WGXC-90.7 FM
The Radio Art Hour: Esther Sibiude, Rick Harris, Edward Haber
90.7-FM in NY's Upper Hudson Valley and wgxc.org/listen everywhere
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Produced by Bianca Biberaj, in collaboration with Wave Farm Radio Art Fellows and Artists-in-residence.
Today tune in a radio tale with music by Esther Sibiude and Gobby, narrated by Jett Strauss called "Crisis Baby Crisis" and two short works from 1985 on the Tellus cassette "The Sound of Radio" by Rick Harris, and by Edward Haber. First, "Crisis Baby Crisis" tells the tale of a young and wealthy couple moving from one metropole to the other in the attempt to escape the political and ecological crises that each new place confronts them with. Detached, they observe the world around them, without ever feeling rooted, and move whenever things get hard. Then tune in the short work from Rick Harris called Is This Real," and Edward Haber's funny "Abbott and Costello Meet the Anti-Christ."
Text: Esther Sibiude Sound design: Gobby Harp: Esther Sibiude Narration: Jett StraussWelcome 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.