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, and Jess Speer. 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.
"Transterritorios 1: Antenas, un reflejo abstracto" (2020) by Investigaciones del Futuro is featured in this episode, introduced by Jos Alejandro Rivera. The inaugural broadcast, titled "Transterritorios 1: Antenas, un reflejo abstracto" (Antennas: an abstract reflection), aired from Radio IF on December 20, 2020. It was the first of two transmissions that were a part of the XIV Festival de Arte Sonoro Tsonami. The three-hour event, of which a one-hour excerpt is made available here, is described by IF as a radiophonic happening. It begins with an introduction from its conductor, sound and radio artist and curator Florencia Curci, followed by other co-habitants who describe more of the intention behind IFs practice and the Transterritorios idea. The program draws inspiration from the 1960s media art avant-garde in Argentina, which included artists such as Eduardo Costa and Roberto Jacoby who are interviewed in these broadcasts. Live readings and conversations in Spanish, music, experimental sound, and field recordings are used to explore the particularities and differences between land (tierra) and territory (territorio). They explain that land carries with it the potentials, multiplicities, and the diverse. Place is infused with all that is possible from the land, and belongs to no one in particular. Territory, on the other hand, arises from establishing power relations on certain portions of land. One must first create the conditions to solidify geographical definitions of a territory. A transterritory then, is an oscillation between land and territory tuned and synchronized with the electromagnetic spectrum and the biological algorithms who govern it. Participants in the broadcast included: Agustn Genoud, Eduardo Costa, Sonido Cnico, Sebastin Durn, MRS SOUVENIR, Felipe Saez Riquelme, Julin Galay, Roger Colom, and A77. It was conducted by Florencia Curci. Introduced here by Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow 2022, Jos Alejandro Rivera. To listen to the Transterritorios radio happenings in full, visit the archive portion of their webpage at investigacionesdelfuturo.org. Much of this broadcast is in Spanish.
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 089.
Investigaciones del Futuro
A show where art is not just on the radio, but is the radio.
00:58:00
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Oct. 6, 2022
Produced for Wave Farm in the Hudson Valley in New York.
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