Radia #998 - Compositing for Radio a Workshop by Diffusion FM

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

This is a montage created from the Radio as a Space and a Material community workshop with Diffusion FM 91.9 held at 107 Redfern. For this event we invited the community to contemplate alternative radio space.

We also invited the wonderful Hethre Contant to participate which inevitably included an appearance of The Weekly Dream Report. Also big thanks to Ryan Morris for sharing his other consciousness with us.

Here are the results of workshop participants enjoying performative experiments. During these “jams” the usual suspects were utilised – extremely low-powered terrestrial radio wave technologies, other electromagnetic and time-based sensing tools, telephones, walkie-talkies, computers, deep sea cables, whatever paraphernalia came to hand and August Black’s telematic browser app Mezcal.

Most of the material was recorded using a very old H1 ZOOM with only one functioning microphone and mobile phones. The results are delightfully LoFi and in glorious mono!