photo credit Matt Rowe
I am Magz Hall an Oram Award winning sound and radio artist who works with a focus on expanded radio and sound art in all its forms. I’ve been exploring the artistic potential of radio and its use outside of conventional settings as a practice based researcher and artist, from ready mades to creating transmitters and site specific multi media installations which draw on aspects wireless technology and art for the environment. Investigating and producing radio art and expanded practice across the spectrum, working on projects across radio air, land, sea and space whilst drawing on experimental radio history with a focus on Art for the Environment and experiments in expanded sound sculpture. I have also a long history with immersive technology which I have been exploring via my research projects.
My current and ongoing research since 2002 has been looking at air and water pollution caused by landfill and I have produced a series of works in response to this as part of my Radio Air Garden Project.
Contact magz@radioarts.org.uk
https://www.instagram.com/hallmagz/
Artist Statement
My sound work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, British Museum, The Barbican, The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Sainsbury Centre, The Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP), Whitechapel Gallery, Jerwood Visual Arts, Barbican, MACBA Barcelona, Denmark, Italy, Germany, Norway, Morocco, Holland, Ireland, Canada, Finland and the USA.
I’ve worked across analogue, stereo, interactive to immersive, binaural, 5.1 and 16 speaker and ambisonic for galleries and public spaces, from large-scale events and installations to radio broadcasts and intimate sound and radio installations.
I’ve experimented with a range of radiophonic sound design to create connections between the public with wireless technology in all its forms across the spectrum. I like to push the boundaries of multi-disciplinary interactive sound and radio art, creating expanded radio for multi media use from ready mades to hand building transmitters on self broadcasting ceramics, trees and books. Bringing my personal take on media technology, radio and environmental issues.
I was awarded a practice based PhD at Univerity of the Arts London in 2015 at CRISAP, Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice, where I explored expanded radio art practice in all its myriad forms and researched a hundred years of radio art as well as making a series of gallery works and stations under the umbella of Switch Off, about the digital switch over of radio from analogue to digital.
https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/8748/
My current practice based research focuses on expanded radio and sound art with a focus on air pollution.
I have been makding Radio Air Gardens an ongoing project, first edition was exhibited in Bristol 2024-5 and then at UBU in Finland 2025.
I’ve produced an immersive 16 speaker radiophonic documentary Wastelands: Walleys Quarry about the living next to the worst landfill in the UK, supported by Screen South, ACE and the UK Government 2025 and Asset Dump an immerisve XR world showing the pitfuls of landfill made using Unreal Engine.
Selection of Past Works
My ambisonic soundtrack of Hong Kong Airport 2000 for Foster and Partners at the British Museum and Sainsbury Center was described as “extraordinary and rich” in Richard J. Williams book The Anxious City (2004). Radio Mind “intriguing and beautiful work” a faux religious pirate station and experimental dramaturgy was commissioned for Lightworks Festival. My transmitting book Spiritual Radio “pages of the book are held shut by copper nails, connected to form a transmitter circuit through which words flow “in an eternal loop….the text awaits the listener who is tuned to the right frequency” (The Guardian) was exhibited at the Unbinding the Book exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery and was a finalist for The Engine Room’s International Sound Art Competition and Exhibition (2015). ‘Tree Radio’, a broadcasting tree made during an Arts for the Environment Residency at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, was also a sonic art finalist for the BASCA British Composer Award 2016. As part of Jerwood Open Forest Exhibition I made a ‘Dream Space‘ and ‘Forest Call Signs‘. For Alt Barbican, and was commissioned to make ‘Voicing Gender‘ for radio hats exhibited at the Mutek Festival Montreal and the Barbican 2017. I was commissioned to make ‘Transmission Spores’ about Ash Die Back for the Ash Archive and its touring exhibition 2018 across the south east.
‘Waves of Resistance’ was a radiophonic work commissioned for the Aerial Sparks trail exhibiting across the Island of Innis Orr for Galway City of Culture 2020 and was nominated for the Ivor Novello Award for Sound Art in 2021.
Radio Arts Workshops
I set up Radio Arts an artist led group back in 2002 to promote expanded radio art and have curated works for exhibition, broadcast, and led workshops with the public in significant arts and cultural venues funded by ACE. Such as the Tate Britian, V and A, Manchester Science Museum, Jerwood Arts Space, Turner Contempory the Beaney Museum and at Festivals such as Supernormal, Whitstable Biennale, Duchamp Festival and Folkestone Triennial. and also gained funding from ACE and KCC.
https://www.facebook.com/radioarts.org.uk
Teaching Experience
A guest artist teaching at Goldsmiths for the MA in Design: Expanded Practice in 2026. An indpendent artist and practice based researcher in expanded sound and media art, I was awarded an honorary senior lecturerhip at CCCU in recognition for my work there as senior lecturer and a course leader of the Film, Radio and TV BA at Canterbury Christ Church Univeristy (2006-2025) I also taught audio and final dissertations on the Digital Media BA. I have taught undergrads and postgrads hands on radio, audio and media production skills and theory, in radio and audio production, podcasting, advertising, music shows, documentary, features, drama, film, TV and animation. I’ve also worked at Sunderland University, University of West London and Lewisham, Southwark, Westminster Colleges London. I ran a BTEC in Audio production.
Broadcast
As well as making installations, I have broadcast my work internationally on BBC Radio 3, ABC, RTE, Deutschland Radio Kultur, Resonance FM, Sound Art Radio, Radio Reverb, BCB Radio, Phonic FM, BCFM, NTS, Radeq, Boat DAB, the Dark Outsid, Radio Corax and Reboot FM (DE), Radio Papesse (It), WGXC 90.7-FM USA, Radio Futura (PT), CKLN FM (CA) , Scanner FM (SP) and in radio taxis at the Morroco Biennale.
I helped successfully lobby for community arts radio in the UK at the Community Media Association, and was a founder of London arts station Resonance FM and was involved in all areas of set up, I commissioned, produced and presented specialist music and radio arts events, exhibitions for broadcast and installation 1998-2010
Please look at the overview of all my projects and click on these links for Audio, Press, Films and Links, for PhD and selected writing
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