ÅPEN RADIO
[ "åpen" being the Norwegian translation for "open" but also "frank". ]
In collaboration with Feil forlag and Novafest:
A microphone was mounted on an exterior wall of the venue for this years’ Novafest, the annual arts and music festival hosted by Oslo’s Radio Nova. On the air 24/7, broadcasting whatever sounds it picked up, from ambient resonances to drunken revellers, everything was streamed live over the internet. A speaker inside the venue enabled visitors to hear what was being broadcast from the street. The streamed audio was also recorded and will be issued as a free podcast and as an audio book with innumerable authors, an approximately 48-hour document of an experiment in direct audio democracy.
Åpen Radio will be ON THE AIR from 18:30 (CET) Friday 16th April until Sunday 18th April 2010, live from Novafest, Oslo.
Tune in at www.novafest.no, or get down to Strykejernet / Blå and get involved.
Novafest is an annual music and arts festival by Oslo's Radio Nova on the 16th and 17th of April 2010. See novafest.no for more info.If you are in Oslo please come and say hello, otherwise listen in!
Press Release
The installation aimed to blur and make interchangeable the usually clear definition between the listener and author of radio. As such open radio required an active engagement, you could choose to listen or have the impetus to speak and make sound. Deconstructing the role of the receiver to also be a generator, the radio became a means for discussion, for singing, to air grievances or play music from a mobile phone, or to hear an environment perhaps alien to ones own - there were listeners on separate continents. As with John Cage’s 4’33”, the environment and the participants became the content of the artwork. They are wholly linked, without a listener and without an audio source, it was just a collection of equipment. A playful challenge to the role of the audience: to subjection under an abstract machine, the apparatus of a social status quo or capital, and a chance to hear something different.
> A feature on Åpen Radio in Radio Nova's news pages (click).
And in the newspaper Klassekampen, 16th April 2010
(In the third column)
The audio stream page at Novafest.no
My sincerest thanks to Feil forlag, Kjersti Solbakken, Andreas J. Delsett, and Radio Nova: in particular Sissel Ringstad and Espen Andersen.
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DIGITAL EDITION
USB Cassette containing audio files, documentation and texts.
