Andrea Langlois et al - Islands of Resistance - Pirate Radio in Canada

164 • islands of resistance
Radio Naked
Tactics Towards Radio without Programming
By Christof Migone
1. Always give the wrong time, date, weather and news report.
2. Constantly change your broadcasting frequency.
3. Do any technical repairs, regular cleanings, planning for
shows, committee meetings, training sessions, etc. on the air.
4. Say what another station is saying at the same time. If they
complain, tell them you’re a ventriloquist.
5. Insist on the global installation of radio parking meters. The
more you stay tuned to only one station the more you have to
pay.
6. Have an “Upside Down Week,” where all shows would be
found in a different time slot.
7. Have a “Search Week” where all shows would not be found.
8. Have a “Traffic Jam” where stations in different cities broadcast
each other’s traffic reports instead of their own.
9. Play the accordion: go from one watt to full power in one watt
per day increments and back down again.
10. Keep all faders up and play the entire record library of the
radio station and then get rid of it.
11. Keep all faders down and wait for a phone call.
12. Fill your program with nothing.
13. Empty your program of everything.
14. Give your guest the controls and put yourself at the guest spot.
15. Dissect the equipment of your radio station into its component
parts: transistors, capacitors, integrated circuits, etc. and send
one out to each of your listeners.
16. Go as fast as the technology you’re using. Carry your words to
your listeners by running.
Written in 1992–1994 and used in a section of the lecture performance
“Recipes For Disaster: post-digital voice tactics” presented
in 1997 at the Recycling the Future event organized by Kunstradio
in Vienna, Austria. Revised in 2004 and first published in Christof
Migone — Sound Voice Perform (Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Press,
2005).