"Drive-In Concert" (2020) by Celia Hollander, Jeremiah Chiu, Ben Babbitt, Booker Stardrum, and Marta Sofia Honer
In March of 2020, Los Angeles was experiencing its first major surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. In place of a planned residency together that had to be cancelled due to the virus, a group of local electronic musicians devised the Drive-In Concert as a way they could perform together for a safely isolated audience. Their approach entailed setting up their gear in a van in an after-hours supermarket parking lot, arranging to transmit the sound from the van over a hyper-local FM signal, and inviting attendees to park in the lot and tune in from their cars. The performers included Celia Hollander, Jeremiah Chiu, Ben Babbitt, Booker Stardrum, and Marta Sofia Honer. Los Angeles station Dublab helped with the radio transmission, and around 100 cars attended. The recording is a reminder of the intense feelings of disruption and anxiety that attended the early stages of the pandemic and the unique ways that radio provided creative continuity when other modes for sharing sonic space had to pause.
- Introduced by Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow 2021/2022, Andy Stuhl.

"From My Window: Dreams, Hopes and Disappointments" (2020) by Rena Anakwe
Rena Anakwe aka DJ Lady Lane's "From My Window: Dreams, Hopes and Disappointments" aired as part the 2020 Radiophrenia program, a temporary art radio station broadcasting live from Glasgow's Center for Contemporary Arts, on 87.9-FM. Rena Anakwe’s luminous sound creation is an assemblage of field recordings taken during the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic vis-a-vis the windowsills of the artists home, and various New York City locales. A phonographic cocoon leads listeners through urban groves where sound ebbs and flows through myriad channels. Footsteps in motion, birds chattering, a door opening, steady rain, and a New Orleans-style birthday serenade, give way to dreamy ambient synth and gentle transfers of harmonic vocals. Tapering off through cavernous tunnels of wailing sirens, we find ourselves again in the procession of a gospel brass medley, a series of chord modulations, and the sound of the artist’s own dystopian voice. Anakwe leaves us to our own mirrors as she reflects on the inevitability of time and loss, resilience and false currencies, and the possibility of breath, and imagination within a collective annihilation.
- Introduced by Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow Desiree Mwalimu-Banks.

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.