[CMA] Radio Taxi Cambridge 27th 31st May

[209radio]

PRESS RELEASE

RADIO TAXI - take your ears for a ride

Innovative Gallery Curator, International Sound Artists, Visionary 
Teachers, Community Radio Activists and a Sony Gold Award Winner have 
worked together to create a unique venture in radio art operating from 
the now famous Taxi Gallery in Cambridge.

for more info on Taxi Gallery - please visit www.taxigallery.org.uk

Over the Bank Holiday weekend 27 May - 31 May, Taxi Gallery is 
literally transforming into a short range FM radio station broadcasting 
on 87.7FM in the Cambridge City area and also internationally via 
internet radio from www.radiotaxi.org.uk (selected highlights will be 
broadcast the following weekend 3/5 June)

Highlights include:

A landmark recording of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel 
Taylor Coleridge  -  a sound portait of Coleridge Community College, 
featuring the voices of all the staff and pupils  devised by cris cheek 
(Sony Gold Award winner) and with a soundscore by cris cheek and Simon 
Keep.

Desert Island Disc style programmes entitled 'My Listening Life' 
featuring a broad range of ordinary people (with extraordinary stories 
to tell) from the local area and Taxi Gallery community.

Field Recordings from particular places all over the globe including 
Brisbane, Berlin, Jerusalem, Dehli, Mexico City, Warsaw, London ......

New sound works created especially for Radio Taxi by international 
artists including: Janek Schaefer, Simon Keep, Pamela Wells, Charlotte 
White, Caroline Bergvall, Katharine Norman, Chris Goode, Rona Lee and 
Matt Rogalsky ....

Improvised music from the vibrant Cambridge experimental music scene 
and DJ sets from Club Global, friedpudding and Cos (Robert Chapman).

Drive-In listening picnic on Sunday 29 May from 5pm in the Scout Hut 
Field next door to Taxi Gallery on Stanesfield Rd.

In studio discussion programme on the future role and potential for 
community radio.

Kirsten Lavers, owner of Taxi Gallery says "Radio Taxi promises to be a 
unique listening experience, radically different from the usual choice 
offered by larger mainstream radio stations - there will be non-chart 
music to please a range of tastes from C&W to classical, conversation, 
extraordinary and atmospheric soundscapes and many other unusual 
approaches to the idea of what radio can be and do."

Listeners in the Cambridge and Barnwell area are encouraged to visit 
the studio at 38 Stanesfield Rd, (near Abbey Swimming Pool) to take 
part live from the Taxi Cab in the broadcast - with a joke, story, 
opinion or CD music track to introduce and hear played.

Broadcast details:
Radio Taxi will be live on air and online continuously from 6pm 27 May 
- 6am 31 May and selected highlights will be re-broadcast from 6pm 3 
June to midnight 5 June.

Radio Taxi is being supported by 209radio  www.209radio.co.uk

for more info/detail on the Radio Taxi programme - please visit 
www.radiotaxi.org.uk

enquiries to: Kirsten Lavers, 01223 576017

Karl Hartland
209radio Project Director
209radio Ltd
PO BOX 316
Cambridge
CB4 2WW
01223 700760
07968 898254
www.209radio.co.uk
Community Media Association
Council Member
www.commedia.org.uk



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