Radio Loss
2024
With the contributions of the artists and musicians eden_jeneses, petra pilbák, elsie lappoh, SAWA, Knobkreek and János Marno, asvany, QWxsZXkgQ2F0c3M=, acceptyrfate, olaflur, Mark Markin, elvira.
Listen at: radioloss.com
Lost media refers to audio, video, audiovisual or other material – originally intended for public viewing – that has been fully or partially lost. These pieces of media might be no longer available because of having no more remaining copies to be known, being hidden, deleted, destroyed or obscured; or, as an edge case, they may not even be real (e.g. urban legends) or have never been released in the first place. Such artefacts can also be political: believed-to-be lost media can fuel conspiracy theories when linked to propaganda, censorship, historical revisionism or a control of media.
A subcategory of lost media is lostwave, which specifically refers to lost music. Evoking a sense of mystery, loss and nostalgia of a past out of reach, these cultural “ghosts” have a conceptual link to hauntology and hauntological music too, such as The Caretaker’s work of distorted samples of old records.
Radio Loss is an infinite audio loop consisting of various different lost media pieces. The collaborative audio piece consists of various different lost media elements, reflecting on its several subcategories (lostwave songs, voice recordings, field recordings, etc.). Through invitations of artists and musicians, the piece is constructed of artificial, fake lost media parts (fake lostwave songs, speculative documentary elements, etc.), as well as “real” lost media pieces (samples from lost audio projects, songs never to be released, etc.).
Photo 2 by Black Rhino Radio, photo 3 by Gabor Nemerov.
Thanks to the support of Lahmacun Radio & the Goethe-Institut Budapest.
exhibited at
- 2024, Signals2Noise, group exhibition, silent green Betonhalle, Berlin (DE)
- 2024, group exhibition, Goethe-Institut Budapest (HU)