Prepaid Radio is a ten-day, phone-based broadcasting project running alongside the Sandberg Instituut Design Department's excursion to Morocco.

Operating with pay-per-mb internet access, power banks, airplane mode and bluetooth file transfer, participants collectively work towards a live radio transmission — recording, remixing, and broadcasting their connections across the country from their mobile devices.

Program

Listening to Ahmed Essyad’s Electroacoustic Music

w/ Stan Wiersma

As an introduction to the work of Moroccan composer Ahmed Essyad, we will listen to different compositions made between 1972 and 1974 by the artist.

#electroacoustic music #experimental #early electronic

Beach Break — soft waves, sun baked

w/ super_supra_supreme

BreakMaXXing in Essaouira Beach: we're taking you outside of Marrakesh straight to the ocean. Dip your toes in salty water, let your skin be smooched by the sun and drift away on soft moving waves. Relax, reset and refresh.

#break #beachambient #meditation

Social Intimacy

w/ Duy

Social Intimacy is a sonic glimpse into the layered life of a souk in Marrakech. Through field recordings, the piece traces overlapping moments of resistance, labor, leisure, and tourism—where bodies, voices, and transactions brush against one another in close proximity. Though shaped through different colonial structures, Morocco and Vietnam remain linked by French imperial rule—its residues still unfolding within everyday acts of exchange and relation. Rather than capturing or extracting, the work stays with these fleeting encounters—holding them as traces of relation. Moving between wandering and encounter, it listens to how value and intimacy are continuously negotiated, revealing the souk as a dense site where proximity produces friction, connection, and the conditions through which we meet one another.

#field recording

Morocco Segments

w/ Mina Izamina

Transcribing moments with and without people. A picture is worth a thousand words, but my phone camera sucks and I'm cheap.

#spoken word #story time #narration

Always at Risk, Never in Danger — On the Way to Imil and Up to 3,200 m Above Sea Level

w/ Ewa Perlińska

The sound combines WhatsApp messages from Rachid, who drove us to the village of Imil, with a live performance by Saleh Elbacha, played in the car during the journey. From Imil, we continued on foot, hiking for two days until we reached the Tizi n’Tacheddirt pass at 3,200 meters above sea level.

#hikersanddesigners

"simple" ' (instructions and shop talk)

w/ Giselle

At a teahouse in Casablancas medina. Men sipping, playing games and listening to a mix of youtubes 90s/00s Marokkan pop mashups playing in the background. Simple conversations in dusty Highschool french. Neighborhood talk and playing cards with the guys.

#fragments #conversations #games

Sticker House

w/ Noms

Speaking about the riad accommodation we're at and all the paraphernalia around the house.

#story telling

Azul: amazigh, language, kasbah, salt, water, color, secret massages: Tenmirt

w/ Nadja

mishmash of Aït Benhaddou

walky melody

w/ John Haag

Walking through a melody. Musical fragments collected in crowded streets and empty highways between Tacheddirt, Essaouira and Marrakech. Incidentally absorbed soundscapes and tunes selected by its visual appearance. Too much to process, it all goes by so fast. Including tapes & CDs from Morocco, Algeria and Lebanon found at Le 18 & Souk Jeld Record Store.

#CDs #tapes #field recording #collage #ipad rekordbox

Desert trip

w/ Mateusz Juras

Finding myself in Morocco, during an all day car road trip to the desert from Marrakesh, with frequent stops at local sellers or gas station toilets, in a deeply underslept state of being — I find comfort in zoning out to familiar songs I had saved on my phone.

#headphones_on

A place that forgot its name — playing other places

w/ Asya, Sebastian, Doris

Asya, Sebastian, and Doris embark on a 190 km journey across the Moroccan mountain scape to reach the mythical Atlas Film Studios. Over the course of their journey they look back at Hollywood movies that have been mythologising the dessert as a stand in for other worlds.Asya, Sebastian, and Doris embark on a 190 km journey across the Moroccan mountain scape to reach the mythical Atlas Film Studios. Over the course of their journey they look back at Hollywood movies that have been mythologising the dessert as a stand in for other worlds.

#western gaze #film production #conversation

Counterfeit Currency and Document Index - Marrakech Research Report

w/ Robin Netherton

Report on a handful of counterfeit and stolen banknotes obtained from a local collector and antiquarian.

#counterfeit currency #organized crime

in-tune

w/ Chiara

brrr vrrrooommm

Berber music comes up
I watch outside the car windows, Bea is checking google maps and Seb is talking with the driver

Biiiiipppppppppp

Next song, an old baby gang song that I don’t know

Soft head banging on the beat, I’m a bit shy to say that I also listen to him 

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In-tune is a sonic map of our taxi trip in and out Marrakesh 
Bad music, good music, even better music, rip off of 2000 pop song and a lot of chitchat.

#MINI dj set

Shopping Haul

w/ Elzė

shopping lover shares her experience, impressions and thoughts on the Marrakech Soeks, with some highlights of her favorite items that she brought.

#shoppinglover#Soeks#Marrakech

Lunch with Hasna

w/ Lea, Smilla, Salo

Just outside the center of Marrakesh (with its noisy streets and market stalls) Smilla, Lea, and Salo are enjoying lunch at the Amal Gueliz Center - a non-Profit organization that supports women towards empowerment and financial independence through cooking.

It’s quiet around them compared to the now-familiar hustle and bustle of Marrakech Medina.

The food is artfully prepared with great care - This place creates an automatic sense of comfort and security. Relax and let yourself be swept away by this feeling.

#interview #report

Dear friend, I’ve always dreamt of becoming a magician

w/ Beatrice

I turn the cards and let the truth surface: “luck is blind” or maybe I just need to slip the queen beneath my hoodie, draw from the deck, or shout louder than the rest.

I’m unlucky at cards but my heart still cries out for you. In front of me there’s only a suit, a number and a color—but the rules have shifted in an instant, and I can’t read the direction anymore. Everyone plays their own hand, and I have to be careful not to glance at where I’m hiding my highest card. I reach for the glass, then lay my cards on the table.

The sun has already set, the room gone cold—you explain the rules to me, and I let you in on the trick.

#fragments

InDrive $wag

w/ $alo + $milla

A collection of tracks that played during our taxi drives.

#playlist