Long Waves Scan

Before the invention of radio and electromagnetic wave theory, Thomas Watson spent time at night listening to the sounds “produced by the telephone” when no one was connected. Later we would learn tha...

«ALL NIGHT FLIGHT»

«ALL NIGHT FLIGHT» is an immersive nocturnal ambient sound excursion in honor of World Listening Day 2013. «ALL NIGHT FLIGHT» is a wide-ranging sonic odyssey which reflects ecologies of many kinds: en...

(( Return of the 12th Planet ))

A subliminal mix of orbiting sounds. There is no divide between rhythm & abstraction, frequency & feeling, movement & manifesto. All sounds move as the many in and out of the one, that is you, you rig...

07.13.10b

07.13.10b is concerned with recording the typically inaudible: the power sources that fuel the mundane portions of our lives. These sounds, primarily the electromagnetic fields produced by computers,...

8 Silences

8 Silences, part of Art of Failure’s Laps Series, offers a sensible representation of the Internet by broadcasting audio streams that travel and reverberate trough the web. In the style of encephalogr...

Assemblage No 1

Assemblage No 1 is the first of a series of works for radio that experiment with using only a limited pool of sounds, culled from one specific domestic appliance for each work. For Assemblage No 1, us...

Babbleon Cork

Babbleon Cork, the result of Gavin Prior’s residency at the Guesthouse in May 2010, is an audio collage in three parts composed solely of sounds recorded during his time in Cork, Ireland. With his por...

Bits & Pieces

Bits & Pieces lures the listener into an ear-catching, evocative sonic terrain, an acoustic metaphor of current political and economic crises. At first impression Bits & Pieces seems only like a hapha...

Black Seas

Black Seas is an ongoing body of work under the influence of historical and contemporary experiences of auditory hallucination. After scouring texts from modernist feminist writing to horror and weird...

BLUE/RED

BLUE/RED refers to the phenomenon of chromostereopsis, a visual illusion where the impression of depth is conveyed in two-dimensional color images, usually red-blue or red-green. BLUE/RED consists of...

Calumet Project

Norman W. Long writes "soundscapes define our sense of community. Each track exposes a complex matrix of networks that exist within the Lake Calumet region of the South Side of Chicago — specifically...

Carrier/Container/Detektor

Carrier/Container/Detektor aims to break open the closed ecological circuit of material broadcast media by focusing attention on the means of reception and environmental conditions that affect both an...

Conversations

Brandon Locher’s Conversations is a collection of telephone recordings consisting of one single serial chain of phone calls from each of the 48 Continental United States. The initial confused answerer...

Cultural Morphing

Cultural Morphing is an experiment in creating a multi-perspective image of reality from the simultaneous experience of a geographic line by the individual expression of a perceived personal reality....

Echophone

I am here. If you can hear this, this message is for you. Two women rent a room in the Pabst Grand Circle Hotel in New York City in late 1947. Their belongings seem to be comprised entirely of a larg...

Electric Oscillations + Field Recordings, Set V - AM Modulation

A small circuit oscillator was built on a breadboard using a CMOS chip, resistors, and capacitors. A fraction of the signals generated by the oscillator were received by a radio and detected at discre...

Electromagnetic Dimension (LA1B test)

The electromagnetic field extends its influence to all possible scales, creating a continuum from radio waves and chemical bonds to the oscillations of thought — experience itself. We perceive three d...

electrosmog

electrosmog is concerned with themes of electromagnetism and material processes which sonify inaudible events. Using an electrosmog high frequency receiver, Roos captures sounds produced by mobile pho...

Elegy JW

Rubber mallets striking a safety rail, a city bus pausing at an intersection, a passenger plane leaving Chicago heading south: Elegy JW observes sounds of daily life, toil, and progress through the ot...

Ether Underground for Starved Rock State Park

Ether Underground for Starved Rock State Park is an improvisational performance of radio and video transmissions created specifically for the site of Starved Rock. Following a weeklong residency on lo...

Fading Signals (Dead Air)

Fading Signals (Dead Air) is the culmination of Mahoney’s scanning and recording airwaves, searching for elusive radio signals that had supposedly been rendered obsolete by digital transmissions. Late...

Foradius

Foradius was created specifically for broadcast on Radius. The two members of Sturqen worked independently of each other using Portuguese radio transmissions as source material. The fragmented radio c...

Giants Are Sleeping

Giants Are Sleeping aims to reflect the identity, transformation, and ownership of one Chicago electrical substation. Exploring the relationship between human memory and architecture, the installation...

Glitch for Variable and Determinate States

Glitch for Variable and Determinate States started out as a Midi recording of Rebekkah Palov’s Yamaha DX21 keyboard. With no audio output from the synth, Palov performed an improvisation according to...

h88h

h88h was made using radio field recordings (Rovereto, Italy, 2010), desk recordings (Trento, Italy, 2011), cassette (POLE music fragment, 2001), CD-R (computer sounds experiments, 1997-2001), software...

