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From the Radio Art Archive: "Transterritorios 1: Antenas, un reflejo abstracto" (2020) by Investigaciones del Futuro
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The inaugural broadcast, titled Transterritorios 1: Antenas, un reflejo abstracto (Antennas: an abstract reflection), aired from Radio IF on December 20, 2020. It was the first of two transmissions that were a part of the XIV Festival de Arte Sonoro Tsonami.
The three-hour event, of which a one-hour excerpt is made available here, is described by IF as a “radiophonic happening.” It begins with an introduction from its “conductor,” sound and radio artist and curator Florencia Curci, followed by other co-habitants who describe more of the intention behind IF’s practice and the Transterritorios idea.
The program draws inspiration from the 1960s media art avant-garde in Argentina, which included artists such as Eduardo Costa and Roberto Jacoby who are interviewed in these broadcasts. Live readings and conversations in Spanish, music, experimental sound, and field recordings are used to explore the particularities and differences between land (tierra) and territory (territorio). They explain that land carries with it the potentials, multiplicities, and the diverse. Place is infused with all that is possible from the land, and belongs to no one in particular. Territory, on the other hand, arises from establishing power relations on certain portions of land. One must first create the conditions to solidify geographical definitions of a territory. A transterritory then, is an oscillation between land and territory tuned and synchronized with the electromagnetic spectrum and the biological algorithms who govern it.
Participants in the broadcast included: Agustín Genoud, Eduardo Costa, Sonido Cínico, Sebastián Durán, MRS SOUVENIR, Felipe Saez Riquelme, Julián Galay, Roger Colom, and A77. It was conducted by Florencia Curci.
- Introduced by Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow 2022, José Alejandro Rivera.
To listen to the Transterritorios radio happenings in full, visit the archive portion of their webpage at investigacionesdelfuturo.org
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.
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