Stationary Flow: Process and Politics in Audio Art On the Air and Online
Claire Barliant
Experimental sound art pieces commissioned by New American Radio, a
weekly radio program distributed to public radio stations from
1987-1998, became available online this past spring. At some point, New
Radio and Performing Art, Inc., the organization responsible for this
great resource, hopes to make over 300 works by artists such as Pauline
Oliveros, Christian Marclay, and Terry Allen available through its site.
The expansion of the NAR website provides a good opportunity to examine
reasons why radio has held such fascination as a medium for many
artists, and how relocating to the Internet affects work designed
specifically for radio. Part of the appeal of art made for radio is in
the tension created when an experimental artist tries to subvert the
medium
Stationary Flow: Process and Politics in Audio Art On the Air and Online
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Type: discussion
Comments
Great to see lots of the New American Radio series online!
The URL is http://somewhere.org , by the way, and the work online is
available at http://somewhere.org/NAR/catalog/full.htm
I worked in radio for six years in the eighties and learned a lot from the
New American Radio series. I'd been producing interviews of print writers
and producing their writing for radio. The NAR series showed me a deeper
approach to radio, approached it as a medium for its own art, not simply as
a 'place' to present/produce work from other media. I haven't been quite the
same since.
Helen Thorington, the executive producer of NAR, now does
http://turbulence.org , of course; and turbulence is as intrepid in net.art
as NAR was in radio/recorded sound.
The points you make about the politics of radio apply to the net also. It's
up to us to create a net of significance, utility, and beauty alternative to
propaganda and consumerism.
ja
http://vispo.com/vismu (interactive visual music)
http://vispo.com/audio (audio)
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Stationary Flow: Process and Politics in Audio Art On the Air and Online
Claire Barliant
Experimental sound art pieces commissioned by New American Radio, a weekly
radio program distributed to public radio stations from 1987-1998, became
available online this past spring. At some point, New Radio and Performing
Art, Inc., the organization responsible for this great resource, hopes to
make over 300 works by artists such as Pauline Oliveros, Christian Marclay,
and Terry Allen available through its site.
The expansion of the NAR website provides a good opportunity to examine
reasons why radio has held such fascination as a medium for many artists,
and how relocating to the Internet affects work designed specifically for
radio. Part of the appeal of art made for radio is in the tension created
when an experimental artist tries to subvert the medium