Berlin's art-radio lab: field recordings to radio plays.
Cashmere spent its first six years in a Lichtenberg shopfront before moving to the studio it keeps in Wedding, a room the public can walk into as well as a stream. It is not-for-profit, and its stated project is to treat radio as a material with give in it — honouring what the medium does well while pulling at its edges, so regular weekly shows share the schedule with day-long generative performances and installations. Berlin has handed it a Tag der Clubkultur award twice and an Art Week project-space prize.
Hosts hold their own hours and the grid goes wherever they go: Duty Free on Jamaican roots and bass, Calgili Kahvehane on Ottoman café music, Ecco Chamber on vaporwave, Zola Gorgon on minimal synth and post-punk, The Poetry Hotline on spoken word, with ambient and experimental shows filling most of the rest. On Fridays and Saturdays it goes out on Berlin DAB+ too, shared with five other independents.
Radio as sculpture, goat included.
