Oram Awards

The winners of the 2021 Oram Awards – an awarding body championing women and gender minority pioneers in electronic music and sound – have been announced. The six winners of The Oram Awards 2021 are: experimental radio artist Magz Hall, and longtime member of influential electronica Spraw Collective and sound-poet-sculptor Vivenne Griffin, industrial pop futurist […]

Whose Laughing Now TC margate

‘Whose laughing Now’ aka Brexit Bags Artist Magz Hall @radio_mind Laughing sacks are uncanny items sold in jokeshops in seaside towns like Margate and across the UK. For me they were the perfect small audio device to subvert and reinvent, as kind of playful homage and to the ongoing pain that is Brexit. The Lachsack […]

Read artist chapter on Waves of Resistance

I have written a chapter for this Aerial Sparks publication about my role in the project read it here as and e book https://magzhall.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/491e5-aerial3asparks_publication.pdf

Aerial Sparks LP and RTE airplay

Join Magz Hall on Thurs 15th at 6 30pm with Aerial Sparks artists, register on eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/o/aerialsparks-33882965031 Aerial Sparks Louise Manifold has curated an LP featuring works made for the project they have also been featured this week on Bernard Clarke’s The Blue of the night on RTE Lyric FM featuring the work of Magz […]

Rewire Festival

Hot on the heals of the POW Festival Waves of Resistance can be heard as part of the Rewire Festival 6-9th May. Sunday 9th at 16.45 https://www.rewirefestival.nl/timetable?day=4 Info about Waves Of Resistance https://magzhall.com/waves-of-resistance-tonnta-friotaiochta/ The work was orginally commissioned by Galway 2020 https://www.aerialsparks.org/magz-hall and selected for Rewire from 400 submissions details here https://www.rewirefestival.nl/artist/open-call-for-sound–radio-works

POW Festival

Waves of resistance will be streamed as part of this years POW festival. 11.30am March 7th. More info can be found here https://www.powthanet.com/events/2021/3/7/waves-of-resistance-tonnta-friotaochta

Transmission Spores at RWA 2021

Transmission Spores (2017) is part of RWA annual exhibition in Bristol its now on till May 9th. https://www.rwa.org.uk/collections/art-exhibitions/products/rwa-168-annual-open-exhibition In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil was an enormous ash tree that harboured all the life in the universe a signifier of its power and resilience. For the last ten years an Ash tree has propagated every available spot […]

Waves of Resistance – at POW Festival

Is being heard as part of the POW Festival, 7th March, the festival has gone online this year due to Covid https://www.powthanet.com/events/2021/3/7/waves-of-resistance-tonnta-friotaochta

𝗪𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 Ars Electronica Festival for Galway 2020

“𝗪𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲” (𝗥𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗼 𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀) “𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗻𝘁𝗮 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗮í𝗼𝗰𝗵𝘁𝗮” (𝗘𝗮𝗹𝗮í𝗻𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗱𝗶ó 𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗮) a new radio installation transmitting a radiophonic poem from an island in the irish sea for the Aerial Sparks project. Aerial Sparks will be exhibited on the island of Innis Orr and part of the Ars Electronica Festival. Listen to an extract […]

Waves of Resistance – Tonnta Friotaíochta, Galway 2020 and Ars Electronica

Waves of Resistance – Tonnta Friotaíochta, Ealaíne raidió gan teorainneacha ( Radio art without borders) A new radiophonic work considering how radio helps us with forced isolation and how visible and invisible boundaries can be broken via radio waves as an act of resistance. by Magz Hall featuring the Voices of Alex Jueno and Máiréad Ni […]