Radia #1045 - Breathing Rotations in the Imaginary Radio Station by Stephen Adams With the Music Box Project

Members of Radia, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.

Four musicians of The Music Box Project deliver synchronised breath-length phrases to microphones, their presence doubled by the simultaneous lo-fi local broadcast diffusion of their music through the domestic radios they carry. The radios also diffusing field recordings played to air by a fifth performer, composer-producer Stephen Adams, operating the mixing desk of the Imaginary Radio Station. The installation looping in on itself when the musicians shift to using their radios to play the microphone feedback. All five artists interacting within a shared space of improvised sound-making and intense listening.

Performed by Elizabeth Jigalin (recorder, radio, voice), Naomi Johnson (flute, radio, voice), Jane Aubourg (violin, radio, voice), Joseph Lisk (trumpet, radio, voice), and Stephen Adams (live mix, field recordings and other pre-recorded material). Concept developed by Stephen Adams for and in in dialogue with The Music Box Project and collaborating dramaturg Nikki Heywood.Produced by Stephen Adams.