Sonic Nutrients
Radio Arts Catalyst is a space for sonic expression, a peer-led process of collective inquiry, and a resource for learning. As The School of Broadcasting evolves, online tools and research material emerging from the process will be made available here for anyone to freely use – a small contribution to the vital history and ongoing legacy of DIY broadcasting! If you have any tips or suggestions for this page then please get in touch with us via admin@artscatalyst.org.
Listening

What do we hear when we listen? What frequencies reach our ears on a daily basis, or more rarely? How much passes us by? How does the environment in which we live alter what we hear and how we hear things? What sounds trigger different emotions, sensations or thoughts in our psyches, consciously or unconsciously? How can we translate or reinterpret what we hear? Who is listening to us?
Mapping

In what ways can a process of mapping communities of sound help us to understand the role the sonic plays in our everyday lives? What associations can we make? What knowledge can we accrue? What sounds right, or wrong, together?
Transmitting

Who gets to speak and be heard? What does a politics that exists purely on the airwaves sound like? How can our existing understanding of broadcasting be reimagined, reshaped and remixed? What noises best communicate the things we want to express?
Links & Resources
The links below refer to resources referenced in workshops conducted by Evan Ifekoya and RESOLVE Collective during the first iteration of The School of Broadcasting.
Pauline Oliveros: Deep Listening, A Composer’s Sound Practice
Melanin-o-phonic Space, or the speaker body as totem, essay by Evan Ifekoya
Black Obsidian meditation by Black Obsidian Sound System
BBC Radiophonic Workshop
BBC Releases Over 16,000 Archival Sound Samples
BBC Sound Effects – Research & Education Space
Free Sample Library Inspired by Classic Radiophonic Sounds
NASA’s Soundcloud
Online Tone Generator
Outside Inside Simultaneously — meditation by Evan Ifekoya in collaboration with sj Rahatoka Lotus Sutra by Evan Ifekoya on SoundCloud
A conversation with Laraaji about laughter, music and wellbeing — Crack Magazine
Oscillating Continuum by Ryoichi Kurokawa
“Voice is always doubled”, Lawrence Abu Hamdan – Aural Contract Audio Archive
Meera Badran – On behalf of the voice
Urban Auscultation by Shannon Mattern
Sound of the underground: How Black Britain changed the face of UK Radio
“A Service to the Community”, Riding the Radio Waves in Kibera Slum
Brooklyn Pirate Radio Map
No Signal Radio
Audio-visual diaries
Broadband Urbanism by Keller Easterling
American Music of the Ottoman Diaspora by Ottoman History Podcast
Peer Research methodologies – Peer to peer to develop the landscape
Big Drums on Little Carriacou by Zakia Sewell
Inventing the Recording by Eva Moreda Rodriguez
Ancient Audio – The Written Sound
The Eternal Sound: From the Phonograph to Holophony
Spectral Topographies by Sophie Dyer & Eline Benjaminsen
Phonograph Demo with Plastic Cup
Otona no Kagaku DIY Plastic Cup Phonograph Kit Manual
The Phonograph: How it works
How Record Players and Gamophones Work
DIY Paper Record Player
Phonograph Recording Materiality
Frequency
Sound Wave: Interactions And The Doppler Effect, Speed Of Sound
History of the Cylinder Phonograph
NPR: The Weird Secret History Of Soviet X-Ray Music
X-Ray Audio – Bone Blog
Guardian: Soviet Bootleg Records Pressed on X-rays
Vice: In Soviet Russia, Forbidden Music Was Smuggled on X-Ray Records
Alex Delittle – Sonic Futures
Sonic Futures – Sound Postcards Project with composer Aleks Kolkowski
Musee de la Carte Postale: Brief History on Sound Postcards
Polish Sound Cards – Conversation with Mat Schulz
Mat Schulz: Discovering & Collecting Sound Postcard
Thanks to artists Evan Ifekoya and RESOLVE Collective for contributing work and resource suggestions.