Welcome to "The Radio Art Hour," a show where art is not just on the radio, but is the radio. "The Radio Art Hour" draws from the Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive, an online resource that aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks made by artists around the world, created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or independent transmission. Come on a journey with us as radio artists explore broadcast radio space through poetic resuscitations and playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers in this hour of radio about radio as an art form. "The Radio Art Hour" features introductions from Philip Grant and Tom Roe, and from Wave Farm Radio Art Fellows Karen Werner, Andy Stuhl, Jess Speer, and Jos Alejandro Rivera. The Conet Project's recordings of numbers radio stations serve as interstitial sounds. Go to wavefarm.org for more information about "The Radio Art Hour" and Wave Farm's Radio Art Archive.
Today we hear two works from Hali Palombo's "Radio Utah" album, one performance from the Shortwave Collective, and a radio play, or horspiel, from Momus. First, tune in Palombo's "Antenna Construction & Los Angeles" and "Arizona Check Ins" from her 2020 album "Radio Utah." The works sample shortwave radio. So does the Shortwave Collective, an international feminist group using the radio spectrum as artistic material that includes Alyssa Moxley, Brigitte Hart, Franchesca Casauay, Georgia Muenster, Hannah Kemp-Welch, Kate Donovan, Lisa Hall, Maria Papadomanolaki, Sally Applin, and Sasha Engelmann. Here, tune in their "Receive-Transmit-Receive" performance from a broadcast on Radiophrenia by Glasgows Centre for Contemporary Arts in Nov 2020, and as part of RAD Performance's International Women's #TakeBackTheStreets Soundride in Vienna on March 8, 2022. Finally, tune in "Summerisle Horspiel," a radio play from Momus with Anne Laplantine.
Wave Farm is a non-profit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. Major activities include the Wave Farm Artist Residency Program; Transmission Art Archive; WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears, a creative community radio station based in New Yorks Upper Hudson Valley; a Fiscal Sponsorship program; and the Media Arts Assistance Fund in partnership with NYSCA Electronic Media/Film. EVERGREEN EPISODE 133.
Hali Palombo, Shortwave Collective, Momus
A show where art is not just on the radio, but is the radio.
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Aug. 24, 2023
Produced for Wave Farm in the Hudson Valley in New York.
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