INTERRUPTIONS #21
Short Waves / Long Distance
Curated by Wave Farm. In collaboration with the Shortwave Shindig.
This show presents an international look at works that explore the sonics of the shortwave radio spectrum (2-30 mHz), and the experience of long distance listening. The program features works by 15 artists who originate from Canada, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Scotland, Spain, and the United States. The artists and works included in this program were selected from a call for submissions in conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the Winter Shortwave Listening Fest (Pennsylvania, U.S.A) and Wave Farm’s (New York) 20th anniversary year, which took place in 2017.
This program is also available as a sound works only compilation, excluding the audio introductions, which can be downloaded here. We also feature two short essays by David Goren (‘The Short Waves Go Long’) and Andrew Moon (‘Making the Archipelago Sound’).
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Maia Urstad that we were unable to include the first time around.
Anton Kats
Process, liminality, mediation, transmission, radio, resonance, orality, archive, and abundance. In our coinciding and crossing of paths with Ukrainian artist, mediator, educator, and musician Anton Kats, “the stars aligned” to put prior learning and formats to the test. Three remote encounters, six hours of recording, and several red-hot scissors have produced this exquisite corpse in which we explore a discourse and practice that tend to spill over and exceed boundaries in both nuance and detail. In this podcast, we talk about the Europe of integration, about memory, dementia, and different ways of not knowing, about artistic research and art that defies representation, about site-specific projects and mobile, ephemeral devices, about narrowcasts and radio as a means of creating common public spaces.
Maia Urstad
Norwegian artist Maia Urstad talks about nostalgia, radio pips, AM, FM and DAB, about the importance of ska, about arches and obelisks, sounds in the fjord, and time capsules, about program 81, freq_out, and foghorns, and about local radio stations and lost tapes.
The Little People In The Radio present...
Anna Friz’s mix and text present a collage exploring the environment, morphology and taxonomy of the little people inside the radio.
Mattergy
Carl Michael von Hausswolf opens our ears to the most obscure side of the radiowaves: a very strange place in the electromagnetic spectrum, where energy turns into sounding matter.