Performa Radio

Fiamy
A music based collaboration between Amy Granit and Fia Backstrom. The artists contributed a new piece for broadcast on Performa radio titled In Search of Outer Space. In Search of Outer Space, is influenced by the golden phonograph record, carried by the Voyager spaceship, which was sent out by NASA in the hopes of communicating the diversity of life on earth to other life forms. Fiamy decided to make their own version of this golden record, responding to its contents and symbolism.

John Tremblay
In the mid-1990s, John Tremblay made many field recordings on the streets of New York on lo-fi micro-cassette. Capturing music and spontaneous quips from colorful characters, excerpts from his collection of tapes offer a few dense minutes of raw energy from a time few people think about anymore. Ambient noises join unkempt commentaries to create a street-level archive of New York’s cultural fringes.

Lucy Raven
During her recent stay at the Center for Land Use Interpretation’s residency in Utah, Lucy Raven collaborated with Olivia Robinson and Jesse Stiles, reporting from inside the Wendover airbase, once the home of the Enola Gay, and the atomic bombs named Fat Man and Little Boy. From the base, the artists relay signals and communicate with correspondents in Los Alamos, in a radio exchange that crosses over the emptiest airspace in the country, picking up chatter and wind in between. This new site-specific sound work is based on military radio communications.

Originally Broadcast: November 11, 2005, 9-10 pm, on WFMU 91.1FM