Hibernaculum : Vortex

Hibernaculum : Vortex was inspired by the Polar Vortex experienced in the Northern Hemisphere of the United States during the winter of 2014. Comprised almost entirely of amplitude modulation (AM) rad...

Hum

Ethan Rose’s Hum responds specifically to the Jefferson Substation, an electrical substation that is located just outside the loop of downtown Chicago. The step down transformers at the Substation emi...

In and Out of Waves

Peter Barnard’s audio work In and Out of Waves is composed of sounds derived from shortwave radio frequencies. Fusing encrypted signals found on utility stations with amateur radio broadcasts located...

Infinity = Zero

In Jorge Luis Borges’ story “The Library of Babel,” the world is made up of an infinite network of hexagonal libraries containing all possible iterations of books with 410 pages and 22 characters. Boo...

Interferences

Interferences is a series of four broadcasts to take place on each Friday in July 2013. Each broadcast features a geographic site in the Chicago area where some type of built interference in the lands...

It Was a Rebellion

Sadie Woods’ It Was a Rebellion is a site-specific radio broadcast for the fiftieth anniversary of the Chicago “riots” following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination in April of 1968. “A riot is...

Laugh Tracks, Invisible Crowd, Interjections

Jefferson Kielwagen’s piece consists of three discrete tracks: Laugh Tracks, Invisible Crowd, and Interjections. This series employs collective, human sounds to explore the possibilities of emotional...

Limen

Limen explores the dimensions of liminality, or a passing through the threshold between distinct phases, afforded through the use of electromagnets. Binary signals are used to rapidly pulse the magnet...

Location

Will Krauland writes "During my residence in Chicago, I lived across the street from the Chicago Fire Department for two years. I still remember the first time the sirens pierced my windows, redirecti...

Lost Frequencies

Lost frequencies is a sound art composition that started with a project called Bye Bye FM. Bye Bye FM responded to a political announcement that threatened to cancel the small and free radio stations...

Mere Pis: Lisbon

Mere Pis: Lisbon is an exploratory atmospherics project that was made in Lisbon, Portugal using custom-built sensors and software. The sensors recorded micro-local environmental elements such as ambie...

metaclysme

Electromagnetic sculptures. Electromagnetic fields are ever-changing volumes. They inhabit spaces and surround masses, bodies, and objects. They polarize, repel each other, mingle, merge, and sometime...

Millionth

Millionth was constructed by simply using a telephone and audio recording equipment. James Chinneck systematically recorded individuals saying the word “hello” when they first answered their telephone...

MONO

Mono words. Memories of long nights tracing the airways; music and cross talking frequencies bleeding into each other. Subtune on one waveband, find apertures opening, disappear into the ether. A pie...

Night

Paul Kayhart’s Night was completed at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) in 2013. The broad intent of the work is to evoke a psychological sense of nighttime. With threads running throug...

non attachment to the ground

Think of a plant. Is it a tree? Or is it a houseplant? The ground is the basis of the terrestrial environment, where the normative plant is rooted. Without the ground there would be no sky, or withou...

Numbers Stations 1 and 2

This is a set of files constructed to function like numbers stations. The codes have been substituted for brief messages telling what you should do and what you shouldn’t do if attacked by a bear. The...

Quiet Body

prOphecy sun recorded Quiet Body in her living room using an iPhone, vintage stereo, and voice. The track was captured live in one take. The composition focuses on the voice as a symbol of the unconsc...

Quiver 1

Quiver 1 is a sequence of two compositions: Panthalassa and Harrow/Dormant. Panthalassa is a conceptual composition for solo voice that transects original vibrations of present, past, and future noti...

Radio DADa #1

factor X started as a conceptual idea, ended as an obtuse synth pop band. Radio DAda #1 happened somewhere in between. Founded by Shaun Robert in 1983, the first output was anti musik and then moved t...

Radio Majesty

Radio Majesty documents the first meeting of four Vancouver-based audio artists who explore the frequency spectrum through real-time digital signal processing, unconventional tuning systems, and free...

Radio Wide World

In 1994, while living in Florence, Italy, in a top-floor apartment of the former Ursuline convent on the via Guelfa, Jeff Gburek experienced sounds shaped by random processes through a shortwave radio...

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...

Radiotherapy v.2N_N3

Radiotherapy v.2N_N3, inspired by Rodriguez’s rehabilitation process after an awake brain surgery to remove a cancerous tumor which temporarily left him with partial paralysis of the left side of his...

Rain Motors: magnetic motion - remix for Radius

Rain Motors: magnetic motion - remix for Radius is an alternate radio version of Absolute Value of Noise’s (Peter Courtemanche) new audio release that features ELF recordings of various motor systems...