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From the Radio Art Archive: "The HP Show: The Land of Science" (1976) by Hank Bull & Patrick Ready
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The HP Show, created by Hank Bull and Patrick Ready, was broadcast live for eight and a half years from Vancouver Cooperative Radio. The Land of Science is a 90 minute episode from the show’s first year in 1976. Hank Bull and Patrick Ready have written about the key role of collaboration in their approach to radio art. I also like this quote from Hank Bull: “Radio is actually a form of sculpture, considering all the space involved.” ("The Story of the HP Show" pg. 48. Augaitis, Daina, and Dan Lander. 1994. Radio Rethink: Art, Sound and Transmission. Banff Centre Pr. - Introduced by Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow 2019/2020, Karen Werner.
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:
- Here Comes The Sun / The Beatles

