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From the Radio Art Archive: "Loud Luggage / Booming Baggage" (2019) by GX Jupitter-Larsen

Sep 18, 2025: 9pm - 9:25 pm
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On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Kunstradio program on ORF in Austria, GX Jupitter-Larsen performed "Loud Luggage / Booming Baggage," in which he used a modified transistor radio to interfere with the signals from his two amplified suitcases. The artist has performed variations of this set-up in a number of configurations, both as radio broadcast and live performance, solo and in collaboration with other musicians and artists. Jupitter-Larsen has referred to the performance as a “sonic reference to the xylowave,” a concept of his own invention that he defines as the “distance between nothing and something.”
- Introduced by Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow 2022-2023, Tyler Maxin

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.

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