Ääniaalto has curated a selection of work to broadcast on Pixelache Festival Radio.

An audio introduction to Coven Intelligence Program's installation at Pixelache, visual and interactive materials that speak to the entangled STAKES of climate change, racial, heteropatriarchal capitalism, and conceptions of intelligence.

Silvia Hosseini is a writer, critic and teacher based in Tampere. As an ”essayist in residence” she’ll be discussing works, topics and themes of the festival on Radio Helsinki together with Laura Gustafsson. A new conversation will be broadcast every day during the festival.

Fugitive Radio Event live at Oodi Helsinki - join us for ‘Poethical De-Scriptings‘ — introducing listeners to audio descriptions & accessibility.

reverse, return, regenerate is a collection of selected audio works for Pixelache Festival 2021, curated by festival co-director Laura Gustafsson. With audio works by: Anne Yoncha, Clio Flego with Oliver Keller and David Benqué, Fahmi Mursyid, Amelia Marzec

You can’t see them, but the skies above New York City hold a tangle of transgressive, culture-bearing radio signals. Pulsing imperceptibly from antennas connected to clandestine rooftop transmitters, they seep through the cracks of a radio dial crammed nearly wall-to-wall with corporate controlled stations. The sounds of Soca, Reggae and Caribbean Gospel music pour out of simple FM radios in homes and community hangouts throughout tight-knit, sometimes struggling West Indian and Latinx immigrant enclaves.

With names like Boom, Local Vybz, Wild FM, Irie Storm and Independans these pirate stations commandeer the airwaves lacking government licenses, using cheap and highly mobile transmitters to break the barriers of bureaucracy, high costs and politics which keep them off the legal dial.

Stations risk fines, confiscation of equipment and even arrest to keep their signals flowing. Their programs bring music and news from home along with practical guidance and spiritual comfort for surviving in a new land. Pirate radio acts as a conduit, bringing the sounds of the ancestral home to a new home, transforming time, space and culture

Silvia Hosseini is a writer, critic and teacher based in Tampere. As an ”essayist in residence” she’ll be discussing works, topics and themes of the festival on Radio Helsinki together with Laura Gustafsson. A new conversation will be broadcast every day during the festival.

Benoit Boris spent June 2020 in Val di Fiemme in the Dolomites with Francesca Bolognesi, the co-author of this documentary creation. They followed the men of the region who were choosing the fir trees that would best suit for violins.

Live festival coverage from Pixelache Festival, Helsinki

Fugitive Radio Event live at Oodi Helsinki - join us for improvised radio exploration of the area around Oodi Libray. fugitive radio is planning a series of live and collectively produced outside broadcasts for Pixelache #Burn. We will meet outside Oodi Central Library from 14.00 everyday of the festival. If you’re curious to make live …

In this session we discuss some of the issues young people in Pakistan and across the world are facing in their creative pursuits. We talk about the power of art and the important role it can have in its ability to aid young people in their search for meaning.