How do we define the boundaries of an invisible radio space and how do
states of presence and absence figure in this process? Artist Michael
Waterman and composer Michelle Nagai discuss two distinct radio projects
that re-imagine radio space as active sonic geographies and collaborative
meeting places for listener/producer communities at both the micro and
macro level.

Michelle Nagai has been creating broadcasts through her EC(h)OLOCATOR
project since May 2003. By investigating the impact of place on human
thought, emotion and physicality the project aims to create live radio
that awakens the senses and encourages deeper, more thoughtful modes of
listening and being in the producer and the audience alike.

Michael Waterman is a founding member of the audio collage ensemble
Mannlicher Carcano and in 1998 created the Mannlicher Carcano Radio
Hour. Members of the ensemble in Los Angeles, Winnipeg and Guelph
perform live weekly audio improvisations via telephone conferencing
and web streaming. The show may be heard at http://uoguelph.ca/cfru/listen.shtml.

Resonance 104.4fm has been bringing a multitude of experimental sound, new
music, radio art and interaction to the London UK's airwaves since May 1st
2002. Imagine a radio station that makes public those artworks that have
no place in traditional broadcasting; that is an archive of the new, the
undiscovered, the forgotten, the impossible; that is an invisible gallery,
a virtual arts centre whose location is at once local, global and
timeless, and that is itself a work of art. Imagine a radio station that
responds rapidly to new initiatives, has time to draw breath and reflect.
A laboratory for experimentation, that by virtue of its uniqueness brings
into being a new audience of listeners and creators.

Sponsored by the British Council

Janna Graham curated radio art programming when she was with CHMA in
Sackville, New Brunswick and coordinated this past year's Full Moon Camp
for the Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production. Janna
introduced the programmers and listeners at CHMA to audio art. She
convinced them that they could do it - and has listened to their growth as
both artists and audience members.

Tim May is the Program Director at CKLN-FM in Toronto, voted as
runner-up for Toronto's Best Local Radio Station in the annual "Best of
Toronto" poll in October 2003. Tim will be discussing guerilla techniques
in Radio Art.

Resonance 104.4fm is London's first radio art station. Tom Wallace
will give an outline of the explosion in UK radio art. He will
discuss radio licensing in the UK and how future legislation may or
may not allow for more creative radio in community projects.

Janet Russell is the producer of Open Air: Natural History Radio from Newfoundland and Labrador, a project of the Alder Institute, a non-profit collective based in Newfoundland . Open Air interprets natural history broadly to include, well, everything. You'll hear many voices on Open Air, not all of them human. Heard weekly for one hour on CHMR-FM, St. John's; CIUT-FM, Toronto and CHSR-FM, Fredericton and eventually found in an audio archive on Alder's web site .

Dave Kattenburg seeks to convey ideas on Earth and environment issues through the use of narrationless voice collages, where people tell their own stories. The juxtaposition of voices expressing personal/emotional or academic/scientific perspectives provides contrast and dissonance, and encourages the listener to become personally attached to the voices they're hearing.