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 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.
Tune in three radio theatre works from Janete El Haouli, 31 Down, and Aki Ondo. First tune in Janete El Haoulis "Memories of Zarah." Haouli is a fixture in the Brazilian radio art scene and beyond. She produced the program New Music: radio for thinking ears (1991-2005) at a radio station in Londrina, Brazil. "Memories of Zarah" was created in collaboration with Jos Augusto Mannis, a Brazilian electroacoustic composer, performer, sound designer, and professor. It is a radio play that revolves around a 1998 recording of Janete El Haoulis mother a month before she died. Then listen for 31 Downs "Dead Dial Tone." 31 Down creates darkly themed, romantic performance work with an emphasis on sound design, imagery, and mood, led by Ryan Holsopple. Then tune in Aki Onda work "Nam Junes Spirit Was Speaking To Me," commissioned by Documenta 14s radio art series called "Every Time A Ear di Soun." From Documentas catalogue: New York-based artist and composer Aki Onda has channeled the spirit of late Korean artist Nam June Paik via radio transmission.... With a portable radio in hand, Onda communicates with his spirit over long distance, collecting field recordings of cryptic broadcasts/messages on anonymous radio stations."
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.
Janete El Haouli, 31 Down, Aki Ondo
A show where art is not just on the radio, but is the radio.
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April 1, 2021
Produced for Wave Farm in the Hudson Valley in New York.
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