NRRF radio road show with Montreal transmission artists

Dec 07, 2004: 12am- 11:59 pm
free103point9 Project Space + Gallery (1997-2006)

97 South 6th Street | Brooklyn, NY 11211 | 718-599-5955
http://www.free103point9.org

NRRF is a travelling live radio project involving three sound and radio artists from Montreal. Our longstanding individual practices in community radio, network sound projects, audio art/radio art, installation and performance, have led us together to an inquiry into the nature of radio as a political and interior landscape, and to real and imaginary incursions into this environment. The Secret Life of Radio (Anna Friz) Radios adrift, traversing alternately sibillant and sonorous seas of static. Ghosts and pirates encountered. Mutiny declared. FM transmissions sent and received live, using low-power transmitters and a muster of radios. Radioscopie I to ... (Chantal Dumas) Series of short improvised works aiming to explore several radio zones and to make all of radio's various states heard. From the macro to the micro. Freedom Highway (Emmanuel Madan) Beginning in September 2002, Emmanuel began driving through the United States and recording talk radio shows and religious programming on the AM band. The result is edited and remixed into a disturbing portrait of American Empire as heard from the inside. After these three solo performances, a short break could be programmed and then we will conclude with a group work: Radio is Not a Kleenex (group work) The concept of repertoire is very rarely associated with radio. Nevertheless, innumerable works have been imagined, created and composed for this ever since its inception. Radio has inspired the avant garde and continues to stimulate the creative force of artists to this day. From documentary to fiction, from tape works to live improvisation with radio noise, from spontaneous broadcast constructions to conceptual works described in writing and never yet executed, the history of the medium is that of an ever increasing and diversifying corpus of production. Radio is Not a Kleenex proposes a rereading of this radiophonic repertoire.