RADIO ART ARCHIVE

 

Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive: Audio

The Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive is an online resource and broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM, which is syndicated to stations across the country through The Radio Art Hour. It aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM/Shortwave broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or pirate transmission. The archive is a product of Wave Farm's Radio Artist Fellowship.

ARTISTS WORKS AUDIO

The audio made available here, is done so with the permission of the artists, or their respective estates.

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Dead Letters
Created by Gregory Whithead.

Jan 01, 1985

Writes Gregory Whitehead, "In 1983, Susan Stone and I received funding from the NPR satellite prog...
Radio Play
Created by Elizabeth Flood (2023). Introduced by Lia Kohl.

Nov 26, 2023

Writes Flood, "Radio Play is an improvised recording of me tuning between three shortwave radios in...
12 Miles Out
Created by neuroTransmitter (2005). Introduced by Karen Werner.

Jan 15, 2020

12 Miles Out was created by the New York-based neuroTransmitter, a project of Angel Nevarez and Vale...
A Beginner's Guide to Attracting Birds
Created by Alvin Curran (1995). Introduced by Jess Speer.

Jan 12, 2021

In this piece commissioned by New American Radio in 1995, Alvin Curran created a work that pays trib...
A Box of 78s
Created by DInahBird (2014). Introduced by Karen Werner.

May 28, 2020

DinahBird, a radio artist based in Paris, created a noteworthy radio art work called A Box of 78s in...
A Garden in the Air: Datscha Radio
Created by Gabi Schaffner (2020). Introduced by Karen Werner.

May 21, 2020

A Garden in the Air: Datscha Radio is a radio sound collage was created by German radio artist Gabi...
A Letter to the Lemniscate: Radio Frequencies From The Third Ear
Created by Desiree Mwalimu-Banks.

Apr 29, 2024

Writes Mwalimu-Banks, "A Letter to the Lemniscate: Radio Frequencies From The Third Ear is a gather...
A Radio Programme about Radio
Created by Howard Broomfield (1974). Introduced by Andy Stuhl.

Nov 01, 2021

“A Radio Programme about Radio”, 1974, by Howard Broomfield, part 9 of the 10-part Soundscapes of Ca...
A Year of Radio Silence
Created by Steve Bates (2013). Introduced by Andy Stuhl.

Sep 06, 2021

From November 10, 2012 to November 10, 2013, artist Steve Bates transmitted a 25 micro-Watt signal a...
Antipodes
Created by Frédéric Acquaviva (2019). Introduced by Jess Speer.

Jan 15, 2021

Awarded the Karl Sczuka Prize in 2020, Antipodes is a three-act radio opera for voice, “dead electro...
Applause
Created by Robert Adrain X and Rupert Wolfgang Maria Huber (1996). Introduced by Jess Speer.

Jan 15, 2021

Described as “an installation for radio,” this piece was made by Robert Adrian X and Rupert Wolfgang...
The Archive of Future Signals
Created and Introduced by Karen Werner (2020).

Sep 11, 2020

I created The Archive of Future Signals as part of my Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship. The piece i...
As Seen on TV
Created by Misty Avinger (2023). Introduced by Iru Ekpunobi.

Jan 01, 2023

In As Seen on TV, Audio Producer and sonic storyteller Misty Avinger imagines a ‘Build-a-Dad’ worksh...
Beach Crossings – Pacific Footprints
Created by Mike Cooper (2005). Introduced by Tyler Maxin.

Feb 21, 2023

Beach Crossings - Pacific Footprints is an hour-long radio play by the English guitarist Mike Cooper...
BLACKBODY, WHITE NOISE
Created by Ricardo Iamuuri Robinson while in-residence at Wave Farm.

Oct 02, 2021

Writes Ricardo Iamuuri Robinson, “BLACKBODY, WHITE NOISE is an experimental radio art composition. F...
BLACKBODY, WHITE NOISE
Created by Robinson Ricardo Iamuuri (2021). Introduced by Andy Stuhl.

