The focus of this project is borne from my belief that radio is ( best as ) a networking tool rather than a distribution tool.
This can be illustrated in the ( myriad, international, varied, experimental ) interventions of public and community radio- where radio is made to serve the desires and needs of its community- because it's making is in its community's hands, compared with corporate radio, where we can see ( hear? ) agenda'd radio as a form as billboard or market for consumables with a one-way-only traffic flow. This opens up a whole world for investigation: beyond the mainstream, what is radio ?
Rather than the tool of hegemony radio is found to be the plaything of creatives. As a communication platform radio is a complicated, multifaceted media- it is many things to many people. Radio's history is radical and rich- and groundbreaking contemporary practice occurs on the airwaves even now.
I am going to explore this, through communications and interactions with radio enthusiasts -from both sides of the transmitter-, looking at different applications and uses of broad-and-narrow casting, and investigating grassroots practices and technological innovations. I'll be blogging here as a research practice, and phonically too with a weekly radio show on Soundart Radio 102.5fm in Devon UK starting spring 2013... ( if the world hasn't ended ;-)
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