WGXC-90.7 FM
From the Radio Art Archive: "Electronic Ambient Remixes 4: Selflessness" (2003) by Cosey Fanni Tutti
90.7-FM in NY's Upper Hudson Valley and wgxc.org/listen everywhere
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Cosey Fanni Tutti's Electronic Ambient Remixes 4: Selflessness emerged from live art actions performed at Disneyland, California in 2002, with additional recordings in Beachyhead, Sussex; Cemetery Hull, and Sandringham in the United Kingdom. Originally broadcast on London's Resonance FM's Clear Spot Radio program, Selflessness Four is the last action in the series.
A slow aquatic-electro-dripp. Terrestrial babble featuring mechanical churning and drone tones. A disembodied school of chirping birds flying a reverse route. An oracular unveiling of children’s voices dancing with the ghoulish invitations of costumed characters. Coded speech and maniacal laughter whisks back and forth against a steady bass line. Ambient swaths of dark, eerie, and ethereal contradictions. Hushed distortions of mundane utterances and authoritative commands, shapeshifting. A mutilated silence, unfurling.
- Introduced by Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow Desiree Mwalimu-Banks
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.
Playlist:
- What's A Girl To Do / Fatima Yamaha
- Lost the plot / Paperbags

