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from 20 to 20000 hz #26 : radia

2008 – 28 min


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Collage of radio transmissions, radiophonic soundworks and fragments of commercial, historical and obscure radio broadcasts from all over the world. Since the early days of this medium to nowadays.

Created for RadiaLX08: Radio Art Festival, 20-28 Sep 2008, Lisbon, PT
Broadcasted by Rádio Zero as part of a continuous special program.

Tracklist:

The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations | Irdial Discs, 1997
Electric Enigma – The VLF Recordings of Stephen P. McGreevy | Irdial Discs, 1996
Stephen P. McGreevy – Space Weather Sounds
Scott Arford | Radio station | AntiFrost, 2005
Cavalleria Rusticana
John Cage – Radio Music (1956)
Ryoji Ikeda | ‘Radio Orange’ | 1000 fragments | cci recordings, 1995
Gintas K | ‘Tunning on’ | VA – Essays on Radio | Crónica Electrónica, 2005
Random Industries | ‘Media Corrosion’ | VA – Essays on Radio | Crónica Electrónica, 2005
Orson Welles | The War of the Worlds (radio broadcast 1938)
Rafael Alberti | ‘Radio Sevilla’ (1936) | Ruidos y susurros de las vanguardias : Reconstrucción de obras pioneras del Arte Sonoro (1909-1945) | LCI, 2004
Alexei Borisov + Anton Nikkila | ‘Radiotekhnika solovya (Transmission equipment of the Nightingale) | Typical human beings | N&B Research Digest, 2004
Old Time Radio Commercials Collection
Dimension X (american classic sci fi from the early 50’s)
The Haunting Hour : Original Old Time Radio Horror (January 1, 1944)
Adolf Hitler preparing the youth (speech)
Radio Prague – The Prague Uprising, May 1945
Quiz Kids radio series (1940s)
The Health and Hapiness Show (1949)
Unknown Artist | ‘Radio Bulgaria’ | VA – Touch Ringtones | Touch Records, 2001
William S. Burroughs | ‘Love Your Enemies’ | Dead City Radio | Island Records, 1990
Winston Churchill | ‘We shall fight on the beaches speech’ (1940)
‘American History Through the Eyes of Radio’ Collection
Martin Luther King Jr. | ‘I have a dream’ speech’ (1963)
Karl Schwedler AKA Charlie and his Orchestra (1940s) | ‘Makin Whoopee’
Yuri Gagarin | voice of the first human being in space (12 April 1961)
Neil Armstrong – first steps on the moon (July 20, 1969)
BBC Sound Effects No. 19 – Doctor Who Sound Effects (1978)
Alejo Duque – EMF at Alexanderplatz, Berlin (4th July 2008)
Reporters Without Borders – Beijing Olympics pirate radio broadcast (2008)
Mother Jones Radio Magazine
Radio New Internationalist – Bombs Away | archive.org/ourmedia
Sublime Frequencies 002 – Radio Java (2003)
Sublime Frequencies 007 – Radio Morocco (2003)
Sublime Frequencies 008 – Radio Palestine: Sounds Of The Eastern Mediterranean (2004)
Sublime Frequencies 014 – Radio India The Eternal Dream Of Sound (2004)
Sublime Frequencies 020 – Radio Phnom Penh (2005)
Sublime Frequencies 021 – Radio Sumatra – The Indonesian FM Experience (2005)
Sublime Frequencies 023 – Radio Pyongyang Commie Funk and Agit Pop from the Hermit Kingdom (2005)
Sublime Frequencies 028 – Radio Thailand (2006)
Sublime Frequencies 029 – Radio Algeria (2006)
+ other radio recordings made between 2005 and 2008.