Radio Fantôme

Radio Fantôme was conceived and programmed by Nick Aikens & Els Silvrants Barclay for The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet. It airs live and pre-recorded broadcasts from its studio in Fobrux, The Corner, Buda BXL and around Buda.

Radio Fantôme presenters are Nick Aikens, Kübra Avci, Lionel Galand, Els Silvrants-Barclay and Annelore Van Gool. Its contributors are Buda+ & guests, Carola Caggiano, Het Be(h)lang van Buda, Compagnie Radix and youth from Haren & Vilvoorde, Flavio Gillié, Ludo Jappers, Bruno Forment, Kitchen Broadcast, radio students RITCS, Radio Haren.

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Nick Aikens is a curator, researcher, writer, editor and lecturer whose work focuses on the interdisciplinary and political dimensions of contemporary art.

Kübra Avci is a spoken word artist and cultural worker living in Haren.

Het Be(h)lang van Buda is the heritage programme of Border Buda.

Buda+ is a platform that brings together various experts and policymakers working on the future of Buda, across different domains and governments.

Carola Caggiano is a Spanish-Argentine musician inspired by her half-knowledge of the cosmos, physics and science fiction, but above all by her fantasies about them.

Compagnie Radix (Delphine Dutoit & José De Jong with Alejandro Rivas Cottle & Ermias Kifleyesus) makes playful, interactive, theatrical creations that dialogue with today’s urban reality, with and for young audiences. They organised sound workshops with youngsters of Buitengewoon Secundair Onderwijs de VeSt in Vilvoorde and G.C. De Linde in Haren on their dreams and aspirations for a place like Buda.

Lionel Galand is a social mediator organising participatory art workshops, often with audio. He is co-founder of Radio Marie-Christine, a participatory neighbourhood radio station in Laken.

Flavien Gillié explores the connections between places, voices, and memory through field recordings, reworked into soundscapes presented as concerts or installations.

Ludo Jappers is a local historian from Machelen who has written several articles and books about the history of Buda and its surroundings.

Bruno Forment is the lead researcher of the ‘Resounding Libraries’ research group at the Orpheus Institute, with a particular interest in opera, scenography, early and electronic music.

Kitchen Broadcast is an ongoing online conversation, listening to different voices, rhythms and sounds that reflect present situations in Brussels. This is part of the research project re:Sol, Redistributing Solidarities by Joachim Ben Yakoub and Reem Shilleh.

RITCS (The Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound) is a Brussels-based School of Arts for audiovisual arts, drama, technical theatre, media, and events. The third-year RITCS radio students, guided by Jeroen Vandesande and Luc Haekens, did a 7-week atelier on Buda.

Radio Haren is a radio project in the prison of Haren, facilitated by RITCS (Hadewijch Vanhaverbeke) and De Rode Antraciet.

Els Silvrants-Barclay is a curator, researcher and educator and focuses on what art can be and do outside of its own institutions, when brought in relation to cities, landscapes, spaces, and their politics.

Annelore van Gool studied history and now radio at RITCS. She also works as an audiomaker for the writers collective Fixdit and the literary magazine De Gids.

Radio Fantôme

• Fobrux Radio Studio and live on Radio Fantôme

Listen to Radio Fantôme, Buda’s new local radio, for a non-stop broadcast of stories, soundscapes, documentaries, interviews, sets and songs on Buda and its ghosts.

The full live radio programme can be found here.