From 12th to 14th December guests such as Mercier (RTS) and Borgnino (Rai): registrations are open for the planned workshops
Journalist Maurine Mercier, Ukraine correspondent for Swiss public broadcaster Radio Television Suisse (RTS), will be among the guests at the second edition of the Tactus Radio Festival, scheduled for Friday, December 12th to Sunday, December 14th. The festival will feature insights, workshops, and performances held in the Ancient Monastery of Santa Chiara, the main seat of the University of the Republic of San Marino, in the historic center of San Marino.
The reporter, who has received awards such as the Bayeux Calvados Prize for war correspondents, will be joining from Lviv to talk about her experience and answer questions from the public attending the event, hosted by Usmaradio, the San Marino University broadcaster, which is being organized with its Radio Research Center.
The other proposed insights, collected under the title “War Radio, Peace Radio,” will be curated by figures such as Andrea Borgnino, head of content for RaiPlaySound and voice of Radio3, Nathalie Singer, curator and professor of Experimental Radio at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Roberto Paci Dalò, director of Usmaradio, and Elisabeth Zimmermann, producer for the culture channel of the Austrian National Radio (ORF) since 1998.
There will also be space, at 19:30 pm on Saturday, December 13th, for two live performances: on the stage of the Aula Magna, the experimental duo L'Impero della Luce and Andreij Rublev, a musician and composer focused in particular on electroacoustics and improvisational techniques.
As part of the festival, four free workshops open to the public will be offered over the three days of the event. These will be curated by Singer, Zimmermann, and Borgnino. Aimed at all interested parties, from students to professionals, including enthusiasts and the curious, they will allow participants to experiment with radio-making practices, build transmission devices, and participate in collective sound design.
“Thanks to this initiative, Titano has established itself as a space for reflection and practice on contemporary radio, podcasting, and the forms of audio communication that today participate in processes of conflict, resistance, and peacebuilding,” explains Paci Dalò.
During the event, a new system will be inaugurated that will permanently include Usmaradio and the Radio Research Center in an international shortwave network called KiwiSDR. Available online, it allows anyone to connect and listen to broadcasts from hundreds of antennas around the globe, included on a map that will also have its own recognizable space for San Marino.
Registration for the workshops is free: you can apply by sending a short motivational letter to tactus@usmaradio.org.