dear free cooperation participants,
> From 12:10 to 2:30pm on Sunday in DMS 235 we request
your contribution. Bring your sound works, lectures, radio
plays, rants, radio histories, favorite mixed cassette tapes,
interviews, protest songs, loud and singing voices to this
session where on-site (and through mobile broadcast)
we’ll jointly produce, broadcast, and record 'Experiments in
Radio Topographies'.
If it’s audio it’s usable – but not to worry, if you haven’t any
of the above, we’ll bring plenty of historic broadcasts,
music, popular cultural references, and tech effects for your
perusal.
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Probe 6
12:10am - 2:30pm, Sunday 4/25
LOCATION: DMS 235
Experiments in Radio Topographies
neuroTransmitter & Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga
In 1932, Bertolt Brecht claimed that the "radio is one-sided
when it should be two-. It is purely an apparatus for
distribution, for mere sharing out. So here is a positive
suggestion: Change the apparatus over from distribution to
communication. The radio would be the finest possible
communication apparatus in public life, a vast network of
pipes." Unfortunately, over the seventy-four years since
Brecht's treatise little has changed in radio usage, quite the
opposite, the radio waves have been hijacked by corporate
entities, largely with the aid of the Federal Communications
Council (FCC), a governmental group once intended to
protect independent radio programming.
However, the history of radio is global, diverse and
contentious. Radio presents a history of corporate power,
civil intervention, revolutionary resistance, and community
advocacy. It is these various histories that will be
addressed by the participants of "Experiments in Radio
Topographies," in which participants will be asked to
investigate, tinker with, broadcast, and then discuss these
histories in a dispersed format, rather than a centralized
panel and audience discussion. The ‘panel’ action will be
transmitted live on the free103point9 net radio station:
http://www.free103point9.org-------------------
Valerie Tevere
P.O. Box 1734
New York, NY 10013
www.neurotransmitter.fm
tevere@csi.cuny.edu