Smashing! a new season- summer was beautiful (if wet) and autumn is looking promising (as long as you aren't hoping for a high yielding veggie crop).
The new season at Soundart Radio coincides with some dramatic new 'station developments- namely a studio move, and the successful grant application bid for a mobile broadcasting unit- how 'citing!
And for me, I get to step up a gear and focus... I am locating my audio archive here on mixcloud, and am excited about rolling out some new projects of my own - and tidying up loose threads from last seasons' melay...
My mixcloud blurb reads in green and if there had not been a 500 character limit, here is what I would have written, in red:
I broadcast on community arts radio Soundart Radio 102.5fm- using voice mine and others', interview, song, whispers, poetry, storytelling, babble, chatter music live sessions and recordings of concerts and gigs, buskers, sound, digitally generated effects, Foley, noise lifted from the environment- birdsong, traffic, rain, sticks on railings, sirens, a story line, or narrative, plots, myth, everyday occurences, and local news, a reason, or not- and always a appreciation of chaos: chaos, chance and improvisation seem to be almost essential to my idea of a sound art - and of Soundart Radio too-! As a community initiative, the radio station offers a dynamic radio opportunity -rather than safe or predictable radio... As a recordist and arts workshop leader, this appeals-embracing the element of chaos is a strategy which allows for chance occurrences, magic, and a genuine sense of audio delight to be cultivated....
AND I totally love it - it is community (local, and international- and growing all the time in listeners and makers...), it is political -even the act of tuning is appreciation of alternatives to the mainstream, it is a practise of freedom, -after Michel Foucault- community radio is an exercise of freedoms- the rights to speech, creativity, to congregate, to question, to celebrate and to imagine society as a brighter healthier place... it is great fun, it is hard work- radio has a beautiful history - 'Radiology' a radio history coming soon, and a epic future thank goodness... Radio is as radical... as community is diverse and wide: and there are as many ideas as there are producers, the door is open, and the originality and passion of everyone who participates makes it so....
I write about making radio as longlegsrunning on blogger,
and use mixcloud as a audio archive for broadcast works.
Current shows:
Roots Britannia- folk music explosion- live sessions, folklore, traditional experimentation - with Sam richards and Will Fox- we broadcast archive extracts, contemporary classics, crackly vinyl, live session recordings, and host studio guests and even occasional folk parties....
Totnes Town Council Monthly Public Meeting broadcasts- ensuring democracy and accessibility on the local airwaves - a broadcast which allows for those that cannot attend the meetings to hear proceedings 'from the horses' mouths' so to speak- publicising the important work being undertaken by the elected representatives of the town, and making local politics a tiny bit more approachable...
Dessert Island Disks- Totnes' favourite dessert makers share their favourite music over a dish of their favourite dessert... more to come on this- but note* music AND cake! What could be better!?
PLUS as many random audio projects as I can shoehorn into Soundart Radio's eclectic, wildly original and comprehensive arts community radio schedule!
HAPPY LISTENING and reading :-)
The new season at Soundart Radio coincides with some dramatic new 'station developments- namely a studio move, and the successful grant application bid for a mobile broadcasting unit- how 'citing!
And for me, I get to step up a gear and focus... I am locating my audio archive here on mixcloud, and am excited about rolling out some new projects of my own - and tidying up loose threads from last seasons' melay...
My mixcloud blurb reads in green and if there had not been a 500 character limit, here is what I would have written, in red:
I broadcast on community arts radio Soundart Radio 102.5fm- using voice mine and others', interview, song, whispers, poetry, storytelling, babble, chatter music live sessions and recordings of concerts and gigs, buskers, sound, digitally generated effects, Foley, noise lifted from the environment- birdsong, traffic, rain, sticks on railings, sirens, a story line, or narrative, plots, myth, everyday occurences, and local news, a reason, or not- and always a appreciation of chaos: chaos, chance and improvisation seem to be almost essential to my idea of a sound art - and of Soundart Radio too-! As a community initiative, the radio station offers a dynamic radio opportunity -rather than safe or predictable radio... As a recordist and arts workshop leader, this appeals-embracing the element of chaos is a strategy which allows for chance occurrences, magic, and a genuine sense of audio delight to be cultivated....
AND I totally love it - it is community (local, and international- and growing all the time in listeners and makers...), it is political -even the act of tuning is appreciation of alternatives to the mainstream, it is a practise of freedom, -after Michel Foucault- community radio is an exercise of freedoms- the rights to speech, creativity, to congregate, to question, to celebrate and to imagine society as a brighter healthier place... it is great fun, it is hard work- radio has a beautiful history - 'Radiology' a radio history coming soon, and a epic future thank goodness... Radio is as radical... as community is diverse and wide: and there are as many ideas as there are producers, the door is open, and the originality and passion of everyone who participates makes it so....
I write about making radio as longlegsrunning on blogger,
and use mixcloud as a audio archive for broadcast works.
Current shows:
Roots Britannia- folk music explosion- live sessions, folklore, traditional experimentation - with Sam richards and Will Fox- we broadcast archive extracts, contemporary classics, crackly vinyl, live session recordings, and host studio guests and even occasional folk parties....
Totnes Town Council Monthly Public Meeting broadcasts- ensuring democracy and accessibility on the local airwaves - a broadcast which allows for those that cannot attend the meetings to hear proceedings 'from the horses' mouths' so to speak- publicising the important work being undertaken by the elected representatives of the town, and making local politics a tiny bit more approachable...
Dessert Island Disks- Totnes' favourite dessert makers share their favourite music over a dish of their favourite dessert... more to come on this- but note* music AND cake! What could be better!?
PLUS as many random audio projects as I can shoehorn into Soundart Radio's eclectic, wildly original and comprehensive arts community radio schedule!
HAPPY LISTENING and reading :-)
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