street radio

“A Hush Descended on the City…”: Hidden Histories and Radio Remembrance

Is Hidden Histories a micro-FM station, a sound installation, an audio tour, or a local history trail? Perhaps it is none of the above, or perhaps all four. The existence of such a project in some ways exposes the lack of a critical sound-based vocabulary, especially when attempting to portray particular instances of the convergence of oral history and electronic media in their distinctiveness and social context.

Hidden Histories / Street Radio

In this book articles and essays get collected reflecting on projects such as Hidden Histories / Street Radio and other projects in that area.

Hidden Histories -Review on Neural.it

We have been reviewed by neural it
http://www.neural.it/art/2008/04/street_radio_oral_tradition_di.phtml

I particularly like the last part of the article where it says:

"The Street Radio project can then be interpreted as the nth disproof of the short-sighted forecast stating that oral tradition would have been wiped out by the computer society. Today we can notice an emergent new form of orality that should be defined as a "tertiary", in the School of Toronto tradition, that taught us to consider the electronic-era orality as a secondary one."

A new public wireless interface: Hivenetworks successfully launch 'Street Radio' in Southampton

On Friday the 14th of March 2008 ten 'street radio' nodes went live in Southampton narrowcasting Hidden Histories -- stories from Southamptons Oral History Archive selected and arranged to correspond with the location of the 10 nodes.

Listening

Another listener at Node 07. Some people did seem to get quite into it and the feedback was quite overwhelmingly positive.

Listening

Hivenetwork Crew

Hivenetwork crew, from left to right: Wolfgang Hauptfleisch, Alexei Blinov, Cieron Edwards. Do they look happy? Yes. Are they tired? I guess so, especially Wolfgang who had to come down to Southampton the day before to solve some last minute problems.

Hivenetwork Crew

Helen Sloan

Helen Sloan of Scan sampling the work

Helen Sloan

Oral History Experts

The three ladies in this image either work for Southampton City Council heritage services or support the OHU as a volunteer. They took their time to listen into each node and apparently enjoyed it.

Oral History Experts

Cieron and Alexei

test 1-2-1-2, it works!

Cieron and Alexei
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