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Radio Roaming: Aki Onda's “Ugnayan” (1974/2026): Music for twenty radio stations composed by José Maceda.
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Installation view of Whitney Biennial 2026 (Whitney Museum of American Art, March 8–August 2026). José Maceda and Aki Onda, Ugnayan, 1974/2026. Photograph by Darian DiCanno/BFA.com.
José Maceda recording with Uher tape recorder in Palawan (1972). Courtesy of UP Center for Ethnomusicology.
Produced by Wave Farm Staff.
This episode of Radio Roaming features a stereo mix of artist and curator Aki Onda’s sound installation Ugnayan (1974/2026), music for twenty radio stations composed by José Maceda, presented at Whitney Biennial 2026.
Maceda wrote a fifty-one-page score, created 20 separate reel-to-reel recordings of singers and musicians playing gongs and Filipino bamboo instruments, and worked with all radio stations across the metropolitan Manila to play the tracks simultaneously. Blanketing the city in sound waves, Maceda’s composition returned music from the concert hall to everyday life.
Radio Roaming bounces across the electromagnetic spectrum, exploring the many possibilities of experimentation with sending and receiving. Produced by Wave Farm staff members, each episode features a selection of contemporary and/or historical radio and transmission art, with the aim of expanding the Wave Farm Radio Art and Transmission Art Archives.