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| r a d i o q u a l i a are interested in the discourses surrounding the nature of broadcasting. We have noted that both traditional and new forms of radio broadcasting have been resistant to blur boundaries imposed by the differing technologies and techniques employed by both modes. Like any medium locked within a particular paradigm, traditional radio has been primarily unwilling / unable to acknowledge and incorporate the challenges presented by the "anti-disciplinary transmission structure of the internet". |
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: For Sound Drifting, r a d i o q u a l i a intend to explore this tension through the creation of a composite mechanism, which resides in the hybrid space of both media (radio and the internet). We look at the radio as a generative device, examining the ubiquity of different types of radio waves, examining the auditory nature of radio, and radio as a resonant form of energy. This exploration takes the form of an audiophonic automaton, which constructs sonic vignettes from actual auditory circumstances. The mechanism posits "the apparatus as interstice". It exploits system loops, resonances and repetitions, incorporating elements of what Bill Seaman has termed "Recombinant Music", sound which is modular in nature, that can be combined and recombined through computer-based construction mechanisms. The mechanism aims to generate a type of sound artifice which posits the supposition that radio, like all communications media, is a dimension of conversation, or even, by extension, an adjunct of language. For r a d i o q u a l i a radio, in all its manifold form, is a about the processes and mechanics of communications itself. The mechanism, in conversation with all the organic manifestations of Sound Drifting, creates a new conduit of communication, an agent which can listen, manipulate and generate its own variation of sound events. |