First broadcast on the BBC World Service, February 13th 2012. With producer David Goren

World Wide Waves: The Sounds of Community Radio, Part 2

First broadcast on the BBC World Service, February 13th 2021. With producer David Goren.

World Wide Waves: The Sounds of Community Radio, Part 1

Richard And Linda Thompson Desperados  052382 1st Set

This is what happened when I asked ChatGPT to write a country song about a trucker who has tea with Queen Elizabeth whilst they listen to BBC on shortwave radio. Then I got Chris Johnson, an extremely talented and savvy musician, to set it to music.

Tea With The Queen

This mashup of vintage cold war propaganda (mostly) from  Radio Moscow's North American Service was made for The Schizophonic Archive, a part of The Bureau of Memories: Archives and Ephemera, an exhibition curated by the anthropological collective Ethnographic Terminalia in December 2014, Thanks to Kim Elliot, Jack Widner, Marie Lamb, David Bodington, Jeff Place and Smithsonian Folkways for the recordings. Special thanks to Tom Miller and Ethnographic Terminalia.

A Big Bonfire Of Friendship and Mutual Understanding

A welcome song for rootIO sung by members of Gwoke in Patongo, Uganda

Station Song

A Track from a new project I've started, called Poppet. The lyrics will consist of ramblings on sorcery, rituals and folk magic.
A Poppet is a doll used in folk magic rituals as revenge.

Poppet - A Ritual Most Foul

Brooklyn pirate radio regular 103.1 was on the air with faint street noises for at least 30 minutes. Eventually, something metal falls on the ground, a door opens and two guys chat for awhile. Finally,  they seem to notice something's wrong. They go briefly to dead air, and come back with Soca, their regular programing.

103.1 Street Noise 5:24 pm EDT 5 - 10 - 16

The Shortwave Shindig live from the 30th annual Winter SWL Fest. This is the entire three hour broadcast comprising the traditional Shortwave Shindig Hootenanny thang paired with the two hour Short Waves/Long Distance program featuring the top 15 entries to the SW/LD open call sponsored by Wave Farm, and the North American Short Wave Association.

Shortwave Shindig 2017 featuring "Short Waves/Long Distance"

TEAM ME
Inner Voice (2017 Radio Race)

Jamie Courville (Brown Paper Tickets)

TEAM ME: Inner Voice (2017 Radio Race)

An epic piano metal cover of Mr Brightside by the Killers. It's probably less of a cover and more of a complete butchery.

Mr Brightside (The Killers Cover)

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