Kristen Roos - the micro radio project

The micro radio project started as a site-specific sound and radio project. This involved collecting sounds from a given area, and using these sounds in compositions that were broadcast within the sites that they had been collected. The sounds were stored on my laptop and broadcast using a low-power radio transmitter.

The project has evolved into a mobile performance which mixes prerecorded field recordings that I have stored on cassette, one off lacquer records, and my laptop. The performance is amplified through broadcasting to radios, the sound system at the venue, and tactile transducers attached to surfaces in the space.

Using records, cassettes, and a radio transmitter to perform live sound collage makes nod to the history of the phonograph, tape and radio as tools for the development of experimental sound art. Giving an alternative use for mediums that are largely used for commercial media is also a Situationist technique—detournement, in which a familiar medium is repurposed to create something new.

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Music

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• kristen
• roos
• micro
• radio
• art
• sound