Radio Polyphony (Feb. 28 - April 18 2003)

A multi-channel composition broadcast on the internet and the radio spectrum over a period of six weeks. Peter Lasch, Federico Marulanda, Kelvin Park,and Paulo Vivacqua, in collaboration with THING.FM.

Each sound channel is broadcast over a different radio frequency or internet stream, and is composed so that it can be heard either independently or mixed. The piece is not accessible to any audience as a whole. Instead, it provides a structure that can be adapted to conditions that vary from the private to the public; what the listenerhears depends on which channels can be accessed at any particular time or place.

The four voices, composed by Paulo Vivacqua, are:

- Layer 1: Generative sound process, streamed continuously at Layer #1

- Layer 2: 15-hour loop, streamed continuously at Layer#2, and broadcast on specific occasions via mini-FM transmitter.

- Layer 3: Prepared sound, broadcast intermittently on WKCR 89.9 FM, NY.

- Layer 4: Prepared sound, broadcast intermittently on participating radio stations in New York and other cities.

The project website provides an overview of the piece. (http://fm.thing.net/radiopolyphony).