“Radio static rain” is an acoustic illustration of the invisible space of human interaction and radio architecture. Through the conceptualization of recycled materials, repaired speakers from old TV sets, radios and computers, uninsulated and discarded rotors and stators, extracted copper wires and parts of radio receivers, the author uses “primitive technology” to communicate the message that the artificially electrified ether as space has been present for a hundred years inside the invisible dimension of the public life and that it is interactive.
The “empty” frequency sounds like rain in the distance, and when it is reproduced with thirty-two speakers, a specific spatial-acoustic experience of the thirty-third speaker is created. The movement of people under the copper mesh – connected to the antenna of the radio receiver – which looks like an umbrella randomly creates radio static crackling, creating an uncontrolled composition of interruptions of acoustic reality.
The more people move under the “umbrella”, the more they will get “wet”.
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