This is a realisation of John Cage's famous piece Radio Music, using the score to play back from a list of web radio stations rather than the originally intended AM hectohertz (!!) frequencies. The list of stations is one I found somewhere online, and I have not filtered or re-ordered it other than to include only French and Irish stations, so as to preserve the indeterminacy that comes with attempting to find specific frequencies on a real radio.

Another approach to digitising this piece is detailed in a paper by Lindsay Vickery (in that case, adapting it for use with DAB radio signals). Vickery's interpretation of the score's instructions is quite different to mine (I read it as intending you to stay on the notated frequency at the radio's maximum volume, so that is what I have programmed)

The linked website includes documentation, a web-based score and much more detailed information about the piece.

The Singing Hollow sculpture in St Audoen's Park invites visitors to put their heads into a hole inside a rock. It creates an acoustic transformation reminiscent of the feeling of sanctuary from the outside world that comes when you walk into a church. This inspired this live sound installation: organ plays inside the church, musicians play in the grounds, and church bells bridge both worlds, all playing parts that are both independent and interdependent.

In the original performance, the piece is designed for four outdoor instruments, six church bells (each one rung by an individual) and an organ. It was specifically written for St Audoen’s Church of Ireland, which is an incredibly old church.

Inspired by an idea of Anaïs Fontanges, this is a web page that emulates ghost-hunting radio scanners as used by paranormal investigators. This idea sparked a period of fanatacism about radio and particularly about how the weird romance of the ephemerality radio somehow holds on even when you carry it into the digital domain (where the ephemerality is a little bit faked...)

It basically cycles randomly through a range of French and Irish web radio stations, with white noise faking a transition between stations! But sure the REAL ghost boxes are fakes too, aren't they....>>??????

A generative implementation of the famous and amazing THX deep note, where random voices convene on a major chord. I added extra overtones to make it sound like a G.F. Haas piece. With a multi-dimensional oscilloscope to represent the sound in coloured lines. Unique each time you run it! Implemented using WebAudio (actually the first experiment I ever made with WebAudio, a couple of years ago), and animated using the built-in FFT analysis from WebAudio, coupled with HTML Canvas (just did this part yesterday). Because there are a huge number of oscillators + all the FFTs, it's quite heavy...so it sounds prettier on a computer. I'm sure it would be possible to make a much more efficient version but I was more interested in trying out the visualisation this week than optimising the audio code!

Try it a few times! You can also layer multiple renditions on top of one another, as long as the computer can handle it!

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A huge selection of digital radio stations from Ireland and France are randomised, and you can go back in time (by playing them slower: the longer you listen to it like this, the further away you are from the real-time radio stream) or forwards in time: unlike a real radio station, digital radio often relies on file streams - so even when something hasn't happened yet you can often fast-forward through them.

An instrument for playing with samples from freesound.org, with a set of accompanying text scores that can be used to process your performance of this. Suitable for performance in a group using mobile phones as loudspeakers.