Sonic Art & Sound Design- P15:Sonic art is a new art form, or rather, forms. As we shall see, it can encompass a wide range of activities, perhaps wider than almost any other art form. It is an unusual case, based upon a medium that has traditionally been regarded as inferior and subservient to other creative or expressive forms. | ARTISTS AND THEIR WORK So it almost has then in that sense the status of an artefact in the sense of an artist s output as an artefact almost a physical object. Yeah but as a radio station it is also so fleeting so translocal you can t pin it down. It puts a lot of things out but then they are gone after they have happened. I quite like that about radio it s a whole other discussion about this whole archiving thing - this kind of holding on to things and making things into objects and storing all the data and things like this. I enjoy this thing of Resonance it is like an old-fashioned radio station in a way. You hear a show and you tell somebody else if they missed it they won t be able to hear it again unless it gets repeated it s not the kind of thing you have instant access to everything. You use the term old fashioned and it does sound like radio as I remember it from my childhood yet I think a lot of people would regard Resonance as being very much cutting edge. Do you find a contradiction there They totally go together. I think radio as a medium has forgotten a lot of its potential that it might have had in earlier times and part of it is about rediscovering. It s the same way that I perform with small radio transmitters and make them do sounds. They ve probably been around for about 80 or 90 years these things and I m sure somebody has used them to make sound before but it s rediscovered is nothing bad about using a medium that hasn t been explored properly to do something with it that might be cutting edge. Is there almost an element of making it all a bit magical if you like visiting the technology with a more innocent view than we normally do now is this in a sense an unsophisticated approach Well the technology is a bit in the background radio is very simple to make technologically. If I sit in this studio here and I look at all this equipment and I remember being in a studio for the first time looking at this digital desk the first .
