SHORTWAVE COLLECTIVE RESIDENCY

As the commissioned artists for YARMONICS festival, we spent time in Great Yarmouth in the autumn of 2024 - meeting local artists, collectives and community groups, and delivering public workshops. During these visits, we used radio circuits as a methodology to learn about the area. Together with residents, we constructed homemade radios (dubbed Open Wave-Receivers) and considered the function of each component in the circuit (antenna, ground, coil, diode, phones). We turned this into a set of questions: Where do residents go to receive signals? Where do they feel grounded? We produced a zine that documents these conversations, questions, and locations. The list of locations that symbolically stand in for the elements of a radio circuit, described by participants, then acted as our guide. We took various microphones and DIY radios to some of these locations, filming our adventures on an analogue camera."