A Radiophonic Quilt from Wave Farm

Writes Karen Werner, "To make this radiophonic quilt, programmers at Wave Farm’s radio station WGXC came together for a day to make short radio art pieces about RADIO. We approached this theme in an i...

Radiotelegraph

Friz’s Radiotelegraph is a sending of a radiotelegraph in spoken morse code from the Skaftfell Center for Visual Art in the small town of Seyðisfjörður on the east coast of Iceland where she undertook...

Requiem for Bagdad

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. Requiem for Bagdad...

Ruby

Susan Stone’s Ruby is three minutes long and, as with Susan Stone’s other shorts, takes us far in a short timespan. The piece showcases extraordinary writing, character development, acting, and editin...

Solo for Abandoned House

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...

Spirit of Ecstacy, Racing Car Opera

There are a number of excellent radio art works by Swedish radio artist Åke Hodell. Spirit of Ecstasy, Racing Car Opera is one that showcases his language play, his compositional use of repetition, an...

Talking to a Loudspeaker

Talking to a Loudspeaker by Canadian radio artist Dan Lander was commissioned by New American Radio and premiered on NPR in 1989. Talking to a Loudspeaker was also part of the 1994 exhibition Radio Re...

three variations on a study for a data deficient species (grey ghost transmission)

New Zealand-based radio artist Sally Ann McIntyre created three variations on a study for a data deficient species (grey ghost transmission) in 2017. The piece focuses on a New Zealand bird species, t...

Time Tone Passages

Time Tone Passages, by Norwegian artist Maia Urstad, was commissioned as both a 40 channel site specific sound installation in Bonn, Germany, and as radio broadcast for Deutschland Radio. To make the...

To Have Done With The Judgment Of God (Pour en Finir avec le Jugement de dieu)

The final work by French theater artist Antonin Artaud. To Have Done With The Judgment Of God (Pour en Finir avec le Jugement de dieu) was commissioned by French Radio but at the last minute the Frenc...

Ugnayan

Ugnayan, for 20 Radio Stations (1974) was created by José Maceda, a Filipino classical musician who spent time in European avant-garde music circles; he was also an ethnomusicologist trained at UCLA w...

Weekend (Wochenende)

Weekend was broadcast in 1930 and is one of the oldest pieces of radio art. It was created by German artist Walter Ruttman who is best known as a filmmaker. Ruttman directed the 1927 film classic, Ber...

What Touches us Most

What Touches Us Most is by Mwangi Hutter, an artist duo based in both Berlin and Nairobi producing work under the combination of their surnames and biographies. They describe their combined identity “...