – a media lab set up for a limited period of time – to form a simultaneously proliferating sound event lasting several months.

The radio format lends itself to the sound art project SLUŠAJ SAVAMALA!
With participants of the workshop “Radimo Radio” (We make radio), the art radio “Radio Savamala” is founded, in which transmitters and antennas are built, receivers are soldered with hot fingers and a lot is learned about recording/editing and content/editorial work. Thanks to special permission from the state agency for frequency allocation RRA, the neighbourhood will be completely covered. “Radio Savamala” will be established in the course of the project by means of public interventions, such as “public listenings”. This will not be a conventional format radio or a continuous broadcasting time, but the station will broadcast in an actionistic, stage-like manner with pre-announced events.

“Radio Savamala” is operated both on an analogue basis and as an internet radio station. The editorial and technical responsibility lies with the GingerEnsemble (CH), which works together with regional artists. The main editor and mascot will be “Mačka Savamala” – a harbour cat equipped with a microphone transmitter.

More information: www.savamala.rs

Videos: Nebojsa Vasic © Goethe-Institut
Photos: Nebojsa Vasic © Goethe-Institut & GingerEnsemble & Martin Bezzola
“Slušaj Savamala” is part of URBAN INCUBATOR: BELGRADE – a project of the Goethe-Institutand is supported by the Swiss Embassy in Serbia.