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Radioatelier: Czech radio space for acoustic art 2003–2022

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2024

Michal Rataj
Michal Rataj*
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Department of Composition, Faculty of Music and Dance, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague
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Email: michal.rataj@hamu.cz
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Abstract

In 2003, a new radio programme called Radioatelier was launched as part of the Czech Radio 3 – Vltava broadcast, the national public service art channel. It was aimed at presenting experimental radio forms, something completely unprecedented at that time. With 213 new commissions by December 2022, the programme entered its third decade of existence, having won a number of major radio art awards, while facing threats of impending programme cancellation in 2023. The present article is quite personal, offering generational insights of the producer, who was privileged enough to set goals and scope of the programme in its initial stages and who went on to co-exist with it for the following two decades. It also presents the complete list of sound compositions commissioned by Radioatelier between 2003 and 2022.

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