Niftymitter

Niftymitter is a short range FM transmitter based on the open source hardware design by Tetsuo Kogawa, housed within a cardboard body, with a variety of options for hacking. The transmitter is tiny and handy for small scale radio broadcasts, building a distributed PA system for performances, linking your personal audio player to your car radio, or for general audio experimentation.

Free Lab Radio

Composer, former post-punk band member and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Robert Worby in the studio discussing his methods, influences and the forthcoming John Cage centenary. From reel tape to keyboards to field recordings, features on sound art history, and even directing the Sonic Arts Network while holding down his day job on BBC 3′s Hear and Now – Worby’s life is steeped in audio.

Free Lab Radio -Robert Worby Interview by Fari on Mixcloud

Close Radio - Evidence of Movement

From 1976 to 1979, Los Angeles radio station KPFK hosted Close Radio, a weekly half-hour program that allowed artists to present sound and art projects via radio broadcast. Initially founded by artists John Duncan and Neil Goldstein, the program was primarily organized by Duncan and Paul McCarthy, with Nancy Buchanan and Linda Frye Burnham also participating as organizers at various points in the program’s history. Over the course of more than one hundred broadcasts by more than ninety artists, Close Radio challenged nearly every conceivable industry standard of radio broadcast, and collectively its projects present an encyclopedic array of strategies used by artists to present performative art works using only sound.

Tetsuo Kogawa - Mini FM Radio

How to make a mini FM transmitter - First broadcast on Paper Tiger TV (November 4th 1991, New York)

"Pirate Aesthetics of the Mini-FM"

Lecture at the Glasgow School of Art on the 20th September 2009 as part of Arikas' Instal festival.

Read some of Tetsuo Kogawa's Writings in English here

How to build Tetsuo Kogawa's simplest fm radio transmitter from Bradley L. Garrett on Vimeo.

Radio Ligna - Radio Ballet

Exercise in lingering not according to the rules

A Radio Ballet is a radio play produced for the collective reception in certain public places. It gives the dispersed radio listeners the opportunity, to subvert the regulations of the space.

The Radio Ballet “Übung in nichtbestimmungsgemäßem Verweilen” took place in the main station of Leipzig, Germany, a former public space that is under private control of the German railway company (Deutsche Bahn - DB) and it ́s associates since the mid-nineties. Like every bigger train station in Germany it is controlled by a panoptic regime of surveillance cameras, security guards and an architecture, that avoids any dark and “dangerious” corners. The system of control is designed to keep out every kind of deviant behaviour. People, who sit down on the floor or start to beg are detected immediately and instantly expelled.

The Radio Ballet brought back these excluded gestures of deviant behavior into the main station. Around 500 participants - usual radio listeners, no dancers or actors – were invited to enter the station, equipped with cheap, portable radios and earphones. By means of these devices they could listen to a radio program consisting of a choreography suggesting permitted and forbidden gestures (to beg, to sit or lie down on the floor etc.). These suggestions were inter-rupted by reflections on the public space and on the Radio ballet itself.

Radio Free Jaffa

Liberating space through art and action - all.FM:


Along Jerusalem Boulevard the entrance into Jaffa. , Radio Free Jaffa made a radio intervention into all radio transmissions in the proximity.

Radio Free Jaffa offers free space which is much needed in Jaffa, and deals with the current social and political situation in Jaffa by highlighting the housing crises and the evictions of Arab residents from the city.
Radio Free Jaffa walks in Jaffa as a human antenna, broadcasting in close-range. It may not be noticeable, but if your radio starts behaving strangely, you can assume we are in the area.

Radio All Workshop

Israeli Centre for Digital Arts,
Holon, Tel-Aviv

As an introduction to the workshop, Kasia Krakowiak, a polish artist interested in the potential of radio in the wider community showed us this video. It is a story of underground Polish Radio pirates:

'In 1985 a group of astronomers from the University of Torun consturcted their own TV transmission equipment and superimposed Solidarity slogans over official TV broadcasts.'



Another isteresting video which helped to demonstrate what her practice's concerns were, was called the Complaints Choir of Birmingham. The Complaints Choir invites people to complain as much as they want and to sing their complaints out loud together with fellow complainers. The first choir was organised in Birmingham followed by the Complaints Choir of Helsinki and Hamburg. The lyrics were written by the Choir, Music by Mike Hurley. Project by Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen. Produced by Springhill Institute.

International Artists workshops in Holon

Israeli Centre for Digital Arts

An e-mail was sent out from the school giving details of free workshops which would be happening in Holon, an area just outiside Tel Aviv, so I got in touch and enlisted myself for the following workshops. Very excited about the prospect of learning Pure Data in a bit more depth!

Genderchangers: Remote Intimacy

Friday, November 12, 9:00-13:00 and Sunday, November 14, 9:00-17:00

Kasia Krakowiak & Ronen Eidelman: Radio all.FM

Radio Hacking, Space Liberating

Monday, November 15, 10:00-16:00 and Tuesday, November 16, 10:00-13:00

Frank Barknecht: Introduction to Pure Data

Wednesday and Thursday, November 17-18, 9:00-17:00