frequency clock - gallery installation - [ sNr v.0.1 ]

 

frequency clock [sNr v.0.1] is an installation of internet.radio stations from london. it is being being displayed at sonarmatica, in the sonar festival, in barcelona, spain in june 2001. it forms a part of the exhibition, 'invisible london', curated by the wire magazine.

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for this version a new web interface has been developed (with the assistance of artmiks) utilising the metaphor of the radio dial. visitors use the on-screen radio dial to select a net.radio station, which is then played back into the gallery space, via mini-fm transmitters. moving through the gallery's radiospace, audiences can tune into different net.radio stations from london.

 

the installation will be installed on 4 pentium PCs distributed throughout the gallery. 4 transmitter-receiver modules transmitting locally on high-frequency radio will be utlised. extra receiving headsets will be available.

 

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featured net.radio stations in frequency clock [ sNr v.0.1 ] are:

- radiospace
radiospace, pioneer of london net.radio, is the creation of the backspace + deskspace collectives. since 98 it has tracked autonomous audio emissions across london, featuring everything from reports from anti-globalisation protests to breakbeat rhythms + turntable jams. radiospace is where the sonic fragments of london's cityscape lodge on their path to obscurity or omnipresence.

- fallout
fallout presents the original sounds of london's technoculture. an audio by product of london's Mute magazine, fallout is an investigation of space, new science, technology + the human-machine interface.

- talkaoke
talkaoke is a new net.media discussion format happening live in london + online. in this real life emulation of a net-based chat room, audiences sit around a doughnut shaped table, discussing anything + everything with strangers + a flamboyant host.

- piratetv.net
piratetv.net is interactive DIY environmental streaming zentertainment. one of london's favourite net.radio listening locations, piratetv features quality content from top underground selectors, from the ninja tune clan.

- r a d i o q u a l i a
rQ skews the listening spectrum by moving the listener from the vaporising media of broadcast radio to the wired laboratory maze of net.radio + back again. the frequency oscillates between the transmitter+antenna to the console+copper wire. rQ makes audible complex electronica of all gelatinous forms + audiophonic textures which ask the listener to listen harder, strain to catch the gaps, the silences, the bits in between ...


- the installation includes visuals by: zzkt
photo_Nic mechadRoid of distance. linepixel flickers + corroding edgeconditions.

 
[ aec98 v.0.0.1 beta ] Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 98  
[ eaf v.0.0.2 ] EAF, Adelaide, Australia, 99  
[ vp00 v.0.0.3 ] Video Positive, Liverpool, UK, 00