| The
project, Phantom Radio, is a library of radio memories consisting
of 97 entries to date, and aims to describe and collate music’s circulation
through people’s lives. The collection of memories highlights very
personal voices, and how they also speak toward collective experiences.
The entries were initally acquired through a mass-call for submissions early
in 2005, and have been sent from around the globe, from a diversity of age
groups (the earliest memory dates from 1945). This was done by requesting
people send in stories of events in their lives linked to particular songs
– how a song intervened through a form of public broadcast, whether
that be radio or other means, to embed itself on the event. Through such
work the relation between music and memory is highlighted, creating recognition
as to the particular nuance and potency of music to partially forge memory
itself, where it becomes hard to know where the song ends and where the
memory begins. |
The project is ongoing and welcomes further contributions. If you have a radio memory to share, please feel free to follow the enclosed form. Thank you in advance for your interest and for your story. |
| Haunted House | ESP | Party Music | Silent Night | Etc | Pillow Talk | Hearing Things | Blind Alleys | Sonorous Landscapes | Intrusions & Revelations |
| Transmission
7: Hearing Things –
Buried in transistors and circuit-boards, the satisfaction of discovering, upon closer analysis the voices of other beings, the shadows that dance across walls or transcend the material plane: shape-shifting and charmed by sonorous events. Alchemy meets engineering meets giddy ears, alive with uncertain groping, charmed by knowing that something awaits, behind the surface, on the pillow or on the couch, driving through darkness or light of the hopes of a possible electronic home. |
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Out I'll Be There, Four Tops |