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An Overview of Spatialised Broadcasting Experiments with a Focus on Radio Art Practices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2010

Colin Black
Colin Black*
Affiliation:
Composition and Music Technology Unit, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW, 2000, Australia
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E-mail: artist@colinblack.com.au
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Abstract

This article is an introduction to the specialised area of spatialised broadcasting experiments associated with radio art practices. This subject is investigated primarily from two perspectives: artistic works that explore the dissemination of radio waves (the ‘spectrumscape’) and the multichannel broadcasting/listening experience. It also discusses some of the history and ideas that form the undercurrents for radio art practice and explores radio art’s uses and concepts of spatiality.

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Organised Sound , Volume 15 , Issue 3: Sound ↔ Space: New approaches to multichannel music and audio , December 2010 , pp. 198 - 208
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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