Radio WORM

WELCOME TO WORM… In case you did not know, we are WORM, an independent and forward-thinking arts venue that has a unique and contrary presence in Rotterdam. We house music, film, club, art, talk, community and performance programs. Approximately 500 activities every year. And with 140+ active radio makers and many small-scale community projects continually working in the building, it is almost impossible to fully encompass what WORM is. The unique composition of our organisation hosts @radio.worm @soundstudio.worm @wunderbar.rotterdam with @dailyfresh_rotterdam and @filmwerkplaats See it for yourself, at WORM. WORM Rotterdam worm.org

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗡𝘆𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗡𝘆𝗲𝗴𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲-𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆
 𝗜𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗶 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗝 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗸𝗶 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗯 𝗥𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿, 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗳𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘁𝗮
 This Friday we will be speaking with a cult star. No, not Franky Sticks, Gyatso or Jeff Solo: but DJ Diaki Official from Mali. Nyege Nyege is bringing one of the heaviest line-ups to Rotterdam at WORM, which should be your go-to place if we want to live up to our title as the raw metropolis on the Maas. 

Nyege Nyege is one of the most exciting things to happen in music in recent years: the kind of movement that literally shakes the ground beneath your feet. Thanks to Fred, this beautifully balanced line-up of local talent and heroes of the African continent are finally coming together here, after jumping through endless visa procedures and bureaucratic loopholes just to make it to Rotterdam.
 We’ve had a soft spot for DJ Diaki for a while now. After he previously hosted Rwina at MONO and appeared during New Radicalisms two years ago, we’re excited to welcome him back for a stop at the moezeumcafé. This time not primarily for his wild musical skills, but to talk about another equally impressive project: building his own radio station in Mali. 
 Diaki will guide us through the socio-cultural and political context of Mali, the importance of an independent radio station, and the opportunities and challenges involved in creating one. Joined by longtime friend Cheb Runner as translator, and moderated by the wonderful Epifania. Before and after the talk, local talents Gqommando and Raven will set the mood with some seriously good sounds ahead of this beautiful line-up.
 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 𝟮𝟬:𝟬𝟬 – 𝟮𝟬:𝟯𝟬 — 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸-𝗶𝗻 / 𝗚𝗾𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼 (𝗗𝗝)
𝟮𝟬:𝟯𝟬 – 𝟮𝟭:𝟯𝟬 — 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗝 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗸𝗶, 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗯 𝗥𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 & 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗳𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘁𝗮 
𝟮𝟭:𝟯𝟬 – 𝟮𝟮:𝟬𝟬 — 𝗚𝗾𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼 (𝗗𝗝)
𝟮𝟮:𝟬𝟬 – 𝟮𝟯:𝟬𝟬 — 𝗥𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻 (𝗗𝗝) 𝗺𝗼𝗲𝘇𝗲𝘂𝗺 + 𝗰𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 - 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆  𝟭𝟰.𝟬𝟬-𝟮𝟮.𝟬𝟬 𝗩𝗶𝗷𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗼𝗳𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗮𝘁 𝟮𝟵 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲

SATURDAY 2 MAY 06:00 - SUNDAY 3 MAY 05:00 → On Dawn Chorus Day, Reveil will make its thirteenth annual day-long loop of earth, travelling west on live audio feeds sent in by streamers around sunrise. Reveil brings us together at a distance around its ephemeral streams from rural and urban places – birds, amphibians, weather and sounds we cannot identify. We have heard from some listening points for a decade. Others not yet. Each stream adds to the detail and diversity of the work. REVEIL 13 will be mixed by invited guests and members of the Soundcamp Cooperative. REVEIL is assembled at Stave Hill Ecological Park (TCV) in London from 05:00 UTC+1 on Saturday 2 to 06:00 on Sunday 3 May 2026. Reveil 13 is supported by the creative technical network of the Acoustic Commons including: Full Of Noises, Locus Sonus, CONA, HMU, Cyberforest. Soundcamp is a collaborative project organised by the Soundcamp cooperative. For details: soundtent.org Image: Sam Baraitser-Smith #Reveil13 #Reveil2026

