Rodrigo Ríos Zunino
Rodrigo Ríos Zunino (photo by Juan Hoppe)
Radio Tsonami is an online radio station belonging to the Tsonami Arte Sonoro organization (tsonami.cl), based in Valparaíso, Chile. It is conceived as a radio experimentation project centered on sound and language as tools for social communication and artistic exploration. It is a space for convergence focused on listening, intimacy, sound, noise, soundscapes, walks, experiments, radio rituals, series, concerts, and more.
Part of its content is generated from the organization's activities, as well as from the annual Tsonami International Sound Art Festival.
Rodrigo Ríos Zunino: Media artist whose work focuses on sound, radio, and exploring the intersection between the invisible fields that surround us and what we perceive through our senses. He has developed a multidisciplinary practice that includes radio broadcasting, feedback, field recording, cymatics, improvisation, sound design and composition, sound installation, as well as audiovisual and photographic recording and editing. At the same time, he has worked as a producer, holding positions in general production, technical production, and management at festivals, concert series, concerts, and other events for both cultural organizations and various self-managed efforts.
His work has been presented at the National Museum of Natural History of Chile, the Fungi Festival, the Tsonami Festival, the Toda la Teoría del Universo Festival, the Sonandes International Sound Art Biennial in Bolivia, the Bienal Sur in Argentina, Radio Art Zone in Luxembourg, esc Median Kunst Labor in Austria, Ars-electronica, and REsound, among others.
He is currently co-director of Radio Tsonami and part of the Tsonami Arte Sonoro team in the city of Valparaíso, Chile. He also serves as technical producer and co-curator of the radio programming for Festival Tsonami.
seminar :Radio Tsonami : Radio is a Virus from Outer Space.
Radio is a Virus from Outer Space.
We are surrounded by information pouring from a plethora of different media outlets, handled mostly by corporate conglomerates with specific agendas, which seem to be quite synchronized. Radio in this sense is not an exception, but it has been one of the media structures that has been hacked or infiltrated at different points in history. Either by pirate radio initiatives, community and college radios and the recent proliferation of online radios, through the massification of the internet and the different technological means necessary to produce and broadcast radio shows.
Any given radio station works as an intimate space located in the ether, be it invisible frequencies floating through the atmosphere or a bunch of ones and zeros being coded and decoded through a chain of cables and devices. A place where you can express and share thoughts, ideas, conversations, sounds, songs and any type of sonic related content. An acousmatic space where we can gather, listen and be teleported into different, sometimes alien landscapes.
At a point in time where information of all sorts is shaping our reality in quite confusing ways, where censorship (palpable or not) is a reality that most of us can relate to, this workshop invites you to learn how to set up your own webstream and use it in an array of unimagined ways, so you can get your message out into the digital cosmos.
As the title points out, by paraphrasing W.S. Borroughs, we will look at the idea of language as a virus and how perhaps in this day and age we need to become a type of virus that can infect the rotten mediascape that attempts to program us, and use radio as a “countermeasure, a way to scramble the signal, interrupt the script, and expose the mechanical loops inside the machine”.
In this practical workshop we will:
- Discuss the role of radio in the current infoscape and in its history.
- Basic notions of soundart and radioart
- How to setup an online radio or webstream
- How to broadcast to a webstream
- What gear is necessary for such an operation
- Why do we need to reclaim the radiowaves!
What you need to bring:
- A laptop or personal computer + headphones.
- If you have it = soundcard + microphone // If not the computer will be enough
- Some audio files you would like to share (field recordings, sounds, music, non-music, noise, dronescapes)
- Motivation
The workshop will end with a 30 minute broadcast of improvised radio madness that will be put together with workshop participants.
Additional support by:
Critical Media Practices
Stadium 255 (Gate 7)
2085 Colorado Avenue
University of Colorado Boulder, UCB 477
Boulder, CO 80309-315
303-735-6382
Stadium 255 (Gate 7)
2085 Colorado Avenue
University of Colorado Boulder, UCB 477
Boulder, CO 80309-315
303-735-6382
