The Archive of Future Signals

I created The Archive of Future Signals as part of my Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship. The piece is a radio play inspired by some of the works I included in the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive, in parti...

12 Miles Out

Writes neurotransmitter, "12 Miles Out is a visual and sound installation that merges analog radio transmission with line drawing. Specifically referencing Radio Caroline, this work continues our expl...

A Box of 78s

DinahBird, a radio artist based in Paris, created a noteworthy radio art work called A Box of 78s in 2014. Dinah Bird explains the rich story behind the project: her grandmother, who was born on the i...

A Garden in the Air: Datscha Radio

A Garden in the Air: Datscha Radio is a radio sound collage was created by German radio artist Gabi Schaffner. Since 2012, Datscha Radio has been a nomadic and temporary radio station that Gabi Schaff...

Anosmia

Anosmia was produced in 2013 by Aurélie Lierman. Lierman was born in Rwanda and has spent much of her life in Belgium and the Netherlands, where she currently lives. The title Anosmia refers to a cond...

Birds and People

Eugeniusz Rudnik is known for his collage style of radiophonic composing and his interest in discarded or “shabby” sound materials –smudges or verbal stumbles. Eugeniusz Rudnik was a core member of th...

Calewalayana—Changes in the Ecology of the Mind 

Calewalayana—Changes in the Ecology of the Mind was created in 1986 by Finnish radio maker Harri Huhtamäki, along with four collaborators (two musicians, a sound engineer, and a journalist.) Harri H...

Children's America

Just after Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, Allesandro Bosetti was invited by a German public radio station to produce a piece on the New America. About Children’s America Bosetti wrote that he de...

chorus duet for radio

Kate Donovan’s radio art decenters us humans. She has an ongoing interest in elements and natural radio. Also noteworthy is her ideal listening situation for this piece: “It's supposed to be broadcast...

The City Wears a Slouch Hat

John Cage was 29 years old when he received this commission from the Columbia Broadcasting System for their popular and surprisingly experimental radio program, the Columbia Workshop. Cage’s assignmen...

Collecting Clocks and Losing Time

Anna Friz’s piece Collecting Clocks and Losing Time is a suite of five pieces about radio and timekeeping. Anna Friz’s poetic words set the tone: “Once upon a time there was a house in the countryside...

Containers

Containers was produced by Sherre DeLys and Russell Stapleton for The Listening Room in 2001. The Listening Room was a landmark radio art show on the Australian Broadcast Corporation that aired from 1...

Couch

Susan Stone’s Couch is a stunning and spare radio drama and shows how much can be done in a radio art short in terms of bringing us into a new world. Stone explains that her pieces Langue Etude and Co...

Dead Letters

Writes Gregory Whitehead, "In 1983, Susan Stone and I received funding from the NPR satellite program development fund for the production of two radio features within a genre we called “cinema in th...

Desert Bloom

Desert Bloom was produced in 2016 by German artist Christina Kubisch along with two collaborators: Peter Kutin and Florian Kindlinger. Desert Bloom won a German radio art prize called the Karl-Sczuka...

Earth Police

Earth Police by Leonard Fisher was developed from a live performance Leonard Fisher did at The Banff Centre for the Arts during Radio Rethink. Radio Rethink was a 1994 radio art exhibition and event w...

Embers

Embers was Beckett’s second BBC radio work and was written specifically for the actor Jack MacGowran, who had a minor role in Beckett’s first BBC radio commission, All That Fall. Embers is not an easy...

Experiments in Terroir Best of DO or DIY

British audio-visual collage artist Vicki Bennett, aka People Like Us, is well known for her sampling, appropriating, and cutting up of found footage and archives. From her bio: “Embedded in her work...

Favorite Sounds

Favorite Sounds and was recorded at the Jewish Guild for the Blind in New York City in 1963. For over 30 years Tony Schwartz produced weekly radio programs about sound for the NYC public radio station...

From Scratch (Fidelity)

Sherre DeLys produced From Scratch (Fidelity) for The Listening Room, a celebrated radio art program at the Australian Broadcast Corporation. Sherre DeLys’ describes the piece, "[From Scratch (Fidelit...

Future Radio

Sol Rezza is a composer, audio engineer and radio producer from Argentina. She is interested in “the way we perceive time and space through our senses and how sounds influence that perception.” I appr...

Guryong-Voice As Trash

Guryong-Voice As Trash was commissioned by the Australian Broadcast Corporation’s radio art show, Soundproof in 2016. Writes Bosetti, “This piece is about Guryong a shantytown in south Korea. Guryong...

Happy Birthday, Darling

In Happy Birthday Darling Russian radio artist Dmitry Nikolaev took on the challenge of creating a radio drama entirely through sounds, not using single word. He describes the piece with his Russian s...

Homo Ludens, A Radio Ballet Not Without Autobiographical Elements

Eugeniusz Rudnik was a core member of the Polish Radio Experimental Studio ever since it began in 1957; he was a prolific creator of tape compositions, a genre he called radio documentary ballads, and...

House with a View

House with a View was created by American radio artist Susan Stone who has kindly contributed the piece, which is not widely available, to the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive. Stone had her start in radio...

