Book 0020: Daina Augaitis & Dan Lander “Radio Rethink: Art, Sound and Transmission″

Author: Daina Augaitis, Dan Lander

Editor: Daina Augaitis, Dan Lander

Title: Radio Rethink: Art, Sound and Transmission

Performer: None

Place of publication: Banff, Alberta, Canada

Publisher: Banff Centre Press

Release date: 06/1994

Pages: 335 p.; 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 in.

Cover: Digital print

Binding: Perfect-bound

Process: Offset

Color: Color

Edition size: None

Edition number: None

ISBN: 0920159664

Notes: Editing, Production and Design: Mary Anne Moser; Production and Design Assistance: Mary Squario; Printing: Sundog Printing Limited; Cover photo: Monte Greenshields and Cheryl Bellows; Radio schematic on cover and page i: courtesy of Tetsuo Kogawa; Graphics on page ii: courtesy of Tim Westbury

"Most of us have been conditioned, especially if we have lived in the city for a while, to ignore the soundscape, including radio. The result is that we often do not even know what our ears put up with every day, how our whole being might be affected by an overload of sound input, and that we might unconsciously assist in the proliferation of increasingly noisy soundscapes. A question, then, is raised: how do we as audio artists/composers, create the desire to listen - to radio or the soundscape.

Imagine radio that, instead of numbing us to sounds, strengthens our imagination and creativity; instead of manipulating us into faster work and more purchasing, it inspires us to invent; instead of overwhelming us with irrelevant information and fatiguing us, it refreshes our acoustic sensitivity; instead of moving us to ignore thoughts and surroundings, it stimulates listening; instead of broadcasting the same things over and over again, it does not repeat; instead of silencing us, it encourages us to sing or to speak, to make radio ourselves; instead of merely broadcasting at us, we listen through it."