KelleRadioActive ~ IASKA (October ~ February 2006).
The history of broadcast media and communications technology have developed at an alarming pace over the last century and it is easy to forget the central role that radio has played in rural Australian communities, both as a form of entertainment and as a vital link.
The residency at The International Art Space Kellerberrin (Western Australia) developed a sound-sculpture project that investigates the history of radiophonic listening and other early forms of tele-communication within the Kellerberrin community.
The work creates an “audio-portrait” woven from the patterns of listening and communication in the pre-digital era!
The project develops an oral history that captures community experiences of listening to radio in theform of recorded interviews, discussions and even musical recollections that recall radio events from the past and the patterns of when, where and how people listened to radio in their homes, or used radio communication in the workplace.
The gallery installation comprises a ten channels MIcro- Fm radio network, narrowcasting from a collection of defunct radios collected in and around Kellerberrin ~ complimented by a I Watt Stereo Mini-Fm local radio station (KRA_88 Fm) that automatically broadcasts content to the township.
Exhibition, 3rd December 2005 ~ February 2006.
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It is ironic that the website of a Sound Artist contains very little audio material. This is, of course, intentional, the principal reasons being that I place a strong emphasis on the experience of a work in-situ, mediated as it is by the environmental context and the listening trajectory of the viewer/auditor. Secondly, the majority of these projects are multi-source environments, often operating with interactive or dynamic elements that are virtually impossible to represent as a linear stereo field.
A method I have adopted, that in some part overcomes such problems of Audio representation of complex sound installations, is to develop parallel Radiophonic projects. These Radio works are designed to give a general impression of the content and intention of the Installations whilst recognising the linear and more narrative form of stereo broadcast.
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