Stocker, Gerfried; Grundmann, Heidi; X-space, u.a.
«Horizontal Radio»

The basic idea concerns an overloading of radio, seen as the classic transmission medium, with mechanisms and structures formed by the Internet (as a network metaphor). Circa 25 radio stations in Australia, Canada, Europe (including Russia), and in the USA, participated on every radio frequency for a 24-hour period from June 22 to June 23. In the foyer of the broadcasting network ORF Landesstudios Oberösterreich, a large portion of the existing analog lines and transmission grids of the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) were cabled together, and incoming broadcast materials newly distributed (net monitoring)—the participating stations could, however, take charge of the activating of their own lines and combining of their channels. Created was a transmitted river of acoustic materials constantly being newly-developed and shifted in time and place. This came about not (only) under the traditional, directorial rules of broadcasting used by individual studios, or as a product of live performances and acoustic installations (as in the old streetcar depot in Berlin-Moabit, or through ‹soundscapes› from Moscow or Stockholm), but also in connection with sound materials being transformed to data movements in the Internet.
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