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Radio Making with Shortwave Collective

3/25/2023

 
We're busy busy busy at Shortwave Collective having run many workshops, given talks and interviews and shared our work on many radio stations over the last few months:
  • Piksel Festival, Norwary - a unique opportunity for us to come together in a mini residency in which we ran two radio making workshops at the festival .... around 40 radios were made and listened to in the ice cold darkness of Bergen!
  • We gave a talk about our work in the Sound Arts Lecture series at London College of Communication in December
  • Constellations of Listening, our 22 hour sound work has been broadcast on  Resonance FM each week on between October 2022 and April 2023, and the first hour featured in the amazing Tsonami Festival in Chile in December 2022 
  • How to Make an Open Wave Receiver, an audio work sharing the instructions for creating your own radio, has as been broadcast on RadioArt106, on Reboot FM, and on Melodic Distraction for International Women's Day
  • The collective were interviewed on Patio Sound with our friends in Liverpool, a follow on from a workshop we ran last autumn.
  • We've delivered a number of Open Wave Receiver making workshops: one with the Sound Arts BA and MA students at London College of Communication in March, another with the Bradford Sound Women Network in February, and we're running a hybrid workshop in New York in April!

Amongst many many other things, we're also working towards a new work for Struer Tracks festival in Denmark later this summer, at which we're collaborating with Bang and Olufsen. More coming soon on this ...

On Mediating Space, Sound and Experience: Interviews with situated sound art practitioners

2/14/2022

 
Some time ago now (just before the pandemic in fact) I was interviewed by Nicole Robson, a PhD candidate in Media & Arts Technology at QMUL and a composer, musician and researcher exploring site-specific artworks.

It was a nice afternoon talking about the process of making site-specific sound works along with the terms for those involved - us as the makers of this work (my answer was 'an assembler, an aligner of things') and the name for the 'audience' ('participants' for me mainly).

I was one of nine interviews alongside other site-specific / responsive artists working with sound: 
James Bulley, Alex De Little, Roswitha von den Driesch & Jens-Uwe Dyffort, Sebastian Kite, Emma-Kate Matthews, Gerriet K. Sharma, Jeroen Vandesande and John Wynne. Nicole together with co-authors Nick Bryan-Kinns and Andrew McPherson have brought this together in the journal article 'On Mediating Space, Sound and Experience: Interviews with situated sound art practitioners' in Organized Sound journal. 

Their study has identified artists as mediators, 'transfer[ing] their own situated and embodied listening to that of the audience and develop[ing] sonic and staging devices to direct perceptual activity and listening attention' (p1). Plus findings that '(2) the audience has an active relationship to the work; (3) the artwork shapes behaviour and perceptual experience; and (4) [the] engagement challenges.' (p3).

This is a really nice study of the formation of situated / site-specific sound artworks. 
It has also been a nice opportunity to reflect on my own practice and research since Feb 2020, of how my 'site' of the body has expanded to include other people's bodies, interweaving an 'audience' as participant even more so.

Have a read of the paper online here, or email me for a copy:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/organised-sound/article/abs/on-mediating-space-sound-and-experience-interviews-with-situated-sound-art-practitioners/4616FE17A193E086E9EF53B54F888589 
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Open Wave-Receiver on RadioPhrenia, Sunday 20th Feb @ 7.20pm

2/13/2022

 
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Our new sound work 'Open Wave-Receiver' premiers on Radiophrenia at 7pm on Feb 20th. Listen online here
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‘Open Wave-Receiver’ is an audio how-to guide from Shortwave Collective. In this piece, we share instructions on how to construct self-powered radio receivers, from the print version of our forthcoming 'how-to-guide' for Make Magazine. The work collages sounds of our collective, engaged in the processes of making and listening (including recordings made during a residency at Buinho Creative Hub, Portugal), as well as the sounds of our materials, our experimentation and workshopping, and finally, the signals received by the Open Wave-Receivers.

Read more about the development of  the Open Wave-Receiver here, and the Shortwave Collective here.

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