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The Radio Art Hour: Jamika Ajalon (Audio)
On this episode of The Radio Art Hour, we hear a new work for radio by 2025 Wave Farm Artist-in-Residence Jamika Ajalon!
Fluid Code Transmissions: Liberation Cypher is a radio broadcast unfolding as a transmission from the future, where the practice of “fluid code” is already in motion. The project explores coded languages of liberation expressed through sound. From music and rhythm to ambient noise, sound has historically served as a tool of resistance and survival. The atmospheric sounds of city streets, public transportation, and the soundscapes of daily life carry hidden codes waiting to be uncovered. Drawing on traditions like Morse code and drum communication, Ajalon traces how communities have created forms of expression that slip past dominant systems of control.
The goal is to craft a “fluid code”: a living, evolving form of sonic expression that cannot be easily co-opted or commodified. By combining original sound experiments, archival material, and selected contributions, the project is a call to imagine new, uncontainable forms of expression.