Soundcamp cooperative
Soundcamp (2013–) are an arts cooperative based at Stave Hill Ecological Park in Rotherhithe and Work Shop 1 in Loughborough Junction, with members in Glasgow, Berlin, Yorkshire, Crete and The Netherlands. We are interested in diy infrastructures that can move live sounds between places and situations, and give attention to less heard human and non-human communities. Our work appears as live transmissions, workshops, sound devices and events.
Current projects include the annual Soundcamp / REVEIL event and broadcast over dawn chorus day each year; an open work shop and radio station at Work Shop 1, LJ:Works, South London; the activist radio series: Radio With Palestine, in collaboration with Radio al Hara; and a sister organisation in Catalunya with Barcelona-based artist pantea (So).
Soundcamp were part of the Creative Europe small cooperation project: Acoustic Commons (2020—22) in partnership with arts organisations in Europe and Japan. We have worked between very local and (inter)national scales with 2,000 artists, 200,000 listeners and a live audience of 35,000. We research and develop and share know-how in environmental, sound and transmission art and participatory technologies. We set up events, workshops and creative technical exchanges as part of a relational practice with ecological activist radio, supported by Creative Europe, ACE, HLF and local funders, and by our accomplices, families and friends.
For a full list of activities, please see News.
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Reveil
is a 24 +1 hour live radio programme, assembled and broadcast from a temporary station at Stave Hill Ecological Park in Rotherhithe. This is also the site of the longest running soundcamp. Real time streams are supplied by contributors around the world at daybreak. Locus Sonus Vitae at ESSAIX, Aix-Marseille is responsible for imagining, setting up and sustaining the open microphone network. The primary feed is hosted by Wave Farm in the Upper Hudson Valley, New York, and aired by our UK broadcast partners Resonance FM / Extra in London UK and a collection of FM and net radio stations.
Read an evaluative piece by Ella Finer on Reveil 2020, in the AC Library.
For a full list of projects, please see: News.
Organisation
Soundcamp CIC is an artist cooperative with directors / members:
Christine Bramwell
Mort Drew
Dawn Scarfe
Grant Smith self-noise.net
Hannah Kemp-Welch
Kirsty Collander Brown
Maria Papadomanolaki voice sound text
Max Baraitser Smith (Code)
Sam Baraitser Smith (Design)
Sasha Baraitser Smith
Our broadcast partners since we started have been:
Wave Farm WGXC in Acra, Upper Hudson Valley, NY (USA)
Resonance Radio / Extra in London (UK)
We are grateful for collaborative work with a consortium of independent and arts radio stations detailed here:
Collaborating Radios
Reveil relies on the collective work of artists, ecologists and listeners who set up and share their live audio streams. The work is a shared commitment. Thank you!
The soundcamp in London and the work in general relies on the generosity and creativity of contributors of all kinds, giving their time and their energies. Thank you all!
Special thanks to partners and accomplices:
Stave Hill Ecological Park (Rebeka Clark TCV)
artists and organisations of the Acoustic Commons network
Ky Lewis (Photography)
public works (Architects)
Radio Tsonami (Fernando Godoy)
Leah Barclay
Alice Eldridge
We are grateful for support, advice and collaboration from:
Colin Sackett - Uniformbooks
Udo Noll (radioaporee, radio.earth)
Paula Baraitser (of course)
Gordon Hempton
All for all!
Soundcamp cooperative