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.
"Virtues for Broadcast" by Rami George and J. Midden is featured today. Created while in residence at Wave Farm in Fall 2022, "Virtues for Broadcast" is a new radio work in the expanded Virtues project by Rami George and J. Midden. Inspired by a series of sonic interpretations of esoteric line drawings produced by the Samaritan Foundation"a new age spiritual cult Ramis family was involved with in the early 1990s"Virtues for Broadcast combines pre-existing Virtues material with new broadcast explorations, remixed material, and narrations exploring the Samaritan Foundation.
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 137.
Rami George and J. Midden
A show where art is not just on the radio, but is the radio.
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Sept. 28, 2023
Produced for Wave Farm in the Hudson Valley in New York.