"Variations [Radiophonic]" by KMRU (Joseph Kamaru) is featured today. Joseph Kamaru (who styles his artist name as KMRU) is based in Nairobi and Berlin. In Variations, we hear field recordings from both these cities as well as from St. Petersburg. Voice announcements and mechanical sounds locate us clearly in airports and train stations across the three settings, but as the piece unfolds the sounds grow more rhythmic and less easy to place. “Variations” shares its name with Kamaru’s monthly music radio show and also with an installation work that spatializes this set of field recordings. In the radiophonic iteration of the work, a type of distance unique to broadcasting interacts with Kamaru’s compositional touch to shuttle us through the cities’ atmospheres and through our ideas of transit itself. - Described by Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow 2021/2022, Andy Stuhl.

Welcome to "The Radio Art Hour," a show where art is not just on the radio, but is the radio. "The Radio Art Hour" draws from the Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive, an online resource that aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks made by artists around the world, created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or independent transmission. Come on a journey with us as radio artists explore broadcast radio space through poetic resuscitations and playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers in this hour of radio about radio as an art form. "The Radio Art Hour" features introductions from Philip Grant and Tom Roe, and from Wave Farm Radio Art Fellows Karen Werner, Jess Speer, and Andy Stuhl. The Conet Project's recordings of numbers radio stations serve as interstitial sounds. Go to wavefarm.org for more information about "The Radio Art Hour" and Wave Farm's Radio Art Archive.