Fundamental Radio
Weekly 1-hour art-radio broadcast
Fundamental radio was the network-audio playground of Markus Seidl and August Black on Radio FRO, FM 105mhz in Linz, Austria from 1998-2004.
close up of August and Mexx screaming
modified Heineken beer logo that says Fundamental Radio
For more than 5 years, we produced a weekly live radio art show every Thursday night from 8-9pm. We focused on radio as a genre, sculpture, and as political and social space. We had a number of running themes: silence, feedback, live cooking, improvised talk shows, doom poetry, audio concrete recordings. We often tried to connect broadcast space with network space by using then-current transport technology for text/audio (IRC, streaming media, etc) in innovative ways. We were interested in radio not only as an interface for listening, but also interaction.
collage of people talking on the radio, Sophia lerner interview Steve Bradley and his pile of trash
While radio was our central practice, we also produced installations, audio works, as well as works for the web and television. In many ways, we became a concept band. For me, personally, it occupied that vast majority of my creative energies during this very active time at the cusp of the millennium changeover.
collage of people cooking in front of microphones
collage of 4 photos showing a kid pool with a condom-covered microphone immersed in water
a colllage of 4 photos showing two adults and a child with a photo camera watching the performance
hand holding microphone pointed at clouds
people reading poetry in front of microphones
white sheep head on green background
exposed hard drives with contact microphones taped to them
august and mexx in front of projected image of noise
august and mexx in russian language news
installation view showing cat-5 cable drawings on the wall