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. 1987 Relay Disco (Mini FM)
Ohne Helm bleibt Radio Intimität im kollektiven Bereich
Mitsu The Beats | Boiler Room, Tokyo

„Hi, this is Tetsuo Kogawa from Tokyo. An audition of Micro FM free radio station, eventually called Mini FM.

Mini FM has only one kilometer abilities of service area. Otherwise it is impossible to operate a free service radio station here. The control of government and big company is so strong that no license is issued to community.

I am now involved in Radio Homerun in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, which has been established in 1993 and I have my own program, monthly send. Although the service are is very small, people with big names like Félix Guattari and Ivan Illich have been on air in my program. mehr Radio Homerun: Radio Homerun consists of various types of programs, most of them stress, talks and discussions on arts, politics and informal topics. So the station has been a kind of 'talk in space' and many young people are always here. Generally speaking: Mini FM is free space too.

Shimokitazawa, March 1985: Itaru Kato and the member made a 8mm cinema of how the station was like.

In terms of financing: 30 people maintain lenting a small apartment, full of a station. The expense of equipment and necessary goods are on each members of programs. Since disturb's are is small, we don't mind of copyright or migrated tapes and records. However, our original music has important LOL in our programs. Now you can listen to our programs.

Tetsuo Kogawa at Shimokitazawa train station: This file is documentation of Radio Home Runs microtv experiment in 1987.

„Micro TV project in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo (1987): People of Radio Home Run tried to watch the program that was "broadcast" at the square of the Shimokitazawa train station. Although the "broadcasting" was not so successful (too many snowy images and noises), the square became a temporarily convivial space by the "belief" that "we were broadcast." It showed how mysterious the wireless imagination is."

Taken from: http://anarchy.translocal.jp/microtv/

"Television is considered as a device of delivering images and sounds. In this respect, it has reached to a "perfection". Media art using television would rely on such a "perfect" technology and would be satisfied with merely providing the "contents" to such a delivering device. However, art cannot remain the modernist "division of labor" of technology and the contents. As long as art as techne shares the origin with technology, art must intervene in the technology itself. The artist must start with the process of making television system by him/herself. There would be various levels and steps of this process. You can buy a ready-made set of television transmission and receiving. But the first step of artistic intervention in the television technology would be to build a simple transmitter by yourself.

TVK dealt the "Mini FM boom" | Imagine how popular the Mini FM was.

In the mid-1980s, I was involved in "micro television" that was a television counterpart of "Mini FM" radio. The easiest way was to use a RF module that was installed in every VCR and TV game machine at the time.

We used to have a slogan that every VCR could become a micro TV station. It was theoretically possible but in practice there were problems. Using a "antenna booster" or a hand-made booster circuit, the very week output signals (images and sound) of a RF module was led to an proper antenna. But there was a significant loss in the cable connection between the VCR and the booster.

So, I took out the module from the VCR and soldered it to the booster circuit. Meantime, I obtained RF module units both for VHF and UHF in Akihabara (radio market in Tokyo). Using an unit for UHF, I built UHF TV transmitters. Since there were many choices in frequencies of UHF, the micro UHF stations worked well."

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