RADIO TAXI
Kirsten Lavers, cris cheek, (TNWK) and Simon Keep invite sound artists
(including writers, poets, visual artists, musicians working with
sound) to submit work for a short range FM and internet radio event in
late May and early June 2005.
BACKGROUND
RADIO TAXI is a Taxi Gallery narrowcast and webcast initiative. Taxi
Gallery is literally a black cab situated in a council estate on the
outskirts of Cambridge, England. Since Sept 2001, over 25 different
artists have made new works in response to the specific context offered
by the gallery and its location. Taxi Gallery is a project that reaches
for an extended conversation with local, national and international
audiences (via its website) in response to a broad range of challenging
contemporary artworks, approaches and ideas.
For more info on Taxi Gallery – please visit www.taxigallery.org.uk
The translocal or “glocal” philosophy of Taxi Gallery is reflected in
the forthcoming RADIO TAXI project which will integrate a 3 mile radius
analogue FM broadcast with a worldwide digital transmission via a
server capable of handling multiple streams.
RADIO TAXI will be a live(ly) mix of locally originated programmes and
interventions (significant community involvement by neighbourhood
residents of all ages will be developed, including several major
projects with Coleridge Secondary School and an evolving radio club), a
curated programme of invited sound works and a schedule of sonic art
from all over the world.
The Radio Taxi webcast will be technically supported by Liam Wells
(Norwich School of Art and Design) of n0media.
Transmission dates:
6pm 27 May – 6am 31 May (GMT)
&
6pm 3 June – Midnight 5 June (selected highlights)
The selected highlights will remain archived on the Taxi Gallery
website for the foreseeable future. An audio CD selection will also be
included in a forthcoming full colour Taxi Gallery publication.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
THERE ARE THREE WAYS TO TAKE PART IN RADIO TAXI:
1. A 1hour (unedited, raw) field sound recording made at night (anytime
between dusk and dawn) from a specific location anywhere in the world.
Please include exact details of the location, date and time of the
recording.
2. A recording made for the duration of a taxi journey (see Jan Cain’s
‘Ride’ in the Taxi Gallery web archive). Please include details of the
journey including departure and arrival destinations and reasons for
the journey.
These recordings will be played during the overnight programme during
the broadcast period – a programme inspired by Jim Jarmusch’s film
‘Night On Earth’. All submitted recordings will be fully credited on
the website.
3. Contribute to the curated programme by submitting new or existing
sound works that in some way address at least one or more of the
following themes:
Neighbourhood The Commons Everyday
Location Transition Conversation Collection
Transmission
No other limits and we’re also happy to receive proposals/ideas for
works to be carried out on site or via live – streaming. Submissions
should be sent (preferably in audio CD format – please get in touch if
this is a problem) with details, credit info and weblinks to:
38 Stanesfield Rd, Cambridge, CB5 8NH England.
Queries to: [log in to unmask]
Submission Deadline: 1 May 2005-01-22 latest – though we’d encourage
early submissions.
WE'D ENCOURAGE YOU TO FORWARD THIS INVITATION WIDELY.
apologies for any cross-posting
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