Radio Music, An essay by Jon Leidecker

“Radio Music” connects three examples from the history of the potential of the radio receiver as musical instrument, from its early beginnings in the twenties as captured on a comedy record, to formal art experiments in the forties and fifties, to its nostalgic presence in one of the very first song-based pop music collage albums, which heralded the now familiar practice of sampling. Continue reading

Listen to a conversation between Tetsuo Kogawa And Yasunao Tone On Radio Art :: Lines Of Sight is a Ràdio Web MACBA podcast series, curated by Barbara Held and Pilar Subirà, 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, the series follows threads as diverse as musical notation and non-linear composition, and introduces artists who explore the ideas around transmission as a medium for creative expression.
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You can listen to the Trans-X Symposium live today and tomorrow on NAISA Radio via http://www.naisa.ca/webcast (see schedule below).

Saturday May 26th ::

10:00 am Keynote Address: Foundations of Transmission Art by Galen Joseph-Hunter
Informed by her recent publication Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves (PAJ Publications: 2011), Joseph-Hunter will discuss key inventors, activists, and organizations, including free103point9, who have helped pave the way for Transmission Arts. Citations of specific artists and works will spark dialogue towards defining the qualitative principles of the genre.

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Call for Participation – Radio Art & Sound Art: “AIR / EAR” installation :: Second collective installation of radio art and sound art will open in San Justo, Santa Fe, Argentina :: Audio by June 1, 2012 :: to rmtolosa@gmail.com ::

“Radio signals are not, as commonly thought, a recent phenomenon. Nature has spoken through radio signals from the origins of the universe. ”

“In an age of high technology, such as now, we are surrounded by many electronic devices, which manage our day to day operations. They can be useless or useful. We are so accustomed to their presence; they are part of the environment that we see every morning on waking. ” Continue reading

Jon Leidecker, curator :: VARIATIONS, a podcast series on the history of appropriative music :: Ràdio Web MACBA :: A compilation of all the episodes available so far of the ongoing series by the plunderphonic musician and historian Jon Leidecker :: See below for podcast and transcript info.

The idea of a completely original piece of music is fairly recent. Music was passed on through sound, through generations, even for centuries after the invention of written music. Only in the 14th century did it become standard practice for a composer to sign his name to a piece of music and claim it entirely as his own, giving rise to the cult of the individual composer. Continue reading

Trans-X Symposium: A Symposium About Transmission Art :: May 25-27, 2012 :: Call for Papers — Deadline March 16.

Rooted in the earliest experiments with radio, Transmission Art has continued to flourish with experiments with wireless communications technology over the past 100 years. The 21st Century is not excluded from this experimentation as artists have ventured into exploring a variety of mobile-based platforms and more lesser known forms of transmission such as VLF. The terrain of transmission art is dynamic and fluid, always open to redefinition. Continue reading

Broadcast Art, Sound & Independent Culture :: Call for Participation - Deadline: February 20, 2012; 5:00 pm. Continue reading

International radio art and sound art exhibition, radioCona FM 88.8MHz :: online stream on www.radiocona.si :: exhibition in ŠKUC Gallery Ljubljana :: broadcast start: December 7, 2011 @ 12.00 p.m. :: ŠKUC Gallery opening @ 8:00 p.m. :: December 7 - 16, 2011 from 12.00 p.m. - 19.00 p.m. :: produced by: CONA Institute, partners: Kiosk, Novi Radio Beograd, RAM Live :: Locations: FM 88.8 MHz, online stream http://www.radiocona.si/, ŠKUC Gallery Ljubljana :: Listening room: ŠKUC Gallery, Continue reading

ZKM Feature on Ethernet Orchestra Networked Improvisation :: on ZKM’s DEGEM radio :: director: Mirko Heinemann :: featuring recordings of performances given over the last two years along with interviews that reveal the varying perspectives of networked musicians playing experiences.

The program is broadcast twice a day for a month and can be listened to at different times each day. Times scheduled within program block E. are: Continue reading

Dear Friends,

Now embarking on its 32nd year, New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. — an independent not-for-profit organization founded in New York City — continues to agitate the institutional art world through its trailblazing projects, including New American Radio (1987-1998), Turbulence.org (1996-), Networked _ Performance (2004-), Networked _ Music _ Review (2007-), and Networked: a (networked _ book) about (networked _ art) (2009-).

Since 1981, NRPA has commissioned more than 500 works by more than 400 artists, many of them just beginning their careers. The Turbulence.org archive spans a crucial 15-year period of exploration and innovation in digital, networked environments, ranging from hypertext to information visualization, blogs to social networks, and interactive dance/musical compositions to 3-D architecture.

Here’s what Régine Debatty and Timothy Murray have said about Turbulence.org:

“Turbulence because they’ve been consistently commissioning net.art … and because they have a great blog called Networked_Performance that documents better (much better) than me the calls, essays and events that interest the whole new media art community.” Régine Debatty, we-make-money-not-art, 2006

“Turbulence … has developed into a natural archive of Internet art, housing the largest representation of American art produced as networked art. Indeed, no other on-line exhibition project has played such an influential and lasting role.” Timothy Murray, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, 2011

Please help us keep doing what we’re doing by making a donation via PayPal on http://turbulence.org or by sending a check to:

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
124 Bourne Street
Roslindale, MA 02131
United States of America

Thank you.

We wish you all a peaceful and prosperous 2012.

Warmly,

Jo and Helen