RADIO & AUDIO
Em has been a radio broadcaster for over 10 years. Her radio journey began at RTRFM in Western Australia where she presented a weekly current affairs program called The Mag, exploring topics from local arts and culture through to politics and science. From here, she joined the Golden Apples of the Sun collective — a “small informed and passionate group of music-lovers who present sounds ‘anchored’ in the loosest possible way to folk, psych and electronica. From melody, beats, field recordings and atmospherics full of thematic elements and explore reference points – Wyrd and Pastoral – Hauntological and Hypnagogic – new and vintage – [Golden Apples is] a launchpad to sub-genres.
Em produced, curated and presented a podcast for WAM called Wide Open Road: The West Australian Music Podcast, celebrating the stories of people from WA’s music scene over the years. You can listen to episodes here: https://open.spotify.com/show/5eHEXCT0jmZWxeX9nxntIX
She currently presents a monthly program on Tempelhoferfeld Radio, Berlin sharing pastoral and atmospheric sounds across folk and psychedelia, most often from UK artists. (Some favourites include Shirley Collins, John Renbourn, Pentangle, Trees, Traffic and Ultimate Spinach.)
In 2024, Em and Jeremy Segal began a creative project entitled Collage Radio. Its first iteration was a sound work entitled New Forest Collage Radio which they created during the New Forest National Park Authority Artist Residency. NFCR was a spatial radio station in the gallery at spudWORKS (Sway) broadcasting poems written and read by Estelle Philips, Hannah Buckingham, Lisa Gardner, and Robbie Steen, songs, music and interviews with community members, as well as field recordings made in the area. Visitors were invited to pick up a radio and explore the field.
With the material gathered during this residency, Em and Jeremy also produced several radio shows for Tower Radio and a 2 hour episode for RTR2 (linked below). Collage Radio continues to evolve. You can listen to several examples below.
New Forest Collage Radio (NFCR) - Rationale
Community radio represents place, diversity, inclusivity, independence, and a grass roots/DIY ethos. Among other things, it can connect people, disseminate information, champion local arts, and be a platform for underrepresented or alternative voices. But what is the function and format of community radio in view of the ever-increasing globalisation and digitalisation of the media? How can we play with the plasticity of the radio format to explore the social, symbolic and material spaces of broadcast? How can an historical place like the New Forest be present in (and benefit from) developing new and creative forms for community radio?
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Golden Apples of the Sun Archive