Static Between the Stations

Abstract

KUNSTRADIO takes it for granted that:

• 1) Radio art is the use of radio as a medium for art.

• 2) Radio happens in the place it is heard and not in the production studio.

• 3) Sound quality is secondary to conceptual originality.

• 4) Radio is almost always heard combined with other sounds — domestic, traffic, tv, phone calls, playing children etc.

• 5) Radio art is not sound art — nor is it music. Radio art is radio.

• 6) Sound art and music or literature are not radio art just because they are broadcast on the radio.

• 7) Radio space is all the places where radio is heard.

• 8) Radio art is composed of sound objects experienced in radio space.

• 9) The radio of every listener determines the sound quality of a radio work.

• 10) Each of the listeners hears their own final version of a work for radio combined with the ambient sound of their own space.

• 11) The radio artist knows that there is no way to control the experience of a radio work.

• 12) Radio art is not a combination of radio and art. Radio art is radio by artists.