"The thing that happened" (2024) by Neo Muyanga
Neo Muyanga's "The thing that happened" wades into the Black Atlantic by weaving together community memory and composed/designed sounds to explore the complex cultural resistances central to the African diaspora. The piece is often vague in its chronology, and by creating an “out of time” space, Muyanga reifies the continuing struggles that require everyday resilience. While rooted in South African liberation and post-apartheid contexts, "The thing that happened" encourages listeners to re-think the grand narratives that frame their own lives.
-Introduced by Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow 2024, Austin T. Richey

"Mr. Smith Goes to Rhodesia" (1970) by Åke Hodell
"Mr. Smith Goes to Rhodesia" is by Swedish radio artist and writer Åke Hodell. In his twenties, Åke Hodell trained as a fighter pilot in the Swedish air force. After his plane crashed and a period of convalescence, he became an avid anti-militarist with strong left wing politics, something he conveys in most of his radio art pieces. Åke Hodell helped develop an approach known as text-sound composition which is a blend of radio play and musique concrete with playful and pointed uses of voice and language. "Mr. Smith Goes to Rhodesia" was commissioned by Swedish Radio in 1970 and was banned for 15 years. It was banned because of complaints from the parents of children whose voices were recorded for the piece -parents contacted the British embassy and that original version was destroyed. Soon after, Åke Hodell went to England to record children whose parents were sympathetic to the politics of the piece. "Mr. Smith Goes to Rhodesia" was performed live and recorded in 1970 in Stockholm, but the ban on the piece held until 1985. "Mr. Smith Goes to Rhodesia" is about Prime Minister Ian Smith´s white dictatorship in Rhodesia from 1964 to 1979. For more information: https://www.fylkingen.se/node/253
- Described by Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow 2019/2020, Karen Werner.

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.