TRANSMISSION ART ARCHIVE

Tuning the World

2018

DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult

DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult Wave Farm Residency Broadcast Instruments. Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult Wave Farm Residency Rehearsal with M49 and Radio. Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 11, 2018)

Boombox at the M49 Facility As Part of DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult's Wave Farm Residency Broadcast "Tuning the World". Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

DinahBird Adjusting Radio for Wave Farm Residency Broadcast "Tuning the World". Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

DinahBird and Jean-Philippe in the M49 Facility Preparing for their "Tuning the World" Broadcast at Wave Farm Residency. Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult Perfoming in Emergency Reflective Ponchos as Part of Their Wave Farm Residency Broadcast "Tuning the World". Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult Preparing for Their Wave Farm Residency Broadcast. Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult Preparing for Their Wave Farm Residency Broadcast . Photographed by Galen Joseph-Hunter (Jun 08, 2018)

DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult Preparing for Wave Farm Residency Broadcast . Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult Preparing for Wave Farm Residency Broadcast. Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult Wave Farm Residency Broadcast Instruments. Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult Wave Farm Residency Rehearsal with M49 and Radio. Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult's Stereo Condenser Microphone Rig Using Baby Socks as Makeshift Wind Screens for Wave Farm Residency Broadcast . Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

DinahBird in the M49 Facility Preparing for Her and Jean-Philippe's "Tuning the World" Broadcast at Wave Farm Residency. Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

DinahBird Preparing for Her and Jean-Philippe Renoult's Wave Farm Residency Broadcast. Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

DinahBird, Jean-Philippe Renoult and the M49 Facility in the Distance, in Preparation for Their Wave Farm Residency Broadcast . Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

Jean-Philippe Renoult Auditioning Sounds for "Tuning the World" Broadcast at the Study Center as part of the Wave Farm Residency. Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

Jean-Philippe Renoult Performing in the M49 Facility for Wave Farm Residency Broadcast . Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

Jean-Philippe Renoult Performing on Shruti Box for the Wave Farm Residency Broadcast "Tuning the World". Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

Jean-Philippe Renoult Performing on Shruti Box for Wave Farm Residency Broadcast . Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

Mallet and Handheld Radio As Part of DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult's Wave Farm Residency Broadcast "Tuning the World". Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

Pinecones and Handheld Radio as Part of DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult's Wave Farm Residency Broadcast "Tuning the World". Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

Radio Broadcasting on a Log Round as Part of DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult's Wave Farm Residency Broadcast "Tuning the World". Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

Radio Installed on Tree as Part of DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult's Wave Farm Residency Broadcast "Tuning the World". Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2018)

DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult in Residence at Wave Farm Representing WGXC Hands-On Radio 90.7-FM Outside the Study Center . Photographed by Galen Joseph-Hunter (Jun 06, 2018)

DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult Studying the U.S. Frequency Allocation Chart. Photographed by Galen Joseph-Hunter (Jun 06, 2018)

DinahBird Studying the U.S. Frequency Allocation Chart. Photographed by Galen Joseph-Hunter (Jun 06, 2018)

Jean-Philippe Renoult and DinahBird Studying the U.S. Frequency Allocation Chart. Photographed by Galen Joseph-Hunter (Jun 06, 2018)

"Tuning the World" is a series of outdoor broadcasts, an active approach to field recording and listening where live sonic drones are transmitted back into the soundscape. Jean-Philippe plays a shruti box, a Northern Indian portable instrument, cousin to the harmonium, while Dinah “actively” records the process, moving back and forth between the environmental sounds such as water, wind and birds and the transmitted sound. Dinah will also play single notes and tuneless human hums, inspired by the local electromagnetic environment, via small FM radios. The aim is not to dominate or disturb, but rather more to observe how the landscape responds to the artists’ emissions. Inspired by the ideas and methods of R Murray Schafer, his theories on soundscape, and his concept of “wilderness radio,” where the “unneventful events of the natural soundscape transmitted without editing into the hearts of cities” (Radical Radio -1987) as well as Pauline Oliveros’ practice of Deep Listening, DinahBird and Jean-Philippe have developed our own “active” listening and recording posture in order to play with the surrounding natural landscape, softly and quietly, and at varying distances from the microphones that document their actions.