[ GUNST ]

shopping
radia #223 fragments of stratford shopping centre + radia #192 o.t.
[pls. scroll down for english version]

einkaufen gehen.

zunächst besuchen wir mit martin williams das stratford shopping centre in east london.
anschliessend streifen wir noch einmal mit zilé durch brüssels einkaufsstrassen.

credits und hintergrundinformationen: siehe unten

[english]

going shopping.

first we're introduced by martin williams to the stratford shopping centre in east london:

"Stratford Shopping Centre. I go there every day. It’s unmissable. Not because of the magnetic pull of Percy Ingle’s cheese and onion pasties or the many bargains to be found in the 99p Shop. And not because the place itself is distinctive or eccentric in any particularly appealing way. If anything it’s an unremarkable small shopping mall, with its chain stores and discount shops, bright lights and the sonics of a crowded swimming pool. It’s unmissable — for me and thousands of others — simply because it is the only way to get from Stratford town itself to the very busy tube and rail station there. In a feat of hubristic urban planning the shopping centre sits in the middle of a teeming ring road and is the only route from one side to the other. I’m funnelled through this dystopian high street every day, and respond with a conflicting mix of feelings about the place. So this programme is both paean and protest, a tribute with its tongue in its cheek." [M.W.]

afterwards we're joining zilé on a walk through brussels commercial area.

credits
miss.gunst would like to thank the following artists and sound collectors:
jovica for the space machine, corsica s for some beautiful radiator sounds;
martin williams from resonance fm london and zilé from radio campus, brussels, for taking us out for a shopping trip;
as well as radia.fm radio art network for being a crowd of incredibly creative partners.

pls. note: just as radia #220, radia #222 has not been ready for transmission. we're really sorry for that. and we hope to be able to broadcast both another time.