FRIDAY 1 MAY, 16:00-17:00 → What sounds are we exposed to at work? How do they shape our listening, our bodies, and our days? This International Workers’ Day, Precarious Listening presents a one-hour special broadcast sharing materials from an ongoing open call by Ale Borea and the World Listening Project. The open call gathers recordings, voice notes, written reflections, auditory memories, complaints, and everyday traces of listening under conditions of labour. This broadcast brings together background, repetitive, imposed, and exhausting sounds not as isolated events, but as ongoing conditions that accumulate over time.

Last weekend we attended Roadburn - a festival in Tilburg that showcases heaviness but redefines what this word means - from walls of noise, to tearful acoustic performances, we felt completely immersed and embraced by the community and care for the artists, audiences and for music itself. We are having two episodes on the special series ‘Radio WORM goes to’ covering this experience. Tuesday 28th April - Episode 1: yearning with the audience Thursday 30th April - Episode 2: Interview with Becky Laverty ( @beckylaverty ) A special thanks to Ash, Radio WORM for this opportunity and Walter, Becky and the whole roadburn team for this incredible festival. 🩷 xx, y.e.a.r.n.

Sofia Underground Radio — Live Broadcast On the 24th of April, Sofia Underground International Performance Art Festival goes on air. From OKI Krasno Selo in Sofia, Viktoria Nikolova will open a three-hour live broadcast – a radio transmission rooted in the performances, conversations, and sounds of this year's festival edition. Artists' interviews, music played, and presence carried through the frequency to whoever is listening. There is something particular about live radio – the knowledge that somewhere, thousands of kilometres away, someone is sitting in the same moment as you. Not a recording, not a replay. The same breath, the same now. For three hours, Sofia and Rotterdam will share a frequency, and the underground will become audible beyond its walls. And yes – a worm has found its way underground. Radio Worm from Rotterdam joins as co-presenter, because apparently, the underground is exactly where worms belong. Sofia Underground Radio is a new broadcast project growing out of the festival – a first transmission and a beginning of many more. When: Day 3 - Friday 24 April / 20:00–23:00 Sofia / 19:00–22:00 CET 📍Where: OKI Krasno Selo, Sofia Tune in at: radio.worm.org Presented by Viktoria Nikolova in co-production with Sofia Underground Festival, Synaesthesia Collective and Radio Worm, Rotterdam.

Next Tuesday on April 28th, UTS brings together voices from the International Writers Collective for an evening of poetry exploring memory, womanhood, rituals, (be)longing, and the lives we carry beneath the surface. Featuring poetry and curated tunes from: Sandra Ramzy @sandramzy Christina Markanastasakis Madalé Albasini Mattea Dugonjic @dugiooo We’ll be live 5–7pm on @radio.worm 🪱 Don’t miss it

This time last week, Rewire was in full swing and the Rewire Transmissions radio group were capturing interviews and live sound, experimenting with live composition and broadcasting collaboratively from our booth-base at The Grey Space. We’ll re-broadcast those sessions in the near future; but today we share some longer-form, not-yet-heard sessions by three of the Transmissions participants. 14:00-15:00 Live performance highlights with Shæ Ó 19:00-20:00 Xiu Xiu x Eraserhead with kiki kazimi 20:00-21:00 Deena Abdelwahed in conversation with Zehra ▶️ Shæ O (@shae_.o ) revisits live performances from Rewire 2026, in a warm, gentle mix of field recordings capturing incredibly special moments from Caterina Barbieri, Jim O’Rourke & Eiko Ishibashi, Éliane Radigue by way of the Klang Ensemble, Suzan Peeters, Natasha Pirard, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, JJJJjerome, Cello Octet Amsterdam and more. Shæ is a multidisciplinary artist from London, working with sound. She has a radio show covering experimental music called multistory bake sale, which can be found on mixcloud. ▶️ kiki kazimi (@kikikazimi ) is an irish-dutch artist exploring and transforming taboo political and emotional perceptions through themes of pain and spirituality her mediums are moving image, sound and performance. Ahead of Rewire she spoke with Jamie of Xiu Xiu (@xiuxiuforlife ) about the live show to come. ▶️ Zehra (@zehracecilia ) is a DJ, filmmaker and radio maker from Utrecht, the Netherlands. Her work focuses on memory, resistance, and love. Departing from her background in audiovisual anthropology, she seeks to connect with others and the outside world through sound and image. Her show on Stranded FM is about cinema and cinema sound. Listen in for her interview and track selection with Deena Abdelwahed (@deena___abdelwahed ) Photo credit: Tayachi Bachir

