Wild Radio – Tim Shaw & John Coburn (eng)

This lecture and presentation was held on Sunday, 26 February
2023, at SONOHR.


In this masterclass John Coburn and Tim Shaw present Wild
Radio, a practice which encourages communities to consider
familiar places (their homes, streets, cities, villages and
woodlands) afresh. Using the richness of radio to bring disparate
communities of people together. Drawing on their collaborations
with rural communities in the North East of England they describe
how they have supported people to listen to, record and broadcast
their shared sonic environments. By using different listening
technologies to capture the sounds of their communities (social,
environmental, geological sounds) Wild Radio encourages people to
rediscover their immediate sound-worlds.


John Coburn is the founder of Wild Museum, a collaboration of
artists, researchers & educators based in the North East of
England. Wild Museum produce creative programmes with communities
and organisations across the UK, exploring changing human
relationships with place, people and the natural world. John is
the co-owner of Duke’s Hagg, an ancient and post-industrial
woodland in Northumberland.


Tim Shaw is an artist working with sound, light and communication
media. Presenting work through perfor- mances, installations and
sound walks Tim is interested in how listening environments can
be constructed or explored using a diverse range of techniques
and technologies. Tim is a Lecturer in Digital Media at Newcastle
University and the co-curator of the Walking Festival of Sound.


wild-museum.com