Radia #1053 - Floating Field Research by Gabi Schaffner - 2 October 2025
Resonance Extra
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Description
Members of **http://radia.fm**, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.
*Floating Field Research*, in two pieces by Gabi Schaffner.
The first piece is *Kukka Shop Overdrive* (2021). The location: A small kiosk selling flowers and eggs, next to a heavily trafficked road on the island of Lajasalo in Helsinki. The shop has been in the neighborhood for the last 20 years I was told, but egg sales occur only on Wednesdays. They are sold in trays by 40 pieces only.
The weather was gritty, slush and gravel spurted from the cars in the road and form the overall backdrop of the ‘kukka’ shop conversations. The recordings: All recordings originate either from the site of the ‘kukka’ shop at Lajasalo and another flower shop in Mäntta – and finally a private greenhouse in Taiwan. Additional sounds derive from the frying of several eggs and a visit to a chicken shack in Ruovesi to collect more eggs.
