Author: magz hall

Radio V&A

V&A presents Friday Late : Radio V&A Friday 26th February Dream Vessels : Ceramics Study Gallery China, Room 136 and Room 138 Broadcast live at the museum, February’s Friday Late presents to you Radio V&A. Come and hear broadcasters, djs, producers and radio art activists take over the museum airwaves as we investigate the history and […]

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Part 2 Radio Survivor Interview

We’re happy to return to the second part of our interview with radio scholar and radio artist Magz Hall. In the first part of the interview, Hall detailed the many ways in which we can understand radio, in both a contemporary and historical context, through the lens of radio art. She introduced us to a […]

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Tree Radio featured in the latest issue of ‘Reflections on Process in Sound’

Read my article on Tree Radio for “Reflections on Process in Sound” as a PDF Reflections_on_Process4_2015-MH The whole issue can be found here http://www.reflections-on-process-in-sound.net/issue-4/ – Chris Weaver considers the development of Variations for Rooms and a Tone during a collaborative residency with Fari Bradley in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; – SoundFjord‘s Helen Frosi and Stephan […]

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Tree Radio Improvements at YSP

The good news is Tree Radio is up and running at Yorkshire Sculpture Park it has been improved as we successfully housed another transmitter (same circuit design) in the tree in a waterproof  box so it will be more robust, weather and outside conditions were basically affecting the outside trunk transmitter far too much and moving the frequency […]

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Brighton Digital Festival Radio // Future Sounds Conference Listen

I will be talking at Brighton’s Digital Radio Festival on Sept 24th part of a day long conference being run by Totally Radio a day of inspiring conversation, music, live broadcast and sound art at radio’s cutting edge. Hear a recording of the talk https://totallyradio.com/shows/radio-future-sounds/episodes/show-tell-with-magz-hall-24-sept-2015 http://brightondigitalfestival.co.uk/event/radio-future-sounds/

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tree radio works

A very exciting if exhausting week, it was quite a challenge soldering outside and this has been a very ambitious project over just a few weeks so I am happy to report Tree Radio works. Which is quite a relief, I really hadn’t imagined how difficult cold wind could be on the tip of my […]

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Talk at YSP

Sound and radio artist Magz Hall has joined YSP for a residency over summer 2015. Magz’s exploration of the artistic potential of radio, outside of conventional settings, has seen her turn ceramic pots, books and now trees in the YSP grounds into radio transmitters. Powered by solar energy, the trees create their own micro FM […]

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Tree Radio Test at YSP July

My first week at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park has been fruitful. I made a test transmitter on part of a tree to get a handle on the size and what it would look like and I really love how the transmitter looks on the tree, it’s so simple and clean cut and really wish I […]

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