Radio Reconstructions
(as Jones/Bulley, with Daniel Jones)
Sho-Zyg, London, UK
(20 — 27 September 2012)
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, UK
(26 October 2012)
Limewharf, Hackney, London, UK
(6 March — 15 April 2013)
Broadcast, London, UK
(12 March 2013)
Broadcast, London, UK
(19 March 2013)
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK
(9 May 2013)
Design Museum, London, UK
(24 October 2013)
Broadcast, Concertzender, NL
(29 October 2014)
Radio Reconstructions is a sound installation which use indeterminate radio broadcasts as its raw material.
Each piece is structured by a notated score, which controls its rhythm, dynamics and melodic contour over time. The audio elements used to enact this score are selected in real-time from unknown radio transmissions, by an autonomous software system which is continuously scanning the radio waves in search of similar fragments of audio. Using a technique known as audio mosaicing, hundreds of these fragments are played back in an attempt to reconstruct the original score.
The result is a piece whose timbre is ever-shifting, and contingent on the content of countless radio streams from around the globe.
