NM, SK commissioned for Radiophrenia 2017, Scotland, was the first radio work exploring the phenomenon.įollowing unusual signals across the earth, Sisters Akousmatica wrote a book about their research ( SK as part of The People’s Library 2018), and use it as a score to dissect the silent key phenomena. Seeding of their Silent key investigations was developed with funding from South Australian arts organisation Vitalstatistix, through their national hot-housing project Adhocracy 2017.

Sisters Akousmatica examine further the waves of anonymous/clandestine radio broadcast as a vehicle for archiving women’s role in sound (art, music and broadcast) through an interrogative, parasitical way of creating and collecting content. Sisters Akousmatica are always listening – seeking out the strange broadcasts destined for… Stretching out around the world in a network of terrestrial communication, bouncing off the heaviside and landing back again to be collected by radio-listeners – in cars and in kitchens. In between those sounds are stations: broadcasts that are music, news, chatter, cryptic messages and espionage. Static, pops and crackles, whistles, the tap, tap tap of the world and the universe going about its electromagnetic business. Radio: drag the dial across frequencies at any given time, any given place and you will hear a cacophony of sounds. Sisters Akousmatica investigate mysterious radio broadcasts known as The Silent Key.

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