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From the Radio Art Archive: "The House of Kinshasa" by Po B. K. Lomami

Jan 12, 2025: 3:30 pm - 4pm
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In The House of Kinshasa, Po B. K. Lomami uses transmission to emphasize the struggle between their roots in the Congo and their lived experience in diaspora. Through discussions with and excerpts from their parents, diasporic Congolese living in Belgium, themes of memory and cultural loss come to the fore in otherwise mundane conversations. In this way, Lomami highlights the everyday violence that is part and parcel of Black Atlantic negotiations; as perceived standards of modernization necessitate cultural hybridization, the result is damage to original practices and the adoption of new norms. -Introduced by Austin T. Richey

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:
  • Heartache Tonight (1999 Remaster) / Eagles
  • Doppelgänger / Rohan Sen