Usmaradio – CRIR it is a place of work and research to develop innovative pedagogies and radio research. With this Centre, the University of the Republic of San Marino places itself at the forefront of international radio practice and its pedagogies based on a profound relationship between theory and practice.
Macro work areas:
• CRIR Interdepartmental Research Center for Radiophony (research)
• Usmaradio (production)
• School of Radio / The School of Radio (teaching)
Radio cultures moving between:
- media studies (the study as a laboratory)
- cultural techniques (the radio as a laboratory)
- musicology (the radio composition)
- electroacoustic composition (dial the radio, tune the composition)
Theory and practice: sound art, podcasting, radio art, transmission arts, soundscape, transmission technologies, radio as a place of performance, voice and vocality, live radio, relationship between image and sound, media design, electronic music studies at radio stations, contemporary art , radio journalism, community radio.
Researchers, students and teachers work together to experiment and create a meeting place for people of all disciplines in which art, science and nature intertwine in daily practice. This together with artists / s, scientists / s, activists / s, researchers / bulls and scholars / s of each discipline with a particular attention to gender identity and minorities.
Usmaradio – CRIR works on the invention of possible professions around the radio universe. Radiophony as a fluid meeting place of disciplines, languages and techniques to confront the mediascape of the present where it is essential to create communities and places of relationship (physical and immaterial, analogical and digital) around common doing.
In a historical moment in which radio is increasingly moving towards digital, frequencies that can be used for non-commercial and educational purposes are being freed up, one of the aims of the CRIR is the possibility of accessing an FM frequency (and perhaps flanking it with an AM one) to be able to transmit and do research in the ether.
FM for culture and community.
Usmaradio supports and integrates Creative Commons licenses and the open source philosophy.