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

CHAP TER 17
Voices In a Public Place
A Docudrama in Seven Acts
on/for Micro-radio in Canada
Roger Farr
Note on the Text
“Voices in a Public Place” is divided into seven “acts” — in the fullest
sense of the word — which are titled after the seven components of
a basic micro-transmitter. 1 In its current appearance as a script, the
piece is intended to work as a kind of documentary poem (hence the
use of citations). As text intended for performance, however, all names
and citations are to be dropped in favour of the pirate techniques of
sampling and appropriation.
Notes on the Speakers
Berland, Jody. Professor at York University; author of “Radio Space
and Industrial Time: The Case of Music Formats,” “Locating Listening:
Technological Space, Popular Music, Canadian Mediation” and
“Radio, the State and Sound Government,” among numerous other
works on culture, communications and nation-space.
Breaker, Shane. Media activist and member of the Siksika (Blackfoot)
Nation; coordinator of Siksika Media, a multimedia outlet for
the Siksika Nation and surrounding communities.
Brecht, Bertolt (1898–1956). German avant-garde poet, playwright
and theatre director. His essay “The Radio as an Apparatus of Com-
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