A word from the curator, Creative Projects, 5th edition
I'm honoured to have been able to contribute to this 5th edition of Radio Hull. Radio is as much a medium as a community, a place of discovery, an abstract, electric and ethereal space for music and art everywhere. For me, radio has long been a privileged vehicle for creation, expression and dissemination. I remember years of community and university radio in Quebec City, playing noise rock and Mitsou remixes past midnight to an imagined audience, always imperceptible yet present. There's a certain magic in simply transmitting, to anyone, and that even if no one's tuning in (which is fortunately not the case with Radio-Hull), we know that the airwaves sent out reverberate through the city's streets, exciting, with a little luck, a few resonant circuits and a few attentive ears. And that once the impulse has passed, the electricity returned to its minimal potential, all that remains is immaterial inspiration and the intangible bonds created by love and collaboration.
Thanks to all the artists in the programming.
- Simone Provencher
Musician
A word from the President, Centre de production DAÏMÔN
If Radio-Hull was originally a way to continue creating and bringing the community together when it was necessary to keep one's distance (we remember it all too well!), now it's an event we look forward to every fall. Creators from all over the Outaouais (and beyond) come together to tell stories, pass on information, bear witness, experiment, play, relax, get informed... I'm always amazed at the possibilities that a medium like radio still offers when it's in the hands of community members. You wait for Radio-Hull, but you never know what to expect! But we recognize ourselves in it, we recognize ourselves in all our eccentricities.
- Marc-A. Reinhardt
Artist, President Centre de production DAÏMÔN
As the primary engine of large-scale collective cultures, radio has always contributed to the development of a sense of belonging to a territory and nurtured a feeling of connection between citizens.
Inspired by the origins of radio, Radio-Hull was born out of the importance of providing creative-broadcasting spaces and opportunities in a context where people couldn't come together inside a building. In 2020, in the midst of a pandemic, radio perfectly symbolized this gesture of reaching out to the unseen, of reaching out into the ether to combat isolation.
Radio is intrinsically geographical and linked to its place of existence. We wanted not only to promote creative projects by artists from the community, but also to give a voice to the often little-known music from both sides of the river. Radio-Hull's mission is to play only local music, i.e. music made by artists living in the Ottawa-Gatineau-Outaouais region.
Since 2020, the formula has gone from strength to strength. Beginning with a festival format, the project has grown to include a year-round streaming service, and in 2023 a year-round digital radio component was added: Radio de Radio-Hull. Its name is obviously a nod to a Crown corporation that once had to differentiate its media channels.
What's more, since 2024, new partners have been using the Radio-Hull web space to broadcast original content, developed to accompany and enhance local festival programming.
A visionary for the local cultural scene, Radio-Hull is now not only an annual festival, but also becomes a continuous vehicle for the sounds of an entire region. At any time of day or night, from anywhere in the world, its listeners can now hear something that was cooked up here.
Its database is a veritable catalog of the region's musical history, bearing witness to the richness and diversity of the sounds of the City of Hull and many of the towns that surround it.
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