Tune in for two selections from the Short Waves / Long Distance Repository, "All the News All the Time" and "Chasing Waterfalls."

"All the News All the Time" is multi-channel, sound-processed short-wave radio. A study for what will become a multi-channel audio installation using multiple radio news broadcasts overlaid in in the manner influenced by the psychoacoustic illusion "Phantom Words" created by Diana Deutsch (http://deutsch.ucsd.edu/psychology/pages.php?i=211) and musically relating to the artist's prior multi-channel granular synthesis project "Audio Chandelier" http://audiochandelier.com. Naphtali created this first study using her software programming for live performance setup with Max/MSP on recorded sound files from January 30, 2017 including a lot of chatter about the current immigration crisis in the US.

"Chasing Waterfalls" is an excerpt from a two-hour radio broadcast of live SDR feeds, recorded 12-27-2016 on KCHUNG 1630 AM Los Angeles. From the published show description: "Software Defined Radio (SDR) was first conceptualized – as many radio advances have been – for its military applications. Beginning in 1970, The Department of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and TRW, Inc. – the lead aerospace contractor of the first intercontinental ballistic missile program and builder of US spacecraft – all played a part in the development of the first software radio receiver.

The Short Waves / Long Distance Repository is comprised of a selection of works submitted to "Short Waves / Long Distance," an highly-competitive open call for composition exploring the sonics of the shortwave radio spectrum (2-30 mHz), and the experience of long distance listening. Organized by Wave Farm and The North American Shortwave Association, the call was announced in conjunction with the 30th Anniversary of the Winter Shortwave Listener’s Fest and Wave Farm’s 20th Anniversary, both of which are celebrated in 2017.

Tune in for selections from Wave Farm's Transmission Art Archive, a specialized online resource of artists' experiments with the electromagnetic spectrum in form or concept. The resource contains primary materials from early microradio broadcast collaborations among Brooklyn-based artists in the mid-nineties, transmission works created by the hundreds of artists who have participated in Wave Farm projects, broadcasts, and residencies, as well as historical and contemporary projects that comprise the canon of the genre.

Visit the Transmission Art Archive here.