Karen Werner artist

Nothing to See Here: 56 The State Of Things: Mar 01, 2021

Three small pieces from around the world all concerned with a world in crisis. Viruses have restructured our everyday and we take a listen to the conversations. Part One: The State of Things: a c...

The Archive of Future Signals: Sep 11, 2020

I created The Archive of Future Signals as part of my Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship. The piece is a radio play inspired by some of the works I included in the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive, in parti...

A Radiophonic Quilt from Wave Farm: May 31, 2020

Writes Karen Werner, "To make this radiophonic quilt, programmers at Wave Farm’s radio station WGXC came together for a day to make short radio art pieces about RADIO. We approached this theme in an i...

Collecting Clocks and Losing Time: May 31, 2020

Anna Friz’s piece Collecting Clocks and Losing Time is a suite of five pieces about radio and timekeeping. Anna Friz’s poetic words set the tone: “Once upon a time there was a house in the countryside...

Dead Letters: May 31, 2020

Gregory Whitehead is an American radio artist whose radio art is widely celebrated and enjoyed. It is very difficult to choose just a couple of his works for the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive from his m...

Pressures of the Unspeakable: May 31, 2020

Pressures of the Unspeakable is a radio art classic that takes you on a journey worth going on. Gregory Whitehead was invited to spend six weeks in Sydney, Australia working with the Australian Broadc...

Radiotelegraph: May 30, 2020

Anna Friz is a Canadian sound and media artist and media studies scholar whose work inspires many a radio artist. Radiotelegraph, invites us into the thickly poetic space of radio. Across the vastness...

The machine for living in: May 30, 2020

Sophea Lerner’s The machine for living in was commissioned in 1993 by the Australian Broadcast Corporation radio show The Listening Room, and was recorded and composed entirely on analogue tape. Sophe...

Containers: May 29, 2020

Containers was produced by Sherre DeLys and Russell Stapleton for The Listening Room in 2001. The Listening Room was a landmark radio art show on the Australian Broadcast Corporation that aired from 1...

A Box of 78s: May 28, 2020

DinahBird, a radio artist based in Paris, created a noteworthy radio art work called A Box of 78s in 2014. Dinah Bird explains the rich story behind the project: her grandmother, who was born on the i...

chorus duet for radio: May 28, 2020

Kate Donovan’s radio art decenters us humans. She has an ongoing interest in elements and natural radio. Also noteworthy is her ideal listening situation for this piece: “It's supposed to be broadcast...

Future Radio: May 28, 2020

Sol Rezza is a composer, audio engineer and radio producer from Argentina. She is interested in “the way we perceive time and space through our senses and how sounds influence that perception.” I appr...

Mediterraneo: May 26, 2020

I’m thrilled to share this piece which I find packs a wallop as a form of witness and all the more so in its spare approach. Anna Raimondo produced Mediterraneo in 2014 as both a radio artwork and vid...

Ligature: May 22, 2020

American radio artist Joan Schuman produced Ligature in 2009. Listening to a number of Joan Schuman’s pieces I’m struck by the sensuality and dreamy surrealism in her work; she combines documentary p...

Magneto Mori: Vienna: May 22, 2020

Magneto Mori: Vienna was produced by Scottish radio artist Mark Vernon. Mark Vernon has been creating a series of radio pieces, including this one, out of semi-degraded audio tape. Using a portable re...

A Garden in the Air: Datscha Radio: May 21, 2020

A Garden in the Air: Datscha Radio is a radio sound collage was created by German radio artist Gabi Schaffner. Since 2012, Datscha Radio has been a nomadic and temporary radio station that Gabi Schaff...

Happy Birthday, Darling: May 21, 2020

In Happy Birthday Darling Russian radio artist Dmitry Nikolaev took on the challenge of creating a radio drama entirely through sounds, not using single word. He describes the piece with his Russian s...

Time Tone Passages: May 21, 2020

Time Tone Passages, by Norwegian artist Maia Urstad, was commissioned as both a 40 channel site specific sound installation in Bonn, Germany, and as radio broadcast for Deutschland Radio. To make the...

Listening In the Dark Radio Art Party: Apr 18, 2020

Dim the lights, grab your pillows and tea or wine, and cozy up to the radio for this premiere romp through the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive featuring radio art classics and contemporary delights. Hoste...

The Piano Tuning: Apr 08, 2020

The Piano Tuning by Quebecois radio artist Chantal Dumas is a sonically delicious experience of and meditation on listening and sound in space. Chantal Dumas produced The Piano Tuning for German radio...

Experiments in Terroir Best of DO or DIY: Apr 07, 2020

British audio-visual collage artist Vicki Bennett, aka People Like Us, is well known for her sampling, appropriating, and cutting up of found footage and archives. From her bio: “Embedded in her work...

Listening In the Dark Radio Art Broadcast Promo: Apr 03, 2020

Penser Avec Les Mains and Requiem for Bagdad: Mar 20, 2020

Tetsuo Kogawa is famous for teaching people all over the world to build their own microtransmitters. His radio art pieces have involved performing live with these microtransmitters. The first piece,...

