a lagoon, considered against its archival image

Writes McIntyre, “During a six-week artist residency on Kapiti Island, a nature reserve on the coast of New Zealand, I explored radio transmission and reception as a way of reading the materiality of...

All the News All the Time

Multi-channel, sound-processed short-wave radio. A study for what will become a multi-channel audio installation using multiple radio news broadcasts overlaid in in the manner influenced by the psycho...

AM_on_FM / sine_wave

The AM waves of amplitude modulation broadcasting are highly susceptible to static disruptions. The recordings for this track consist of manipulated oscillations, which are especially present at night...

an electrical discharge, a sea of burning oil slicks

Writes the artist, "An abstract narrative combining a dial-drift of shortwave radio, ham radio recordings of distressed ships, and instrumentation recorded in an isolated building in sandfly, tasmania...

Argent Discovery

Writes Miner, “Argent Discovery is composed with sampled shortwave recordings performed on an Akai S5000 with an Elektron Analog Keys used as a controller and providing additional tones, filtering and...

Caller

Writes Osborn, “Caller (2017) is made from a shortwave recording of a song performed with voice and gamelan. The recording is processed and transformed to build a bed of sound from the vocal and instr...

Chasing Waterfalls

An excerpt from a two-hour radio broadcast of live SDR feeds, recorded 12-27-2016 on KCHUNG 1630 AM Los Angeles. From the published show description: "Software Defined Radio (SDR) was first conceptu...

CODEX: Post-Human Speech Sounds

"The whirling prophets used to state… that they spoke ‘beyond their own reason'" - Roman Jakobson and Linda R. Waugh, The Sound Shape of Language Short-wave broadcast, FM synthesis operators, square...

Crimean Snow

"Crimean Snow" is a collision of shortwave and vinyl that alludes to the conflict in the Ukraine, but more broadly to the thought that radio transmissions cross any contentious boundaries. The project...

Elegy for RCI

Writes Rosevere, “Elegy for RCI is a short piece intended to emulate the type of radio IDs or stings that might be played on shortwave radio stations. It was written in memory of RCI, and features sam...

Fringe Area

Fringe Area is an analogue tape loop and shortwave radio piece from Basinksi’s album Shortwavemusic created in 1982 in Brooklyn, NY.

Fuzz

This work is based on recordings of sounds captured with a shortwave radio. Most of the sounds used are of rhythmic signals without any voice or music content. These type of sounds resemble sounds pro...

Ghostwave

This piece was composed for two valve receivers and exclusively build from shortwaves material.

Hellschreiber

Hellschreiber is a broadcast piece based on the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. With the World Wide Web as a predominant realm of communication and networke...

I listened to the buzzer for hours and nothing happened (edit)

An edited version of the track from the album 'There was no future after all' which is a free download from https://archive.org/details/petroglyph384D.N.P._VS_MUTATE-There_was_no_future_after_all in w...

Körper

Körper is an acousmatic piece entirely based on the elaboration of an acoustic pulse sequence which was produced in the course of a MRI diagnostic test. The aesthetic idea implied in the composition r...

L'abolition de la Croix

L'abolition de la Croix is a live processed, SW radio manifestation of "abolition de la Croix" (from "Tutuguri" - "Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu," Antonin Artaud 1947). Meira Asher - SW radio...

Let's Absorb The Waves As We Hold On For Dear Life

Writes Knouf, “I turn on the radio. I hear a voice, a Voice of this Country, broadcast to the world. It’s propaganda, I know. But it’s still a voice that projects outward, rather than the insidious in...

Michael Sedore, ND2Q

Michael Sedore is a long-time ham radio operator. Retreating into his workshop and station in rural New York means being surrounded by equipment old and new, much of it built by hand. On an autumn aft...

Modulation I

Writes Quiros, “Modulation I reflects on modulation as a long-distance information transmission mechanism. Whether digital or analog, modulation builds a rich relational structure between different si...

Ondes Simultanee et Perturber

Writes Harrop, “I have been long fascinated with the vast aural complexity of short wave radio. More than the figurative and narrative content, the white noise of an infinity of pulses and waves that...

öö and ää

The artists went hunting for noises stemming from radio interferences. Equipped with two shortwave radios and audio recorders, they would roam the streets of London in an electromagnetic sound walk. T...

Oracle

Writes Ruchalski, “Oracle was created by using source material from various stations via KiwiSDR. I was interested in all the noise (pulses, beeps, tones) that can be heard when searching for a statio...

Orbital Lullaby

Poised somewhere between ambient music and avant-garde acousmatics, Orbital Lullaby presents an enveloping and mesmerizing sonic montage of over 11 Tracks (All under 10 Minutes). Highly immersive and...

Over the Horizon

Writes Bonanno, “Over the Horizon is an electronic composition based on sampling, treatment and interaction of multiple sound sources recorded among short-wave frequencies between 2 and 30 MHz. The id...

Short Waves

Writes the artists, "Once upon a time upon a space upon a sound. Once upon a sound there was a language with a meaning. Once upon a song was mute. The living ghost of tomorrows archeology. Every sou...

Shortwave Radio, South Africa, IV

Shortwave Radio, South Africa, IV was composed from short wave radio transmissions I recorded while in a remote part of the bushveld in the Limpopo province of South Africa.

Shortwaves trip

Made with samples recorded from a shortwaves radio, Pastorino writes, "I tried to recreate an abstracted ambience different from what makes a simple radio into a room. It is divided in four scenes, fo...

Spectres of Shortwave: Falling Towers (excerpt)

Writes Christie, “Spectres of Shortwave / Ombres des ondes courtes is both a film and an electroacoustic audio documentary about the Radio Canada International Shortwave Radio Towers that transmitted...

St Columb Major – transmission received

Writes Vernon, “St Columb Major – transmission received is composed entirely from a 20-minute shortwave radio scan recorded in the village of St. Columb Major in Cornwall, England at 1 p.m. on the Sep...

Staubrauschen (Dusty Noise / Media Dirt)

Writes the artist, "'Staubrauschen' (Dusty Noise / Media Dirt) is a radiophonic work of sound art derived from my archive of recordings of interfering short and medium range radio signals from 1987 -...

Strange Sonars

Write Dusman and Wonneberger, “Strange Sonars (2017) is a collaborative work designed to incorporate into its sonic palette during broadcast the natural sounds and characteristics of shortwave transmi...

Stratocode from nowhere

This is a sound art piece crafted with wave noises as the main source of sound materials. The radio frequencies where treated with a series of digital audio processes such as FFT filters, adaptive noi...

The Perfect Storm

Writes Bradley, “The Perfect Storm (TPS) accesses virtual shortwave radio transmissions broadcast on the World Wide Web. Before composing TPS, I explored a number of supplied listening resources, incl...

Three Steppes Forward Two Steppes Back

Writes Gburek, “My most recent research and practice have involved using the Theremin in unique ways to calibrate the shortwave radio reception, scramble and coupling the Theremin with walkie-talkie f...

through the shortwave, part one

Writes the artist, "free form sw radio composition created using RF sweeps/noise, dialogue. The first half of this composition is a live radio feed, both very slow and rapid dial sweeps utilized to ma...

TransSonic Awakenings in D

Before the advent of the Internet, short-wave radio broadcasts brought sounds and ideas from around the world to anyone with a radio and antennae. TranSonic Awakenings in D is an electro-acoustic comp...