Radius is an experimental radio broadcast platform located in Chicago, IL, US
Radius highlights Episode 88: Monte Burrows in the next program of our ongoing SKETCHPAD Series produced for Wave Farm.
The program features a re-broadcast of previous Radius Episodes, and is
followed by an audio playlist selected by the featured artist.
Radius SKETCHPAD broadcasts Saturday, September 28, 2019 from 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST on WGXC (90.7-FM) in Greene and Columbia counties in New York, USA.
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Episode 90: Maria Gaspar
Maria Gaspar
FEEDBACK
10:28
Statement:
FEEDBACK, by Maria Gaspar, is originally released as a vinyl record housed within an artist book of the same name. FEEDBACK is an audio-visual publication that serves as a living archive of Gaspar’s work over the past seven years around issues of mass incarceration inside and surrounding Cook County Jail. The experimental sound works on the record were developed through a series of workshops led by Gaspar inside Cook County Jail with a group of incarcerated men, collectively called the Radioactive Ensemble for her project and site intervention: Radioactive: Stories from Beyond the Wall. The record is comprised of two works, Side A and Side B, and is an exploration of down-time that glimpses the fusion of boredom with the necessity of expression. The two sound works echo each other, and include outtakes, performances, and experiments recorded by the Radioactive Ensemble inside Cook County Jail, a space of limbo and the in-between.
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Radius Episode 90 hosts Maria Gaspar. Maria Gaspar is an interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses issues of spatial justice in order to amplify, mobilize, or divert structures of power through individual and collective gestures. Through installation, sculpture, sound, and performance, Gaspar’s practice situates itself within historically marginalized sites and spans multiple formats, scales, and durations to produce liberatory actions. Gaspar’s projects have been supported by the Art for Justice Fund, the Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellowship, the Creative Capital Award, the Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant, and the Art Matters Foundation.
Maria has received the Sor Juana Women of Achievement Award in Art and Activism from the National Museum of Mexican Art, and the Chamberlain Award for Social Practice from the Headlands Center for the Arts. Gaspar has lectured and exhibited extensively at venues including the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; the African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, holds an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.
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Radius highlights Episode 17: Timo Kahlen in the next program of our ongoing SKETCHPAD Series produced for Wave Farm.
The program features a re-broadcast of previous Radius Episodes, and is
followed by an audio playlist selected by the featured artist.
Radius SKETCHPAD broadcasts Saturday, August 24, 2019 from 11:00 AM - 11:59 AM EST on WGXC (90.7-FM) in Greene and Columbia counties in New York, USA.
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Episode 89: Nicolas Montgermont
Nicolas Montgermont
Long Waves Scan
26:06
Statement:
Before the invention of radio and electromagnetic wave theory, Thomas Watson spent time at night listening to the sounds “produced by the telephone” when no one was connected. Later we would learn that electricity travels through the air and that these sounds are natural radio waves heard through long power lines that act as an antenna.
Long Waves Scan is a practice of listening to radio signals blindly. Nicolas Montgermont performed Long Waves Scan live using only a radio set as the sound source. The frequencies that passed through the site were scanned to identify interesting sounds, and then used with a set of effects to modified their timbre and temporal structure. Over time, the frequencies gradually transform into music using only a radio set as a synthesizer.
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Radius Episode 89 hosts Nicolas Montgermont. Nicolas Montgermont explores the physicality of waves in different forms. He is interested in the reality of waves in space, the way they move and change, the links between a source and our perception, by designing setups that create a sensitive exploration of their poetic essence. He creates installations, often in collaboration with Cécile Beau and formerly in the Art of Failure collective, in which time is of particular importance and allows an intimate appropriation of these materials and energies, he is also active in the audiovisual performance field with chdh and in the experimental music with BCK and Yi King Operators. He has published several editions on Art Kill Art. His projects are shown in many centers in Europe and elsewhere (Club Transmediale, Elektra, MusikProtokoll, Fondation Vasarely, Palais de Tokyo, WRO, iMAL, PixelACHE).
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Radius will be featured in and in partnership with the global radio event Soundcamp | Reveil, a 24-hour radio broadcast based in London that tracks the sunrise around the globe.
Starting near the Greenwich Meridian at 5AM, Reveil travels West following the grey line just ahead of sunrise, when birds and other organisms generate a continuously changing wave of sound. Live audio feeds are supplied by streamers around the world using devices from phones, laptops and Raspberry Pi’s to commercial broadcasting equipment. Domestic scale projects join formal research networks to realize a collective composition of environmental sounds lasting one earth day.
2019 marks Radius’ fifth consecutive year of partnership with Soundcamp | Reveil. Past Radius Episodes produced for Soundcamp | Reveil include artists Eric Leonardson, Lindsey french, Peter Speer, and Sadie Woods.
When:
Saturday May 4, 2019 at 5:12 AM - 5:32 AM
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Where:
Listen online & locally in Chicago on 87.9 FM
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Radius is featured in the new issue of The Sick Muse in the article Someplaces: Radio Art, Transmission Ecology and Chicago’s Radius by Anna Friz.
Friz writes “Radius neatly unites radio and transmission art by embracing the production of artistic content for broadcast, sampling existing content for artistic expression, and artistic use of the electro-magnetic spectrum generally. Radius functions as an intermittent exhibition space and as an intervention into the predictable daily grind of the FM dial.”
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Episode 88: Monte Burrows
Monte Burrows
Skua
20:19
Statement:
Monte Burrows’s album Skua consists of two tracks: Winter Winds and False Beach. The album is produced using live recordings of AM radio transmissions manipulated in real time, recorded directly to cassette.
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Radius highlights Episode 87: Steve Bates in the next program of our ongoing SKETCHPAD Series produced for Wave Farm.
The program features a re-broadcast of previous Radius Episodes, and is
followed by an audio playlist selected by the featured artist.
Radius SKETCHPAD broadcasts Saturday, January 26, 2019 from 11:00 AM - 11:59 AM EST on WGXC (90.7-FM) in Greene and Columbia counties in New York, USA.
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