Dim the lights, grab your pillows and tea or wine, and cozy up to the radio for this premiere romp through the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive featuring radio art classics and contemporary delights. Hosted and curated by Karen Werner, 2019-2020 Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow. Together through the distance...

Works included:
Hymn by Anna Friz, Absolute Value of Noise, and Glenn Gear
Leiyla and the Poet by Halim El-Dabh
Qualia (excerpt) by Charo Calvo
Spirit of Ecstacy Racing Car Opera by Åke Hodell
Breathing Room by Hildegard Westerkamp
Imperfect Breath by Anna Friz
Earth Police by Leonard Fisher
Penser Avec Les Mains by Tetsuo Kogawa
Memories of Zarah by Janete El Haouli and José Augusto Mannis
HP Show: The Land of Science (excerpt) by Hank Bull and Patrick Ready
Music in Marble Halls by Tony Schwartz

The Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive is an online resource and broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM, which is syndicated to stations across the country through The Radio Art Hour. It aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM/Shortwave broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or pirate transmission. The archive is a product of Wave Farm's Radio Artist Fellowship.

Radio artists explore broadcast radio space through a richly polyphonous mix of practices, including poetic resuscitations of conventional radio drama, documentary, interview and news formats; found and field sound compositions reframed by broadcast; performative inhabitations/embodiments of radio’s inherent qualities, such as entropy, anonymity and interference; playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers, and the potential feedback loops between hosts and layers of audience, from in-studio to listeners at home to callers-in; use of radio space to bridge widely dispersed voices (be they living or dead), subjects, environments and communities, or to migrate through them in ways that would not be possible in real time and space; electroacoustic compositions with sounds primarily derived from gathering, generating and remixing radiophonic sources. Note: Wave Farm continues to expand this definition of radio art through engagement with contemporary practices including those revealed by Wave Farm Artists-in-residence, and the Radio Art Fellowship program.