06 June 2025
- Commissioned Works
- Radiophonic
- Talk Show
- Informative
Welcome back to the Grapevine, this time focusing on radio and its times. Here, Matteo and Ieva try to come back to some of the radio beginnings to draw out its relationship with broader historical shifts as a sound reproduction and communication technology. From the early amateur tinkerers to the Frankfurt school concerns about mass media politics, 70s Italian radio activism to our COVID listening habits, we try to ask how radio listening and public – shared – historical time shaped each other. With a little help from our friends, we jump around and play with moments in radio history to suggest it’s always been a situation for an experiment.
Playlist
The Slits - Heard it through the grapevineHuacuja Alonso, I. (2023). Radio for the millions : Hindi-Urdu broadcasting across borders. Columbia University Press.
Jonathan Sterne. (2003). The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Duke Unviersity Press.
Hans Flesch - Zauberei Auf Dem Sender (excerpt - https://archive.org/details/zauberei_auf_dem_sender/zauberei_auf_dem_sender.m4a)
Rosamund Johnston. (2024). Red tape: radio and politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969. Stanford.
Caroline Levine. (2023). The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis. Princeton University Press.
Radio Alice - Nastro 11 Marzo Sera (excerpt - https://www.radioalice.org/voci)
Danilo Dolci - L'sos di Radio Libera (25 marzo 1970) (excerpt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_HgW1ZSQCU)
Vito Acconci. (1990). Public Space in a Private Time. In Critical Inquiry, 16(4), 900–918.
Bohren & the Club of Gore - Midnight Radio 12
Special thanks to Daniel and Matilda Jones for their very sound contributions!