ŒRadio must be changed from a means of distribution to a means of communication. Radio would be the most wonderful means of communication imaginable in public life, a huge linked system -- that is to say, it would be such if it were capable not only of transmitting but of receiving, of allowing the listener not only to hear but to speak, and did not isolate him but brought him into contact. Unrealizable in this social system, realizable in another, these proposals, which are, after all, only the natural consequences of technical development, help towards the propagation and shaping of the other system.‚ (Bertolt Brecht: Theory of Radio (1932), Gesammelte Werke, Band VIII, pp. 129 seq., 134.)

Brecht, who had a vision of the interconnectedness of art and social systems, saw Radio as the technological means to actualize his vision. We are attempting to use radio technology to bring artists into contact with each other, and with all manner of social networks. This attempt is facilitated by a relay between conventional FM transmission sites and internet audio streams. Using this combination of conventional and new media, we are opening the channels of media communication so that anyone and everyone may be part of a (worldwide) conversation. What we do on a small scale creates a working model -- it may, in turn, become part of a much greater system, composed of small-scale elements -- which neither excludes nor colonizes. In this way, we hope that our version of Radio works toward the shaping and realization of a more sustainable and inclusive social system, a system which also thrives in and through art.

Please see free103point9.org for further information about radio labs and workshops.