How We Remember

How We Remember features the voices of New York City teenagers and is from 1970. For over 30 years Tony Schwartz produced weekly radio programs about sound for the NYC public radio station, WNYC. Sch...

The HP Show: The Land of Science

The HP Show, created by Hank Bull and Patrick Ready, was broadcast live for eight and a half years from Vancouver Cooperative Radio. The Land of Science is a 90 minute episode from the show’s first ye...

Inventions For Radio 1: The Dreams

Inventions for Radio1: The Dreams was created in 1964 by the British electronic music composer Delia Derbyshire in collaboration with writer Barry Bermange. Delia Derbyshire is best known for her work...

Jarman's Garden

Jarman's Garden was produced for Australian Broadcast Corporations's iconic radio art show, The Listening Room (1988-2003). Jarman's Garden is an impressionistic rendering of filmmaker Derek Jarman’s...

Langue Etude

Stone had her start in radio at WBAI in NYC in 1979 producing a radio show called Radio Schizophonia with fellow radio artist Gregory Whitehead. Susan Stone was involved for many years with Pacifica R...

Ligature

American radio artist Joan Schuman produced Ligature in 2009. Listening to a number of Joan Schuman’s pieces I’m struck by the sensuality and dreamy surrealism in her work; she combines documentary p...

Long Walk

Claudia Wegener produced the radio drama Long Walk for German Radio’s Studio for Acoustic Arts in 2009. Long Walk is a compilation made from three connected radio works: the first is called Long Walk...

The machine for living in

Sophea Lerner’s The machine for living in was commissioned in 1993 by the Australian Broadcast Corporation radio show The Listening Room, and was recorded and composed entirely on analogue tape. Sophe...

Magneto Mori

Magneto Mori: Vienna was produced by Scottish radio artist Mark Vernon. Mark Vernon has been creating a series of radio pieces, including this one, out of semi-degraded audio tape. Using a portable re...

Mediterraneo

I’m thrilled to share this piece which I find packs a wallop as a form of witness and all the more so in its spare approach. Anna Raimondo produced Mediterraneo in 2014 as both a radio artwork and vid...

Memories of Zarah

Janete El Haouli is a fixture in the Brazilian radio art scene and beyond. She has produced radio art pieces for networks around the world; for 15 years she produced the program “New Music: radio for...

Menage à Trade

Menage à Trade was produced by Mexican-American performance and radio artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña with a number of collaborators, including Betto Arcos, Yareli Arizmendi, Sergio Arau, and Mireille Per...

The Moratorium

Chris Brookes is based in Newfoundland and has done a series of memorable radio pieces about the loss of the fishing industry and the impact of this loss on local lives and culture in Newfoundland. Th...

Mr. Smith Goes to Rhodesia

Mr. Smith Goes to Rhodesia is by Swedish radio artist and writer Åke Hodell. In his twenties, Åke Hodell trained as a fighter pilot in the Swedish air force. After his plane crashed and a period of co...

Music in Marble Halls

Music in Marble Halls is included in Schwartz’s Folkways album, You're Stepping on My Shadow, Sound Stories of NYC. For over 30 years Tony Schwartz produced weekly radio programs about sound for the...

Nam June’s Spirit Was Speaking To Me - Seoul

Nam June’s Spirit Was Speaking To Me by Aki Onda was commissioned by Documenta 14’s radio art series called Every Time A Ear di Soun. From Documenta’s catalogue: “New York-based artist and composer Ak...

Oh Sweet Potato

Hanna Hartman’s work is both abstract and very engaging, and she has received a lot of international recognition and prizes for her work. Her website described her approach as “Having developed her ve...

Other Voices -Echoes from A War Zone

Other Voices – Echoes from a War Zone was conceived and live mixed by Serbian radio artist Gordan Paunović on April 29, 1999. In March 1999, NATO began airstrikes in Serbia to pressure president Slob...

Penser Avec Les Mains

Tetsuo Kogawa is famous for teaching people all over the world to build their own microtransmitters. His radio art pieces have involved performing live with these microtransmitters. Penser Avec Les Ma...

The Piano Tuning

The Piano Tuning by Quebecois radio artist Chantal Dumas is a sonically delicious experience of and meditation on listening and sound in space. Chantal Dumas produced The Piano Tuning for German radio...

Pressures of the Unspeakable

Writes Gregory Whitehead, "October 3, 1991, I arrived in Sydney, Australia with little more than a general concept of an Australian Screamscape, carried inside the fictive envelope of an imaginary Ins...

Private Dreams and Public Nightmares

Private Dreams and Public Nightmares: A Radiophonic Poem was created in 1957 by Frederick Bradnum and Daphne Oram, and produced Donald McWhinnie. Soon after making this piece, Bradnum and Oram co foun...

Qualia

Qualia is a word that refers to the intangible internal feelings and memories we get from sensory perception. Calvo, who works with sound in an intuitive and skillful way, sound designs the stories of...

The Quiet in the Land (The Solitude Trilogy, Part 3)

Glenn Gould is known to many as a piano virtuoso, particularly famous for his Bach recordings. Gould retired from performing live when he was 31 years old, and for the rest of his life he embraced his...

Radio Net (part 1)

Max Neuhaus was classically trained as a percussionist; in the 1960s he experimented with forms of music and sound that the listener would discover in unexpected places. This included radio, and in 19...