Nov 22, 2021

“Blackbody” refers to a specific type of structure – a cast iron cube with a single hole pointed tow...
Blue Black Abyss
Created by Blu Bone (2021). Introduced by Iru Ekpunobi.

Jan 01, 2021

Blue Black Abyss is an auditory excavation of the Blues, and a chronicling of its spiral into the ab...
Bread Scores
Created by Masimba Hwati (2021). Introduced by Austin T. Richey.

Jan 01, 2021

Masimba Hwati's integration of traditional Chimurenga chants into performative sound art situates hi...
Calewalayana—Changes in the Ecology of the Mind 
Created by Harri Huhtamäki (1986). Introduced by Karen Werner.

Dec 27, 2019

Calewalayana—Changes in the Ecology of the Mind was created in 1986 by Finnish radio maker Harri Huh...
Call Book
Created by Hali Palombo (2022). Introduced by Lia Kohl.

Oct 22, 2023

Call Book isolates and magnifies human broadcasts on amateur radio—little phrases, sentences,...
Catch & Release: Critical Mass
Created by Jon Brumit (2004). Introduced by Jess Speer.

May 26, 2021

Neighborhood Public Radio is a project led by Lee Montgomery, Linda Arnejo, Michael Trigilio, and J...
Characterized
Created by GX Jupitter-Larsen (2015). Introduced by Tyler Maxin.

Feb 21, 2023

Characterized by GX Jupitter-Larsen as a “radio poem” that adapts the words of United States Army in...
Children's America
Created by Alessandro Bosetti (2009). Introduced by Karen Werner.

Jan 17, 2020

Just after Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, Allesandro Bosetti was invited by a German public ra...
chorus duet for radio
Created by Kate Donovan (2016). Introduced by Karen Werner.

May 28, 2020

Kate Donovan’s radio art decenters us humans. She has an ongoing interest in elements and natural ra...
Collecting Clocks and Losing Time
Created by Anna Friz (2013). Introduced by Karen Werner.

May 31, 2020

Anna Friz’s piece Collecting Clocks and Losing Time is a suite of five pieces about radio and timeke...
Cologne-San Francisco Soundbridge
Created by Bill Fontana (1987). Introduced by Jess Speer.

Jan 15, 2021

Exploring ideas about the musicality and physical qualities of sound itself, listening as an act of...
Community of Grieving
Created by Zosia Hołubowksa and Julia Giertz, (2020). Introduced by Kamikaze Jones.

Aug 01, 2024

Originally commissioned for Unsound 2020 as a collective listening experience, Community of Grieving...
Containers
Created by Sherre DeLys and Russell Stapleton (2001). Introduced by Karen Werner.

May 29, 2020

Containers was produced by Sherre DeLys and Russell Stapleton for The Listening Room in 2001. The Li...
Dead Letters
Created by Gregory Whitehead (1985). Introduced by Karen Werner.

May 31, 2020

Gregory Whitehead is an American radio artist whose radio art is widely celebrated and enjoyed. It i...
Desert Bloom
Created by Christina Kubisch (2016). Introduced by Karen Werner.

Dec 27, 2019

Desert Bloom was produced in 2016 by German artist Christina Kubisch along with two collaborators: P...
Dispatches from Radiotopia
Created by Adriana Knouf (2022). Introduced by Lia Kohl.

Nov 16, 2023

Dispatches from Radiotopia was recorded during a four-day radio summer camp with radio transmission...
Drive-In Concert
Drive-In Concert (2020). Introduced by Andy Stuhl.

Sep 27, 2021

In March of 2020, Los Angeles was experiencing its first major surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. In pl...
Einmal Rückkopplung und retour
Created by Dieter Kovačič (2005). Introduced by Tyler Maxin.

Feb 21, 2023

Einmal Rückkopplung und retour, or “Once feedback and back,” is a reflexive radio piece originally b...
Electronic Ambient Remixes 4: Selflessness (Part Four)
Cosey Fanni Tutti (2003). Introduced by Desiree Mwalimu-Banks.

