Radio Nouspace

Research inquiries.

Research Inquiries

Radio Nouspace combines research, archiving, curating, and creative practice to experiment with radio as both a form of art and a transmission medium for art. Several research inquiries provide the conceptual framework for this effort. Specific research topics are outlined below. Follow links to further information.

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Transmission Arts

The overlay of the terms "transmission" and "arts" intentionally focuses on radio + sound art and its use of radio technologies (transmission, airwaves, reception, etc.) to create immersive contexts rich with aural and acousmatic narrative opportunities. Transmission arts encompasses performance, video art, theater, sound art, radio art, media installation, networked art, and acoustic ecology. This interplay provides a site for a multiplicity of practices. Results engage aural and video broadcast media in an intermedia framework where the relationship(s) between artist and audience, transmitter and receiver, can be redefined, along with the telecommunications airwaves as the site for this practice.

A fine anthology of transmission artists and their work(s) is Transmission Arts: Artists & Airwaves by Galen Joseph-Hunter with Penny Duff and Maria Papadomanolaki (New York: PAJ Publications, 2011). Radio Art and Sound Art, both available under the "Research" menu heading provides many examples and listening opportunities of transmission arts artists and their works.

Audio Drama

Audio Drama

Sound-based narratives, with sounds other than human voice as its narrative basis. LEARN more.

Curating sound

Curating Sound

Curating and exhibiting sounds in a radio context. How? And, why? LEARN more.

Future Radio

Future Radio

Radio as collaborative production and listening experiences. Global in reach, local in focus. LEARN more.

Radio Art

Radio Art

Radio as a medium for art promotes opportunities for new acoustic narrative strategies. LEARN more.

Sonic Events

Sonic Events

Considers early recordings, broadcasts, and more. LEARN more.

Framework Radio

Sound Installations

Considers sound installations as an intermedia and time-based art form. LEARN more.

Sound Art

Sound Art

Considers sound art as creating and sustaining new narrative strategies. LEARN more.

Sound Poetry

Sound Poetry

Considers sound poetry as a dichotomy between a text-based experience, and a performance of voice without words. LEARN more.

Soundscapes

Soundscapes

Considers soundscapes as all the overlapping sounds that might be heard in a particular acoustic environment. LEARN more.

Soundscapes

Sound Theory

Considers sound and listening as providing a conceptual framework for research and creative practices. LEARN more.