A JOUR­NEY IN­SIDE AN AU­DIO PRO­JECT

We -​ Clau­dia We­gen­er and Ter­ry Humphrey, two ra­dio ob­sessed artists in Lon­don – kicked off the NO-​GO-​ZONES au­dio pro­ject with a se­ries of week­ly work­shops, drop-​in ra­dio ses­sions and live broad­casts on Res­o­nance104.4fm in the spring 2007. We have been work­ing with a young pro­duc­tion team of stu­dents from Cam­ber­well Col­lege of Art and teenagers from the area of South Lon­don. Out with the NO-​GO-​ZONES stu­dio van, we record­ed the life sto­ries of in­di­vid­u­als and the ex­pe­ri­ences and dis­cus­sions of groups. The re­sult of this ac­tiv­i­ty is an open archive of peo­ple’s no-​go-​zone sto­ries, is­sues and con­cerns.

AN OPEN ARCHIVE

The archive of the NO-​GO-​ZONES pro­ject con­tains the record­ings of our live ra­dio pro­grammes, as well as all in­di­vid­u­al au­dio clips used in the broad­casts. The clips are free to down­load for ev­ery­one who’d like to lis­ten and utilise the au­dio in their own work; play-​lists of clips can be browsed via the blog (www.no­go­zones.word­press.com). We are con­tin­u­ous­ly adding to the archive and very much wel­come your con­tri­bu­tions, record­ings and re­spons­es.

RA­DIO COM­MU­NI­TIES

On June 4th, NO-​GO-​ZONES had an ‘out­ing’ on Cana­di­an air: Garth Ren­nie, who is run­ning the week­ly show, ‘sound scape rhythms’, at CJAM (www.cjam.ca) pre­sent­ed live ra­dio mix­es from our on-​line archive and an in­ter­view with us on the phone about the pro­ject. The fol­low­ing day, we aired clips of the CJAM broad­cast in our show on Res­o­nance fm (www.res­o­nancefm.com). You can lis­ten to the sound of this on-​air en­counter and live mix­ing via the fol­low­ing link:
www.archive.org/de­tails/No-​go-​zones­LiveShows5

The pro­cess of a cor­re­spon­dence via ra­dio pro­duc­tions and pro­grammes seemed to us an op­por­tu­ni­ty for com­mu­ni­ca­tion and ex­change worth de­vel­op­ing. We are in­ter­est­ed ex­plor­ing these forms of tran­sient and spon­ta­neous ‘com­mu­ni­ties’ on-​air with groups and in­di­vid­u­als else­where, across di­vides, around com­mon con­cerns.

And this is why we’d like to in­vite you to lis­ten to our archive and send us a record of the en­counter with yours: we are call­ing for 100 lis­ten­ing en­coun­ters that will in­flu­ence us and the next twists and turns in our jour­ney:

WEL­COME TO in­flu­ence 100

We are invit­ing sub­mis­sions of 2-​3 mins ‘edit­ed mix­es’ in re­sponse to the on-​line archive of NO-​GO-​ZONES sam­ples. Your ‘edit­ed mix­es’ could be sin­gle or mul­ti­ple track, en­tire­ly based on sam­ples from the NO-​GO-​ZONES archive, or mixed with record­ings of your own archive, or it could be the record­ing of a text you read or have writ­ten in re­sponse to lis­ten­ing to our on-​line sam­ples. Your con­tri­bu­tion will be in­clud­ed in our on-​line pub­li­ca­tions and a spe­cial DVD in­flu­ence100
to be re­leased in spring 2008.

We are ac­cept­ing sub­mis­sions for in­flu­ence100 un­til 5th Jan­uary 2008.

Please check www.mys­pace.com/no­go­zones for de­tails and up-​dates