Radio art

Broadcasts

• New American Radio, a weekly national series, 1987-1998. NAR commissioned and distributed over 300 original works: conceptual new drama, associational documentary, language explorations, sonic meditations, environmental compositions, musical explorations and works that pioneer new dimensions in acoustic space. Produced by Helen Thorington and Regine Beyer.
• Ràdio Web MACBA, a radiophonic project from the MACBA website that explores the possibilities of the internet and radio as spaces of synthesis and exhibition.
• Radius, Radius is an experimental radio broadcast platform based in Chicago, IL, USA.
• Wave Farm Radio, Wave Farm Radio encompasses many radio streams available at wavefarm.org/listen and the Wave Farm Radio App. WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears is a full-power, non-commercial, listener-supported station in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley operating out of studios in Hudson and the Wave Farm Study Center in Acra. Standing Wave Radio is an online stream dedicated to experimental sound and transmission art. Site-specific and interactive installations by artists sonify Wave Farm’s 29-acre property and feature live online audio streams. Wave Farm's Transmit Partners program is a growing network of like-minded organizations and individuals around the globe.

Literature

• Rudolf Arnheim, Rundfunk als Hörkunst, manuscript, [1933]; Carl Hanser, 1979; new ed., exp., as Rundfunk als Hörkunst, und weitere Aufsätze, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2001. (German) [1]
  • Radio: An Art of Sound, trans. Margaret Ludwig and Herbert Read, London: Faber and Faber, 1936; New York: Arno Press, 1971, 287 pp.
• Mark Ensign Cory, The Emergence of an Acoustical Art Form: An Analysis of the German Experimental Hörspiel of the 1960s, University of Nebraska, 1974.
• Willem de Ridder, William Levy, Radio Art, Amsterdam: Galerie A, 1980, 12 pp. [2]
• Robert Hawes, Radio Art, London: Green Wood, 1991.
• Musicworks 53: Special Issue: "Radio-Phonics and Other-Phonies" (Summer 1992), ed. Dan Lander. With CD. [3]
• Neil Strauss, Dave Mandl (eds.), Radiotext(e), Autonomedia, 1993. [4]
• Daina Augaitis, Dan Lander (eds.), Radio Rethink: Art, Sound and Transmission, Banff Centre Press, 1994, 194 pp.
• Selected Survey of Radio Art in Canada 1967–1992, Banff: Walter Phillips Gallery, and Banff Centre for the Arts, 1994.
• Allen S. Weiss, Phantasmatic Radio, Duke University Press, 1995, 144 pp.
• TDR: The Drama Review 40(3): Special Issue on Experimental Sound and Radio (Autumn 1996). [5]
• eContact! 2.3: Radiophonique / Radiophonic, 1999.
• Allen S. Weiss (ed.), Experimental Sound and Radio, MIT Press, 2000, 188 pp.
• Kersten Glandien, "Art on air: a profile of new radio art", in Music, Electronic Media, and Culture, ed. Simon Emmerson, 2000, pp 167-193.
• eContact! 5.3: "NAISA — New Adventures in Sound Art", 2002. (in English/French)
• Michal Murin, "Radio Art - A Slovak perspective", trans. Alexander Avenarius, in Sound Scripts: Proceedings of the Inaugural Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference 2005, eds. Cat Hope and Jonathan Marshall, Edith Cowan University, 2006, pp 66-73.
• Michal Rataj, Elektroakustická hudba a vybrané koncepty radioartu: Problematika vymezování tvůrčích pozic v prostředí akustických uměníz pohledu domácí scény radioartu, Prague: Kant, 2007. (Czech) [6]
  • Electroacoustic Music and Selected Concepts of Radio Art, PFAU: Saarbrücken, 2010, 100 pp.
• Heidi Grundmann, Elisabeth Zimmermann, Reinhard Braun, Dieter Daniels, Andreas Hirsch, Anne Thurmann-Jajes (eds.), Re-Inventing Radio: Aspects of Radio as Art, Frankfurt am Main: Revolver, 2008, 541 pp. TOC. Reviews: Thiermann (MedienWissenschaft), Cameron.
  • Dieter Daniels, "Inventing and Re-Inventing Radio", pp 27-47.
  • Wolfgang Hagen, "Alternating Currents and Ether: Two Paradigms of Radio Development: U.S. vs. Europe", pp 53-62.
  • Doreen Mende, "Radio as Exhibition Space", pp 149-159. [7]
  • Johannes Auer, "Net Literature and Radio: A Work-in-Progress Report", pp 359-374.
• Helen Thorington, "Radio, Art, Life: New Contexts", London: Tate, May 2008.
• Virginia Madsen, "Written in air: Experiments in radio", in Experimental Music: Audio Explorations in Australia, ed. Gail Priest, UNSW Press, 2009, pp 154-174.
• Galen Joseph-Hunter, Penny Duff, Maria Papadomanolaki (eds.), Transmission Arts: Artists & Airwaves, PAJ Publications, with free103point9, 2011, 169 pp. Project website. Cover. [8] [9] [10]. Review: Barber (Leonardo).
• José Iges (ed.), Ars sonora, 25 años: una experiencia de arte sonoro en radio, Madrid: Autor, 2012. (Spanish)
• Seismograf/DMT: Radio Radio Radio, Sep 2013. (Danish)
• Lukáš Jiřička, Dobyvatelé akustických scén. Od radioartu k hudebnímu divadlu (Goebbels, Neuwirth, Ammer, Oehring), Prague: NAMU, 2015, 416 pp. [11] (Czech)
• Knut Aufermann, Helen Hahmann, Sarah Washington, Ralf Wendt (eds.), Radio Revolten: 30 Days of Radio Art, Leipzig: Spector Books, 2019, 356 pp. Review: Mallozzi (Resonance).
• Helen Thorington, "The Making of American Radio Art", PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 43:1, Jan 2021, pp 30-44. [12]
• Jacki Apple, "American Radio Art 1985-1995: New Narrative and Media Strategies", PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 43:1, Jan 2021, pp 45-65. [13]

Artists, events, initiatives

• AudioHyperspace
• Anna Friz
• Heidi Grundmann
• Invisible Fields
• Tetsuo Kogawa
• Anna Kravets
• Kunstradio
• Dan Lander
• Max Neuhaus
• RadiaLx
• Jan Høgh Stricker
• Hildegard Westerkamp

Links

• "Stations with a far-out format", 1969.

See also

Sound art, Net radio

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