I am featured this weekend on Radius Sketchpad, a monthly program on WGXC 90.7-FM presented by the Chicago-based experimental radio platform, Radius.

About this Sketchpad program…
 

SoundTent at Camp Sherwin was created in two stages. Both are concerned with the acoustic ecology of a particular place and time. First, as a public gathering near my home in Chicago, on the shore of Lake Michigan, it was part of a series of outdoor listening events for International Dawn Chorus Day, on May 2, 2015. These events spanned the globe for 24 hours with live audio streams from each location, coordinated by SoundCamp/REVEIL. Chicago-based experimental radio platform, Radius collaborated. My “SoundTent” included a micro radio transmission from the beach at “Camp Sherwin,” as well as a live Internet audio stream on the Locus Sonus Streaming Audio Map.

A stereo recording was made on-site during the event. From this recording, one hour was minimally edited and constitutes Radius Episode 63: SoundTent at Camp Sherwin. Radius Sketchpad features a portion that followed by a “playlist” of sounds and music I selected, revealing some of my influences for this production.These will broadcast and then archived on Wave Farm’s Transmission Arts Archive at transmissionarts.org.

My playlist includes a portion of my presentation given in June 2009, on the World Listening Project, in a symposium organized by the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE). A transcript is available in their Gabriola Speaker Series page. This is followed by John Cage and Wim Mertens conversing outdoors during New Music America, originally released in 1983 on a cassette titled, “’82 A Dip In the Lake.” The final piece is “Kits Beach Soundwalk” (1989) by Hildegard Westerkamp, on Transformations (CD 1996).

Radius Sketchpad is an ongoing monthly program on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. The program features works originally produced for Radius, and is followed by an audio playlist selected by the featured artist.

Radius features a new project each month with statements by artists who use radio as a primary element in their work. Radius provides artists with live and experimental formats in radio programming. The goal is to support work that engages the tonal and public spaces of the electromagnetic spectrum.

More information about Radius is available at http://theradius.us