Jan 29, 2024

Cosey Fanni Tutti's Electronic Ambient Remixes 4: Selflessness emerged from live art actions perform...
Experiments in Terroir Best of DO or DIY
Created by Vicki Bennett (2017). Introduced by Karen Werner.

Apr 07, 2020

British audio-visual collage artist Vicki Bennett, aka People Like Us, is well known for her samplin...
Favorite Sounds; How We Remember; and Music in Marble Halls
Created by Tony Schwartz (1962-1970). Introduced by Karen Werner.

Dec 11, 2019

For over 30 years Tony Schwartz produced weekly radio programs about sound for the NYC public radio...
filename:FUTURFAX
Created by Rachel Rosenthal (1990). Introduced by Jess Speer.

Feb 23, 2021

Like the best of dystopian fiction, filename:FUTURFAX (1990) at first takes us in with the premise t...
Fit the Description
Created by Christopher DeLaurenti (2015). Introduced by Joan Schuman.

Dec 21, 2021

Fit the Description echoes the escalating intensity of four days following Michael Brown’s murder b...
Focus on Yourself
Created by Nabalayo (2023). Introduced by Iru Ekpunobi.

Jan 01, 2023

The phrase ‘Focus on yourself’ begins almost every refrain of Nairobi-based griot, Nabalayo’s poem a...
Framework #746
Created by Patrick McGinley (murmer) (2021). Introduced by José Alejandro Rivera.

Dec 01, 2022

Framework is a weekly radio program presented by its founder, sound, performance, and radio artist,...
Free Radio Linux
Created by r a d i o q u a l i a (radioqualia) (2002). Introduced by Andy Stuhl.

Sep 20, 2021

Commissioned by the Walker Art Center in 2002, r a d i o q u a l i a's "Free Radio Linux" entailed a...
Friends About the Polywave
Created by GX Jupitter-Larsen (2019). Introduced by Tyler Maxin.

Feb 21, 2023

Originally created as a part of a sound installation at the Coaxial Arts Center in Los Angeles in su...
From My Window: Dreams, Hopes and Disappointments
Rena Anakwe (2020). Introduced by Desiree Mwalimu-Banks

Jan 29, 2024

Rena Anakwe aka DJ Lady Lane's From My Window: Dreams, Hopes and Disappointments aired as part the 2...
From Scratch (Fidelity)
Created by Sherre DeLys (2001). Introduced by Karen Werner.

Nov 03, 2019

Sherre DeLys produced From Scratch (Fidelity) for The Listening Room, a celebrated radio art program...
Future Radio
Created by Sol Rezza (2019). Introduced by Karen Werner.

May 28, 2020

Sol Rezza is a composer, audio engineer and radio producer from Argentina. She is interested in “the...
Guryong-Voice As Trash
Created by Alessando Bosetti (2016). Introduced by Karen Werner.

Jan 17, 2020

Guryong-Voice As Trash was commissioned by the Australian Broadcast Corporation’s radio art show, So...
Happy Birthday, Darling
Created by Dmitriy Nikolaev (2014). Introduced by Karen Werner.

May 21, 2020

In Happy Birthday Darling Russian radio artist Dmitry Nikolaev took on the challenge of creating a r...
Hieros Logos
Created by Manuel Rocha Iturbide (2010). Introduced by José Alejandro Rivera

Oct 07, 2022

In 2010, Manuel Rocha Iturbide created Hieros Logos, a radiophonic sound work originally commissione...
Homoniememorimorph
Created by Jasmina Al-Qaisi (2020). Introduced by José Alejandro Rivera.

Dec 01, 2022

Originally performed in 2020 for Anybody out there?! (100 Days of Radio in Germany) at D21 Artspace...
House with a View
Created by Susan Stone (1985). Introduced by Karen Werner.

Dec 11, 2019

House with a View was created by American radio artist Susan Stone who has kindly contributed the pi...