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The James and Darren Show: Maintaining the Creative Frontier
Posted by: Justin Grotelueschen on May 28, 2005 09:51 PM | Comments (2)
The last session of the day. All the coffee is gone, and so is most of the fruit. What's left? A bit of discussion on the history of radio, specifically experimental radio, in Canada. Yes, we're backwards radio folks who use history lessons to wake us up.
James Roy (Area Executive Producer, Radio Drama, CBC) started and Darren Copeland (Artistic Director, New Adventures in Sound Art) followed up with a relationship between the experimental radio past and present. For me, this was an interesting twist on what Helen just told us, that radio had no history. From what James and Darren say, there is a history, and this history is carried on through the years of radio artists making radio, other people hearing it and feeling the inspiration to create their own programs. (It may be significant to note that James and Darren live in Canada, and Helen in the U.S., if that creates some context.)
So it's almost a spoken history in that it hasn't been documented, and carried on through word of mouth/ear, although there are some books out there on Darren's reading list that refer to the practice:
Wireless Imagination -- Gregory Whitehead
Radio Rethink -- Dan Lander
Radiotexte -- Neil Strauss
Just a few. I personally recommend Radiotexte. Have it, love it. Seek it out.
Reminder: free103point9 is webcasting everything here. I hope they archive it as well. Nadene is recording the conference and the performances, but isn't sure if the audio quality will be good enough to distribute, and that's even before she has to think about getting the rights.
**Darren (head, down) and James speak out**
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