Radio City 299-MW, Audio-Loop

Radio City 299-MW

Radio City 299-MW is a multi-frequency audio composition of archival, original, and found sound, which is transmitted from scale reproductions of abandoned WWII-era military forts located off the British Coast.

"Radio City 299-MW refers to Radio City, a station based in abandoned military fortifications in the Thames Estuary off the British coast during this same era. The miniature models of the rampart-like towers contain the source of low-power transmissions relayed to the radios on the walls. The four-channel sound composition (also based on archival broadcast materials) occupies the gallery and replicates on a small-scale Radio City's unauthorized occupation of institutional spaces - the physical architecture as well as the radio frequencies.

[The]pirate stations transmitted independent shows and rock music in defiance of the BBC's government-controlled broadcasting monopoly and the heavy corporate sway over music programming. By reflecting on the influential effects of these repurposed sites, neuroTransmitter proposes locating similar catalysts in our communities today. Their work, whether experienced in museums, over the airwaves, or in the public realm, suggests a reconfiguration of the broadcast spectrum as a space for communication and experimentation, where individual voice and locality take precedence over the homogenizing outcomes of regulation and corporatization." -

Sara Krajewski, excerpted from curator's statement for neuroTransmitter: Beyond Terrritory , Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2006.