This episode of The Radio Art Hour first aired on WGXC on Apr 19, 2025.

The Radio Art Hour aired on WGXC from January 2021 to February 2026.

On this episode of The Radio Art Hour we will hear Un mariage si rituel (2024), a radio play in French and Wolof devised by Saïd Mouhamed Ba. Mouhamed Ba is a writer and French teacher living and working in Saint-Louis Senegal. Un mariage si rituel is voiced by Mouhamed Ba’s theater students at the Lycée Ameth Fall and was recorded in 2023 in the school’s playground. The work speaks to the possibilities of tradition meeting modernity in the context of Wolof marriage customs.

Un mariage si rituel was originally broadcast on Radio Picnic and was produced in collaboration with the Institut International de Recherche Sur la Radio et la Magie (IIRRM) and Zonoff. IIRRM is a project dedicated to finding speculative solutions at the intersection of technology and magic. IIRRM is based in Geneva.

Sound Engineering: Eric Desjeux and Jonathan Frigeri
Mixing and Mastering: Studio of the White Worm, Brussels
Music: Dara Guissé
Voice: Students from the Lycée Ameth Fall in Saint-Louis, Sénégal

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Welcome to "The Radio Art Hour," a show where art is not just on the radio, but is the radio. "The Radio Art Hour" draws from the Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive, an online resource that aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks made by artists around the world, created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or independent transmission. Come on a journey with us as radio artists explore broadcast radio space through poetic resuscitations and playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers in this hour of radio about radio as an art form.

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