Maria Papadomanolaki has produced this weeks episode of Radia in conjunction with Radia network member free103point9 and their newly launched full-power FM station WGXC-90.7-FM in upstate New York.

Gowanus Over and Out follows the aural traces of the narrowcast audio exhibit Sib Radio Gowanus curated last year for the exhibition Postcards from Gowanus (Cabinet Magazine Gallery, March 17-20 2010, Gowanus, Brooklyn). The conceptual backbone of the project was to create a sonic wallpaper that would reflect the aural undertones, both real and imagined, of the area surrounding the gallery. It also served as an organic sonotopia that inhabited the audiovisual exhibits in a process of associative interaction. Responding to a call for works, a total of 44 US and international artists from diverse creative backgrounds contributed works ranging from drones and field recordings to spoken word pieces and experimental sonic artworks. Gowanus Over and Out attempts to offer a 27 minute glimpse into some of the different facets of the exhibit while at the same time being its own self-expanding universe of sounds.

Tracklist
The piece features samples of the following works:

Myke Dodge Weiskopf - Helicopter
http://www.myke.me/wordpress/

Sogar – Tapete
http://www.monohr.com/Sogar.html

Knut Aufermann - avi5
http://knut.klingt.org/

Sterling Basement - Drowned in the Canal
http://www.johnroach.net/pages/2002_sterling_basement.html

Solo Andata - Ablation
http://solo-andata.com/
http://soundcloud.com/soloandata

verdi_spirali - on_earth@in_space
http://www.myspace.com/verdispirali

Jonny Farrow - Gowanus Walk
http://jonnyfarrow.net/

Radio Ruido - all artifacts
http://radioruidotriangulation.blogspot.com/

Maria Papadomanolaki - Cabinet
http://www.voicesoundtext.com

Lina Lapelyte - MATB1
http://www.myspace.com/lapelyte

Maria Papadomanolaki – Playground (Radia edit)
http://www.voicesoundtext.com

Todd Merrell - As March Times On
http://www.toddmerrell.com/

Mark Templeton - Safely into March
http://www.fieldsawake.com/

Bryan Zimmerman - Blobs Of Yellow-Green Sun
http://www.free103point9.org/artists/998

Last Days - Walls
http://www.lastdaysmusic.co.uk/

A.G - Polygon:08|1
http://agpolygon08.blogspot.com/

Myke Dodge Weiskopf - VNG
http://www.myke.me/wordpress/

Tune in for a very special live performance, on WGXC 90.7-FM, from internationally renowned artist Gregory Whitehead. An award-winning writer, director and producer of more than one hundred radio plays, essays and acoustic adventures, Whitehead has created radio works for the BBC, Radio France, Australia's ABC, National Public Radio in the U.S., and other broadcasters. He is a frequent performer in literary cabarets and mixed media theatre events, as well as a featured guest speaker at conferences and audio festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe. Whitehead is the co-editor of the influential anthology of writings on the history of radio and audio art, Wireless Imagination: sound radio and the avant-garde, and the author of numerous essays that explore the politics and paradoxes of radiophonic space, as well as the diverse absurdities of the moment.

Gregory Whitehead website.

Gregory Whitehead wikipedia page.

Gregory Whitehead recordings.

Jacob Kirkegaard's Labyrinthitis (2007) is the second of a three-part broadcast, presented as part of the research exhibition and experiment, Dear Pratella, which investigates the critical potential of sound-based art in various social, spatial, temporal, and discursive contexts. For more information, visit www.dearpratella.org.

The recording and composition of Labyrinthitis relies on a principle and phenomenon employed and experienced in both medical science and musical practice: when two frequencies at a certain ratio are played into the human ear, additional vibrations in the inner ear produce a third frequency or tone – a phenomenon known as “distortion product otoacoustic emission” (DPOAE), also known as “Tartini tone”. Contrary to our common conception of the ear as a passive receiving organ, this phenomena points to our active ears that both receive and create sound. Labyrinthitis begins with two specific tones at a 1:1.2 ratio of frequencies, recorded by tiny sensitive microphones in the artist’s ears. This then stimulates listeners to hear the distorting third tone produced by their own ears. Once the two primary tones have faded, the third tone created by Kirkegaard’s ears can be heard. Another tone is then added, in the necessary ratio to the earlier third tone, which then creates another, lower “third tone” – both in Kirkegaard’s ears and the listeners’. This generative process of tones being played, produced, recorded, and then played back again, continues on, intensifying in complexity and creating a descending tonal structure that resembles the spiral form of the inner ear. Though Labyrinthitis may be experienced in different sites as an audio installation or broadcast, it is site-specific to the ears of the listeners – not only hearing the artist hearing, but also themselves.

Jacob Kirkegaard is a Danish artist based in Berlin, who focuses on the scientific and aesthetic aspects of resonance, time, sound and hearing. His installations, compositions and performances deal with acoustic spaces and phenomena that usually remain imperceptible. Using unorthodox recording tools, Kirkegaard captures and contextualizes hitherto unheard sounds from within a variety of environments. He has presented his works at exhibitions and at festivals and conferences throughout the world and has released five albums. Kirkegaard is also a member of the sound art collective freq_out.