Radio Web MACBA:: LINES OF SIGHT :: a 7 episode radio show :: on the exploration of ideas around transmission :: link: http://bit.ly/n0d3mN

Curated by *Barbara Held *and* Pilar Subirà*, LINES OF SIGHT is a 7-episode radio show, which takes its name from the interconnected points of the global resonant space created by radio and other wireless technologies. From out of the extraordinary array of music that plays on this world-wide stage, it follows threads as diverse as musical notation and non-linear composition, and introduce artists who explore the ideas around transmission as a medium for creative expression.
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Artist-technologist Honor Harger listens to the weird and wonderful noises of stars and planets and pulsars. In her work, she tracks the radio waves emitted by ancient celestial objects and turns them into sound, including “the oldest song you will ever hear,” the sound of cosmic rays left over from the Big Bang. Related.

“The History of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop”

50 years ago this month (April 2008), the most celebrated electronic music studio in the world was established. We trace the history of the Radiophonic Workshop, talking to the composers and technical staff who helped to create its unique body of work — Steve Marshall

image: Before the Workshop: Daphne Oram manipulates a tape loop at Broadcasting House, watched by Frederick Bradnum, 1956 or ’57

I was 10 years old. As the last ‘whoosh’ of the Doctor Who theme dissolved into a wash of tape echo I sat transfixed by the light of the television, eagerly reading all of the end credits. “Wow!” I exclaimed. “I want to get a job in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop when I grow up!”

“I’m sorry, son,” said my father. “You won’t be able to do both.” Continue reading

Invitation to artists to participate in the radioCona project Radio As An Arts Space:: deadline June 25th, 2011 :: In the frame of the radioCona project Radio As An Arts Space, CONA Institute for Contemporary Arts ::

This is an open call for submission of contemporary sound art works from the area of radio art and sound art. Artists and art groups creating in the area of radio art and sound art are invited to apply with existing or new works. Selected works will be included in the exhibition Radio As An Arts Space which will be broadcast by radioCona and will appear at in situ locations in December 2011. The exhibition will at the same time occupy the radio frequencies and audio streams of international partners. The broadcast will be constituted as a gallery space with a curated exhibition delineated by the curators’ collection of selected works and featuring works selected through this open call. Continue reading

Roberto Paci Dalò & The Clocktower Gallery / ARTonAIR.org in New York collaborate during the opening week of the Biennale :: Six Memos, a sound-light installation :: and Secret Courtyard :: Aperitivo from 19:00 – 21:00 | Digestivo from 21:00 – Midnight :: Cortili musei civici Procuratie nuove, piazza San Marco 63, Venice, Italy ::

Six Memos is the site-specific sound-light installation created in the Procuratie nuove’s courtyards in piazza San Marco. The Williamsburg Bridge is the radio work by Roberto PaciDalò which provides the sound for the installation. The piece travels across the Hassidic communities around Brooklyn where the daily language – spoken at any age including kids – is Yiddish. Walking through Lee Avenue or Bedford Avenue is a unique perceptional experience. The Williamsburg Bridge connects Williamsburg to the Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Within one single train station it is possible to travel in time & space. Continue reading

Radius will broadcast Episode 07: Foradius by Sturgen — César Rodrigues and David Arantes, a duo from Portugal. Their music explores a vast amount of sonic rhythmics where a techno-trance universe is combined with a constant noise attitude.

Foradius is a work created specifically for broadcast on Radius. The two members of Sturqen worked independently of each other using Portuguese radio transmissions as source material. The fragmented radio clips were then digitally processed and joined together to create the 18-minute composition. Continue reading

Call for Participation – Radio Art & Sound Art: “AIR / EAR” installation :: the first collective installation of radio art and sound art :: in San Justo, Santa Fe, Argentina :: June 24, 2011, 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm; July 1,8,15 and 22, 2011, 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm ::

As part of an outreach project in small cities in the use of sound and radio media as part of a new artistic concept: radio art, you are invited to participate with sounds, through the minimum of the radio art concepts: “the limits of artistic ham radio never been nor will be clear and definitive, in many cases the boundaries are exceeded, and often new artistic initiatives lend themselves to gender confusion. This is the case of radio art, as new discipline, transgressive, avant-garde, can not be easily pigeonholed or seeks views on its unique and decisive reason for being. Continue reading

Spectral Quartet — by Woody Sullender — is a web adaptation of the project Whispering Spectres, which will be installed at Turbulence @Pace Digital Gallery 2, April 5-29, 2011.

The audio content consists of filtered radio signals, culled from various web streams from the Internet. These signals are being passed through many “band pass filters”, a type of equalizer that allows a small range of frequencies through while attenuating frequencies outside of this range. In effect, most of the audio signal is “erased” except for a narrow stratum of frequency material. This work highlights small, hidden musical moments that are occurring on radio, but are usually rendered inaudible by other elements in the sound. Continue reading

Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR):: radio experiments :: First Thursday evenings during April, May and June, 2011 :: at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), 250 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012 :: Free ::

First Event :: In Your Ear :: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 7:00 –10:00 p.m. :: MOCA, Grand Avenue :: Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR) will harness the airwaves around the museum to transmit a collection of radio programs on local frequencies. MOCA visitors may tune into these programs via handheld personal transistor radios they either bring to or buy at the event for 2 USD. For “FMemory,” NPR will broadcast interviews with downtown Los Angeles’s communities about memorable experiences of MOCA as well as their perceptions of Bunker Hill’s evolving landscape. Continue reading

Karl Sczuka Prize 2011: Call for Submissions :: Application Deadline: June 15, 2011 ::

The Karl Sczuka Prize for Works of Radio Art will be awarded this year for the 50th time, to honour the best production of a work of radio art using musical material and structures in an acoustic performance. The prize is open to authors, composers, directors and production teams. The application deadline is June 15, 2011.

Südwestrundfunk, a public service organization, awards a prize for works of radio art. The presentation is made for the best production of a work of radio art using musical material and structures in an acoustic performance. In addition to the Karl Sczuka Prize, the Südwestrundfunk awards a support grant.

The Karl Sczuka Prize is awarded annually, in October, by the “Intendant” (Director General) of Südwestrundfunk. Works winning the Karl Sczuka Prize are, insofar as is possible, presented during the Donaueschingen Festival (”Donaueschinger Musiktage”).

For details and regulations in German, English and French, please got to http://www.swr2.de/sczuka