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From the Radio Art Archive: "BLACKBODY, WHITE NOISE" (2021) by Ricardo Iamuuri Robinson

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Ricardo Iamuuri Robinson at Wave Farm (1)

Ricardo Iamuuri Robinson at Wave Farm (1). Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (Sep 30, 2021)

Produced by Wave Farm Radio.

“BLACKBODY, WHITE NOISE" (2021) is an experimental radio art composition by Ricardo Iamuuri Robinson. For an entire week Robinson collected sounds using two vacant cast iron cubes and sound reproduction technology. Each structure bears a single hole (a Blackbody) allowing sunlight to penetrate and radiate throughout the interior space. During the course of Robinson's residency at Wave Farm, he recorded thermal conduction, movement, and ambience. He manipulated the collected data to compose a sonic relationship with excerpts from La’Vender Freddy’s Sunscreen Conspiracy project. The title "BLACKBODY, WHITE NOISE" is inspired by Frantz Fanon’s highly acclaimed literary work, Black Skin, White Masks. This project has set out to reveal and translate a correlation between the life of the Sun and the struggle against forces determined to destroy it. This meditation articulates a common narrative of conflict and leaves it up to the listeners to reimagine a new future inspired by a new solar language.
- Introduced by Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow 2021/2022, Andy Stuhl.

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.

Radio artists explore broadcast radio space through a richly polyphonous mix of practices, including poetic resuscitations of conventional radio drama, documentary, interview and news formats; found and field sound compositions reframed by broadcast; performative inhabitations/embodiments of radio’s inherent qualities, such as entropy, anonymity and interference; playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers, and the potential feedback loops between hosts and layers of audience, from in-studio to listeners at home to callers-in; use of radio space to bridge widely dispersed voices (be they living or dead), subjects, environments and communities, or to migrate through them in ways that would not be possible in real time and space; electroacoustic compositions with sounds primarily derived from gathering, generating and remixing radiophonic sources. Note: Wave Farm continues to expand this definition of radio art through engagement with contemporary practices including those revealed by Wave Farm Artists-in-residence, and the Radio Art Fellowship program.

Playlist:
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  • Youth / The Midnight
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  • History, Mystery (feat. John Dickson) feat. John Dickson / SB
  • The Collapsing 20's / Sole feat. DJ Pain 1
  • Momentum / The Allstar Project