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Hello guys, just realized I could call on the Group Mind here. I'm interested in performers (guitarists particularly) who've worked with radio as a sound source. The obvious touchstone would be Holger Czukay's 'Movies'. But, much as I dig 'Persian Love', Czukay's careful splicing and collaging aren't quite what I'm after. Instead, I'd like to find performers who've deployed radios, live or nearly so, and responded to them in real time. Free improv spoken here. Any and all examples welcome.

Keith Rowe is the person who comes to mind. I don't have a specific example of his radio use handy, but he's always had a radio as part of his rig. When I saw him a few years back, at one point he turned on his radio and it played some mainstream pop; he immediately started scrubbing his strings with steel wool to drown it out.

Didn't Jonny Greenwood process radio/found sounds through a Kaossilator onstage?

Tod Dockstader's Aerial #3 is really cool "playing the radio" album, but that's probably not what you want.

Scanner?

Negativland?

If you don't know 'em, check out Gambletron from Montréal and Brigitte Bardon't from Toronto.

Thanks everyone. I can honestly say that I hadn't heard of any of those guys apart from Scanner and Negativland (in the latter case, I remember Mondo2000's coverage of the dispute with U2 -- and, if that doesn't date me, I don't know what will). Best, NP.

When I was a punk band back in the day, I used to use a Z. Vex Fuzz Factory to call up radio broadcasts to feed into a delay for the noisy closer to out sets.

Over the past year, I’ve been experimenting with “composing” with a web based software-defined radio. http://www.websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901

It might not be quite what you were asking for in your original post because I don’t really capture a lot of voices.
I’m mainly looking for interesting intermodulation of static, then processing that loop further with time stretching software.

But it’s a lot of fun, and I get a lot of interesting intermodulation than just processing white noise with filters and ring modulation.