TRANSMISSION ART ARCHIVE
free103point9 celebrates Art's Birthday 011707
2007
Arts Birthday 2007: Adore and be still. 100 years of radio.
free103point9 aired two web streams: one will pick up the entire Kunstradio "Art's Birthday Party" feed, and another will simultaenously airing a feed from various free103point9 Transmission Artists, and the various "Art's Birthday" feeds from around the world contributing to Kunstradio's feed. This recording is the latter, a sort of collage of many sounds and feeds, an ode to radio art.
Art's Birthday Party is a celebration in memory of Robert Filliou who declared, on January 17 1963, that Art had been born exactly 1,000,000 years ago when someone dropped a dry sponge into a pail of water. After Filliou's death in 1987, some artists began to celebrate Art's Birthday in the spirit of his concept of "The Eternal Network" or "La Fete permanente". The Birthday parties took place in different cities across the world, and artists were asked to bring birthday presents for Art works that could be shared over the network.
On Christmas 1906, on the other hand, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden undertook the very first radio broadcast of voice and music. Luckily, he had the foresight to time his experiment exactly, its 100th anniversary practically coinciding with the 1,000,044th birthday of Art.
free103point9 joined this coordinated international broadcast from Kunstradio in Austria. January 17th, 2007 from 20:00 - 24:00 CET, 19:00 - 23:00 GMT.
free103point9 aired two web streams: one will pick up the entire Kunstradio "Art's Birthday Party" feed, and another will simultaenously airing a feed from various free103point9 Transmission Artists, and the various "Art's Birthday" feeds from around the world contributing to Kunstradio's feed. This recording is the latter, a sort of collage of many sounds and feeds, an ode to radio art.
Art's Birthday Party is a celebration in memory of Robert Filliou who declared, on January 17 1963, that Art had been born exactly 1,000,000 years ago when someone dropped a dry sponge into a pail of water. After Filliou's death in 1987, some artists began to celebrate Art's Birthday in the spirit of his concept of "The Eternal Network" or "La Fete permanente". The Birthday parties took place in different cities across the world, and artists were asked to bring birthday presents for Art works that could be shared over the network.
On Christmas 1906, on the other hand, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden undertook the very first radio broadcast of voice and music. Luckily, he had the foresight to time his experiment exactly, its 100th anniversary practically coinciding with the 1,000,044th birthday of Art.
free103point9 joined this coordinated international broadcast from Kunstradio in Austria. January 17th, 2007 from 20:00 - 24:00 CET, 19:00 - 23:00 GMT.