Welcome to "The Radio Art Hour," a show where art is not just on the radio, but is the radio. "The Radio Art Hour" draws from the Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive, an online resource that aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks made by artists around the world, created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or independent transmission. Come on a journey with us as radio artists explore broadcast radio space through poetic resuscitations and playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers in this hour of radio about radio as an art form. "The Radio Art Hour" features introductions from Philip Grant and Tom Roe, and from Wave Farm Radio Art Fellows Karen Werner and Jess Speer. The Conet Project's recordings of numbers radio stations serve as interstitial sounds. Go to wavefarm.org for more information about "The Radio Art Hour" and Wave Farm's Radio Art Archive.
This episode features recent radio art-related releases, from late 2020, and early 2021. Included are Elvis Costello and "Radio Is Everything," and five "Cross Talk" interstitial works from Oneohtrix Point Nevers "Magic Oneohtrix Point Never" album. Plus tune in Negativlands "More Data" and "Anything Else," and the duo of radio artist Jeff Kolar and harpist Zeena Parkins on "Pulse" from their album "Scale." And also tune in the 2021 release from British radio artist Scanner and his "Trawl (Wireless Rupture Mix)" with Bill Laswell. And finally, Roscoe Mitchells "Distant Radio Transmission" completes this survey. The show is produced by Wave Farm, Tom Roe, and Wave Farm Radio Art Fellows Karen Werner and Jess Speer.
Wave Farm is a non-profit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. Major activities include the Wave Farm Artist Residency Program; Transmission Art Archive; WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears, a creative community radio station based in New Yorks Upper Hudson Valley; a Fiscal Sponsorship program; and the Media Arts Assistance Fund in partnership with NYSCA Electronic Media/Film.
New Radio Art Releases.
A show where art is not just on the radio, but is the radio.
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Feb. 4, 2021
Recorded at Wave Farm in the Hudson Valley in New York.
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