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“This program explores the radio as a musical instrument in an attempt to expand the notion of soundscape in the local context, embracing EMF and radio waves as a part of our surrounding environment, and creating a collaborative space for improvisation, sound hacking, radio art and experimental music diffusion, inviting friends and colleagues to inhabit this space and making noise out of radios. 

I named this project “Tuning the Inner Noise.”

The tracks we’re about to listen involve acousmatic composition, improvisation - solo and collaborative - and DIY EMF mics. All these performances and compositions happened during a residence at LAB 3 of the Medellín Modern Art Museum (COL), for an ongoing Radio exhibition called “White Noise”, curated by Colombian artist and researcher Camilo Cantor.

The exhibition space broadcast the signal to an installative set up of radios tuned in the frequency of a FM transmitter inside the LAB 3. All the performances where transmitted online via radiolibre.cc 

Ruido Interior 1 is an acousmatic piece involving FM and AM radio signals, signal processing and EMF interference with cell phones, remote controllers and optical mouses.

Miniatura electromagnética 1,2 & 3 are sonic explorations of the EMF soundscape of my home. This was recorded with a DIY EMF microphone.

Concierto para radios #2 is a collective improvisation of 5 radios. Performed with expr (@expr_taller) each radio had its own fx chain of pedals and two sequencers.

Concierto para radios #1 / improvisación are two improvisations with Daniel Martínez (@danielmb__) involving radios and live signal processing.”

Jaime Carvajal Giraldo (b1992) is a sound artist and experimental musician from Medellín, Colombia. He has participated in several showcases and exhibitions in museums such as Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (COL), Festival Internacional de la Imagen (COL), Festival Internacional de Música y Multimedia Ramificaciones (MEX), Sur Aural (BOL), Radio Tenthaus (NOR), MiniBEAST (GBR), among others.

He is interested in using radios, speakers, microphones, cassettes, microcassettes, found sound objects, soundscapes, field and EMF recordings. All this converges in the search for creating acousmatic pieces, sound installations, performances, and sound design.

This configures an experimental practice, involving documentary and transdisciplinarity where sound emerges as a medium to reflect on contemporary matters in documentary practices, archive, musicology, technology, media archaeology and politics.

Jaime has won awards from the Medellín Department of Arts and Culture (COL), Colombia Department of Arts and Culture. In 2021 he achieved an Honour’s mention in the X Call for the Young Arts Talents from Medellín Chamber of commerce (COL) in the Radio Art category.

https://www.instagram.com/jjaime_ccarvajal/

Curated by Afroditi Psarra, "Transmission Ecologies" explores the turbulent world of radio signals which propagate around us. Each show features a guest sound artist who broadcasts their radio experiments using EMFs, interference patterns from devices, HAM, RF field recordings, satellite signals, space astronomy research, etc. to formulate their interpretations, compositions, and translations of the invisible and unheard layer of telecommunication technologies.

"Transmission Ecologies" is commissioned by Stegi Radio / Onassis Culture.

Afroditi Psarra is a multidisciplinary artist and an Associate Professor of Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University of Washington where she runs the DXARTS Softlab. Her research focuses on the interweaving of art and science through the creation of artifacts with a critical lens. In her projects she explores energetic phenomena like electromagnetic radiation, and technologies such as radio-frequency sensing, fractal antennas, and software-defined radio. She is particularly interested in the use of the body as an interface of control, and the revitalization of tradition as a methodology of hacking existing norms about technical objects. Her art practice builds on and extends the work of Cyber and Techno-Feminism(s) and the idea of bodies as archives of information, and manifests through e-textiles and wearables, performances, installations and sound art.

She has exhibited her work internationally in venues such as Onassis Stegi, Bozar, Laboral, EMST, Ars Electronica, Transmediale and CTM, Eyeo, Amber, Piksel, and WRO Biennale between others, and published at conferences like Siggraph, ISWC (International Symposium of Wearable Computers), DIS (Designing Interactive Systems), C&C (Creativity and Cognition), and EVA (Electronic Visualization and the Arts).