25 Hz

Writes Stuhl,“The age of automation – that art of worker-less factories which has industrial management crackling these days – is coming close to broadcasting,” announced Broadcasting magazine in 1954...

A Radio Programme about Radio

“A Radio Programme about Radio”, 1974, by Howard Broomfield, part 9 of the 10-part Soundscapes of Canada series produced by the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University, directed by R. Murr...

A Year of Radio Silence

From November 10, 2012 to November 10, 2013, artist Steve Bates transmitted a 25 micro-Watt signal at the lower bound of the FM band from his apartment in Montreal. The content of this signal was the...

BLACKBODY, WHITE NOISE

Writes Robinson, “BLACKBODY, WHITE NOISE is an experimental radio art composition. For an entire week I have collected sounds using two vacant cast iron cubes and sound reproduction technology. Each s...

Drive-In Concert

In March of 2020, Los Angeles was experiencing its first major surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. In place of a planned residency together that had to be cancelled due to the virus, a group of local elec...

Free Radio Linux

Commissioned by the Walker Art Center in 2002, r a d i o q u a l i a's "Free Radio Linux" entailed a text-to-speech program reading the entirety of the central code base for Linux, the popular open so...

The Indians for Indians Hour (Show #110)

Started in 1941 by host Don Whistler, who also went by the name Kesh-ke-kosh, the Indians for Indians Hour aired on University of Oklahoma station WNAD and served into the 1970s as a widely listened-t...

Loop 2: Channel Rhythms

Henry Jacobs, a self-styled ethnomusicologist and audio experimenter, hosted a weekly show on Berkeley station KPFA in the early 1950s called “Music and Folklore.” To produce his show, Jacobs taped ec...

The Machinery of Doom (Live at Day of Noise 2012)

In Joseph Brenner’s (whose radio air name is the Voice of Doom) long-running sound art project The Machinery of Doom, influences from industrial and avant-garde music materialize in sets of found obje...

Montreal Audio Placebo Transmission

In its first iteration, Audio Placebo Plaza (the collective project of artists Erin Gee, Julia E. Dyck, and Vivian Li) occupied a storefront in Montreal’s Plaza Saint-Hubert for seven days in June 202...

Mourning Good

“Mourning Good” is the work of Black Siren Radio, which is one outlet for the We Be Imagining initiative. We Be Imagining combines academic research and the performance arts to propel “critical conver...

The People’s Radio

The People’s Radio explores radio as a technology developed and pioneered by the U.S. military industrial complex as political warfare and public radio as a conduit for Black expressive culture and ra...

refuse: military.01

In the first installment of “refuse: military,” Meira Asher addresses the compulsory military service requirement facing young Israelis and the violence they are tasked with carrying out against their...

subterranean

In 2020, members of the CO-OPt gallery in Lubbock, Texas installed a hyperlocal FM station that broadcast to an area extending just into the gallery’s parking lot and the street in front of it. Sordah...

Tapeloping

Absolute Value of Noise is the alias of artist Peter Courtemanche. In “Tapeloping,” which commemorates the 30th anniversary of the first Absolute Value of Noise show on Vancouver’s CITR-FM, Courtemanc...

Towards an Amicable End

Composed in 2020, Towards an Amicable End is anchored by a moment of globally widespread fear and anxiety – “a sense of impending doom in the air,” as artist Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (who is also a wr...

Variations [Radiophonic]

Joseph Kamaru (who styles his artist name as KMRU) is based in Nairobi and Berlin. In Variations, we hear field recordings from both these cities as well as from St. Petersburg. Voice announcements an...

Voiceage

“Voiceage” was produced in 1990 by Julia Loktev, who would go on to become an internationally acclaimed filmmaker. At the turn of the nineties, though, Loktev was a student at McGill University and th...

WE ARE AWAKE: Mixtape for Resistance

Airing on Radio Coyote, an online and FM station conceived by Diné composer, performer and installation artist Raven Chacon, Broken Boxes is a recurring show in which Ginger Dunnill presents interview...