RadioIo Ambient zu entdecken war kein Zufall. Als ich die »unmögliche« Stimme das erste mal hörte, war ich ergriffen von seiner Dramaturgie und Ernsthaftigkeit zu gleichen Teilen. Die gestreamte Welle düste in meine Seele und traf mehr als nur meine Ohren, als vielmehr mein gesamtes Empfinden für die situationsgerecht aufbereitete Sensorik. Kurz, tat es mehr als gut endlich einen kommerzfreien Sender mit stimmungsmachenden Inhalten einfach nur als Beigabe ganz für mich haben zu dürfen. Seitdem lerne ich von der Intelligenz seiner Mischungen.

Er gewährte mir ein Interview für telfser.com:

DT: How to get »No Boundaries« personal, I mean how do you find the music?

FS: Many individual artists and small record labels from all over the world send me their music to consider for the program. I also hear about things and then seek them out. I try to pick music that is evocative - that touches people when they listen. It is a personal experience for the listener so sometimes I succeed and sometimes I do not. It is always music that I like however.

DT: Does commercial-free broadcasting limit your programming?

FS: No, it is the opposite really. My programming works in both commercial free and commercial broadcasting, though the commercials can interrupt the flow and mood of the sets. So if anything limits the listening experience it is the commercials that some listeners hear.

DT: What's your skill in finding and programming Ambient that is evocative?

FS: I prefer to call it »Exotic Electronica.« What sets my programming apart - or at least I like to think so, is its evocative quality. My taste in music is personal but it appeals to many others. Think of me as a sound painter and my palet is filled with all these different colors of songs. I mix them together in my own artistic way and hopefully they will be experienced as both mesmerizing and evocative for the majority of listeners.

DT: Did any extreme life experiences effect how you feel about or program?

FS: Not really. I have liked many styles of music throughout my life and this »Exotic Electronica« is what I specialize in. This music has impacted my life more than my life impacting the music.

DT: Is there a message for your European listeners?

FS: I love Europe and my grandparents are from Italy on one side of my family and the UK on the other side. I respect the European attitude toward life. I think that Europeans should know that many of us here in the USA have no use for many of the political pursuits of our country. We are all citizens of the world first. We are all one and must learn to get along. Read »The Four Agreements« by Don Miguel Ruiz and apply them first to your individual life and then to the situation of the world. Buy music on the Waveform label too! :)

DT: Could you describe a key-personal dream?

FS: I just had a dream this morning when I was working afternoon drive at a radio station where I first started airing my Musical Starstreams program back in 1981. In the dream my show started at 3pm in the afternoon and my first song was by the Youngbloods - »Darkness, Darkness.«

DT: What are your future plans?

FS: I would like to find partners or investors who want to help me spread this music worldwide. I would like to find radio stations in Europe that would let me program full time for them. My plan is to spread the music as much as I can.

Please visit the websites:

››› http://www.radioioambient.com
››› http://www.starstreams.com
››› http://www.waveformhq.com

Forest: I Think - Therefore I Ambient!

Thank you Forest!
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© Dieter Telfser 2005