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Friday, 13 July 2012 to Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Commercial Break, Lone Broadcast and Numbers

Three micro radio installations by Magz Hall

These radio art works are part of a series of eight ficional trace stations concerning the possible future uses of the FM spectrum after it is abandoned by sanctioned broadcasters in the UK.

Numbers is in part homage to shortwave numbers stations, on air since the cold war, and will play a series of coded messages from provocateurs of the future, currently sampling tweets from the Occupy movement. The work predicts numbers stations will move to FM and will remain there after licensed FM services are switched off, to be used by outlawed gangs, groups, agents and political movements. Visitors will be invited to write coded messages for future broadcast.

Lone Broadcast is a transmission realised as the futile FM mono broadcast of a lone women stranded at sea (voice and poem), Sonia Frost additional sounds Xylitol. Whilst Commercial Breaks sounds the discarded ether as sonic debris of commercial radio heard as glitches, noise and fragments, reminants of consumerism. This work incoporates found sound and appropriates radio adverting to create an extreme sample of 2012.

This event is open to the public.

Venue: The Old Look Out Gallery, 35 Harbour Street, Broadstairs, Kent, CT10.1, 10am - 4pm
Time: All Day

Contact: Magz Hall (email)

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