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from and with Coco Wiss

Karaoke translates from Japanese as an empty orchestra. I take karaoke as a space for researching the possibilities and impossibilities of being together, of creating an orchestra together. This sound piece reflects on voice, sound, body, movement, performance, which allows an investigation of the connection between the individual and the collective.

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elle dit - Statistically women* are still underrepresented in most forms of media. In this instance we take raising your voice literally and produce a one hour show featuring women*'s voices. elle dit invites all women* in Berlin to make contributions - participating in a live show, contributing music, sound pieces, stories, interviews, readings, or any other kind of audio contribution. Although we focus on creative and cultural work and women* in the arts, contributions from all fields are welcome. Beginning in English and German, the show also aims to include contributions in other languages. elle dit is an inclusive platform which takes an intersectional and feminist approach to making radio and aims to include all women* (female identifying, trans, queer,…). Anyone interested can contact Colaboradio with the subject: elle dit.

On the fourth Tuesday of the month elle dit hosts Berliner Runde - an hour exploring what's going on in Berlin with music, interviews, news and more!

elle dit has been created by Rosanna Lovell and is co-hosted with florence freitag. You can find the archive of each their shows on mixcloud.