this sounds really interesting and quite unlike prairie home companion my favorite show, is it available online to listen to? how did the live audience react? were most people actively listening, i mean sitting still, quietly like a traditional audience, or did the club atmosphere change that

if I lived in Toronto I'd be a negativland regular. But what about folks who live lives where the closest thing that there is to such a club is a Carl's Jr. on I-95. As a truckdriver radio art would be a welcome passsenger. come cloak time, while hauling my fat load in my Bulldog, this is the kind of sound i want my ears on. It's a crying shame that there isn't an easier way to hear this kind of radio. Guess until the CPB loosens its pursestrings it's just me and my little CB

Is there a URL for the KPFA feed?

Hi Rudyard (and Turbo)

Sorry I had trouble signing in. The url is listed in this message

I quite like Prairie Home Companion as well but you are right when you say that it is quite unlike it. What Negativland did was manipulate live in front of an audience already existing music and spoken word. They augmented this with on-mic segments that were humorous and important I think in keeping the audience's attention. Their Over the Edge Radio Show (hosted by Don Joyce, one of the members of Negativland) can be heard every Thursday at 12:00 AM (West Coast USA Time) except the first Thursday of every month. It can also be heard live-streamed from their web-site (http://www.Negativland.com/ote_live/index.html). Many of their shows are archived there as well.

To answer your other question regarding how the audience reacted, the Drake was packed to standing room only and everyone was actively listening some with their complimentary blind folds on but most watching and listening. Many were fortifyng their listening experience with spirits at the Bar but all had their ears open.

I felt as though I'd been through an enlightening once-in-a-lifetime experience. I was watching something that was being aired live on the radio and Negativland was providing a polished performance seemingly with no effort at all.

It was live radio the way I imagined it was 50 years ago (ie. the on-mic segments) and made all the more interesting by the underlying theme and content created by the collaging of music and spoken word.

Live radio is something we are striving to create each year with our Radio Theatre ensemble at the performances during the conference weekend at the end of May.

And Turbo, there are tons of radio stations out there that include radio art in their programming. Check out this link on our Deep Wireless web-site (http://www.soundtravels.ca/deepwireless/Radio.html) to find a few that have sent us their links. You can also catch some incredible programming live-streamed on the net from the UK and other places in Europe and North America that's too far away to catch on your radio set.

Nadene

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