Sunday! Radio WORM’s guest programmers Matthias, Viana and Laura take over @wunderbar.rotterdam for our 2026 Radiomaker meet-up, and we debut the Radio WORM Quiz - bring your best and weirdest radio trivia, win some v special prizes! Ever been curious to meet the team or find out how we radio? Drop in anytime from 16:00 til late and say hi! Join us for the live broadcast from the foyer, all welcome 📻

oh, SKRAP! Eddie, Emma & Salomé are trying to design the perfect radio show, bit by bit. Each month, they’ll try something new: if it’s funny, it will stick, if not they’ll skrap it. Tune in for skits, games, songs, interviews & odd experimental segments, all made up on the spot. The oh, SKRAP! is a fully improvised comedy radio show that feels like getting lost in the abyss of the internet (8 bits). The special guest for this session is @ericamaityvo 💖 We’re gonna go live at @radio.worm this Thursday at 20! Tune in ✨✨ Photos for the collage by @hanna_waeger ⭐️

Last day at the booth for Rewire at @thegreyspaceinthemiddle . Tune in from 11:00 for the second broadcast by Rewire Transmission participants and stay for talks all afternoon long: – 11:00-13:00 → Rewire Transmissions → Workshop broadcast → Live from the Radio WORM booth – 13:00-14:00 → Kalponik Rekha → Conversation and listening session → Kasimyn [Hulubalang] and Avita Maheen [two4.41139] – 14:15-16:15 → Universal Language: Feedback Static: Ash Fure, DeForrest Brown, Jr., domingo castillo flores, Victoria Keddie → Conversation + listening session → Introduction + moderation by Rachael Rakes – 16:15-17:00 → Instrumental Ecologies: Dianne Verdonk and Vincent Schoutsen [Tactology Lab] and Robin Koek [Environments] → Conversation → Live from the Radio WORM booth – 17:00 → Ash Kilmartin → Guest mix – 18:00 → Loma Doom → Guest mix

It’s Saturday, day 3 of Rewire, and we’re beginning today’s live programme with the first broadcast by Rewire Transmission participants before switching to the talks in the Tuinzaal: – 11:30-13:00 → Rewire Transmissions → Workshop broadcast → Live from the Radio WORM booth – 13:00-13:50 → Radio as an Artistic Space → Conversation → Ash Kilmartin, Emiddio Vasquez, and Radna Rumping – 14:00-15:00 → Testimonies: Lawrence Abu Hamdan → Conversation → moderated by Giada Dalla Bontà – 15:00-15:20 → Text Scores for Improvising Performers → Interview → Live from the Radio WORM booth – 15:30-16:30 → Folkloric Iterations: Sacred Lodge, Milkweed + Park Jiha → Conversation → moderated by Joe Leonard-Walters + Molly Cosgrove – 17:00-17:45 → Elements of Sounding: Juana Molina → Conversation → moderated by Laura Snapes – 18:00-20:00 → petsq → DJ set → Live from The Grey Space – 20:00-21:25 → The Embryonic Desire: two4.41139 → Guest mix