a lagoon, considered against its archival image

Writes McIntyre, “During a six-week artist residency on Kapiti Island, a nature reserve on the coast of New Zealand, I explored radio transmission and reception as a way of reading the materiality of...

Argent Discovery

Writes Miner, “Argent Discovery is composed with sampled shortwave recordings performed on an Akai S5000 with an Elektron Analog Keys used as a controller and providing additional tones, filtering and...

Caller

Writes Osborn, “Caller (2017) is made from a shortwave recording of a song performed with voice and gamelan. The recording is processed and transformed to build a bed of sound from the vocal and instr...

Elegy for RCI

Writes Rosevere, “Elegy for RCI is a short piece intended to emulate the type of radio IDs or stings that might be played on shortwave radio stations. It was written in memory of RCI, and features sam...

Fringe Area

Fringe Area is an analogue tape loop and shortwave radio piece from Basinksi’s album Shortwavemusic created in 1982 in Brooklyn, NY.

Let's Absorb The Waves As We Hold On For Dear Life

Writes Knouf, “I turn on the radio. I hear a voice, a Voice of this Country, broadcast to the world. It’s propaganda, I know. But it’s still a voice that projects outward, rather than the insidious in...

Modulation I

Writes Quiros, “Modulation I reflects on modulation as a long-distance information transmission mechanism. Whether digital or analog, modulation builds a rich relational structure between different si...

Ondes Simultanee et Perturber

Writes Harrop, “I have been long fascinated with the vast aural complexity of short wave radio. More than the figurative and narrative content, the white noise of an infinity of pulses and waves that...

Oracle

Writes Ruchalski, “Oracle was created by using source material from various stations via KiwiSDR. I was interested in all the noise (pulses, beeps, tones) that can be heard when searching for a statio...

Over the Horizon

Writes Bonanno, “Over the Horizon is an electronic composition based on sampling, treatment and interaction of multiple sound sources recorded among short-wave frequencies between 2 and 30 MHz. The id...

Short Waves / Long Distance Repository

This Repository is comprised of a selection of works submitted to "Short Waves / Long Distance," an highly-competitive open call for composition exploring the sonics of the shortwave radio spectrum (2...

Spectres of Shortwave: Falling Towers (excerpt)

Writes Christie, “Spectres of Shortwave / Ombres des ondes courtes is both a film and an electroacoustic audio documentary about the Radio Canada International Shortwave Radio Towers that transmitted...

St Columb Major – transmission received

Writes Vernon, “St Columb Major – transmission received is composed entirely from a 20-minute shortwave radio scan recorded in the village of St. Columb Major in Cornwall, England at 1 p.m. on the Sep...

Strange Sonars

Write Dusman and Wonneberger, “Strange Sonars (2017) is a collaborative work designed to incorporate into its sonic palette during broadcast the natural sounds and characteristics of shortwave transmi...

The Perfect Storm

Writes Bradley, “The Perfect Storm (TPS) accesses virtual shortwave radio transmissions broadcast on the World Wide Web. Before composing TPS, I explored a number of supplied listening resources, incl...

Three Steppes Forward Two Steppes Back

Writes Gburek, “My most recent research and practice have involved using the Theremin in unique ways to calibrate the shortwave radio reception, scramble and coupling the Theremin with walkie-talkie f...