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Pirate Radio

written by Momo on 2025-02-05

Wow, that was not on my list for 2025. Okay, there is an art installation currently touring in England, Jimmy Cauty's ESTATE (https://l-13.org/projects/jimmy-cauty/estate/). It is descibed as an dystopian model village experience, featuring four concrete tower blocks at 1:24 scale in a big shipping container. You can walk through the shipping container and look through the windows into the flats of the tower blocks. One of them, called Iceni Heights (http://iceniheights.org) holds a pirate radio station and on the internet this is represented by an RasPi2 with an icecast server, streaming random music from the sd card 24/7. Musicians donated songs and mixes to be played there and well, I've been offered by LD50 (check out her stuff at https://303.co.uk/) and of course, I had to chip in, too! This is so cool. So, if you listen to the stream on the tower blocks website (or here http://iceni.303.co.uk:9000/stream) you might listen to the liveset I recorded 2024 at Rock Harz Open Air.