A Beginner's Guide to Attracting Birds

In this piece commissioned by New American Radio in 1995, Alvin Curran created a work that pays tribute to birds, John Cage, and “The Bird'' himself, Charlie Parker. Live mixing 26 tracks of recording...

Antipodes

Awarded the Karl Sczuka Prize in 2020, Antipodes is a three-act radio opera for voice, “dead electronics” (in contrast to live improvisation) and video, composed by French artist, composer, and schola...

Applause

Described as “an installation for radio,” this piece was made by Robert Adrian X and Rupert Wolfgang Maria Huber from three short samples of three people clapping. Extending for just over 30 minutes,...

Cologne-San Francisco Soundbridge

Exploring ideas about the musicality and physical qualities of sound itself, listening as an act of composition, place, distance, and history, sound artist Bill Fontana’s sound sculptures have been br...

filename:FUTURFAX

Like the best of dystopian fiction, filename:FUTURFAX (1990) at first takes us in with the premise that the future is a technological utopia where problems of hunger, deprivation, uncertainty, and unh...

Fordlandia

Fordlandia is a community built on the ruins of Henry’s Ford’s failed rubber plantation, built in 1927 and abandoned in 1934. Hoping to cultivate a steady supply of rubber for his motorcar empire, Fo...

Intimate Space

Intimate Space was originally conceived as an installation for the festival Ars Sonora, Radio Clàsica, put on by Radio Nacional de Espana. As is her usual practice, Sodomka spent many months thinking...

Leap of Faith

The sixth and last in her series, Redefining America (1991-92), Jacki Apple’s Leap of Faith (1992), centers on a conversation between artist Keith Antar Mason, an African-American man and Apple herse...

Lee de Forest Night Loops

As part of the 2008 AV Festival in Newcastle, UK, Knut Aufermann and Mobile Radio helped set up two temporary radio stations for the nine-day run of the festival. Aufermann built a feedback installati...

Mental Radio

Charles Amirkhanian’s 1994 piece Mental Radio is made up of several movements, primarily of sound collage and sound poetry, prominently featuring Amirkhanian’s rhythmic and mesmerizing text-sound comp...

North Country

North County (1995) sounds like a radio play version of Fargo made by David Lynch and the author of a text-based game. Playing on themes of memory, time, hypertextuality, and principles of storytellin...

One Thought Fills Immensity

In October of 2017, a group of climate researchers, activists and artists were gathered by Cape Farewell, a climate art institution, and the Climate Psychology Alliance to participate in a psychologic...

Radio Cycle 101.4FM

Commissioned by INTERFERENCE:PUBLIC SOUND, Matthews installed a radio transmitter on the roof of Annette Works Studio in London’s East End, where it broadcast continuously from July 13-20, 2003. Bikes...

Radio Mind

Sound and radio artist Magz Hall has explored themes of place, history, gender, identity, nature, spirituality, and of course radio transmission itself in her works for both installation and broadcast...

Radio Silence, Episode 1

Michael Rakowitz’s work commonly deals with loss and cultural erasure, especially in the face of war and other violence. It’s almost perfectly fitting then, though tragic, that the Iraqi journalist he...

Radio Silence, Episode 2

Michael Rakowitz’s work commonly deals with loss and cultural erasure, especially in the face of war and other violence. It’s almost perfectly fitting then, though tragic, that the Iraqi journalist he...

Radio Silence, Episode 3

Michael Rakowitz’s work commonly deals with loss and cultural erasure, especially in the face of war and other violence. It’s almost perfectly fitting then, though tragic, that the Iraqi journalist he...

Radio Silence, Episode 4

Michael Rakowitz’s work commonly deals with loss and cultural erasure, especially in the face of war and other violence. It’s almost perfectly fitting then, though tragic, that the Iraqi journalist he...

Radio Silence, Episode 5

Michael Rakowitz’s work commonly deals with loss and cultural erasure, especially in the face of war and other violence. It’s almost perfectly fitting then, though tragic, that the Iraqi journalist he...

Radio Silence, Episode 6

Michael Rakowitz’s work commonly deals with loss and cultural erasure, especially in the face of war and other violence. It’s almost perfectly fitting then, though tragic, that the Iraqi journalist he...

Radio Silence, Episode 7

Michael Rakowitz’s work commonly deals with loss and cultural erasure, especially in the face of war and other violence. It’s almost perfectly fitting then, though tragic, that the Iraqi journalist he...

The Starve Zone

Neighborhood Public Radio is a project led by Lee Montgomery, Linda Arnejo, Michael Trigilio, and Jon Brumit that creates short-term microbroadcasting stations in communities and supports community...

What Is the Matter in Amy Glennon?

In What is the Matter in Amy Glennon?, Sheila Davies Sumner showcases her interest in the connection between the physical and metaphysical, storytelling, science, and psychology, as well as her agil...