Nam June’s Spirit Was Speaking To Me - Seoul: Feb 22, 2020

Nam June’s Spirit Was Speaking To Me by Aki Onda was commissioned by Documenta 14’s radio art series called Every Time A Ear di Soun. From Documenta’s catalogue: “New York-based artist and composer Ak...

Other Voices -Echoes from A War Zone: Feb 22, 2020

Other Voices – Echoes from a War Zone was conceived and live mixed by Serbian radio artist Gordan Paunović on April 29, 1999. In March 1999, NATO began airstrikes in Serbia to pressure president Slob...

Memories of Zarah: Feb 18, 2020

Janete El Haouli is a fixture in the Brazilian radio art scene and beyond. She has produced radio art pieces for networks around the world; for 15 years she produced the program “New Music: radio for...

What Touches us Most: Jan 28, 2020

What Touches Us Most is by Mwangi Hutter, an artist duo based in both Berlin and Nairobi producing work under the combination of their surnames and biographies. They describe their combined identity “...

Children's America: Jan 17, 2020

Just after Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, Allesandro Bosetti was invited by a German public radio station to produce a piece on the New America. About Children’s America Bosetti wrote that he de...

Guryong-Voice As Trash: Jan 17, 2020

Guryong-Voice As Trash was commissioned by the Australian Broadcast Corporation’s radio art show, Soundproof in 2016. Writes Bosetti, “This piece is about Guryong a shantytown in south Korea. Guryong...

12 Miles Out: Jan 15, 2020

12 Miles Out was created by the New York-based neuroTransmitter, a project of Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere that was active between 2001-2008. 12 Miles Out was realized in 2005 in conjunction wi...

three variations on a study for a data deficient species (grey ghost transmission): Jan 15, 2020

New Zealand-based radio artist Sally Ann McIntyre created three variations on a study for a data deficient species (grey ghost transmission) in 2017. The piece focuses on a New Zealand bird species, t...

Calewalayana—Changes in the Ecology of the Mind : Dec 27, 2019

Calewalayana—Changes in the Ecology of the Mind was created in 1986 by Finnish radio maker Harri Huhtamäki, along with four collaborators (two musicians, a sound engineer, and a journalist.) Harri H...

Desert Bloom: Dec 27, 2019

Desert Bloom was produced in 2016 by German artist Christina Kubisch along with two collaborators: Peter Kutin and Florian Kindlinger. Desert Bloom won a German radio art prize called the Karl-Sczuka...

Swan: Dec 21, 2019

Swan is by American electroacoustic composer Yvette Janine Jackson. Jackson's radio opera work borrows from the immersive sound of the golden age of radio drama and is meant to be listened to in the d...

Oh Sweet Potato and Solo for Abandoned House: Dec 14, 2019

Hanna Hartman’s work is both abstract and very engaging, and she has received a lot of international recognition and prizes for her work. Her website described her approach as “Having developed her ve...

Favorite Sounds; How We Remember; and Music in Marble Halls: Dec 11, 2019

For over 30 years Tony Schwartz produced weekly radio programs about sound for the NYC public radio station, WNYC. Schwartz also created records for Smithsonian folkways that feature his distinct styl...

House with a View: Dec 11, 2019

House with a View was created by American radio artist Susan Stone who has kindly contributed the piece, which is not widely available, to the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive. Stone had her start in radio...

Langue Etude, Couch, and Ruby: Nov 26, 2019

American radio artist Susan Stone produced these three short pieces between 1985-1993. Stone had her start in radio at WBAI in NYC in 1979 producing a radio show called Radio Schizophonia with fellow...

Qualia: Nov 14, 2019

Qualia is a word that refers to the intangible internal feelings and memories we get from sensory perception. Calvo, who works with sound in an intuitive and skillful way, sound designs the stories of...

From Scratch (Fidelity): Nov 03, 2019

Sherre DeLys produced From Scratch (Fidelity) for The Listening Room, a celebrated radio art program at the Australian Broadcast Corporation. Sherre DeLys’ describes the piece, "[From Scratch (Fidelit...

Jarman's Garden: Nov 03, 2019

Sherre DeLys's Jarman's Garden (2000) was produced for Australian Broadcast Corporations's iconic radio art show, The Listening Room (1988-2003). Jarman's Garden is an impressionistic rendering of fil...

The Moratorium: Nov 03, 2019

Chris Brookes is based in Newfoundland and has done a series of memorable radio pieces about the loss of the fishing industry and the impact of this loss on local lives and culture in Newfoundland. Th...

Saturday Afternoon Show: Karen Werner: Jul 29, 2017

Karen Werner is live in Wave Farm's WGXC Acra Studio, in conversation with Saturday Afternoon Show host Tom Roe. Werner describes her work as audio stories, mostly non-fictional. A sociologist; someti...