The Next Layer - locative media

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

admin — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:26:47 +0000

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.

Sonic Space-Time: Sound Installation and Secondary Orality

admin — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:15:23 +0000

Rueb T. 2002. Sonic Space-Time: Sound Installation and Secondary Orality.

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

Armin Medosch — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:59:03 +0000

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.