TACTUS Radio Festival

2025
The second edition of Tactus Radio Festival focuses on the theme Radio di guerra / Radio di pace: three days dedicated to contemporary radio, sound art and podcasting. The edition is guided by the curatorship of Andrea Borgnino (Rai Play Sound and radio amateur), Roberto Paci Dalò (founder of Usmaradio), Nathalie Singer (Chair of Experimental Radio at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) and Elisabeth Zimmermann (Director of Kunstradio, ORF Vienna). Guest artists of this edition: L’Impero della Luce, Andreij Rublev and Dj Armeno.

During the festival the new KiwiSDR Usmaradio listening station was presented: the Research Centre’s entry into the broad international network of shortwave listening stations. The station, permanently installed at the Monastery of Santa Chiara, the headquarters of Usmaradio in the City of San Marino, it is remotely accessible through a dedicated section of the Usmaradio website and allows users to tune in to and listen directly to frequencies through the KiwiSDR device installed on site.

Credits

Tactus Radio Festival 2025
second edition
Ancient Monastery of St. Clare

curated by
Andrea Borgnino
Roberto Paci Dalò
Nathalie Singer
Elisabeth Zimmermann

production
Usmaradio — Centre for Research into Radio of the University of the Republic of San Marino
in collaboration with
Unirsm Design
RaiPlay Sound
Tomo Tomo
Bauhaus.fm Weimar
Giardini Pensili
Kunstradio
Sentire le Voci – The Podcast Festival
Il Macello Cultural Cooperative

organisational direction
Alessandro Renzi
press office
Jeffrey Zani
multimedia
Emanuele Lumini
design
Davide di Gennaro (Tomo Tomo)
communication
Erica Tentoni and Andrea Conti
podcast
Gianni Gozzoli
diary
Valentina Maggioli

with the patronage of
Secretariat of State for Education and Culture
Secretariat of State for Industry and Craft
Secretariat of State for Tourism of the Republic of San Marino

media partners
Radio Icaro
Gagarin Orbite Culturali

For information and programme details, please visit:
https://usmaradio.org/tactusfestival