Masimba Hwati's integration of traditional Chimurenga chants into performative sound art situates him within a Black Atlantic dialogue on post-colonial resistance and cultural preservation. First articulated by Paul Gilroy in 1993, the Black Atlantic is a multi-cultural and multi-temporal feedback loop between continental, diasporic, and otherwise displaced Black people globally. Hwati's art resonates with the themes of migration, resistance, and cultural memory that are central to the Black Atlantic discourse, and like my other artist additions to the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive use transmission and broadcast arts to articulate their own personal explorations within the sounds and silences of the Black Atlantic.
-Introduced by Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow 2024, 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.