RADIOART is a digital stage for Swedish and international radio drama, sound theater and Sound art. It provides a platform for newly written and composed works as well as interpretations of classic drama, creates a forum for voices of poetry and politics and allows for genuine experimentation in the world of sound.
Portrait of a buildning
an imaginary soundwalk by Ricardo Atienza Badel
Colori che fan suonare lo spazio, come i suoni leggono, scoprono lo spazio
Colours that make space sound, as sounds read, discover space
(from Luigi Nono´s design document to Prometeo)
Portrait of a building is a work combining soundscapes, room acoustics, electroacoustic composition, and sound art; an imaginary soundwalk through Tyska kyrkan (the German church), in the Old Town in Stockholm. The composition opens up a kaleidoscopic soundscape, born out of years of repeated visits, site-specific listening, recordings, acoustic measurements, and sonic experiments.
What else is happening in 2026?
Radioart Festival 2026 In collaboration with Hägerstensåsen Community Center, Radioart is planning to host a festival on October 3 featuring world premieres, live music, guest presenters, and collective listening sessions of works from the repertoire.
The Blue Bull World premiere of Birgitta Lillpers’ drama The Blue Bull, with newly composed music by Ivo Nilsson and Niklas Billström, costume and set design by Filippa Hanzon, directed by Johan Petri.
Actors: Gunilla Röör, Malou Zilliacus
Musicians: Eva Lindal, Jonny Axelsson, Malin Klingborg, Sören Hermansson.
Premiere in October 2026.
The Radioart Repertoire
Photograph of opera soprano Nellie Melba making a broadcast over the Marconi Chelmsford Works radio station in England on 15 June 1920.
RADIOARTis a digital stage for Swedish and international radio drama, sound theater and audio art. It provides a platform for newly written and composed works as well as interpretations of classic drama, creates a forum for voices of poetry and politics and allows for genuine experimentation in the world of sound.
RADIOART is run by a group of artists with diverse professional experience in theater, music, art and literature. Some of us work with large established theatres, others with independent groups, in music and art, both in Sweden and internationally. The reason why we are involved in this project is that radio is still a completely open, democratic, free, dynamic, intense and endlessly experimental means of expression. Its effects are direct, and it emerges out of the very lack of the physical. Without images, actors’ movements, space and colour, it is the listener's own body that comes into focus – this is where it takes form!
Radioart is supported by Swedish Arts Council, Stockholm Cultural Department, Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation, Längmanska Culture Fund – but we also need your support …
When you listen donate through Swish 50 Skr to 123 289 3691
All support, whatever size, makes a differnce for RADIOART and for our listeners
RADIOART
Niklas Billström
Elisabeth Bredberg William Easton
Magnus Florin
Rui Johnson
Helena Persson
Johan Petri
Tora von Platen
Susanne Skog
Milton Jordansson Pinto
