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This is a Live recording of Radio Noise Collective, in the forest around Lac Voireau, during the autumn of 2021.

Radio Noise Collective plays with multiple analogue radios as instruments, intentionally altering and manipulating FM/AM signals captured in any given place. Here, at Lac Voireau, the frequencies, buzzes, pips, speaks join with the birds and insects of the forest.

Radio Noise Collective is a project by Apo33 (Jenny Pickett/JulienOttavi) to perform with Radio receivers and everyday cracked electronics.

Jenny Pickett is an artist-researcher at APO33, responsible for the coordination of international projects. She is a PhD candidate in Art and Technology at MADLab, Cyprus University of Technology, and also Associate Lecturer at the National School of Architecture in Nantes (ENSA-N).

Julien Ottavi is the founder-director, responsible for the artistic direction of APO33, an independent art lab. An artist-researcher and composer, he has a PhD in Art from the University of Lorraine, France on the subject of New Practices in Networked Music.

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).